My Sports Simulators

Below are the sport simulations I have released (or am planning to release) to the Vexillium community for their enjoyment. These simulations are used to determine the results of Vex’s major sporting events. At the present, the football sim seems to have some issues with fairly representing traditional Vex ‘powerhouse’ sides (like Westria and Utania) as properly as it should, but I am working on that issue.

• Rugby Simulation
• Football Simulation
• Basketball Simulation (coming soon)

A Little About Me

I have been playing geofiction-style games on and off since 2004, when I happened upon Vexillium and the ImagiNations community. I wrongly assumed Vex was full, so I applied to a sister world, Aurora. I loved my experience there and met a lot of great people, many of whom are still into geofiction some four years later.

I then created my own geofictional setting, Eshraval, and working with a good friend of mine created a web-based, PHP-coded national simulation. The game sputtered through three incarnations, and I finally left it for good in March of 2008. I briefly flirted with returning in late 2008, but the new administrators balked at the idea, so I dropped that dream for good.

While I consider the Eshraval itself a failure (the behind-the-scenes politics of a game where there are concrete statistics that people can affect and change for good or ill is very annoying), the idea behind it is very good. It also takes a lot more time and energy than any small group of people could give it.

The Shaelic Commonwealth

The Shaelic Commonwealth is, quite simply, my baby. It’s the one thing I have repeatedly returned to as other ideas have burned themselves out. I have been working on the Shaelic language, culture, and philosophy for more than five years now and it is easily my most developed and beloved creation. Basically, it’s the only thing that I really want to create, and that’s the main reason I finally took the plunge and ported them into Vexillium.

The Shaels are based (very) loosely on Scotish/Celtic/Gaelic culture, but they have since been so modified and changed that they hardly resemble the first Shaels I put to the electronic paper in 2002-2003. I think that’s a good thing, because today they are more unique and more “mine” than at any time previous.

The Shaelic language, the first true constructed language I have ever made that I am pleased with, contains upwards of 5,500 words now (as of March 2009), and continues to grow almost daily. If you count “real world” additions for country, citizen, and city names, the lexicon nearly tops 6,500 entries. The language will be an integral part of the Shaelic Commonwealth, and I will seek to use it (or at least provide the Shaelic translation) as often as possible.

The Shaelic Commonwealth that has come to live on Vexillium is a nation located on the Severnaya Peninsula in northern Eras. It’s the most northerly (save for the Polarian Islands) on the planet. The population is just over 12 million, very communal, and growing at a slow — and welcomed — pace. The people are fairly homogenous, given their distant, rather isolated location. The Shaelic people are a hardworking, generally conservative, and deeply spiritual group who are confident in their place in the world and determined to live a good life to leave
their mark on it.

The nation is not a world power, but it’s prosperous, peace-loving, and fiercely independent. Shaels strongly value respect, liberty, and justice. They seek to make strong relationships on the global stage. They are addicted to rugby (a personal addiction of mine, I must confess, despite being a ‘Yankee’) and love sports of all kinds, particularly team sports. If anyone on Vex wants to do anything in sports, count the Shaelic Commonwealth in!

I try to play the Shaels as “good guys” on Vex, i.e. they won’t be going about pirating or causing international incidents. However, they will and do keep their own interests close and that will probably cause some problems. I would think any nation would do the same.