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Prusmia wrote:

Yeah, stats seem to be considerably broken as of right now, lol. Though, I think I am less complainy about that given that for some reason I shot up from top 1% in the 3,000s range of the world in 5 categories to top 1% in the 100s in 23 categories; which seems like a less drastic error to the fact that my nation is listed as top 1% in taxes and top 10% in freedom from taxes, which seems like a paradox to me, but alright census takers, I get your records caught on fire :3

As someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, I'm sure that once updates are reenabled everything will sort itself out.

🌲 Welcome Back, Forest! 🌲

I tried saying this a few hours ago, but the site briefly went down again when I clicked "submit," lol. Hopefully everything gets up and running again, and as much of the historical data is recovered as possible. The most important thing is that we're back together!

We back up!!!

So it seemed the hamsters finally unionised to give us a brief scare after one of them bit through that wire to send NS back to the dark ages. I may suggest that Max look at alternatives, including a gazelle and a lion working in tandem (although Esterild pointed out on Discord that that may quickly end with just a lion on the wheel), a long distance runner chased by physical manifestations of their inner demons, or just simply some cheetahs helped by some emotional support greyhounds.

Oh my God something is up lol. Prusmia and I have the same amount of endorsements and he's ranked 212th in the world? WHAT

Hello! We're back!

That downtime came right at the time when the 4th week of our Forest Trivia Competition was just getting going... As a result of this The deadline has been extended to Saturday 4th May 2024... That means you have over a week to get your answers in so good luck!

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Although the questions are in the WFE, I'll link them here as well -

Forest Connect! Forest Trivia Week Four Questions

by The Suspicious Minds of The Realizer

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Forest Connect!

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Connections Round

Question 1 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

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- Wagner

- Mahler

- Grieg

- Strauss

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Question 2 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

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- Ruby

- White

- Milk

- Dark

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Question 3 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

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- Categories

- Pigeons

- Crowds

- Rattler

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Question 4 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

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- Alps

- Himalayas

- Andes

- Ural

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Question 5 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

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- Alpha

- Bravo

- Charlie

- Delta

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Sequences Round

Question 6 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

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- Vettel

- Verstappen

- Schumacher

- ?

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Question 7 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

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- 1950 - Uruguay

- 1938 - Italy

- 1934 - Italy

- ?

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Question 8 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

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- The Final Frontier

- JEFF

- Starlight Brigade

- ?

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Question 9 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

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- Charles III

- Elizabeth II

- George VI

- ?

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Question 10 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

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- 1908 - London

- 1904 - St Louis

- 1900 - Paris

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The Connecting Wall -

Find the four groups of four clues hidden in the grid below

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Answer Format

Group 1 -
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Connection - They are all...

Group 2 -
- W
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Connection - They are all...

Group 3 -
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Connection - They are all...

Group 4 -
- W
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Connection - They are all...

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The Missing Vowels Round -

Question 11->15 -

We've taken the vowels out and changed the spacings, but what are these clues?

Category - Capital Cities

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Question 11

- CN BRR

Question 12

- BN SRS

Question 13

- KN G STW N

Category - NationStates Regions

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Question 14

- T HRJC TDRL MS

Question 15

- THBR NT HCR NRFV RYR GN

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The General Knowledge Round -

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According to Benjamin Franklin, two things in life are certain. Death and what?

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Question 17 -

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Which famous painter is most well-known for painting waterlilies?

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Question 18 -

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What is the only country in the world with 3 capital cities?

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Question 19 -

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What is the name of the part of the plant cell where photosynthesis occurs?

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Question 20 -

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What type of number is the square root of minus one?

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Bonus Question! -

Question 21 -

The 5 people with the closest answer shall recieve 3 points

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Approximately how many ACTIVE man-made satellites are currently orbiting Earth?

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And just as a reminder, here are the rules -

Forest Trivia Rules

by The Suspicious Minds of The Realizer

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Forest Trivia Rules

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Trivia Rules

The questions will be released every Saturday

These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect

I shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the RMB

From that point onwards everyone, residents of forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions

Answers Must be submitted by Telegram

Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the RMB will be suppressed.

ABSOLUTELY NO GOOGLING OF ANSWERS IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of googling, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions

ABSOLUTELY NO USAGE OF AI IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of using AI, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions

Results

After the week has concluded, I shall release the answers to the previous week's questions in the same dispatch.

There will also be explanations as to how you could have reached the answers, in case anyone is interested

Alongside this, there shall be a two leaderboards compiled. One weekly leaderboard and one overall leaderboard.

Prizes!

The person(s) who get the most correct answers each week will share the "prize pot" equally which shall be equal to 20.00 DV

At the end of each month, the person at the top of the overall leaderboard shall receive a legendary!

The person who is at the top of the overall leaderboard at the end of the term, shall receive a grand prize of 5 legendaries!

Helpful Tips

If you don't know the answer, just have a guess! There's no harm in having an educated guess, you might just be right!

Watch out for a word question! If the clues seem so random that you just can't find a connection, it could be that it's a word question! The words themselves could be the connection!

