Pretty simple question.
For myself, to make a long story short, I found out about NationStates through a social studies teacher who showed us NS and Cybernations in like 8th grade. It was pretty dope, but I was more into CN. The wars and alliances were more fun there, and I didn’t really understand RPing without a game board or pieces to play with. It’s been a long time since, but discovering nation sims in my mid teens alongside classmates started what became a big part of my life in a lot of ways, both in time spent and emotion invested. And though nation sims are much less a part of life now, it still is very big in my nostalgic memory.
I often wonder how all my old alliance mates are today, and I often wish I could go back and relive those times, when I was wrapped up in whatever war we were waging, or some merger we were pursuing, or the elections for who would be best to lead us in the wars ahead. And, like, what life was like for each other as a teenage nerd in some other far-flung part of the country, or the world. We did have some things in common, after all, like Star Wars and video games.
Based on the age thread it seems like there are actually a bunch of young people on this forum, though, and a few geezers who definitely couldn’t have found this game in their school years, so it’s funny to think my nostalgia could be somebody else’s present, or something like that. So, how did you find NationStates, other nation sims, and what do you think of them?
