NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

This is a site which lets you live the random life of anyone in the world, it by the chances of it actually happening in real life chooses where you live, how many borthers and sisters you will have, how rich of poor will your parents etc, etc.

It's quite interesting since some wired stuff can happen to you(you can become homosexual, your country can get in a war among other things) .

Anyway, you have to buy the game to play it all, but they have great free trial of the their site to download(10 days). I rather sure that after the 10days are up, if you deleted the whole thing you can re-download it, but not 100% sure.

So download it can share some of your lifes!

Sounds cool.

But after 10 days, you'll probably have to clean registry if you want to play it again. Ah, its finished downloading :D

I tell you, this game is damn good. Great find.

Yeah, its clever :)

In no other game can you be a corrupt North Korean bureaucrat :D

Tag.

Can't try it now, I'm on dialup and I can barely stand waiting for NS pages to load, but I'll try it as soon as I get broadband back.

I've seen it before.

Although, it is a bit annoying that you cannot emigrate (or if you can, I don't know how).

I hope you can't die because I have a bad habit of doing that on other life sim games such as "The Sims"

You can call me "Ping Chow" from China :p


Never knew I was female :eek:

I hope you can't die because I have a bad habit of doing that on other life sim games such as "The Sims"
You can, it loads of different ways. I have been run over when the person was 6, another time I was in a drive by.

You can, it loads of different ways. I have been run over when the person was 6, another time I was in a drive by.


I just got killed defending my country
:mad:

I've seen it before.

Although, it is a bit annoying that you cannot emigrate (or if you can, I don't know how).

Yeah, true.

Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?

Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?


One day your happy, the next....your dead ;)

I just got killed defending my country
:mad:
I've tried loads of times to die that way. By using the editing thing, never works though.

Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?

There are the occasional accidents which are random.

But some things like malnutrition and illnesses can be exacerbated by having a low quality of life.

Also if you start smoking then it increases the chances dying through respiratory complications. You can also get addicted to drugs and alcohol.

One of the best ways to die (after the drive by of course), is being executed by the states secret police. (Which generaly happens in third world countries if you get involved in human rights groups etc).

What is the oldest anybody has ever got?

I got around 101 (in India of all places)

What is the oldest anybody has ever got?

I got around 101 (in India of all places)



95, I lived in Iraq and was not eating and was homeless
:eek:

Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(

It really gives you an idea of other lives... This is so awesome! All students should play this when learning about the world in social studies!

This is great.

I made a guy with 100 happiness, strength, endurance, and appearance, and with 0 intelligence, artistic, and musical. I made him unemployed, a smoker, an alcoholic, an illegal drug user, and a thief. He fell for every one of those "risky investment opportunities" and played the lottery every time.

WHEEE.

Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(
I wound up with 15 at one point... *snicker*

Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(
I wound up with 15 at one point... *snicker*

tag!

I live in Nigeria and my father has schistosomiasis.

Great...

Now I have epilepsy.

I am a female. My name is Yolanda Estrada. I live in Puno, Peru.
My mother, Luz, is 24 and my father, Emilio, is 24. I have a brother, Aureleo, who is 2.

My mom found a job.
My growth is stunted from inadequate protein.
I have ascariasis (roundworms).

I was born a girl in the city of Shahjahanpur in the state of Uttar in India

Mom, 24
Dad, 25
2 bros
1 sis


names are too long to type here.....-_-

This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.

When my person becomes old enough, do I get to start doing things? ...or do I just keep clicking "Age a year"?

Leprosy!! :eek:

I died yet again in the line of duty.

Maria Rono in Kilinabjaro Tanzania, My father has a goiter and a peptic ulcer, my mother has scistosomiasis and my 2 year old brother has malaria. This is not looking good.

HOLY CRAP!
I was born in Northern Turkey, both my parents are 29, I have no brothers or sisters, and my father makes 440,000,000 Turkish Lira a month. I'm am freakin' lucky.

Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?

Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?
Nope.

mwahahaha...

I'm doing John Edwards from New York

I'm not doing bad...

of course, I'm doing a custom one

my next one's gonna be one of those random ones


(good luck to you Foxx, 86 million lira...ha)

Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?



LMAO, My family had 5,675,323,000 Dinars :eek:

John Edwards, 80, of New York City....senior government official

3 kids, ages 42, 38, 36

THEY STILL LIVE WITH ME!


Ahh well...I probably live in the White House :)

but at $19,500 a month?

John Edwards, 106....just married

I STILL GOT IT BABY!

but man, I've been all over the job chart thanks to this guy's old age :D

crud, 109 and I died

HOLY CRAP!
I was born in Northern Turkey, both my parents are 29, I have no brothers or sisters, and my father makes 440,000,000 Turkish Lira a month. I'm am freakin' lucky.

That's like, $400 a month.

Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(

WTF??!! Does that mean your mom has been popping out a baby every year since she was 11? *head explodes*

WTF??!! Does that mean your mom has been popping out a baby every year since she was 11? *head explodes*

Ever heard of things called twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, octuplets, etc.?

Ever heard of things called twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, octuplets, etc.?
heh...human gumball machine anyone?

Frak! I'm Connecticut Clown. What are the odds?!? :confused:

This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.
How did you manage that?

Funny story:
I am a gay, jewish, writer.

No, sorry. I'm a bisexual, jewish, writer.

