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NewMars posted:I've an idea for one. I quite like this one! Alternatively provide a standardized template with designated space for the colonies/polity/etc in question to put their own signifier element, reinforcing that while not all Comintern member states are the same they are all part of the Comintern together.
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Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo41PanwSB0 January 1, 1982 The legislative session concluded, the delegates return home.   The new medals are formalized. Where promotion scores weren't specified I made them up myself. I bumped up the promotion score for the Exceptional Service Medal a bit too. I hadn't got around to renaming the Comintern yet when taking these screenshots but I didn't forget, don't worry.  French and Soviet design bureaus work together to prototype a small nuclear thermal engine for use in Mars exploration.  It is put through crash development and will be ready for production in less than two weeks. Once it's done I'll rearrange all our research in accordance with Foxfire's optimization plan, and as labs free up I'll start researching the techs you voted for, with those labs again being allocated in accordance with the new optimization plan.  The new industrial orders go out. Transit infrastructure will be developed. Administrative facilities, control centers, supercomputer complexes, high-capacity data centers, and other infrastructure necessary to keep the global socialist economy operating will be built. The academy at Baikonur will be doubled in size, becoming the world's foremost academic institution, with smaller satellite campuses the world over. Once your Funds balance is positive we'll start building additional life support infrastructure for Luna.  The new agency, X-COM, is established. The survey ships, as the spacecraft most likely to come into contact with extraterrestrial life, are placed under X-COM's command.  Its commander, Emma Brzostek, is a skilled diplomat with an advanced degree in engineering and experience as a fighter pilot. She is an avid player of squad-level tactics games. Two new government agencies are established, the Decolonization Bureau and the Bureau of Indigenous Affairs. They will coordinate their activities closely. In addition, instructions go out to the Comintern's diplomatic corps. Overtures will be made to the main remaining neutral powers, and an aggressive campaign to integrate North America fully into the Comintern will be carried out. These will both be substantial undertakings, and planning for them is sure to create a lot of headaches and late nights, but it will be done. The crew of the Karzelek, currently in deep space beyond the orbit of Jupiter, send Earth a recorded New Year's greeting, featuring high-resolution photos of asteroids they've encountered, of distant and still-unexplored Jupiter, and of the Earth itself. The crew sing L'Internationale on the bridge, echoing the crew of the Luna on their historic Moon mission only a few years prior, in what is quickly becoming a space program tradition. The program also includes demonstration of the simulated gravity in the ship's rotating section, the ways the crew have been entertaining themselves, and various experiments being conducted aboard, particularly botany. Similar, shorter, greetings are recorded by the Barsoom outpost, the crew of the Skarbnik, and the students of Lunagrad Primary School No. 7 'Neil Armstrong'. The Martian New Year's greeting includes video footage of the huge , high-intensity dust storm currently raging around the site, taken remotely, as all the cosmonauts are trapped inside the habitat for the duration. One camera angle is expunged from the broadcasts and instead sent to X-COM for further examination. It may just be an image artifact, but for about 45 seconds it looks as if there's a distant airborne object moving through the storm to the north of the outpost, travelling west to east (the same direction as the winds). Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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Mister Bates posted:The Martian New Year's greeting includes video footage of the huge , high-intensity dust storm currently raging around the site, taken remotely, as all the cosmonauts are trapped inside the habitat for the duration. One camera angle is expunged from the broadcasts and instead sent to X-COM for further examination. It may just be an image artifact, but for about 45 seconds it looks as if there's a distant airborne object moving through the storm to the north of the outpost, travelling west to east (the same direction as the winds).  Well, this is either nothing or completely terrifying!
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Kitfox88 posted:Just a weather balloon Naw, totally swamp gas ...we need that EM probe Mars-side yesterday 
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Despite asking only the minimun office-space for research into low orbital habitats in Venus the Commintern has again failed the NOMAD nation. I hope the space created by this lack of initiative is not seized by Hawaii or other reactionary powers, eager to capitalize on the new materials and colonization opportunities
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Venus is too much too fast I think is the hesitation. We’re not even on Mars and you’re proposing floating cities.
