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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.

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. In 2010, the current “players” on the Eshraval domain moved to their own domain (finally), thankfully leaving the Eshraval name behind. None of them earned it, frankly, and it meant nothing to them, aside from some childish way of keeping me from using it.

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 Republic of Shaelia

The Republic of Shaelia is, quite simply, my baby. And it will never be finished. I’m fully aware of that. But it’s the one thing I’ve repeatedly returned to as other ideas have burned themselves out. I have been working on the Shaelic language, culture, and philosophy for more nearly a decade now and it is one of my most developed and beloved creations (the other being my real world fictional country, the Republic of Clairone). Basically, Shaelia is something that I really want to spent my time on, 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. 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 5,700 words now (as of March 2012), and continues to steadily grow and expand. If you count “real world” additions for country, citizen, and city names, the lexicon nearly tops 6,700 entries. The language will be an integral part of Shaelia, and I will seek to use it (or at least provide the Shaelic translation) as often as possible.

The Republic of Shaelia that has come to live on Vexillium is a country located on the Severnaya Peninsula in northern Eras (also known as The Old Continent). It’s the most northerly (save for the Polarian Islands) on the planet. The population is nearly 19 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.

Shaelia 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 Shaelia in!

I try to represent 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 country would do the same.