Totally Awesome Game

I had the craziest one ever:

I was a subsistance farmer who hit it big on the stocks in South Korea. I couldn't get any decent job because I had no college education, but I was able to live it nice.

I died of diabetes at 73 after saving up money for a while and giving some to charity. I think I had about 200,000 dollars (converted from Won) left over for my Son to get.

My guy got raped once.

I don't get it, I keep getting the same types of issues all the time....

teehee...I'm a random Mexican from Baja California and I'm trying to get as many kids I can at a young age...

So far, I'm 19 with 4 kids

update....9 kids, age 32


damn Mexican military requirements

The editer thing is funny for a couple times, too if you play as an Uberperson or some useless person.

Ohh...this will be fun...I just started as a little French boy...


...with Measles..

The editer thing is funny for a couple times, too if you play as an Uberperson or some useless person.
I played as a super attractive redneck from texas...13 kids, 4 husbands and minimum wage all the way to death at 60.

I was most disappointed when my female bisexual Thai food processing worker was unable to select the 'Seek new romance' icon whilst incarcerated in a womens' prison.

However, this sadness was removed when my 52 year old school administrator in Austin Texas was informed that if she retired now and watched her money carefully she could support herself until she was 724 years old.

bump

Totally Awesome GameSeconded.

I was just born and my mom and dad are 98 :(

I was just born and my mom and dad are 98 :(

Ahh, the wonders of IVF.

0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Dresden in the state of Sachsen in Germany.

My parents have named me Andreas. My surname is Einstein. My mother, Anna, is 29 and my father, Uwe, is 34. I have a sister, Wilfreda, age 1 and a brother, Dietrich, who is 3.

From my parents I have been gifted with the potential for extraordinary intelligence.

1 year old
2 years old
My brother Dietrich began school.

3 years old
My mother has been cured of depression.

My father has been murdered at age 38.

4 years old
My sister Wilfreda began school.

5 years old
6 years old
Began school.

7 years old
8 years old
9 years old
10 years old
11 years old
12 years old
13 years old
Told the truth at the risk of offending a friend..

My mother has sexually abused me.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has graduated from secondary school.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has failed the tests for entrance into vocational school.

14 years old
My brother Dietrich has graduated from secondary school.

My brother Dietrich has failed the tests for entrance into vocational school.

15 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Margareta Hintermeier.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Margareta Hintermeier.

16 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Petra Bergen.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Petra Bergen.

My sister Wilfreda has graduated from secondary school.

My sister Wilfreda began vocational school.

17 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Adriana Friedberg.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Adriana Friedberg.

My brother Dietrich has moved out on his own.

18 years old
Graduated from secondary school.

Began college.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Inga Liebenthal.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Inga Liebenthal.

My sister Wilfreda has graduated from vocational school with a certificate in Electronics .

19 years old
Met a new girl I like very much, named Silke Schuster.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Silke Schuster.

20 years old
21 years old
Avoided drinking alcohol.

Began work as a temporary odd jobs.

22 years old
Graduated from college with a degree in Government.

Began graduate school.

My sister Wilfreda has moved out on her own.

23 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Brunhilde Ziege.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Brunhilde Ziege.

24 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Heidi Maier.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Heidi Maier.

25 years old
26 years old
Graduated from graduate school with an advanced degree in Economics.

Began alternative service in place of military service.

27 years old
My sister Wilfreda has been involved in a road traffic accident but fortunately suffered no permanent injuries.

28 years old
29 years old
30 years old
31 years old
32 years old
33 years old
Detlev Pfaff and my sister Wilfreda have married.

34 years old
Accepted in vocational school.

35 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Adriana Linden.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Adriana Linden.

36 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Ulrika Kegel.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Ulrika Kegel.

My mother has diabetes.

37 years old
Graduated from vocational school with a certificate in Business Administration.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Bertha Dietz.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Bertha Dietz.

Began work as a community leader.

38 years old
39 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Elke Auerbach.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Elke Auerbach.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Steffi Lieb.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Steffi Lieb.

40 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Elke Huber.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Elke Huber.

My sister Wilfreda has breast cancer.

41 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Uta Sondheim.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Uta Sondheim.

Moved away from home.

42 years old
43 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Uta Vollmer.

We've begun seeing each other.

My sister Wilfreda has died at age 45 from breast cancer.

44 years old
45 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Uta and I are now engaged..

46 years old
47 years old
My mother has ischemic heart disease.

48 years old
Uta Vollmer and I got married this year.

49 years old
50 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

My mother has died at age 80 from a heart attack.

Inherited money from my parents.

51 years old
Invested 500000 euros in land.

52 years old
53 years old
54 years old
My sister Wilfreda's husband Detlev has died at age 60 from lung cancer.

55 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

56 years old
My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has ischemic heart disease.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has been cured of depression.

57 years old
My friend has survived a dangerous situation despite my unwillingness to help.

Invested 300000 euros in high-risk stock.

58 years old
59 years old
My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has died at age 64 from a heart attack.

60 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

61 years old
62 years old
63 years old
64 years old
My wife Uta has diabetes.

65 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

66 years old
67 years old
Received a 11% pay raise.

My brother Dietrich has suffered an epileptic seizure.

68 years old
69 years old
70 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Cashed in 888640 euros from land.

