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Engeland and marxonia wrote:Hi everyone
I've been inactive in the region due to real life obligations but hopefully I can finally be active once my exams are over at the end of May.

Awesome. Good luck with the exams.

Engeland and marxonia

Engeland and marxonia wrote:Hi everyone
I've been inactive in the region due to real life obligations but hopefully I can finally be active once my exams are over at the end of May.

Best of luck with your exams! I am sure you will do great!

Belladonnia and Engeland and marxonia

Hey folks, important update from Thalassia! Today Queen Sho announced her abdication! There is to be a two week transition period, the end of which the Crown Prince (who happens to be me, so this is weird to announce) will take the throne.

Badivermeraed wrote:Hey folks, important update from Thalassia! Today Queen Sho announced her abdication! There is to be a two week transition period, the end of which the Crown Prince (who happens to be me, so this is weird to announce) will take the throne.

CONGRATS BAD!!!!!!!!

Minas Tyrrith and Badivermeraed

Badivermeraed wrote:Hey folks, important update from Thalassia! Today Queen Sho announced her abdication! There is to be a two week transition period, the end of which the Crown Prince (who happens to be me, so this is weird to announce) will take the throne.

Best of luck when you ascend to your new position.

Minas Tyrrith and Badivermeraed

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Issue LXVII | March, 2021

Editor-in-Chief: Toerana
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Crowheim

Index

  • Game-Created Regions See Delegate Shakeups - Crowheim

  • The 2021 Card Awards - Minskiev

  • The 2020 Reject Awards - Toerana

  • Inflation - The Death of the Cards Game - Toerana

  • April Elections in the Rejected Realms - Toerana & Dyllypoly

Game-Created Regions See Delegate Shakeups

Opinion | WRITTEN BY Crowheim | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

Over the past few months, the Game-Created Regions of NationStates (also known as GCRs) have seen a slew of newer delegates taking the reins. Since these regions don’t have founders, selecting a delegate is very important as it means the election of someone who will have near-total control of the region’s onsite functions. Four new delegates in particular have seen a somewhat recent rise to power: McMasterdonia in The North Pacific, Beepee in The South Pacific, Chimes in The Rejected Realms, and Zukchiva in The East Pacific.

About 70 days ago, McMasterdonia assumed the delegacy of The North Pacific for a staggering fifth time. As TNP’s previous longest-serving delegate - setting a record of 251 days during his second tenure - McM is a well-established figure in the region and is well-known across NationStates, having been commended by the Security Council several years ago and having served as the de facto face of TNP for many years. His predecessor, Kranostav, who had been elected after Prydania stepped out of the role due to real-life reasons, ran against McM in the election but was handily defeated in what many perceived to be a more lopsided victory than expected. This was a return to form and precedent for TNP, and McM started his term off immediately with a bang, as the quorum raiding debacle between them and defenderdom began very shortly after his election. One could consider his term beyond that to likely be a typical one, though - a “safe” choice to lead The North Pacific.

Meanwhile, in The Rejected Realms, Jamie (Chimes) was elected after challenging for the role following Sarah’s (A Leaf on the Wind) resignation. They ran against Nequedem (Glacikaldr), Gorundu, BowShot118, and perennial candidate (as well as game moderator) CrazyGirl, sweeping the competition and quite easily securing election for what is likely to be a six-month term. Jamie continues the trend of defenders holding the TRR delegacy, succeeding Sarah and Dead I Jack (both are members of the Grey Wardens and Sarah is a member of the RRA), Kyorgia, who had a more mixed past, and Frattastan, Commander of the RRA and the owner of Libcord. Jamie had previously served as Speaker and World Assembly Officer in the region (as well as Delegate of TNP, being the predecessor to McM’s second term). This can be considered another “safe” play by TRR in electing an established regional name, noted defender, and all-around good guy on NS to represent the region.

The South Pacific’s new delegate, Beepee, has only just assumed the in-game role despite being elected in January, a much longer transition than the other three regions in the article. Nonetheless, Amerion continued to serve as TSP’s in-game delegate while Beepee closed the 300-endorsement gap. In a previous TRT article, Purple Hyacinth, Chair of the South Pacific Assembly, surmised that Beepee would assume the role in around a month but that time came and passed. Beepee ran in a very close election against Rebeltopia and Jay Coop (Qvait) for the role, winning 27 votes to Rebel’s 26 and Jay’s 25. The race was then moved into a gameside poll between Beepee and Rebeltopia, in which the former dominated the competition despite the tight earlier race and secured the delegacy for himself. It’s unclear what he will do in the role, as his campaign was somewhat lacking in the way of promises, but we will hopefully soon find out.

Lastly, The East Pacific, as expected, elected their first Dele-goose, Zukchiva, to serve as the region’s leader. He succeeded Serge (Libertanny) in the role, who moved to his newly founded UCR, Kaer Solas, soon after leaving the delegacy. Zuk ran in a rather uncompetitive election, securing a vast amount of the vote against several competitors. This has been cited as something of a problem in The East Pacific, as elections are non-competitive even quite far ahead of time: Sammy (New Leganes) is already favored to become Delegate after Zukchiva leaves the role. It will be interesting to see what Zuk does in the role, given the broad support he had from TEP’s surprisingly small voting population.

The 2021 Card Awards

News | WRITTEN BY Minskiev | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

Over the past year, the cards community has grown tremendously, with new organizations popping up, new traders influencing the market, and new collectors building dream decks. In recognition of this, the North Pacific Cards Guild created the 2021 Card Awards to celebrate the past year’s highlights. The event included individual awards intended to celebrate various aspects of the cards scene and recognize the efforts of some of the most notable members of the cards community.

