Nationstates Roleplay
Posted: October 24th, 2007, 9:48
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.)
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.)