Cashed in 146310 euros from high-risk stock.

Quit my job.

71 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Released by security police.

72 years old
73 years old
74 years old
My wife Uta has died at age 77 from diabetes.

75 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Retired.

76 years old
Died at age 76 from an accident caused by senile dementia.

hehe, became 115 years old before I died because of prostata cancer. When I was about 110 years old I had assets woth 1 billion dollar. ;)

0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan's Eastern Region.

My parents have named me Mohammad. My surname is Jafari. My mother, Tara, is 19 and my father, Mahmood, is 19. I have no brothers or sisters.

From my parents I have been gifted with the potential for extraordinary intelligence, extraordinary artistic ability, extraordinary musical ability, extraordinary athletic ability, extraordinary physical strength, extraordinary physical endurance and extraordinary good looks.

1 year old
Growth stunted from inadequate protein.

A major earthquake has hit Afghanistan. 736 people have died and 62,000 others have been affected.

My family and I were not directly affected.

--

6 years old
Suffering from severe malnutrition.

I've developed goiter.

Civil war in North-central region.

Brother Esfandiar born.

Began school

I had a British bisexual female who was a drug addict, alcoholic and smoker as well as a senior government official. She died at 58 from lung cancer. Top that.

59 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Executed by government security police.

lmfao, I was married and had like 5 girlfriends, and I was a police captain.

Download finished...

ARGH! I downloaded it but when I try to begin installation it stays in one block in "extracting files", gives error report and exits.

Had a similar problem with my computer at home, but it works just fine here at work. My first "life" I was born a girl in Nicuragua....but died by age 4 of the measles.

So now I'm a girl again, this time in Afghanistan near Mazar Shariff (poor spelling, I know). I'm up to 10 years old and actually in school and my family has not been affected by about 4 major earthquakes already. Two brothers, one older, one younger. Father was a soldier for awhile, now both parents are farmers. This thing is pretty cool, love the map and night effect.

hang on, how the heck do you get a bisexual character? I mean...I just don't get it...

hang on, how the heck do you get a bisexual character? I mean...I just don't get it...It just sort of happens.

Out of all the games i've played so far...I haven't seen HIV/AIDS. Is it there? You can die from everything else. Well, I havent seen ebola either.

I died of AIDS :p

It seems like a rather simplistic simulation: in my limited experience any character that begins with a reasonable intelligence rating can leave home at about age 12, and live off the streets, whilst still devoting all their spare time to reading and studying, and come out with exactly the same educational result as if they weren't living rough.

I found it to be quite inaccurate, the most humorous instance being when they located Richmond, Virginia on the west coast, in southern California. Also, it had a very anti-American bent to it. Most of the statistics shown when your avatar lived in the United States were highly inaccurate. I found it to be little more than a bleeding heart agenda to try to get people to worry about poverty, and I did not enjoy this manipulation in the least.

It seems like a rather simplistic simulation: in my limited experience any character that begins with a reasonable intelligence rating can leave home at about age 12, and live off the streets, whilst still devoting all their spare time to reading and studying, and come out with exactly the same educational result as if they weren't living rough.

Exactly. Also, even with a first class education in government, a rich family in America, and 100% statistics in every category it still would refuse open jobs to you with no explanation. This is not a 'real life' simulator in the least, as it is completely irrational.

I found it to be quite inaccurate, the most humorous instance being when they located Richmond, Virginia on the west coast, in southern California.

It told me that my homeland Northern Ireland was still part of Great Britain. Nope. Great Britain is the landmass comprised of England, Scotland & Wales. It should have said that Northern Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom instead.

It also started running into errors once one character had more than 12 kids.

My guy got raped once.
53 years old.
I was raped...

My guy is male too... who would rape a 53 year old man? In China... Who is a police inspector of all things... Damn...

It told me that my homeland Northern Ireland was still part of Great Britain. Nope. Great Britain is the landmass comprised of England, Scotland & Wales. It should have said that Northern Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom instead.

It also started running into errors once one character had more than 12 kids.
I couldn't get over 8 kids.

I couldn't get over 8 kids.

Lucky stiffs...I couldn't get one!

This thing is a gold mine of hilarity.

Meet Andreas Schmidt, from Vienna. He earnes €40100 a month, has 8(!) children, 3 of which were adopted.....

His wife died, his kids started to die, but Schmidt kept on working as a company president till he died lonely and familyless at the ripe age of 127, with over €4,000,000 in the bank.

What a loser.

Exactly. Also, even with a first class education in government, a rich family in America, and 100% statistics in every category it still would refuse open jobs to you with no explanation.

It ain't what you know, it's whom you know.

***

Is it just me, or is this game trying to pass on the message "don't fuck with your government"? Judging by the results of committing any time to social activism it seems to be.

I just downloaded it, installed it, and am now playing it. Wow, it's amazing!

Lucky stiffs...I couldn't get one!

Eeek! I have just tried to get pregnant at 14 and discovered that I'm infertile! I was going to try and break the 12 kid record.

My wife keeps hitting me with a brick in Thailand!

This game is still damn cool. I've been a schizophrenic seaman in Angola who committed suicide after his wife kept getting preggers (even though he was infertile), a Chinese writer who got executed by the government at 85 (!), a senior government official in the UK with about 100 kids and a very unlucky Morrocan who gets himself in all sorts of accidents no matter what I do.

