NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, so I've had this idea for about an hour now. I heard something on the radio where the mayor of Washington DC was being interviewed about some tradition they do there on for New Year's, with this big ball that looks like a fish and the people there do a fish dance (similar to the Macarena).

I was thinking, hey maybe I could propose an issue for NationStates related to this. But I dunno if it's a good idea, or if it is, I dunno how to make it all... actually good. I'd like help if I can get it, and MAYBE it could be finished by tonight just in time for its occasion?

Or maybe NationStates has another New Year's issue. I wonder if NS mgiht also have any other celebrations-related issues, like with celebrating certain world-wide holidays, like Christmas and ... I don't know, other holidays.

Someone please get back to me on this one? Lemme know what you think, maybe. It could be a completely bad issue. I'm just new at this issue thing, anyway. Thanks for taking your time and reading this :)
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Here's a draft you could think about...

Name: New Year, New Tradition?

Validity: All

Description: Annoyed at the normal drunken countdown of the last few seconds of the year, citizens of @@NAME@@ have united to call for the establishing of a new tradition to ring in the new year.

[option]"Drunkenly counting down from 10 has no style anymore" claims @@RANDOMNAME@@, a leading authority on worldwide culture. "It may have done for the previous generations, but we must set ourselves apart from them! This new year, let us celebrate fashionably!"
[effect] sales of inflatable bananas surge at the end of every year as part of the new year celebrations

[option]"Woah, woah, woah! You want to take away our right to drunkenly hug a strange guy standing next to us at new year?" asks random passer-by @@RANDOMNAME@@. "That's what I love about new year - I can stand next to a hot woman and feel her up without worrying about a rape case!"
[effect] the new year is celebrated only by drunken single men hugging each other


Could do with some work, I came up with this in 5 minutes. More options would be welcome, and if anyone wants to think of stats for mine, feel free.
America of Tomorrow - is this what you had in mind?

Um... Yeah, we could work with that. I like it, but um, yeah, kinda does sound like you came up with it in 5 minutes, like you said - no offense. I am thinking right now. Am kinda new to NationStates by the way (not really, I just rarely play), so I am not exactly sure what kind of personality in the issues/options they're looking for.

But I like what you put. I am thinking. Thanks for your response, though. Really, after a little while, I figured no one would answer.
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No problem. I'll try to think up something better, but this'll probably involve me waking up at 3 in the morning and forgetting the idea before I get online...
You have to wait for responses on the issues forum, can take a while.

Ok, well this nation of mine is too young to propose a new issue, so whatever, if anyone wants to steal this idea to propose to NationStates, it's fine with me. Plus I think I'd stink at writing an issue.

I think there needs to be a hippie getting in touch with nature, celebrating the new year with the @@ANIMAL@@s. Lol. I don't know. Maybe they'd want to ban the new year's celebration altogether. :confused:

It's just that with the mayor on the radio saying they do a fish dance... man... I want my nation to do that same thing. A random person could probably suggest in the issue that instead of having a pretty shiny ball drop from the sky, there should be a giant papier maché (sp?) @@ANIMAL@@ fall, and then the nation should gather, dancing the lesser-known @@ANIMAL@@-dance. Ha, I don't know!

Silly things. Someone, please steal my idea. Alter it. Do whatever. I don't wannit anymore, lol. :rolleyes:
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How about a more generic idea? I don't think they'd accept something just for New Years, as that would involve a coding change. But maybe:

Title: Holidays: Getting Unholy?

Description: A mixed group of religious zealots, soccer moms and the lower class have united to protest the traditional beer-drinking contest on the eve of every major holiday.

Options:

[option]"This is, simply put, annoying," says poverty-stricken parent @@RANDOMNAME@@, matter-of-factly. "The holidays are about helping the poor, not gluttonously drinking every bit of beer possible! We must put a curfew on the time at which you can drink every night, and force everyone to donate to the poor. Through a substantial tax, of course."
[effect]the only ones allowed out at night on holidays are door-to-door tax collectors
[stats]tax up, equality up, happiness down

[option]"No! I want my beer!" screams drunken, red-faced protester @@RANDOMNAM@@. "We should be able to do what we want, and that means more beer and less tax!"
[effect]poor are left on the street to be hit by drunken drivers

[option]"Beer is from the Devil!" chants a group from the Church of the Holy @@ANIMAL@@. "We can't let this travesty continue! Ban all alcohol!"
[effect]alcohol has been banned
[stats]economy down, happiness down

Meh, something like that maybe.