Second Annual Paffnia Prize

[Paffnia]

The winner of the 2014 Paffnia Prize can be found here: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27340/cerb-wins-2014-paffnia-prize

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It's time for the second annual incarnation of the Paffnia Prize, the award given to the nation that comes up with the best new, implemented idea for the Islands each year. All the information on the Prize can be found here.

This year, my contribution to the Prize stands at 107799 . Others are, of course, welcome to donate on top of that.

In terms of a timeline, I will leave about a week and a half open for nominations, then go to a vote.

Here are a list of nominated ideas off the top of my head. If any others come to mind, please post them either below or here.

Some nominations:

House Cup and Shield competition (Nox, HumanSanity, Cal, me, Cerb)
House Achievement Plan (Nox, Cerb)
Featured Nation badges (Malecia)
10-year anniversary celebrations (Grub, Gunny, others)
Fund to Advance XKI and its GOTV contest (HumanSanity)
New 10000 Islands logos (Wordy)
Reopened stock market (Grub)
Coordinated response to the Halloween zombie outbreak (Kanaia, Eaglleia, Tsim, et al.)
Duckyian Empire Dedicated Servant Award (Aerso)
Renaming Taco Island to honor Shelter (Co9)
Chess tournament vs. Mordor (Nox)
Chess club (Nox)
TITO Day commemoration event (New Ecopia)
Bringing back Warzone exercises (Land)
New immigration rewards--Boltor Lightning Badge and Woonsocket Saffron Lighthouse (Co9)
Automated recruiting script (Cerb)
RMB etiquette rules (Co9)
Anti-mass-WA-TG Respect Our Vote Act (Co9)
New nation welcome telegram (Grub)
Temporary script welcome telegram (Cerb)
House spam games (Thomas)
Werewolf games history thread (Pengu)
2013 XKI Holiday Party (Tsim)

A note on last year's Prize: I never did get to give Ananke her winnings. I needed to withdraw Tacos from IMM stock to pay her, but by the time I finally was able to, the Taco system got all messed up in the forum upgrade. Rest assured, I have all the numbers documented and will send over both this year's and last year's Prizes when able. Taco transfers haven't been restored, right?

[Ater Nox]

We can't transfer tacos ourselves yet, but I think someone can do it for you. Aersoldorf I think can do it?

I don't have a lot of liquid tacos at the moment, but I will add another 10,000 to the prize.

[Land]

Aerso can do taco transfers, you just need to PM him the details (not sure if he can do IMM though).

[Aersoldorf]

I can't cash out the IMM stock but I can transfer funds.

[Deleted]

Here's my idea: We can create a Minister of recruitment!

[Duckyian Empire]

Jan 12, 2014 10:34:46 GMT -5 @indianempire2 said:

Here's my idea: We can create a Minister of recruitment!

Yes, that is called the Minister of Immigration. They are involved by recruiting people to the Islands.

[Paffnia]

As Ducky said, we already have that. Also, the Paffnia Prize is not a place to suggest new ideas (You can do that in the Senate Lobby.), but rather to reward ideas implemented in the past year.

[Paffnia]

Going to open this up Saturday morning. Last chance to nominate until then!

[Elite]

Donating 60,000 to the prize money (if Aerso would be so kind), the only reason I keep them is to donate them to stuff like this anyway.

[Deleted]

Creating an embassy alliance for nations within our region to establish embassies.

[Paffnia]

Voting is open!
10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27310/paffnia-prize-2014-voting

[Aersoldorf]

Jan 17, 2014 18:45:28 GMT -5 @indianempire2 said:

Creating an embassy alliance for nations within our region to establish embassies.

Indian Empire, it is not possible for individual nations within NationStates to create embassies with one another except for role-play. The only embassies recognized by the game itself are between regions.


Secondly, Paff - I've transferred the donation from 3LiT3 to your account to be used for the prize

[Benevolent Thomas]

I think the clear choice is the automated recruiting script by Cerb purely because it is necessary for the continued survival of the Islands under the current recruiting rules of NationStates. The House Achievement Plan and the House Cup are 2nd and 3rd in my book because they actually have had an impact on our regional culture.

[Barry]

Jan 19, 2014 17:54:50 GMT -5 Benevolent Thomas said:

I think the clear choice is the automated recruiting script by Cerb purely because it is necessary for the continued survival of the Islands under the current recruiting rules of NationStates.

That got a vote from me. Thanks for the info, BT. You probably wouldn't be aware of that unless you're a recruiter.

[Aersoldorf]

Yeah, I had asked in the voting thread if I could support one and Cerb's script is my clear favorite

[Paffnia]

Voting closes tomorrow!

[Paffnia]

The winner: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27340/cerb-wins-2014-paffnia-prize