That's somewhat like Balance of Power if you've played it.
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Idea for a Game: Commune Simulation Interest Check
So, in another forum I'm part of called Alternate History.com we divide up the world into nations that aren't totally historical and begin Role-Playing at the national level, agreeing to trade agreements and making war one each other. However, for RevLeft I was thinking we can 'claim' an area for a commune (something smaller than a nation) and begin talking about the politics of communes and describe our philosophies through exhibiting them.
I must warn you, this game is really intensive, you'll have to check for responses and initiate contact to other communes to get trade agreements and defence alliances.
This is a taste of 'Nation Games' which is what they are called on the other site. You post an almanac which lists the basic information about your claim and there is a map you draw on with MS Paint (or whatever you use) to claim territory for your commune. This is what an almanac looks like, but it will be modified for the game, this is a national-type almanac:
That's somewhat like Balance of Power if you've played it.
Not played, but I guess you're interested?
What's the link?
I want to play...even so I don't know.
"My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay
"if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm
"Sometimes false consciousness can be more destructive than apathy, just like how sometimes, doing nothing is actually better than doing the wrong thing."- Robocommie
"The ruling class would tremble, and the revolution would be all but assured." -Explosive Situation, on the Revleft Merry Prankster bus
Sounds cool. I'd like to play.
"Direct Action is a notion of such clarity, of such self-evident transparency, that merely to speak the words defines and explains them. It means that the working class, in constant rebellion against the existing state of affairs, expects nothing from outside people, powers or forces, but rather creates its own conditions of struggle and looks to itself for its means of action. It means that, against the existing society which recognises only the citizen, rises the producer. And that that producer, having grasped that any social grouping models itself upon its system of production, intends to attack directly the capitalist mode of production in order to transform it, by eliminating the employer and thereby achieving sovereignty in the workshop – the essential condition for the enjoyment of real freedom.” Emile Pouget
I want to control the region of Kansai and make Osaka my capital.
"My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay
"if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm
"Sometimes false consciousness can be more destructive than apathy, just like how sometimes, doing nothing is actually better than doing the wrong thing."- Robocommie
"The ruling class would tremble, and the revolution would be all but assured." -Explosive Situation, on the Revleft Merry Prankster bus
Okay, I'm hijacking my own thread to start the claiming.
Claim a small square on the map (7 x 7 pixels is my size, you can add one extra pixel for an even 50, but I didn't). The big Red Blotch on the original Map is my commune around the former Canadian capital of Ottawa.
Almanac:
Nation Name: Ottawa Anarchist Commune
Government: Anarchism (Socialist)
Leader: Executive elected by majority to make decisions that are time-sensitive. No real power over defences, policies, or foreign relations.
Population: 2,000,000
Capital: Ottawa
Major Cities: Ottawa, Gatineau-Hull
Geographic Description: Ottawa River, Built-up area on the Ontario-Quebec border.
Languages: English, French, Ojibwe
Major Internal issues: Maintaining proper amounts of winter supplies
Ensuring environmental balances
Worker Health
Reviewing Anarchism Theories
French Cultural Degradation
Symbol: Red Maple Leaf with Black Anarchism Symbol on it
Anarchism may as well be dead because The Dead Can't Testify
Nation Name:
Free Confederation of Kansai (AKA Keihanshin Confederation)
Government:
Anarchist (Technocratic)
"Leader":
An Executive that deals mostly with foreign representation of the Confederation (i.e. a glorified diplomat position) which is rotated in a yearly basis (mostly amongst important figures of the insurrection that lead to the creation of the confederation). A somewhat "ceremonial figurehead position"; not much real power at all except certain diplomatic functions.
