It’s been about ten years since, as a truly multiplayer game down from the peak of glory. Note: we are not talking about the MMO or farms – most of the projects in the spirit of Second Life, where everything is really decided by the players and not just take the quests from the computer managers. These games became sorely be missed, but it seems that loomed on the horizon the good news is VirCities. Is a multiplayer strategy about politics constructed entirely on the relationship between live players. And if now you are not intrigued, then do not understand that can captivate you.
The first thing you will do in VirCities –create your character. The second ignite, when you realize that all the places here are filled with real people. All. For example, your boss is, because first you would have to get a job in a virtual company created by a living person. However, let’s order.
The Central (but not always the main) purpose VirCities – be mayor. Yes, there is much tied to politics: there are parties, the electorate and the space for the use of dirty political technologies – the authors argue that in VirCities possible to run in the election campaign, and then transfer them into reality (of course, developing an honest and effective plan of action).. To become the mayor, you have to get into the party (or start your own) and to gain the respect of colleagues – so we have a extensive influence. How to achieve it? Well, you can take a cue from these politicians and start business is a great start that may lead in an armchair of the mayor.
But there are a million other ways – as in life. You can still work in any office for oil, and not rock the boat. But this is real life – therefore it will be logical to try to do something crazy. To do this, don’t be afraid to experiment – say, accumulate money, get a licensed doctor and treat people – for a fee, of course. Or let the winds: create a company to manufacture weapons, buy powerful machines, and drive urban gangs, which is probably the only one in the game is controlled by the computer. However, since August, the game can be PvP bits/battle with real people. Oh and don’t forget about interstate war, because the city can conflict with each other, and war for the native land – good way to earn prestige points.
Giant lot of possibilities inherent in VirCities, the implementation is surprisingly simple – in the form of tables, pictures and graphs. Perhaps this is correct – if the authors visualized gang war in more detail, the game would have to do all my life. But political squabbles?.. In General, it’s better you go to war, an application that-counts, compares the statistics, and provides the answer: win. Or not – then the direct path to the hospital. However, behind this simplicity lie also diplomatic correspondence of mayors of cities, alliances and conspiracies.
Every meaningful action takes energy, and often money, so the balance is arranged in a simple way – out glasses, you either fill them for currency (including those bought with real money) or lay VirCities for later. So interesting-session game that you can “drive” every few hours for five to ten minutes – ideal for the mobile format.
In VirCities you can also play as members of the official social networking apps: the developers kept the feedback from players and organize weekly voting on topical issues of the real world, as well as arrange contests.
VirCities – a great experiment, full of real people with whom you can interact in a most peculiar way. Even if you are poorly interested in online game VirCities you can run just to see something unusual – like thousands of real people to build a career in the virtual world.
