Choice Party wrote:I thought I'd write about my opinions and views on the new Particracy so far.
Thanks for your feedback. That's what this thread demands.
Choice Party wrote:I've played a few parties on there, I've always seemed to gave up in the end for some reason. :/ I'm going to try sticking around this time though! I think my new nation has some potential under my wise leadership.
I think the 2 main problems are lack of interaction and lack of things to do:
1) We don't interact with each other much because we don't check for when there are bills up for debate/voting (it's easier to check in Classic).
2) There aren't many variables to have votes on.
Choice Party wrote:One of my main issues is fielding politicians. Unlike Classic Particracy you can't type their names in manually and you have a random name generator instead. For some reason, it doesn't actually work for me well, I can only like click on the dice once and it works, sometimes not even that. After I click on the dice once, when I try again nothing happens.
That's very strange. I just checked it again and it works well for me. A new name pops up whenever I click the dice. I would like to know if anyone else is having this issue (as well as additional information from you all like browser, etc.), so that I can inform Wouter.
Choice Party wrote:Plus I like the freedom to choose names like I do on particracy.
That's one thing that I'm not sure will be a good thing. For one, some worlds will want cultures to exist, and for cultural protocols to at least govern name generation. Secondly, Moderation won't be policing each party to see that their characters' names aren't real persons' names, and we don't want Moderation to wait until too late to do something about that, do we? Once
an inappropriate character name ends up in an election result, we can't change it, and it remains a permanent stain on the records of a nation and on the world.
Choice Party wrote:Another thing is that it may just be me being stupid and not used to it, but I do find the game and layout rather complicated. One of my favourite aspects about games such as the original particracy and Nationstates is how basic it is, a clear east format.
One thing that did make Classic so easy to come back to was its very simple layout. It seemed complicated at first, but it was only because it was so much information to take in. My friends and I always joked that it looks like we're using Windows 95, but we still loved the simplicity. I wouldn't say that the new layout is complicated; it's just new, and I find it difficult to adapt to new layouts as well. One thing that Classic has is a set of links (at the top or left) where you can navigate anywhere. The new Particracy has some links up top (party, nation, messages), but it does feel lacking. It's only one click to get to the World Map or Nations list in Classic; it's 2 in the new Particracy.
Choice Party wrote:Although I acknowledge I'm likely in a minority here. But I still really like how the new one is turning out, it has the potential to be one of the best known political simulators in my opinion.
No, the issues you pointed out could very well have been issues for other players too. It's still important that you brought them up. Again, thanks.
Choice Party wrote:I find all the different legislatures rather hard to understand too, although I really do love the idea of multiple parliaments. Personally I think it'd be cool to show a bar graph with the number of seats each party has in each legislature on the main page like in the classic particracy, or at least for higher and lower house.
The thing is... We haven't used "multiple parliaments" for a single entity at once, yet. The most we have done so far is to have 2 or more chambers for a parliament. If you click on a chamber, or a unicameral parliament, you will see the seat share of the parties. You also see the seat share on bills in the same way you do in Classic.
But I do think that your suggestion is good. We would just have to change how we show the seats, because it can't be done in the same way that we have it in Classic. In Classic, we have bars right beside the names. That will be problematic for multiple chambers. What we could do is to have it shown in the same way that it appears on bills, i.e. a single image for each chamber, split into the colours for the different parties. Would this be good enough for you?
Choice Party wrote:But any way, that's just my two cents. Overall I think it's great.
What about it do you think is great?