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ASEAN Featured Bulletin (19 August 2017 - 08 June 2018)
08 June 2018 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to an update to this edition of the Featured Bulletin.
State of the Region: If anyone is still here, you will have already noticed the slow and steady decline of the region that has been going on since the beginning of this year (though it may have began as early as late 2017). As a result of declining regional activity and population, all institutions in ASEAN, such as this publication, will be suspended, and the region will undergo an indefinite hiatus. Until there is a plan in place to restore the region, it is unlikely that our situation will change in the foreseeable future. As depressing as all of this sounds, I want to make one final note and say thank you to everyone who have made ASEAN their home. This is not a farewell from me or the region, but a "see you later"; ASEAN will rise again one day.
Regards,
Cochinchina
25 December 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to the special holiday edition of the Featured Bulletin.
Happy Holidays ASEAN!:
Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! As all of you know, 2017 is coming to an end, and the new year is right around the corner. New year mean new beginnings. This year was the rebirth of ASEAN, and I can say that I am very proud to see the progress that we've made so far. Our community has grown and will continue to grow through the new year, and I am excited to see what's in store for this region! 2018 will be the year that will push ASEAN to new heights!
Thank you to everyone who have made ASEAN their home, and I hope I still see each and everyone of you in the new year! Let's make 2018 a great one!
28 October 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to this month's special edition of the Featured Bulletin, a short column covering regional news and happenings.
Zombie Apocalypse!: We have the annual Zombie Apocalypse coming up. Everything you need to know about this event can be found here: page=news/2017/10/26/index.html
During Z-Day, the following protocols will be enacted:
The region will be placed under lockdown. No nation may enter due to risk of contamination.
Should you participate in this event, you are required to do one of the following:
Research a cure
Exterminate zombies
Remember to execute the following actions (launch cure missiles/send troops) once the necessary abilities are available to you. This event lasts for 32 hours, so always be prepared and help your neighbors!
Under no circumstances should you embrace the zombie hordes. Doing so will result in a temporary ejection from the region. You will be allowed to return once the event is over. Again, supporting the zombies is strongly discouraged.
Our goal is to ensure that our region is 100% zombie-free and to reduce as much loss of life as possible. Good luck to everyone!
ASEAN Day: Last week, ASEAN celebrated the second anniversary of its refounding on October 18. This date marks the establishment of the current Third Administration, led by
Cochinchina. Happy Birthday ASEAN!
Regional Map: In case you've missed it, we recently started a regional map, courtesy of Cina. The map is based in Southeast Asia, and if you would like a spot on the map, please contact Cina. Land claims are on a first-come first-serve basis, so plan accordingly and plan for alternatives in case the spot you wanted is already occupied.
That's it for this edition of the Featured Bulletin. As always, thanks for reading and have a great day!
09 September 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to an update to this week's edition of the Featured Bulletin.
Featured Bulletin Moves to Monthly Release: Due to a decline of any significant news and regional happenings, the Featured Bulletin will now be published on a monthly basis. Sorry to any reader that looked forward to weekly news. We will continue to report events and activities throughout the month.
02 September 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to this week's edition of the Featured Bulletin, a short column covering regional news and happenings.
Nuclear Fallout: The NationStates Nuclear Apocalypse officially concluded this week. ASEAN participated in the event as a part of the inter-regional alliance AIRDANA (Allied Inter-Regional Defence Against Nuclear Aggression), which consists of four other regions: South Asia, North Asia, African Union, and Arab League. Together, the alliance had a total of 24 nations. By the end of N-Day, AIRDANA was ranked #31 on the leaderboard with a score of 291, procured over 1,200 nuclear warheads, and launched 391 strikes against hostiles.
Congratulations and a big thank you to all who have taken part in this event! If you were unable to attend this year's event, don't worry; it is expected that there will be more nuclear war games to come. For an extensive look of N-Day as a whole, check out the N-Day 2 Archives.
First Regional Poll Concludes: The results are in! Thank you to all of those who participated in this survey! ASEAN will continue to increase engagement and promote activity within the community!
That's it for this edition of the Featured Bulletin. News was short this week since it mostly covers the Nuclear Apocalypse being the biggest topic of the week. As always, thanks for reading and have a great day!
