Koornacht
29-10-2004, 00:29
Hey, I really do not know much, and i have a few questions if anybody can answer them.
How do i get my nation statistics? Things like military strenght, funding, ect . . .
Is there a formal way to request to join an alliance?
Are things i buy and sell here taken from a set budget I have? If not, how do I acquire that budget?
How do I know my "location" in comparisson to other nations?
There are no stats, budget or location
The Zoogie People
29-10-2004, 00:38
Hey, I really do not know much, and i have a few questions if anybody can answer them.
How do i get my nation statistics? Things like military strenght, funding, ect . . .
Is there a formal way to request to join an alliance?
Are things i buy and sell here taken from a set budget I have? If not, how do I acquire that budget?
How do I know my "location" in comparisson to other nations?
Stats aren't technically part of the game, if you want to figure out your budget there a variety of third-party resources such as the pipian calculator (the link to which I don't have handy) and the newer and better-looking one, Thirdgeek. (nseconomy.thirdgeek.com)
NS roleplay is entirely optional and freeform. You don't have to conform to the amount of funding the game says you spend on defense (for example, I roleplay with around 10% defense spending, but the game says I have none). Your best bet is to read Euroslavia's all-inclusive roleplay guide in the International Incidents section.
The important thing is realism. You're not spending 50% of your budget on defense because that is impractical to the point of ridicule. You don't have an army of 200 million (unless your population is many, many, many times that) because that, too, is impractical.
The other thing is to make sure you write well; roleplaying is kind of like writing chapters in a story.
Or you could not roleplay, do the issues, and hang around in General. Your call.
Good luck...the community here at NS is for the most part newb-friendly.
(Edit)
As for location...it's a really gray issue. Location generally hasn't come into play for me, except for regional location. Some regions have maps, some don't. If you have a Graphics suite like the pricey Photoshop of the free Gimp, you can make your own map, but that doesn't show it in perspective to other nations. There's too many nations to consider a world map. Myself, I make things simple by roleplaying as a series of islands with no land borders, making my country's location easily pluggable into say, a regional map.