09-08-2002 16:14									#1
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Recent discussion on whether we should have parties or not have made me thought about how exactly do people view this game... this is my first democracy game so I'm not really sure what people generally want from this sort of thing. Myself, I think of it as a mixture of roleplay and politics. Strategy comes on third place, mostly as means of political propaganda. But, I am afraid I might be horribly wrong because I lack the experience, so I am especially interested in what the veterans of other demo games think.

	09-08-2002 16:32									#2
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To me this is pastime, entertainment. I do not play for the sake of the game itself or for the sake of any aspect of the game; I play to have fun, to lay my mind off the toils of regular all-day life. The same reason I play any PC games, really.

	09-08-2002 16:35									#3
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can't decide, all of the above. just haven't figured out my role yet.

	09-08-2002 16:54									#4
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this is just for FUn to make my life a little bit (well currently much more) better

	09-08-2002 17:00									#5
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It never occurred to me that someone might play this to NOT have fun... maybe I should've added an "I'm a masochist and this is excellent means of torturing myself" option. Nah, what I'm mostly interesting in is what exactly makes this fun.

	09-08-2002 17:02									#6
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ok then it will be the roleplaying for me i think because that takes in alot of the aspects of the game likt strategy and politics

	09-08-2002 19:28									#7
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i got into this because i wanted to play SMAC, but political arguements are actually really fun. so is trying to persuade other people of the benefits of free market () or arguing with pandemoniak about punishment spheres

	09-08-2002 19:33									#8
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I also got into it for the Roleplay and especially because SMAC is the best game for a democracy game.

	09-08-2002 19:45									#9
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to have fun, be it winning the game, creating a party, role-playing or whatever...

	09-08-2002 20:28									#10
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Roleplay, part of which is of course politics.

	09-08-2002 21:47									#11
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Role-play is definitely the most curtail element, IMO it makes things rather more interesting than just deciding the optimal strategy or playing around with political systems.

	09-08-2002 22:24									#12
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Playing the game, but I also enjoy role playing. I mean, without it, the UNN wouldn't exist. (Well it would....but it would be pretty boring too)

	09-08-2002 22:39									#13
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A mixture of roleplay and politics. While I certainly woud prefer to have political victories, to have EDP be a major mover and shaker, the most important thing for me is to play a role, and advocate the exploration and discovery, whether it's agreed to or not.

(BTW, I voted for Roleplay because it seemed closest.)