The Country as an MMO
From Tod
:"To me, the entire point of voting is
to try and improve the SYSTEM as a whole. I think of a nation as an MMO, full of
griefers and scammers and asshole GM's, and my goal as a citizen is to promote
changes to policy and gameplay that will make everyone's experience pleasant,
productive, and most of all FAIR. In game design you influence the players
solely through the design of the system and the cause-and-effect chain of events
that their actions start, so that a well-designed system produces happy and
productive players. A governmental system operates the same way, except that the
GM's are elected from the body of the players. Of course, to get elected you
have to be in a huge Guild, with loads of gold from exploiting Chinese farmers
and all the Epic Tier 3 armor sets from the endgame raid
dungeons."A perfect explanation of the
electoral process for today's youth. Nice!
Filed Thu - November 9, 2006, 08:28 AM in
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