New: KLIP (commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, modern, economic, gui)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:13:01 +0000

Name:		KLIP
Email:		klip_game@mail.ru
Frequency:		5 per week, but you can skip turns
Type:		economic business-game
URL:		http://klip.pbem.ru
Costs:		5 turns free, $10 registration, not payment per tours
Last-Update:		2000Dec27
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, modern, economic, gui

Description:

Calling volunteers for virtual economic war of East and West. It is not
necessary anybody to bomb and to shoot. The world is won by buttons
"Purchase"/"Sell", instead of "Fire"/"Jump". Forget concepts "Honor" and
"Conscience". Here each for himself!

The Americans and Europeans like to give councils, how it's necessary to
make business. And are they really such clever? How will they look, if
they are deprived of the accrued capital and will be delivered in
identical conditions with beginners? Can they really react to varying
conditions the same easily as how they recommend to do it to others?

The Slavs often complain about state bureaucracy and Mafia. Will they
really show good result of economic growth without the officers'
trusteeship (but also without "roof"), with taxes identical to all (but
also without a possibility to shirk from it)?

Whose economic experience will conquer - West or East? Play the
international version KLIP and you can personally influence a course of
battle!!!

KLIP is an attempt to create the CLOSED economic model, which STABILE
functions with a minimum quantity of the rules and restrictions. In the
game there are simulated the elementary production and the exchange of
production. Exchanges are function by the rules closed auctions. There is
an environment for an ideal competitiveness. The natural terminator are
the operations of other players.

The game has the complex payment system: rubles, gold, bills, bank
credits. For the successful game it is absolutely not necessary to use all
tools. But it is possible to analyze and to understand that and why is
most expedient in those or other situations.

All this allows feeling economic laws through own actions. Here curves of
supplies and demands can be built not on the basis of certain theoretical
reasoning or functions, but on the basis of the decisions accepted by
yourself!!! You can study even price formation at a macroeconomic level.

The specifications are minimum (game will not use even a graphic mode of
the screen monitor). Internet is necessary only for a reception/dispatch
of the turnfiles.

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