NationStates Jolt Archive

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Wohoo! Nationstates is FOUR YEARS OLD today, the 13th of november :)

v1.0 (13-Nov-02)
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Site goes live!
http://www.nationstates.net/HISTORY

I've only been here for a little over a year myself, but I'm addicted - to the game and the forum. So I thought I'd wish the site a Happy Birthday :D May there be many more.

Thanks to Max Barry and the Mods as well - have some cake and champagne :p

*Rolls in cake and Champagne*

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So to make a relevant topic: How long have you been playing, and how did you find the game?

Wow... I've been here more than three years now... and I haven't done anything for a one of them.....

I don't even remember how I found the game, it's become just a bit of a routine to log in, read the most recent threads, be filled with outrage at the state of the world/the number of idiots it contains, and log out every few days.... just something I do.

I've been on since March of 2005, and Vetalia is my original nation. I had others, but they died out and I've just kept this one.

I honestly don't remember how exactly I discovered the game, although I believe a Google search featured prominently. Come to think of it, I think I found it when I was lurking on the CivFanatics board, a board which I long ago left behind for NS (which wasn't a major loss, considering I never posted and I ended up getting bored with Civ 3 in the first place).

I've been here since Jan. and I found it on a link on one of my friends profile.

Happy birthday, Nationstates!:)

I started playing a long while ago, but then I stopped playing and my nation died from inactivity.

I started playing again as Chandelier in 2005.:)

heres to the best debate forums I've seen in years. When you turn 21, ill buy you a drink.

Well, I got here when I was browsing a completely different forum than this one-a Calvin and Hobbes one-when I found a link to Nationstates.

Been here for a year and a half now (though it seems longer). And I do remember when I found it, it was the User Friendly.org link of the day.

Well, I got here when I was browsing a completely different forum than this one-a Calvin and Hobbes one-when I found a link to Nationstates.

See sig for aftermath of joining.

Then I had a year of inactivity, and now, i'm back!

heres to the best debate forums I've seen in years. When you turn 21, ill buy you a drink.

God, in 17 years if it survives Nationstates will probably be a fully interactive online reality with debates occurring between human-sized avatars in a fully realistic virtual setting.

Feel like having your thread take place in a Parisian cafe? Done. Feeling more like having it set in, I don't know, Ankh-Morpork? Done.

Been here two years next month. This is my original country and I have no idea how I found the site.
Happy B-day NS.

I've been on here with this account too long, and this isn't my first nation.

mm i find out about Nation State in a mates adult mag

Not sure how long I've been posting on NationStates. I found it from another forum that I visited consequent to visiting some other forum, which I started visiting due to it having been linked to on another forum.


Happy Birthday NS.

woo!! :)

i love this place (well, the forum and all you lot :fluffle: :fluffle: )



i've been playing since april 2004 i think but only posting since august or so that year. found it in a magazine i think

heres to the best debate forums I've seen in years. When you turn 21, ill buy you a drink.

It's a british forum... Can't it drink at a younger age than 21? :p

This is my original nation, and I've been playing since Dec 2003.

I followed a link on another forum, and joined with about 60 of my forum-mates from that board. Two of those people still maintain (mostly inactive) nations in my original region. Despite being one of 3 admins on the other site, I've mostly stopped visiting that site and spend most of my online time here.

The thing that makes this site attractive for me is Max's insistence on allowing all viewpoints, even those I personally consider despicable or outrageous. Some of those people manage to generate really interesting debates. Others are just trolls, of course.

Wow.

And to think that when I first joined this forum (sometime around March 2003) the US was embroiled in a messy war with no resolution in sight, the Labour party was desparately courting popularity by swinging ever further to the right, and the Northern Ireland peace process was hanging in limbo.

How things have changed.

Wow.

And to think that when I first joined this forum (sometime around March 2003) the US was embroiled in a messy war with no resolution in sight, the Labour party was desparately courting popularity by swinging ever further to the right, and the Northern Ireland peace process was hanging in limbo.

How things have changed.How depressing.

Anyhow. 2 years on NS ! whooo! I have to say, I have a fair bit of affection for this internet home of mine. Congrats to Max, and thanks to all the posters that make NS great.

I've been playing since... August 2003, I think. On and off.

All of my original nations are dead; Soheran is the first one with an extended foray into the General Forum, and pwns all the others in post numbers.

Edit: Checked. Yes, Aug. 2003.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATION STATES!!! http://www.postsmile.com/img/emotions/220.gif

Wow... I've been here more than three years now... and I haven't done anything for a one of them.....

I don't even remember how I found the game, it's become just a bit of a routine to log in, read the most recent threads, be filled with outrage at the state of the world/the number of idiots it contains, and log out every few days.... just something I do.
what he said, but less than a year.

