Jumping Ship

There's an interesting discussion in the Pacific Press about the dire state of NS over the past 2.5 years. This is an extract of a mini-essay you can find in my memoirs: The Redundancy of the NationStates Game (February 2005):

I think it was last Tuesday - NS was down again whilst they implemented new code. What struck me was that it really made no difference - the government ran along nicely even though we couldn't actually see our region or our nations.
If NS was terminated tomorrow, would it make a difference?

No, it wouldn't make a difference. The communities that were established because of NS, do not require NS to continue. A lot of long-time NS players are now playing Particracy aswell, and some have even completely jumped ship - and the communities have also moved. Take The Proletariat Coalition for example, my mini-essay described why a group of political similar individuals was about more than just playing NS - think of it as an internet-based subculture pressure group. A dozen or so TPCers, including myself, are now also playing Particracy and I've founded an "party organisation", named The Proletariat Coalition.

The real TPC community is based on its forum, like all other developed NS regions. There's nothing to prevent it branching into Particracy or any other political games. That's where I see the future for NS communities - unless NS2 is ever so spectacular, that we can't afford to concentrate on anything else.

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