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My people sincerely apologize. Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Muppet puppet manager, and 8 othersMuppet puppet manager ii, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Haremm, World assembly of the studly spud, Coadisea, Dorento, and Anthyr |
World assembly of the studly spud Indeed, bubble-boy, Cathedrals are places for worshipping the Great Potato 🥔 Consigahria, Matrixulated, Alekseandrea, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, and 10 othersAltered natives, Muppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, Anthyr, and Vaheale |
I am your new Ambassador from TNP! Legendus, The Salaxalans, Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, and 13 othersAltered natives, Muppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, Fly agaric, Dorento, and Anthyr |
The Potato-Poet of The Salaxalans Welcome! :D Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Muppet puppet manager, and 9 othersMuppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, Dorento, and Anthyr |
(When I began NationStates, I started off in TNP) Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Muppet puppet manager, and 5 othersMuppet puppet manager ii, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, World assembly of the studly spud, and Schnozzel |
Hi! I'm back! The Salaxalans, Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, and 9 othersMuppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, and Dorento |
The Potato-Poet of The Salaxalans Welcome back! :D Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Muppet puppet manager, and 8 othersMuppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, and Dorento |
New poll! It most certainly isn't an attempt to find people who remember having a "close encounter" with The Salaxalans. Legendus, The Salaxalans, Matrixulated, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, and 9 othersAltered natives, Muppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, and Dorento |
The Potato-Poet of The Salaxalans >_> Legendus, Matrixulated, Alekseandrea, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, and 10 othersAuphelia, Altered natives, Muppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, and Dorento |
The next Poll could be for abductees?
Point to the dolly and tell us where The Salaxalans "probed" you. 😬 Sponsored by Ltin Corporation Industrial Tin Foil Products M. Alekseandrea, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Parrona, Altered natives, and 8 othersMuppet puppet manager, Muppet puppet manager ii, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, and Dorento |
Salaxative is Blue? 👤 Matrixulated, Alekseandrea, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, and 8 othersMuahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Memenferno, Schnozzel, and Dorento |
The Multinational Conglomerate of Ltin Corporation Hold up. Do you work for me? I don't remember approving this sponsorship.... The Salaxalans, Matrixulated, Alekseandrea, The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, and 10 othersAltered natives, Muahhahah, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, Fly agaric, Dorento, and Anthyr |
The Potato-Poet of The Salaxalans Woo new card news! 10000 Bank Transfer, 200K Drop, and a Successful TNP Pull Event July 5, 2020 Card News, edition 6 Join the cards discord at this link to stay in the know and keep up with all of the action! If you have news that I missed, news of your own, suggestions, or questions, feel free to TG me for a quick response! Also, if you want to advertise your card farms, events, etc. make sure to let me know! If you want to be added to the subscriber list, please let me know as well! Previous editions and other card resources may be found here: page=dispatch/id=1391357 Luna Amore Crashes 200K Luna’s deck value graph After dethroning Koem Kab for a brief period, Luna Amore has crashed their deck intentionally through the deflation of Misplaced States and Aki Zeta, dropping 200k in deck value, from 202,531 all the way to 1610. The deflation was achieved by selling 10 copies at a low price, resetting the MV entirely. When questioned as to why, Luna simply said “The best part of a roller coaster is the drop.” This is the new record for the largest single day drop, and it is also notable that Luna Amore holds the record for the largest single day gain, at 86K. Those are some impressive numbers, and they will likely stand for a long time. Since the drop, Luna has hit 100 copies of Aki Zeta and has inflated it to around 90. Various Technical Changes Implemented A mass copy transfer, the root cause of the issue Ballotonia has announced a few key changes to cards. First of all, after Honeydewistania pointed out that Kortza was not issued the correct badge after their issue was published, Ballotonia manually updated their card from an uncommon to an ultra-rare card. As a result, the card data dump was updated despite being recently updated to fix similar problems. This also means that deleted cards have been removed, and the cards queries page has been updated to account for these changes. Additionally, the API was updated to allow for searching of a nation's asks/bids as well as their current collections. The former was also implemented into The Northern Light’s card queries, and these changes have already proven to be very useful for users throughout the game. TNP June Event a Major Success The finds history of Ramaeus Despite being overshadowed by the Card Raid in the May Pull Event, The North Pacific Cards Guild moved forward with their June pull event. During the nomination process, it seemed as if The Dark System S2 was going to be voted in, however, as a result of N00027 crashing the card, many nominations were changed, eventually settling on the recently