First was the Best Overall Trader award, won by none other than Koem Kab. As first in the world in Deck Value, it's easy to see why they won this one. Next was the Best Rising Star Trader award, which went to Witchcraft and Sorcery. In just three months, he surged from nothing to a Deck Value within the top 20 - definitely deserving of this award! After that, r3n (also known as 1 very fast endotarter or the Northern Light) was named the winner of the Hero of the Year award. r3n is well known for their generosity and involvement in the North Pacific Cards Guild, so this was no surprise. The Villain of the Year was Koem Kab, as they were the first condemned cards player and someone to always look out for on the market. In recognition of their excellent technical work and creation of widely-used scripts to speed up card farming, Racoda was awarded the Most Innovative award. Finally, the winner of the Most Popular award was 9003, a very well-known cards player and organizer. They're also known for trying to collect every common card - a feat they're well on their way towards!

Following these individual awards, there were several awards for events, collections, the best card, card news services, tools, and more - not to mention fun titles given to infamous players and things in the cards community. Overall, the Card Awards were nothing short of good fun and a way to celebrate cards players’ work this past year.


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The 2020 Reject Awards

News | WRITTEN BY Toerana | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

The Reject Awards - a yearly celebration of the events, the people, and the achievements of the past year - began on the 8th of March and were run by Culture Officer Nakari. They ended with an Awards Ceremony for the winners on the 23rd of March.

Through the course of the event, over 200 votes were cast across 13 categories:
Most Outstanding RMBer, Pen & Paper, Quote of the Year, Best Staff Member, Best Legislator, Greymarshes Achievement Award, Veteran Reject Award, Best Government Member, TRR Event of the Year, Most Outstanding Officer, Best Newcomer, RRA Newcomer Soldier and, of course, Reject of the Year.

The Pen & Paper Award was a new addition for this year, while all other categories returned from the 2019 Reject Awards. However, unlike previous years, 19 awards were handed out for the 13 categories, as many votes saw close races and multiple ended in draws.

As to not spoil the results of the awards, they won’t be listed in this article. However, the winners and a full breakdown of the results can be found in the LinkAwards Ceremony thread on TRR’s forums.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Inflation - The Death of the Cards Game

Opinion | WRITTEN BY Toerana | EDITED BY Dyllypoly & Minskiev

Since its reintroduction in December 2019, the Cards “minigame” has grown into a vibrant community of players trading cards, completing collections, and amassing thousands of bank worth of cards - often independent of any region in particular. With the Top 10 Players being valued at 3.86 Million Bank combined, it shows an incredible ability to collect valuable cards - or does it?

Card inflation is the method by which wealthy players artificially boost their deck’s value to extraordinary heights without collecting more conventionally valuable cards. Inflation is created by collecting a fairly large quantity of a rare card (typically CTE’d commons), effectively creating a monopoly on it, and then proceeding to buy and sell it to yourself for a large quantity of bank, thus increasing the value by orders of magnitude. The practice has been used to immense success by prominent members of the card community: 91 inflated cards are now more valuable than the most valuable legendary card in the game, Season 1’s Testlandia, with 75 of these inflated cards being valued at 1,000 bank or more apiece.

However, card inflation was not always so heavily used or as relied on by big card farmers to boost their deck’s value. Before its explosion in popularity, card inflation was used sparingly as a way to give artificial value to a select few rare Ultra Rares, Epics, and Legendaries, with the Season 1 card Soops holding the top spot in value for an extended period of time. This rare use of inflation made users like Farrakhan, TRR’s long-standing informal Vice Delegate, a novelty within the community with their deck of primarily inflated copies of themselves. In more recent times, players have continued to boost their cards, with 9003 recently holding the most valuable epic spot with their Season 1 card. Unlike more recent examples of card inflation, however, these cards were more easily obtainable through card farming due to their lack of ceased-to-exist (CTE’d) status and the lack of a preexisting monopoly on the card. With new cards being pulled by farmers and casual players alike, it also forced the inflators of these cards to consistently spend large amounts of bank to maintain their card’s value, ensuring there was a high cost to maintain the equally high value.

This lack of sustained cost and the monopolization of inflated common cards are only harmful to the cards community. While there are many different ways to play the game, the total value of a player’s deck is the obvious, go-to achievement advertised by the game. It has built-in rankings for the most valuable cards and decks, as well as a stats badge for deck value, which may just serve as further motivation for cards players given the believed impact gold badges have on a card's rarity. The sheer value of some cards players’ decks - such as Koem Kab, the first player to surpass a deck value of one million - is incredibly daunting to players new to both cards and NationStates in general, which may only serve to demotivate those without the dedication to farm hundreds (if not thousands) of puppets to gather wealth more “organically” and could put users off cards for good. Unfortunately, this is a problem that has no solutions that will please both sides. There are, however, possible solutions for this problem.

Firstly, one of the problems helping to exacerbate the issue is the fact it is harder to pull CTE’d cards than non-CTE’d cards. This is a problem that all sorts of cards players face - in particular those in the region collecting community, who often see collections slow to a crawl as they wait for excruciatingly rare cards to be pulled even a year into the season. The fact these cards are hard to find means they can’t easily be deflated by those who want to sell the card to a “market value shark” for a quick buck or by those who intentionally deflate cards. Furthermore, it prevents these cards from seeping into the general population, keeping the artificial value with those who spent effectively nothing to collect it. Making CTE’d cards as easy to find as regular cards would help to reduce the drastic growth in the number of these cards, as it would be easier to deflate them through natural means.

Pushing the idea of player-caused deflation further, increasing the pull chance of a card based on its market value may help to do the trick. Doing so would ensure that people who rely on inflation for their value are constantly working to maintain that value, making these cards more common and thus significantly easier to deflate.

Finally - and likely the most unpopular idea of the three - placing a cap (soft or hard) on the value of cards based on their rarity will ensure that cards do not inflate too far. However, if placed too low, it could see lower-rarity cards of prominent players (such as GCR delegates) be undervalued because of gameplay mechanics. It’s a tricky balance to strike and, if introduced, would be unpopular at implementation.

