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When you create a nation, you can choose a new field, describing the nation's history. When was this feature added? Does anyone know how it manifests itself in the nation description?

Sorry if there is already a thread on this, or if this should be in Gameplay.

its new

I can't tell what effects the history has on the description, if any.

http://cityofulthar.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/the-effects-of-history/

It's been operational since March 1st.

What I want to know is how the mods have *missed* the spelling error in "discoverng"- with the History Feature? I'm starting to lose sleep over it.... :)

What I want to know is how the mods have *missed* the spelling error in "discoverng"- with the History Feature?...by not being the ones who write that stuff?

...by not being the ones who write that stuff?


Oh, okay. :$

Well carry on then.... hehehehe

I just noticed the feature too. A nice addition. Did not see an effect on the nation itself though.

I like that feature but I don't think it adds anything. I don't really create puppets and my main nation is a few years old so i haven't benifited from it.

I like that feature but I don't think it adds anything. I don't really create puppets and my main nation is a few years old so i haven't benifited from it.

I'd like to see a NS issue circulate, where university professors are consulting with the leader of the country - the issue being that some say the history of the nation is too boring, or doesn't show the government in a good light (1984), and therefore the history should be rewritten or not - and a bunch of hippies, weirdoes, tribal leaders and professors try and claim what REALLY happened.

Therefore older nations could pick their nation's history type.

Sounds like a fun issue to write. Want to cowrite it in a month or so?

I'd like to see a NS issue circulate, where university professors are consulting with the leader of the country - the issue being that some say the history of the nation is too boring, or doesn't show the government in a good light (1984), and therefore the history should be rewritten or not - and a bunch of hippies, weirdoes, tribal leaders and professors try and claim what REALLY happened.

Therefore older nations could pick their nation's history type.

I could see that as even being a potential easter egg issue with the qualification being a nation being old enough to not have had the option of choosing their history.

Sounds like a fun issue to write. Want to cowrite it in a month or so?

Yeah Sure!

I could see that as even being a potential easter egg issue with the qualification being a nation being old enough to not have had the option of choosing their history.

They could use the <FOUNDED> tags possibly to determine that? - With older nations with <FOUNDED> tags = 0 included in the circulation.

Or the issue could just circulate to everyone, and be written in a way as to suggest that it is merely "rewriting" those pesky history textbooks.

One funny option could be to have a nation void of history - by burning the books and imprisoning the old people on icebergs.

Here's the entire history feature covered....


History Needs Rewriting Says … Strange People


After a visit to the very empty Museum of Western @@NAME@@, it has become apparent that the history of @@NAME@@ is in need of a retooling.

[option] Scandalous historian, @@RANDOMNAME@@, outlines the plan to you in a letter “History has apparently become boring for the children of @@NAME@@, and it is time that we focused our textbooks more centric around the @@NAME@@ Civil War – though the war only lasted twelve minutes because of an unfortunate case of food poising, with a little funding to our history foundations I’m sure we could “exaggerate” a bit. We could claim some plots of land as old battlefields, fabricate heroic generals and even put a couple fake statues and tombstones here and there to fool people, imagine all the new faces that would come to the museum then! Eh?” [effect]History buffs of @@NAME@@’s bloody civil war line up at museum’s with war paint, swords and drunken cheers in remembrance. [stats]the effects of "Civil Bloodbath Survivors" history

[option]banal Orwellian scholar, @@RANDOMNAME@@ consults you after lunch with a tobacco pipe in his mouth, “I think this whole concept is ridiculous – rewriting our history that is, it would be a perfect example of the government trying to warp reality and knowledge –acts of a dystopian world. Most scholars agree that the history of @@NAME@@ lies with the first barbaric societies that torn down, and burnt the Violetopian Empire. Though it is not to the most inspiring history to be proud of, it is the truth as far as I can see. [effect]nation heroes include Kluggie the Caveman, and Gorgo the Crusher known for their prolific years as ram-sackers and cannibals [stats]the effects of "Sackers and Salvagers" history

[option] “BLASPHEMY!” cried the angry violetist from the Order’s pulpit, “how dare someone call the humble pilgrims of the mothership …barbaric!? Violet shall reign down upon those sinners to crush them indefinitely into extra-dimensional inanity! Our forefathers came from the lowest gorges of the sinners to create a utopia in the name of violetic @@ANIMAL@@s, it is blasphemous to call them anything other than spiritual and all encompassing prophets!” [effect]history textbooks and zealous cult literature are indistinguishable from one another [stats]the effects of "Long Suffering But Still Optimistic Pilgrims" history