CTEd Ramaeus S2 card and Flag Thief S1. Both of these cards belonged to influential players that have since ceased to exist. There was a level of uncertainty surrounding the event, as many wondered whether the event would be hijacked again, or worse, blocked entirely by a rogue defense attempt. Luckily, neither of these events happened, and more than 30 unique traders pulled at least 1 of the 2 cards, making it a highly successful event. Additionally, neither card crashed significantly, which is always nice to see after a pull event. Cards Bug Breaks the Game A mass copy transfer, the root cause of the issue After starting a mass copy transfer as usual, Noahs Second Country noticed that whenever they clicked on their cards page, other users would complain about the game briefly being unplayable for a brief period, and the loading time was quite long. While at first believed to be a coincidence, it became increasingly clear that this page was causing problems in gameplay operations, farming, and everything else. Furthermore, other users could trigger the issue by clicking on the link. Luckily, the bug was quickly patched out by Ballotonia, but it still caused quite a bit of temporary chaos throughout NS. Olympics 5 Ends To respond to some of the issues, 9003 has updated the rules for Olympics 6, banning sales of more than 30 bank and explicitly disallowing pull event participation from Olympic puppets if they are not run by puppets. Good luck to all competitors of Olympics #6! See the leaderboards here, courtesy of Racoda: page=dispatch/id=1389369 CDA Conducts Another Successful Defense Noahs Second Country Breaks 2 Records The trades history of -ii, the transfer card in question Noahs Second Country has recently broken 2 records, one for the most trades on a single card, and one for the highest transaction ever recorded. In the first, the card -ii reached 6,487 trades, surpassing the previous record set by Refuge Isle using the S1 card of Tiradella. As a result of Noah’s mass copy transfer strategy, the trades graph is also quite interesting, featuring dozens of pikes and dots at different values. For the second record, Noahs Second Country amassed more than 10000 bank in order to test the upper limits of the bidding system. It was determined that 10000 is the maximum possible bid, and Noah later transferred this bank on the card Death and Killing Tactics 3, instantly pushing the MV to a clean 1000, enough for second on the overall leaderboard. This is the largest ever transfer, and impossible to beat, with the closest being multiple transfers between 7 and 8 thousand bank conducted by Koem Kab. We’re a little TEAPOT How did the tea come to be? Who serves the communitea? How tea get started? Originally published in The Eastern Pacific News Service’s June Edition. Edited and republished with permission. The TCALS Debate Reopens with Changes Imminent The Northern Light If anything, the way the anti-laundering system has been used since it was first reported has reinforced my views: 1) The bidding mechanic overwhelmingly favors players with big card farms, who are best positioned to freely create arbitrary amounts of copies of any card they want, with minimal risk. 2) Price correction generally does not work. It has happened for some cards (the top few epics), but high-value legendaries that are being spawned in copious amounts remain just as expensive as before. Even when the price of a card does drop, having vast amounts of copies of the, now lower-valued, card still results in deck value increases. What's even worse is that the many lower-valued copies tend to concentrate in the decks of very few players, who are then free to drive the price up to its previous levels. Finally, in certain cases where a pull event is organized to attack the value of a card, players that own multiple copies of the card can "block" the spawning of new copies by simply placing some random common card on the market at the same time. 3) As the numerous transfers of large amounts of bank show, this mechanic is not effective against bank transfers. -------- I have two proposals for how to change the system: a) This is what I had proposed in my original post: Remove the bid mechanic, and change the system so that cards that are on auction simply have higher odds of being spawned in packs that open during the auction, independently of the number of bids placed on the card. The odds could be set so that about 1 copy would spawn for every 1000 packs opened---this number is certainly not set in stone, it's simply my own crude estimate of the spawn rate we had in regularly-attended pull events before the bid mechanic was discovered. Other factors that currently affect spawn rate (people suspect that the auction price is one of them) can remain in place. [EDIT: See also here for another advantage of this proposal.] b) Change packs so that their contents are determined when the pack is created (i.e., when the nation answered the issue that created the pack), and not when the pack is opened. This would make pull events a lot less effective, as people would no longer be able to stockpile essentially arbitrary numbers of packs, in order to open them while a specific card is on auction. Additionally, participating in a pull event would require answering issues (and potentially creating new nations to get more issues) on top of opening packs, making the whole process a lot more tedious. To offer some statistics in support of proposal (b): Currently, I do "private" (i.e., not advertised, so that they only benefit me) pull events, where I open 3000 packs across 1000 puppets, to spawn extra copies of two cards that I constantly bid on. The whole affair takes me about two hours, and I generate about 20-24 copies total (10-12 for each card). If proposal (b) was implemented, the same event would now take me at least eight