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It seems prudent to, at least in the present time, focus on expansion of current offworld settlements. [hastily pushes away the desk sign saying MOON PRESIDENT]
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Yeah, it's mostly the fact that we're still a long way from unifying Earth, fixing its issues and optimizing its economical output and have barely enough resources left for a moon colony and a tiny, very vulnerable outpost on Mars. Big-rear end stations in Venus orbit are cool and will happen, but maybe in 15years when we have a stable economical backbone?
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Aye. Leaping before we look and stretching ourselves too thin invites disasters unseen.
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Venus is actually hotter than Mercury, and has 90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure (these two facts are related). The atmosphere is also incredibly corrosive, with clouds of sulphuric acid. A colony on Venus, even in the clouds, would require us to develop flying cities that are immune to both corrosion and enormous heat, as well as EVA suits with the same qualities. It's significantly harder to cool something down than to heat it up, and it's significantly harder to maintain a structure in an ocean of high-density sulfuric acid than it is in a vacuum. On top of all that, there's no benefit to having a Venusian colony. Yes, the planet has TNEs, but those can be extracted safely by automated mines. There's no need to send our worker brethren into a deathtrap for them.
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Zurai posted:Venus is actually hotter than Mercury, and has 90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure (these two facts are related). The atmosphere is also incredibly corrosive, with clouds of sulphuric acid. A colony on Venus, even in the clouds, would require us to develop flying cities that are immune to both corrosion and enormous heat, as well as EVA suits with the same qualities. It's significantly harder to cool something down than to heat it up, and it's significantly harder to maintain a structure in an ocean of high-density sulfuric acid than it is in a vacuum.  While the corrosive clouds might be a problem, the Venusian troposphere at ~50km up is actually a pleasant 20oC, and the atmospheric density is such that regular earth nitrogen-oxygen mix is an effective lifting gas. You could just have big balloon habitats and could step outside on the patio with a non-pressurized suit.
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Imagine tripping over your balcony railing and taking a tumble.
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It also has enough gravity to ward off bone degradation and enough atmospheric mass above 50-60km to shield from radiation. Those are much less fixable for a Moon or Mars colony. So all you have to deal with is poisonous corrosive atmosphere, weather turbulence, no water, and no solid resources. Real world Venus would kill you fast if you mess up, real world Moon-Mars is easier short-term but would be more likely to kill you with cancer or osteomalacia over years Foxfire_ fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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Rhjamiz posted:Imagine tripping over your balcony railing and taking a tumble. This would be the rare case where it's not the landing that kills you
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There’s a lot of discussion on how it could be done, but I think the main question is “why?” I realize there’s likely no in game benefit, so I’m curious what people think the fluff advantage is. Other than being rad as gently caress.
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Mostly because it’s rich in uh.... stealthium. Presumably. And also because it would be cool but I think ensuring Mars is not suddenly a hostile alien polity probably takes priority.
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Specifically, the stuff that goes into engines. Engines need it, good engines need a lot of it, good engines with a low thermal signature need a WHOLE lot of it e: As for the whys, yes it's rad as gently caress, and also the USSR were the ones who actually landed the Venera probe on its surface back in '70 and now it's a matter of Soviet Pride  Also note the NOMAD Collective seem to be the ones lobbying it hardest, and hypothetical balloon habitats would fit their stated principles of freedom of movement and providing homes for displaced peoples (which was partially what kicked off the sudden massive influx of lunar immigration we're still trying to figure out) Asterite34 fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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Not that much Gallicite. Earth reserves are good enough for hundreds-thousands of ships already. We'll almost certainly find a better source before running out.
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Once we have a definitive need for the best engines labor can provide, I think a Venusian resource exploitation program will get much more support.
