Any nation builders around?

[Atom]

I've dabbled in it in the past.


All very enjoyable too.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

My name is actually Jennifer Government.


And I want to use Microscope again.

 

[Sibylline Oracle]

Back during the heyday of NationStates, I enjoyed the opportunity to create my own little "world" and have it interact with others in the same region. It's been a long time since I did anything like it, but it was surprisingly fun. Wasn't a big fan of the heavy number-crunching in some places though. I prefer writing for the story/narrative, not for competing or "winning". Not many nation-builders out there that like to cooperate though.

 

[DeusExAlice]

It could be super fun! But my big fear of a nation building game would be a nationstates outcome where it comes down to "I have more X than you!" or people getting really intense about minute mechanical details they have no actual knowledge of how they work.


It was really fun making/seeing different nations and the roleplaying potential there, or some of the more ridiculous situations that can occur when anything/everything is allowed in.


(I think the oddest response I got to an open topic was a number of specialists sent by other nations to help out that consisted of two animated golems, two telepathic cats and a big game hunter. /wasnotwhatIexpected)

 

[Grey]

WITNESS!

 

[Atom]

It could be super fun! But my big fear of a nation building game would be a nationstates outcome where it comes down to "I have more X than you!" or people getting really intense about minute mechanical details they have no actual knowledge of how they work.
It was really fun making/seeing different nations and the roleplaying potential there, or some of the more ridiculous situations that can occur when anything/everything is allowed in.


(I think the oddest response I got to an open topic was a number of specialists sent by other nations to help out that consisted of two animated golems, two telepathic cats and a big game hunter. /wasnotwhatIexpected)

On an old site I was in a rather undetailed one and me and a friend were at war with another guy.


This guy wasn't smart. His next post was about outfitting every soldier with bombs that explode when they die and me and my friend were laughing our asses off while imagining two snipers betting on who could make the biggest chain reaction in a single shot.


Good times, good times.

 

[DeusExAlice]

Pfffft. One particular thread I won't ever forget was a civil war (Because everyone is suffering from unrest all the time forever) that we decided to intervene, with the untold intention of just toppling his government ourselves by using our offered support as an excuse to get into the country without difficulty. I forget what exactly one of my friends was -doing-, but his forces were trying to move through an area to some objective. Giant rebel army shows up. He fights it off, posts again about moving out again. Giant rebel army shows up, again. He fights it off again, posts about trying to make some progress out of the area of first contact. Another giant rebel army materializes out of thin air again. One of the kickers was that my friend would frequently describe how things were progress by writing from the POV of a basic soldier on the ground and a few others, but every time he did that the other player in charge of the rebels would describe one of his soldiers killing someone that matched the description/activities of my friend's POV character. It was amusing at first, but got kind of ridiculous after the third time doing it.


The better kicker was during the third battle with magical teleporting armies the guy who kept whipping up these encounters yelled at my friend for not making any progress out of the valley area these battles kept happening in.

 

[Atom]

LMFAOOOOOOOO


Damn I really want one of these now.


Except it'd be cool if we had one set back in the stone ages and moved up and fuck I'm describing Civ V

 

[Soviet Panda]

I've been in a good one with my friends. One of them tried to make an air ship, and build up defences. Got bad roles for both of them. So, the ship was a failure and killed people, experimental weapons blew up, and the moat he dug became infected with mosquitoes carrying diseases. On the bright side, he could harvest death essence for a little bit.

 

[Atom]

This makes me want one even more.