Taijitu
Forum Meta => Archive => General Discussion Archive => Topic started by: Khablan on May 18, 2007, 12:31:59 PM
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Personally, I fall in the third category. I nearly always go with what I'd really do, but now and then I'll fudge something. Otherwise, my game's economy would drop more than I'd like, or the taxes would raise too high.
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I fall into the second category, which is why my economy is "Developing" and not a powerhouse of some kind. I'm trying to make my nation a commie paradise at the moment, which pleases me. The average tax rate is 100% thus far, woohoo!
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I guess I'm an Anarchist then XD
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well my nation has now 1 more variable that i didn't had in count, i had to boost economy and other things, and we actually did it, I'm proud. But any other way I've been mostly left leaning college with huge social service, i still have the huge social service but I'm relying more now to economy boost. So it's like if i created a problem in the problem, making the dilemma lean more for economy.
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My nation is run exactly as I would run it (except I wouldn't have compulsory military service IRL). This has led to Superb civil and political rights, with a Frightening economy. NS likes to categorize that as Anarchy, but I prefer to call it 'Libertarian Paradise'.
EDIT: Actually, there is another thing in my nation that I wouldn't do. About 1/3rd of my budget goes to 'Commerce' aka Corporate Welfare. I am completely and utterly against such practices.
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poor guys
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poor guys
Actually, rich guys. Unless you happen to be in the bottom 5%
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Last one for me, I choose like the rulers of those countries would choose.
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IRL, I'm a right-leaning centrist and I started answering my issues that way. However, the NS exaggerations made my nation much more right-wing than I was, so I went with it, and started answering as a right-wing, somewhat militaristic nation.
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I'm trying to get my nation to have every title possible over the course of time. So I just switch my goals from time to time. I've been a liberal paradise for a while, now I'm going for a big business dictatorship
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The debate that goes on in my head is which I really want to focus on - deciding the issues as closely as the game allows to what I'd really do, or deciding them in such a way that the description of my nation's priorities most accurately reflects what they'd really be. You know, that be tricky with the exaggerated results the game gives us. When you get right down to it, the available choices are very limiting. I often don't agree with any of them - I'd go for something in between, or something else entirely. So it's either dismiss or pick the one that's closest. I guess a close approximation of how we'd really run things is about the best we can do.
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4th option.
This is strictly roleplaying for me. I choose what the powermad dictator would choose.
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second
i once dream of becoming a politician but somehow stranded in business school
so NS is like an oasis, a bit
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very faded oasis then.
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I think my son would pick the fourth. :P
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I'm in the habit of dismissing all my issues.
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The people are the government in Torbaydos, which is probably why its difficult to tell where the govt starts etc etc
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I picked number 4, not just because I am a bad ass total, but also because I answer my issues the opposite of how I would run an RL nation, and that was not an option.
8)
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I really should have made that fourth option more general - something to simply indicate role playing instead of specifying a badass.
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It is the second one. I am a political hack and make my living in politics. I love watching how this game blows everything out or proportion and seems to be trying to have unintended consequences of every decision. In the real world I am firmly on the right- last time through the game I was as well- we'll see how it works out this time.
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I choose options 4 not because Its how I play but because I don't do the other 3.
I try to choose on the grounds that I'm RPing my nation as a left wing country but one that has democracy (so I'll vote how I think my nation would). Its a bit too center of the road for me (in what it decides) I'm to the left of my nations decisions slightly, (admittedly as stillwaters has said it does exaggerate the effects of your decisions slightly but then it is much speeded up and simplified so it would really)
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2nd option.
I want Feniexia to be like in my thoughts, but there are not always the right issues for that and I did lots of junk with my nation at the beginning, mainly in the economical sector.
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2nd, but I dismiss most of the issues because I don't agree with most of them.
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2nd option for me. I'm mostly right-wing, so I base most of my choices on that.
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as i said, dismissing is bad, because your country needs an answer, when you dismiss people stare at you "WTF? now what?"
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as i said, dismissing is bad, because your country needs an answer, when you dismiss people stare at you "WTF? now what?"
Of course, some of the answers would also have your people saying "WTF". ;)
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yeah someone gets cheese thrown at them so you get the option to ban cheese and that does some weird things in your country
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Like the one for loudspeakers.
Option #1: Loudspeakers for emergency broadcasts, and also for political propaganda.
Option #2: Pocket radios for emergency broadcasts, and also for advertisements.
Option #3: Ban all advertising altogether, everywhere.
No good choice on that one, not for my nation. We're against capitalism, but banning ALL ads is going too far and would hurt the economy. And the propaganda would give far too much advantage to the politicians in power. Dismiss.
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i don't remember which i chose, but I've dismissed one just yesterday
Option#1: Ban cars (as far as i want it, can't afford that)
Option#2: Kick protesters out of the streets (never)
Option#3: Give funds to automobile industry (give money away to private sectors? If cars were free i would)
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I usually answer according to what I would really do, with the exception being sometimes I need to inflate my defense budget for RP purposes :D Which, I hadn't really been doing, until when in the Lex, a few players seemed to get the idea that a high budget made them damn near invincible, so, I upped mine so I could at least hold my own against them, but i've never used that to claim invulnerability, or anything close to it.
In RL, I'm very much a libertarian the best government is the least government. This is belief is due not so much as to the way I would *like* things to be, but based upon the realities of life. In any event, when I answer things the way I'd want to, for some reason it tends to go a bit more to the left than what I would normally go.
Alot of the issues though, in fact, a good portion of them, are just plain stupid, those I dismiss. Or, i dismiss it if it's something that I dont think a national government should be bothered with having to do.
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Heh, just dismissed the beautiful 'Where's The Love (Gone)?' issue...not because I wouldn't like Fergie... ;)
In RL I am a combination of multiples, probably reflecting the diverse nature of my homeland and as well of my spiritual and intellectual heritage. But, as I do not RP, I care less about the standings. From time to time I avoid taking decisions I would find fair IRL, in order not to affect business and development (I guess it's the emerging business-man in me :D ), but I generally call the shots as I feel it would be right. Voted for no.3 as it is closest to how I do my issues.
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Non really for me. Inglo-Scotia isn't suppose to represent my ideal society, it was meant as a combination of 1984, Cromwellian Britain, and V for Vendetta's Norsefire regime. So I choose my issues along those lines, all though it has little to no reflection on my own political and economic beliefs.
For the DSA I like to go as left wing and PC as I can. Why? Because, at least at the moment, the DSA is suppose to represent a country that's taken liberalism and the PC culture to the extreme (and I would consider myself a liberal, even if I won't vote for the current Liberal Party).
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I fall in the second cathegory, mainly because NationStates seems to me a game where you create your utopic nation, and not follow any standards...the kind of nation you would like to live and, and of course you cannot find in this world.As a result, i have banned all Harry Potter books:))
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Honestly, I don't. I just go back to my nations' pages every week or so to keep them alive. The whole nation issue thing gets really dull after a while.