Abaddon
Deity
OTL.. what does iths mean?
NESing Guide
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Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Original Timeline - when discussing the events of an alternative history, what happened in real life at that time is OTL.
Abaddon
Deity
Presumed it meant something like that.. wouldnt IRL make more sence?
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
No, IRL is what happened, the OTL is what our histories tell us happened
...which may not be entirely accurate or unbiased.
Abaddon
Deity
aaah OK 
Sir_Lancelot
Emperor
I've read some of the first page, but it is so lengthy.
Is a NES a Civ mod or some kind of role playing game you play in your fantasy?
Is a NES a Civ mod or some kind of role playing game you play in your fantasy?
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Role playing game meets Diplomacy and Risk.
TheBladeRoden
Deity
Roleplaying with countries instead of vampires
Would anyone be annoyed if I wrote a military article?
I don\'t mean warmongering, but rather fighting the actual wars, whether you are attacking or defending. It seems to me that many players (and mods as well) don\'t have a basic understanding of military theory - Sun Tzu is all well and good, but he\'s basically useless. Clausewitz and the Fuller/Liddell Hart combo seem to be missing from the forums, and IMHO games would be a lot more fun if people actually knew how to fight a war - at least, if the bloody mods knew how. Explaining yourself whenever you want to say why a particular action is good for your military is always annoying and takes up too much time.
I don\'t mean warmongering, but rather fighting the actual wars, whether you are attacking or defending. It seems to me that many players (and mods as well) don\'t have a basic understanding of military theory - Sun Tzu is all well and good, but he\'s basically useless. Clausewitz and the Fuller/Liddell Hart combo seem to be missing from the forums, and IMHO games would be a lot more fun if people actually knew how to fight a war - at least, if the bloody mods knew how. Explaining yourself whenever you want to say why a particular action is good for your military is always annoying and takes up too much time.
Abaddon
Deity
Please! i SUCK at battle.. think i have been completely routed every single time so far 
carmen510
Deity
Yeah, you don't say...
"Okay, we lost 10,000 men. Here are the names...
Pvt. Jones Parker
Cpl. Larry Westchester
.....
Now, Pvt. Parker went to the west along with......
"Okay, we lost 10,000 men. Here are the names...
Pvt. Jones Parker
Cpl. Larry Westchester
.....
Now, Pvt. Parker went to the west along with......
carmen510
Deity
Alright, here....
Pvt. Parker was born on Sept. 1st, 1979, on 16:12:30.5235346345345 His first breath was slight, and....
Several pages later...
Parker was killed on the battlefield of Gorge, which was on Earth, which was created by God, or the big bang. The big bang is a theory...
Several thousand pages later...
And most scientists agree that cancer can be cured, going along to Alzheimer's Disease, or AD...
Several million pages later...
And the Egyptian civilization prospered. At October 4, 1300 BC, 1:1:01.......
At the apocalypse....
And the Vikings started the invasion at around........
After the apocalypse in the Netherworld
And therefore, that concludes Parker. Now on to Larry...
Pvt. Parker was born on Sept. 1st, 1979, on 16:12:30.5235346345345 His first breath was slight, and....
Several pages later...
Parker was killed on the battlefield of Gorge, which was on Earth, which was created by God, or the big bang. The big bang is a theory...
Several thousand pages later...
And most scientists agree that cancer can be cured, going along to Alzheimer's Disease, or AD...
Several million pages later...
And the Egyptian civilization prospered. At October 4, 1300 BC, 1:1:01.......
At the apocalypse....
And the Vikings started the invasion at around........
After the apocalypse in the Netherworld
And therefore, that concludes Parker. Now on to Larry...
Symphony D.
Deity
Joke Attempt: Failed.
I've been thinking about doing the same thing for technology since it's similarly ill-off.
Sure, why not?
I've been thinking about doing the same thing for technology since it's similarly ill-off.
jalapeno_dude
AKA Panda Judo Eel
Spam Attempt: Succeeded.
carmen510
Deity
Symphony hitting 3,500 posts: Achieved.
Achievement unlocked! 25 Gamerpoints
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Symphony D.
Deity
Except my ninja editing skills are better than your retorts, and thusly, I win. In fact, even while pointing this out, I am still capable of saying something to stay on the topic; that's how awesome I am. Observe:
In addition to warfare and technology, someone really needs to write something on basic economic theory too, because random events and policies dictated by NESers, if they're used for much anything at all (ie: in a das NES I often get the feeling anything I write that doesn't have an EP value attached to it, or that doesn't have a story reflecting it, generally tends not to happen or do anything meaningful) tend more often than not to be mishandled.
For example, say, being able to achieve resource self-sufficiency in oil doesn't mean that oil is commercially exploitable. The United States has 62% of all the world's oil shale deposits. But they cost 8x as much as crude to exploit at present. A government initiative to use them would therefore wind up wasting money.
This isn't so much a problem under simple economy-tier systems except when it comes to dealing with seperate player initiatives (fiddling with tax rates, tariffs, economic apparatus in general) but under any more advanced system it becomes a concern, and if the majority of mods are ever going to use those sorts of systems or really properly implement the results of things players suggest then they need to have at least a basic grasp of economic theory.
In addition to warfare and technology, someone really needs to write something on basic economic theory too, because random events and policies dictated by NESers, if they're used for much anything at all (ie: in a das NES I often get the feeling anything I write that doesn't have an EP value attached to it, or that doesn't have a story reflecting it, generally tends not to happen or do anything meaningful) tend more often than not to be mishandled.
For example, say, being able to achieve resource self-sufficiency in oil doesn't mean that oil is commercially exploitable. The United States has 62% of all the world's oil shale deposits. But they cost 8x as much as crude to exploit at present. A government initiative to use them would therefore wind up wasting money.
This isn't so much a problem under simple economy-tier systems except when it comes to dealing with seperate player initiatives (fiddling with tax rates, tariffs, economic apparatus in general) but under any more advanced system it becomes a concern, and if the majority of mods are ever going to use those sorts of systems or really properly implement the results of things players suggest then they need to have at least a basic grasp of economic theory.
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