NationStates Jolt Archive

Hi,

Our region has founded several other regions as 'dominions' which we want to build up into large and semi-self-sufficient entities, and I just wanted to confirm that we can consider each of them separately when advertising, before we get into trouble. The rules state we are allowed "One ad per advertised region", which would make us ok. But as this will mean that some nations may occasionally post more than one advert per day, but for different regions, I wanted to run this by you to be sure.

Thanks,

Westmorlandia

Bump?

Well, if these dominions are apart of your main region then I suppose members of your main region could advertise in those dominion(not sure why you would do that). If you want to allow other nations who have nothing to do with your group to advertise then thats up to the founder or founders.

Every region can send only one recruitment message to every nation in the feeders and other regios in which recruiting is allowed. I don't think you can place multiple recruiters, sending messages to nations in feeders, for one single central region. Every recruiter should only recruit for its own region (The one it is in).
I am not a mod, though.

While within the letter of the rule, it sure sounds like a violation of the spirit of the rule. Creating multiple regions, at least partly for the purpose of evading a rule, isn't what we had in mind when we wrote that up. I can't make an official ruling on this (it takes a game mod), but I'd recommend against it.

Also, as an advertising gimmick, I suspect it would backfire. Something tells me that the residents of the feeders are not looking for the opportunity to read more and better ad spam.

Also, as an advertising gimmick, I suspect it would backfire. Something tells me that the residents of the feeders are not looking for the opportunity to read more and better ad spam.
The problem is that residents of feeders complain about spam anyway, so recruiters become stone deaf. I don't think recruiters care for the opinions of the feeder dwellers. Even if one is completely within the rules, they still will complain. Their complains sound more like whining anyway.

The problem is that residents of feeders complain about spam anyway, so recruiters become stone deaf. I don't think recruiters care for the opinions of the feeder dwellers. Even if one is completely within the rules, they still will complain. Their complains sound more like whining anyway.
You know, the complaints could be curbed if there was a rule requirement that recruiters couldn't spam...err...I mean send recruitment telegrams after a nation has peaked over 500 million or something like that. Because then you get people like me with puppets who forget to log in, get it revived and within minutes of moving it back, get a stupid message that you don't want, and then have the mods give you a hard time because you don't want spam because you know what region you want to go to as a vet player.

You know, the complaints could be curbed if there was a rule requirement that recruiters couldn't spam...err...I mean send recruitment telegrams after a nation has peaked over 500 million or something like that. Because then you get people like me with puppets who forget to log in, get it revived and within minutes of moving it back, get a stupid message that you don't want, and then have the mods give you a hard time because you don't want spam because you know what region you want to go to as a vet player.

That might actually be a good rule. It's very rare that a big nation will move after getting a recruitment telegram in any case, so it hardly puts recruiters at a disadvantage.


The purpose of the dominions isn't to evade the advertising restrictions per se. The theory is that regions have a 'natural' size beyond which people are less likely to stick around because the regions already often feels like a full and closed community, so we felt that if we had other regions then they too could grow to be their own communities of a similar size, but still linked to the centre. It also fits in with our region anyway of course, which is Great Britain and Ireland.

If people think this is a bit much then we will treat it all as one, and divide the feeders among our regions.

If people think this is a bit much then we will treat it all as one, and divide the feeders among our regions.
I think this is an acceptable solution.