I got hit by a car 3 times in Kenya, but still lived to 92.

And I also had a 14 year old with about 100 Physical who busted out the Kung Fu after his mom hit him. Talk about crazy.

And an Indian woman who lived to 112 (!). I think I did _something_ right...

Meet Andreas Schmidt, from Vienna. He earnes €40100 a month, has 8(!) children, 3 of which were adopted.....

His wife died, his kids started to die, but Schmidt kept on working as a company president till he died lonely and familyless at the ripe age of 127, with over €4,000,000 in the bank.

What a loser.
I got one with 66,000,000 Euros in the bank and died at 103...

"Working as a soldier is typically a man's job. They will not accept a female. Would you like to find another job?"

"Working as a policeman is typically a man's job. They will not accept a female. Would you like to find another job?"

Go USA!

I was a 64 year old soldier, and i got mugged or burglarized once a year for 20 years. I didn't even qualify for my own job.

I was robbed of over $44,000 dollars....in WISCONSIN! At age 11!

What kinda 11-yr old girl walks around with 44 grand in Wisconsin?

What kinda 11-yr old girl walks around with 44 grand in Wisconsin?

What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?

What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?
Ever lived in the south?

What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?

The same kind of sick game that would tell you that Virginia is on the West Coast. Sick bastards...

0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Okara in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

My parents have named me Shah. My surname is Khalid Wazir. My mother, Najmah, is 38 and my father, Qabir, is 39. I have a sister, Rezeya, age 2, a brother, Rashid, age 3, a brother, Kadir, age 6, a brother, Latif, age 9, a sister, Mirvat, age 11, a brother, Zia, age 12 and a sister, Daliyah, who is 13.

1 year old
Been murdered at age 1.


Whodunnit?

0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Okara in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

My parents have named me Shah. My surname is Khalid Wazir. My mother, Najmah, is 38 and my father, Qabir, is 39. I have a sister, Rezeya, age 2, a brother, Rashid, age 3, a brother, Kadir, age 6, a brother, Latif, age 9, a sister, Mirvat, age 11, a brother, Zia, age 12 and a sister, Daliyah, who is 13.

1 year old
Been murdered at age 1.


Whodunnit?

The Butler!

Ever lived in the south?
I see no option that lets me get my sister pregneants.....


yay for morals

boo for realism

anyone else noticed a bug that doesn't allow you to have a child if your wife/girlfriend becomes pregneant by chance?

I managed 13 kids that time, sireing them between the ages of 15 and 30. After that despite repeated attempts, no further seeds sprang from my loins, until at age 36 my wife became unexpectedly pregnant: we decided to keep the child... and got an 'ACCESS VIOLATION'.

Anybody managed to beat 13 kids yet?

Oh, hang on, she has actually been born, but isn't showing up in the family window.

Anybody beat 14 kids?

Dear God, I just retired at age 40 with 14 kids, one wife, an ex-wife and enough money to live on till I'm 113 after working as a soldier for 20 years.

anyone else noticed a bug that doesn't allow you to have a child if your wife/girlfriend becomes pregneant by chance?

I got that one.

Is this game produced by incompetents?

If you try to visit their website via the link it installs on your taskbar your browser is directed to the URL:

http://www.educationalsimulatons.com/

instead of ...

http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

Note the spelling mistake and thus faulty link in the one they give you.

Can anyone beat living 154 years in russia? (admittedly a slightly uber-character)

Or 126 in the same setting without any uberness at all?

Thanks for posting the link.

My second character (this one had all-100 stats) died at 75 with a net worth of $37,371,804. He had an interesting life. :D

0 years old
I was born a boy in the town of Naryn in Kyrgyzstan.

My parents have named me Mikhail. My surname is Yagudin. My mother, Natalya, is 22 and my father, Ilya, is 18. I have a sister, Karolina, who is 1.

My father began college.

1 year old
Growth stunted from inadequate protein.

Died at age 1 from a road traffic accident

holy blajesus those darn Kyrgyzstani cars

Is this easy on old computers? It seems interesante...

Is this easy on old computers? It seems interesante...
Uh...it has to be...it's not really a "game" per se...it's just basically clicking "Age A Year" over and over. I found it to be boring quite quickly.

So it downloads fast then?

So it downloads fast then?
Yea.

My uber Russian comrade doctor was murdered at the age of 47. I think it was the same person that drove that Kyrgyzstani automobile of death!

DAMN YOU KYRZIGSTAN! DAMN YOU!!!!

Ironically, that's the flag of nation...

This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.California uber Alles!

Most of the statistics shown when your avatar lived in the United States were highly inaccurate. I found it to be little more than a bleeding heart agenda to try to get people to worry about poverty, and I did not enjoy this manipulation in the least.

Bullshit. Play in Cuba and get randomly arrested for no reason at all or get executed for refusing to join the army in India. I can't see any particular anti-american agenda or bias in it.

The fact is, most of the worlds people do live like this game describes...

Even if the game's mechanics are flawed somewhat.

Play in Cuba and get randomly arrested for no reason at all or get executed for refusing to join the army in India.

The draft seems pretty buggy too: I was playing a Mexican that was serving as a military sargeant before being drafted. He accepted the draft and was reduced to soldier, so I applied to change job back to military sargeant, and was accepted. Fair enough - they promoted me during the period of compulsoiry service (or so I though). Age a year. Get drafted again... so it seems that rising in rank whilst serving compulsory service counts as refusing to serve your compulsory service...