With the most valuable legendary card nearing being pushed out of the top 100, we could see a continued shift away from traditional methods of gathering deck value and an increased focus on self-centered monopolies on otherwise-worthless cards, being inflated to be valued at thousands of bank, possibly seeing a gradual decline in interest in the cards game for all but a few highly-dedicated inflators and card farmers, unless changes are made to "restore" a more traditional style of play.

April Elections in the Rejected Realms

News | WRITTEN BY Toerana & Dyllypoly | EDITED BY TRT Staff

Regularly scheduled elections for all 4 Officer seats and the position of Speaker occurred in The Rejected Realms at the beginning of April. Seven candidates ran for Officer and two candidates (along with a disputed third) ran for the position of Speaker.

Officer Candidates

The Officer elections saw only one incumbent - Agalaesia, who was also previously Editor-in-Chief of The Rejected Times - run for reelection. They ran on an Outreach-centric campaign, which focused on continuing the work that they had been doing alongside the rest of the Outreach Staff. Their previous term saw the reintroduction of the RMB awards and the beginning of the revamping and rewriting of guides designed to help new Rejects further their understanding of the game and the region.

Alongside the continuation of existing work done by the department, Agalaesia mentioned that they wanted Outreach to work closely with other departments to ensure internal activity - a role typically associated with Culture. They wished to see Outreach staff running events and activities for both citizen and non-citizen Rejects, as to encourage new players to become citizens.

Chipmunker, a two-time General Assembly author and relative newcomer to the region, ran on a World Assembly-focused platform, though sizable sections of their campaign were dedicated to Outreach and Culture.

Their World Assembly campaign touched upon many areas. Most notable were the reintroduction of voting recommendations from the World Assembly Office and an emphasis on record keeping, documenting both past and present delegate votes to provide a record of how the region has voted on resolutions.

Their Outreach campaign focused on a renewed effort on the welcoming program, which encourages Outreach Staff to reach out to new members of the discord personally, and a vision which saw Outreach in a "supporting role" to serve as a source of promotion and recruitment for the region's other programs and departments.

In their Culture platform, Chipmunker (Crowheim) most notably proposed the idea of "coup days" - a popular event in The South Pacific where "every week the WFE and possibly a little bit more of the region is rethemed for a day."

Dyl (Dyllypoly), the incumbent two-term Speaker, ran on a platform that emphasised Foreign Affairs as their preferred portfolio.

Their Campaign opened by touching on their past work in Foreign Affairs, then went on to applaud the steps made by Nequedem (Glacikaldr) (the incumbent Foreign Affairs Officer) and Robespierre, including joining the Partnership for Sovereignty. Their campaign then proposed expanding the Diplomatic Corps and introducing junior Ambassadors to allow for greater participation in Foreign Affairs, which is currently limited due to a lack of open Ambassador positions.

Alongside expanding the Diplomatic Corps, they displayed a desire to run more large-scale culture events in cooperation with the Culture Officer and produce a TNP-Style Foreign Affairs Report in order to "keep Rejects up to date with foreign happenings and events."

Grea Kriopia, another relative newcomer to TRR, ran a Culture-focused campaign which called for the continuation of the Culture Calendar first implemented by Deadeye Jack with the inclusion of a greater variety of activities for Rejects to partake in. Alongside this, interregional cultural events and the Discarded Cards League were viewed as both "key FA assets" and "great ways to introduce more [Rejects] into the cards world."

Their platform then moved on to discuss cooperation between Outreach and Culture, hoping to see greater promotion of events on the region's RMB to entice and encourage new players to participate in the region offsite.

Visionary Union, a former Deputy Outreach Officer, ran for Officer on a Culture-focused platform. They advocated for furthering TRR's "legacy of cultural events" through the use of the popular Culture Calendar as well as bringing greater activity to a regional discord favorite - Werewolf. Vis also noted their intent to work with the Foreign Affairs Officer and Outreach Officer to organize interregional events and bring RMB-based Rejects into the discord fold, respectively.

Vis's platform also touched on some ideas for the Outreach portfolio. They wished to continue many of the projects started under Agalaesia but noted that their primary focus would be on increasing regional activity. Vis suggested both drawing the RMB crowd to the regional discord and establishing an endorsement program aimed at promoting both activity and TRR's standing in the Partnership for Sovereignty.

Merlin (Kingdom of Circle of Magi), largely known for their work as a defender in The Grey Wardens, focused on both Culture and World Assembly in his campaign. They supported keeping the Culture Calendar and bringing back more long-term cultural contests. They also called for dedicating Fridays to the worship of both themself and Kyorgia. The World Assembly side of Merlin's campaign, meanwhile, advocated for increased native resolution authorship and the passage of the long-awaited Commend Kyorgia draft.

Kral ran in the election, but didn't publish a portfolio.

Speaker Candidates

The Speaker election saw 3 candidates run, although only 2 were placed on the ballot.

Both Minskiev and Gorundu ran campaigns on maintaining the work done by Dyl, with Gorundu expressing a wish to expand on the newly-created Bill Writing Guild.

Former delegate Kyorgia, in sharp contrast to his opponents, ran a smear campaign, emphasising the fact that Minskiev, as a walrus, is "fat," and made accusations of an apparent attempt by Gorundu to take over TRR as a North Pacific plant. These claims have yet to have been verified. However, Kyorgia never ended up on the ballot.

Results

The Officer election saw Dyl elected first, followed by Chipmunker, then Agalaesia, and finally Grea Kriopia. The Delegate, Chimes, then assigned each Officer their first choice portfolio, assigning Aga as Outreach Officer, Chip as World Assembly Officer, Dyl as Foreign Affairs Officer, and Grea as Culture Officer.

In the Speaker election, Minskiev beat Gorundu 14 to 11 and was thus elected as Speaker.

