NationStates Jolt Archive

Okay, here's what happened. I created a puppet nation, and to test my knowledge of it's password, I logged out and in.

However, when I logged in again, I was told that several bad login attempts had occured from my IP in a short space of time, so I was blocked for 45 mins. Or something like that.

The time passed, so I logged in. Fine. I logged into every one of my nations without a hitch. At each nation, there wasn't that little sign that tells me how many bad login attempts there were.

In other words, I was blocked out because of bad logins, even though none occured.

What happened? Did I screw up, or did the NationStates computer?

This is all I could find on the Known Problems page:

# Server Restore: As per the News page, the server was restored from backup on 27 April 2005. This caused newly created nations to be un-created, as well as reversing about 20 hours' worth of gameplay.
# Forum: There's currently some weirdness going on in relation to validating e-mail addresses for the Jolt forum. We don't need bug reports for this as the logs are automatically accumulating data. Update (09-Feb-05): Fixed erroneous "This account has already been validated" messages.
# Forum [server says it sent a verification e-mail, but you haven't received it]: Most people are getting their e-mails, so this is most likely a problem at your end. Make sure that you entered your e-mail address correctly (typos can be sneaky). If you or your ISP run a spam filter, try to make sure it's not catching the NationStates e-mail; if you can, whitelist "nationstates.net".
# Issues not updating: This used to be a common bug, but is now rare. Nations find that their populations are not increasing and that issues sit forever waiting to be either dismissed or have their legislaction enacted. If they endorse another nation, their endorsements vanish the next day. They are not included in their region's list of all nations. If you are affected by this bug, you can manually fix it by changing regions, then back. This works because the fundamental problem is that your region has dropped your nation from its list of members, and this procedure adds you back. As mentioned, this bug is rare, and generally only crops up in very populous regions (e.g. the Pacific regions).
# Population rapidly increases: The famous (and much coveted) 'population bug' is actually the flip side to the 'issues not updating bug': instead of being updated zero times per update, nations with the population bug are updated two times. This means they gain population at twice the rate of other nations, receive twice as many issues as they request, and, if they are UN members, are doubly affected by UN resolutions. When we're sure we've got this bug squished, we'll run a job to scale back everyone's population to where it should have been, so it's only a temporary boost.

Nothing pertaining to my problem.

Okay, here's what happened. I created a puppet nation, and to test my knowledge of it's password, I logged out and in.

However, when I logged in again, I was told that several bad login attempts had occured from my IP in a short space of time, so I was blocked for 45 mins. Or something like that.

The time passed, so I logged in. Fine. I logged into every one of my nations without a hitch. At each nation, there wasn't that little sign that tells me how many bad login attempts there were.

In other words, I was blocked out because of bad logins, even though none occured.

What happened? Did I screw up, or did the NationStates computer?It might have been you, because that kind of thing doesn't happen too often on the NS computers. But I wouldn't know, I'm not a mod.

And the Known Problems page contains very little pertaining to actual problems that occur often. It is badly in need of an update.

Someone else could have logged in to a different nation from your IP address.

Someone else could have logged in to a different nation from your IP address.

Well, actually that did happen. Yesterday. For about 5 mins.

I doubt that caused it. But I may be wrong.

EDIT: This is actually The Noble Men, but a puppet. Can't be arsed changing nations.

Well, actually that did happen. Yesterday. For about 5 mins.

I doubt that caused it. But I may be wrong.

EDIT: This is actually The Noble Men, but a puppet. Can't be arsed changing nations.I mean, they could have tried to log into another nation three times but failed. That is why your IP address was blocked, but none of your nations displayed the message.