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Welcome to The West Pacific!
Despite our reputation we actually do have a lot of fun around here.
Please take a look at the Survival Guide. Although you speak like someone who has played before, there is a lot of West Pacific info in there.
Also take the time to join our Discord server. There is a lot of action up there and you can easily get into good conversations with both region-mates and others. We are also running 5 D&D games on Discord if that is your thing.
Enjoy, have fun, and participate!

Welcome! Cool pic, also how much chocolate does your nation have? Also, can you put up an avatar? 

Hello my fellow West Pacificans,
I'm Drall, and though I've been around for a few months I've only recently started using the Offsite Forum. My Nation is the Imperial Grand Drall. Some of you may know me from the RMB; I tend to be active there, or from the Discord, or the Diplomatic Corps. Since I've only recently remembered about this Forum, I thought I'd introduce myself.

Good evening from the masses in the Mutual Advancement Agreement. 

How do I send a telegram to many nations at once?
 
Go to your Telegrams page and clickCompose New Telegram. In the "To:" box, enter a list of nation names, separating them with commas.
You can also address telegrams to a region or special group. A telegram sent to region: Lazarus, for example, will be delivered to all nations in the region Lazarus. A telegram sent to tag: delegates will reach all World Assembly Delegates.
 
A telegram sent to more than one recipient is a Mass TG.
 
There are three ways to send a Mass TG:
Enter a list of comma-separated names. If there are more than 8 names, each additional recipient requires 1 telegram stamp. Address your telegram to an entire region or special group. This usually requires telegram stamps, although Delegates and Founders may send Mass TGs to their own region for free. Write a script or program to interface with the Telegrams API. This doesn't require stamps but is limited to a fairly low number of recipients per day. The other option is to copy and paste your message over and over to a smaller number of nations each time, keeping under the 8-recipient limit. If you do this, please use aTelegram Template! These make the process a little faster and less error-prone for you, as well as providing handy Delivery Reports. Create a template by addressing your telegram to tag:template, then use the special code it gives you to send copies to other nations.
 
What are Telegram Stamps?
 
Telegram Stamps are purchased from the NationStates Storeand required for some high-volume Mass TGs, such as sending a telegram to an entire region.
 
What are the differences between Mass Telegrams and regular telegrams?
 
The differences are:
Mass TGs include Delivery Reports, so you can tell exactly who received the TG and who didn't. These are viewable in yourSent Items. Similarly, when used for recruitment, Mass TGs include Recruitment Reports, which track who clicks a link from your telegram to your region and subsequently move there:
Mass TGs support personalization via the macro%NATION%, which expands into the name of the nation reading it. You can also use%TOKEN% to generate keys for off-site authentication. Mass TGs can reach large numbers of nations quickly and easily. For example, you can telegram all current World Assembly Delegates with "To: tag:delegates". You can also send telegrams to nations that don't exist yet, using "To: tag:new" or "tag:refounded", and nations will receive a copy of your message as they qualify for it (i.e. as they are created or refounded). With the exception of Delegates and Founders sending a TG to their own region, this functionality requires the purchase ofTelegram Stamps. For a full list of available tags, open advanced telegram addressing by clicking the "▼" button beside the "To:" box when composing a new telegram. What are the rules on sending telegrams?
 
Generally, you can send telegrams as often as you like. The game has inbuilt "flood" control and may slow you down if you try to send a lot in a hurry—and, of course, you should stay withinsite etiquette rules and avoid spamming people with messages of little relevance.
 
Advanced users should be aware of a few more rules:
A telegram that encourages the recipient to move regions is a recruitment telegram, and must be marked by checking the appropriate box before clicking Send. (The checkbox can be exposed by clicking the "▼" beside the "To:" box.) Similarly, a telegram that encourages nations to vote on a World Assembly resolution or proposal must be marked as acampaign telegram. Scripts, bots, and browser tools must abide by siteScript Rules. All automated telegram-sending must be done viathe NationStates API. What special groups can be reached using Telegram Stamps?
 
You can address a telegram to:
region: <Name> to send a TG to all residents of a region. (Also available without the need for Telegram Stamps to the region's Delegate and Founder.) tag: New<Number> will queue a Telegram for attempted delivery to the next <Number> newly created nations. Be aware, however, that new nations are telegrammed very quickly by very many region recruiters. In order to reduce spam, the system throttles recruitment messages so that nations only receive a few at a time; additionally, new nations have a limited amount of space in their Inbox. This means that many recruitment telegrams wired to new nations will arrive late or not at all—and consume Telegram Stamps even so. There is no special priority for recruitment Telegrams based on how quickly or by which method they are sent: All recruitment Telegrams enter the same queue and exit it in random order. tag: Refounded<Number> will queue a Telegram for attempted delivery to the next <Number> of nations who are refounded (i.e. restored by their owner after previously ceasing to exist due to inactivity). tag: NewDelegates<Number> will queue a Telegram for attempted delivery to the next <Number> of nations who become World Assembly Delegate for their region. tag: Delegates will send a TG to all current World Assembly Delegates tag: WA will reach all World Assembly member nations tag: All will send a Telegram to all nations. (Please be aware ofsite rules!) tag: Welcome can be used by Regional Delegates and Founders to set up an automatic greeting to new arrivals in their region. This requires no telegram stamps! Delegates/Founders can find the appropriate control on their Region Control page. A region can only have one Welcome Telegram active at a time, and it will be canceled if the sender loses power in the region. Please be aware that Telegram Stamps don't guarantee delivery. If a recipient blocks your message or cannot receive it (e.g. their inbox is full), the stamp is still consumed. This is especially relevant for recruitment campaigns aimed at new nations, which tend to receive large numbers of such messages.
 