Even if the game's mechanics are flawed somewhat.

Mind you, it is trying to simulate a life lived during the 20th/21st Century on Earth, and describing our own real life game mechanics as "flamed somewhat" is porbably putting it lightly.

If you don't spend any money on food or shelter, you can still live into your 80's without any major problems.

The draft seems pretty buggy too: I was playing a Mexican that was serving as a military sargeant before being drafted. He accepted the draft and was reduced to soldier, so I applied to change job back to military sargeant, and was accepted. Fair enough - they promoted me during the period of compulsoiry service (or so I though). Age a year. Get drafted again... so it seems that rising in rank whilst serving compulsory service counts as refusing to serve your compulsory service...

Yeah, happened to me as well. I guess you have to cope with 3 years of cruddy wage before you can start earning money.

Mind you, it is trying to simulate a life lived during the 20th/21st Century on Earth, and describing our own real life game mechanics as "flamed somewhat" is porbably putting it lightly.

Well, I mean, I've never gotten an access error or illegal operation while applying for a job in real life. Yet.

If you don't spend any money on food or shelter, you can still live into your 80's without any major problems.

Substinance farmers in the mountains of Azerbaijan have been known to live until 120, so...

It seems to me that what we have here is a very interesting idea for a simulation/game, but one which has been implemented incredibly poorly. Basic central functions don't seem to work correctly (for example accidental pregnancies are always phantom pregnancies), and the options it provides to with don't seem to map onto the real world at all (for example men cannot become nurses), and it seems that we have spotted some glaring geographical errors in those areas with which we are familiar. This would be fair enough if it was a freeware or a shareware game, but when the guy has the nerve to try and aim it at the educational market, then that worries me greatly.

It seems to me that what we have here is a very interesting idea for a simulation/game, but one which has been implemented incredibly poorly. Basic central functions don't seem to work correctly (for example accidental pregnancies are always phantom pregnancies), and the options it provides to with don't seem to map onto the real world at all (for example men cannot become nurses), and it seems that we have spotted some glaring geographical errors in those areas with which we are familiar. This would be fair enough if it was a freeware or a shareware game, but when the guy has the nerve to try and aim it at the educational market, then that worries me greatly.

Still, there's an incredible amount of data he would have had to of gathered.

Must just be a crappy programmer.

Still, there's an incredible amount of data he would have had to of gathered.

I wouldn't be surprised if all it took was a list of population centres, a summary of UN/WHO/Amnesty reports, and the CIA world factbook.

Must just be a crappy programmer.

A neat idea, though.

Kewl.

Gary Jones (age 14) of the UK has just got married to Deborah Green (age 14).


Minimum legal age to wed in the UK: 16 years old.

Kewl.

Gary Jones (age 14) of the UK has just got married to Deborah Green (age 14).


Minimum legal age to wed in the UK: 16 years old.

Obviously they were married under some hippie New Age church :D

It's not so much that this game is fun...it's just that it's hilarious

I was murdered at age ZERO in India. Which means either a) I'm NEVER moving there, or b) that's some pretty heavy anti-abortion propaganda :p

Sri Adjeng, the Indonesian soldier. Had 13 (12 if you count the ones that live)children and two wives (he accidently clicked "End Marraige"). Was outlived by his mother by twenty years (he died at the age of 52 from lung cancer). Became a father at age 16, smoking, doing drugs and battling on and off alcoholism. Had 5 siblings, three that were younger and two that were older. Ended his life living with his new wife and mother, with a net worth of 93,856,064 (an exchange rate of rupiahs per US dollar - 8,577.13 (2003))... So basically not as much as it appears.

Such an amazing story.

I also had a 13 year old Pakistani girl that got kicked out of her house for having a relationship with a boy the parents didn't like. Had to get a job as a farmer, the same boy that got her kicked out left her... Met another man, got married in the early teen's, had a child shortly after, and lived into her early 40's. She ended her life as a caretaker and had amassed a small fortune that amounted to about 200k in US dollars.

Has anybody found a way to have an extra-marital affair or more than one boyfriend/girlfriend simultaneously? The closest report we have had of this kind of thing was the infertile man's wife who kept 'mysteriously' becoming pregnant. There must be a way to have a bit on the side - surely serial monogamy isn't as universal as this game portrays?

Sri Adjeng, the Indonesian soldier. Had 13 (12 if you count the ones that live)children and two wives (he accidently clicked "End Marraige").
If only that could happen in real life.

Erm, anyone notice that you pwn the game if you make it past graduate school by studying Government in college and in graduate school?

Of course, you may have to hold the "enter" button a few seconds to get the job...

Wait a ****ing second...I'm infertile and the thing just told me my wife is pregneant!


!!!!!!!


Ahh well, I got an Acess Violation of course

Erm, anyone notice that you pwn the game if you make it past graduate school by studying Government in college and in graduate school?

Of course, you may have to hold the "enter" button a few seconds to get the job...
IIRC, you pwn the game if you finish tertiary education.

Moral of the game is: Study hard and don't get involved in human rights groups.

Moral of the game is: Study hard and don't get involved in human rights groups.

