NationStates Jolt Archive


NS - an unexpected result

One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 05:54
Hello! Here are some of my thoughts about the game:

NationStates has started as a simulation based on the book Jennifer Government (as we all know). In this book corporations rule the world, and it's all about how to sell more.

At first in the NS World everything looks OK - there are no corporations that are ruling this world. But if a player goes in one of the main regions, (The Pacifics, Lazarus or TRR) - that player finds himself swimming in a sea of recruiting ads. The RMBs from this 7 regions have almost only recruiting ads all the time. Isn't this exactly the same strategy that corporations would use - to fill the world with ads?
Colodia
20-12-2005, 06:04
Hey it's Max.
One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 06:20
Hey it's Max.

Like in "Max Magic"... or "Hey I'm Max"? ;)
Colodia
20-12-2005, 06:23
Like in "Max Magic"... or "Hey I'm Max"? ;)
I'm confused. Then again, men with their last names rhyming with hairy tend to be confusing men. :D
One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 06:25
I'm confused too. Anyway Magic isn't about the name "Magic" - just about magic. :rolleyes: :)
Colodia
20-12-2005, 06:27
I'm confused too. Anyway Magic isn't about the name "Magic" - just about magic. :rolleyes: :)
So you're saying that you're Max Powers?

*is waaaaaaaay out there by now*
One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 06:28
No - I'm not saying that - I was only asking about what you said when you said "Hey it's Max" - some people do speak about themselves at the third person.

What do you think about the idea from the first post?
[NS]Big Jim P
20-12-2005, 06:37
It looks as if we finally drove Max insane.
One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 06:41
Big Jim P']It looks as if we finally drove Max insane.
I am not Max! And I am not insane! But I reserve the right to use exclamation and other punctuation signs...

Nobody finds my point of view (from the first post) interesting?
Big Jim P
20-12-2005, 06:55
I am not Max! And I am not insane! But I reserve the right to use exclamation and other punctuation signs...

Nobody finds my point of view (from the first post) interesting?

Not really. I never leave my home region anymore.
Gymoor II The Return
20-12-2005, 07:07
Not really. I never leave my home region anymore.

But enough about real life...
Big Jim P
20-12-2005, 07:11
But enough about real life...

There is no real life. There is only NS.:D
Sarkhaan
20-12-2005, 09:56
But enough about real life...
You mean out there with the big shiny coin in the sky? *looks in awe, curls back into computer chair in fetal position, trembling, singing "It's a small world after all"*
Harlesburg
20-12-2005, 10:06
Currently Harlesburg's third worst Scientific Group Laxacorp are developing a Lazer Beam to Carve HARLESY RULEZ on the moon.....
FMP
20-12-2005, 10:14
No - I'm not saying that - I was only asking about what you said when you said "Hey it's Max" - some people do speak about themselves at the third person.

What do you think about the idea from the first post?

you do have a point there...*goes off to ponder for a while...*
Melkor Unchained
20-12-2005, 11:03
Hello! Here are some of my thoughts about the game:

NationStates has started as a simulation based on the book Jennifer Government (as we all know). In this book corporations rule the world, and it's all about how to sell more.

At first in the NS World everything looks OK - there are no corporations that are ruling this world. But if a player goes in one of the main regions, (The Pacifics, Lazarus or TRR) - that player finds himself swimming in a sea of recruiting ads. The RMBs from this 7 regions have almost only recruiting ads all the time. Isn't this exactly the same strategy that corporations would use - to fill the world with ads?
Three things: one, recruiting is legal.

Two, This thread was started in the wrong forum.

Three, the assertation that corporations [invariably] = 'bad' is a tired one. For the first seventeen years of my life, advertising money put food on my table, kept my family financially secure, and [i]kept me alive more or less. I don't typically take kindly to people who prefer to trivialize the notion. If you don't like them, ignore them.
One Crazy Nation
20-12-2005, 14:11
Three things: one, recruiting is legal.

Two, This thread was started in the wrong forum.

Three, the assertation that corporations [invariably] = 'bad' is a tired one. For the first seventeen years of my life, advertising money put food on my table, kept my family financially secure, and [i]kept me alive more or less. I don't typically take kindly to people who prefer to trivialize the notion. If you don't like them, ignore them.

1) I am not against it.

2)Sorry about that.

3)I am not making this point. I only think that too much of something is sometimes wrong - like the fact that the RMB of those regions is only with ads. I am not against ads in general - but I don't think that people would watch TV so much if it would have only ads (or read newspapers).

P.S. Nice work in the NS elections Melkor. :)