NationStates Jolt Archive

Has general gotten quieter? Is NS dying? It seems like the forum is smaller, contains less active and total topics, fewer posters, and lacks the bustling buzz I remember previously.

Actually I kind of prefer it, but is it actually happening? Are we witnessing the slow and agonising extinction of NSG?

When it gets too quiet, I post three or four topics.

Then pantless says I'm spamalicious.

So I hold off for a few days.

There aren't many new members, and with the old members, we already know everyone's opinions on the major topics.

Yeah, but NS does this all the time. Around this time of year, families are in a big push to go camping then get ready for school. Then allot of the students are going to spend the last week before school starts trying to get a sufficient NS fix.

Yeah, but NS does this all the time. Around this time of year, families are in a big push to go camping then get ready for school. Then allot of the students are going to spend the last week before school starts trying to get a sufficient NS fix.

QFT
See this every summer. Put away the "world is Ending" sign.

It's called "summer"; it'll go away soon enough.

Yeah, it does seem quieter than when I joined. :( I'm just gonna stay here, and by 2067, I can hope to be NSG's first citizen for 50 years. And I'm waiting for a date too, so brace yourselves for the inevitable celebratory topic. (If you think NS is dead, you should see spam)

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See this every summer. Put away the "world is Ending" sign.Holy cow! You must be the mother of all lurkers. Three years and 74 posts?

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See this every summer. Put away the "world is Ending" sign.


Just to let everyone that yet haven't found out:
- It's called summer. People aren't active as much.
- Then, we have some odd national holidays in autumn. We say: It's the holidays, people aren't active as much.
- Then, we have winter. People aren't active as much, either, cause it's winter, busy with other stuff and holidays.
- Then, we have spring. I don't know what we have in spring, but surely people aren't active as much in spring either.

If you get my hint. If not, better.

Yeah, it does seem quieter than when I joined. :( I'm just gonna stay here, and by 2067, I can hope to be NSG's first citizen for 50 years. And I'm waiting for a date too, so brace yourselves for the inevitable celebratory topic. (If you think NS is dead, you should see spam)

not before me you won't be!! ;)

i'm staying here. i like the people and the place, and i owe it and all of you a debt for helping me get through a hard time in my life, and then helping me find my wonderful girlfriend :)

Holy cow! You must be the mother of all lurkers. Three years and 74 posts?

I think that title has to go to this valiant fellow who briefly came out of the woodwork last night: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12946309&postcount=226

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See this every summer. Put away the "world is Ending" sign.

Holy cow! You must be the mother of all lurkers. Three years and 74 posts?

Damn, and I thought I was doing so well...:eek::(

Has general gotten quieter? Is NS dying? It seems like the forum is smaller, contains less active and total topics, fewer posters, and lacks the bustling buzz I remember previously.

Actually I kind of prefer it, but is it actually happening? Are we witnessing the slow and agonising extinction of NSG?

Have you compared NSG to other forums? We're practically a chatroom. :p

not before me you won't be!! ;)

i'm staying here. i like the people and the place, and i owe it and all of you a debt for helping me get through a hard time in my life, and then helping me find my wonderful girlfriend :)

You're right, I won't. NSG's given me a place to go and people to talk to. I've been able to rant, moan, whine, and bitch about my prospects, and I like it here. Gray landscape, but nice people.

I think that title has to go to this valiant fellow who briefly came out of the woodwork last night: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12946309&postcount=226

Indeed.

Have you compared NSG to other forums? We're practically a chatroom. :p

Yeah. I joined TT-Forums a while back, and I was amazed at the amount of dead-time there.

It's summer in the northern hemisphere... everyone's probably on vacation or enjoying the sun shiney happiness that is the summer.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here, the end is nigh.

In other news, there's a summer sale at *insert large chain store here*!

It's the same old tired rehashing of the same old shit. Nothing out of the ordinary.

I spend more time on II these days than NSG, so I can't really say for sure.

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See this every summer. Put away the "world is Ending" sign.

Well forgive me, but it is winter here.

It's the summer. All mass electronic entertainment dims in the summer. It's like TV. Nothing but crap is ever on during the summer. Why? Because most people are on holiday or enjoying the 'great' outdoors. Where ever that is.

