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Offline Omnipius

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Stories from the Early Days of NS
« on: July 25, 2007, 04:30:40 AM »
As promised on the RMB, here's my story from 2003 NS, near the start of the game. If you're an old hat and have interesting tales from the start, feel free to add them.

The Aschen Confederacy
My first nation was Aschen. Shortly after getting a feel for the game myself and a few friends moved our UN and puppet nations into a new region named the Aschen Confederacy. If you watch SG1 then you know why we kept the name. From here we got ambitious in experimenting with how far you could push NS. We introduced UN Resolution #8 which required Citizen Rule on some level in all UN nations. Needless to say this pissed off many in the NS world. We had expected the measure to be defeated but low and behold it passed. So now there was a large contingent of nations that wanted revenge. This led to one of the very first inter-regional wars in NS as these nations (many being dictatorships) invaded the Aschen Confederacy. As a small region of friends we were incapable of repelling the initial attack and the delegacy was lost. The decision was made to have all nations other than the founder, Aschen, to fall back to various other regions to seek allies. This effort yielded a large defensive alliance that was first used to liberate the Aschen Confederacy. This alliance persisted for some time and was used to deter political retaliatory invasions. The alliance was eventually disbanded when the actions it existed to prevent were deemed to be griefing and banned from the game. I fell out of playing shortly after that.

It is very interesting to return years later to find that the concept of the defensive alliance became the ADN and a global war ensued. To see how the structure of the game has changed in astounding. Regional governments such as this one were never thought of back then. I find the entire dynamic of NS to be fascinating as what are called nations have become more likened to the individuals they represent and regions of taken on the nature of true nations. I can't wait to see what the future, and eventually NS2, will hold.

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Offline Solnath

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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 05:55:12 AM »
There was no influence. Good days.

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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 01:16:37 PM »
Very interesting story.  I'd like to hear more about how that first alliance functioned, if you have the time and/or desire to describe it.

I played for a while fairly near the start of the game but never got involved in the UN or regional politics, so I don't really know what the differences are between then and now.  I only played to see what I could get to happen to my nation, back then.  ::)  I wish I could remember the name, though, so I could resurrect it.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 03:41:09 PM »
Very interesting!  I'm a relative newcomer (started Feb 06), and I enjoy reading about NS history.
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Offline Omnipius

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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2007, 08:12:02 PM »
Back then players very much considered themselves to be the Heads of State of their respective nations. Most communications on the RMB and TGs was IC as one leader to another. The alliance worked much in the way ones in RL do. When an incident occurred, the call would go out via TG and RMB to the effected party's primary allies who would then call on theirs as well. Usually individual nations would enter the fray immediately to resolve small problems. In a larger crisis a region with a purely numerical name would be set up as a staging area. The important distinction is that these alliances did not have higher governments and typically the commanding general in an action was the delegate of the effected region. In a few instances, rather than liberating the victim region right off the bat, the attacking region or regions would be hit to either force an enemy withdrawal or permanently eliminate a region that had become a problem. It is my understanding that this practice eventually led to the ADN world war. It is interesting to note that the recent incident in TRR brought Taijitu into direct conflict with the ADN.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2007, 08:38:23 PM »
The ADN being...what?  (Hey, I've only been here three months.)
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2007, 09:19:17 PM »
A Dumb Newb.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2007, 09:26:08 PM »
Hey, you've only got a month on me!
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have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2007, 11:17:08 PM »
The Alliance of Defender Nations was (and still is, but to a lesser extent) a massive defensive alliance of regions which resulted in a huge world war. Think of it as being similar to the alliance system that caused World War I in RL. The war was essentially defenders vs. raiders but the defenders (the ADN) started launching counter attacks. This embroiled most of the NS world in either the main confrontations or in cold wars complete with spies, double agents, and bond girls all around. OK...maybe I exaggerated the bond girls...but you get the idea.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2007, 07:28:31 AM »
Alliance Defense Network.   ;)  Currently they're under a new charter as the DSA, a name which no one seems to be able to remember (= Defender Security Alliance).  Common invocation of the alliance these days is "ADN/DSA whatever."

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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2007, 01:34:55 PM »
Ah. Wasn't around during their hay day so I'm piecing together info from the internets.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2007, 12:32:40 AM »
We need something like this for the University!  ;)
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2007, 02:58:34 AM »
Hmmm...me as a history professor....could be interesting. Do I get the typical six figure professor's salary?
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2007, 01:51:36 PM »
Sure, but I decide the position of the decimal point.
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Re: Stories from the Early Days of NS
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2007, 07:39:43 PM »
Quote from: Solnath on July 29, 2007, 01:51:36 PM
Sure, but I decide the position of the decimal point.

Perfect...MWAHAHAHA.
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"I believe every single person is extraordinary. The tragedy is that we
have a society where too many people never get to fulfill that
extraordinary potential. My view – the liberal view – is that
government’s job is to help them to do it. Not to tell people how to
live their lives. But to make their choices possible, to release their
potential, no matter who they are. The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it. To challenge vested interests. To break down privilege. To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress. And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want." - Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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