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This is an excellent let's play, really enjoying the worldbuilding that's going on from everyone in the thread and really enjoying the updates Mister Bates! I'd also like to say that the Star Wars short story was amazing Serf! Also this was a while ago now but the below comment got me thinking... Boksi posted:Hawaii definitely has some outside aid. I can buy them having the technical knowhow needed to design that ship, but the sheer amount of materials and highly-skilled labor needed to build it, especially this quickly and secretly, is just too much for such a small nation. That said, until we know more, there's nothing to be gained from antagonizing them so we should just congratulate them and try to step up our timetables for the lunar outpost. And maybe just perhaps investigate how this happened through, ah, unofficial channels. ~o0o~ [Transcription Log - PBS Channel 272 (Formerly BBC1), Parkinson Live from Television Centre, Union of South and Central London Soviet Socialist Republics. 17th November 1980]  Parkinson: To start us off tonight we have Comrade Edward Sallow, formerly of the University of Southern California and now Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Marxist Economics at University College London. Who has published a new book, The Last of the Billionaires. -Applause from the audience. Sallow: Thank you very much for having me comrades. (Transcribers note: Edward Sallow is known to the Committee of State Security, previously considered for approach prior to outbreak of world wide hostilities due to position within university infrastructure but was discounted due to high intelligence and moral flexibility as he was judged a high risk for Counter-HUMINT by United States Intelligence Services. See file SCHIX978639 for full profile and known information.) P: Thank you very much for being here Professor, and for agreeing to talk to us a bit about your fascinating new book which I must confess sometimes reads more like a thriller than a dry political theory text. - S. laughing politely. S. I think I should be thanking you, it's an honour to be here! And it is often the case when discussing figures who are, or were, larger than life that even the driest of texts cannot help but come alive, and for all their many and varied faults the Billionaires of the world were anything but dull. My book is in some respects a post-mortem of the class, a catalogue of what their influence was on the politics and society of the last few decades, as well as true an accounting, as I can, of how they reacted and adapted to the upheaval that has brought the world to its current state. For example I was lucky enough to interview by telephone one of the surviving Rockefeller's who has found themselves far more content as part of a farming cooperative in california than they ever did with all the wealth of midas at their fingertips. P: Well I'm sure a lot of our viewers can relate to a change in circumstances brought about in the last few years, though perhaps not quite so drastic a change! - Audience laughter. P: But of course you also talk about the remaining members of the Billionaire Class still present in the world? S: Yes. Despite the upheaval and chaos that swallowed the world a good number of the extremely wealthy managed to find their way to the various enclaves of capital in the world, such as Japan... P: And Hawaii? - silence for four seconds before S responds. S: And Hawaii, yes. P: Would it be fair to say that your book contains at least one fairly explosive claim regarding one of those Billionaire's who fled to Hawaii? S: Hardly anything so sensationalist as that I'm afraid. But I was able to piece together a few interesting bits of information and talk to some of my old countrymen now that North America is becoming a little less unstable and that led me to make some educated suppositions. P: Being that the reclusive, and it would be fair to say quite eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes is not, as most have assumed, dead but is in fact alive in Hawaii and is likely to have a direct hand in the creation and management of the Hawaiian space program? S: Well now I'd hardly like to spoil the surprise for all your watchers who might want to read the boom themselves now would I? - scattered laughter from the audience. P: Having read it I can definitely say there are more than enough surprises to keep your readers on their toes, but surely you can share a little with us? S: Well seeing as you've asked so graciously. There has been a common belief the past ten years or so that Hughes died during the breakdown of order within the continental united states, a belief helped by his reclusiveness leading to numerous tabloid reports of his death or illness prior to 1969. When everything fell apart most people had little time to track the comings and goings of eccentric celebrities, even the hugely wealthy and powerful ones like Hughes. And indeed with the breakdown of order in Nevada even if anyone had felt the urge to check on his wellbeing they would have been hard pressed to do so given the violence occurring on the Las Vegas Strip and outlying regions. Indeed it has only been recently with the arrival of peacekeeping forces from California, the new California that is, that anyone has been able to check. My inquiries were largely fruitless, the