World War in SL Inevitable!!!

Some people trying to copy the terrorists in Iraq, I think. Probably just a monkey-see monkey-do fad which will probably decline on its own as the violence in Iraq diminishes.

If there was a war, I don't think it would be anything like a conventional RL war. The biggest friction between two groups that I've notived is between the Publics and the Privates.
The Publics want to go anywhere, see anything, and do whatever they want. They'll do airplane races across from the northern to the southern continent, and damned if anybody gets in their way. Somebody's tower is in the way, and there's a private party of the top? Screw them! They'll fly over the party and have a dogfight that pushes people into the wsim nextdoor.
The Privates only care about their land. They want to be left alone when they set off the coding that allows their manifestation of pixels to digitally kiss, cuddle, or shag the pixelated manifestion of somebody else. To do this, they put every kind of conceivable security device out there on their properties, and they won't let anybody do anything nearby, not even sneeze. To do otherwise would death.

These two groups are at square opposites with one another, and I wouldn't be surprised if they fought in a major conflict soon.

I'm afraid I'll have to be less eloquent in this one, so I'll cut to the chase.
People are Gods in SL; they don't have to put up with someone else's mongering. There are no weapons that will ever have a lasting effect on any individual that wouldn't take some immense wetwork Outside of SL. I'm talking Hacking. Then it's not a world war; it's an out of world war, and if anything that big happened, the Lindens WOULD get involved and probably slap the contributing parties with a VERY real Lawsuit.

If Real Life had anything like lindens up in the sky watching everything and making sure nobody screws it all up, I'm positive world wars would have never happened because Somebody would've just shut down germany's sim or banned hitler's account for being disruptive to the other citizens. I mean, he sure griefed the heck out of poland...

And then there's one final issue, a technical issue, and that issue is LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG >_< as it is commonly screamed at the top of one's lungs in accompaniment with featured facial expression of distaste. You can hardly fit 25 people on a sim without it taking three seconds to acknowledge that you took two steps forward. You can hardly fit 20 people on the same SCREEN without having an FPS of 0.06. Nevermind flying bullets, particle effects, and hundreds of bangs booms and other explosions attempting to play at once.
I CAN'NA DO IT CAP'N! I DOON'T HAVE THE POWER!

There won't be a war because of this reason right here...you can be a member to more than one army at a time and no one wants to give up their clone armor or their AN gear that looks like 4th graders designed (zing!)

A line would need to be drawn in the sand and I don't think anyone's interested in doing more than hanging out in their gear and showing off funny movie clips and gestures.

The only way to make it good anyway would be to have everyone wear a damage system like Frag-Foo (for example) where no-push guns are used and only hurt those wearing the system. That way it could go down anywhere at any time!

Plus from my experience the AN guys are kinda whiny and would go tell a Linden even in damage area situations. If you wanna fight you can meet me in the GAC area! *

And as for all the guys trying to analyze SL in geo-political terms, your time would be better spent analyzing the philosophy behind Mario Cart (actually that sounds like a good idea!)

*does anyone notice what I'm trying to do here?

Suicide bombers and terrorists atattacks will continue in SL.

All out war unscripted and ad hoc? What would happen in an all out war in RL...?

Nuclear weapons...

Same goes for SL, super sim wide killer weapons. Quick, automatic, lethal to the extreme.
Makes war simply flying remote nukes into sims and detonating.

As for a "real" war, anyone who owns land could, and probably WILL, make a "war sim" that would have 3 basic rules:

Pick blue team or red team.
Use only weapons from our depot or approved ones.
No shooting teammates.

Other than that, have blue base, red base, and let the people walk out there and shoot everything that moves. If they die, re rez and return to base, get your gun, and run out guns blazing again, if theirs 20 people on each side at all times, their will always been combat to jump into to ease that killing instinct. Unscripted, free, but not full of stupid weapons and teamkillers.

Making those who fight buy the special weapons for cheap, say L50, would support the sim and allow them to operate, patrol, and keep it free of idiots, but spontaneous and deadly.

Would this be workable?

As more people Join SL it will be harder to get anywhere within one of the large groups. Therefore new poeple that join will be looking for groups that are young large and promising good action. These action groups will then look to invade other groups. I am seeing allot of new people joining recently and they will want to get involved quickly and can put together new groups quickly. War is comming.

........dumbass

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On the other hand, OMFG this thing is still ALIVE lol. hmm, must continue to read posts by others...... [continues reading]

Apparently Caledon and Neualtenburg are headed for war, while Neualtneburg itself is dealing with secession....


I guess they can shoot watermelon guns at each other or something.

Watermelon gun warfare on such a scale would be enough to summon the overwhelming wrath of Torley. Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse?

If all sides agreed to use some standard of firearms then it would actually be fun. But as it is it's nonsense. Although, if any of the anti-push ideas get out we might have some progress, find a sim with push disabled and you've got yourself a better battle-ground. Would have to have p2p disabled as well though, stop people from just coming straight back once killed.

There is something like this in SL, isn't there?
Red and blue teams... bases... something comes to mind... hmm... I can't put my finger on it...

Except, though, that there is no standard weapon.


Wouldn't it be totally sweet if suddenly national leaders resided in SL, and they conducted attacks in SL instead of RL? (Excuse this insane comment, I just couldn't help it...) But instead of nukes in RL and stuff, there would be nukes and shootouts in SL. They would have their own 4 connected islands. Wouldn't that be freaky?

Man, I gotta get off the SL kick...

LMAO!

Alright. With my personal experience with several military groups within Second Life, I believe that there are only several dozen groups that would ever start a war. Even then it would be in their parcels and/or sims. I will not name these groups or their respective bases. I will say that little to everyone's knowledge there is almost always an ongoing war between several of these groups at anytime.

How is this unwritten

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