Pretty much. Whom do we suspect is actually behind the game? CIA? MI5? Mossad?

Pretty much. Whom do we suspect is actually behind the game? CIA? MI5? Mossad?
The Illuminati


or am I ahead of everyone here?

The Illuminati

Quite possibly - you will have noticed that there doesn't appear to be anyway to become a priest, yes? Interesting.

So based on the emphasis on tertiary education, are they planning to immanitize the eschaton through knowledge rather than violence?


Is it mere coincidence that Bill Drummond (ex-of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu) sets up a sit called My Death (http://www.mydeath.net:8080/), and then the facelss masters of the Illuminati retaliate by promoting a game called Real Lives?

Quite possibly - you will have noticed that there doesn't appear to be anyway to become a priest, yes? Interesting.

So based on the emphasis on tertiary education, are they planning to immanitize the eschaton through knowledge rather than violence?
*8th grade American knowledge cannot comprehend the words: tertiary, immanitize, and eschaton*

Erm....yes, of course!

An Tong
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married, one child
Age of Death: 67
Cause of death: Accident involving Dementia.

Made hundreds of thousands of Yuan without working and renlisted 10 years in a row. Arrested for 18 years because of human rights activies.

Holay Shaite

*8th grade American knowledge cannot comprehend the words: tertiary, immanitize, and eschaton*

Erm....yes, of course!

tertiary = third level

immanitize = make immanent, bring into being

eschaton = the final stage of things, or possibly the end of the current stage of things and the beginning of the new world order

tertiary = third level

immanitize = make immanent, bring into being

eschaton = the final stage of things, or possibly the end of the current stage of things and the beginning of the new world order
Ahh...I gotcha


I suppose that's why the highest military rank you can get is Sargeant (sp), right?

I mean....where's the General?

Here's soemthing else shagged in the programme:

Age 20...
"Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in a bank account.
Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in land.
Invested 50000 Pakistan rupees in high-risk stock."

No messages indicating anything has happened to any of the investments.

Age 24, and they have all disappeared, not just lost their value, but disappeared. Revert to age 20, just after they were made, and they no longer exist.

Here's soemthing else shagged in the programme:

Age 20...
"Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in a bank account.
Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in land.
Invested 50000 Pakistan rupees in high-risk stock."

No messages indicating anything has happened to any of the investments.

Age 24, and they have all disappeared, not just lost their value, but disappeared. Revert to age 20, just after they were made, and they no longer exist.
It's so in your real life you will get used to mysterious disappearances of money.

I'm 90 with 56 kids just had my 57th :p

It's so in your real life you will get used to mysterious disappearances of money.

Yes, I experience it frequently when drinking, but the game seems to be structured so that it will tell you when an investment is wiped out.

...but the game seems to be structured so that it will tell you when an investment is wiped out.
Only when its not your fault.

Only when its not your fault.

How exactly could it be a 20 year old factory working woman's fault that a bank collapsed, a piece of land disappeared into space and some stock disappeared from all records?

How exactly could it be a 20 year old factory working woman's fault that a bank collapsed, a piece of land disappeared into space and some stock disappeared from all records?

She knew too much!!!

The game has potential, it just needs alot of bug fixes...

and for once, I wanna choose to beat my children! well, not really. but you get the point. :headbang:

...and another thing, does nobody else find it odd that if you get raped you do not have any choices like going to the authorities or the law about it, bearing in mind the statistics which claim that anywhere from 50-75% of all rapists are known to their victims? The game seems to be perpetuating the myth here that rape is just another of those unavoidable things that happens and must be accepted as such, ho-hum, time to get on with life as normal immediately afterwards.


Hmm, another thought on the subject - obviously somebody is doing all the raping in this game: has anybody seen an info box that says "You have raped someone"?

The game has potential, it just needs alot of bug fixes...

and for once, I wanna choose to beat my children! well, not really. but you get the point. :headbang:
Yeah....Too few options on what to do with family...

...and another thing, does nobody else find it odd that if you get raped you do not have any choices like going to the authorities or the law about it, bearing in mind the statistics which claim that anywhere from 50-75% of all rapists are known to their victims? The game seems to be perpetuating the myth here that rape is just another of those unavoidable things that happens and must be accepted as such, ho-hum, time to get on with life as normal immediately afterwards.
I was a 53 year old man when I got raped... :(

I was a 53 year old man when I got raped... :(

I spent 3 years in a Northern Irish prison before I met someone that smoked...

For some reason, after I exit the game, it puts my monitor refresh rate as low as it will go.

I have to reset it every time.

i hope they make a crack for this so i dont have to pay

Hmm, another thought on the subject - obviously somebody is doing all the raping in this game: has anybody seen an info box that says "You have raped someone"?
That would be my character

53 year old men
70 year old women
2 year old boys


it's all good

erm....that was a joke

I downloaded the game, but then deleted it the next day cause it gets old REALLY quick.

Yeah, it does. A fairly worthwhile diversion though.

I got one with 66,000,000 Euros in the bank and died at 103...

I had 7,5 billion SEKs at the age of 110 or so. died 5 years later withg a lill less cash.

I havent got past 95. Should probably lay off the drugs, ciggies and booze.

