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hmmm - curioser and curioser.

I'm no expert on Civ installations I'm afraid, but I would recommend CivAssist and CRpSuite, 2 utilities that will certainly help (links in the people without conquests read this thread) CivAssist will allow you to get lots of information from the save. Mapstat (part of CRpSuite) will give similar information and CRpViewer (also part of CRpSuite) will allow you to look at the map.
 
Okay, here we go. Featuring everything that a newer person would need to know to get into the game. I'm going to create another "version" which will go into detail with the constitution, etc.

The Democracy Game Workings and Getting Started

What is a democracy game?

The democracy game is a mock government based off of a civilization inside of any of the civilization series games. The registered players (called citizens), elect leaders to aid in the playing of this game. These leaders decide what the citizens want to do inside of the game. Several leaders are charged with the actual playing of the saved game.

This Democracy game is based off of Civilization 3 Conquests, and is the 6th democracy game based off of Civilization 3.

How do I get started inside of the game?

The first step in getting started is to make a post inside of theCitizen Registry. Once you have done that (you are now a citizen of the democracy game), you can take part inside of the discussions located inside of the Citizens Forum. Another way to get started inside of the game is to vote inside of policy polls located inside of the Polls Forum. After you've got yourself a good start, it might be a good idea to look at our current government and policy's located inside of the Government Forum.

Here is a basic low-down on what each forum includes:

Citizens Forum
  • Policy discussion threads.
  • Discussions over our current rules*
  • Citizen Groups**

*There are certain rules that must be followed when playing the democracy game. These may be found inside of the Demogame Consitution thread.
** Citizen Groups are organizations started by a citizen that attempts a certain task. A list of current Citizen Groups can be found in the Citizen Group Registry


Government Forum:
  • Government threads*
  • Naming and Election Offices
  • City threads

* Government threads are threads created by an elected official. These contain the current policies.

Polls Forum:
  • Policy Polls
  • Polls over rule changes
  • Information/citizen pulse

So what are those other two forums?
The other two forums you see, the RPG and Multi-Site demogame forums; are both related to the demogame, but are not crucial to it's operation.

The RPG forum was orginally deisgned to be a role playing game, based inside of the world of the current demogame. Currently, however, the RPG forum contains newspapers, PBEMS, and several story threads. Although attempts might be made later on to turn the forum back to a full-fledged RPG, it currently just contains the threads that don't fit elsewhere.

As for the Multi-site demogame, doesn't really have anything to do with this demogame, but is rather a demogame in itself. Unlike the current demogame though, it is made up of several teams from varying Civilization related websites. Each of these websites has it's own team, that operates much like the government in this demogame. However, as you guess it, they are not competing against AI opponents, but the other teams VIA a PBEM match.

I see several abbreviations (such as DG, AI, etc.) used. What do they mean?

  • DG - Stands for the Demogame, which in turn stands for The Game of Democracy
  • CC- Citizens Complaint
  • AI - Artificial Intelligence, refers here to the computer opponents inside of a Civ3 game
  • Vanilla Civ3 - The orginal Civilization 3
  • Conquests - The expansion pack to Civilization 3.
  • Policy - The plans/actions they are to be carried out inside of the game

I'm still having problems understanding things, is there anyone I can talk to to help me out?

Yes, the following list of people have voulanteered to help newer players. If you want to get into contact with one of them, send them a Private Message.

  1. Strider

Can anyone think of anything else?
 
this maybe a dumb question but when did elections end or start or whatever im so confused because i jsut saw the term 3 thread for the culture consul go up, isn't there supose to be a poll for all the positions? if so where is the poll and did it end?
 
Kentharu said:
this maybe a dumb question but when did elections end or start or whatever im so confused because i jsut saw the term 3 thread for the culture consul go up, isn't there supose to be a poll for all the positions? if so where is the poll and did it end?

THe current constitution does an awful job of explaining this, but the nomination/election threads traditionally go into the Demogame forum itself, and not any of the sub-forums.

You can find it here
 
mrkingkong said:
How come...sorry if that means something unintentional...

I simply meant that i forgot my last username and password, so i had to get a new one (memory blancs are a common occurence for me recently...memory blancs are a common occurence for me recently)
;)
Well, its a sure sign of a DL. Which is against the rules :s.
 
Ooh count me in...I'm so much of a newbie that this is my 2nd post. The Democracy Game sounds very interesting though.
 
floondi, welcome to CFC!

floondi and specialist290,
It looks like there will be plenty of deputy positions available during term4. You should consider stopping by one of the threads in the gov't sections and volunteering to assist.
 
Might consider it. Don't know how active I'll be, since my Civ3 game's on another comp (making quick "spot checks" of the situation a little difficult) and I'm not sure what version of Conquests I have.
 
mrkingkong said:
Whats a DL? Sorry ive absolutely no idea what youre talking about- please explain?
DL = Double Login. Its when you have more than one user name in the forums, which is against the rules here.
 
kingkong if you want your old name you could get a email sent to you with a new password, if you dont have the same email adress you could always PM (private message) thunderfall, he might you or ban you for ever for breaking the rules :)
 
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