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Karktopials reborn wrote:weeb can approve
でもそんなんじゃ だめ もうそんなんじゃ ほら
心は進化するよ もっともっと
言葉にすれば消えちゃう関係なら
言葉を消せばいいやって 思ってた 恐れてた
だけど あれ? なんかちがうかも
せんりのみちもいっぽから!
石のようにかたい そんな意志で
ちりもつもればやまとなでしこ?
「し」抜きで いや 死ぬ気で!
ふわふわり ふわふわる
あなたが名前を呼ぶ それだけで宙へ浮かぶ
ふわふわる ふわふわり
あなたが笑っている それだけで笑顔になる
神様 ありがとう
運命のいたずらでも
めぐり逢えたことが しあわせなの
でもそんなんじゃ だめ もうそんなんじゃ ほら
心は進化するよ もっともっと
そうそんなんじゃ やだ ねぇそんなんじゃ まだ
私のこと見ててね ずっとずっと
私の中のあなたほど
あなたの中の私の存在は
まだまだ 大きくないことも わかってるけれど
今この同じ 瞬間
共有してる 実感
ちりもつもればやまとなでしこ!
略して?ちりつもやまとなでこ!
くらくらり くらくらる
あなたを見上げたら それだけで まぶしすぎて
くらくらる くらくらり
あなたを想っている それだけで とけてしまう
神様 ありがとう
運命のいたずらでも
めぐり逢えたことが しあわせなの
コイスル キセツハ ヨクバリ circulation
コイスル キモチハ ヨクバリ circulation
コイスル ヒトミハ ヨクバリ circulation
コイスル オトメハ ヨクバリ circulation
ふわふわり ふわふわる
あなたが名前を呼ぶ それだけで 宙へ浮かぶ
ふわふわる ふわふわり
あなたが笑っている それだけで 笑顔になる
神様 ありがとう
運命のいたずらでも
めぐり逢えたことが しあわせなの
でもそんなんじゃ だめ もうそんなんじゃ ほら
心は進化するよ もっともっと
そうそんなんじゃ やだ ねぇそんなんじゃ まだ
私のこと見ててね ずっとずっと
english mode
One, two
But that's a no-no
See that's already
Getting our hearts moving on
Further and further

"If the bond is gone soon as it's put to words
Better not say anything"
Or so I thought, backing away
But eh? Something's wrong with that
Every long journey begins with one little step!
With a stern determination that is set in stone
Build a pile of garbage up to become Yamato Nadeshiko?
Disregard the "shi"? Nope, disregard my life!

Fluffily, fluffity
When you call my name
Just that will make me
Go floating in the air
Fluffity, fluffily
When you show your smile
Just that will make me
Feel so happy I float up, to the moon

Dear God, thank you
Even if it's just destiny pulling a prank on me
I'm so glad of the fact that
We both had met

But that's a no-no
See that's already
Getting our hearts moving on
Further and further
Yup that's a no-go
Hey that's a bit too early
Don't take your eyes off me
Never and ever

I know that
The me that's inside of you
Isn't as big as
The you that's inside of me but
Now at this same moment
Sharing the same feeling
This pile of garbage will become Yamato Nadeshiko!
Makin' it short, Pile-o-Garb Yamato Nadeko!

Swooningly, swoonity
When I look at you
Just that will make me
Daze to your radiance
Swoonity, swooningly
When I think of you
Just that will make me
Melt to the ground

Dear God, thank you
Even if it's just destiny pulling a prank on me
I'm so glad of the fact that
We both had met

The season of love is a zealous circulation
The feeling of love is a zealous circulation
The eye in love is a zealous circulation
The maiden in love is a zealous circulation

Fluffily, fluffity
When you call my name
Just that will make me
Go floating in the air
Fluffity, fluffily
When you show your smile
Just that will make me
Feel so happy

Dear God, thank you
Even if it's just destiny pulling a prank on me
I'm so glad of the fact that
We both had met

But that's a no-no
See that's already
Getting our hearts moving on
Further and further
Yup that's a no-go
Hey that's a bit too early
Don't take your eyes off me
Never and ever

wel this one is worse

We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye

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Issue LXVII | March, 2021

Editor-in-Chief: Toerana
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Crowheim

Index

  • Game-Created Regions See Delegate Shakeups - Crowheim

  • The 2021 Card Awards - Minskiev

  • The 2020 Reject Awards - Toerana

  • Inflation - The Death of the Cards Game - Toerana

  • April Elections in the Rejected Realms - Toerana & Dyllypoly

Game-Created Regions See Delegate Shakeups

Opinion | WRITTEN BY Crowheim | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

Over the past few months, the Game-Created Regions of NationStates (also known as GCRs) have seen a slew of newer delegates taking the reins. Since these regions don’t have founders, selecting a delegate is very important as it means the election of someone who will have near-total control of the region’s onsite functions. Four new delegates in particular have seen a somewhat recent rise to power: McMasterdonia in The North Pacific, Beepee in The South Pacific, Chimes in The Rejected Realms, and Zukchiva in The East Pacific.

About 70 days ago, McMasterdonia assumed the delegacy of The North Pacific for a staggering fifth time. As TNP’s previous longest-serving delegate - setting a record of 251 days during his second tenure - McM is a well-established figure in the region and is well-known across NationStates, having been commended by the Security Council several years ago and having served as the de facto face of TNP for many years. His predecessor, Kranostav, who had been elected after Prydania stepped out of the role due to real-life reasons, ran against McM in the election but was handily defeated in what many perceived to be a more lopsided victory than expected. This was a return to form and precedent for TNP, and McM started his term off immediately with a bang, as the quorum raiding debacle between them and defenderdom began very shortly after his election. One could consider his term beyond that to likely be a typical one, though - a “safe” choice to lead The North Pacific.

