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  • #31
    Originally posted by Doktor View Post
    How about hosting a Civ or Sim game with 2 players and make anyone who runs for as a candidates play it. The one who wins the gam wins the elections?

    At least there wont be any he said she said, I thought this when saying that and similar political BS, only pure skill :whome:
    I've always felt that you could use SimCity to teach... well, to teach a lot of things, but basic governmental economics is certainly one of them.

    I could design a whole semester course around SimCity.

    -dale

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    • #32
      I took a course last semester where a couple semesters before that some kids handed in a final research paper on using SimCity to gauge people's appreciation for the Mayor and City Hall before and after playing the game for a mere 4 hours.
      Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

      Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by dalem View Post
        I've always felt that you could use SimCity to teach... well, to teach a lot of things, but basic governmental economics is certainly one of them.

        I could design a whole semester course around SimCity.

        -dale
        For my final class project (Geography, senior year in high school), I took over the class for two days and taught SimCity.
        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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        • #34
          I think Settlers of Catan is also a brilliant game. Teaches how to utilize resources properly, deal with others and still look out for #1
          Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

          Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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          • #35
            Indeed. Lots of start and wargames out there that are great teachers. The Civil War card game Blue vs. Gray has some of the best history and biography you'll ever find on its cards, for instance.

            -dale

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            • #36
              Originally posted by dalem View Post
              I've always felt that you could use SimCity to teach... well, to teach a lot of things, but basic governmental economics is certainly one of them.

              I could design a whole semester course around SimCity.

              -dale
              Actually in the late 90's, I remember people mentioning that Simcity2 was used in some university courses.

              Originally posted by bigross86 View Post
              I think Settlers of Catan is also a brilliant game. Teaches how to utilize resources properly, deal with others and still look out for #1
              Currently addicted to this game. Board games are fun in person, but sometimes online play is just the way to play more efficiently.

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