As someone currently working on a (hopefully) largely Mexican-centered story, I am particularly interested in this. Good luck with putting your TL on the 'net, by the way.
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As someone currently working on a (hopefully) largely Mexican-centered story, I am particularly interested in this. Good luck with putting your TL on the 'net, by the way.
Ah yes. They certainly dragged me as Brazil kicking and screaming into MEDO.
That game was beautiful! I remember playing as Democratic China before it went Commie and then taking Ethiopia(which became the East African Union). Like Augustus said, the race for other WMDs was HUGE! I remember my "free" and "liberal" country had essentially created a Super-Virus, capable of being dropped by bombardment, which paralyzed victims in seconds and caused them to convulse and excrete fluids rapidly, essentially spreading the virus.
Oh, and did I mention that the EAU's government, through it's free health care services, made the whole populace of the country immune to the virus secretly? Yeah.
I WISH WE HAD ANOTHER ONE OF THESE!
There were five elements of Maxalism if I remember correctly,
The Three Virtues (Strength, Honor, Loyalty) and the Two Vices (Incompetence and Treason). We weren't especially racist, except if you were Chinese, Mayans, or Texans...
Poor Texans.
Pretty dead on, although California was extremely "totalitarian", so much so that it was the self-described ideal of the State. Maxalism thrived because it was reasonably well-managed, and its economics (IG named after JM Keynes) were good. Although by the end, California's economy was growing stagnant and 20 years of Nixon's paranoia had not been kind.
Was rather depressed when the game ended actually, the only time in SW i've ever felt that way as the Commies and Libs finally coordinated to bring down Comintern through voracious "bulemia tactics"... and I was peeling off more SE-Asian Islamic members of the Terrans than they could count.
Good times.
Remember the aerocar races we had between your playboy Prince Salassie and my playboy billionaire Hughes?
And everytime I listen to Blondie's Heart of Glass I become nostalgic.
Actually, would rebooting Rebirth of Nations be palpable for a future MG? I would so totally be down.
Those vignettes were great! I don't think I had a more enjoyable run in the Shared Worlds forum!
And, in regards to a reboot, yes, please.
So how do Map Games work, exactly? I hear a lot about them, and have considered getting involved, but I'm not clear on what goes on.
Hmm... how would we do it? Start it back up in 2014 with the fall of Comintern?
Actually... OMG YES. That works near-perfectly with my 1989 proposal I've been cooking. OMG YES.
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Phenomenal work Promethean. There were of course a few mistakes here and there (Missed Thailand (and its civil war), some inaccuracies in SE asia) but otherwise friggin awesome.
Then again, by 2014 (the map is 2000), Aceh, South India, PRNEE, PRSEE and Russia were on the verge of glorious implosion.
They're all different. Popular ones include the ASB Geography games (currently dead, but it's fun screwing with a map) and Collaborative Countries (which, basically, you make up countries for a random ATL and take turns).
Well, just forget about it then. I'm sure I'll figure it out someday.
Oh! My mind substituted "word" for "work" and I got messed up. Anyways, I'm afraid I can't help you anyway, I don't know much about Rebirth or Nations.
That one's not a map game, it's a nation game. I'm afraid I can't help further, as it was in Moderated Games, which I don't play.
Hmm, I could shake things back up in Brazil with the death of the Dear Leader the Green Revolution's future is in a state of confusion as the next generation of leaders and factions duke it out internal political wise. Not to mention Conservation Death Marches. And station missiles in Brazilian Madagascar.
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Ah. I wasn't aware that there was a difference between map games and nation games.
Er, yes, why else would we need two forum sections? In a nation game, you control a nation- or in some cases something else, such as a person or an army unit. You often manage economy, diplomacy, research, and so on. In a map game, there is a map/diagram/etc, and every turn you edit it- all of it, not just a single country.
And poor France has lost New Caledonia into the sea!
Anyway, got a particular POD?
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