Real life and Civilization games - how close?

[bingohanz]

Please check this interesting article by a guy called Claus Jacobsen - Do nations operate like AI?

Consider answering the questions he asks:

1) Is it possible to run a successful media war against Iran?
2) Do international players act like AI, and to what extend?
3) What can you learn from the elaborate game plays of strategy games, if anything?

Indeed... how should the nations of the world be "played"?

[Ecthy]

What is this? A mix of political realism and game theory?

[Gangerolf]

do you have a link to that article?

[bingohanz]

SORRY!!!1

Forgot the link. It's over at Newsvine

[Gangerolf]

Well, I don't know about the media war on Iran. Sounds silly to me.

I think diplomacy is slightly better implemented in the real world than in Civ. That means there are more constraints on the behaviour of states IRL.

So, to conclude, I'd say that AIs and international players may have the same aims (power and money), but teh rules of the game are different.

[Silver14]

Real life is just like a video game, with poor AI.

[Zkribbler]

But there's no reset button.

[Proteus_MST]

Real life and Civilization games - how close?

Not really much; aside from Perry Rhodan I don´t know a human leader who is immortal

I also don´t know of modern ships which take years to cross an ocean

[Whaleboy]

Are we only dancing with this months DL's now?

[Donegeal]

Yeah... or we'd be all danced out by Pekka...

[MrFun]

Civilization games are as close to reality as the Simpsons are to reality of family life.

[Unspeakable Horror]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
But there's no reset button.

Or pause, since it´s realtime

[Japher]

i would like a save button... even if I can only use it once

[Silver14]

Originally posted by Japher
i would like a save button... even if I can only use it once

As long as you could reload multiple times, that would be fine.

I gave RL a graphic upgrade when I got LASIK done two years ago. It was well worth it.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by MrFun
Civilization games are as close to reality as the Simpsons are to reality of family life.

QFT!