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Chicago Query ! Some information about something you build would be nice. I found some interesting statistic and graphs about chiacago on SecondCityZoning ! https://secondcityzoning.org/zones/ Thie describe seveal area of the city with their assigned designation and wealth numbers, up there´s a link to the under The Zoningmap wich gives a graphical representation of the city. When you these figures this doesn´t say much about the economic model used wich is completely different from the rest of america ! Under a video about Chcago economic model by Peter Santenello a interview with First Ammandmen Attorney Benjamin Barr about this ! This enlighten some of the economic and demographic moves the city maid in the past and present ! If you want to know anything about this city this is very usefull information to understand the politcs from the 1920 till now, thank thesesources for sharing these ! Prakticly, except the graph and info on detail there isn´t much to add except add excellence of venues in their splendour and here there add some historic thriomph or failour if so ! Inbetween I started the central loop area with various result will post these soon ! Sincerey yours, Kschmidt
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Hi again!! I ended up in this section of the forum by mistake, but I found it interesting. I was looking at the titles of the threads that had been created about the different games and it surprised me that there was none about President Elect, so I'll create one myself. President Elect is a game that initially appeared in 1981, although the most common version (and the one I play sometimes) is the one from 1988. It is a turn-based game that can be played by one to three people. Or you can even decide not to play with any of them and let the computer do the whole simulation. You can choose between several historical scenarios or a fictitious one that you shape to your preference. The idea of the game is very simple: You have to win the elections. To do this you will have to perform different actions throughout your game, such as attending a debate or visiting the different states. All these actions are carried out through the use of Political Action Points, which would take the place of money. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Well, no, it is not. I can assure you that it is quite difficult to beat the computer. It is a text-only game, the only "visual" thing is the map of the United States, which changes colors as the intentionality of the vote for each party increases or decreases. A fun fact I can tell you is that for some strange reason that I do not know, they chose red for the Democrats and blue for the Republicans, just the opposite of how it usually is in the US. Have you played? Let me know and maybe we can exchange tips and tricks to win. And if you haven't played, I recommend it! It can be a bit dense though, so pick a day when you feel focused because it takes a lot of thinking. Tomorrow I will try to record a game of mine and post it so you can get an idea of what the game is like.
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Axioms Of Dominion: A Fantasy DIP Strategy Game (Release December 2022)
MoLAoS posted a topic in Gaming Talk
Axioms Of Dominion is a project I got about 40% through and then had to let go for life stuff. Now I have roughly a year where I shouldn't have anything else to do so I'm hoping to release in late 2022 or very early 2023 if I run into serious issues. I'd advise reading the wiki for a broad overview: https://axioms-of-dominion.fandom.com/wiki/Axioms_Of_Dominion_Wiki Here is the blog link: https://axiomsofdominion.substack.com/ This is a fantasy geopolitics simulator that is broadly comparable to CK2+Vicky2+Dominions4+more. As a fantasy game it has tons of magic stuff but the focus is on DIP mechanics. Diplomacy(foreign affairs) Intrigue(shadowy affairs) Politics(domestic affairs) I have a Substack which can be located by searching the game name in Google. I have a goal of enabling 40000 provinces on very new PCs but the game is perfectly functional around 14000. I have a major goal of playing an almost purely combat free couple millenia taking down a major empire in the world from the inside. I'd expect an average top tier empire to have roughly 7000 provinces on larger maps if you run history for 4000-8000 years. Anywhere from 15% to 40% of a larger map. What constitutes an empire or even a kingdom is much more fluid and dynamic than in existing games. A 7000 province empire would have something like 10 ~100 province substates at the core, 40 ~50 province "major vassals", and then 200 ~20 province periphery/border vassals. Of course you can fiddle those numbers a bit but that is a good illustration