A simple improvement
Wouldn't it be nice to see a more detailed description of a nation? Like, how cynical a nation's population is (here, it could show a value between 0 and 10, for example), or how much the government focuses on Defence (from 0 to 10 or something like that), and everything that describes the respective nation from the choices made on issues ("voting is compulsury", "euthanasia is legal" and all of those; not just the last 4).
This is such a simple but great improvement I wonder why it hasn't been implement yet.
That sounds cool, and also easy to implement....Reminds me of those "history" screens in the Mercenaries, GTA, Fable, and other "sandbox" games that shows you "favorite weapon", "Number killed", "Farthest Chicken Kick", etc..
Flibbleites
14-08-2005, 21:34
This is such a simple but great improvement I wonder why it hasn't been implement yet.
Why, because NS currently contains 113,782 nations and to compile such a history for each nation would require a large amount of memory to store them all.
Gruenberg
14-08-2005, 21:37
The mods have said a firm no to this suggestion before: it would take up too much server space (2 issues a day for 3 years for thousands of nations? ouch). Also, they won't release some details of coding, so the 'cynical factor' idea would also be out.
Katganistan
14-08-2005, 21:41
The NS Wiki would be perfect for just this sort of info -- write it up there, then link to it in your signature.
Ooh, ok. Thanks for your answers. I didn't think there's actually that many issues.
And I'd do that wiki thing, but I'm too lazy :) ...
Itinerate Tree Dweller
15-08-2005, 08:37
Its kinda nice not having everything spelled out for you, it allows you to develop your nation to your liking without having to rely entirely on machine based figures.