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[Erils]

PTW. Also, a multiplayer would be hard to do because there would definately be people who intentionally run in and pour wine in all the port glasses. You would need some way to prevent people from ruinning the game for everyone else.

[Kofthefens]

Progress! I've gotten to work on programming this.

Country name generation
Country's names are randomly generated, by the form of The [adjective][xN] [group] [secondary attribute]


Adjectives:

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Glorious
United
Federated
Blessed
Holy
Great
Unknown
Isolated


Groups

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Union
States
Federation
Nation
City-State
Country
Kingdom
Duchy
Highlands
Lowlands

Secondary Attributes

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of the East
of the West
of the North
of the South
of the Northeast
of the Northwest
of the Southeast
of the Southwest
of Glory
of Death
of Toloso
of Rantican
of Calaysia
of Cranistan
of Belkeer


Please feel free to suggest more for any of these categories.

Traits
Isolationism - how much they want to interact
Serenity - how easy they are to anger
Influence - how important are they? low - no one cares if they're annoyed. High - their allies get majorly pissed of when they do

Each country will have a list of allies. They'll have a number representing how much they like/dislike them. How fast this grows depends on their serenity and on a given country's interactions with their allies, and the influence that ally has.

[Playergamer]

The country should be a new player on the world stage, to explain why the diplomat is so unexperienced.

[Fniff]

Perhaps instead of secondary attributes, have a list of syllables that the game combines, so you end up with foreign sounding gibberish.

[Kofthefens]

Perhaps instead of secondary attributes, have a list of syllables that the game combines, so you end up with foreign sounding gibberish.

That makes sense. I'll give it a 25% chance of picking one of those (so that we can have things like "of the East") and otherwise generate from syllables. Want to give me a list of good ones? (Yes, I am in fact lazy)

[Fniff]

My pleasure. Might as well get involved somehow!

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First Part
Alto
Alen
Alak
Alon
Avek
Aop
Ain
Api
Bej
Fio
Ade
Uin
Oso
Vez
Ueed
Oppo
Second Part
Po
Oa
So
De
Sy
Af
Ru
Pe
Wn
Op
Qe
Third Part
Zka
Land
Asi
Zai
Apan
Ssia
Ica
Iva
Ain
Ina

I used long hardish sounding syllables for the first part, short soft sounding syllables for the second part, and syllables that sound like the end of the word for a nation (The Ssia is from Russia, for example).

[Dansmithers]

You forgot "stan"

[Kofthefens]

Implemented that. I like the way it looks: The Glorious Country of Vezafzai.

I'm happy to continue implementing stuff, but I need something to work on. I can start by having a dinner setting where you choose what to sit, but what else should I add? Where would it be good for you to sit? Where would it be bad for you to sit?

What about handling cutlery etc? What should the controls be? What should the possible ways be?

What about a conversation simulator? What would they ask you about? What could your responses be?

I'm thinking for controls it's essentially multiple choice. The correct option would of course be based on which diplomat you're talking to and their traits.

[Fniff]

For conversation, I suggest you check out Republic the Revolution. It represented conversation like a poker game, which worked pretty well. I'd suggest making conversations abstract like the Sims: speech bubbles with random images, mumbled/computer simulated voices, and so on. This would allow you to make the conversations general, so I suggest the dialog to be multiple choice with things like "small talk" or "discuss trade agreements". I'd suggest going a bit further then a dialog tree: add a mechanic or a minigame that makes the player feel more involved, as I find dialog trees to be impersonal at best and downright absurd (In a bad way) at worst. Also, are you still going to make this on Unity or are you using a different game engine?

[Nienhaus]

Something like that? I did those in a few minutes and if you would like I could make some more, better, ones.

[Fniff]

Precisely that. Those are pretty good by themselves anyhow!

[WillowLuman]

Sounds good to me!

[Nienhaus]

Just make a list of what is all needed and I can do them.

[blazing glory]

Nice... maybe this will be made

[Parsely]

GLORIOUS