[War_ooc] Okay, so...

[Ian Martell]

Hey all count me in!

Now for my two cents. First, I am for near-future WAR, it's basically what I 
think of when I think of WAR and it's easy for people to understand getting 
into it. As to the codification debate, I like what Lee is saying, the point 
scale could be helpful in that it creates a baseline for people to orient 
their posts by and saves lots of research. That said I'd like to make the 
following suggestions. First, that government, population, and international 
support numbers are taken into account. ie the more popular your leader the 
more he can do etc. Also that we keep the 'crack test' and the idea that 
good writing can make up for a multitude of impossibilities, for example if 
you write a solid series of posts about how your leader gets the country to 
accept something a little out there, I think it should go through, 
especially if it moves the game along.

So in summary, I think the story of the game should be the primary focus 
(after all its what makes it fun) but we do need something either real world 
facts or the 1-10 scale to keep a common frame of reference for our posts.

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From: <lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:02 PM
To: <war_ooc at esteroic.com>
Subject: Re: [War_ooc] Okay, so...

> Fair enough.
>
> I don't think that goes far enough though -- there would still need to
> be deliberation of whether or not it would work or not.
>
> I was thinking more or less along the lines of rating the countries
> fiscal, legal, and political leverages on a, say, 10 point scale, and
> then deliberate if the actions are within the realm of possibility
> that way. As an example, we could say that if (0 being left, 10 being
> right) Canada as a country was a 5 on the political spectrum, governed
> by a 6 government, implementing an 8 policy would be plain
> highly-unlikely, whereby a 7 might seem fair. It would then come down
> to defining how we determine where the policies lie (ie John's job).
>
> I think that makes sense?
>
> Quoting Michael Downey <michael.michaeldowney at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM, <lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> Again, we don't have to codify everything, but why not codify some
>>> things so we don't have to get bogged down in it later?'
>>
>> I thought the three criteria I listed were a good (but not perfect,
>> needs to be expanded) start.
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