While I heartily agree with Myrth on this one, we have to admit that nothing lasts forever. At least nothing good lasts forever.

It's the summer. All mass electronic entertainment dims in the summer. It's like TV. Nothing but crap is ever on during the summer. Why? Because most people are on holiday or enjoying the 'great' outdoors. Where ever that is.

Fuck the great outdoors.

I'm afraid so. even if it is less active during summer, the forum was much more active last summer then this one.

I spend more time on II these days than NSG, so I can't really say for sure.

Well, what is sure is that if you spend more time on II than NSG, you are not a real Generalite.

'II', as in NSII? Did they actually bring that out, after all the BS?

Yeah, it does seem quieter than when I joined. :( I'm just gonna stay here, and by 2067, I can hope to be NSG's first citizen for 50 years. And I'm waiting for a date too, so brace yourselves for the inevitable celebratory topic. (If you think NS is dead, you should see spam)

Yeah, i posted the "which goat is hotter" thread in spam, cuz its so dead there :S

'II', as in NSII? Did they actually bring that out, after all the BS?No, as in International Incidents. I still get the two mixed up.

'II', as in NSII? Did they actually bring that out, after all the BS?International Incidents?

Wait... Are we talking about NSG or NationStates in general?

In any case:
Is NS (or NSG, whatever you meant) dying?
Sure is, that's the way all earthly stuff goes. Remember Rogue? Or Omega? You don't... well, you haven't been around in the 80's (or were to young type on a keyboard).

Is it dying now, right now, coming in sight of the verge of death just this very moment?
Propably not. The fact that despite the extreme simplicity of NS, the game still attracts so many players means that it won't die from having out-dated graphics or an out-dated combat system. Otherwise it would have died the very first day.

Alternative explanation for plummeting activity:
Norther Hemisphere - People bein' bussy with summer stuff.
Southern Hemisphere - :pPeople bein' bussy with winter stuff.
Me - Sitting in my basement, on my computer, surrounded by heaps empty coke cans and pizza boxes and wearing a shirt I haven't changed for weeks. It's certainly not ME who let's NS go down the drain. No, just kiddin - about the coke and pizza part. An' the shirt of course.

International Incidents?Haha, my elite reaction times beat yours and I'm drugged up on painkillers and sedatives and crap. I am invincible!

Yeah, i posted the "which goat is hotter" thread in spam, cuz its so dead there :S

What this forum needs is a topic fest.

What this forum needs is a topic fest.

I say we need a new "Babe Thread"

I say we need a new "Babe Thread"

YES.

If NSG does die then I propse one thing on NSG's final day! A mass orgie! Of course I'll take all the women so the rest of you guys can do whatever.

If NSG does die then I propse one thing on NSG's final day! A mass orgie! Of course I'll take all the women so the rest of you guys can do whatever.

NSG will not go out with a heart attack: it will linger in a hospital bead.

(Side note: what is the term for when your body finally gives out and starts to eat itself?)

NSG will not go out with a heart attack: it will linger in a hospital bead.

(Side note: what is the term for when your body finally gives out and starts to eat itself?)I seem to have been spotting a quite a few amusing typos
today.

Have you compared NSG to other forums? We're practically a chatroom. :p

QFT

One of the best things about NSG compared to some other places on the internet is that most of the people here have lives out in the real world, rather than being nerds who haven't left their room in five years. That means that sometimes real life draws the posters away, especially at periods such as the summer break.

I've been busy moving house recently, and so have only been able to have a quick look on here every day or two for a few weeks now; being extremely busy at this point in time, though, hardly means that I'll never post on here again. I don't think it's going too far out on a limb to say the same will hold true for a lot of other posters.

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

EVERYBODY RUN!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Katganistan/chickenlittle.jpg

I spend more time on II these days than NSG

No wonder. This is all your fault.

Am I the only one who noticed that Pure Metal got 2 votes in the poll?

NSG may not be about to kick the bucket but there are definatly strange things afoot. o_0

Am I the only one who noticed that Pure Metal got 2 votes in the poll?

NSG may not be about to kick the bucket but there are definatly strange things afoot. o_0

No, I noticed that too. But it only counted for one.