How successful are recruitment telegrams?
 
Sadly (for recruiters), the great majority of recruitment telegrams are ignored, blocked, or never read. In general, you should expect:
20-40% of your telegrams to be undeliverable due to the recipient's Inbox being full. 10-20% of your telegrams to be blocked by spam filters. 0-1% of your telegrams to convince a nation to move to your region. These numbers vary by region: Feeders and Sinkers have more inactive nations, who are targeted more often by recruiters. Newly created and refounded nations are guaranteed to be active, but are telegrammed by recruiters even more frequently.

HELLO! I am Emperor Augustus Willanius, Emperor of Willania Imperium! 

*long oration of growling noises followed by presentation of fish & berry baskets to foreign dignitaries*

http://i.imgur.com/Avp0SUe.png

Hello all, as your new ambassador from KGB, I'm pleased to post the newest foreign update!
 

Nationality is American, born and raised in Connecticut.

On my Mother's side I'm equally 50% French and 50% German. (Grandmother was French, Grandfather was German, both were first generation immigrants). My grandfather had a pretty fun childhood, which took place primarily during the rule of the Third Reich. He was relocated by the government a bunch of times (my great grandfather was an officer in charge of making those kinds of decisions so he was normally able to work out some nice arrangements, no we weren't Nazis), once living on a farm just outside of Warsaw. He even got to experience the thrill of fleeing from the advancing Russian forces on a wagon train though Czechoslovakia when he was 17. He genuinely came from a time when men were men, women were men, and children were men.

On my Father's side things are hard to get down with 100% accuracy, but it's roughly 50% English from my Grandfather from whom we can trace my family back to the first Mayflower. On my Grandmother's side I'm mostly Irish with a dash of French Canadian. She claims that my irish bits also have a bit of Spanish from when the Armada crashed (We all thought it was complete BS, but after taking one of those genealogy DNA tests it showed similarities to Spanish traits, so who knows. There was also some Turkish that came up, but we have no idea what's up with that.). She also claims that the French Canadian bits also have a bit of Native Canadian, but we can't prove it.

My nationality is American, born in Chicago, raised in Wisconsin. Ethnicity is more complicated. My mom is 100% German, and my dad has some German as well, but there's also French (via Canada), English (via New England and Canada in the 1600s), some Scottish, and a tiny slice of Polish.  I have an ancestor, Peter Ingersoll, who was a Captain in the Continental Army and also owned an inn in Great Barrington, MA. I don't remember the name of it though.

I was curious on what TWP's demographic make-up was after seeing a couple threads like these in F7 or something.
 
 My nationality is American; born and raised in New England.

Thank you for your reply but that isn't correct. Arda was formed by members who held citizenship in Albion and who naturally worked with their friends to develop the region. The recruitment policy you describe does not exist. However it's your decision and that aside, I appreciate your response.  

I saw that the West Pacific map topic was inactive, so I made a new one!


If you want your nation on the map, just say where you want the nation, and what color you want it to be on the map. If you want to put your nation on the map yourself, you can download the file by clicking on the map. If you want to make a map of your nation, follow this simple tutorial.
Added Countries:
United States of Northern Americano
Ikania
The Republic of Llamas (Ezelis on map)
Benjamin Mark (simple country)
Occidius
Mediobogdum
Little Sealand
Liberillia
Wickedly Evil People (Eli)
Whisperville
States of Glory
Wallgates
The Dolorosa
Kisovec
Verbluffen
Rockandrollia
Cluntobone

1/2 bag 11.4 oz. M&M candy, Full bag 8 oz. White Peppermint M&M candy, 2/3 box of Chocolate Candy Cane Truffles, and 1 Packet of Nestle Real Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa.
I have never played before nor even heard of NationStates until 2 days ago when I started.
I do indeed play D&D and have Discord already for Civ games and World of Tanks Clan Wars and stuff like that.

I'm just throwing this one out there. A region-wide space station. I will limit it to 4 mission specialists per nation, 1 commander per nation, 1 pilots per nation. What do you think?

Just out of curiosity, you have previous experience?

I could do it.

1/2 bag 11.4 oz. M&M candy, Full bag 8 oz. White Peppermint M&M candy, 2/3 box of Chocolate Candy Cane Truffles, and 1 Packet of Nestle Real Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa.
I have never played before nor even heard of NationStates until 2 days ago when I started.
I do indeed play D&D and have Discord already for Civ games and World of Tanks Clan Wars and stuff like that.

Hello gang. I have returned. My main nation of QuietDad has returned to TWP, bringing a truckload of Chocolate to keep Darkesia distracted. It's good to be home

Welcome to the TWP forums Elegarth.
 
I am Powerboat Racer, Imperium Secret Service Director and member of the Council of the Imperium <A branch of TWP government>.
 
You can post your musings at the following link: http://twp.nosync.org/forums/index.php?/forum/13-the-clubhouse/
 
Hope you enjoy your stay here in our humblest of humble forums