A Different Kind of Game

[Sullla]

This is directed to those people who do not frequent the Stories and Tales forum. Over the last few weeks, a small group of players have developed the concept for an interactive game based off of Civ3 called the "Neverending Story" (NES for short). The idea behind these kind of games is that each person controls a country and tries to lead them to expand, conquer the world, advance their position, etc. Since it's only so long until you run up against civs controlled by other humans, the games are full of diplomacy and actually model real world diplomacy extremely well. It's not for everyone, or even most people, but it can be a lot of fun to play as well. If this sounds interesting, check out this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22135

More info on the concept:

NES game Concepts for newbies
In short, the players are the leaders in set countries. The founder of any NES game will list the countries available to play, this list will grow and as revolutions come and go. Each country can make treaties and deals with other nations, ie: the trade, technology or even the division of unexplored land.

All the is asked in return is some common curtesy with the other players and to try to keep things as realistic as possible. In Das' NES II game, he has asked that 1 real life day is equal to 1 game year. For example today May 6th is the year 1783, tomorrow, May 7th is 1784 and so on (use of the year in this thread is NOT the actual year is NES II, just an example.)

Other rules and updates of the map and country status are on the first post and update as often as the game leader can get around to it. Any posts that are made in the thread are expected to become common knowledge. Reseach and tech advances must have some sort of continuity, you just can not come out and say that you have bombers when there has been nothing leading up to it. Any private comuniques between nations (players) can be done via PM or e-mail, I perfer PM myself.

In these NES games, almost anything goes, although we would like to be civil about it. Any other of our active participants in any games can feel free to add their coments.

If you are playing on a world map, Buy an Atlas.

If you are keeping your breakthroughs tied down to time (i.e. Advances are made very close to when they are made in real life), then bring a world history book.

COMBINATION OF THE ABOVE: Find out as many facts as you can about your Nation or that region as you can relative to that time.

If you are playing a modern age game, remeber the consequences of war, and the possibility of nuclear strikes.

War is not always the answer.

Please do not sign up for this game if you are not genuinely interested in the game and will take it somewhat seriously! Also make sure to read the rules in the first post to understand what is going on.

To the moderators: I understand that this post is out of place in the General Forum. That is the idea; not enough players visit the Stories and Tales forum so I am trying to get some fresh people involved. Please do not relocate this thread to a different forum, as that would kill the idea behind this thread!

 

[Sullla]

*bump*

 

[damunzy]

Sounds interesting. I don't have a problem with this post as long as it doesn't become to common-place.