No, I noticed that too. But it only counted for one.

So it did. Hmmm the mystery deepens.

Am I the only one who noticed that Pure Metal got 2 votes in the poll?
The name appears twice but is counted only once.

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

If we used my idea it would go out with a big bang! And a moan too! :p

If we used my idea it would go out with a big bang! And a moan too! :p

Lolz. Who's gonna clean it all up?

Lolz. Who's gonna clean it all up?

The world's going to end. Who the hell cares how much mess is left?

The world's going to end. Who the hell cares how much mess is left?

Right. I gotta remember that.

The world's going to end. Who the hell cares how much mess is left?

Do you have any idea what kind of paperwork planetary destruction creates?

I know one way to jumpstart the heart of NSG.

God bless America!

President Bush, lead the Middle East into stability and democracy and lead us all into a world where freedom flows like water!

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

EVERYBODY RUN!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Katganistan/chickenlittle.jpg

Yeah, Kat wins the thread.

Supposedly it is slowly dying. They had it coming. The forums are the only thing worth anyone's time.

Look out! The sky is falling down!
Look out! The world is spinning round and round and round!
Look out! The sun is going black, black
Look out! It's never, never, never coming back!
Look out!

Words of wisdom from the pen of Ronnie James Dio.

Look out! The sky is falling down!
Look out! The world is spinning round and round and round!
Look out! The sun is going black, black
Look out! It's never, never, never coming back!
Look out!

Words of wisdom from the pen of Ronnie James Dio.

And here I thought it was Chicken Little.

Dio's version is catchier.

This happens every year, people go on holidays and the less active NSers sometimes don't come back, and then we get a rush of new people later. I've actually here since around late 2002.

Just lurker with over 10000 posts!

Holy cow! You must be the mother of all lurkers. Three years and 74 posts?

Wha?? Someone stole my title??

Ahhh, heck.

Meh. It's been dying since before I joined if posters are to be believed, however, I must confess I do find the new breed of thread killing, moderation frequenting Malvolio's particularly exasperating. Well, that and the fact that I get banned for three days for daring to criticise Greater Trostia in moderation, yet he doesn't even get a warning for doing it back. Prick.

Yeah. I've got four people on my ignore list. All our threads are just politics/US is teh suck. This forum needs to lighten up. Stop taking itself so seriously.

I know one way to jumpstart the heart of NSG.

God bless America!

President Bush, lead the Middle East into stability and democracy and lead us all into a world where freedom flows like water!

The water part is a problem. We're hoping to be spared from another flood, thank you very much. Maybe "where freedom flows like beer!" :D

Yeah. I've got four people on my ignore list. All our threads are just politics/US is teh suck. This forum needs to lighten up. Stop taking itself so seriously.

I honestly have never put a single person on my ignore list at any point during my time here on NS...I just don't take this stuff seriously enough to get truly pissed about one thing or another.

I honestly have never put a single person on my ignore list at any point during my time here on NS...I just don't take this stuff seriously enough to get truly pissed about one thing or another.

I've always found not being able to follow a thread because posts are missing far more irritating than seeing the posts of a particular person.

I thought it was pretty quiet around here lately.

I honestly have never put a single person on my ignore list at any point during my time here on NS...I just don't take this stuff seriously enough to get truly pissed about one thing or another.

Yeah. It's amazing how serious some people take it, but on the other hand, that makes things fun sometimes too. :p

NS can never die. Not as long as I have at least one functiong finger to type with.:D
</humor>

Actually It will live (at least in my) our memories forever.

</sappy shit>

Nah, It's been rumored to be dying for as long as I have been here. I am sure there will always be a few die-hard Generalites to keep it going.

Nah, It's been rumored to be dying for as long as I have been here. I am sure there will always be a few die-hard Generalites to keep it going.Only cockroaches and General will survive the apocalypse?

Or are Generalites and Cockroaches the same thing? :eek:

Only cockroaches and General will survive the apocalypse?

Or are Generalites and Cockroaches the same thing? :eek:

Even the cockroaches fear the Generlites.

But I just got here...Did I kill it? :confused:

But I just got here...Did I kill it? :confused:

Not even close.

But it died as soon as I showed up...