If you aren't sure about the answer to the question, when you're submitting them, try to explain your thinking to me! If your thinking is correct but you don't quite get the answer, you'll get half of a point. They all count in the long run!

Take your time! There's no rush... You have a week to answer the questions so you have plenty of time to think and trivialise!

And most importantly...

Have fun!

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One slight change has been made which is ABSOLUTELY NO USAGE OF AI IS ALLOWED. This is meant to be a fun way for people to test their general knowledge, using AI would ruin that experience...

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Once again, welcome back!

Good luck and have a great day...

I honestly didn't mind the vacation since I was sort-of half-taking it anyway... in part just to feeling utterly exhausted for no reason for the last week and a half, and in part because it did let me create some sudokus (unfinished, one finished but unpublished cause I can't get myself to re-test it) and this rancid language puzzle game called Lingo. All the more reason I'm suspect that the last message posted on the RMB before the crash was me saying "Forest is now (hopefully) [mostly] MoFA-drama free and I can finally leave you all alone for a while xD [...] Now to procrastinate by doing something else..."

In fairness, for me it wasn't a total vacation anyway. There's thankfully still a way for many of us Forestlandianerites to communicate with one another offsite that doesn't require spamming our pristine Forest embassy on-forum. It's a little something called discord thAT'S RIGHT I'm doing another shameless plug you can join live chat with all of your favorite governing rocks and fellow shrubs by finding the discord link somewhere in the wfe. (Understood if you don't trust discord enough to use it but still it truly did help the time pass by.)

f aside from that I'm really going to miss maps and the natural wonders. they were so incredible and needlessly integral to the game. whatever will we do without them. :(

edit2: p.s. ns please remember my top 1% status for Average Disposable Income I miss you so

Edit: Sorry I just hit enter on something I meant to send like five hours ago before I had to go with my mom for some lab tests. healthcare's soooo fun. anyway, Verdant Haven regarding your poll information:

1) I too have election result histories saved lol. Have a full dispatch of elections here. would love to compare notes to see if there are any inconsistencies ;P

2) With regards to Astoria, last I recall, only 7 people voted "yes" (may have been as high as 9 though), and like a third voted abstain, with most everyone else voting no. Can't remember for sure, the no-abstain divide could've been a bit larger or smaller. Options were definitely Yes No and Abstain top-down.

3) Sol Aeternalis passed 24 yes 12 no, exactly.

4) Actually, the vast majority of Forestians approved an official chess agreement. There were only like 4 votes otherwise... I can't remember what the options were, but I think it was like 3 for the bottom option and 1 for the middle one, if you still have those polls saved in a tab somewhere at all. I can't remember which was "unofficial participation" and which was "no participation", but I believe those were the only three options.

5) JEFF's participation, I can't remember exactly what the options were but I do recall that it was extensively "unofficial participation". I believe a few individuals voted for official participation, and a couple or three chose to have no recognition of them at all, either opting to reform canopy or have no official recommendation whatsoever... but I can't be certain sadly, and I can't even be sure those were all the options.

Afraid that's about as much help as I can provide. I realize most of this is still pretty flimsy, but I hope that it helps piece together a bit of missing information for you. I don't know if anyone remembers anything from between may and september either, although I don't think a huge number of polls were made in that time - in fact it was a notably quiet time after we changed over. In fact... did we even have any polls between the election and the Government Amendment? Not sure - I thought there might've been maybe one but it's slipped my mind.

Jutsa wrote:

Afraid that's about as much help as I can provide. I realize most of this is still pretty flimsy, but I hope that it helps piece together a bit of missing information for you. I don't know if anyone remembers anything from between may and september either, although I don't think a huge number of polls were made in that time - in fact it was a notably quiet time after we changed over. In fact... did we even have any polls between the election and the Government Amendment? Not sure - I thought there might've been maybe one but it's slipped my mind.

Much appreciated! I'll get the info updated next time I'm at my desk.

My poll listing that I had access to was inclusive of the May-Sept window - we simply didn't have any other polls missing :-D

Jutsa wrote:

2) With regards to Astoria, last I recall, only 7 people voted "yes" (may have been as high as 9 though), and like a third voted abstain, with most everyone else voting no. Can't remember for sure, the no-abstain divide could've been a bit larger or smaller. Options were definitely Yes No and Abstain top-down.

I recall there being 8 "Yes" votes, with over 30 "No" votes (likely around 33 but I don't remember for sure), and the remainder being abstentions, somewhere around 12-18. Not sure on the last two but I am certain there were 8 yes votes.

Jutsa wrote:

4) Actually, the vast majority of Forestians approved an official chess agreement. There were only like 4 votes otherwise... I can't remember what the options were, but I think it was like 3 for the bottom option and 1 for the middle one, if you still have those polls saved in a tab somewhere at all. I can't remember which was "unofficial participation" and which was "no participation", but I believe those were the only three options.

We didn't just vote to officially participate, but to also join NBB as cohosts of the event. If I remember correctly the options for joining NBB's Chess Tournament were "Yes, as a cohost," "Yes, as an official participant," and "No, let people join if they want." There was only one vote for the official participant option, with three no votes for unofficial participation.