hotel which Hughes had bought for himself having been first looted, then burnt down. But eventually I was able to find an ex-employee of the hotel who confirmed that Hughes had vacated the hotel within a few months of the war's beginning. From there the trail went cold, however I was able to discover several interesting coincidences. The first was that in the great pan-pacific exodus of early 1971, amidst the cruise liners and pleasure craft carrying millionaires, and the cargo ships crammed with refugees fleeing the chaos that had descended upon their homes towards the relative stability of the pacific, three cargo ships set sail, two from the Port of Los Angeles in California, one from the Port of Texas City. With the great help of the port authorities and their unions, and not a little stubborn doggedness, I was able to discern that all three cargo ships were all registered with various front companies, flying under flags of convenience. Unfortunately further investigation was all but impossible as the registries from that time are fragmentary at best, but I was able to confirm that all three ships contained workers, and their families, of Hughes various companies along with large amounts of equipment. Given that the launch of the Queen Lili'uokalani in 1978 was such a shocking achievement for such a small and new nation, without real expertise in aerospace engineering, let alone spaceflight, it seemed logical there was some connection between the two. My theory, and one that I give more detail on in the book, is that Hughes had anticipated the escalation of the war almost as soon as it began and to paraphrase decided to get out of dodge as quickly as possible as in a full scale nuclear exchange, which at the time seemed like a likely outcome, Las Vegas was almost certain to be a target. However with full scale nuclear war avoided, and the collapse of the United States he relocated to the one place he felt might be safe and which might allow him to continue his interests. P: It is a rather fascinating series of events you lay out in the book, but do you seriously think that the launch of the Queen Lili (Transcription note; common anglophone shortening of the name of the ship.) can be attributed to someone, who if the pre-war press is to be believed, was a reclusive shut-in that had almost wholly hidden himself away from the world? S: That is my theory, yes. Do not forget that Hughes was always fascinated with aerospace engineering, and was famous for his monomaniacal focus on technology or ideas upon which he became fixated. Given the public announcements regarding the Trans-Newtonian materials and their potential properties it seems highly likely to me, having studied the man, that he would have attached the same focus he did to his earlier aeronautical exploits to the new drive towards space and bent his still considerable resources and intellect towards it. Which would surely have helped the Hawaiian program. There even exists a small possibility that Hughes may well have had a head start. P: A head start? S: Yes, he was well connected politically and very well embedded through his companies in the industrial military complex that existed within the United States. It would certainly explain his decision to evacuate his employees prior to the announcement of the new materials. After all there doesn't seem to be that many other reasons for an aerospace and electronics R&D company stranded in the midst of the pacific ocean when the world was falling apart around him. 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Examination shows significant differences between standard COMINTERN Cryo pods, but focus and function of changes unknown due to low resolution of image. File Note - USERID 09752: Request for archives to cross reference with known subjects of interest. Something about the face seems familiar.
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Asterite34 posted:Specifically, the stuff that goes into engines. Engines need it, good engines need a lot of it, good engines with a low thermal signature need a WHOLE lot of it The NOMAD Collective  this
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Settlement on Venus and the development of aerostat habitats also has at least one possible parallel that would be highly useful for us in the future--gas giants. While automated mining rather than actual settlement is more likely as a means of using such planets, we don't currently have any technology to allow for the perpetual flight that would be required of working in-atmosphere, or experience at using such a thing. We're still getting off of Earth via, basically, more sophisticated forms of the classical strap-yourself-to-this-explosive method, and all our space facilities are in, well, space. Getting onto and off the planet is not a problem, but staying in a space between the two is a very different ask, especially for high-wind environments. The last major efforts any country made to such an end were in the 1930s, and died with the zeppelin era. Further actual colonization at this time would be stretching ourselves--this was the consensus in the Volksrat. But the research for it is one with excellent potential applications. The voting is over for this year, of course, but Germany would be more than happy to endorse this proposal again if (or, more likely, when) it appears at next year's Council meeting.