Meanwhile, in The Rejected Realms, Jamie (Chimes) was elected after challenging for the role following Sarah’s (A Leaf on the Wind) resignation. They ran against Nequedem (Glacikaldr), Gorundu, BowShot118, and perennial candidate (as well as game moderator) CrazyGirl, sweeping the competition and quite easily securing election for what is likely to be a six-month term. Jamie continues the trend of defenders holding the TRR delegacy, succeeding Sarah and Dead I Jack (both are members of the Grey Wardens and Sarah is a member of the RRA), Kyorgia, who had a more mixed past, and Frattastan, Commander of the RRA and the owner of Libcord. Jamie had previously served as Speaker and World Assembly Officer in the region (as well as Delegate of TNP, being the predecessor to McM’s second term). This can be considered another “safe” play by TRR in electing an established regional name, noted defender, and all-around good guy on NS to represent the region.

The South Pacific’s new delegate, Beepee, has only just assumed the in-game role despite being elected in January, a much longer transition than the other three regions in the article. Nonetheless, Amerion continued to serve as TSP’s in-game delegate while Beepee closed the 300-endorsement gap. In a previous TRT article, Purple Hyacinth, Chair of the South Pacific Assembly, surmised that Beepee would assume the role in around a month but that time came and passed. Beepee ran in a very close election against Rebeltopia and Jay Coop (Qvait) for the role, winning 27 votes to Rebel’s 26 and Jay’s 25. The race was then moved into a gameside poll between Beepee and Rebeltopia, in which the former dominated the competition despite the tight earlier race and secured the delegacy for himself. It’s unclear what he will do in the role, as his campaign was somewhat lacking in the way of promises, but we will hopefully soon find out.

Lastly, The East Pacific, as expected, elected their first Dele-goose, Zukchiva, to serve as the region’s leader. He succeeded Serge (Libertanny) in the role, who moved to his newly founded UCR, Kaer Solas, soon after leaving the delegacy. Zuk ran in a rather uncompetitive election, securing a vast amount of the vote against several competitors. This has been cited as something of a problem in The East Pacific, as elections are non-competitive even quite far ahead of time: Sammy (New Leganes) is already favored to become Delegate after Zukchiva leaves the role. It will be interesting to see what Zuk does in the role, given the broad support he had from TEP’s surprisingly small voting population.

The 2021 Card Awards

News | WRITTEN BY Minskiev | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

Over the past year, the cards community has grown tremendously, with new organizations popping up, new traders influencing the market, and new collectors building dream decks. In recognition of this, the North Pacific Cards Guild created the 2021 Card Awards to celebrate the past year’s highlights. The event included individual awards intended to celebrate various aspects of the cards scene and recognize the efforts of some of the most notable members of the cards community.

First was the Best Overall Trader award, won by none other than Koem Kab. As first in the world in Deck Value, it's easy to see why they won this one. Next was the Best Rising Star Trader award, which went to Witchcraft and Sorcery. In just three months, he surged from nothing to a Deck Value within the top 20 - definitely deserving of this award! After that, r3n (also known as 1 very fast endotarter or the Northern Light) was named the winner of the Hero of the Year award. r3n is well known for their generosity and involvement in the North Pacific Cards Guild, so this was no surprise. The Villain of the Year was Koem Kab, as they were the first condemned cards player and someone to always look out for on the market. In recognition of their excellent technical work and creation of widely-used scripts to speed up card farming, Racoda was awarded the Most Innovative award. Finally, the winner of the Most Popular award was 9003, a very well-known cards player and organizer. They're also known for trying to collect every common card - a feat they're well on their way towards!

Following these individual awards, there were several awards for events, collections, the best card, card news services, tools, and more - not to mention fun titles given to infamous players and things in the cards community. Overall, the Card Awards were nothing short of good fun and a way to celebrate cards players’ work this past year.


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The 2020 Reject Awards

News | WRITTEN BY Toerana | EDITED BY Dyllypoly

The Reject Awards - a yearly celebration of the events, the people, and the achievements of the past year - began on the 8th of March and were run by Culture Officer Nakari. They ended with an Awards Ceremony for the winners on the 23rd of March.

Through the course of the event, over 200 votes were cast across 13 categories:
Most Outstanding RMBer, Pen & Paper, Quote of the Year, Best Staff Member, Best Legislator, Greymarshes Achievement Award, Veteran Reject Award, Best Government Member, TRR Event of the Year, Most Outstanding Officer, Best Newcomer, RRA Newcomer Soldier and, of course, Reject of the Year.

The Pen & Paper Award was a new addition for this year, while all other categories returned from the 2019 Reject Awards. However, unlike previous years, 19 awards were handed out for the 13 categories, as many votes saw close races and multiple ended in draws.

As to not spoil the results of the awards, they won’t be listed in this article. However, the winners and a full breakdown of the results can be found in the LinkAwards Ceremony thread on TRR’s forums.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Inflation - The Death of the Cards Game

Opinion | WRITTEN BY Toerana | EDITED BY Dyllypoly & Minskiev

Since its reintroduction in December 2019, the Cards “minigame” has grown into a vibrant community of players trading cards, completing collections, and amassing thousands of bank worth of cards - often independent of any region in particular. With the Top 10 Players being valued at 3.86 Million Bank combined, it shows an incredible ability to collect valuable cards - or does it?

Card inflation is the method by which wealthy players artificially boost their deck’s value to extraordinary heights without collecting more conventionally valuable cards. Inflation is created by collecting a fairly large quantity of a rare card (typically CTE’d commons), effectively creating a monopoly on it, and then proceeding to buy and sell it to yourself for a large quantity of bank, thus increasing the value by orders of magnitude. The practice has been used to immense success by prominent members of the card community: 91 inflated cards are now more valuable than the most valuable legendary card in the game, Season 1’s Testlandia, with 75 of these inflated cards being valued at 1,000 bank or more apiece.