I'M A MURDERER!!!!

But it died as soon as I showed up...


I'M A MURDERER!!!!

Nah, you're just a noob with delusions of granduer.:p

I'm a noob and a killer???


I DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!!


*Jumps off a bridge*

I thought NS was cool. My uncle showed it to me. He had been working on his country most of the summer.

He didn't bully or attack anyone but a couple of billion+ Corp Alliance nations just decided to take him out. Now I'm afraid to do anything.

NS is predatory on beginners or anyone that hasn't played very long. In any game that runs like that, sooner or later it will become the same dozen assholes playing with themselves... you know- sort of like it is now.

I thought NS was cool. My uncle showed it to me. He had been working on his country most of the summer.

He didn't bully or attack anyone but a couple of billion+ Corp Alliance nations just decided to take him out. Now I'm afraid to do anything.

NS is predatory on beginners or anyone that hasn't played very long. In any game that runs like that, sooner or later it will become the same dozen assholes playing with themselves... you know- sort of like it is now.

*dons his innocent, Angel of Light(tm) costume*

Who, Us?:D

I thought NS was cool. My uncle showed it to me. He had been working on his country most of the summer.

He didn't bully or attack anyone but a couple of billion+ Corp Alliance nations just decided to take him out. Now I'm afraid to do anything.

NS is predatory on beginners or anyone that hasn't played very long. In any game that runs like that, sooner or later it will become the same dozen assholes playing with themselves... you know- sort of like it is now.

1. General =/= I.I

2. Situations like that are what the IGNORE-class rail gun artillery piece is for.

Begging your pardon but this is part of the problem.

You have ~ 4000 posts and are into the game.

I have no idea what any of this below means.


1. General =/= I.I

2. Situations like that are what the IGNORE-class rail gun artillery piece is for.

Begging your pardon but this is part of the problem.

You have ~ 4000 posts and are into the game.

I have no idea what any of this below means.

The General forum is not equal to (edit: should rean "not the same as") the International Incidents forum.

And Ignore cannons (of various types, Mines an 80cm railgun) are what you fire to ignore other players RPs.

The General forum is not equal to the International Incidents forum.

And Ignore cannons (of various types, Mines an 80cm railgun) are what you fire to ignore other players RPs.

DAT IT!!!!! You can do better!

Didn't we have one of these last month?

Begging your pardon but this is part of the problem.

You have ~ 4000 posts and are into the game.

I have no idea what any of this below means.

so what about posts they'er nothing

Didn't we have one of these last month?

I wasn't here last month! don't ask me!!!

DAT IT!!!!! You can do better!

Of course I can, but you are not worth any of my effort, let alone my best. You have already passed from mildly amusing to mildly annoying. Why don't you quit while you are ahead?

Didn't we have one of these last month?

I thought so too, but I recall that one starting off as a question about why everyone was so hostile anymore, and careening off into another about the number of posters. Although I'm probably mistaken. :p

Of course I can, but you are not worth any of my effort, let alone my best. You have already passed from mildly amusing to mildly annoying. Why don't you quit while you are ahead?:upyours:


Why don't you shut up? And I am shooting for FULLY ANNOYING! But I am bored so why bother. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

ghosts are difficult to hang on to. there are much more neater and funner things a country can do besides make war and play soccer. honest.

i haven't the slightest idea how much more or less active anything is becoming either.

but i do know infrastructure and keeping people from starving or wanting to break something is a lot more rewarding the mass producing expendable munitions.

how to keep people from WANTING to break something is something i'm no authority on either. other then that beating them over the head for doing so, not only doesn't appear very well to work, but even a little thought will reveal no good clear reason to expect it to.

and you can only convince them that slavery is freedom for just so long, although the automobile has done a reasonably good job of that in the so called western/norther portions of the mundane world for more then 50 years.

but making everything be about indenture AND making so obviously fall apeart flimsy practically insures that sooner or later enough people will notice to at the very least quietly stop going along with it.

and with that going on, the mass appeal of war and soccer may be loosing its edge. that DOESN'T mean the simulation of running nations the way we fantasize about how the would be, could be, should needs to.

