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Ashley, how many of those 100 people that had trouble voting (using AOL) actually play TSO? How many of them are friends in your RL community? How many of your votes (estimation) came from sims in TSO?

My campaign was geared towards sims in ALPHAVILLE. I personally go out to lots and participate in AV events. I go to the GAME SHOW CHANNEL, I was at the Alphaville Awards, I watch Alphaville Wreslting Entertainment Monday Nights, I paid to see a show at the Diamond Memorial Theatre, these are a few things that I do to show support for ALPHAVILLE. Do I have to be a contestant at the Family Fued? Did anyone make me watch ’27 Wagons Full of Cotton’.. No. I did it because I support the sims of AV. I’m not just the President of the AVG, I’m a Resident of of the City of Alphaville. I play an active part in ALPHAVILLE. Sims know this in game. My campaign was geared towards the sims of AV. People in ALPHAVILLE voted for me.

—Do not respond to this “Ian” or any of the names I mentioned above.

This is so stupid and immature!

Coco, wow I agree with you (only the second time

An election is just one fun aspect of the game. And this one was the most professional election ever done in any city of the game since its beginning. You think they can’t do anything – but they can: They provide role-play, and a structure for other activities, just as a neighborhood such as Sim Arts does.

I voted for Mr. President because he is pleasant to everyone – even-tempered, as I think Uri put it. Ashley is equally nice, but a little more prone to getting wrought up over things. The ability to remain calm is important in this game, as is the ability to live and let live and get along with most everybody, mafia included.

I also voted for Mr. President because he has made it a point not to bring rl politics into the game. We don’t know what his rl politics are, and that is terrific. The game is, after all, supposed to be an escape.

I agree that some of his minions leave a lot to be desired. But he himself is a consummate politician. He connects with each individual he meets, in a low-key, totally non-pushy manner. I don’t doubt for a minute that he impressed many, many people the same way he impressed me, one at a time, and he got their votes rightfully as a result.

coco

Hehehe…inbred hillbillies in Okinawa? I can’t stop chuckling at the image.

First off we have the core of The Sims Online – a glorified chat room where people from all over the world and from all walks of life can pretend to be…..an ordinary person. From all I have seen and read TSO has been so poorly designed, managed and supported that EA has been able to turn a world-wide best seller into the Communism of computer games. Communism defined as a fascinating concept that might work if not for the enormous drag factor of human nature itself. Lets face it communism was no fun – democracy has all the best parties.

TSO’s only goal in game from what I could tell was the accumulation of wealth, either social or financial. I personally do not understand the driving force behind the accumulation of social gratification in an imaginary world. Now the accumulation of in-game financial wealth I can understand. Those who have been able to manipulate TSO into real-world financial gain, I tip my hat to you. You are the glory that is capitalism. You have been able to push the boundaries of base consumerism by selling imaginary goods from an imaginary world that you do not even own to people whose only use for it is to be used in said world in a game that they pay to play anyway. To that I have to say “WOW”, you are gods.

This leads us to your current situation: TSO Presidential elections. WHOOO! I have to be missing something here. Becoming President of Alphaville, an imaginary town, whose sole power rests in the massed delusion of the other players that the position actually means something, is like going to Herculean efforts to masturbate. All that effort could have gone into wooing a real sexual partner for a far more interesting result. I have never seen a political event like this outside of a banana republic or the “coup-of-the-month club” that is Africa.

The election itself was run and managed by the incumbent, who shall here after be referred to as “El Presidente”. Technical support and advice was provided by the self proclaimed leader of organized crime. I had to do a double take here as the crime lords and special interest groups of Alphaville had their collective hand so far up El Predidente’s ass at first glace I thought he was a sock puppet.

Any questions so far?

His main rival for the office of President, here after referred to as “The Kid” was someone who is, lets face it, still young enough to be exploring the mysteries and wonders known as puberty. The Kid has the political depth that can be rivaled only by damp cement and the leadership skills of the lead lemming in a mad dash for the white cliffs of Dover.

When I was told that TSO is a microcosm of the earth in general and the US in particular I broke out in a cold, panicky sweat. Then I realized that that could only be true if God was an inbred hillbilly from some place like West Virginia, Newfoundland, Corsica, or Okinawa.

SSgt Dave

JC Soprano- I listened to what you had to say, and I told my supporters that they have to use Internet Explorer (The ones that were on), and half of them didn’t have IE, so is that fair- that a Sim who lives in Alphaville cannot vote because they use AOL and are not poor and use the cheap Internet Explorer.

Ian- I have nothing to say to you except that you are a complete a**hole.

—I cannot believe I actually took part in this fake government. Mr-President’s “guys” are complete jerks and I have proof that they wanted to fix the election from the pictures my friend took last night when she was at the Capital.

Go down Bush!