However, card inflation was not always so heavily used or as relied on by big card farmers to boost their deck’s value. Before its explosion in popularity, card inflation was used sparingly as a way to give artificial value to a select few rare Ultra Rares, Epics, and Legendaries, with the Season 1 card Soops holding the top spot in value for an extended period of time. This rare use of inflation made users like Farrakhan, TRR’s long-standing informal Vice Delegate, a novelty within the community with their deck of primarily inflated copies of themselves. In more recent times, players have continued to boost their cards, with 9003 recently holding the most valuable epic spot with their Season 1 card. Unlike more recent examples of card inflation, however, these cards were more easily obtainable through card farming due to their lack of ceased-to-exist (CTE’d) status and the lack of a preexisting monopoly on the card. With new cards being pulled by farmers and casual players alike, it also forced the inflators of these cards to consistently spend large amounts of bank to maintain their card’s value, ensuring there was a high cost to maintain the equally high value.

This lack of sustained cost and the monopolization of inflated common cards are only harmful to the cards community. While there are many different ways to play the game, the total value of a player’s deck is the obvious, go-to achievement advertised by the game. It has built-in rankings for the most valuable cards and decks, as well as a stats badge for deck value, which may just serve as further motivation for cards players given the believed impact gold badges have on a card's rarity. The sheer value of some cards players’ decks - such as Koem Kab, the first player to surpass a deck value of one million - is incredibly daunting to players new to both cards and NationStates in general, which may only serve to demotivate those without the dedication to farm hundreds (if not thousands) of puppets to gather wealth more “organically” and could put users off cards for good. Unfortunately, this is a problem that has no solutions that will please both sides. There are, however, possible solutions for this problem.

Firstly, one of the problems helping to exacerbate the issue is the fact it is harder to pull CTE’d cards than non-CTE’d cards. This is a problem that all sorts of cards players face - in particular those in the region collecting community, who often see collections slow to a crawl as they wait for excruciatingly rare cards to be pulled even a year into the season. The fact these cards are hard to find means they can’t easily be deflated by those who want to sell the card to a “market value shark” for a quick buck or by those who intentionally deflate cards. Furthermore, it prevents these cards from seeping into the general population, keeping the artificial value with those who spent effectively nothing to collect it. Making CTE’d cards as easy to find as regular cards would help to reduce the drastic growth in the number of these cards, as it would be easier to deflate them through natural means.

Pushing the idea of player-caused deflation further, increasing the pull chance of a card based on its market value may help to do the trick. Doing so would ensure that people who rely on inflation for their value are constantly working to maintain that value, making these cards more common and thus significantly easier to deflate.

Finally - and likely the most unpopular idea of the three - placing a cap (soft or hard) on the value of cards based on their rarity will ensure that cards do not inflate too far. However, if placed too low, it could see lower-rarity cards of prominent players (such as GCR delegates) be undervalued because of gameplay mechanics. It’s a tricky balance to strike and, if introduced, would be unpopular at implementation.

With the most valuable legendary card nearing being pushed out of the top 100, we could see a continued shift away from traditional methods of gathering deck value and an increased focus on self-centered monopolies on otherwise-worthless cards, being inflated to be valued at thousands of bank, possibly seeing a gradual decline in interest in the cards game for all but a few highly-dedicated inflators and card farmers, unless changes are made to "restore" a more traditional style of play.

April Elections in the Rejected Realms

News | WRITTEN BY Toerana & Dyllypoly | EDITED BY TRT Staff

Regularly scheduled elections for all 4 Officer seats and the position of Speaker occurred in The Rejected Realms at the beginning of April. Seven candidates ran for Officer and two candidates (along with a disputed third) ran for the position of Speaker.

Officer Candidates

The Officer elections saw only one incumbent - Agalaesia, who was also previously Editor-in-Chief of The Rejected Times - run for reelection. They ran on an Outreach-centric campaign, which focused on continuing the work that they had been doing alongside the rest of the Outreach Staff. Their previous term saw the reintroduction of the RMB awards and the beginning of the revamping and rewriting of guides designed to help new Rejects further their understanding of the game and the region.

Alongside the continuation of existing work done by the department, Agalaesia mentioned that they wanted Outreach to work closely with other departments to ensure internal activity - a role typically associated with Culture. They wished to see Outreach staff running events and activities for both citizen and non-citizen Rejects, as to encourage new players to become citizens.

Chipmunker, a two-time General Assembly author and relative newcomer to the region, ran on a World Assembly-focused platform, though sizable sections of their campaign were dedicated to Outreach and Culture.

Their World Assembly campaign touched upon many areas. Most notable were the reintroduction of voting recommendations from the World Assembly Office and an emphasis on record keeping, documenting both past and present delegate votes to provide a record of how the region has voted on resolutions.

Their Outreach campaign focused on a renewed effort on the welcoming program, which encourages Outreach Staff to reach out to new members of the discord personally, and a vision which saw Outreach in a "supporting role" to serve as a source of promotion and recruitment for the region's other programs and departments.

In their Culture platform, Chipmunker (Crowheim) most notably proposed the idea of "coup days" - a popular event in The South Pacific where "every week the WFE and possibly a little bit more of the region is rethemed for a day."

Dyl (Dyllypoly), the incumbent two-term Speaker, ran on a platform that emphasised Foreign Affairs as their preferred portfolio.

Their Campaign opened by touching on their past work in Foreign Affairs, then went on to applaud the steps made by Nequedem (Glacikaldr) (the incumbent Foreign Affairs Officer) and Robespierre, including joining the Partnership for Sovereignty. Their campaign then proposed expanding the Diplomatic Corps and introducing junior Ambassadors to allow for greater participation in Foreign Affairs, which is currently limited due to a lack of open Ambassador positions.

Alongside expanding the Diplomatic Corps, they displayed a desire to run more large-scale culture events in cooperation with the Culture Officer and produce a TNP-Style Foreign Affairs Report in order to "keep Rejects up to date with foreign happenings and events."