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I support the drive for Venus, and in fact did vote for it! But I can also see some good points being brought up about our ability to do it right now. Venus will definitely happen! But our plate is definitely pretty drat full right now, so it may be some years before we're able.
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Silly Soviet roleplay aside, really my only preference for focusing on Mars after Luna right now was purely because, I mean, come on. It's the red planet.
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January 7, 1982 The first known instance of a 'computer virus', a self-replicating malicious computer program, detected outside of laboratory conditions (such programs have been created experimentally as far back as 1970). The program spreads via the Internetwork and specifically targets economic automation systems based on the Chilean Cybersyn infrastructure, which are rendered inoperative when infected. It is believed to be a deliberate attempt at economic sabotage. Fortunately, the program is fairly crude. Investigations into its origin are ongoing. January 9, 1982 X-COM's first operation since it was stood up less than two weeks ago, the investigation of the Martian 'UFO' footage, concludes, before the dust storm has even dissipated. The X-COM team determines the anomaly, which took the form of a blurry, dark object moving across the field of view, is not a camera defect or image artifact and was almost certainly physically present in-frame, but are unable to conclusively rule out a natural explanation due to the extremely poor visibility. If it is an artificial object, it was traveling at speeds consistent with a balloon or airship being carried by the wind, rather than a craft moving under its own power. January 11, 1982 As part of the North American integration plan, a unit of the (freshly-renamed) Interplanetary People's Army under the command of Pdpolkovnik Welfarestateofmind is deployed to support local allies in combat against forces of the renegade 82nd Airborne Division in the Colorado Rockies. Space surveillance will play an important role in the operation. On the same day, a few hours after the offensive begins, a diplomatic summit is held between the Cascadian Workers' Collective and the capitalist holdout state which colloquially refers to itself as 'Free Cascadia', hosted by Comintern diplomats. The end goal of the summit is peaceful accession of the remaining capitalist-controlled territories in the region to the Communist Interplanetary. The timing is deliberate and is absolutely intended to intimidate. January 14, 1982  Rapid prototyping of the new engine design is complete. Engineers at the D-M collective begin working on two operational models immediately.   The ships that they will power begin construction as well. They are very simple designs - like the stations they are modifications of, they are based heavily on the Soviet Salyut and Almaz designs, albeit greatly enlarged. With a shorter intended deployment time and faster construction schedule than our survey ships, they have no provision for simulated gravity, and the ships' small crew will be in null-G for the duration of the mission. The first ship will be ready in exactly a month, and the second approximately a month after that.  Research projects are reshuffled to take advantage of researcher specializations. Of note is that you currently have no Ground Combat scientist and thus no one to research Xenoarchaeology - since you voted on that to be prioritized, I am assuming you want it researched, and therefore if one does not graduate within the next month or two one of your Missiles and Kinetic Weapons specialists will be retrained and assigned that project. January 22, 1982 Prime Minister David Aulani of Hawaii, in a private meeting with Comintern officials, proposes a plan for a joint diplomatic mission to Japan, which still does not formally recognize the body. Queen Helena is planning a state visit to the Japanese Imperial Court shortly, and under this plan, a team of Comintern diplomats will accompany her as official guests of the Queen. Japan cannot afford to antagonize Hawaii or risk jeopardizing the Pacific trade upon which the Japanese economy depends, and this should provide us with a good 'in'. January 28, 1982 A car bomb is detonated at the construction site of a Socialist Housing Project block in Hamburg, Germany. No one is killed but there is extensive damage to construction equipment. The FESTER stations were both below the horizon at the time, not that they would have made a huge difference in such a built-up area. February 1, 1982  Everything is different in the Trans-Newtonian era. It's not just socialism - that's a big part of it, of course, but there's more to it. New technologies, new ways of applying those technologies, new ways of thinking about what 'the economy' even is, what it means to produce something, to trade something. Internetworked computers can transmit information about surpluses, shortfalls, projected future demand, raw material availability, and a thousand other factors, near-instantaneously, to be collated and distributed. Data is compiled into dynamically-updated economic models which can be used to aid in planning. A factory in Australasia needs duranium bar stock, so a duranium plant in South Africa increases production slightly to match, and a slightly