One year this month (possibly this week) for me. My friend has a country, but he doesnt use the forums. He showed me the site, and I found General to be too addicting to give up. (I did do one RP once :eek: )

Thank you Max for giving me NS General and all who inhabit it. :)

BIRTHDAY HUG!
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Even if they do make me want to punch my computer sometimes.

Happy Birthday Nationstates!

This is my second nation (the first one was deleted by the mods). I originally joined in April '05 and now have 12,134 posts alltogether. I managed to miss my 10,000th post somehow.

I first heard about NS from a female friend (*sigh*), who'd heard about it in a law lecture at uni.

Then I played NS for a while, until one day I noticed an interesting headline at the bottome left. I clicked on it, and it let me to NSG...what a day that was. The 6th of May 2005...and here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8821080#post8821080) is my first post. Observe the formatting issues. :D

Happy Birthday NS!

YAY! IT"S NS"S BIRTHDAY!!!! *throws a banquet* :D

Happy Birthday.

This isn't my first nation, but it is my first one I took (alarmingly) seriously. I guess I haven't been playing very long in the context of 4 years - less than a third of that time - but it has been interesting to see the changes, and move from being envious of all the oldies sadly mourning the passing of the Golden Age, to sadly mourning the passing of the Golden Age.

In other news, fuck Max Barry for destroying my social life.

I'm relatively new. I started in Feb 2006. A nation simulation game I'd previously found hit a slow spot when RL overtook several key players. I googled for another one, found NS and I've been here ever since. And Romanar is my first nation.

Well, congrats everybody.

Ad mea ve-esrim! :D



Feel like having your thread take place in a Parisian cafe? Done. Feeling more like having it set in, I don't know, Ankh-Morpork? Done.



I suggest R'Lyeh.

YAY NS!!!!

I've been around since September of 2004 (does that mean I'm important yet?). KSp is my origional nation. I don't spam enough to get banned.

Wow.

And to think that when I first joined this forum (sometime around March 2003) the US was embroiled in a messy war with no resolution in sight, the Labour party was desparately courting popularity by swinging ever further to the right, and the Northern Ireland peace process was hanging in limbo.

How things have changed.

*snort*

Then I played NS for a while, until one day I noticed an interesting headline at the bottome left. I clicked on it, and it let me to NSG...what a day that was. The 6th of May 2005...and here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8821080#post8821080) is my first post. Observe the formatting issues. :D

Happy Birthday NS!

How did you find your first post?
I cant seem to do it right.

I believe it is coming up on two years for me.
My first nation, Chazriel, got that bug where it won't update your issues. But I created Steenia the next day.
I came to play because of a friend on LJ who had a nation mentioned the game. (Her nation ceased along with the region it was in.)
It has been a long strange journey since then, but not one I am willing to give up.

Just saw my join date next to this post- Sept 2004.

I suggest R'Lyeh.

Nah, CMOT Dibbler is a lot easier to deal with than Cthulhu.

How did you find your first post?
I cant seem to do it right.
Search -> Posts by Fleckenstein

Then check the radio button for display Posts (not threads), and Ascending (not Descending) order. So yours (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9955020#post9955020) would be a Chuck Norris joke.

Search -> Posts by Fleckenstein

Then check the radio button for display Posts (not threads), and Ascending (not Descending) order. So yours (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9955020#post9955020) would be a Chuck Norris joke.

Funny. I just searched my first post, and I remeber writing it perfectly. I recall the first threads I posted in really clearly. Seems like I had been reading threads for a while by the time I posted. Not to sound mushy, but it does seem like yesterday.

happy birthday!

o gee my first post...ah yes that would have been with a differant nation and i was a silly noob,( iam sure that in some ways i still am :) ), any way yes i was called a troll :( as a result of that first post. but things have changed and that was in II and yep i ended up RPing with that group of people, we had a lot of fun. ah good times.
* wonders off to reminisce*

Happy Birthday NS! May your players be ever more intelligent and humorous, and your code be free of bugs!

Happy Birthday!!

I played a little in '02-'03 (don't remember the name of my nation), with some friends at school, and rejoined around a year ago. Don't remember my first post, but the first thread I lurked was the office holiday party thread from last year.

August of 04, apparently i was here 2 months after the move to Jolt.
Got the link off of my sister who had it in the web history, i asked her about it then clicked the link.
Happy Birthday Nationstates.:)

I've been on the forums for about 10 months now, but I've had various nations at different points in time in the main game since about 2003. I've absolutely no recollection of how I found the site - a link from a friend, probably.