Grea Kriopia, another relative newcomer to TRR, ran a Culture-focused campaign which called for the continuation of the Culture Calendar first implemented by Deadeye Jack with the inclusion of a greater variety of activities for Rejects to partake in. Alongside this, interregional cultural events and the Discarded Cards League were viewed as both "key FA assets" and "great ways to introduce more [Rejects] into the cards world."

Their platform then moved on to discuss cooperation between Outreach and Culture, hoping to see greater promotion of events on the region's RMB to entice and encourage new players to participate in the region offsite.

Visionary Union, a former Deputy Outreach Officer, ran for Officer on a Culture-focused platform. They advocated for furthering TRR's "legacy of cultural events" through the use of the popular Culture Calendar as well as bringing greater activity to a regional discord favorite - Werewolf. Vis also noted their intent to work with the Foreign Affairs Officer and Outreach Officer to organize interregional events and bring RMB-based Rejects into the discord fold, respectively.

Vis's platform also touched on some ideas for the Outreach portfolio. They wished to continue many of the projects started under Agalaesia but noted that their primary focus would be on increasing regional activity. Vis suggested both drawing the RMB crowd to the regional discord and establishing an endorsement program aimed at promoting both activity and TRR's standing in the Partnership for Sovereignty.

Merlin (Kingdom of Circle of Magi), largely known for their work as a defender in The Grey Wardens, focused on both Culture and World Assembly in his campaign. They supported keeping the Culture Calendar and bringing back more long-term cultural contests. They also called for dedicating Fridays to the worship of both themself and Kyorgia. The World Assembly side of Merlin's campaign, meanwhile, advocated for increased native resolution authorship and the passage of the long-awaited Commend Kyorgia draft.

Kral ran in the election, but didn't publish a portfolio.

Speaker Candidates

The Speaker election saw 3 candidates run, although only 2 were placed on the ballot.

Both Minskiev and Gorundu ran campaigns on maintaining the work done by Dyl, with Gorundu expressing a wish to expand on the newly-created Bill Writing Guild.

Former delegate Kyorgia, in sharp contrast to his opponents, ran a smear campaign, emphasising the fact that Minskiev, as a walrus, is "fat," and made accusations of an apparent attempt by Gorundu to take over TRR as a North Pacific plant. These claims have yet to have been verified. However, Kyorgia never ended up on the ballot.

Results

The Officer election saw Dyl elected first, followed by Chipmunker, then Agalaesia, and finally Grea Kriopia. The Delegate, Chimes, then assigned each Officer their first choice portfolio, assigning Aga as Outreach Officer, Chip as World Assembly Officer, Dyl as Foreign Affairs Officer, and Grea as Culture Officer.

In the Speaker election, Minskiev beat Gorundu 14 to 11 and was thus elected as Speaker.

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The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

My favourite one probably around 1620 America with the Puritans. I love their style of writing and the idea of being in an entirely new land, so far from home, with all of the emotions they were going through is fascinating to me.

Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

I have always been fascinated by the Harappan Civilization which roughly existed from 3300 BC to 1300 BC. While we haven't been able to decipher texts yet, archaeological evidences shows that were a very advanced civilization and their people enjoyed a great quality of life. The reason for their demise is still disputed, some say its because of a droughts and a succession of major earth quakes, others it is due to an invasion of Aryan tribes. I do hope we can decipher their language and understand their texts.

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Lollerland wrote:I have always been fascinated by the Harappan Civilization which roughly existed from 3300 BC to 1300 BC. While we haven't been able to decipher texts yet, archaeological evidences shows that were a very advanced civilization and their people enjoyed a great quality of life. The reason for their demise is still disputed, some say its because of a droughts and a succession of major earth quakes, others it is due to an invasion of Aryan tribes. I do hope we can decipher their language and understand their texts.

Undeciphered languages are so cool.

Lollerland

Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

Hmm, probably the ancient Greeks from around the Peloponnesian wars because of how interesting that period was to me

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Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

i don't particularly research history just for fun, however i'm partial to the greek and roman eras simply because of their mythology.

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Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

Byzantine ftw. Especially during the reigns of Constantine I (roughly 320's-330's) and Justinian I (roughly 530's-560's). Constantine because of the sheer amount of change and reorganization that happened and his religious fluctuations really intrigue me. The entire story of Justinian and Theodora captivated me from the moment I first learned about it, and tbh, both Justinian and Theodora were just badass from top to bottom, fite me.

On top of those things, it's my most favouritist period in art history, ever, period. The elaborate mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, lavishly decorated church interiors as well as the veering away from the more 'classical' techniques yet not quite abstract fascinates me. Admittedly, it's been a while since I've hardcore studied Byzantium/Eastern Roman Empire or it's art, and quite a bit has faded from memory, but I'm always happy to dive back into it and refresh myself because I just find it so interesting.

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Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

My favourite one probably around 1620 America with the Puritans. I love their style of writing and the idea of being in an entirely new land, so far from home, with all of the emotions they were going through is fascinating to me.

