NationStates Jolt Archive

One of the aspects of NationStates that I find absolutely overwhelming is the huge number of regions out there. It's especially disconcerting that I feel no geographic relationship between any two regions.

Now before you start in on me about how the regions are virtual, I already know that. However, any yahoo can start a new region. Technically speaking, every nation can be in its own region - and what's the point of that?

It seems to me that a lot of regions are actually alliances or confederations - nations bound together for a specific purpose.

So why can't we have both? I would love to see real - i.e. geographic - regions set up where nations could settle. These regions would be predetermined and nations could not create them. Then we could also have groups, alliances, confederations - whatever you want to call them. These could be created by nations.

You might want to suggest this in the NationStates II forum, only because I highly doubt any sort of changes of this caliber would occur in this version of the game.

According to the page you get when you move region, 'a fleet of military grade helicopters moves your nation' or somesuch. So technically a region is geographic. Plus, a lot of player created regions spend a lot of time creating maps of their region.

One of the aspects of NationStates that I find absolutely overwhelming is the huge number of regions out there. It's especially disconcerting that I feel no geographic relationship between any two regions.

Now before you start in on me about how the regions are virtual, I already know that. However, any yahoo can start a new region. Technically speaking, every nation can be in its own region - and what's the point of that?

It seems to me that a lot of regions are actually alliances or confederations - nations bound together for a specific purpose.

So why can't we have both? I would love to see real - i.e. geographic - regions set up where nations could settle. These regions would be predetermined and nations could not create them. Then we could also have groups, alliances, confederations - whatever you want to call them. These could be created by nations.But there already are both types of regions, and it's usually specified in the world factbook entry.

And anyway, that is already a plan for NS2. It's been suggested several times by various people. Read the forum.