-Whoa, I'm not reading through 11 pages O_o
-Man, I only got to actually RETIRE twice, once I had enough to live to age...137!!!!!, and the other time I had enoughto get to age 97.
-QuitstartingmeinChinadammit. I'm sick of China.
-Weird...I got NEGATIVE expenses once(when I was 10 & both my parents had died), along with NEGATIVE money.

Random diary:
0 years old
I was born a girl in a small town in Poland's Nowy Sacz Province, not far from the city of Nowy Sacz.

My parents have named me Inga. My surname is Zelinska. My mother, Marika, is 27 and my father, Leon, is 25. I have no brothers or sisters.

1 year old
2 years old
3 years old
I suffered a case of food poisoning.

My father has asthma.

4 years old
5 years old
6 years old
Began school.

7 years old
8 years old
9 years old
10 years old
11 years old
12 years old
13 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

14 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

Met a new boy I like very much, named Jaroslaw Grabowski.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Jaroslaw Grabowski.

15 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

16 years old
17 years old
Met a new boy I like very much, named Eduard Grabowski.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Eduard Grabowski.

My mother has taken a dangerous fall and suffered a broken femur. The injury has resulted in permanent limp.

18 years old
Graduated from secondary school.

Need to look for a job.

Began work as a farm worker.

Passed the entrance examinations and began college.

19 years old
20 years old
21 years old
My father has tuberculosis.

22 years old
Cleaned up someone else's mess.

23 years old
Volunteered in a local humanitarian effort.

Graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science.

Failed the graduate school entrance examination.

Moved away from home.

Moved to Poznan.

My mother has been cured of depression.

My father has been cured of tuberculosis.

24 years old
Moved to Pila.

Began work as a factory worker.

25 years old
Decided to give some money to charity.

Received a 3% pay raise.

Moved to Zamosc.

26 years old
My mother has diabetes.

27 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Szymon Borzecki.

Rejected by Szymon Borzecki.

28 years old
29 years old
30 years old
31 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Alfons Wojcik.

We've begun seeing each other.

My mother has arthritis of the knee.

My boyfriend Alfons has suffered an epileptic seizure.

32 years old
Invested 42 zlotych in a bank account.

33 years old
My parents don't approve of my engagement to Alfons Wojcik.

My boyfriend Alfons and I are now engaged..

Alfons Wojcik broke off our relationship.

Met a new man I like very much, named Juliusz Lewinski.

Rejected by Juliusz Lewinski.

34 years old
35 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Zbigniew Slowacki.

Rejected by Zbigniew Slowacki.

Received a 3% pay raise.

Met a new man I like very much, named Flawiusz Grabowski.

We've begun seeing each other.

Began work as a computer technician.

36 years old
Ended relationship with Flawiusz Grabowski.

37 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Stefan Plazewski.

We've begun seeing each other.

38 years old
39 years old
40 years old
My parents don't approve of my engagement to Stefan Plazewski.

My boyfriend Stefan and I are now engaged..

41 years old
My father has been involved in a road traffic accident but fortunately suffered no permanent injuries.

42 years old
My father has died at age 68 from a stroke.

43 years old
44 years old
45 years old
I have arthritis of the knee.

My boyfriend Stefan and I are now engaged..

Stefan Plazewski and I got married this year.

46 years old
Daughter Cela born.

47 years old
48 years old
49 years old
My daughter Cela began school.

50 years old
I was raped.

51 years old
Drowned at age 51.

I was able to make 15 different girlfriends pregnant in one year at age 16 before terminal boredom got the better of me. It certainly brings out the bastard in you, so it does.

Cleaned up someone else's mess.

How dull must the author's life be that he considers this a noteworthy event in a life?

How dull must the author's life be that he considers this a noteworthy event in a life?
Hey, with all those years with nothing in the diary...

Notes about my most recent game:
-I got my first "too old to continue working as a doctor" notice at age 81, I died at age 131 after several years of being annoyed with the "you're too old to continue working as..." thing. WHY DIDN'T IT LET ME RETIRE?! There really needs to be a "retire" option, instead of hoping the game will be kind and let you retire.(you could just "quit job", but when you RETIRE, your occupation is "retired" instead of there being nothing there)
-I had 186,058,720 yen(that's $1,673,641.56). RICHES! HURRAH!
-My daughter is 81 YEARS OLD and STILL LIVING WITH ME. And she's MARRIED. I want to kick her out already!!!
-Oh wait, she died at the age of 94...WHILE STILL LIVING WITH ME!!!
-Hmm...I was infertle...then my wife got pregnant(I aborted that one)...several years later, the "infertle" vanished from my list of health problems... but when I tried to get my wife pregnent again, it said that I was still infertle. HMMMM...
-Weird...my health would deterioate to 37 or so, then jump back up to 70-ish, then it'd deterioate again, then it'd jump back up to 70-ish...

when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...

Anyone else also notice that when the pay rate of a job goes up or down, your income stays the same?

You could be a Senior Gov. Official and be making the same as a Community Leader or something, unless you reapply for the job

Yay. I just started a new character and died at birth from asphyxia.

I started another character after that, and was murdered at age 16.

Anyone else also notice that when the pay rate of a job goes up or down, your income stays the same?

You could be a Senior Gov. Official and be making the same as a Community Leader or something, unless you reapply for the job

I had suspected that that might have something to do with relocating from one region to another, and still being paid at the usual rates for the other region, but you suggest otherwise. Certianly it seemed to me that quitting jobs frequently and seeking greener employment pastures was a much more lucrative path to follow instead of working overtime and continually hammering the 'ASK FOR A RAISE' option.


