Start Your Own Goddamned Country - Page 15

Kyuss Apollo · #**351** 09-11-2007, 05:17 AM

That's probably a very good question.

Crumb · #**352** 09-11-2007, 04:16 PM

That's how we keep out the undesirables.

Ensign Steve · #**353** 09-11-2007, 08:24 PM

Oh, like LA does with our pollution and traffic. :nod:

Nullifidian · #**354** 09-15-2007, 08:35 PM

I've got to say that, so far, this game is pretty unsatisfactory. The program's responses to its pre-fabricated issues are downright hyperbolic. I remember voting for a progressive tax system, and the wealthiest members of country ended up paying 100% tax! So when the issue became a police surveillance system to fight crime, which my country's descriptor said was nonexistent, I ended up choosing the surveillance system with the depressing certainty that if I voted with my beliefs, I'd end up with a rampant and uncontrollable crime wave.

I do not doubt that, having voted to allow neo-Nazis their right to free speech, I will awaken tomorrow with a massive racist movement having sprung up from nowhere.

If I had the coding ability, I'd try a far less hyperbolic manner of assessing a country's evolution with linked issues, rather than ones that come up and you never see again.

Kyuss Apollo · #**355** 09-16-2007, 09:10 PM

The issues are actually created by users--you could create and submit one if you want. I was going to once but then I never bothered. I think the idea is to make them slightly ridiculous/hyperbolis.

I usually dismiss any that are going to interfere with how I want to run my nation. Kind of like letting bills die in committee in the real world...

Dingfod · #**356** 09-16-2007, 09:36 PM

It's not the issues I had a problem with, it was the results of the choices that bugged me.

ceptimus · #**357** 09-19-2007, 06:12 PM

Our U.N. delegate, liv, has forsaken us. I'm the new U.N. delegate but I'm pretty bored with the game now anyway...

Kyuss Apollo · #**358** 10-05-2007, 01:51 AM

Plus Travian is sucking up lotso time.

Ymir's blood · #**359** 10-05-2007, 07:49 PM

My issues are mostly repeats. :irked:

curses · #**360** 10-05-2007, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuss Apollo

Plus Travian is sucking up lotso time.

This.

Kyuss Apollo · #**361** 10-05-2007, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by curses

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Originally Posted by Kyuss Apollo

Plus Travian is sucking up lotso time.

This.

What server(s) you on curses?

curses · #**362** 10-06-2007, 01:34 AM

Both 4 and 5.
server 4 - Travian com4
server 5 - Travian com5

Kyuss Apollo · #**363** 11-12-2007, 03:50 AM

Did you join the new server 6 yet?

We are in the north west. Join us. The one. The brave. The yaks.

Meanwhile back in NationStates, the widows and orphans have built thin rafts and set out to sea...

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UN Delegate: None.

Regional Power: Low

0000 Freethought contains 8 nations.

Today's United Nations Report: The Most Beautiful Environments in 0000 Freethought

UN researchers spent many arduous weeks lying on beaches and trekking through rainforests to compile this definitive list of the most attractive and best cared for environments.

1.The Free Land of Graum Democratic Socialists "In Emergence We Trust "
2.The Republic of Thandasami Democratic Socialists "Siyaphila"
3.The Community of Cascadia Free State Democratic Socialists "Tierra y Libertad"
4.The Republic of Zverinac Inoffensive Centrist Democracy "Buzdovanija ..."
5.The Suborbital Totalinaris Front of Freaking Kyuss Inoffensive Centrist Democracy "Yeah! you're a f'd up man, with a f'd up plan..."
6.The Anarcho-syndicalist Commune of Beanguese Left-Leaning College State "Drink, drink, and be merry"
7.The Community of Ago solvo Democratic Socialists "Life, the one and the many."
8. Wruud (ex-nation)
9.The Republic of Browningsland Compulsory Consumerist State "Fac ut gaudeam."

Regional Happenings

* 7 hours ago: The Bored Lands of Wruud ceased to exist.
* 9 days ago: The Empire of Moving Nations departed this region for 0000 Middle Earth 0000
* 9 days ago: The Holy Empire of Skullholland ceased to exist.
* 10 days ago: The Empire of Moving Nations arrived from 0000 Beatking.
* 16 days ago: The Free Land of Harmonial differences ceased to exist.
* 17 days ago: The Community of Ago solvo arrived from The South Pacific.
* 23 days ago: The Union of Red Soviets of New Anglosaxony ceased to exist.
* 25 days ago: The Dominion of WolfEmpirium ceased to exist.
* 26 days ago: The Federation of Auqatora ceased to exist.
* 33 days ago: Wruud lost UN Delegate status.

Nightson · #**364** 11-13-2007, 09:56 AM

Cyber Nations, an online nation simulation game > Nationstates

Kyuss Apollo · #**365** 11-13-2007, 11:20 AM

I was scrolling through my telegrams yesterday and someone had sent me some CyberNations spam--I surfed over and and it looks pretty interesting. You can eventually get nuclear veapons and start an atomic conflagration, apparently.

curses · #**366** 11-14-2007, 04:31 AM

Kyuss, I haven't joined server 6 yet. I don't know if i will. I barely have enough time to play the two I'm on!

Nightson, that does look so much better than Nation States.

Pan Narrans · #**367** 11-14-2007, 01:35 PM

Cybernations looks pretty nifty indeed! The most serene republic of Iabastan lives again :plotting:

Farren · #**368** 12-21-2007, 11:07 AM

Dammit I had a nation there and they deleted it due to inactivity!

Kyuss Apollo · #**369** 12-23-2007, 07:09 AM

On Cybernations or NationStates?

Farren · #**370** 12-23-2007, 10:37 AM

NationStates. The Free Republic of Froody Nibblers. It was a massive welfare state where people walked around naked. I'm taking a look at CyberNations right now.

Farren · #**371** 12-23-2007, 10:40 AM

Wow, looks more like what I hoped for from NationStates. I've been reading the "Diplomacy" thread with great interest and wondering if there was persistent game like this on the 'net. This looks like the business. From the rules it seems to effect a nice compromise. You can be a completely peaceful nation if you wish. Good for people like Seebs who don't like direct conflict. Me too, possibly. I always try the most non-military route in Civ.

California Tanker · #**372** 12-26-2007, 04:20 PM

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I always try the most non-military route in Civ

I tend to go for cultural or space victories myself in civ 4, but I find that not spending enough resources on defense is a recipe for disaster. You're going to get nailed by someone eventually. I bear grudges, someone declares war on me, he'd better knock me out quickly, or I will continue fighting until he is destroyed.

I see my country in Nationstates has ceased to exist. Oh well.

NTM

Farren · #**373** 12-27-2007, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by California Tanker

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I always try the most non-military route in Civ

I tend to go for cultural or space victories myself in civ 4, but I find that not spending enough resources on defense is a recipe for disaster. You're going to get nailed by someone eventually. I bear grudges, someone declares war on me, he'd better knock me out quickly, or I will continue fighting until he is destroyed.

I see my country in Nationstates has ceased to exist. Oh well.

NTM

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing when playing against AIs (haven't played against people). The game is nasty that way. Even if you maintain the best relations with everyone, someone (usually one of the more aggressive AIs like Isabella of Spain) will try cut you down to size as soon as you let your defense lapse enough.

California Tanker · #**374** 12-27-2007, 05:56 AM

The problem is that once I've wiped out whoever it was that antagonised me, I've lost a lot of production on Wonders and Space items by diverting to military production, and it's often easier for me to just keep going with all those soldiers I've paid for and go for a domination victory.

NTM