NationStates Jolt Archive


NationStates Mobile?

Steel Butterfly
06-06-2008, 23:02
I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but what would it take to get a mobile version of NationStates or NationStates 2? I regularly check my bank account, email, amazon, and other sites on my Blackberry, and it only makes sense to me that the next thing I'd check up on would be my NS account. Lord knows if I wanted to I could check facebook, espn, and a number of other things as well.

Frankly, is this an expensive or complicated process? If not, I think it should be looked into, if not for this version of the game, but the next. Granted the forums would be hard to manage, but the game itself, such as issues and the like, could be made a bit more mobile-friendly.
Steel Butterfly
07-06-2008, 02:40
In all honesty, browsing the forums via blackberry as I'm doing now isn't all that rough. It certainly doesn't look the best but its fully functional. The actual game site www.nationstates.net however fares far worse and is nearly impossible to navigate.
Zilam
07-06-2008, 22:23
Would it be worth it to redo part of the code, just so a handful of people could use it from their mobile phone?
Kampfers
08-06-2008, 02:56
iPhone ftw, full functionality at the tips of my fingers.
Steel Butterfly
08-06-2008, 05:50
Would it be worth it to redo part of the code, just so a handful of people could use it from their mobile phone?

Depends on how complicated it is, I'm sure
Dans le Noir 2
16-07-2008, 04:16
(Sorry to dreg up an old topic, but I'm reading Sirroco's blog)

I use my sidekick LX for nationstates. Daily. It works for the site and the forums just fine.

In my experience, making sites to "mobile" versions just get annoying. Facebook mobile is a prime example.
The Most Glorious Hack
16-07-2008, 06:41
Looks fine on my Instinct, too. Of course, having full HTML functionality probably helps...
Katganistan
16-07-2008, 07:22
Looks fine on my Instinct, too. Of course, having full HTML functionality probably helps...

Oooh, my fiance just got an Instinct too. Looks very, very cool.... :)
The Most Glorious Hack
16-07-2008, 07:27
Oh, it is. Very sexy.
Cookiton
16-07-2008, 11:52
Mobile NationStates wouldn't be that bad, seeing that it's a very basic site and doesn't have that much to load.