One year this month (possibly this week) for me. My friend has a country, but he doesnt use the forums. He showed me the site, and I found General to be too addicting to give up. (I did do one RP once :eek: )

Thank you Max for giving me NS General and all who inhabit it. :)

BIRTHDAY HUG!
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Even if they do make me want to punch my computer sometimes.
Aaaaaw... That's the cutest smilie I've seen in 17,5 hours :p

This is my second nation (the first one was deleted by the mods). I originally joined in April '05 and now have 12,134 posts alltogether. I managed to miss my 10,000th post somehow.

I first heard about NS from a female friend (*sigh*), who'd heard about it in a law lecture at uni.

Then I played NS for a while, until one day I noticed an interesting headline at the bottome left. I clicked on it, and it let me to NSG...what a day that was. The 6th of May 2005...and here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8821080#post8821080) is my first post. Observe the formatting issues. :D

Happy Birthday NS!

Wait, you used to be a bad boy? One of the leather jacket wearing dudes with huge tatoos that get deleted by the mods from time to time? I can hardly believe it :p

Wow, four years. And I've been here for about 2 1/2 of them (joined Apr 04, generalite Apr 05, and this nation born in Jun 05). This has been one of the major causes of me spending hours on the net, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

:fluffle:HAPPY BIRTHDAY NS:fluffle:

Awesome. Happy birthday Nationstates, and nice one, Max Barry.:D

Huzzah for Nation States! May your might grow endlessly and may all fear your wrath and the wrath of your servants. Hail Max! Hail hail! Hail yes!


My first post am here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9397596&postcount=11)!

God, in 17 years if it survives Nationstates will probably be a fully interactive online reality with debates occurring between human-sized avatars in a fully realistic virtual setting.



Nah, we'll probably still be waiting for Nationstates 2.

Happy Birthday NS! May your players be ever more intelligent and humorous, and your code be free of bugs!

Don't hold your breath ;)

Huzzah for Nation States! May your might grow endlessly and may all fear your wrath and the wrath of your servants. Hail Max! Hail hail! Hail yes!


My first post am here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9397596&postcount=11)!

Well what do you know. Your punctuation has improved :p

My first post ever in General was:
"Now this, this is something I could die for..."

But one of my favourites that I've heard, is supposedly the last words of Pancho Villa:

"Don't let it end like this! Tell them I said something!"

See how serious I was back then? :)

The Ruffenietime Committee would like to congradulate NS on its 4th birthday!

*hands out candy*

Happy birthday, NationStates! Hard to believe you've sucked four years (- 5 weeks) from my life. Ah well, I must have enjoyed it.

starts handing out flutes of champagne

Woo! Happy birthday. Four years old, yet no nearer to maturity. :p

Anyway, I've been here far too long...erm, almost three years. Joined in February 04, but my nation died, poor little thing. Don't even remember the name. I think it's buried in a shallow, unmarked grave somewhere in the woods.

This one's been slightly more successful, two years and four months and still going strong. I don't remember how I originally found it - some link somewhere. I created this nation after my brother found the site. So it's him I have to blame for two years of addiction...

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Wohoo! Nationstates is FOUR YEARS OLD today, the 13th of november :)

v1.0 (13-Nov-02)
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Site goes live!
http://www.nationstates.net/HISTORY

I've only been here for a little over a year myself, but I'm addicted - to the game and the forum. So I thought I'd wish the site a Happy Birthday :D May there be many more.

Thanks to Max Barry and the Mods as well - have some cake and champagne :p

*Rolls in cake and Champagne*

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So to make a relevant topic: How long have you been playing, and how did you find the game?
Hey Gravlen, i was going to Tg you about this but...
Where did you get this http://www.nationstates.net/HISTORY from?

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6813242&postcount=316
My first ever post.:cool:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6813242&postcount=316
My first ever post.:cool:

It needed a gun smiley to drive the point home.

I think this is mine:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10435214&postcount=18

With Bodies Without Organs being the first person to reply to me.

Hey Gravlen, i was going to Tg you about this but...
Where did you get this http://www.nationstates.net/HISTORY from?

Good question... Excuse me for a moment

*Tussles off*

*Returns 10 minutes later*

EUREKA! I found it again. At the log-on screen (or your nation) you choose "About" on the menu at the left side. Then you can find a link that says "Current version: 1.9 [Changelog History]"

That's it :)

It needed a gun smiley to drive the point home.

I think this is mine:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10435214&postcount=18

With Bodies Without Organs being the first person to reply to me.
A gun smilie?
Hardly i was serious, deadly serious, excuse the mis-spelling of Palestine/Palestinian.-Still can't spell it.:p
Good question... Excuse me for a moment

*Tussles off*

*Returns 10 minutes later*

EUREKA! I found it again. At the log-on screen (or your nation) you choose "About" on the menu at the left side. Then you can find a link that says "Current version: 1.9 [Changelog History]"

That's it :)
Good Work.http://assets.jolt.co.uk/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

For those who actually still get them: Was there a birthday issue this year?

