[War_ooc] Silly things found or said while hunting for a new sim

[John Penta]

All 3 of my main constellation are...fighter pilots.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:56 PM,  <Chazenesq2b at aol.com> wrote:
> What kind of characters do you have John?
>
> In a message dated 8/11/2010 9:16:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> john.penta at gmail.com writes:
>
> Hi WAR people! I'll be amazed if anybody actually reads this, but I
> had to share.:)
>
> Anyhow, so. The Trek sim I've been playing on for the past year+ is
> shutting down due to GM burnout (sadly, burnout with writing Trek, so
> just joining the next sim they come up with ain't totally an option),
> so I'm looking for a new one.
>
> Not just looking for a new one, but one I can transfer a primary
> character to (and possibly two or three secondary characters (aka
> NPCs) later on) without rewriting them too much (because after a
> certain point, it'd become easier to write a totally new character,
> and that doesn't appeal to me much at the moment; I have too many
> stories unwritten with my current character set). Kind of hard when
> the character(s) is(/are) fighter pilot(s). (Anybody with sims they
> like, let me know.)
>
> So, I'm looking high and low for sims that fit. Even, against my
> natural inclination, at fleets like Obsidian Fleet or Bravo Fleet.
>
> While I was looking around today, I wandered through Obsidian Fleet's
> forums...Where one message I read struck me as a perfect description
> of all WAR's craziness over the years:
>
> "Star Trek Simm Fleets are a little like Third World countries, One
> second everything's going well and then BAM, there's a coup, and the
> whole thing implodes."
>
> And then, on a similar note, there's me, trying to explain WAR to a GM
> and explain where I got most of my sim experience:
>
> "Imagine Model UN. Add your average sim of any genre. Then add crack,
> steroids, and a number of other drugs that defy description, maybe
> including a hallucinogen of your choice. Put it all in a blender. It
> was a wonderful game, it even had its uses otherwise (I learned more
> about practical geopolitics from playing it in just a short time than
> I did from years of keeping up with the news). It was also at times
> like a really strange acid trip, and sometimes the competitiveness and
> insanity made a banana republic look stable. So yes, I know how to
> write posts and develop characters - I also had bibliographies, albeit
> a few years out of date, dedicated to 'How to topple governments' and
> 'How to conduct an insurgency', so I could also say I know how to do
> that, too."
>
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