larger shipment is ordered from a TN mine in Zimbabwe, and the slightly increased power consumption at the mine is factored into local power grid load distribution before it happens, and when the metal arrives at the seaport there's already a ship waiting to transport it. All of this being done with crude, largely text-based command-line interfaces, and mostly manual data entry. There are errors, mistakes, and inadequacies galore, especially in areas with underdeveloped network or transportation infrastructure, but it's already revolutionary. Who knows what things will look like in ten, twenty, a hundred years. The increased efficiency has led to, among other things, an increase in the availability of consumer and luxury goods to the average Comintern resident, along with increased worker productivity per-hour. Some member nations are already discussing a possible reduction in the standard working week in the future to 35 or even 30 hours; others are simply celebrating the industriousness of their people. 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The ship will spend the next month supporting FESTER's Earth surveillance operations, and will depart for Mars along with its sister ship as soon as that vessel is ready in mid-March.  also, the Comintern has been officially renamed. The flag is still the existing temporary flag, and the species portrait will remain Bruce Boxleitner forever. Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Ooh, good update. Fingers crossed for the negotiations. Oh, while I'm here. To those playing a state in the Australasian region, it was my assumption with the United Australian Worker's Republics that it represents the communes of what was formerly the commonwealth of Australia, plus the Worker's Republic of New Zealand alongside many of the successors to polynesian island-states, linked together in a confederation model where each part is also a voter in the comintern. Does anyone have a problem with this? Questions? An alternative view?
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Mister Bates posted:On the same day, a few hours after the offensive begins, a diplomatic summit is held between the Cascadian Workers' Collective and the capitalist holdout state which colloquially refers to itself as 'Free Cascadia', hosted by Comintern diplomats. The end goal of the summit is peaceful accession of the remaining capitalist-controlled territories in the region to the Communist Interplanetary. The timing is deliberate and is absolutely intended to intimidate. there i am gary there i am! Good update! Hopefully the misinformed leaders in 'Free Cascadia' will come to their senses and allow their workers to self-organize. The only true freedom there is is to be found through community action and cooperation. The mars object being confirmed to be real is worrying, but the reports on it seemingly not being a powered aircraft does also reduce some of the anxiety. Hopefully we only find good news once we get a xeno team over there! zanni fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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The workers Republic of new Zealand under their chief citizen Robert Muldoon agree.
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sebmojo posted:The workers Republic of new Zealand under their chief citizen Robert Muldoon agree. Oh, dear.
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NewMars posted:Ooh, good update. Fingers crossed for the negotiations. nah that works
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I was wondering if this LP could use a discord, but now I'll admit I'm a bit worried that it'll end up like a lot of the other aurora LP's. It's a difficult game to play, much less to show off and write a storyline to it at the same time.
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NewMars posted:I was wondering if this LP could use a discord, but now I'll admit I'm a bit worried that it'll end up like a lot of the other aurora LP's. It's a difficult game to play, much less to show off and write a storyline to it at the same time. Not to mention also following the instructions of idiots pulling the empire in twenty different directions at once. Having read a few, I think Saros (sorry Mister Bates!) had the better idea in not letting people manage the whole empire, but only contained operations here and there, with the occasional big decision.
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It's holiday season so I'd give em a little longer. But yeah a dozen different politcal parties often devolves into a mess, and people get extremely heated. I have toyed with running a LP of Aurora with politcal parties and the best way I have thought of so far is having three or four generic parties (War, Peace, Science, Production) and let people align into those. Parties would hopefully ebb and flow somewhat naturally due to ingame events altering posters wants and needs (Unprovoked attack leading to people aligning more with war, a system full of 1.0 accessibility minerals leading to Production taking the lead etc etc).
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Just to say, if there was a discord made for this LP, I'd join it!
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We’d probably need a separate channel strictly for in-game policy discussion/argument to avoid annoying spillover
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