26 August 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to this week's edition of the Featured Bulletin, a short column covering regional news and happenings.
Prepare for the Nuclear Apocalypse!: Nuclear warfare is upon us once again! NationStates will be hosting a second nuclear warfare day on August 29; the first N-Day occurred earlier this year. As mentioned by our alliance Secretary-General Airdana, we will be participating in this event with two other regions, South Asia and North Asia. We are expecting at least two more regions to join us as well. If you would like to join our alliance, we will inform you all with additional information as N-Day draws closer. In the meantime, if you are unfamiliar with N-Day, here is an informative guide on what you can do during the nuclear apocalypse.
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OVERVIEW
N-Day is an opportunity for nations to come together and exchange nuclear weapons in a fiery Armageddon of mutually assured destruction.
To Participate
Once registration opens, you can create or join a Faction (the full list of factions can be found here). Nations outside a Faction can't attack or be attacked. You can join a Faction when you're ready and leave when you're not (to stay safe). When joining your first faction you will be assigned a specialty.
Once the event begins, you will begin to accumulate Production. You will now be able to spend Production, fire Nukes and deploy Shields.
Watch your nation automatically generate Production. Use Production to build Nukes and Shield.
Launch Nukes at other nations and use Shields to shoot down Nukes that are launched at you.
Tactics
The simplest way to play N-Day is to join whichever Faction seems most fun and start targeting Nukes at its enemies while shooting down anything incoming.
Faction Bar
Your Faction page's icon bar shows everything you need to know, including who's targeting anyone in your Faction, and who your fellow Faction members are targeting. An example of a Faction page can be found here.
SPECIALTIES
Nations are randomly assigned a specialty when first joining a Faction. You can find yours on the top left of your nation's nukes page.
Military Specialists build Nukes faster: They receive more Nukes when converting Production.
Strategic Specialists build Shield faster: They receive more Shield when converting Production.
Economic Specialists can accumulate more Production: Their production cap is larger than the other specialties.
Cleanup Specialists can clean up radiation: For the a large Production cost, they can remove radiation from any nation in their faction, including those that were previously fully irradiated. They have no Production advantages.
Variable
Value
Military Specialist Nuke Production Multiplier
1.5x
Strategic Specialist Shield Production Multiplier
1.5x
Economic Specialist Production Cap Multiplier
4x
Cleanup Specialist Heal Cost
700 Production
Cleanup Specialist Heal Strength
5 Radiation
BASIC MECHANICS
Producing: Step by Step
Navigate to the production tab on your nukes page.
Use your accumulated Production to purchase Nukes or Shields.
Purchased Nukes or Shields will go into your Stockpile.
Attacking: Step by Step
Make sure that you have Nukes to fire in your Stockpile.
On another nation's Nuke page, click/tap the TARGET button and select the number of Nukes to use.
Once Targeted, it takes a few minutes for your Nukes to reach a READY state. Note that your Targeted page is public: All nations can see who is targeting whom.
When your Targeted Nukes are ready, click/tap LAUNCH. You can find a handy list of targeted Nukes on the Targets tab of your nuke page.
Your Nukes are now categorized as Launches for you and Incoming for your target. Launched Nukes take a few minutes to reach their target. When they do, they earn Strikes for you and inflict Radiation on the target, which reduces their rate of Production. This also earns Score for your Faction and reduces the enemy Faction's Score.
If, after while, targeted Nukes remain unlaunched, they will be automatically returned to your Stockpile.
Defending: Step by Step
Make sure that you have Shields in your Stockpile.
Find Launched Nukes to destroy, such as those in the incoming tab of a faction or nation.
Your top priority will likely be any incoming Nukes launched at you. Secondarily, you may wish to target incoming Nukes on anyone in your Faction, and also keep an eye on targeted Nukes that may threaten you or your Faction in the near future.
Click/tap DESTROY to deploy Shields.
The number of Shields required to destroy incoming nukes depends on the relative faction power. If your faction is weaker, one Shield will destroy more than one Nuke.
You may also destroy Nukes that are inbound for Factions other than your own, but the number of Shields required to do so is affected by a cross-faction shielding penalty and is not affected by relative faction power.
