NationStates Jolt Archive

Description:

After years of work, @@NATIONNAME@@'s researchers found a way to produce amazingly pure crystals out of cheap synthesizable matters. A two hundred carat diamond was shown to the press yesterday and the laboratory is confident into breaking the thousand carat limit within a month or two.

The Debate:

[option] "I'm a bit better now," painfully whispers @@RANDOMNAME@@, president of the McPrecious mining company, recovering from a heart attack he had 24 hours ago. "But I'm afraid this is the end of it all. We won't be able to compete with such gigantic gems. The market will collapse. I'll have to sell one of my yachts. This is a disaster! Please, put an end to these researches. Please... I... we... arg!"
[effect] natural resources are heavily abused due to severe laws against synthesizing

[option] "Awesome news," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a member of the Supagreen party. "I mean, I'm sorry to hear about the heart attack but, look, soon we'll be able to synthesize any crystal. No more holes in our lands! We can close mines and begin to rehabilitate them into forests! I'll go tell birds right now!"
[effect] citizens digging holes in their garden are watched closely

[option] "Damn, keep both," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, first year student in economy. "Just tax the fake ones heavily enough they won't endanger our mining sector. Yeah, and limit the production of both. And the size of these stones. Regulation is the key, I read something like that in @@RANDOMNAME@@'s book. So it has to be the way to go, right?"
[effect] factories have to fill countless papers to justify appreciations on everything they produce

(new options, suggestions, complaints?)

(bump, no one?)

I like it.

Yeah, I liked it too.

Coolness, just submitted it :)

I like it...I also like diamonds. :roll:

I like it...I also like diamonds. :roll:
Is that a hidden request? :P

Not that subtle, was it? :P

Haha, not quite I admit ;)

Great issue.
I like the options. But...nobody will know that choosing No 1 means to forbid every kind of synthezising (not that all the other issues around are different, you never know what happens)

I agree with earth, no one would know the outcome. Not that it has to be crystal clear, but maybe a hint would do or something of the sort. However, the issue looks very well constructed.
A two hundred carat diamond was shown to the press yesterday

Great issue.
I like the options. But...nobody will know that choosing No 1 means to forbid every kind of synthezising (not that all the other issues around are different, you never know what happens)
Well, synthesizing is not forbidden, just heavily monitored. So it gets simpler to get the crystals the good old way.

[effect] natural resources are heavily abused due to severe laws against synthesizing



But this looks like as if every kind of sinthesizing is meant, not only diamonds.

But this looks like as if every kind of sinthesizing is meant, not only diamonds.
Well, I felt like exagerating to be on par with other issues ;)

:D your point :D

proposals for the stats:

[option] "I'm a bit better now," painfully whispers @@RANDOMNAME@@, president of the McPrecious mining company, recovering from a heart attack he had 24 hours ago. "But I'm afraid this is the end of it all. We won't be able to compete with such gigantic gems. The market will collapse. I'll have to sell one of my yachts. This is a disaster! Please, put an end to these researches. Please... I... we... arg!"
[effect] natural resources are heavily abused due to severe laws against synthesizing
[stats] mining industry goes way up, economical freedoms goes down

[option] "Awesome news," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a member of the Supagreen party. "I mean, I'm sorry to hear about the heart attack but, look, soon we'll be able to synthesize any crystal. No more holes in our lands! We can close mines and begin to rehabilitate them into forests! I'll go tell birds right now!"
[effect] citizens digging holes in their garden are watched closely
[stats] envirement(in the government) increases, economy increases(something bad has to come out of this, don't know what)

[option] "Damn, keep both," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, first year student in economy. "Just tax the fake ones heavily enough they won't endanger our mining sector. Yeah, and limit the production of both. And the size of these stones. Regulation is the key, I read something like that in @@RANDOMNAME@@'s book. So it has to be the way to go, right?"
[effect] factories have to fill countless papers to justify appreciations on everything they produce
[stats]government size increases, economy decreases slightly

what do you think?

what do you think?
Not bad. I'd say that mining industry goes way down in option 2.

what do you think?
Not bad. I'd say that mining industry goes way down in option 2.
i agree it would plummit

Wouldn't the first option also create a black market in synthesised products, since my nation will be making them, and the "evil" elements in your nation may be buying them...

The environmental issues are noteworthy, but the fact that a man digging a whole becomes suspicious is a bit unnerving. Option 2 slightly wins.

Wouldn't the first option also create a black market in synthesised products, since my nation will be making them, and the "evil" elements in your nation may be buying them...
Most probably, even within the nation itself (like drugs). However, one cannot put a 5 lines long sentence to describe what happens ;)

The environmental issues are noteworthy, but the fact that a man digging a whole becomes suspicious is a bit unnerving. Option 2 slightly wins.
Well, humor forever :)

As for stats:
Agreed on #1
Like I said before, mining sector falls down in #2, education probably goes up (you'll need researchers)
On second thought, I don't see economic decreasing in #3 but economic freedom will surely do... I can see a slight boost to corruption also.

how about changing option 2 so that it reads a little differently (or adding a new option).

"if people want to synthesise diamonds, we shouldn't stop them."

maybe increase economy, increase environment, but alot of miners go out of work. the whole hole-diggers watched closely thing doesn't sound right.