Puppets
Saint Fedski
13-10-2005, 04:04
What's the deal with Puppets? Are they allowed? If so, how do you make them? How can you RP with puppets? Ok. I think that's enough questions for now.
Gruenberg
13-10-2005, 04:22
1. Puppets are nations owned by a player with more than one nation.
2. Yes, they're allowed, with a couple of provisos:
- you can only have one in the UN;
- if you receive a forumban (and I hope that you don't), you can't use puppets to post round it;
- it's not illegal, but it is very annoying, if you keep forgetting about your 300 puppets, and submit vast resurrection requests to the mods every month (they have indicated that repeat offenders might receive a 'sorry, but no' answer) - so I'd suggest not creating too many i.e. enough that you remember them all and keep them all active.
3. Log out, go to 'Create A Nation', and make your new nation. Wash, rinse, repeat.
4. Yes, you can use puppets to RP. However, it's considered bad form to build alliances composed heavily/solely of puppets, or to use them to boost your main nation's military/economy/territory. It's also not liked if you invade a puppet so you can get its land. (See also 'Puppet Wank' (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wank#Puppet_Wank) in NSWiki.)
That said, you can use puppets well in RP. For example, if your main nation is MT, you could use your puppet to do some FT RP. You might also want to have a 'UN Puppet' (remember, only one) so that your main nation is unaffected by economic hits.
Saint Fedski
13-10-2005, 05:22
4. Yes, you can use puppets to RP. However, it's considered bad form to build alliances composed heavily/solely of puppets, or to use them to boost your main nation's military/economy/territory. It's also not liked if you invade a puppet so you can get its land.
Well I'm the Holy Empire of Saint Fedski which is made up of 7 separate nations but act both unilaterally and as one. I am currently creating a story where the Forces of the Republic of New McFarland (the heart of the holy empire so therefore known as the holy empire of saint fedski) reclaim the 6 other nations that have broken off. Once they are all reunited, would it be puppet wanking if they were to go into battle together, as long as i made sure the readers of the thread knew, or individually.
Gruenberg
13-10-2005, 05:26
Um...well. The thing with wank is that it's not a set of laws: it's more organic than that. One person's "OMG JOO WANK" is another's "yeah, that's reasonable". So it's hard to say, really. Personally, I'd be willing to be in an RP with 7 puppets; I know many would not. It's something you'd just have to discuss with those involved.
(Interesting RP idea, by the way. MT or FT?)
Saint Fedski
13-10-2005, 05:31
Thank you for your help. It'll be MT (I assume means modern/current tech). That's all I'm really interested in. Not much of Star Wars or Star Trek fans nor do I worship the days of the lords and ladies.
I'd also be in a RP against someone with however many puppets. Especially since, against just one nation, it gets kind of boring after a while—watching them get crushed effortlessly by my own forces. :p
I might participate in this one; I'm MT and bored. :D
Gruenberg
13-10-2005, 06:39
Yeah, I quite fancy it actually. (I should point out, I'm really no one to talk: I have puppet buffers to the north of my nation.)
New Pindorama
13-10-2005, 10:23
I know all the questions were answered, but I think I hate when people use more than one nation in RP. It's legal as everething in RP, but don't do it, please. Puppets are more used in Gameplay for recruiting, spying and invading...