NationStates Jolt Archive

Since plenty of people want to join in on the test, thought maybe it was easier to just put the thread here. First...what exactly will we test how?

Taking over and see how all the moves work is one thing, but there is lots more we can test out, and i'm open to ideas.

Looking for guinea pigs, I see. :p

Looking for guinea pigs, I see. :p

Oink?


But seriously.

1. We should test to get a valid list of the rankings from minnow-superpower.
2. We should do a long-term test to see at what rate Influence accrues with/without UN status and to what degree endorsements improve Influence.
3. We should do a long-term test to see if we can destroy a region.

3. We should do a long-term test to see if we can destroy a region.

Starting with Texas, right? ;)

Starting with Texas, right? ;)

:rolleyes: Sigh.

We would start a new region with a puppet Founder to perform the test, silly. I wouldn't do it on any established region. At least not unless they agreed to it for some reason.

I would be glad to send a puppet not in the UN to help in the test region. Please TG me if interested.

This sounds like fun. Do you need any more guinea pigs?

3. We should do a long-term test to see if we can destroy a region.

By destroy, do you mean eject all the natives? It's been done already. :(

I have conducted a small independent test. :P

Remember, a nation's ranking is dependant on others in the region. If you're doing a test, you'll have to keep the number of nations in the region at a constant.

lets try first taking over a region..

Region: The Ocean
Endorse: Kaaskopje

Both the region and the lead are mine, so no worries about annoying innocents ;)

Okay..region went from 2 non-UN nations (strength: low) to 7 nations of which 2 UN (strength: still low)

Delphina's Influence remained dominator.
Kaaskopje with one endo went from minnow to truckler.
Her endorser is now Powerbroker (zero endo's himself)

The nations that entered along with them but weren't UN remained minnows

Founders can use the controls for free.

There is also a possibility to add a password to the region which is shown to members of that region. This is cheaper than keeping it secret.

The Ocean
World Factbook Entry: Not much more than water here...and an Underwater Queendom.

UN Delegate: The Klompen of Kaaskopje (elected 7 hours ago).

Founder: The Underwater Queendom of Delphina

Regional Power: Low

The Ocean contains 7 nations. [List all nations]

Tired of life in The Ocean? Then move to a new region!

The regional password is "test".

[Enter Regional Control]




The password itself is shown in red font.

Passwording the region or kicking out delphina takes more than 100% of my influence. It seems to have some trouble estimating the other costs.

I founded a new Region.

And 5 nations are there 2 UN and a Delegete.

I attempted to post to the RBM and rec'd a message The MESSAGE did not clear security. or close to that.

What does this mean a founder can no longer freely post. I found no regional control covering security.

Who does the security checking?

*****

This request failed a security check.

How ever the message appears when I view the region from "The World" and look up the region.

But in the region signed in it does not appear.

????????????????

This request failed a security check.
I've gotten this message when switching between puppets and trying to do something (move regions, post, send TGs).

What has happened is that your browser cache still has the information from an earlier puppet when trying to act with a new puppet. You didn't see Founder stuff because the game didn't think you were logged in as Founder.

A simple <ctrl>-F5 resolves it.

Gained an endo, went up to "handshaker"

Oookaaaay...

Changing WFE seems to be free, same with blocking yourself out of delegate access.

Passwording costs influence, secret more expensive than showing your region
Ejecting costs influence, but not as much as eject and banning. Unbanning is free. It's also shown on the regional happenings now if someone just got banned or ejected and banned.

Founders can do it all for free.

Seems the system has trouble giving an estimate on the ejecting of another nation after having estimated it for a first. Helps to refresh or re-enter the RC after leaving..