of my goal. Several of the substack posts relate the very detailed political sim I am designing to make this goal plausible. I still have a few major and a few minor things to talk about on the blog. There is a Fandom wiki that has a few dozen pages on various major and minor systems. It hasn't been changed much since mid 2015 when I had to pause working on the game until now. Most of the backend stuff is done and I'm primarily figuring out the equations for mechanics, doing all the UI stuff, and getting the AI to function. I expect I'll do a UI theme, smooth out map generation, and maybe polish up the art assets at the end. The game is turn based with attention points. So you have like 1000 attention points per turn, still testing the proper amount and the costs for actions. I wanted to do a time based system but it is hard to code and people will just get mad anyways. It is a province map style like Sovereignty or Paradox games. There is a very detailed population simulation which interacts with the character mechanics. Ideology covers almost a dozen areas, Propaganda impacts ideology and religion and the military, there's a Quality Of Life system regarding food variety/quality and material goods plus shelter, Religion ties into both magic and diplomacy/politics, population is where your troops come from and there is a logistics system. https://imgur.com/a/AlPew Those are some early maps. The top one almost looks like Europe/Africa/Near East. Maps are generated procedurally as will the world be if you don't start on world creation but run history for a few centuries or millenia. The magic aspect is highly integrated and very expansive. It impacts every game system in various ways. I have a substack post about just magic. My substack is free for anyone to read. Magic can build roads, discover secrets, troop movements, and other knowledge from distant provinces, change the weather and climate, be used in various enchantments, etc. There is even a cool The Runelords(think that is the right series) inspired magical transference/pacts thing where you can empower your soldiers or other people with the powers of captured, or tamed, magical creatures. Or sentient captives. Strength, mana pool, speed, physical features like scales or claws, etc. And you can do evil mad science [censored]. Speaking of evil Axioms allows you to play a truly ruthless tyrant rather than just a good boy. Fear, blackmail, military threats, second class citizens, slaves, etc. The culture system allows a something like a society that reveres dragons, character secretly captures a dragon, transfers dragon traits to himself, become leader of confederation of tribes. Someone finds out, and can blackmail him, reveal him, kill him and become dragon king themselves, etc. You can destabilize a society by cutting off their access to a prestigious food resource that is a traditional staple of cultural diet, say cinnamon, assuming the leader has depleted his political capital and put himself in a risky position. Much more detailed example on the blog. The trade off is graphical sugar, no voice acting or 3d models, random world gen vs handcrafted map, although players/modders can make scenarios if they want, I just don't plan to release official ones but there is mod support. A stretch goal, well not really since there isn't a kickstarter, if I finish the main stuff early before release date is to integrate a "History" system that records important actions and can be loaded/interpreted by a wiki type program to allow you to read "history books" about the game world. The "simulated" history mentioned earlier is just starting a game with no player or observer and letting the AI play a few centuries or millenia and then picking a point jump in. Player could look at data files in theory but the idea is that you only know what your AI guy knew when you swapped in. -
So Russia intervened, the "kurds" or "kurder" in Swedish withdrew and Turkey accepted to end any hostilities as far as i know so it´s peace for now at least in that area. But that Turkish president Erdogan seems to be a bit on the brutal side overall when using phosphorus on the civilians for example but that will probably not be the end of it entirely if i may take a guess on it. Much like Ireland perhaps where it just is one prolonged friction between two groups and i just say....CALM DOWN! Stop it and put down all arms entirely. It´s not that hard if you want to, trust me. The difficult thing for the human race is to say now in unison when the politicians are ready to let YOU fight. They would never dream themselves to put themselves in harms way, nor the rich. They know what´s what and are no fools. The common man neither, and we have a heart at least. Edit: And guts, lets keep em´on the inside of ourselves shall we.