Shields may be contributed to the faction Shieldbank, which will deploy them automatically, but with a lower efficiency than a human.
Cleaning up Radiation: Step by Step
NOTE: This feature is only available to Cleanup SpecialistsEnsure that you have the neccessary Production accumulated.
Navigate to the Radiation page of the nation that you wish to clean up. It must be in the same Faction as your own nation!
Press the HEAL button to heal the nation.
Generally, it is ill-advised to heal nations that are not fully destroyed, as their radiation will decay naturally over time, the size of the healing is quite small, and the cost is rather steep. In most cases, the best use of the heal is on DESTROYED nations, which will not heal naturally.
Strategy
Strategically, it may be wise to avoid attacks on nations or Factions until you are confident of obliterating them, since this eliminates the possibility of counter-attack. Smaller-scale attacks, which damage but don't destroy an enemy, can lead to an escalating series of grudge-related nuclear exchanges.
On the other hand, targeting an enemy can be an effective warning. And it takes Nukes 10 minutes to be ready to launch, so you can't leave it too late.
Scoring
Each Nuke that reaches a target causes Radiation damage, which reduces the target's rate of Production generation and counts as a Strike for the attacker.
Duration
N-Day lasts for 24 hours, after which point, an Arms Control Agreement means that no Nukes can be launched. (In-flight nukes can still land, however.)
The "winner" is the Faction with the highest score; if, that is, nuclear war can be said to have a winner. Which we say it can. It's the Faction with the highest score.
Variable
Value
Minimum Targettable Nukes
40
Time for a Target to become READY
10 min
Time for a Launched Nuke to land
3-5 min
Time for a Target to time out
1 hour
Base Shield efficiency
1 Shield per 1 Nuke
Cross-Faction Shielding Penalty
1.7x
FACTIONS
Once registration opens, Factions can be founded by a Regional Officer of any region. Any and all Regional Officers of that region can update the Faction's official text to issue instructions to Faction members.
Factions can be made open to all members, or restricted to the region's members only.
You can leave your Faction, which is a good way to stay safe if you're signing off for the night. However, you can only do this if you're not engaged with the enemy! That means:
You must not have any nukes targeted or launched at another nation; and
No nukes can be targeted or incoming on you.
Note that in practice, this can make it challenging to leave a Faction, since you may be frequently targeted.
While outside a Faction, you cannot be targeted, and do not generate any Production. Leaving a Faction will also clear any spare Production that you leave with, but will not affect your Stockpile, so make sure to spend your Production before leaving.
Before joining, it's worth making sure a Faction isn't currently under mass bombardment.
Bikini Atoll and Kicking Faction Members
Bikini Atoll is a special, game-created, faction. It operates as a normal faction, but nations that are kicked from their factions will be transported to Bikini Atoll. All targets on the nation persist. Nations can be kicked from their nuke page, by Regional Officers in the factions founding region. Nations with incoming Nukes cannot be kicked.WA NATIONS
World Assembly members will accumulate Production 10x faster than non-WA members, and have their Production limits increased by around 3x.
It is allowed to switch WA membership to receive this benefit for different nations, but (as per regular site rules) you are only allowed to have one nation in the WA at a time.
Keep in mind that if your Production is over the non-WA limit when you resign membership on a nation, the Production on that nation will decrease down to the limit (i.e. if you resign with 1000 Production on a non-Econ nation, the Production will drop to 750).We ask that you refrain from switching WA for N-Day purposes more than once every two minutes. You will not be punished for this, but it is against the spirit of this change to the event mechanics.
PRODUCTION
Nations automatically generate Production every tick. The current tick rate is one per 2 minutes. Production can be spent on Nukes, Shields or Healing other nations (Cleanup Specialists only).Production Rates
Note: The Production Cap is further affected by the Econ multiplier.Nation Type
Production per Tick
Production Cap
Non-WA
15
750
WA
150
2500
Cost of Producing
Specialisation
Production per Nuke
Production Per Shield
Military
2
6
Strategic
3
4
Econ
3
6
Cleanup
3
6
SHIELD BANK
It is possible to donate shield to the Faction Shield Bank, which will automatically shoot down incoming nukes. This alone will not stop all incoming nukes, however, as the rate at which the Shield Bank shoots down nukes is dependent on the number of incoming nukes and its size.
