NationStates Jolt Archive

I submitted several issues over the past year and I was hoping to know where in the queue (time wise) the review has been. It seems that in two years that we've had very few issues. How many are submitted?

Thanks,
10kMichael

Well, from the stickies.... I see at least 180 issues. Also.... from the Issues FAQ by Siroc,

'Issues from July 2003 to the 18th of August 2004 have been finished. All issues submitted during that period have either been deleted or coded and put into the game.

The batch we're working on now extends from the 18th of August 2004 to the 14th of October 2004.'

With two nations, I do believe that I've seen all of the issues (after perusing the list) with the exception of the Easter Eggs. I'm working on ideas that I haven't seen addressed, with two of them currently in this forum.

I believe that interest wanes in the game because of this. To simply decide on the same issues, without changing one's opinion, seems to offer little variety.

My point in posting is that I hope to see more resources devoted to new issues, as this would increase my enjoyment of the game. For my part, I'll keep working on my ideas and submitting.

At the moment the issue editor isn't working properly and is throwing all sorts of weird error messages in my face. Until it's been fixed I can't put any new issues into the game. The number of issues we have in the game at the moment is about 163 I believe.

How many are submitted?

It's not a matter of how many are submitted, but rather, how many are submitted that are quality enough to use and work with the game... I'm sure issues are more prone to mistakes, which eliminate them from being accepted, than the UN proposals list is prone to.

It's not a matter of how many are submitted, but rather, how many are submitted that are quality enough to use and work with the game... I'm sure issues are more prone to mistakes, which eliminate them from being accepted, than the UN proposals list is prone to.

You'd be amazed.

You'd be amazed.

NationStates has amazed me in so many good, and more importantly, bad ways about many things...

NationStates has amazed me in so many good, and more importantly, bad ways about many things...

Well, this actually gives me hope. I've had a few that I thought were pretty good, and certainly as far out in "Right Field" as my Needling Sharing and Near Earth Tracking resolutions were <-- like we'll ever see politicans talking about treating addicts like humans let alone listening to a bunch of nerdy astronomers. ;)

The issue I'd like to bring back and maybe get help on is based on the US "Title XI" laws. Basically this is an equal rights issue, but instead of playing the ethnic card it really is about gender based equality ... but thanks to NationStates approached in a very silly way.

Hmmm ... perhaps I should repost it.

Hey, I'd like to see your Title IX (nine) issue - think that's what you meant. That's one I hadn't thought of. I plan to post a few more I'm working on before the end of the year.

Bummer that the issue editor is "on the fritz." I would definitely like to see more variety in the Issue department.

This is a copy (not exactly what I submitted ... that copy I changed a wee bit on the fly) from late August:

Name:
Women’s College Sports Programs Are Under Funded

Description:
@@NAME@@ parents and college students are up in arms over what they consider the state of women’s collegiate athletic programs. “Public universities are spending billions of @@CURRENCY@@ collegiate sports programs, but only a small fraction of this money ever makes it into women’s collegiate sports programs. This is gender based discrimination, pure and simple.”

Options:
[option] “We aren’t asking for the elimination of the male sports programs, just equal funding for sports like women’s football, basket, tennis, hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, and softball,” demanded former Olympic medallist @@RANDOMNAME@@. “We could share training facilities and fields, but we shouldn’t be treated like second class citizens.”
[effect]men’s college football games are often blacked out for coverage of women’s collegiate volleyball matches,
[stats]

[option] “Men’s collegiate sport programs like football, basketball, and hockey draw in more money to the schools than they cost,” explained @@NAME@@ University head coach @@RANDOMNAME@@. “Without men’s sports to help defray the costs of education, @@NAME@@ schools would fall behind the better funded schools in other countries.”
[effect]sports bars pop up around all college campuses,
[stats]

[option] College freshman @@RANDOMNAME@@ suggested, “Well, if they allowed women on the men’s teams, maybe it wouldn’t matter which sports are funded and which ones aren’t. Of course we’d have to have new rules and quotas in order to ensure equal access for these new sports. My vote is for co-educational mud wrestling!”
[effect]young girls long to get the much coveted mud wrestling scholarships,
[stats]

[option] “I know a way to find equal funding to collegiate sports programs, let’s cut funding to all of these programs!” answered back head of the College of Science at @@NAME@@ University. “Think of all the extra money that could be used buying my students more chemistry playsets!”
[effect]the frequency of accidental fires in university chemistry buildings increases ten-fold,
[stats]

Good unintended consequences. I might suggest something about fencing and lacrosse becoming "lost arts" on the second option, but it's a little late for that now.

I did get a laugh out of it, and that says a lot. Hope you'll take a look at the one's I'm proposing - Teen Sex and Infant Abandonment. They're my first tries, and I could use the feedback.

BTW, I'm also Maubachia.

Nice one, Mik, but where are the stats?