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The World Turned Upside Down - A 20th Century Nation Game (HIATUS?)

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Korona said:
Not sure if it's a good idea to let players into a game where the Gm is absent. This is on CG rn.
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I'm inclined to agree. The problem with games without a clearly-assigned co-mod is that it's quite disjoininting for someone to just step up and make a bunch of decisions that the mod may or may not agree with.

I did ask Chaotic if he wants assistance from me on diplomacy and plans outside of North America, but until he responds, I would not feel it appropriate to simply go about modding his game.
 
DonFitz said:
@Heavy W. Guy I want to clarify that Wilford didn't die. That's "unconstitutional" or something idk
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Oh I figured, this is someone who's frankly too important and prominent to disappear or the like. I figure it's more along the lines of held in custody for a few days and "encouraged" to write a letter to his client stating that he can no longer take the case. But he's quickly released shortly after he signs the letter.

Basically, I picture this to be somewhere along the lines of Korean business elites in Park Chung-hee's regime: the Park government would actually kidnap prominent businessmen, in some cases torture them, and basically force them to promise to support the government. In other words, things authoritarian regimes do to people who are important but who the state feels a need to keep control of. And in Wilford's case, he's someone who is not quite a dissident but not colouring inside the lines either. So a message will be sent.
 
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For anyone waiting on diplomacy or whatever with me I'm currently waiting for @ChaoticGenius to reappear. There's a whole bunch of shit I need to cover with NPC nations and espionage and maybe war plans and all that, and I need to ask him some questions first.
 
Maugan Ra said:
For anyone waiting on diplomacy or whatever with me I'm currently waiting for @ChaoticGenius to reappear. There's a whole bunch of shit I need to cover with NPC nations and espionage and maybe war plans and all that, and I need to ask him some questions first.
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I'm not sure it's necessary to tag the mod at present given that he's undoubtedly got 20+ notifications alone waiting for when he signs in.
 
Heavy W. Guy said:
Oh I figured, this is someone who's frankly too important and prominent to disappear or the like. I figure it's more along the lines of held in custody for a few days and "encouraged" to write a letter to his client stating that he can no longer take the case. But he's quickly released shortly after he signs the letter.

Basically, I picture this to be somewhere along the lines of Korean business elites in Park Chung-hee's regime: the Park government would actually kidnap prominent businessmen, in some cases torture them, and basically force them to promise to support the government. In other words, things authoritarian regimes do to people who are important but who the state feels a need to keep control of. And in Wilford's case, he's someone who is not quite a dissident but not colouring inside the lines either. So a message will be sent.
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The Virginian government is a benign overseer; a broken rib or four will be enough to ensure he finds a different class of clientele.
 
My fellow participants. It has come time for me to formally and uncompromisingly apologize for my extended absence from this nation game. The personal issues mentioned earlier have far extended beyond my original evaluation, and it appears extremely likely that I will be unable to continue moderating the nation game.

I, again, deeply apologize for my abrupt and no doubt disruptive absence. With this, it is open for anyone to continue moderating this nation game that I attempted to give my all with, frankly overeager to moderate my own nation game.

Now that I recognize these failings, I do dearly hope that someone may continue this nation game, for all of those who have invested their time into developing what was once a scenario, into an active community of participants will no doubt be anxious to continue in this World Turned Upside Down.

Thank you all for joining me, another deep apology for my betrayal of your trust, and with that, I say God Bless and good luck for whoever decides to take over from this point forward.

If no one is interested, then this nation game shall officially be on hiatus, predictably for some spell, until I can organize myself personally and consistently enough to moderate a nation game of this size once more.
 
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ChaoticGenius said:
Mind elaborating? Although I may no longer be the head moderator of this nation game, I still must know what trouble I caused so as to take responsibility.
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I guess you have not yet read through the previous pages on this thread. There were disagreements that turned into arguments. One was over nuclear weapons in game, the other had to do with Ukraine, and probably the biggest one had to do with how China is being run. Then in the middle of that you had certain players going wild with the ratings just to annoy certain others.

If you want specifics let others tell you, as I generally just ignored them.
 
Got some minor NPC diplo out to keep the ball rolling, but the backlog is immense. Those of you who need responses from NPC nations that I didn't just get to, please edit your posts to tag me, or get my attention on Discord. It'll take a minute for me to sift through stuff, so keep your hats on.
 
Man, putting together these trade agreements has me learning quite a bit about the export economies of Eastern Europe. . .
 
Heavy W. Guy said:
I'm inclined to agree. The problem with games without a clearly-assigned co-mod is that it's quite disjoininting for someone to just step up and make a bunch of decisions that the mod may or may not agree with.

I did ask Chaotic if he wants assistance from me on diplomacy and plans outside of North America, but until he responds, I would not feel it appropriate to simply go about modding his game.
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Duty calls you, HWG.
 
If people are choosing to mod, unless they're doing something specific like mapmod or modding a specific region, they should step down from playing a nation tbh. There's a huge conflict of interest if a North American player is also playing a country in North America.
 
Arrow said:
If people are choosing to mod, unless they're doing something specific like mapmod or modding a specific region, they should step down from playing a nation tbh. There's a huge conflict of interest if a North American player is also playing a country in North America.
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That's what I was planning to do?

Though the general procedure for such situations if someone is maintaining a nation is simply to have them mod somewhere else. DonFitz's Virginia probably doesn't have a major stake in the political situation in Central Asia.
 
@Shynka according to the OP nobody has Strategic Nukes, only Tactical Ones. I'm not sure how much further you can escalate from "Small Scale" nukes
 
Shynka said:
Multiple small scale nukes used on cities as opposed to one used on some troops
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That kind of defeats the spirit of the scenario, doesn't it? The Strategic Ban was meant to avoid everyone nuking each other willy nilly as so often happens in these games because nobody here knows the meaning of the word de-escalation
 
Arrow said:
If people are choosing to mod, unless they're doing something specific like mapmod or modding a specific region, they should step down from playing a nation tbh. There's a huge conflict of interest if a North American player is also playing a country in North America.
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I'm pretty sure Ethiopia isn't going to specifically benefit off the chaos going on in North America.
 
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