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Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Someone should find another online game and everyone should switch to that.
Someone should find another online game and everyone should switch to that.
The precursor was a "game" developed by a mathmetician and was little more than a math model of voting blocs, parties, elections, and issues that change support of each voting bloc for each party... the government itself was a parliamentary model closest in format to Weimar Germany (after which it was explicitly modeled). Additional parts of the model were added for party finances and campaigns, regional demographics, etc.
What the group I was with was endeavoring to do was using that original simulator as inspiration for something altogether different. Made our own model, scraped the whole concept of it just being a mathematical model and hoped to make it into either a game just for fun among us or as an educational tool. We changed the setting to 1990s Eastern Europe and modeled the political climate to reflect the Czech Republic or Hungary than Germany. The basic model would be adaptable to other settings, however.
There was a communist/socialist worker party, a mainstream socialist/social democratic party, a liberal/libertarian/free democrat party, a centrist party, a centre-right party, a hard traditionalist conservative party, and a nationalist party as the defaults for the setting we were using.
I wrote rules for new issues and a model for how international politics and economics would affect domestic politics and economics and the other way around. I also ended up writing some simple rules for how the domestic economic situation and the government impact one another. I went through the trouble as much out of academic interest (my academic field is comparative politics) as anything else, but it was fun.
It's been on the back burner for a few years now, but I figure we'll pick it back up more seriously when this guy retires from the government and goes to work on it more full-time. The idea is more to make it into an educational tool than a game, but it could be a fun game as well. Playing NationStates made me think more about it, because we never considered anything like this could even be popular outside of people that study comparative politics like we do
It's worth thinking about...
It was interesting befre, but not anymore. I just chech the game now and then to see if something is changing.
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