Mediobogdum

Okay, boys, you did well You will take some stick for some of the minor coding errors but what the heck - you made it happen and should be proud of yourselves. You can always edit out what you don't like anyway Some pictures next time would be a great addition.

URA, Please don't be put off by BBD's comments He will always speaks as he sees it but a regional newsletter has to start somewhere and there will be those that will hate it and those who will love it. The majority of TWP nations will be in the latter category, I'm sure Medio

I think most people will think that it is, or should be

You're in good company BB!

Pleased you are still in one piece Catch up on RL matters and we can take it from there.

We have had about a dozen new TWAF recruits who have signed up recently and we must ensure that they do not get lost in the transfer. Until you can find a replacement as DA of Defense, would you be able to run both areas and at least start some sort of training program for these troops?

In favour

Yes, you have to maintain a nation in TWP to be a member of The Voice of The West Pacific.

Nomination is DECLINED but thanks.

If you want to look at frequency of issues turning up, I did a small, actually not so small, exercise on this! Please see my Factbook entry: http://www.nationstates.net/nation=mediobogdum/detail=factbook/id=217225

Oops, you're right 72 Maybe weather is not directly related to weather weather but takes account of how people feel - as in you look a bit under the weather? This would correlate with your thought that as your 'governance' becomes easier on the populace, the better they feel

The quickest way to look at your nation's stats is, if you are NS++, to be on your nation's main page and click on the "Stats" graph icon and choose the stat you're interested in. Mine for weather is -50 and I'm a Civil Rights Love Fest. To see which issues might affect each of the now 74 stats, the daily issues are detailed at: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=778 Hope this helps

As far as population goes, you will reach about 1 billion each year you play. I have been playing NS for just over 2 years and my pop. is about 4.4 billion. In order for your nation's economy to be at 100/100 you will have had to have been; 1. Very skillful at selecting your options on daily issues. 2. Been very understanding when an expected outcome was not related to the actual outcome on daily selection to what you thought was an economy-related daily issue Daily issues are great fun and consequences are often hilarious. But what you thought was a sensible selection for increasing economic performance often have unintended consequences. Issues editors have a wicked sense of humour and just love to tinker around the edges sometimes. About a year ago I did have a stab at pulling information together from the 27 different NS categories in terms of the three main types Civil Rights, etc, and breaking then down into "Frightening = 98-99/100", or "Thriving = 84/100" but gave up when NS++ came along and it was not possible to look at this breakdown. I even put a couple of charts onto PhotoBucket.

A popular nick name for Ethel mermania was "Em". Not sure that BBD would like to be called "Glenda" as 'she' is a different nation!

Well, you do sound a bit 'bossy' but, as you are someone who will be in a position to boss ere too long, it's good to get some practice in I am going to look at it again before update and ask a couple of other nations to withdraw their endorsements at the last minute in case some TWP twerp wants to play at being a silly idiot!

Good thinking and, whilst you're at it, tell potential recruits that they had better put their factbooks onto the Darkipedia Index so we can all see them! *ebil grin*

I'm in the office until major update after which you'll have to talk to URA if you want a mass tg put out Put together something with URA's help if you need it and I'll issue the tg as soon as I can!

Elegarth, I am very sorry to see you having to go but understand your situation and thank you most sincerely for your work in putting the Advocate's position onto such a solid foundation, thus allowing your successor to get a head start. I wish you well and look forward to your inputs as and when you can make them, which I trust, will be frequent

Anyway let's hope we can get the newspaper ready by the end of July and have a bumper issue?

Actually, we could still have had the names approved for Editor and one other, even if there was no Newspaper to publish Lol

We are hoping that we can get it as the TWP Official Newspaper via NS++ but at the moment there seems to be a two week delay before a new delegate has permission to allow this We should have done this before Dark departed!

You can only do your best Ruso and I know you will Don't let NS spoil/interrupt your vacation! lol

YES.

Westwind, Elegarth has sent me a tg in which he says that he has had a change of RL work and he may not be able to stay on as Advocate much longer. He has granted all the DAs authority to go ahead and work unilaterally, and without his input for the time being. How can we sort out for each of the respective DAs to carry out those permissions/access/actions which the Advocate would have performed on each of their behalves? Medio

Kogradia Liberillia Khmerbodia Kolmias Arrikas eg joker Apologies for not acknowledging your applications for ambassadorial duties before now. Thank you so much for applying for the positions and you are advised that our Deputy Advocate of Foreign Affairs will be in touch shortly to take the next steps with you. Hope all your passports are up-to-date Medio