![]() ![]() And like a geriatric who's outlived his contemporaries, I marvel at the simple fact that we are still freaking here. Then they told a few friends, and almost immediately, it was in the newspapers, even the New York Times, because that was newsworthy back then, some dork's website.Īlmost all the web sites from 2002 are now gone. In 2002, I was that idiot, learning to code from a book, hacking the site together, and emailing a few friends. NationStates began in a time where any idiot could make a website and people would go check it out, because there weren't many to choose from. Here are some things that didn't exist when NationStates launched: MySpace, Digg, World of Warcraft, Facebook, XBox Live, iTunes, Skype, Firefox, Chrome, iPhones, Reddit, Twitter, Wordpress. For perspective, the web itself is only 33. Trading Cards Season 3 Preview - Inscribe your card today! Update: Due to popular demand! You can help buy Eluvatar dinner. Just rolled everything back two weeks and it would have been chaos. Thanks for standing by, and welcome back!Ī huge shout-out to our admins, especially The Royal Confederacy of Eluvatar,įor the back-breaking toil of getting this site breathing again. Updates, no World Assembly resolution passing, no inactivity warning emails, and so on. Some things were skipped, because they weren't running during downtime: There were no daily ![]() Since then, we've been piecing together data from various sources & backups. Where everything was running again, before we lost power and experienced a hard crash. Powered down, and our host attempted to clone the disk. We scheduled downtime to replace a disk at end-of-life. We temporarily suspended processing of World Assembly resolutions and proposals, so some of thoseĪre still there even though voting should have closed. We kicked back the Cease To Exist (CTE) timer: for a limited time, nations now cease to exist ![]() The major casualty of this episode, apart from the sleep and sanity of admins, is bids andĪsks on Trading Cards. Here's the story:Īlmost everything should be back and working fine, with no data loss. I'm not sure if you noticed but the site was unavailable for four and a half days just there. If you want to know how your nation is doing, you'll be able to see it on your nation page.Ĭheck below to see the start time of the event for you. The leaderboard will be the objective best. What does "better" mean? We don't know!īut we do know that after thousands of votes, the nations on Two nations will be shown: just click the one you think is better. ![]() When voting opens, for 28 hours, you will gain access to We need good old-fashioned democracy! We need the return of Why do we need these people anyway? If we really want to know what the coolest, bestest and most amazing nation in the world is we don't need numbers. They have drawn fancy tables, run complex algorithms and compiled countless census tables. Highest Scores Per Nation (min 10 nations):įor the number-enthusiasts among you, here are the global stats for this N-Day:Ģ,951,117 strikes occurred for 2,416,622 radiation.įor two decades now, hordes of scientists with PhDs have painstakingly compiled terabytes of data on every nation on NationStates. The rest of the event was devoted to factions feasting on the corpse of Potato Alliance, which ended the event with an astounding seven figures of radiation.Ĭongratulations to the winner of the event, HotA, which secured its fourth N-Day victory with a record-breaking 1.6 million score. Instead, reigning champions Horsemen of the Apocalypse crushed the second largest faction in a one-sided massacre, effectively winning the event by the 9th hour. This year's N-Day was not one of those stories. It leaves you with a warm glow in your heart, reassuring you that all is just and fair in the world. We all love a feel-good story about a group of misfit underdogs rising up to best the seemingly all-powerful antagonist through the power of friendship and teamwork. ![]()
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