Farsun wrote:I've come up with some ideas over the years and I figured I'd see what the people thought. I've come back and will likely be back for a while seeing as summer is ahead of us and I have a lot more time on my hands with a career in the works. So here are some of my ideas for a re-invigorated PT Classic.
I have a dream that one day, PT will not be judged by the color of her parties but by the content of their RP! lol
1) Introduction of a volunteer RP Team. These volunteers would help manage a Moderator created UN-esque organization which would give representation to all countries in the game. This would allow players to come together and work together or against each other; allowing the development of realistic geopolitics.
This would be fun! Though perhaps allow these in game moderators to be a little more troublesome? Like allow them to perhaps start natural disasters, maybe scattered terrorist attacks. It could really allow us to branch out into non-govt related international and intra-national actions and relationships. And given how often random things happen in the world, it would be interesting shake ups from time to time.
As for the UN proposal, i echo Aqunias's concerns however I do believe that should we ever get a large enough base of players that is consistently active in multiple countries across the world then we could go full throttle UN. Until then I think we should emulate the Concert of Europe here in PT (called the Concert of Terra) where the most active and generally powerful nations of PT would shape world events. A G-10 or something along those lines is what I am shooting for. And of course we should be focusing on regional international development too, like the AU, MU, maybe regional defense pacts? things of that nature.
2) Introduction of commodities. This would allow players to opt-in and participate in economic RP. This would be accompanied by a map of resources throughout the world, it would be realistic by region. It would be an official map that gave players something tangible to hold onto and defend and give people a reason to go to war. For instance having oil and having oil actually having an effect on a nations economy, if another player captures it, then it would be bad.
I've always been fuzzy on economics but distributing resources would be a great idea. Though in my opinion we would really need to flesh out in better detail the geography of Terra and the individual nations.
3) Introduction of new rules for war and conflict RPs. Essentially writing new Rildanor Accords and changing things around. Much of this work has been done through OTAF, my project I started years ago. That would allow more fluid RP and whatnot when it came to conflicts. Essentially this would be removing hard limits on troops short of what your actual budget could support.
Hehe well, we've long butted heads over this issue but I can support you here. All I ask is removal of troop limits, placing RP limits on the effectiveness of conscripts (as a war drags on and you have to draft more and more of your people their fighting ability lessens), and stringent restrictions on development and use of nuclear weapons (chem, bio or even dirty bombs and other radiological weapons inflict far less broad damage). Perhaps also more oversight of which nations are in a position to develop their own domestic arms industries (beyond being copycats of others that is) along with missile developments and the like.
4) Moderator/RP Team created events that would spur players to react, some through the UN-created organization and others through individual means. This is more or less consensus decisions about
see above
5) Working on editing population numbers with Wouter to allow more variance between nations.
This would be a fantastic idea! Perhaps even be able to change ministers? Like create and change the name of different ministries?
6) Perhaps investing in research of skins for the forum, to make it appear a bit more visually attractive.
7) Advertisements on various RP websites that I've known through my dealings as head of the largest SW RP site on InvisionFree for 8 years.
You have my full support here!