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Playfield.Earth / Urban Management - Our new approach in the City Builder genre
playfieldearth posted a topic in City-Building Games
Hello everyone We would like to introduce you to our upcoming game Playfield. Earth / Urban Management. PFE / Urban Management will be a mix of city builder and comprehensive city management. We want to go completely new ways in this genre, the player takes over existing cities, districts, villages or metropolitan regions with all their characteristics, specifics and challenges. PFE / Urban Management offers different sub-gameplays (game modes) that simulate all aspects of real urban planning, urban management and typical municipal politics: - Urban planning - Traffic & transport - Public safety management - Society management - Economy & infrastructure management - A mayor mode - A multiplayer mode in which players take over a municipal government Our trailer shows some of the pre-alpha builds and features we are planning: We are looking forward to your opinions, ideas and criticisms, here in the forum. Our website and social channels: https://playfield.earth/en/gameplays-en/urbanmanagement https://www.reddit.com/r/playfieldearth https://twitter.com/playfieldearth https://www.facebook.com/playfieldearth- 10 Replies
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Far Cry 4 Politics Discussion [Pagan VS Amita VS Sabal]
Jonathan Irons posted a topic in General Off-Topic
Far Cry 4 A Game where you play Ajay Ghale who is son of the Ishwara Ghale that wanted her ashes to be scarred to the her own country Kyrat A Place in Himalayas Natural Resources Depleted A Place where ONLY opium can be harvested (Can someone find me an biologian or an scientist farmer that can tell me about this ? Is it possible to grow vegetables in places that can support opium production ?) OK Lets start (I Am "Born In 14/12/2002 and that's my view on Kyrat politics) Dictators (And wannabe dictators) Of Kyrat Pagan A Psycopath that kills golden path people because their leader killed his daughter Amita A Revolutionist that wants to save the future of Kyrat by making children work in opium fields Sabal A Traditionalist that believes Kyrat mythology (Religion of Kyrat people totally made up) and Mohan Ghale's (That child killer) ideas about not selling drugs and doing sex with Tarun Matara (Worst of all, The current Tarun Matara is a 14 year old girl) Their Objectives Pagan wants to rule Kyrat like a Tropico or a SimCity player and killing soldiers of the rebel organization which their ex-leader killed his daughter named Lakshmana Amita wants to save people from starving by making childs work in drug fields so they can get cash to fill their mouths while their fathers and mothers are killing remaining "Royal Army Holdouts" that wants to kill the Kyrat people ("I am sacrificing our liberties for peace later") Sabal wants to rule the country in that "religion" and letting people starve because selling drugs are a bad thing ALSO he wants to have sex with Tarun Matara After Credits Scenes These Happen If you didn't enjoyed crab rangoon in the beginning and escaped In the beginning, If you wait 15 Mins you get accompanied by Pagan and he tells us how "Mohan Ghale" killed his own daughter and step sister of Ajay Ghale Pagan 404 Not Found, If you let him get away and tells you the truth in exact same "crab rangoon" aftermath and gives you his crown and flees the country with his Blackhawk (Does anybody know how to find these on black market ?) yelling "I gave you the Kyrat but Heli is mine !" Amita Forced labour scene where children are forced to get employed in drug fields and she tells us "Bhadra Is not coming back" (After that, a location in the river titled "Tarun Matara's sleep" appears in the map Sabal He cuts throats of the "people sided with Amita and butchered their brothers and sisters" front of the Tarun Matara. Also he tells us Bhadra is Tarun Matara now After After credits sequences I made up Pagan He simply calls us about how he runs this country and does some "Step father and step son" talking (A step father that loves his adopted son ?) Amita Country isn't an Utopia but nobody is starving thanks to the Opium exports Sabal He fails Since Opium isn't harvested, People are very poor Conclusion OK Pagan wants to get revenge on Golden Path people Amita wants to improve her country at all costs Sabal just wants to sex with the Tarun Matara and "that made up religion" alive The problem is No matter what, Bhadra will have bad time So my idea Side with Pagan and teach him Islam so he can be an better person and save Kyrat with him Boring huh ? Lets say I was an moron atheist and didn't know anything about REAL religions also I didn't experienced "Crab Rangoon" ending At the end, I would Make sure Bhadra survives Side with Amita and save the country from starving by making children grow opium and feed their mouths when their parents work as soldiers that kills the "Royal Army Holdouts" Spare Sabal He didn't do anything wrong Spare Pagan Yes he killed people but I somehow want to save him (I Choose who to survive and who to kill) I Dont know why I wrote this note but this was playing (I Want mature games with mature stories like Fallout 1/2/3 and GTA 4. but sadly ALL of the modern game industry (With some exceptions like Far Cry) are made for 9 year olds that doesn't care about story These are my ideas -
Bern, Erweiterung ! Last CJ we´v seen some part of the inner city and the sourthern neighbourhood of Kirchenfeld. Now we continue our tour with other parts of the town ! North of the old city center is the neighbourhood of Altenberg, formely there was a railyard this has been replaced with residential and commercial enterprise. Stade de Suise where SC Youngboys and the national team plays. Beyond there´s a industrial area to meet these requirements ! North of the station area ther´s a new suburb Langgasse Feldenau wich will house some part of the university of Bern ! Southern Mattenhof houses some of the bigger commercial expansions ! Adjacent neighbourhood of Wabern houses the most wealthy bernese citizens ! Now we return to the inner city with the medical, govermental and culture ! Bundesplatz der Schweiz and the Bundes Palast ! Opera of Bern ! _Michael sugested replacing the T with a GLR piece, normal buldozing didn´t work but Carefully leveling succeeded replacing this piece. Alteberg GLR piece was temporarly randomly buldozing created but corrected aftherwards ! This summer I take a break from the Europa ANNO series to return to the Mayon Province 2.0 region with the Hartford area ! Europa ANNO will be back at the end of October with the probably the usual two part conclusion ! Check out Show what your working on for more progres ! Hope you enjoyed this CJ and see you back next time !
