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[Grakelin]

To spread propaganda.

[Jackrabbit]

The Pope has no unit, as far as I can tell.

I thought I'd revive this, since I bought it yesterday and I love it to death already. The woman Presidente is annoying as hell but I get a warm, fuzzy feeling whenever my male avatar says ""It's always all work and no play for El Presidente!"

[Karnewarrior]

The Pope has no unit, as far as I can tell.

I thought I'd revive this, since I bought it yesterday and I love it to death already. The woman Presidente is annoying as hell but I get a warm, fuzzy feeling whenever my male avatar says ""It's always all work and no play for El Presidente!"

IRONY.

[Thexor]

Now there's a coincidence... I just loaded this up again yesterday, and suddenly the thread has been bumped. 



My most recent, hilarious observation was near the end of a 20-year campaign mission. Every faction had 95+ respect for me... except for the Loyalists. Really, guys? I thought the 'loyal' in Loyalist meant, ya know, that you wouldn't be the least loyal faction! I mean, I insulted the Capitalists on my talk show, and they still liked me better than you!

(Actually, I should see if I can tick off the Loyalists enough to get them to rebel. "I'm so loyal to you, I'm going to shoot you!!"  )

[Gunner-Chan]

Here's the funny thing. The loyalists are the hardest to impress simply because they HATE you "Appeasing" the others.

[Jackrabbit]

I like to think the Loyalists aren't so much into you as they are their own super-heroic/sexy/awesome image of you. If you don't match their image, they quiet that nagging voice that says they've spent their life building their hero up to be something he's not by deciding that you aren't really the Presidente, not the one they love and adore and build shrines to in their mother's basement.

[dogstile]

Am I the only one here who outlaws the environmentalist faction as soon as possible in most of my games? Those nutjobs are impossible to please.

[Jackrabbit]

I don't. I've not found it too difficult to keep things clean, but then I haven't played many games.

[Thexor]

Am I the only one here who outlaws the environmentalist faction as soon as possible in most of my games? Those nutjobs are impossible to please.

I don't find them that bad. I mean, sure, if you're logging or mining, they get pissy real quick. But I've always shied away from mining... having a finite limit to a resource, even if it's a pretty generous resource, always made me leery. I'd rather amass a few tobacco or sugar farms and get a real industry going, and while the Environmentalists reach for their pitchforks if the word "logging" even crosses your mind, they don't seem too unhappy when your farmers disintegrate acres of lush forest to plant sugar. 

Oh, and occasionally they get grumpy and demand a garbage dump (which is a pain if you didn't leave any space for one!), or a wind turbine (come on, I've got a fully-stocked power plant that's producing four times more power than I'll ever use, why the heck should I shell out more money for a bloody wind turbine?!). That said, if you don't mine or log, they pretty much take care of themselves.

[Megaman]

I end up pissing off the intellectuals and the environmentalists every game. Liberty? Undamaged ecosystem? BACK TO YOUR CAVE.

[Duuvian]

Interestingly enough, I found that the dock loaders were the only people important enough to order killed, if for example they happened to be married to a farmer working on the far side of the island and thus living there.

I wish the Presidente could have mentioned them in his radio speeches, preferably while shaking his fist.

[Jackrabbit]

"Take a car. Take a goddamn fucking car and don't live in a shack at the ass end of nowhere you lazy sonofabitch peons. You are singlehandily bankrupting our economy."

Oh, I look forward to the day a decent voice synth is built and we can write our own speeches in games like this.

[lordcooper]

"Take a car. Take a goddamn fucking car and don't live in a shack at the ass end of nowhere you lazy sonofabitch peons. You are singlehandily bankrupting our economy."

Forum quote of the year IMHO.

Now, how can we add that bug/feature into DF?

[DJ]

Dock workers are the only reason I prefer tourism to industry.

[Thexor]

I do have to say, though... every time a dockworker pushes a wheelbarrow containing $75,000 in cigars to the freighter, I'm really happy he doesn't say, "Screw this", pocket the money, and hop on the freighter.