[option] Infamous documentary filmmaker, @@RANDOMNAME@@ “pitches” you a possible plot for his government funded history documentary, “How about this!? They’re pioneers, Sent from the glorious mother land – we’ll get Catherine Gratwick to play the Queen, they arrive in Northern @@NAME@@ after sailing for a thousand days (fighting pirates and over coming mutiny along the way) and set up a colony. Our protagonist, the good looking pioneer will watch as the colony eats itself in starvation when they run out leather to eat, and then… and then… our hero learns to survive, and hunt with a pointy stick, and makes the famous @@NAME@@ shopping mall using a piece of flint and a toothbrush! That would make a good film! [effect]Recent movie blockbusters document @@NAME@@’s tenacious pioneers with a considerable amount of explosions and gore [stats]the effects of "Plucky, Malnourished Pioneers" history

[option]Radical Segregationists and notable smoker, @@RANDOMNAME@@ sends you the racial majority’s feelings on @@NAME@@’s history textbooks, along with an explosive in the mail. “For TOO FR@#K#@ing long have racial majorities been kicked out of focus by the government, and the history textbooks are no different – we segregationists may not be the heroes that people tend to look up to, but it’s time to F@C@#ing change that!” [effect]History textbooks are regularly separated and divided among the different racial and ethnic backgrounds of the classroom to please the violent segregationists[stats] the effects of "Violent Segregationists" history

[option]Dictatorships for Dummies offers another opinion, “Reality Control 101. For those new to dictatorships let me just start by saying, welcome! It is typically important to keep ones populace isolated from contact so they don’t hear about any silly notions like liberty or civil rights from watching too much maxtopian television. The best way to keep your people out of the loop is to build a great wall, claim the world is flat and behead anyone who talks about life outside of @@NAME@@. Now on to chapter two – fashion in fascism. [effect]the entirety of the universe according to @@NAME@@’s cartographers is surrounded by a large stone wall and border patrol [stats]the effects of "Recently Discovered Undiscovered Tribe" history

[option]Degenerative Gambler, and author of the novel “Gambling is @@NAME@@ian as @@ANIMAL@@ Pie”, @@RANDOMNAME@@ is protesting with his band of merry trailer park people on the front lawn of parliament. “It’s time eh, that the history books took some notice towards our nation’s real heroes – like ol’ Jonnie Walterstalk and Elmo Fuddque, true founders of our land. They might not be fancy, with white wigs, big long speeches, and all’ that jazz, but they were real people who made a difference. They we’re the founding fathers who came to this land to avoid their humble gambling debts – Elmo even had a bounty on his head. But they were good people, and the nation should be indebted to them, eh.” [effect]the founding fathers have been exposed as fugitives, lepers, deportees and compulsive gamblers [stats]the effects of "Like Minded Isolationists" history


[option]General Joe T. Plummer smiles deviously with a cigar in his mouth, “How about this! We fill the textbooks with all this juicy stuff about Bigtopia being the unmoral bloodsucking empire of genocidal vampires, not bad? Eh!? No left-wing loony would argue than that it wouldn’t be “right” to bomb Bigtopia into smithereens if they knew the “truth” about our nation’s history, and the “fact” that our nation’s founders were tortured in work camps by them, and escaped to freedom in @@NAME@@ for life, liberty and the pursuit of getting even with those subhuman trolls!” [effect]propaganda against the supposedly immoral neighbors of @@NAME@@ leaves history textbooks the source of knowledge and war declarations
[stats] the effects of "Ethnic Cleansing Refugees" history

[option]Your Minister of International Relations laughs at the General as if he said a joke before strangling him to the ground while you’ve got your back turned, “Now where were we? Ah yes, we were just about to finish penning the fine points to your latest patriotic speech – including how our nation’s founder was saved by a heroic Bigtopian solider in his youth, the friendly alliance that came out of that incident, and our countries’ mutual hatred of Lillitopia” [effect] the famous “Remember The Bigtopians” speech by the nation’s leader outlines @@NAME@@’s friendly past with several of its larger and more influential neighbors [stats] the effects of "Diplomatic Homeland Wranglers" history

[option]A belligerent homeless man from Unibot arrived at customs following a tazering into submission of course. Some of his more intelligible words have inspired a grass-roots “no more history” campaign. “Ah…don’t shock me anymore… please… Unibot’s a good place…seriously! …How about we just forget about our differences …. If fact how about we get rid of history entirely …. Eh?” [effect] entirely void of documented history, with a spearheaded movement to burn the books and exile old people on icebergs
[stats]a severe decrease in book publishing and overall education

Looks good. I'll write my portion of this issue in the next month -- school's stacked up on me.

*Updated History Issue (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14717361&postcount=15)*

On second thought, it looks like you've got this covered. Best of luck.

On second thought, it looks like you've got this covered. Best of luck.

Its sort of writing itself. Hehehe.

Thanks.