NationStates Jolt Archive

some issues don't seem to work with a particular national animal...

for instance, in my old nation, the animal was the puppy.

i got asked about eating it. puppy-kebabs, puppy pie... etc. eew.. but that was pretty amusing.

i also got asked about the wild puppies who go around and attack people. :eek: again, though, still pretty amusing. (except that people wanted permission to shoot them.)

but the real kicker was when they were breeding with dogs and making a new freak-race called the "puppy-dog." that's where it starts getting confusing. what happens if your national animal is the dog?? is it the "dog-dog"?

When editing that issue I made it so that people who have the dog as their national animal couldn't get it. Obviously I couldn't list every single breed of dog, so these discrepancies are bound to happen!

Couldn't you instead set it so that those nations have something like the dogs breeding with the local troll population?

Be glad that your national animal wasn't the goldfish...wild goldfish can be pretty vicious when they go round attacking people!

Be glad that your national animal wasn't the goldfish...wild goldfish can be pretty vicious when they go round attacking people!
True, but it is funny to watch them frolic in the nation's forests. :p

And can someone please edit this? A friend of mine had the sting-ray as a national animal, and aquatic creatures should be in the fresh/saltwaters.

They won't change the line about forests. It's not something that can be coded for, as judging what animal resides in what habitat is an entirely semantic distinction.

some issues don't seem to work with a particular national animal...

for instance, in my old nation, the animal was the puppy.

i got asked about eating it. puppy-kebabs, puppy pie... etc. eew.. but that was pretty amusing.

i also got asked about the wild puppies who go around and attack people. :eek: again, though, still pretty amusing. (except that people wanted permission to shoot them.)

but the real kicker was when they were breeding with dogs and making a new freak-race called the "puppy-dog." that's where it starts getting confusing. what happens if your national animal is the dog?? is it the "dog-dog"?
well every animal-related issue would be crazy if your nation animal was the person.

I don't think that's permitted. I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed humans as national animals.

I'll prove otherwise!

Note that use of any human or racial terms as national animals is expressly forbidden..[sic]

I'm then confused as to what constitutes a 'human term'.