Potential parties - a discussion.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Yes, I agree that some kind of role-playing where we actually take a position to identical to what we actually believe would be interesting. Not quite what you said, but I think I will personally be staking out a One Nation Tory "niche" for the game--which I suppose I would identify as anyway, but I expect that a more paternalist (as opposed to market-liberal) position would mean I will lean more left wing economic than otherwise.

But nevertheless Conservative. Also, are we assuming names or must we stick with the usernames? If we are role-playing I'd be inclined towards the former.

Same, I'd prefer we adopt personas like the old Mock Parliaments. It would be a nice departure from Atlasia. I mean, come on, how many people named Chairman Sanchez exist on the rolls of the United States census??

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

No personas, please. It always descends into vaguely irritating Dungeons and Dragons-ing.

Well, yes, everyone playing as a 33 year old Super Politician with a hot wife and an anime avatar like they do at AH.com is rather annoying. But if we were to adopt realistic personas, that could be quite fun. I am fine with either.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Personally I had something like "Jack Polnut" in mind.

^^^This sounds fine

I think it's cool if you want to adopt a persona rather than yourself, if you want to play someone with different political views than your own or something, but it should be kept simple and other players shouldn't be expected to remember your character's name or anything

We could create an index of who is who, but that might over complicate things. I'll leave that up to everyone else.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Personally I had something like "Jack Polnut" in mind.

^^^This sounds fine

I think it's cool if you want to adopt a persona rather than yourself, if you want to play someone with different political views than your own or something, but it should be kept simple and other players shouldn't be expected to remember your character's name or anything

We could create an index of who is who, but that might over complicate things. I'll leave that up to everyone else.

or require that they sign/begin their posts with a link to their persona or something

This is unworkable and I really think it's a bad idea that takes far too much into the perilous realm of being little more than an interactive What If timeline. Please, please, no personas - if someone wants to adopt a persona different to their "real" one I don't have a problem (I mean I'm a Tory MP) but I just want to avoid LOL NEWT GINGRICH MP XD if at all possible.

i don't mean like a wikipedia page, i mean something along the lines of a single post in a dedicated thread

Yeah, lets try and run this like we did the last Mock Parliament in terms of using personas. Nothing crazy like the Americana stuff, just basic personas that interact with each other in the same manner users did in Atlasia.