Buffalo Niagara's Blog

I am here to tip buffalo and cows

Edit: *Shakes Fist at Mary*

I am here to tip buffalo and cows

Edit: *Shakes Fist at Mary*

I am here to be tipped by Pansy and Mary so I guess we are good

I came here as a replacement for a small nation sim called Third World. In it, I ran the nation of East Timor, invaded Indonesia, won, and did to it what the Indonesians did to East Timor.

I also almost successfully occupied Vietnam. It was a close thing.

I came here and chose Maroon simply because, hey, it's Maroon. Watching you folks blow the heck out of one another is the reason I stay, that and the friends I've made in the few alliances I've been in.

I came here for the stimulating conversation and intelligent debate.

Why in God's name am I still here?

I came here for the stimulating conversation and intelligent debate.

Why in God's name am I still here?

This.

I'm here for the hot chicks.

Originally I saw great potential and enjoyment in writing up treaties. Prior to this game (I first joined in 2006) I was doing (forum based) nation sims for about 5 years but my interest was dieing. I'm here now because sad as it may be I have nothing better to do with my time.

In previous games I played both the benevolent leader with an interest in world peace and the interventionist type plotting to take over the world. What makes games interesting or just plain fun is tension built up over time with the potential of boiling over into all out conflict but the tension being over legitimate disputes which can be solved but not to eithers benefit or liking. This game lacks the potential for those types of disputes due in part to any real semblance of geography. It takes a strategic element out of it and focused sense of urgency, fear or despair. If one so wishes in this game it's actually quite easy to achieve never ending peace due to the simplicity behind the issues of dispute. One disadvantage this game has is the very little room for manuevering in game with regards to grievances. By no means is it the fault of admin because of the complexity involved in coding things with such potential. Still, the simplicity and straight forwardness in methods to deal with things in game removes an element which otherwise could revive any fun people have.

The game isn't really built for full out war to be a common occurrence but for it to be the climax of long held tension. I think this is reflected by the community by a lack of any real care or concern and reckless and rashness, for the most part, being typical. I don't really see it changing and while recklessness can be refreshing, that's only truly in the event of cautiousness or overly so is the norm.

All in all, I'm really bored. You see a lot of the same type of behavior and attitudes from individuals to alliances with little deviation.

That's just my initial thoughts though.

I am here because I like to declare war on people.

I very much agree on the treaty web being far to tangled. I would like to actually see a reset so to speak on treaty webs. However that would pretty much be useless as folks would just resign with those they just walked away from. Maybe if alliances stood behind the pixels on the treaty more and held each other more accountable on them...

I'm here for the friends, for family and to have fun. Plain and simple.