[pp.int.general] Help The Pirate Party By Playing Games

[Travis McCrea]

Hello Pirates,
The United States and Canadian Pirate Parties are encouraging members
starting 12:00PM Monday (PST -8 GMT) to join the game "Cyber Nations" as to
join our in-game alliance "Pirate Party", as a new recruitment tool.
Countless members of this game have already been introduced to the Pirate
Party, and have decided from that to join their nations Pirate Party... the
reason its easy to educate these players is because the people who play this
game are our target demographic: 17-25, Tech Savvy, and Political Minded.
Cyber Nations has roughly 40,000 members playing right now (and to play you
have to interact with your nation at least once every 20 days, so thats 40K
people who have log in every 20 days (at least) ritually. They also are very
active in the Cyber Nations community, which is a simulation world (We have
a club called "Model UN" in the United States, if you have heard of it, its
kinda like that) which is constantly going.  The people who play Cyber
Nations are also not just Americans, they are from all over the world, they
even have a few regional and language based alliance, from Wikipedia  "There
are language based alliances such as FOK!, who are almost all Dutch and
website based alliances such as Fark, and there are also nationality based
alliances such as Nusantara Elite Warriors (Indonesia) and BAPS (Ireland)".

We will run an alliance in-game that will hold to the values of the actual
Pirate Party (obviously with some exceptions to fit in with the role we
would play in game). Various other websites have done this, and got their
members to help out and have gained a lot of momentum (FARK and Something
Aweful for (though possibly bad) example). We could easily obtain momentum
in-game and get a lot of exposure if we have a lot of members join at once
and become one of the fastest growing alliances in the game.

The best part of Cyber Nations and why we are using it as a tool, is that
its fast (if you want you can spend less than 10 minutes when you log in,
though I suggest hanging out in the community), and its browser based so
that you can run it on any operating system (your browser must allow
JavaScript). For our volunteers who we cannot find things for them to do, we
are going to be asking them to pick up an account and play with us, so we
can grab the game and hopefully make a successful stand.

Heres some links that you can give out to your friends, and use yourself to
get going:

Wikipedia Article on CN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Nations

How to Sign Up:
http://pirates.cnsource.info/wiki/Registering_For_Cyber_Nations

How to Play / Getting Started:
http://pirates.cnsource.info/wiki/New_Nation_Guide

Game Link: http://www.cybernations.net

(I know your spam filters are freaking out right now)

and our alliance link: http://pirates.cnsource.info


If you want to send a newsletter out, or get more people interested please
do, I am here to help get this project off the ground. Thanks for time and
support, I will be answering questions and helping out how I can at
Travis.McCrea at Pirate-Party.us


Travis McCrea
Volunteer - USPP
1(206)552-TRAV (8728)

I am sending this message on behalf of the Promotions Office of the United
States Pirate Party
*For the promotions officer please email Renee.Schroeder at Pirate-Party.us*
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