This is a really interesting question, especially since I admire many different cultures and eras, but I shall try my best to find some that I particulary like: The Etruscan civilisation; The Kingdom of Greco-Bactria and the Indo-Greek Kingdom; The Mionian Civilisation; The White Huns; The Ashikaga Shogunate; The Andean and Amazonian Civilisations; The North American Plain, Forest, Desert and Swamp tribes; The Chinese Civilisation in general (especially the Warring States Era); The Khmer Empire and Celtic Culture in general. I would really like to put the Avar Khanagate; The Onogour Tribe Alliance; The Kingdom of Dacia; The Kingdom of Ethiopia or Aksum; The Nubian Empire; The Philisteans; The Phoenicians; The Median Empire; The Nabateans; Korean Civilisation in general; The Boer Republic; The Dutch Empire; Burgundy; The Kieavian Rus; The Bulgar Empire; The Voldga Bulgarians; The Swedish Empire; The Khanaate of Kazan; The Arminian Empire; The Ottoman Empire; Al-Andalus or The Emirate of Cordoba; The Republic of Florence; The Most Serene Republic of Venice; The Kingdom of Macedon/ The Macedonian Empire and the Diadochi; Classical Hellenistic Culture; The Mezo-American Civilisations; The Ocean Peoples; Maori; Tonga; The Papuans; The Kingdom of Georgia; The Scandinavian Tribes; The Germanic Tribes (From the Ancient and Early Medieval Era); The Slavic Tribes (From the Ancient and Early Medieval Era); The italic Tribes; The Tyrannian Peoples; The Ligurians; The Kingdom of Pontos; The Kingdom of Epiros; The (Pagan) Kingdom of Lithuania; The Republic of Novgorod; The Hanza League in general; The Levantine League in general; The Cossacks; The Indus Valley Civilisation; The Yellow River Civilisation; The Republic of Carthage; The Roman Republic/ Empire; The Kingdom of Dai Viet; The Kingdom of Siem; Bengal; The Tamal Kings; The Holy Roman Empire; The Empire of Greater Moravia; The Kingdom of Hungary; The Kingdom of Croatia; The Grand Duchy of Transylvania; The Kingdom of Serbia; The Teutonic Order; The Mughal Empire; The Timurid Emoire; The Seljuk Empire; The Kingdom of Poland; Turik Culture in general; The Manchus; The Yamato Empire; The Empire of Japan (modern era); The Thirteen Colonies; Greater Zimbabwe; Empire of Mali; The Kingdom of Kongo; Numidia; The Sarmatians; The Scythians; The Carribian "Natives"; Stone Age Civilisations; The Zulu; The Hunnic Empire, The Xioughou Confederacy and The Mongolian Empire on the list as well, but I feel like it is already overstertched... And if I really had to pick a single favourite I would probably pick The Etruscans.

Apologies for the not-so-proper response!

Mzeusia

Aerlys wrote:This is a really interesting question, especially since I admire many different cultures and eras, but I shall try my best to find some that I particulary like: The Etruscan civilisation; The Kingdom of Greco-Bactria and the Indo-Greek Kingdom; The Mionian Civilisation; The White Huns; The Ashikaga Shogunate; The Andean and Amazonian Civilisations; The North American Plain, Forest, Desert and Swamp tribes; The Chinese Civilisation in general (especially the Warring States Era); The Khmer Empire and Celtic Culture in general. I would really like to put the Avar Khanagate; The Onogour Tribe Alliance; The Kingdom of Dacia; The Kingdom of Ethiopia or Aksum; The Nubian Empire; The Philisteans; The Phoenicians; The Median Empire; The Nabateans; Korean Civilisation in general; The Boer Republic; The Dutch Empire; Burgundy; The Kieavian Rus; The Bulgar Empire; The Voldga Bulgarians; The Swedish Empire; The Khanaate of Kazan; The Arminian Empire; The Ottoman Empire; Al-Andalus or The Emirate of Cordoba; The Republic of Florence; The Most Serene Republic of Venice; The Kingdom of Macedon/ The Macedonian Empire and the Diadochi; Classical Hellenistic Culture; The Mezo-American Civilisations; The Ocean Peoples; Maori; Tonga; The Papuans; The Kingdom of Georgia; The Scandinavian Tribes; The Germanic Tribes (From the Ancient and Early Medieval Era); The Slavic Tribes (From the Ancient and Early Medieval Era); The italic Tribes; The Tyrannian Peoples; The Ligurians; The Kingdom of Pontos; The Kingdom of Epiros; The (Pagan) Kingdom of Lithuania; The Republic of Novgorod; The Hanza League in general; The Levantine League in general; The Cossacks; The Indus Valley Civilisation; The Yellow River Civilisation; The Republic of Carthage; The Roman Republic/ Empire; The Kingdom of Dai Viet; The Kingdom of Siem; Bengal; The Tamal Kings; The Holy Roman Empire; The Empire of Greater Moravia; The Kingdom of Hungary; The Kingdom of Croatia; The Grand Duchy of Transylvania; The Kingdom of Serbia; The Teutonic Order; The Mughal Empire; The Timurid Emoire; The Seljuk Empire; The Kingdom of Poland; Turik Culture in general; The Manchus; The Yamato Empire; The Empire of Japan (modern era); The Thirteen Colonies; Greater Zimbabwe; Empire of Mali; The Kingdom of Kongo; Numidia; The Sarmatians; The Scythians; The Carribian "Natives"; Stone Age Civilisations; The Zulu; The Hunnic Empire, The Xioughou Confederacy and The Mongolian Empire on the list as well, but I feel like it is already overstertched... And if I really had to pick a single favourite I would probably pick The Etruscans.

Apologies for the not-so-proper response!

Wow, that's a lot. I don't know much about the Etruscans except that they were in Northern Italy and so got conquered pretty early on in the life of the Roman Empire.

Mzeusia wrote:The Question of the Week!

What is your favourite civilisation/period in history and why?

My favourite one probably around 1620 America with the Puritans. I love their style of writing and the idea of being in an entirely new land, so far from home, with all of the emotions they were going through is fascinating to me.

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Mzeusia

Soveiniesberg wrote:mine has to be 1900s russia. mosin nagant rifle, russia, 1900s, all those good things!

Whenever someone says 1900s Russia, the first name that comes to my mind is Rasputin XD

Lollerland wrote:Whenever someone says 1900s Russia, the first name that comes to my mind is Rasputin XD

there lived a certain man in russia long ago

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Lutherindia wrote:Hey! So this is an Experimental Celtic nation I made haha. I based it on basically a prompt an Alt His friend told me. What if Gaul Survived and formed the Holy Celtic Empire instead of the Holy Roman Empire. Seeing as you guys have a Celtic vibe I thought it would be cool to join!

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