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To provide an East Pacifican perspective on this: Yes, we have less adspam than TNP because our RMB is more active. However, there are considerable obstacles to a similar solution in TNP. For one, not to brag, but TEP is considerably more active than TNP. This is the result of a great deal of...

Not a chance in Fel. JAL?

I still have some Hollerith cards in the basement from the early days.

The OP is a common misconception. I get a lot of "Won't you bring yourself and all your endorsers to my region?" telegrams. This isn't truly possible. As others have pointed out more eloquently, relatively few endorsers of feeder delegates are genuinely loyal to or interested in their delegates...

Back in 2005, IF deleted everything posted since the start of the year in s1 boards. That's TEP, TSP and Wysteria (plus some others) on NS. No explanations, no apologies, just a massive purge. When they finally got around to explaining themselves, months of silence later, they claimed that a...

I agree...somewhat. The government shouldn't regulate "mechanical" aspects of collaborative writing efforts. Some regions that do NS-based group writing place stiff limitations on things like nation size, technological level, rigid adherance to NS calculators for economies, and so forth. This...

In practice, I find that this poll makes sense when considered a measure of publicity, not influence. Quientessence of Dust is the most influential Wysterian, but we've all heard more about the Bruce. Todd may not historically be the moving'est and shaking'est of feeder delegates, but he's...

Kandarin The Rejected Realms/The East Pacific February 2003

I play this and Nexus War. It's a fun little game and the people there are a lot like NSers, although it takes a while to get a good character going. I also used to play Runescape until my friends stopped playing.

I sometimes wonder why that sort of thing is called Roleplay at all when it couldn't be further from roleplaying. Mostly it seems to come down to long-standing tradition. Still, there doesn't seem to be an accepted alternative term and I have to admit that the IC/OOC distinctions are really...

The thing to remember about the Jolt forums is that they're not a monoculture. Sure, they get along better with each other than with non-Jolt peopl, but International Incidents, Nationstates, WA, and General forums all have very different people using them and crossovers are a minority.

It generally makes more sense once one realizes that most of what we call roleplay is not roleplaying at all.

Whichever architect designed those dorms is set for life.

I guess the unspoken question in my previous post is: "What does TNP think of when it thinks 'RP'?" Since the term alone doesn't say much, some sort of further clarification is needed. Are you interested in the more serious narrative-style stuff like they do in TEP? Would you rather do...

I was going to reply to the previous assessment of the EP's RP vs. TNP RP, but this request provides a much better opportunity. What qualifies as a RP region depends on what your definition of RP is. Many (indeed, most active) regions refer to themselves as "RPers" on some level but I think...

Mighty Riches? Is that you?

Other people have more helpful things to say about Idea #1, so I'll stay off it. Idea #2 has been brought up in other places, as has been mentioned a few times already. The idea is to draw in people from multiple sources, not to spread an existing group thinly. However, when this is done the...

Personally, I found that that question was less informative than the one that followed, which stated that over 30% were at least interested in the subject. The percentages on that question were messed up by the software, though (it calculated by total responses when each respondent could choose...

The survey is now closed, and results have been posted here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=590035

I have posted this on multiple forums. However, I am posting on behalf of the survey creator and am not the creator of this survey.

This was assembled in an effort to gauge the relative interest of varying aspects of the game. It's unofficial, but what it's trying to find out is still worth knowing, so take a look. This was previously posted on the Jolt forum but as we all well know that forum doesn't necessarily reflect...

33) If you find a lost mentor, estranged family member or other important character you have become separated from standing still and facing directly away from you and they repeatedly do not respond to verbal cues, resist the urge to go up behind them and put your hand on their shoulder...

The East Pacific operates on the same rules. I don't believe even one ejection turned out to be necessary for the gaggle of swappers who turned up after the Empire collapsed. I'm not sure what the West does but it's not summary ejection, although that may depend on who is Delegate at any given...

Actually, the East Pacific in its current state would have warned him several times. He'd still be in the same situation he's in now, though.

Unfortunately, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of the region's membership is utterly disinterested in involvement with the rest of the region. This is not a factor of the sort of government that is present, for it has been the case for all feeders under all governments for all of...

Godwin's Law cannot be broken. It is the absolute and unshakeable truth.

The game mechanics of the feeder (Pacific) regions ensures that the portion of the playerbase least interested in interaction with other players will always make up the bulk of their population. The Pacifics contain many involved players, yes, but also players who log in once a week, newbies who...

Because it'd mess up the declining-curve thing we've got going.

Kandarin was my first nation, founded in the North Pacific in early February 2003. Mikestonia gave me a bad impression of the place, so I got out and drifted from little region to little region. When Regional Controls came out, I took up invading with a few friends, and liked 'recruiting' for...

As far as the possibility of altering the game to favor the invader/defender system goes, I'll save on pixels and just link you to my views here.