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Nationstates Roleplay

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 9:48
by Grimmie
Hello one and all.
I used to play <a href="http://www.nationstates.net">Nationstates</a>, a political web game, pretty heavily some time ago.
The game play consists of answering a multiple-choice question once a day, which will shape the description of your Nation, which you can name and customise lightly. The main game play however, consists of role-playing on the forums, which I've only lightly dipped my toe in.

The main story I tried my luck in, was acting as a peace-negotiator between two countries I was neutral with - taking modern technology leaders up for a small peace conference in my big ol' spaceship, the Peacekeeper. Things went wrong, shots were fired, my ship sabotaged, and the whole thing turned into a nuclear war, causing much lols on my behalf. I sat in space fucking up satellites and blindly shooting projectiles from rail guns, which went horribly off course as they entered the atmosphere.

But, there's a lot of potential for role play; scientific discoveries, propaganda broadcasts, invasions, negotiations, psychotic dictators and the like. There's a fair amount of lurking on the forums, reading what other people write, and checking up on the IC and OOC policies in the 'Nationstates' and 'International Incidents' forums, but there are people less literate than us being taken seriously, so there shouldn't be much problem.

I've decided to get a little RP group set up on a fictional planet, called 'Mongo'.
The maps are drawn, and a few 5punkers have already shown interest.

Nickface - 'The Dictatorship of Chyronastein'.
Roman - 'The Dominion of RO-BO'.
Anham - 'The Dictatorship of Anhamgrimmar'.
Grimmie - 'The Armed Plutocracy of Braxis VI'.

<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... png">World map is here</a>.
<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... >Political map is here</a>.

If you're interested, have a look around and start up a nation, lurk the forums for a day and tell me which country you'd like ownership of.

(Edit: Should this be in browser games? Whoops.)

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 9:54
by Grimmie
Nick, Roman, Anham.
I've quickly drawn you up some maps of your chosen countries.

Here's mine, <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ng">Braxis VI</a>.

Post up here, or in a Private Message what you'd like on your map. Draw some dots on MS Paint where you'd like cities to be, what sort of labels you want on there. I've left 'Major Trade Routes' on each, because that's what I've used on mine. I can do whatever you want though; doomsday device locations, horse migration paths/areas, dimpled mug shops, leper colonies - whatever you want. Same goes with the written stats.

You can get stats about your nation (conversion rate, population, etc) at the <a href="http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/">NS Calculator</a> - You can use the information there, or make up your own numbers. Free choice.

Nick - <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... .png">Bios Map</a>.
Roman - <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... g">Antioch Map</a>.
Anham - <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... png">South Burbo Map</a>.

Edit:
Also, Land mass - I've made your countries huge, because braxis has a population in the billions.
For size comparisons, Nick's tiny country of Bios has the same landmass as Italy.
Anham and Roman's countries are just under twice as big as Australia.
Braxis is just under twice as big as Russia.

Conclusion; The planet Mongo is Huge. We're living on a huge mong.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 9:59
by mrbobbins
Ooh I used have one of these, can't for the life of me remember what it was called though :(

I'll start a new one

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:03
by Lateralus
I had one of these too. Not sure I'll be able to get into it again though, especially for proper role-playing stuff.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:11
by mrbobbins
The Most Serene Republic of Brobbins

http://www.nationstates.net/brobbins

So do you want me to choose where I live on your map? :?

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:13
by Grimmie
mrbobbins wrote:So do you want me to choose where I live on your map? :?
Yessir. Open the political map, point at a country, and I'll update it, and produce a country map for you to defile.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:15
by mrbobbins
Grimmie wrote: Yessir. Open the political map, point at a country, and I'll update it, and produce a country map for you to defile.
K'OR please!

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:32
by Grimmie
mrbobbins wrote:K'OR please!
Does that make you Korean?
Here you go, same instructions as above.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... es/Kor.png

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:33
by Mr. Johnson
i've joined too.

country of johnson's

what's the mongo entry password?

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:37
by Grimmie
Mr. Johnson wrote:What's the mongo entry password?
To join Mongo, click the 'Pacific' link at the side.
It will say.. "Tired of life in _____ Pacific? Move to a new region.."
Type Mongo as your region, password is 6667.

What country do you want, Mr Johnson?

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:44
by mrbobbins
Grimmie wrote: Does that make you Korean?
Here you go, same instructions as above.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... es/Kor.png
Cool, can I have a bit of foresty area in the middle?, where will my unicorn frolic?!
The Most Serene Republic of Brobbins wrote:Brobbins's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:50
by Grimmie
mrbobbins wrote:Cool, can I have a bit of foresty area in the middle?, where will my unicorn frolic?!
Consider the maps updated!

Edit:
Fun fact: K'Or is twice as big as Sudan!

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:56
by MrGreen
Ooh, I used to play this, had one of the strongest far-left Nations, then went on holiday and came back to find my nation had been baleeeted.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 11:01
by Grimmie
MrGreen wrote:Ooh, I used to play this, had one of the strongest far-left Nations, then went on holiday and came back to find my nation had been baleeeted.
There's an un-deletion request form here; http://www.nationstates.net/page=help
Braxis has been undeleted twice. Just mention your nation name, and it will be back within 24 hrs.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 11:15
by Mr. Johnson
Grimmie wrote:
To join Mongo, click the 'Pacific' link at the side.
It will say.. "Tired of life in _____ Pacific? Move to a new region.."
Type Mongo as your region, password is 6667.

What country do you want, Mr Johnson?
i'd like Aquilos please.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 11:26
by MrGreen
Grimmie wrote: There's an un-deletion request form here; http://www.nationstates.net/page=help
Braxis has been undeleted twice. Just mention your nation name, and it will be back within 24 hrs.
Cool, I think I'll let it be deaded though.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 11:38
by Grimmie
Mr. Johnson wrote:i'd like Aquilos please.
All yours! Same as above, for customisations, message me or post here.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... quilos.png

As big as China and India stapled together!

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 13:21
by thewombleofdeath
mind if i have Havok? :)

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 13:45
by Grimmie
thewombleofdeath wrote:mind if i have Havok? :)
All yours, sir!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... /Havok.png

Same as above, message me for customisations.
Mr. Johnson's is updated, if you want inspiration.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 13:57
by amblin
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