Anyone tried this?

[barking_iguana]

Has anyone here dabbled in NationStates? Here's the nation I created a few days ago.

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[shirleym.livejournal.com]

My country is Theobromia. I've been playing for some time, and find it interesting enough to keep checking in reguarly, though after awhile the issues get repetitive.

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[geminigirl]

That's why I gave up on it. It just seemed like the issues never changed, and I just stopped playing.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Why the North Pacific? I looked around and decided I liked the Alliance of Soicalist States and the Urbanites. I chose the AoSS because I want more game play and discussion of UN issues than I do free-form role play.

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[shirleym.livejournal.com]

It was my default region. I joined the UN for awhile, but found it tedious; and I was never particularly interested in politicking with other players, especially given the lack of game mechanics for any inter-country interaction other than UN actions having effects on all UN members.

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[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Well, region-crashing provides one mechanism for interaction. I don't think I want to get too caught up in that, but being part of an anti-crashing alliance could be fun. The maintenacne of defensive alliances against crashing and of bands of crashers might also be socialogically interesting. Other than that, the only thing I see is the election of regions' U.N. deleagets (of which crashing is a special case).

Re: NationStates

[shirleym.livejournal.com]

OK, that's true. But it's also true that none of that matters if you're not in the UN.

Re: NationStates

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Yeah, or almost. You have to either belong to the U.N. of feel a stake in what it decides. Or in your region's discussions. There are a lot of nations that aren't members, but actively participate in discussions of how their delegate should vote. But feeling a stake in that way would classify as the kind of role play you're not into, I think.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I did it for a while. It's cute, but the questions start to repeat and there's just not a robust enough system to have real interaction and keep my attention for long. Some people seem to have started RPing on the message boards, but at that point I could do it from the comfort of LiveJournal. :) Too bad, the idea had great potential.

Mer