UN Nominations:

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Re: UN Representative

Originally posted by Togas
While this game won't ever switch formats and become a PTW game, I'd really enjoy doing a future dem game with several other nations of humans involved.

In such a game the job of communicating with the other nations would fall on the Foreign Ministry. We'd end up appointing an ambassador, adding yet another staff member to the ever growing Ministry office.

Ah, I love creating bureaucracy!

--Togas

Oh, I figured that was given, there will probably ne a PTW Democracy game forum added. Then each site would start by the end of this month.

In fact I can see several variations on PTW Democracy games.

[GePap]

I have to agree with UnOrthO that information security is a must: after all, what the point of World Map trading if anyone in any site can download each other's saves and know what the other's map looks like. T a certain extent espionage in the game would become meaningless since everyone would be able to do this cost free, if all information bounds about.

Also, think of all those times we created eleborate war plans: ell, if anyone can just simply get plans of each other's boards, then we can't really make them- or at least, only a small group within each site coul, and they wpould have to keep it secret from everyone else due to fear of leaking: that is not very conducive to democracy, now is it?

Most certainly, a well defined set of rules about what posters cvan and can't say must be created. At a minimum, officals in each site should be barred from visiting the other sides boards while in office. Secondly, anyone who were to post information deemed clasified in another sites boar would have to be banished_ its almost impossbile to make rules that others can't visit other sites boards, (though it should be highly discouraged) but we can easily punihs anyone who writes in a board about someone else plans. it also makes the whole embassy thing much harder. It may even call for the creation of sub-forum, though that might be a hastle.

[nalob]

Information about UN

Just to keep you up-to-date with the current UN status, we now have 5 interested sites: Apolyton, CFC, 1BC, civilization webring forum(a German site) and possibly an EZboard site. Besides our 1BC diplomat Scorpius no official delegates have been announced. CFC is also debating who to send to the UN right now and the German site just established an Embassy at 1BC today. Of course we have to wait for the release of PTW and get familiar with the game but we can already discuss matters like organization and communication. We have an UN open forum board where every one can discuss a possible intersite Democracy Game. You don't have to be a 1BC member to post here.

Bolan

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Re: Information about UN

Originally posted by nalob
Just to keep you up-to-date with the current UN status, we now have 5 interested sites: Apolyton, CFC, 1BC, civilization webring forum(a German site) and possibly an EZboard site. Besides our 1BC diplomat Scorpius no official delegates have been announced. CFC is also debating who to send to the UN right now and the German site just established an Embassy at 1BC today.

We have embassies with all but EZboard who some of our most influential citizens despise and boycott. I'm not sure if that will be an issue on our pulling out of the UN or not but it is a potential conflict.

[nalob]

I don't think it's good to deny sites entry to the UN. Although the EZboard is a small community and their pop-ups are very irritating it would be 'undemocratic' to decide not to include these people just because some of your people don't like the site. I have been at the EZboard a couple of times and although I'm not a big fan of the site the people seem friendly and they are working to get rid of the adds.

Bolan

[UnOrthOdOx]

I simply said I will not be establishing an embassy on THEIR forum. I will speak to them on your board, just don't plan on me visiting that Demogame.

And I can't get through the registration on the German site. Someone else please go over there?

(AOL turned the confirmation into garbled mess. I can read German decent enough but nonsense symbols are beyond me)

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Hmmm, maybe that could be a civ-specific objective for us, the extermination of the EZ board civ.

[maniacalmonkey]

Just out of curiosity - what is the problem of Apoytonians towards the EZBoard forums?

[UnOrthOdOx]

It is ME with a PERSONAL problem. I am boycotting their site due to a history between myself and EZBoard.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
I simply said I And I can't get through the registration on the German site. Someone else please go over there?

(AOL turned the confirmation into garbled mess. I can read German decent enough but nonsense symbols are beyond me)

I registered but it still hasn't sent me an email to confirm so I can't post.

[nalob]

I don't think any one here is saying you have to go there as an ambassador (please correct me if I'm wrong here). What I'm saying is we shouldn't deny any DG site access to the UN.

[UnOrthOdOx]

NO you shouldn't. And I won't go over there. Any contact with them will be in the form of the UN, or if they post an embassy here, at least for me personally. Anyone else is welcome to go and make one for us on their site.


Only 5 sites in the UN? I thought we had 6....Im going to check my list when I get home. I know I have six different URL's for demo games....Perhaps I have one you have not discovered?

[maniacalmonkey]

Ah, OK. But please - no fist fights in the Council or catering areas, take it out to the parking lot if you must

[UnOrthOdOx]

I may not be our ambassador, so you may not even need worry.

[nalob]

UnOrThOdOx, if you find the sixth DG site can you let me know? We only have contact with four other DG sites so I guess we haven't discovered one yet. Thanks.