For those who actually still get them: Was there a birthday issue this year?
I have not recieved one nor do i recall ever recieving one.

Been playing since February 2003, though I spent a month deated for flaming a mod, and my founding date reflects that.

I found Nationstates from a link in the White Wolf java chats. I was big into turn-based, browser-based webgames at the time and I thought NS would be more of that kind of thing. Boy was I wrong.

You know, if I hadn't gotten Oblivion for my birthday and spent 11 days deleated for inactivity, this would've been a month short of 4 solid years of, well, mostly just lurking(seriously, I've probably got one of the lowest ratios of post counts to days in existance).

Still, WOOT! 4 years! And here's to(at least) 4 more!

Well what do you know. Your punctuation has improved :p

I know, that post looks ridiculously noobish. Which makes sense because I was a noob. Now I gots leet NSG skillz.

When I started posting, everyone was all 'wow, 4bn people!' about their nations. Now I'm at 4.5bn, it doesn't feel special :(

Also, I was a little cock back in october '04, apparently - an aritculate cock, but a cock none the less.

When I started posting, everyone was all 'wow, 4bn people!' about their nations. Now I'm at 4.5bn, it doesn't feel special :(

Also, I was a little cock back in october '04, apparently - an aritculate cock, but a cock none the less.

Aaaw...

But you've always been special :)



(Maybe a special cock at a time, but special none the less. :p)

Gah, I'm a couple of days late, but nevertheless......happy birthday NationStates!

See how serious I was back then? :)
Yeah, I was all "I can't let them get away with something like that!" outrage and enthusiasm back then:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9943858&postcount=153

So, basically, NSG has made me a a cynic who more often than not just sticks to futzing around in social threads. Oh well.

And yeah, I started playing in September 2005, but only really discovered the forums two months later. A fateful day, that was. :p

Got here through someone else talking about "this site where you can found your own nation!" on another forum.

Happy birthday, NS! I found out about NS from some friends, who found out about it from Fark.

Here's my first post - :eek: from the UN forum! http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4525680#post4525680

Yeah, I was all "I can't let them get away with something like that!" outrage and enthusiasm back then:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9943858&postcount=153

So, basically, NSG has made me a a cynic who more often than not just sticks to futzing around in social threads. Oh well.

And yeah, I started playing in September 2005, but only really discovered the forums two months later. A fateful day, that was. :p

Got here through someone else talking about "this site where you can found your own nation!" on another forum.

We're still fond of your futzing though ;)

Happy birthday, NS! I found out about NS from some friends, who found out about it from Fark.

Here's my first post - :eek: from the UN forum! http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4525680#post4525680

Hehe... It's kinda cute how none of the other nations on that page exists anymore. Well done surviving :p

I'd just like to point out Gravlen has made a 5 post!:eek:

I'd just like to point out Gravlen has made a 5 post!:eek:

ZOMG quintuple post :eek:
It's the 43rd sign of the apocalypse!

ZOMG quintuple post :eek:
It's the 43rd sign of the apocalypse!
I just got the 44th
http://www.cybernations.net/banned.asp
:eek: :(

I just got the 44th
http://www.cybernations.net/banned.asp
:eek: :(

Oh no, only 852 more signs to go!

Oh no, only 852 more signs to go!
Now i can't sign into MSN!:eek: :confused: :(

Now i can't sign into MSN!:eek: :confused: :(

*O Fortuna plays in the background*
We.
Are going.
To Die.
:(

Oh no, only 852 more signs to go!

That's all there is left? :eek:

http://www.wilderdom.com/images/RiskSharpEdgesSign.jpg

*O Fortuna plays in the background*
We.
Are going.
To Die.
:(
Isacc Newton Predicted the second coming of Jesus will be in 2060.

Isacc Newton Predicted the second coming of Jesus will be in 2060.

Well if Newton said it, it must be right. This day is getting more and more ominous.

That's all there is left? :eek:

http://www.wilderdom.com/images/RiskSharpEdgesSign.jpg
*Logs on to MOBRA*
*Searches*

http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/2005-2-11/52AB0033.jpg

http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/2005-2-11/52AB0033.jpg

It is my ambition in life to steal me one of those signs. 'Men at work' has nothing on them...

It is my ambition in life to steal me one of those signs. 'Men at work' has nothing on them...
Agreed, Forget Wombats or Ducks, Tank Crossing.:)