Verdant Haven wrote:

If you have specific option text and vote counts for any of these missing polls lying around, please let me know and I'll get it added.

I don't have exact numbers for anything, but I do remember a few details about some of the votes we have done that might help you piece things together.

For Sonindia, I recall it being a resounding Yes to close that embassy, with only 3-4 votes against.

For ZDay, I strictly remember that we had decided to chose to close our borders that time around. No memory of what the exact numbers were, but a strong majority wanted to pursue a cure with closed borders, with the second highest option being a cure with open borders though that I believe had a single digit vote count. I believe there were options for embracing the horde and killing the zombies with their closed and open border counterparts as well as an "Other" option for any other ideas people had.

Magna Aurea's embassy was a strong no, with I think only around 10 at most voting for, though I'm just guessing on that one. I remember it being somewhere in the range of 1/3-1/2 in favor though, and closer to 1/3. For more of a personal note here, I remember keeping a close eye on that one because I was really uncertain for a while whether I would vote for or against it, but I remember voting against since the person who came to our region initiating the discussion never came back to answer any questions, and I had reached out to Overnium by telegram with my questions and despite saying they would answer things they never got back to me. In any case, quite interesting in retrospect how things turned out over there :p

I don't remember any exact numbers on the Alcris/NWI vote but I know there were more votes against opening the embassy with Alcris than there were for keeping our embassy with NWI.

I don't have anything else on polls, but I just want to say thank you for putting in the leg work of regional bookkeeping to save what we can of our poll history. It'll be sad if NS staff aren't able to get that data recovered from a historical perspective but at least we'll still have some record of the votes we had and I greatly appreciate you working to do that :]

Zerphen wrote:

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TBH I think there should be another vote about that Magna Aurea embassy. And it should be like that one election candidacy declaration poll some years ago. "Yes" or "Now".

I know I'm about to commit the greatest, most unspeakable crime to all of Forest (other than deForestation :3 ) but please excuse this government/event double-post:

~~The Bankless Forest Chess Arena is Today~~

The Chess Tournament that we agreed to cohost alongside our friends in The Region That Has No Big Banks is starting today in about 8 hours! It will be hosted on the chess site lichess, so if you haven't made an account yet and you want to join be sure to do that soon!

Check out their dispatch about the event for the format and other details!

Bankless Forest Chess Arena - Saturday 27th April

by The Peoples Republic of New United Common-lands

General

The Region That Has No Big Banks and Forest is excited to present our first inter-regional blitz chess competition, seeking to bring together chess players across NationStates to participate!

Who can participate?

The event is open to all member regions participating, and open to all NS chess players (with the exception of any problematic members regions/nations, at the discretion of the organisers)

We currently have 13 regions participating and counting! Contact New United Common-lands if you are interested to join!

Regions Participating

Co-hosts:
The Region That Has No Big Banks
Forest

Member regions participating:
The Union of Democratic States
Democratic Socialist Assembly
Wintercrest
Sol Aeternalis
Colonia Apollonis
Aurora
RGBN
Alcris
Declansburg
Canada
the West Pacific

Arena Link

Arena link - https://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et
Password - nobanks (lowercase)

Feel free to join in our Voice Chat and Text chat on TRTHNBB Discord whilst the event is ongoing! https://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ

Date and time

The Arena will take place on Saturday 27th April starting at 9pm British Summer Time or 4pm Eastern Daylight Time, lasting 3 hours. Check TRTHNBB discord for the time conversion!

Feel free to drop in for parts of the event you do not need to be avaliable the whole 3 hours

Format

The format for the Arena is 5 mins + 0s increment (5+0) and hosted via lichess.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like your region to participate, please contact New United Common-lands

Trophies avaliable
1. Best Scoring Individual Nation - The nation who wins the Lichess competition
2. Best Scoring Member Region - Determined by combining the scores of nations within each member region, to see the overall winner
3. Best Average Scoring Member Region - Determined by the total region scores divided by number of nations from that respective member region participating (To help ensure fair opportunity for smaller regions)

Medals Avaliable! (Special thanks to Velichye for the great artwork!)

Position	Best Scoring Individual Nation	Best Scoring Member Region	Best Average Scoring Member Region
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

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You can enter the tournament at https://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et using the password nobanks.
And if you want to join everyone in voice chat while the event is going on, you can head over to their discord as well https://discord.gg/JmpMUgbY5q (don't worry, you don't have to talk if you don't want to :] and you don't need to be in their discord to join the event either)

Hope to see you all there!

Ayyy NS is all fixed hooray! We avoided a multiversal apocalypse, how fantastic. I can't help but feel me coming back from the land of the dead again caused it though :P

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Bisofeyr wrote:

My fellow Forestians: I would implore you to vote for the at-vote GA Proposal "Reducing Bycatch", which provides stronger protections surrounding the fishing industry. I wrote it over a drafting period of several months and the "For" votes are currently lagging behind the "Against" votes, so I hope you will all cast a vote to improve the environment!

Esterild will probably vote Yes, although we have concerns about the prescribed research in clause 2 as we are a mandatory vegetarian state. Would it be acceptable to perform such research without actually catching any marine life?