Population:
18,644,000
Capital: Osaka (in times of emergency the capital can be moved more inland to Kyoto or Nara)
Major Cities: Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe
Geographic Description: The former Kansai region (more specifically the Keihanshin metropolitan region)
Languages: Japanese (minus Kanji, only the kana system are used for writing); although Korean and English are accepted
Major Internal Issues:
Lack of prime resources for industrial base
Food Management
Symbol: Standard Red/Black flag
"My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay
"if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm
"Sometimes false consciousness can be more destructive than apathy, just like how sometimes, doing nothing is actually better than doing the wrong thing."- Robocommie
"The ruling class would tremble, and the revolution would be all but assured." -Explosive Situation, on the Revleft Merry Prankster bus
Nation Name:
Il Regno Federazione comunista di Toscana.
Government:
Direct Democracy
"Leader":
No official leader, however there are a few respected and knowledgeable Citizens with strong influence. Highest among them is former leader of both the Assembly (open to everyone) and the Council (Selected by lot). He is a writer and Captain in the Revolutionary Guard Know as Jack.(aka Captaino Jack)
Population:
3.6 million
Capital: Firenze
Major Cities: Firenze, Piza, Bologna, Azerro, Siena, Livonno, Ravenna, and Perugia.
Geographic Description: The former Toscana, Romagna, and Umbria Regions.
Languages: Italian. Although, German, French, Spanish, and English are common.
Religion: Catholicism
Major Internal Issues:
Fighting Bourgeois counter revolutionaries in the countryside.
Flood control along the Arno and Tiber rivers.
Lack of industrial bases.
Symbol: Man riding a Pegasus with a hammer in his outstretched hand, with the words "Fino alla vittoria, compagno!" and a red Background.
MAP: The Regions formerly know as Toscana, Romagna, and Umbria.
Last edited by Il Medico; 6th July 2009 at 17:21.
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -Wilde
"Beaucoup de clopes! Beaucoup de vin! Beaucoup de rhum! Viva la révolution!"- Bilan
"The Sun shines. To hell with everything else!" -Stephen Fry
Nation Name: North Indian Alliance
Government: Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Leader: Comrade Amandev Singh
Population: 100 Million
Capital: Leninabad (Newly Contructed Wonder City in Punjab)
Major Cities: Chandigarh, Agra, New Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Leninabad and Amritsar.
Geographic Description: Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan.
Languages: Punjabi (Main), Urdu, Hindi
Religion: Sikhism (Main), Islam, Hinduism.
Major Internal issues: Religious divisions
Corruption
Flag: Hammer and Sickle on Red Flag. Major religious symbols (Khanda, Om and stars/crescent) also featured to encourage unity.
"Inquilab Zindabad!" [Long Live the Revolution!] - Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
Too good of a concept to be left to history of Chit-Chat.
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -Wilde
"Beaucoup de clopes! Beaucoup de vin! Beaucoup de rhum! Viva la révolution!"- Bilan
"The Sun shines. To hell with everything else!" -Stephen Fry
BUMP! This does seem really cool, even more then BoP
I want to ally myself with the Federazione di Toscana.
"My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay
"if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm
"Sometimes false consciousness can be more destructive than apathy, just like how sometimes, doing nothing is actually better than doing the wrong thing."- Robocommie
"The ruling class would tremble, and the revolution would be all but assured." -Explosive Situation, on the Revleft Merry Prankster bus
Nation Name: Tropica
Government: socialist workers' republic
Leader: Me.
Population: 100 million
Currency: beads
Capital: Miami
Major Cities: Miami, Havana, Cancun, San Juan, Port-au-Prince, Santo Domingo, New Orleans
Geographic Description: Florida, New Orleans, the Yucatan Peninsula, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic and all other islands in the Caribbean.
Languages: most speak Taino (written using the Atlantean script).
Religion: Voodoo
Major Internal issues: Hurricanes interfering with the constant partying and orgies.
Flag: A banana on a blue background.
I, offical spokesman for the Il Regno Federazione comunista di Toscana. (or Federazione Toscana) do hereby announce that the people gladly accept the offer of allience with the people of Free Confederation of Kansai. It was approved by 95% margins in both the Assembly and the Concil.
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -Wilde
"Beaucoup de clopes! Beaucoup de vin! Beaucoup de rhum! Viva la révolution!"- Bilan
"The Sun shines. To hell with everything else!" -Stephen Fry