it just needs a fresh injection of something other then war and soccer, and guns and cars, fifty foot humanoid robots and shootem ups in space, and thinking inside the box of symbolic value.

windfarms, monorails and libraries with jaccussis, however far fetched in their specifics, arn't bad for a start.

libraries with gardens and coffee shops would be better. and volunteer run free ultra-light railways would be even better.

even capitolism would work though, if people didn't get so carried away as to try and make a universe that's just a wee bit bigger then all of us put togather, begin and end with it.

for the past ten years the mundane world has shown us things that for the fifty years before them anyone who would have taken seriously the possibility of would have been considered some kind of end of the world loonie.

i don't thing the chainges we've seen are the kind anyone would have wanted if they had thought about it very much. some did. many didn't.

those of us who did, got labled all sorts of things. none of them intended to be flattering.

the whole appeal of rollplay is the potential to try things that would be to irreversable in the mundane world not to test in a more contained environment first. or at least that is and was its appeal to me.

frankly i'm quite baffled as to the escape found or even persued, in simulating, if anything, what they are already surrounded by and overfamiliar with, and with the at best highly questionable resaults thereof.

the world of shaired fantasy simulation gaming has an amazing potential to grow into. one that like that of so many other media, has long been dissappointingly neglected for the sake of the primacy of symbolic value.

i really think, the community of us here, could make so much more gratifying of a context of it. and that just as in the mundane world, it is up to us togather, to do so.

=^^=
.../\...

Meh...even if it is, in a year we'll be less than 3 months away from the US Presidential elections, and you can be certain we'll have a whole boatload of newbies all eager to express their opinions* to whoever will listen.

*which are not, in their own minds, opinions...but facts

*snip*

I can translate Cameroi as I've been studying it for a while, for it a complex yet rewarding language.

"Things change, in the real world it takes time because we become slaves to the status quo and this can be harmful. Yet in role-playing games, we can explore the infinite and, instead of limiting ourselves to discussions based on the real world, we should explore the vast universes of our imagination.

By this, not only will we extend the interest of discussions, but we might find great things out there that we can bring back to the real world."

Alas, for Cameroi, this often means narrow gauge railways, but he's merely one cog in the vast machine of NS.

I was under the impression that the purpose of General was for random people to express their unresearched and unfounded political and moral opinions as irrefutable fact. And to spam.

I didn't know RP was part of general. I suppose after all this time, I should stop harassing Eras about her "icky pet jolt forum" and actually look at it beyond TOSRS...


Meh. Maybe tomorrow.

I honestly have never put a single person on my ignore list at any point during my time here on NS...I just don't take this stuff seriously enough to get truly pissed about one thing or another.

I do. I flamed one of the people on my ignore list once in Moderation. Got a 24-hour ban. (Can't say I didn't have it coming)

I've always found not being able to follow a thread because posts are missing far more irritating than seeing the posts of a particular person.

It's easier for me, because I can usually tell what they will contribute, due to the content of the thread.

Am I the only one who noticed that Pure Metal got 2 votes in the poll?

NSG may not be about to kick the bucket but there are definatly strange things afoot. o_0
Ah, the 'double vote doom', they say forums start behaving like this immediately before they are annhiliated :eek:

The water part is a problem. We're hoping to be spared from another flood, thank you very much. Maybe "where freedom flows like beer!" :D

Next time it won't be a flood. Fire, I think, was the plan?

Why don't you shut up? And I am shooting for FULLY ANNOYING! But I am bored so why bother. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

BOB, TELL US WHAT THIS POSTER HAS WON?

Kat, this poster has won a lovely, well-crafted UNOFFICIAL WARNING! If he chooses to continue with his personal attacks, it will be upgraded to an OFFICIAL WARNING!

THANK YOU, BOB.

(In other words, moderate yourself.)

BOB, TELL US WHAT THIS POSTER HAS WON?

Kat, this poster has won a lovely, well-crafted UNOFFICIAL WARNING! If he chooses to continue with his personal attacks, it will be upgraded to an OFFICIAL WARNING!

THANK YOU, BOB.

(In other words, moderate yourself.)

Why don't you ask him if he wants to find out what's behind Door Number Two?

Didn't we have one of these last month?

At least we had one last year. Summertime and all :)