I have a friend who plays Liberal Crime Squad (in fact he was the one who first told me about the game) and he recently complained to me that it does not have mouse support or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). He said it doesn't necessarily have to be actual graphics, but just have a point-and-click mouse interface that you can use if you don't like using the text interface for everything. I am not sure if the curses library supports using the mouse, although you can use a mouse in Win32 console applications and this feature is duplicated if you run a Win32 console application in Wine. I doubt that mouse support will be added, so how about everyone else posts some features that they think would be cool but are so complicated or hard to implement that they will probably never make it into the game?
I thought of another feature that will never make it into the game: sound effects!
Or how about this one: at the beginning you could choose whether to play as Liberals or Conservatives, and if you play as Conservative all the government and public opinion would start out Liberal instead of Conservative and you'd have to fight to get everything all Conservative. Seeing as we have Obama as president and Democrats with big majorities in both houses of Congress along with a Supreme Court vacancy right now, I think now is the perfect time for a Conservative Crime Squad or Mad Teabagging Party, whatever you want to call it.
Instead of just adding graphics, we could add 3D graphics that are rendered using the latest technology and require DirectX 9.0c or later, or some equivalent relatively new version of OpenGL.
Mutiplayer 2-player game support over the Internet, with one person playing as Liberal and the other playing as Conservative, and the government and public opinion all starting out Moderate.
Multiplayer support that turns the game into a MMORPG (in 3D of course, with lots of sound effects). People could play as teams and complete quests to level up, or something like that, or it could be completely pointless like Second Life.
The feature to have the game actually affect politics in the real world the same way it affects them in the game (e.g. if you get all drugs legalized in the game, it also happens in the real world simultaneously).
Make the game into an old-fashioned first-person shooter for DOS like Wolfenstein 3D where you try to kill as many Conservatives as possible.
Port the game to the iPhone.
Give Priests, Nuns, and Amateur Magicians magical powers, and add a Magic skill. Priests and Nuns would each have spells to call upon the power of God, and Amateur Magicians would call upon the power of Satan. Priests would be able to have God smite someone (a powerful magical attack requiring no physical weapon), Nuns would have magical healing abilities (to heal themselves and allies), and Amateur Magicians would be able to use demonic possession to take control of an enemy (similar to brainwashing except instantaneous). People under demonic possession would be a little... different. They would have exceptional fighting abilities but would attack everyone in sight, except perhaps the person who summoned the demons that are possessing them. There would also be a feature to perform an exorcism on someone who is possessed by demons, although I am not sure how exactly that would work. Certain items might aid practitioners of magic, but be useless to everyone else.
Translate the game into lots of foreign languages so people who do not know English can play, and keep the vast number of translated versions up-to-date with each new version of the game.
Add Braille support so blind people can play the game.
Add the feature to permanently delete the entire contents of your system32 directory because it is filled with nothing but spyware.
Cure the disease of red-green colorblindness so people who suffer from it can tell Liberals (green) from Conservatives (red).
Put in targeted advertisements for various prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction in order to make money off the game.
Train dogs to play the game.
OK now everyone else post your own ideas for features that will probably never be added!
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