NationStates Jolt Archive

I've been playing Eve Online for the past few months, and I like it because not only do I get to roleplay (not just as an individual, but as a representative of an organization), but there are actual battles and consequences and economic development and invention.

I think NationStates is missing a major component, in that actual warfare isn't adequately simulated. Nor is actual economic or technical development.

Would you support a more robust version of NationStates in this regard?

I think NationStates is missing a major component, in that actual warfare isn't adequately simulated. Nor is actual economic or technical development.

Would you support a more robust version of NationStates in this regard?

Like this: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1228 ?

that's what ns2 is for. and IIRC correctly, it's going to cost money. so, no i don't want it.

Like this: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1228 ?

Even more so. A total immersive experience, like Eve Online.

With the possibility of major wars.

Hmm, I played Eve for over a year, and didn't really find the combat all that exciting, except when I was suiciding cruisers for giggles in Empire wars. Fleet combat was dull.

The economy was really interesting, though, and actually made the game worth playing. Until you had more money than you knew what to do with; then waiting for the skills to level up so that you could buy one of the bigger ships (or even a T2 cruiser and the associated weapons skills; I'd been working mostly on mining and things, and a month for Cruiser V...) was just money down the pan. And when you fly from deep 0.0 to Empire with 50-odd million ISK of minerals in the boot of your Sigil, and don't even get a buzz from outrunning pirates in Interceptors, it's time to stop paying up.

It's a great game*, and I miss it, but I wouldn't go back. Not even for all those new toys I just saw in the Item DB. Besides, the 1.5bn I gave away when I left has long since been spent ;) .

*Apart from managing a POS. That was shit, unfortunately.

Heh. I put up a slightly different post on this not long ago, pointing out thgat Ns fulfills one of the three niches that free nation sim MMORPG's might do.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=517627

I won't pay for a game like this. I might pay for a seriously more advanced simulationist type game, maybe, if it weren't more that US$10-20 a year and included realistic features like culture and geography influancing things like the state, resources, and warfare. No no free nation sim MMORPG does that, AFAIK. (If anyone does know a free one that does, let me know!!!)