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    Newspaper Mission Statement?

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    From TWP Regional Message Board: a post by Mediobogdum

    Thanks to all TWP nations that voted in the Regional Poll for the new name for our Regional Newspaper :) Here are the results of the poll:

     

    The West Pacifican 45 votes
    Ye Olde Snarkee 30 votes
    The Snarky Times 14 votes
    The Snarky Sun 4 votes
    The Weird Pacific Sun 2 votes
    The West Pacific Snark

     

    So, it's now over to big_bad_badger__809172t2.pngBig Bad Badger and zogradia__814959t2.jpgZogradia to get the first issue of The West Pacifican out :)

    Newspaper Mission Statement?

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    Karaoke: suggest you ask Yy if he could write something about its history, the "rules", and embed one or two songs for every edition?

     

    How about a series on "How did you become involved in NS" -starting with an interview of the Old Guard and then the New Guard?

     

    What about a series done by the Polandball group with sketches/skits of TWP characters?

    That's 3 different regular topics that should keep somebody busy for a while :)

    Newspaper Mission Statement?

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    Issue frequency is always a hard one to agree on.  I would suggest to start out that bi-monthly would be a good periodicity. Ideas are very often easy to come by for the first few issues but things tend to 'dry up' thereafter and undue pressure is brought to bear upon editors, writers, etc to produce good quality articles, and the staff has a tendency to become disillusioned, and leave.

     

    As for content and structure, the Dass Nachrichten team did a great job for the single issue and maybe you should tap into their thoughts and add those to your own.  The overall format was good although there was a need for better proof reading of the BBcode because we had a few 'bloopers' :)

     

    One thing that we must include, is pictures.  Our last publication, although it had good content and a good banner, lacked visual impact as it was all text.

    New Newspaper Name

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    BBB,

     

    If you could select about 8 names from the assembled company of options/ideas given so far, I would like to make it the subject of the next poll :)  Of course, this will depend on whether any of the other guardians jump in ahead of me with a less meaningful poll!

     

    Medio

    Fujansk Designs

    in The Lounge

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    Thanks Hari, now I understand :)

     

    From your source:

     

    "All your base are belong to us" is a broken English phrase found in the opening cut scene of the 1991 video game Zero Wing which became a popular Internet meme. The quote is included in the European version of the game, which features poorly translated English from the original Japanese version.

     

    I hope that this subtle motto will not be lost on too many of the 'older' NS players, like me :) 

    New Newspaper Name

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    :(

    Why so glum Hariko?

     

    Oh, maybe you thought that I had only mentioned my 8 and that was the selection pool!  I would presume that The Occidental would make the cut, but that would be up to somebody else and, in any event, the poll result might not be the last word on the matter :)

    New Newspaper Name

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    I have the following:  

     

    The Western Union 

    The West Pacific Star

    The Snark

    The Westerly Setting Sun

    The Western Mail

    The Western Post

    The Western Banner

    The Snarky Sun

     

    BBB, if you would like to select up to a max of 8 possible titles, when you think you have got all you think you're going to get, and advise me then I will set up a Regional Poll :)

    Z-3 Debrief - Ideas for Improvement

    in The Lounge

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    I have already spoken to Autonomica who did  much work on Z-3 last year and this was his response to me yesterday:

     

    'Hey Medio,

    Yes! I have been meaning to get in touch with you and the other active players for the last few weeks. I've also been pretty swamped and had less time that I would like to plan for Z-4. But, yes I am definitely in to put on an even better showing this year.

    My scripts should still work without major changes, I will still throw up the webpage and host the target list. It's probably still going to be the same crappy HTML-only interface but it's better than nothing. I have to pull a recent roster to see what kind of numbers we're talking about this time around and figure out how long the full refresh cycle will take. I know that NS has been more aggressive at removing inactive regions, this will probably be a good thing for us.

    Now that we've seen the mechanics twice around I believe in order to get the absolute best returns this go round we need *every* nation in our region to only research a cure. No one can be researching TZES and we should *never* send out the kill squads.

    Here is my rationale, at the top of every hour during the Z-Day a triggered event seems to occur and passively affect your Survivors/Zombies/Dead based on what you are researching. 
    If we have people researching TZES, some of their zombie population will be turned into dead at the top of the hour. We can't afford this so we need everyone to set Cure as soon as they can so we don't accidentally lose any possible survivors to these passive triggers.

    Though the highest zombie population = most bang for our buck on cure missiles, I believe it's the *ratio* of zombies:survivors that will actually affect how well we'll perform in the long run. I ran a quick calculation for this last year that was kind of out of whack so I will try to fix that. If the zombie ratio is too high I think people start dying. So some of the tiny regions may need more support up front so we don't lose them all as dead.

    At the same time the only tactic we should be using against the Zombie Empires is also Cure-only. If we kill them we lose the survivors. Again, at the top of the hour these guys will get more zombies, but at least we can turn them into survivors again and neutralize the threat for another hour. If we are aware and have enough cooperation we can take these guys out pretty quickly and every time they get whacked with a Super Weapon they get hit with the freeze, so they won't be able to send out hordes.

    We can continue to deal with unauthorized TZES(which is *any* TZES at this point, much easier to track on the regional happenings) and Zombie Empires as we have before, by booting those regions. 
    Additionally I will go through the data and try to pick out the Nations that were building zombie empires last year so we can pre-seed the ban list with them if they made their way back the TWP.

    I think in addition to making clear this course of action by sending out a mass message and updating the RMB header page- we should try to get volunteers from every, or at least as many overlapping time zones as we can to coordinate efforts on the RMB, point people at the targeting webpage and report any Zombie Empires or TZES activity for anyone who has missed the mass telegram and notice on the RMB header. 
    A full list of active users and their timezones would be helpful too, I will try to throw a webpage together that people can register against. I am in the US East Daylight Savings timezone(GMT -4) myself.

    Ideally we would also have someone that is capable of banning nations available for the full 36 hours but, that may not be feasible. As long as we have enough active friendlies in each overlapping timezone we should be able to minimize our losses.

    So the executive summary is:
    Everyone researches Cure, NO TZES this time
    Cure the most overrun regions first
    Cure the most populous regions next
    Ban all un-corrected TZES activity(we cannot fix the dead)
    Ban all Zombie Empires (not *required* per se since we can fix zombies, but helpful to get our cure % higher and cut down on wasted effort)

    Try to get a straw poll of all participants and their timezones / Designate volunteers for every time zone to keep focused and direct newcomers to the targeting page
    Try to have a delegate or other guardian available for the duration who can ban the non-compliant nations.

    I'll see what I can do about getting a registration page up, I think NS provides an authentication API, so we can have people verified by NS account but, I haven't used it yet so we'll see. I'll also start up a dry run of the targeting page.

    Autonomica"

     

    Have not had time to absorb much of this but maybe we can draw out some details for a first mass tg to the region about our plans for Z-4?

    Position of new Minister of NS Daily Issues

    in NS Daily Issues

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    Have just seen the first batch of daily issue info/data on the sub-forum :)  

     

    Are you going to be able to somehow have the issues listed/linked numerically because having 450 or so issues in a random order might prove to be slightly problematic.  Maybe this is asking too much of you and we just see how it goes at this time?

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