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Eeeex-cellent. <taps fingers Burns style>
Some shower thoughts:DataPacRat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:04 amEeeex-cellent. <taps fingers Burns style>
... Hrm. Actually, I think I need to do some more reading to get a better feel for some aspects of the economic scales and spheres of Oolite systems. That is, if we're starting with an Anarchy, I want to figure out just how many opposing gangclan ships would need to be shot down, and/or how much money poured into one's favoured gangclan, and/or how many other kinds of missions could be done as a pilot, in order to bring the remainder to the negotiating table to set up a Multi-Government (possibly as a precursor to a Confederacy, or a Feudal system) - or to turn one's own gangclan's leader into a Dictator, or convince the people-at-large to self-organize into some form of communism or democracy, or convince external oligarchs that the place is stable enough to invest in a corporate state, etc, etc... all without losing sight of the fact that Oolite's basic philosophy involves chucking out realism for enjoyable playability when required.
Drawing a bit of inspiration from the new Home OXP, and starting with turning an Anarchy into an Archy, I'm guessing it would be simple enough to keep track of non-friendlies killed and cash donated, and when a tipping point was reached, the Politics gets switched. Maybe give the player some options in Mission screens about which direction to nudge that switch; maybe the ratio between kills and cash at the critical moment helps determine the method of the political upheaval and thus the result. Can anything think of a better model to try tweaking the details of?
)DataPacRat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:03 amA possible subset of this sort of thing: The player might get a chance to join a system's local chapter of the Industrial Workers of the Galaxy, aka the Wigglies, contributing cash and goods (and maybe busting a few union-busters' heads) to let them put together a system-wide General Strike, thus allowing for councils of trade unions to tell the government what to do instead of the reverse... and, as is customary in GalCop, to start plastering hammer-and-sickle logos on everything in sight.
Unfortunately, Oolite only has 8 generic government types; so most anything that's much to the left of, say, "democratic socialism" and is more organized than anarchy gets chucked into the "Communism" basket. I think one of the stories I've read suggested something about lots of commie-leaning aliens in Oolite's galaxies really enjoying Soviet-style kitsch, regardless of how accurate the word may technically be.Diziet Sma wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:41 amSpeaking as a card-carrying Wobblie (yes, we're still here), I find this idea both entertaining and fascinating!DataPacRat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:03 amA possible subset of this sort of thing: The player might get a chance to join a system's local chapter of the Industrial Workers of the Galaxy, aka the Wigglies, contributing cash and goods (and maybe busting a few union-busters' heads) to let them put together a system-wide General Strike, thus allowing for councils of trade unions to tell the government what to do instead of the reverse... and, as is customary in GalCop, to start plastering hammer-and-sickle logos on everything in sight.
Mind you, the Wigglies would be far more likely to plaster red-and-black anarchy logos around, than hammer-and-sickles.. we have as big a beef with Communists as we do with Capitalists.
<chortles> Reminds me of an old song, does that.
There's a fairly famous songbook, though it's a bit hard to find YouTube links for them all.