Apolyton Politics: Apolytics!

[Shadowstrike]

*Memory zooms to Imran's ill-fated UN game*

*Hopes that this game will be better*

[RUFFHAUS 8]

Look, it's not a personal attack, or a matter of being welcome. If you guys can keep this thing from exploding into 15 threads here I doubt that any of us will care, and some may well participate. It looks amusing enough. And maybe we'll recruit a new Dip player or two in the bargain.

Iis that fair enough? 3-5 new thread that are neither stories nor diplomacy and looking very OT in one day got me all riled up. Sorry for any hurt feelings...

You dirty commie pigs!

[Dr. Nick]

Go away shadowstrike, we don't want to conquer Apolyton!

move along, nothing to see here!

[DarkCloud]

*hopefully... why don't you post something in the game, Shadowstrike and maybe you can help it.

hmph. all this interest and only BC, Dalgetti and Myself playing. Hmph.

[Az]

that is so sad . I actually thought that something would come out of this .... *sob* .... RUFFHAUS ... tell me about diplomacy , because this story thread is going nowhere /.....

[DarkCloud]

Well, Dalgetti, you only posted once in the thread... I suppose I will abandon it, but I would like to ask, "Why did everyone say 'I'll play' and then not?" was it because we moved from the OT to an unpopular part of the forums?

[Az]

DarkCloud , please do not get upset with me

I love the Idea .

and I have no problem whatsoever with it not being in the OT .
I like polluting the S&D! ( *wink* @ RUFFHAUS ) j/k.

it seems that this game would need a change in order to live .

I prepose this would be a story game played with each player contolling a piece of the earth , a small one , and one which is considered not too significant in world politics . preferably in africa or asia , south america . for example , one will be a ruler of ... western Sahara , for example . the other ... of the Island of Sakhalin , etc. this will be a game played in the forum with an Atlas in the hands of the players .

anyway , this is just an idea . any ideas to bring a fresh breath of life into this project are welcome .

Darkcloud , work with me

[Dr. Nick]

CLICK ME

[DarkCloud]

Dalgetti- we might try that, but I think the idea you propose is technically just a downscaling of Diplomacy. If you want to do that, I suppose I'll play, but you can run it

[Az]

Well see , that actually won't be a downscaling but rother changing the rules of the game ... this definelty won't be diplomacy . maybe we can call it like a game of fractions , and it would take place in Africa , the continent , which is definetly most messed up ,and noone else cares about what happens there .... everyplayer will be a Warlord , controlling a piece of land and working things out for the his people , and conquering other people's territory . I actually have a map of resources of Africa , but If you could get me a computerized one , so that we could actually give it to all the players ....

*ponders*

Ok , so that will be a dip game . no wait! . I was taking this to a new direction ... ok so there are players , and there is a gamemaster or preferably for this case , I think , referee .

this game wouldn't be played as dip , with fixed limits instead of hexagons ... I'd rather make people navigate , with units having different speeds .... and navigating to points ...

ok Darkcloud , or someone for that matter ,I need help with this .
any ideas , especially strengthening the story part will be welcome

got somthing to discuss ? PM me . or even better , ICQ me , reason for accepting would be apolyton / apolytics .


I really like the idea . please help me out .

[DarkCloud]

I suggest that theri are only minimal rules and people can pretty much do anything- thus it is more OTized and Humorized rather than being a real game.

If you want a game with rules go to AC-Fiction or try Diplomacy

[Az]

That should definetly be the spirit . but as we go to the original plan more or less we face the same problems :
-lack of publicity (as a result of ...)
-lack of cooperation from the forum management , specifically the OT moderators .

DarkCloud , could you contact Markos on this , maybe ?

maybe it appearing on the news would be great ... now who's incharge of that ? isn't that snapcase ? ... So that one could also be nice .

maybe with the developement of ACSR , that should be publicized there too .

but after all , and actually , before it all , we should really contemplate there location of the story , timeline , and well , kind of its exact concept ...

I would like it to be a thread of a continuing story , with different posters continuing the story to new and new realms . this of course should be moderated , somehow . this is where a .... storymaster (?) could come in . because humor is fine , but writing things such as ... " suddenly appears behind the opponents back , and kills him " , not only are not fair , but also not funny , and don't make this game/story/thread any playable .

[DarkCloud]

If you want it moved to the OT, please contact him yourself I would love to help, but after the AC-Fiction story got moving, I ran out of a lot of time!

Just write a news article in the news section if you need to.

I think that the story should be more of short posts, but not one liners, more like a UN arguments, with perhaps some countries launching missiles, etc. but only after reasonable build up in the story.

But, your in charge

[Az]

ok , so I can have this project ? thank you !

*sits down and thinks about a strategy *