GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
"Is this a DemoGAME?"
A reflection of recent events of the Demogame by CivGeneral
I have been a member of the Demogame eversince The summer of 2003 when the first Demogame for Civ3 was just ending with a victory. I was attracted to the close knit community where everyone has gotten along and there were no personal Vendettas or conspiricies against one another. I felt like if there was a sense of community in demogame's pasts, especialy the first few demogames in Civ3 and what I feel personaly has vanished at this point.
In recent times after the whole debate about some little nit pick rule back in term 3 in this demogame has kind of turned me off because there were people fighting between each other and destroying any sense of community and cooperation between players. I have tolerated these sourt of debates in the past and did my best to avoid them because I felt that they were distracting from the actual game playing.
Buddha has said that "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." From what I have seen, people on both sides are holding anger in themselves because they feel that the other person is against him or her and would lash out against each other eather by verbaly or by resorting to posting a CC against that particular person. When I saw DaveShack posting a CC against the entire Judicary, I felt devistated, treated unfairly, as well as hurt because I feel that I have no part inbetween a Vendettas between the two people. I also felt disapointed because Dave was encouraging to "act and ask forgiveness if someone complains, instead of asking permission and failing to act until it is given." as well as encuraging that we return back to our demoGAME roots which I fully agree with.
We have became a demogame that cares more about laws, regulations, and other Buerocratic nonsense. We have became a demogame that does not care about forming a close, tight community as it was in Civ3 Demogame 1-2. Seeing people such as myself who have no bussiness in other people's conflicts and remain neutral in them and being draged into them realy just disapoints me. It disapoints me because it generates unwanted scapegoating that no neutral citizen deserves.
I thought I would return to the demogame, hopefully to see a sense of community as well as a friendly atmosphere. But instead, I still see the same things that has plagued past demogames that turned me off, citizen against citizen. In Matthew 18:21-35 Jesus tells about the parable of the Unmerciful Servant and the moral of that story is that one should "Do onto others as you would wish them do onto you." Which in summary means; repsect the other person and he will respect you, disrespect the other person and he will direspect you.
Personaly, I am a nice, repsectaful, honest person. But the thing that I dont like is when people who are nice to me, turn around and become unkind to me. I guess thats why there are so few demogame players around here because we dont follow the golden rules which should be common sense . What I find that is turning off many of the demogame players are (this is just from my opinion):
1. Distractions and focus on the ruleset insted of the game itself
2. Witnessing disrespect and hostility between two citizens
3. Being in a middle of a conflict between two citizens that the person feels that he or she has no bussiness or choses to remain neutral
4. Complex rulesets
5. No stimulating or exciting discussions in regards to the game.
Hopefully, I would one day see the Demogame back to its roots where people cooperated with eachother and forming a strong sense of a community. Also, just a reminder I am not attacking anyone, I am just expressing my feelings in regards about this game in general.
From the Desk of,
CivGeneral
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