soysauce wrote:In all honesty I'm not sure that an influx of students using this in class would be positive for the community, while most people playing right now are doing it for fun these students would be playing seriously and trying to simulate certain situations, I think there is potential for a fairly major conflict between these two groups.
Plus, there's a chance that we'll be swamped, we only have about 160 players right now and two or three classes of Jamaicans playing could increase numbers by 40-50%, like most players who know each other they'll probably work in small groups and could take over a large proportion of the nations in the game.
This is a community, it's not designed to be an educational resource and I don't think that the community can take being treated like one,
I'm not sure who told you that I was inviting them to
this community. I am showing them Particracy, and introducing them to the concept.
You probably missed
this thread:
wlievens wrote:please hire me to finish Particracy
Selling something can only work if you have a buyer. I can't imagine who would buy a half finished game with a tiny community? And I don't think I want to give up my baby just yet, either.
From this, I had thought of marketing the game to my university (with permission from Wouter, and correspondence with Amazeroth). First, I was going after the clubs, like Model UN and Governance Society. Now, I'm going after the actual institution. By the way, the institution is Caribbean, not Jamaican. In Jamaica alone, there is a political divide and 2 clearly different ideologies in my generation (separate from the typical "revolutionaries" who just hate everything). The students from other Caribbean countries have even different ideas. When I invited Jamaicans to play, I ensured that they played in Lodamun so we could compete with each other (instead of all teaming up against someone else).
soysauce wrote:I'm also worried that the game might become sterile, I don't know if you've used many educational websites before but because they're usually monitored by teachers/staff people won't say anything vaguely rude and get annoyingly serious.
Even if they were coming here, the school would be focusing on election results, the status (passed/failed) of bills, and treaties, not scanning bill debates to look for naughty words. Political wit is actually admired, and being "rude" can be funny. It's university lecturers, not high school teachers. The lecturers themselves wouldn't be participating in this.
soysauce wrote:Personally I would get bored quickly if I ended up playing against someone who was only playing because it was part of his course and wasn't really interested because of the reasons stated above and I'm pretty sure others would agree with me.
About the course, it is more like things with forming coalitions and pushing for treaties to get passed in other countries, and the challenges faced.
It would also be more like a 2%-5% extra credit thing than "You must play Particracy. Login, vote, logout."