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  6. Dajobo

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    Bowel cancer...gah I knew someone who I used to work with who had that and got to the stage of not being able to control them, he left it a tad too late....

    By the sounds of it looks like they caught it in time even if you was stubburn with the warning signs.

  7. PrincessKitty

    Posted

    When the internet became "mainstream" all you had were text based (spreadsheet as some call them) games like this and many other themes or crappy looking java and flash games, I preferred the text based games to those poor quality java/flash casual games.

    Quite a few of us that remain here (especially those that come to the forum) started during that bland era of the internet. For me its more to do with the nostalgia of the type of game that kept me entertained on the internet during my school years as to why I'm still here.

  9. Prodigal Moon

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    The IC and OOC line has been blurred for some years now, due in part to IRC where people become friends with one and other in an OOC sense and that blurs into IC actions even though in many ways their alliance roles / FA and "ethics" don't match.

    SInce most have given up the distinction between IC and OOC in game it kills the RP aspect of the game.

    We need the line back, you can be friends in a social aspect but that doesn't stop you from roleplaying and being against them in an IC aspect.

  13. Fox Fire

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    Having said that...I'll address the 500 lb. gorilla in the room. it does not help the game's growth (or efforts to tread water) when a person signs up for Cyber Nations and can't invite others he/she lives with to also play. The game has lost out on many thousands of additional honest players for the sake of denying a few bad ones. The rules need to be changed.

    There is too much room for abuse and no way of enforcing, because if rules are relaxed then there is nothing stopping even the most honest players from going "just my bro and not a multi"

    But then whats to stop people, from, say, signing treatys and adding secret clauses or simply agreeing nt to act on treatys, but just keep them for the sake of that bonus. There would be no way to plug up such loopholes.

    You tie the treaties in with the game mechanics.

    For example making it that if a treaty partner doesn't enter the war to assist then the benefits are nullified or both alliances are penalised, doing so would maybe untangle the treaty web once and for all and only sign treaties with alliances they will defend.

  14. Fox Fire

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    @Rush: The game is hardly advertised, without knowing cybernations traffic I wouldn't be surprised if a high majority of those "new nations" would be previous members / word of mouth. Text-based is niche and will always be a declining market as the years go on.

    As for the rest of your post, its just moving the goal posts around for those that are long term players and does nothing for new player retention.

  15. Fox Fire

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    I think the simple answer is, browser based nation sims are just a dying breed of game.

    Its not even that, its text-based games in general that are dying. I used to play lots of text-based games of different themes back when the internet became commercialised (dotcom bubble).

    Many of those which were popular have now vanished or membership is so low that they're technically unplayable. This is due to massive advances in graphics and game design over the years across the board, entering the internet.

    The remaining text-based games with decent membership levels only survive because they fill a gap in the market.

    The market is a niche one and it will only get worse as the majority of new gamers growing up won't bat an eyelid at a dated concept called text-based.

  22. Rush Sykes

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    It is a treaty web problem, where one ally could discuss something with another ally and before you know it those same allies who had a talk end up passing on certain information of that discussion within their alliance and their other allies, then whole world knows before the event has even happened in a large amount of cases.

    Trust goes out the window.

    So as wes the wise mentions OPSEC start getting locked down and surprise cancellations etc happen.

  23. Canik

    Posted

    tl;dr There are still people out there making an effort, quite a few of them in fact, and those people will make an impact in the these later years of Planet Bob, but if you want real recovery, you're going to have to really pitch in.

    Sure, there are plenty of those types of people in established alliances and new ones alike. The former have a low amount of leadership changes to new faces and when it happens they wish to keep the status quo. The latter mostly have difficulty of making an impact due to small gains in recruiting with soo much demand over the supply of nations and often stay insignificant or give up and get obsorbed into a larger alliance.

  24. Captain Marin

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    I believe you are confusing the Eminem Show with Recovery. As it has been titled as overrated and too mainstream, I believe Recovery was one of the best albums lyrically if we exclude the instrumentals, but I will go in more depth in its content and author a review soon enough.

    Nope not confusing the two, I had the first four albums with the Eminem Show being his fourth, back in 2002 I was 16. After that I stopped listening to most future pop rap crap

    Maybe I just prefer his older stuff and to me during the 2002 album onwards it seemed to be mostly mainstream and making music to suit whats popular that year, rather than make it real and meaningful.

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