[War_ooc] Okay, so...

[lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca]

I like this.

Can we at least make a scale of Left, left-center, center-left,  
center, center-right, right-center, right then?

Quoting Michael Downey <michael.michaeldowney at gmail.com>:

> I would say to perspective applicants:
>
> ----
> Hey, welcome to war. We are a creative writing game grounded in
> realism, but the main point is to have fun! When writing a post, take
> the following things into mind-
> 1) Has anything like/similar this happened before? Has anything
> like/similar to this happened in this particular country before?
>
> 2) How left/right is this action? How left/right is the country in question?
>
> 3) Is the quality of writing good enough? Are my arguments logical?
> Have I given credible justification?
> ---
>
> I do prefer this instead of telling then "in this creative writing
> game we base everything on a political/economic/military/social scale
> system of 1 to 10." The 1-10 system isn't stupid, it is logical, but
> it would be too cumbersome to be the main system in our game, IMHO
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Iain<iain at iain-waddell.co.uk> wrote:
>> I must say I'm with Pat on this particular point - I maybe one of the
>> newbies myself but I would be thinking wtf, screw that had it been brought
>> up during joining.
>>
>> If new people come in and introduce stupid, completely off the wall things
>> that can surely be addressed then?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: war_ooc-bounces at esteroic.com [mailto:war_ooc-bounces at esteroic.com] On
>> Behalf Of lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca
>> Sent: 21 June 2009 22:32
>> To: war_ooc at esteroic.com
>> Subject: Re: [War_ooc] Okay, so...
>>
>> Yeah, but then we avoid the zimbabwe gundams. Do you really want new
>> people coming in just to introduce zimbabwe gundams?
>>
>> Quoting Patrick B <pbuck11 at aol.com>:
>>
>>> Ok...
>>>
>>> now Imagine this scenario
>>>
>>> Newbie: Yaay new sim....I'm gonna be germany it's gonna be fun
>>> GM: Ok we have a system to rank posts
>>> Newbie: Cool! How does it work
>>> (insert long post involving scale sliding money control quality....eyes
>>> glaze over)
>>> Newbie: Screw this i'm going to play WOW, <unsubs>
>>> Rest of us: Why can't we get newbies.
>>>
>>>
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