| <C_B> | Inane confluence of thought: |
|---|---|
| <C_B> | game concept, medium irrelevent, what if there were a game where instead of doing things directly, you hired other agencies to do them for you. |
| <~LordXaras> | uh... huh |
| <C_B> | like for resources, you hire a miner's guild, who returns resources to you per tick |
| <C_B> | Then you hand the resources over to a PMC, who acts mostly independently to achieve your goals. |
| <C_B> | possibly interesting? |
| <~LordXaras> | Leader: The Bossing? |
| <C_B> | basically |
| <~LordXaras> | could work for a politically themed game |
| <~LordXaras> | where you mostly ride desks and manipulate other factions |
| <~LordXaras> | project name: Cabinet? |
| <C_B> | heheh, sure |
| <C_B> | i'll add it to the ol' memory heap, maybe something interesting will come of it. |
| <~LordXaras> | Essentially a more nitty-gritty Diplomacy where it's more about outmaneuvering the other guys in the political and influence arena than to control the world with military might |
| <C_B> | you hire troops, but the result isn't that you take land, per se, but that you require an opponent to deal with whatever the troops are doing |
| <C_B> | might be interesting if strategic resources were heavily integrated. |
| <C_B> | nation A destabilizes nation B by securing exclusive rights to a region's unobtanium mines. B retaliates by hiring a PMC to disrupt the supplies to and from the mines. |
| <~LordXaras> | I was thinking all the players would be members of the government of the same country. They could all have different strict areas of responsibility, and thus need to influence each other. Player A wants to weaken Player C. Player B is the Secretary of Defence. Player A convinces Player B to deploy more troops. Player C has to spend valuable resources to ensure that the troops can be maintained, |
| <~LordXaras> | thus preventing him from reaching the goal Player A wanted to keep him from. |
| <C_B> | Hm. also neat. |
| <C_B> | The ultimate goal being...? |
| <~LordXaras> | no idea |
| <C_B> | to replace el Presidente? :D |
| <~LordXaras> | probably |
