NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, here's the deal. I've played Nationstates as various nations for a long time. A very long time. After a brief stint of inactivity, I found the need to play again. However, I didn't like my last couple nations names. They just didn't fit the type of country I wished to RP. But now, I have to do so with a 7 million person population, which is also something I didn't like. So now I am in quite a pickle.

Ressurect a former nation, and play with a name I don't necessarily like

Play with a 7 Million population nation with a name I DO like

OR
Pretend my 7 million population nation has a population of 400 million, and hope that the good people of NS will understand.


I'm pulling for the third choice. Would that be ok with everyone? Or will I be forced to pull out one of my nations of 2 billion?

well from what i have seen most people dont mind, as long as you make it clear, like in a sig, that your forum name is not the same as you nationstate.

well from what i have seen most people dont mind, as long as you make it clear, like in a sig, that your forum name is not the same as you nationstate.

Make it clear in your factbook if you have one, then sure, we can see. If Pythogria, ie, came back and tried the same, I'd go with it.

I have no problem as long as you indicated your intent in you sig.

Alright, sounds good.

My how NS has changed since my day...I bet if we all listen carefully we can hear the ghosts of a thosand 2003 NS'ers screaming in pain.

My how NS has changed since my day...I bet if we all listen carefully we can hear the ghosts of a thosand 2003 NS'ers screaming in pain.
I'm screaming. Not really though, you have to pick your battles when you get to be this age...

:(
I made my first nation in 2003.....

I for one would not recognise any attempt by a player to claim a larger population than he or she rightfully had. Were I still playing, I'd likely refuse to recognise anything more than the 7 million population of the nation you're using now.

Why not ressurect one of your older, and just use a different IC name for your nation.
Fictional example: My ooc/nation name is The Dominion of Theao, my ic/rp name is The Fire-Eaters of Bob's Land.

But why not? After all, it is just a name. Its not like this is only my third day on nationstates ever, I've been around the block quite a few times. Its also not like I'm claiming a population of 7 Billion and a 53 trillion dollar GDP. And as I stated above, I could just pull out one of those 2003 nations if I really wanted.

But I wont. I like this name, much better than my others.

Sorta wish that NS would put in a once a year at least/most, an ability to change a nation name when things like this occur. Course then too many would do it and screw up the system server or something, but at least we'd be able to correct mistakes we have in original naming, such as leaving the 'The' part out of my nation name, and seeing it in my nation name for two years now... =--=

yea, being this old has been a tough thing. I have seen some really strange things, like the transistion from the old forums to this one...( I hate this one).

I have sen that greatest tech wank ever possible get created and used, and then have that same weapons or tch ignored by everyone. I have seen the Corporation uprise, and it downfall and then its comeback. I have seen alot I remember back when AMF had only a few thousand posts.


I tell you its been a while

If I ever get around to RPing again, I will be using the pop of Trostia (linked in sig), not Greater Trostia.

I only created the latter because for some reason Jolt forums started to dislike the former.

A bit off topic, but related to the previous post. It kinda makes me wonder why a place this popular would on a server/forum host like Jolt, when it's so user unfriendly.

At least it seems so to me. Having to relog in almost on the whim of the server after a short period of time doesn't feel very 'friendly' to me.

In any case, I still wonder if the creators of NS ever considered FT in their plans. Probably blows them away how rps are done here these days. =^^= The FT discuissions on top of.

I'm screaming. Not really though, you have to pick your battles when you get to be this age...



Or you could just kill indiscriminately.

Or you could just kill indiscriminately.

ah sweet screams to my ears.

It doesn't take that long for a 7-mln nation to become 400-mln...

Or you could just kill indiscriminately.
OOC: Yeah but I don't know if I could, he IS rp'ing a 400 million pop, I'm kinda scared :p

Four hundred million is exactly what I wanted to use. I'm not going to try and be a superpower here, just four hundred million. I'll probably use that number even when I pass that mark.

I'm going to assume that it would be GENERALLY alright for me to do this and start RPing now.

Toodles.