The Shared Worlds Forum mostly consists of role-playing games where you, in theory, get to control your own nation, while negotiating and warring with those of other players. Notable Shared Worlds Games include Mosaic Earth and Feudal Lands, NationStates, based on the NationStates site, which went nowhere, and Nation Games. The subforums hold the 2nd and 3rd A Little Trip games, currently dead, where your family and you are transported through space and time to start living as pioneers, and Earth Imperialism, also dead. The XXth Century project was also based in the Shared Worlds section (now in Timelines and Scenarios as well as the Collaborative Projects subforum), as many members have contributed to this joint timeline. Also, a new phenomenon is Nation Games, based on the first game, New Interactive Nations Game (NING for short). Started by 09camaro, it features an interestuing feature where one starts with his slate clean after an apocalyptic event, and gets to expand with other players. NING, Nations Game: After Impact, and Nations Game: After the Plague are all examples. Notable Shared Worlds players include Glen, perdedor99, reformer, DuQuense, Imajin, Othniel, Bulgaroktonos, Matt, NomadicSky, General_Paul, Norbert, Ward,Agentdark, Atreus, 09camaro,frankolio, Locke and Demosthenes. In conclusion, playing Shared Worlds games has been proven to be dangerous to your health, or turn you into an urban legend. the only exception being in the case of 09camaro, where he retreated into an un-godly realm… see his page for further details

Translations of common phrases

• “My country is authoritarian” - I would like to be invaded at the first opportunity.

• “My country is democratic” - I am going to rule and make decisions as God-Emperor.

• “My country does not have nukes” - My country will develop nuclear weapons one week after the ISOT.

• “I claim China/India” - I claimed a country not only with 1 billion people, but also $1,000 trillion GDP created by my POD.

• “I'm gonna make a second claim” - My plan to take over the world with only one country was thwarted by similarly-minded players.

• “I have an early POD” - You thought Monaco ruling Eurasia was impossible? Well, now it's not.

• “Let's give this ME a chance” (uttered by moderator) - This ME is dead, flee as soon as possible.

• “Your claim/military is unreasonable/big” - Your claim is fine, I'm just being a jerk.

• “Yous population figure is too high” (uttered by FENK) - You are not a pro-abortion, anti-life, baby-killing degenerate atheist commie like I am.

• “The ISOT date is X” - Every nation can have the most advanced technology from that date, even though the nation is from the third world.

From its uncharted infancy in the Old Board, Mosaic Earth and its spin-offs have created a niche on the AH.com board. It survived the migration to the New Board, spewing a chaos of threads during the first year of existence. By 2005, the games became more organized, and this superior bureaucracy gave birth to Mosaic Earth 7, consider by many the pinnacle of Shared Worlds. In its wake came the well-patterned games of Late '05 and First Quarter 2006. However, the quality of the games soon started to decline, part to the competition presented from Feudal Lands, A Little Trip and their spin-offs. Mosaic World games, organized exclusively by Ward, have faired extremely poorly, with the exception of the 1st and 4th installments. However, the majority of the oldest ME-players abandoned the game in 2006.

Originally an ASB thread, Feudal Lands has been organized into a game by Chingo360, Highlander and Straha. Soon after its origin it was dubbed a “claim fest”, and all attempts to reform its gameplay have failed.

• Feudal Lands the Game (Early - Late December '05)
• Feudal Lands II (Early - Late January '06)
• Feudal Lands Europe (Mid February - Late April '06)
• Feudal Lands IV (Mid - Late November '06)

NING was also originally an ASB thread, but was moved to the SW forum. Created by 09camaro, it was a post-apocalyptic game where one carved out a small nations in the midst of barbarian lands and expanded. This new idea was expanded and improved by Nations Game: After Impact and Nations Game: After the Plague (NING's true-er successor) In general, NING games last longer than other Shared World's games. NING won the 2008 Turtledove Award for the Superlative Shared Worlds category… much to its creator's suprise.

More recent Nations Games have been “Nations Game: Earth Rise” and the first Shared Worlds Tournament.

Not all shared worlds are in the Shared World Forum. “DBWI: Well, it looks like the second american civil war is in full swing”, the longest thread in the Future History forum, is a thread game of a different stripe. Several of these unconventional thread games exist, such as August Akuma's World Domination Thread, or the ASB Map games, like End of Dystopia Map Game or others.

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