Regional Influence Timeline in TNP

Question:

Influence is a measurement, exclusively, of time spent in the region and the endorsements you've received. Nothing else matters - voting, forum posts, or the level of activity (beyond being active enough to continue to exist) are irrelevant. The only exception to this is the WA delegate, who spends influence with certain activities. Correct so far?

Obviously, building regional influence in a massive region like TNP is a long-term project, because your influence is measured vis a vis everyone else in the region, so in a big region with long-established and powerful players this is naturally more difficult, right?

But is there a way to measure, or at least guess-timate your progress towards the next level? Has anyone attempted to crack the formula with any precision? What are your experiences with building influence here?

I've been working pretty hard at the endorsement game for the last month or so. I've got a pile, but it is difficult to gauge what success means, since our fearless WA Delegate, and the other big boys, are constantly increasing their lists as well.

Let's say I want to sit on the Security Council - is this a project that will take months, or years? Or is it a fool's game for a new nation to attempt to play catch-up in a region of this size?

Getting into the Security Council with a new nation would require being Delegate for a few months, I'd say. Or Vice Delegate for a year. Probably.

The best way to evaluate progress while a Minnow is to ask someone with some Influence (like myself) to estimate how much it would cost them to eject you. That changes rather quickly.

I've had triple digit endorsements for nearly a year, been the Delegate for 4+ months with one of the higher endorsement totals in the entire game and I'm still a minnow. I'm thinking long-term project to move up the influence ladder in this region.

Oh. I think that perhaps over time it takes longer and longer to get the same proportional results. Upgrade my estimate to most of a year as Delegate or at least 2 years as Vice Delegate or similar.

I've had triple digit endorsements and haven't left the region for about two years and my level is a middling 'Truckler'. Time in the region (continuous, that is) seems to be a factor.

Interesting discussion. Gracias!

It took me about two years to get to Truckler from Minnow, and I stayed within the regional rules for endo levels for most of that time. I was not elected Vice Delegate until after I became a Truckler.

The last time the World Census dealt with influence rankings, there were about 25 TNP nations at Truckler or above.

1. Hermit
2. Hegemony
3. Dominator
4. Superpower
5. Power
6. Powerbroker
7. Eminence Grise
8. Enforcer
9. Dealmaker
10. Instigator
11. Contender
12. Negotiator
13. Auxiliary
14. Ambassador
15. Diplomat
16. Envoy
17. Duckspeaker
18. Handshaker
19. Truckler
20. Vassal
21. Minnow

The highest level of influence held by a nation in TNP is Ambassador I believe.

Well ...

1 day 10 hours ago: Greater Peterstan was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements (last census: Top 10%).

I guess this means I'm making some progress in my endorsement campaign, minnow though I remain!

Interesting. I logged into my nation and I was a Truckler. By the time I logged out 15 minutes later I was a Handshaker.

I hadn't noticed Roman's post above until now, and my experience is that there will be a short period where your influence ranking will go back and forth until you have additional time or endorsements to stay in the higher level (week or two.)

I don't think anyone in TNP is above Handshaker Negotiator, even to this day. I do think there is one additional element to computing influence, and that is the number of days you have X number of endos, and the relative weight of every other player in the factoring of the number of endorsements and number of days since influence started being tracked. Whatever the formula is it does make it harder for regions with a lot of significant players in (days and endorsements, both given and received) to have the higher influence ranks.

And yes, I do think the number of endos given is a factor as well as endos received.
Fixed typo and influence rank I meant to say originally.

Grosseschnauzer you are wrong. There are a number of nations in TNP above handshaker, my nation is one of them.

These are the ranks above handshaker, and the nations who hold them:

# Hermit
# Hegemony
# Dominator
# Superpower
# Power
# Powerbroker
# Eminence Grise
# Enforcer
# Dealmaker
# Instigator
# Contender
# Negotiator - Great Bights Mum (360)
# Auxiliary - Former English Colony (180)
# Ambassador - Groovistan (1/2), Kitabo
# Diplomat
# Envoy
# Duckspeaker - ILVSIVM II, Laibach, Yaorozu, Zemnaya Svoboda (120)
# Handshaker - Ermarian (66), Impenyer, Herzliyya, Moany Old Gits, Span, Whereisthatistan

EDIT: Added how an estimate of how many days each nation has been delegate.

When I typed that earlier today, I was on my tablet, and I was trying to remember what GBM was and I didn't have my notes handy as those were on this computer, while a Mobile Wi Fi was being set up. So that was a mental relapse.

But "Negotiator" is still not more than about half way up the list of classifications, right? and that was my point.

That is a correct point.

By my understanding a Negotiator has more than 4.5% and less than 5.9% of all influence in the region. A Duckspeaker, by contrast, has, uh, somewhere between, uh, 2% and 3%. I don't remember if I had more accurate figures.

Looking at the nations I listed, they should probably have, between them, between 31% and 44% of all influence in the North Pacific.