hours, given that I'd need to answer five issues for each of my 1000 puppets. During that, I would only be able to open 800 packs new packs, bringing the number of copies I spawn down to 5-6. All in all, I would need to work for 300% extra the time to get only 25% the number of cards. Noahs Second Country: 1. Pull events/TCALS as both an anti-inflation mechanism and a card duplication mechanism can be combated with 10 bank and 3 commons - though perhaps the problem is that people are unwilling to try and stop them? 2. Removing mechanics deemed 'harmful' by a vocal minority of cards players is kind of pointless and not necessarily healthy to the game either. Mechanics like TCALS and inflation create new ways to play the game (at least for those who play for MV) beyond simply doing the same monotonous farming and buying legendary cards process over and over again. It has become more and more clear to me that the community really only wants to have one way to play this game - as seen by the unreasonable dislike of players such as Farrakhan, Timao, and Refuge for the way that they play the game. 3. The market is completely public and anyone can theoretically join in on the pull event fun... even the 'private' pull events. 4. My conclusion is the following: People will always find a way to exploit the system. People can adapt to whatever meta shift comes there way - heck, even Koem Kab has started doing pull events. The system is fair. Mikeswill: I'm old and have not been able to understand the use of scripts or API or whatever the name the tools are that you yung'uns talk about meaning every issue and puppet and junking is done one by one by me. It takes tons of work. TCALS has become a short-cut to obtain higher value cards. I like it when I have a chance to participate such as pull events. I don't care for it much when players are able to to manipulate the system when vast numbers of players are not online. Regardless of what fixes are put into place, players will find an opportunity to take advantage of any changes that are made. I just try to keep up. Evrigenis Based on that, I think we could 1) implement a nerfed version of the current system with bidding increasing pull probability 2) reset the MV to JV and 3) add a new census stat: Gallery Size. 1) would allow new farmers to continue to benefit from pull events, while the probability boost could decrease at an increasing rate as a function of number of bids (if that’s unclear, think about the graph of 1/x). 2) lets the free market reign as we see which prices people actually trade at. 3) incentivizes other forms of play, and helps people remember that DV is not the end-all-and-be-all of this game (I personally think the object is to have fun and be a good community member, but that’s not quantifiable for a stat XD). Ransium I think everyone crowing about how effective TCALS would become if card rarity were more of a factor are sorely mistaken. My transfer card (linked to in OP) has ~50 owners when all copies I have are on a single nation. I think many other well used transfer cards are similar. Lots of people for whatever reason don’t sell transfer cards they farm. It also means that if S3 has a card like Nerv or OT and a big farmer gets their hands on it early they could effectively monopolize the card if they were smart. For example, they could hold their own person pull event at some odd hour of the night and then (if owners not copies was a factor that heavily impacted odds) distributing copies to pups. I think all your suggestions trying to keep pull events alive but trying to mitigate too much manipulation are misguided. Pull events are manipulation. It just so happens that they are publicized manipulation. Any mechanic allowing pull event manipulation of pull odds can almost certainly be exploited far more effectively by a single or small group of players privately holding pull events when others don’t dilute their odds. Trader Spotlight Interview with Elegarth Interview conducted by The unified missourtama states. Note that it is more than a month old, and answers are subject to change Q: What brought you to collecting cards, and what is keeping you collecting? For April's Fools a couple of years ago, I was basically retired. So much, that only one of my main series of puppets was alive - which is also why there is only one Elegarth card in S1. I like collecting cards, in general. Probably because of my background as a Magic: The Gathering player. And I also like collecting sticker albums - like Panini's World Cup album of stickers. So when, in that April's Fools, the Card came out, they totally drew me into them, and my sense of "collections" pulled me to them. I tried to collect during the event as many cards as I could, and I was really excited about the cards coming back for good. Once they did, I could just continue! But I was very slow in the uptake, and didn't even started farming until months later, as I only had a few nations :p The fact that there are new seasons of cards, and that collecting is a challenge, is what keeps me doing it! Q: How do you feel the card community is changing? is it getting better or worse? Q: Many small cards players like to maintain the idea of large farmers (such as you) as villains, do you agree, do you like this perception? Q: What is your favorite card? Q: What is your favorite collection? Why? Q: What advice do you have for others in the card community? (Both spiritually and technically) Thank you Elegarth for your participation! If you would like to be interviewed or you would like to request an interview, please telegram Noahs Second Country for more information. Collection Spotlight A few notable collections have come to attention recently. This edition, we'll focus on regional collections - check them out! The Pacific: By new collector Vylixan, it already groups over 200 