Marooner's Musings

If you don't draw from RL, then what do you have? Not much. Am I incorrect?

Cyber Nations has real world countries (on the map anyways). Maybe that can be a basis for the incorporation of RL ideas, especially places like Germany or Athens?

If you don't draw from RL, then what do you have? Not much. Am I incorrect?

Cyber Nations has real world countries (on the map anyways). Maybe that can be a basis for the incorporation of RL ideas, especially places like Germany or Athens?

As I think I state in the blog itself, I have no problem from drawing from RL, as long as it isn't RL. And to some extent, I think you're right, drawing on geographic locations can be one way of doing it, but Greek culture is a lot more than just a place on a map.

Where do you draw the line between getting inspiration from RL and flat out copying RL institutions?

Where do you draw the line between getting inspiration from RL and flat out copying RL institutions?

Personally, I draw the line at using the names. Using the same concept but calling it something different is okay with me. But it's really up to the player to make the game more original. It's not so much about drawing a line of "this is okay" and "this is not," but rather, constantly striving to add more originality to the game, and go in one direction and not the other.

It's not so important now (as CN has a history of its own), but earlier it was important to have Earth history to start from. Sure, Francoism is great for the IC flavour, but you can't expect everyone to invent a fully fledged and complex philosophical system. I don't see anything wrong with appropriating Marxism and calling it such.

It's not so important now (as CN has a history of its own), but earlier it was important to have Earth history to start from. Sure, Francoism is great for the IC flavour, but you can't expect everyone to invent a fully fledged and complex philosophical system. I don't see anything wrong with appropriating Marxism and calling it such.

To be fair, Francoism, as Vladimir and his colleagues write it, is not completely original. It's largely based on the real life philosopher of Thomas Hobbes, and modified for the purposes of Cybernations.

Ok I'm out of questions. Good read, and good responses.

It's not so important now (as CN has a history of its own), but earlier it was important to have Earth history to start from. Sure, Francoism is great for the IC flavour, but you can't expect everyone to invent a fully fledged and complex philosophical system. I don't see anything wrong with appropriating Marxism and calling it such.

To be fair, Francoism, as Vladimir and his colleagues write it, is not completely original. It's largely based on the real life philosopher of Thomas Hobbes, and modified for the purposes of Cybernations.

Francoism isn't merely Hobbes' Leviathan edited with references to tech deals. It actually appropriates heavily from Nietzchean philosophy and Rousseau's Du Contrat Social. There are very few alliances that practice realpolitik in its purest form (much to my dismay )

Also, Marxism cannot realistically exist on Cybernations, since a Marxist approach would require the hands of the production to rest in the proletariat. Since there are no property rights on CN, only the basic "distribution of wealth" would occur (which would be insanely hard to gauge - everyone would have to be held to an honor system for that to happen!)