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[Squeegy]

Strike the Earth! Gently!

Wouldn't that be Smack the Earth, then?

"Slap the Earth!"   ?

"Poke The Earth!"?

Hug The Earth!

[PTTG??]

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Hug The Earth!

We have a winner!

TV building; using it builds Observer skill.

All archaic ranged weapons will use "bowyer" skill, and various categories of firearms will use other skills. Heavy weapons, like chainguns, will use siege operator, for instance.

[Aklyon]

You have arrived at (Dwarven Name), "Liberal Crime Fortress". Hug The Earth!

[PTTG??]

You can build shops- which are very large buildings that require several units of furntiture, construction material, power units, and a considerable amount of "cash"- and then use them to buy items directly.
 
Examples include:
The Oiblette: Where to go for buying genuine reproduction weapons and armor.
 
Eoxiuy's Quik Stop: A very easy-to-build structure that lets you buy cheap food for your liberals.
 
Green Leaves Organic Nutrients and Life: Buying high-quality foods for your liberals. And other plant-based goods.
 
Domicile Warehouse: Bulk construction goods for all your militia fortress needs!
 
Shootin' n' Explosions: Stock up on "self defence" equipment. Free samples to everybody in a turban! (Seriously, I saw that in a gun shop once...)
 
Ed's Pawn:
Sell stuff, or buy chess pieces.
 
These shops will speed up gameplay a bit and keep it more cash-based, very different from the barter economy of DF.
 
I mentioned Power Units: I'm thinking of maybe adding a "generator" building that produces Power Units that other operations consume, so you need to keep a supply of electricity working, but I can't think of a way to keep this from being tedious and unrealistic. If anyone can think of an interesting way to represent modern infrestructure needs, I'd love to hear 'em.
 
(Yes, I am usin IE insteed of Firefox. Howe ddi yo nkow?)

[PTTG??]

I'm kinda thinking using castes for the major groups, with Liberals, Moderates, and Conservatives all being one big race, but I'm not sold on that. For one thing, I don't know how well castes work with entities.

May make them entirely separate races.

Unless it's possible to set personality by entity, that is.

My plans are first to make the three sides somewhat distinct, then start moving the time scale forward. We are going shops-centric, with most of your stuff being basic-q stuff "made" in shops.

Tahin suggested having premade "cities" that you, as player, can "reclaim" and which already have an assortment of buildings. It's a neat idea, though DF isn't really designed for that. I'd aim to make the "default" gameplay similar to DF, where you pick a place in a random game-world and settle there.

One part of this would be to make Moderates use Dark Fortresses, which have interesting internal rooms you can build in once you settle there, and thus give you a somewhat modern basis to build from.

Liberal and Conservative entities would build either Towns or Mountain Forts, probably towns so Adventuring Liberals can buy stuff.

[Toady One]

I've removed the posts I could find with personal attacks in them, or that mainly referenced the argument.  If this thread doesn't remain civil, it will have to be locked.  Anybody involved in personal attacks in this thread will now be warned/muted/banned as necessary.  It's possible to discuss this stuff in a relaxed fashion!

[Keilden]

How about a Hostage Cell workshop? It needs living people(if thats possible with the reactions) and create money from selling the hostage? And there should only be a chance to get money since you don't always get the ransom.

[PTTG??]

How about "Hostages" produce cash when milked?
Or something like that.

I wouldn't want it to be possible to make Hostage Cash Cheese, but if that's the only way to do it...

[Rumrusher]

replace cheese with bonds and investments and that sounds like a grand idea!

you still got the problem of having random creatures, titans, and hardcoded baddies. 

[PTTG??]

...you still got the problem of having random creatures, titans, and hardcoded baddies.

...problem?

Anyway, we'll also have a "hat" building, where liberals can play a musical instrument to get cash.

[EuchreJack]

You've got to either give all liberals both male and female tags, or remove them altogether.  Although you might just add a genderless class so the liberals can survive worldgen.  Also include long lifespans for liberals to represent the benefits of good diet and exercise (generally associated with liberals, whereas Conservatives just don't seem to age well).

[PTTG??]

Liberals live off of bran, vitamin pills, and whatever combination of drugs are in the hollywood punch bowl this weekend. It evens out.

It occurs to me that some people might not be familiar with the original game, Liberal Crime Squad, I'll add a link to the OP.

[Aklyon]

you still got the problem of having random creatures, titans, and hardcoded baddies.

Newspaper in the LCS city (or wherever the game takes place): Completely unexpected dimensional rift throws Liberal Crime Squad into unknown dimension, Conservatives celebrating.

There. plothole plugged.

[EuchreJack]

It's easier to just blame all those creatures on the Arch-Conservative Genetics Lab.

[Koji]

I always thought LCS was about being a punk, not a hippie.

Actually it'd be funny to divide up the liberal caste in such a way as to produce hippies, punks, etc. that had varying personalities and did varying amounts of work. Punks would of course be [alcohol_dependent]