Variable
Value
Maximum Shieldbank Size
65000
Shieldbank Deployment per Minute
MAX(MIN(0.15 * FACTION_INCOMING, 0.25 * SHIELD_BANK_SIZE), 200)
RADIATION
Radiation is generated in a nation when it is struck by a Nuke. The amount of Radiation generated is affected by the relative power of the factions. Weaker factions will receive less Radiation per Strike than the base value.
Radiation proportionately reduces a nation's Production generation rate. For example, if the current Radiation Penalty was 50%, 20% Radiation would reduce Production by 10%.
Radiation naturally decays over time, and can also be healed by a Cleanup Specialist.
When a nation is 100% Radiated, it is destroyed. A destroyed nation is no longer able to Produce, use Nukes or Shields, or Heal, and will not passively decay in Radiation. Only a Cleanup Specialist can 'revive' a destroyed nation.
You can leave a Faction when irradiated, but this does not affect your Faction's score.
Variable
Value
Base Radiation Generated per Strike
0.25% Radiation per Strike
Radiation Penalty on Production
0.66% penalty per 1% of Radiation
Radiation Recovery Rate
1% per Tick (see Production)
SCORE
A Faction's score measures strikes and radiation that occurred while those nations were a member. It is unaffected by nations joining or leaving the Faction.
A Faction's Score is calculated by
RADIATION_GIVEN - (0.25 * RADIATION_TAKEN)
GLOSSARY
Term
Explanation
Production
Used to buy Nukes and Shield. Automatically generated by all non-destroyed nations in a Faction.
Nuke
Unholy instrument of death and destruction.
Stockpiled Nuke
A Nuke that has been purchased with Production and is sitting idle, awaiting a target.
Targeted Nuke
A Nuke that has been targeted at a nation. A targeted Nuke takes 10 minutes to achieve a READY state, after which it may be launched.
Launched/Incoming/In-Flight Nuke
A Nuke that has been launched at a nation and is currently chewing up 3-5 minutes of in-flight time.
Shield
A unit of defensive technology. Possibly involves lasers or satellites or something.
Strike
A record of how many Nukes have successfully landed on targets.
Radiation
A record of how many Nukes have struck the nation. Reduces Production generation.
Faction
A group of nations sharing a common interest in survival and/or bloodlust.
Score
The Faction Score
Keep up to date on N-Day by regularly checking the News. The scoreboards will be available once N-Day has begun.Got a Cool Factbook?: Have you written any factbooks or dispatches about your nation that you would like to share? ASEAN will do it for you! Once every week (or month depending on demand) ASEAN will feature one nation's dispatch on the region's front page. The dispatch will also appear on the following edition of the Featured Bulletin. If this is something that interests you, please contact
Cochinchina!History Sleuths Wanted!:
Cochinchina, the region's historian, is requesting information from anyone who has resided in ASEAN in the past, knew someone who has resided in ASEAN in the past, or has any information regarding to ASEAN prior to the current administration. This is a part of an ongoing investigation of digging deeper into ASEAN's past so that we can construct and maintain a library of the yesteryears.Weekly Poll: As most of you are already aware or have yet to be aware, we have a community survey we like you to participate in regarding to how you first got here. There is a week left until it ends so please participate if you have the time. Polls are a great way to engage the community, so expect to see more in the future.
That's it for this edition of the Featured Bulletin. As always, thanks for reading and have a good day!
19 August 2017 | Writer & Editor:
CochinchinaWelcome to the first edition of the Featured Bulletin, a short column covering regional news and happenings.
ASEAN Unity Day: August 18 marks ASEAN Unity Day! First established in 2013 during the First Administration, this day commemorates the region's diplomatic relations with over 100 regions.
Check Out These Cool Infographics!: Recently, I discovered a site that displays infographics and information regarding to ASEAN commerce and economy. It's pretty neat, so check it out!
Help Wanted!: This has been posted for a while, but ASEAN is looking for those who are interested in regional growth and development. More information can be found here: page=dispatch/id=843453
That's it for this edition of the Featured Bulletin. As always, thanks for reading and have a good day!
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