general questions, please help

[Kaom]

okay, so i have been surfing around and still have a few issues.
1) what happens when you lose a battle? are you booted?
2) how do i factor what ive spent? i figure i just do it on paper but how do other nations know what i got?
3) if my nation is killed what happens to it? do i start over?

i know i dont know anything but i want to know. i really want to play.
Queen Kaom ;D

[Sheynat]

1) Your definition of battle depends. TITO battle, you may get booted from the region. RP battle, depends on the victor.
2)You figure the amount you have by your economy. The better it is, the more you have. The figures are on the RP board somewhere.
3) Depends on what you mean by killed. Mod-killed, yes, you start over, if they even let you back into the game. Inactivity killed, you can just log in one day, and they give you your nation back. If you mean something else, explain.

[Kaom]

i think i got it. but what do you mean if they let you back in the game? i am starting to get this whole system. its petty cool. by killed i ment say you go to war with some one else, they kill you, no one is left alive, what happens? would i have to start a new nation?
i know these are stupid questions but im old. just to date myself i was a Mario Bros kid. i also remember Attari. once i figure this whole thing out, watch out.

thank you for all and any advice on how to be a great player

Kaom ;D

[Boktavia II]

Well, at the moment the closest thing NationStates has to "war" is battles sch as the ones in TITO, endorsement battles, basically. Another nation can't kill you directly. They can report you for saying something offensive to the Mods, who can then delete you, but other nations do not have the power to go around warring and deleting whoever they wish. The NationStates world would be in chaos if they did.

[Sheynat]

What I mean by if is, sometimes, if you got deleted in the first place, the offense was so awful that they're not gonna let you back in. I'm pretty sure that usually, they let you start a new nation, but your old one is gone forever. But sometimes, they megaban you, I.E., IP-ban, name-ban, email-address ban, cookie-ban...basically, you'd have to purchase an entirely new computer, and use an entirely different ISP, an entirely different email-address, and a different name. And if you ever mentioned your old nation, gone.