***

I now live with the constant fear that in 10 years I will be arguing with young kids on the internet who have formed their geopolitical opinions and knowledge of the world on the basis of this programme. I'm sure that you'll agree that in the name of all that is right, this game must be stopped.

Great ... thanks a lot ... that game depressed me ... now I need Paxil ...

I had suspected that that might have something to do with relocating from one region to another, and still being paid at the usual rates for the other region, but you suggest otherwise. Certianly it seemed to me that quitting jobs frequently and seeking greener employment pastures was a much more lucrative path to follow instead of working overtime and continually hammering the 'ASK FOR A RAISE' option.


***

I now live with the constant fear that in 10 years I will be arguing with young kids on the internet who have formed their geopolitical opinions and knowledge of the world on the basis of this programme. I'm sure that you'll agree that in the name of all that is right, this game must be stopped.
You work overtime, and ask for raises?

HA!


It also works vice-versa. When the job income on the list goes down, yours stays the same. heheh

I found a strange 'bug';
I cheated and made a man with 100% in everything - so of course I was infertile and got severe Depression (I guess being beautiful, strong, artistic and intelligent was just too much for one person to bear). Then I found no woman wanted me til I was 32 (and a high-paid judge) and she turned out to be schizophrenic, who commited suicide! Finally at age 48 I married - to a drug addict who beat me b4 she died of senility at age 62.
Finally, I kept dying age 70 of congential Heart failure. That is until I packed in my job at age 69, took up scavenging, became homeless, lived on a starvation diet and gave nothing to charity. When I did this, I lived til I was 101. And stopped being depressed. And I had $2Mill Euros in the bank.
I notice in another thread someone else who was a beggar lived til he was 102.
I wonder whether the makers of this aren't in fact socio-eco-anarchists who are trying to subtly influence us as to the way we should be living? If this game/sim takes off, maybe in a generation we'll have hordes of well-educated and well=paid ppl around the western world suddenly giving up their jobs and living on the streets. The very fabric of society will crumble and the anarchists will have won!
Good luck to them, I say! :p

I wonder whether the makers of this aren't in fact socio-eco-anarchists who are trying to subtly influence us as to the way we should be living? If this game/sim takes off, maybe in a generation we'll have hordes of well-educated and well=paid ppl around the western world suddenly giving up their jobs and living on the streets. The very fabric of society will crumble and the anarchists will have won!
Good luck to them, I say! :p

Nah: I think the agenda behind it isn't that one: try actually taking part in social activism for any length of time, and you will see that you get slapped down hard, imprisoned, sentenced to death and the like. Political activism outside your job is strongly discouraged in the 'simulation'... and I use that term loosely.

when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...
And usually in a third world country.


EDIT. I forgot there are more third world contries then first

And usually in a third world country.


EDIT. I forgot there are more third world contries then first
Actually, the area your born in depends on the birthrate of a nation.

Naturally, China and India are highest I suppose

when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...

'Always' seems a bit strong, but being a girl should be more common than being a boy - 52% compared to 48% (provided that infant mortality rates between the two are equal).

Actually, the area your born in depends on the birthrate of a nation.

Naturally, China and India are highest I suppose
>sound of penny dropping<

Everything is so obvious once explained.

A bump and a gravedig in light of the This Is Your Life (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=501714) thread.

Why the hell would I want to play a game that simulates real life?

59 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Executed by government security police.

lmfao, I was married and had like 5 girlfriends, and I was a police captain.

You must have slept with a G-man's wife...

this is hysterical.

My mother has syphilis, my father died when I was nine, and now my little brother has syphilis inherited from my mom.
Oh, and mom is insane :)

Ah, Nigeria, land of hope ;)

YES! I caught syphilis at age 15!
And my mother caught on fire >_>

And now my brother has a boyfriend...I wonder how many homosexuals there are in Nigeria O_o

Wow, my mother lived to be 80 in Nigeria, that deserves some kind of award :P


Aaaaand now I have prostate cancer! Yay!

Damn, I almost made it to 90. Died of an 'oppurtunistic infection' >_>

http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

This is a site which lets you live the random life of anyone in the world, it by the chances of it actually happening in real life chooses where you live, how many borthers and sisters you will have, how rich of poor will your parents etc, etc.

It's quite interesting since some wired stuff can happen to you(you can become homosexual, your country can get in a war among other things) .

Anyway, you have to buy the game to play it all, but they have great free trial of the their site to download(10 days). I rather sure that after the 10days are up, if you deleted the whole thing you can re-download it, but not 100% sure.

So download it can share some of your lifes!

this is pretty cool! and surprisingly addictive... couldn't stop 'playing' it for hours last night :p

i was a japanese bloke, with lower-than-average intelligence, couldn't get a decent job or get into college, but i did live damn meagerly and save up a shitload of money in bonds and land! :D

then i was a guy named Charles living in Winchester, UK (where i grew up), with 100 intelligence and 100 concience. i worked as a company president for a large number of years, made some good money (but of course the UK is horrendously expensive to live in...), and lived a long and boring life before dying of cancer at 70-something. heh.

Why the hell would I want to play a game that simulates real life?

To make up for a severe lack of a real life?