cards from both seasons! There are over 6,000 cards from The Pacific in both seasons, but nevertheless this collection is surely off to a good start. Lazarus Season 1 and Season 2: Another collection from a Game-Created Region, this time Lazarus! Debussy has collected 1,800 Lazarene cards already, including the sole legendary within the region. With a great amount of bank, the collection has potential to grow even more. Spiritus Season 1 and Season 2: Here's a recently completed regional collection by The Salaxalans. It is surely a large collection, and full of potatoes! The North Pacific S1: Although not a completed collection (lacking only 5 of 1,738 cards), it's the largest season 1 regional collection - funded by one of the largest card farming puppet squads in the world. Full of legendaries and other high-valued cards, it definitely represents the largest region of NationStates. New Publications The Monthly Snapshot 2 - A project spearheaded by Destructive Government Economic System on behalf of the North Pacific Cards Guild, with contributions from Praeceps, Noahs Second Country and others. This features many notable events from April-May, including market analysis, which is not currently covered by Card News. Check it out! TWP Trading Card Introduction by Recuecn and Giovanniland - Another regional guide targeted towards beginners to cards, with contributions from Mediobogdum and The unified missourtama states. The Card News Index by Noahs Second Country - A complete list of Card News resources, articles, competitions, and more. The Rejected Times Issue LVIII by - While not strictly a cards publication, this features an extremely misleading entertaining opinion article written by Bormiar If any card literature comes to your attention, please let us know by TGing Noahs Second Country Random Article (do not take this seriously, I am being held against my will) Want free cards? Card News Writer Form Nation Name:enter the name of your card collecting nation Article Topic:Give a general idea of the article you would like to write Additional Comments:Add notes here After I approve the article topic, further instructions will be given. Hopefully, doing this will result in higher quality, longer, and more detailed articles from a variety of authors. Thanks for your support, and thank you to all of the authors that have joined recently! Subscribers will be pinged in every future dispatch. Please TG me to let me know you want to subscribe. New subscribers also qualify for a free season 2 CTE Epic card! 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NICE! The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Muahhahah, Please be kind and rewind, and 4 othersVersatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, and Dorento |
Mesa thought hesa was maxi da yellow (la la la...)... Mesa like dam cookies! (I know how to speak Jar Jar-ian, but I don't know how to spell in Jar Jar-ian XD) The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 6 othersMatrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, World assembly of the studly spud, Schnozzel, and Dorento |
Given that he is a Gungan, I'd say it's either Gunganian or Gungan.... Who knows? The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 6 othersMatrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, World assembly of the studly spud, and Schnozzel |
I guess Gunganian... The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 5 othersMatrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, and World assembly of the studly spud |
I know the answer and now you will too. The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 5 othersPlease be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, World assembly of the studly spud, and Dorento |
Unfortunately, Eurovision 2020 was cancelled. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean we have to wait a year for some lovely songs. Enter Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Helmed by the comedian Will Ferrell and the always brilliant Rachel McAdams, this film not only gave a touch of silliness, but several excellent (mostly fictional) songs to assuage the agony of going an entire year without ruthlessly tearing down other nations (“Arcade” should never have won) have been granted to us. The only question now is this: which song reigns supreme? To those of you who choose the last answer: you are boring and choose the most obvious responses. The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 4 othersPlease be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, and World assembly of the studly spud |
The Magical Girl Haven of Twilight Town Somewhere along the line my nation became full on communists and I'm still not sure how or when it happened The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 5 othersMatrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Versatran, Haremm, and World assembly of the studly spud |
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...in the opening scene we see Cookie Monster & Coadisea Binks sharing a Diner Booth as Muahhahah walks in and casually approaches them. "Hello frendos..." ...and scene! 🎬 The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Matrixulated reloaded, and 4 othersPlease be kind and rewind, Haremm, World assembly of the studly spud, and Memenferno |
...You rang? The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Cardboard lootbox, Muahhahah, and 4 othersMatrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, Haremm, and World assembly of the studly spud |
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🤣🤣🤣 Also, how do I get the dept. of Skullduggery? Anyone know what issue that is? The botched pejazzle of the studly spud, Altered natives, Matrixulated reloaded, Please be kind and rewind, and 2 othersHaremm, and World assembly of the studly spud |