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Are there any video games where you play as the illuminati and take control over the world? Or something similar like the illuminati? Or does such an game not exist?
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Are there any Games were you can build an communist or socialist state? It should be an political Simulation or a strategy game, or does such an game not exist?
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Are there any good cold war era strategy/ political Simulation games? Or are most cold war era games bad? And there are not really good cold war era games?
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How do i increase the hapiness in tropico 5? and how do i build an strong good economy? any tipps?
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How do i create in tropico 5 an totalitarian police state? How to i build an strong economy and what do i Need for an totalitarian state? An huge military? a strong police? martial law? Is it possible to build an totalitarian fascist state in tropico 5? Or is this not possible to build an fascist totalitarian police state?
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Are there any games where you can be an totalitarian dictator? And Controlling everything and everyone? Yes i know Tropico is such an game, but you are only an dictator of a small Island, not really a powerful ruler. Are there any games besides the tropico series where you can be an cruel dictator? Any games where you can rule over more than just a tiny Island as a dictator?
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Are there any political/strategy games like the tropico series, wehre you can be a dictator? Or is this game series unique? Is tropico the only game that allows you to Play as a real totalitarian dictator? Or do other games like this exis5t where you can become a brutal totalitarian dictator? Is tropico the only really good political simulation game?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38168792 So, from what I understand, post-truth is a rejection of MSM news and sources and instead emotions and gut instinct are believed instead. That and something about fake news... So this threat is all about the "Post-truth age". Heck, is it an age? Is it a silly fabrication conjured by the media? Or is it a term only relevant to this year- to 2016? /// My take on post-truth is that it's a word MSM have put out there after been humiliated by Brexit and then with the US Presidential Election. I personally think the term "post-truth" should be renamed "post-MSM truth"; that people are turning to other news sources on the internet and to foreign news channels, in particular RT, all the while rejecting conventional MSM. So perhaps "post-truth" is MSM coining a term for its own irrelevance? Though I think the term is quite silly because it seems to be implying that large sections of the population are following something other than THE (MSM) truth and thus must all be: stupid or biased or deluded. Perhaps also there is another factor at play; TV is losing its efficacy when it comes to influencing people and their views. The fact is the internet is far more powerful and combines the best and worst of TV. So the internet will either cause TV to disappear or envelop TV as TV programs are broadcast on the internet too. So perhaps "post-truth" could be renamed "post-TV truth" or "post-TV"?
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Yeah it may be American politics, but Trump has really changed the political scene and I feel it requires its own separate post to chart and discuss the events and changes during a Trump Presidency. Also the US Presidential Election thread is going in all kinds of wild tangents, I've been posting quite a few of them but Trump winning has opened up a real can of worms and it is a really massive change. That thread needs a continuation once Trump has been inaugurated. This thread is not only about President Trump and his administration, it is also about Obama's legacy, and of course the myriad issues which come with Trump and his election promises. There needs to be a thread on its own to comment about: US foreign policy, Obama's legacy, what will happen to the Clintons, the Mexico/US border, how Trump will "drain the swamp", the future for Liberals and SJWs, the social changes taking place in the US and much, much more. So for the first post, Trump has a message about his day-one executive actions. Militant Radical, Fantozzi, APSMS, Larks2242, Sabretooth78, OcramsRzr, LexusInfernus and all the other usual suspects- feel free to pop in and post! Cheers!
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Attending at the growing number and activity of Spanish and Portuguese speaker forumers on the last months, and the convoluted events on our countries, this thread is opened as a means to have friendly and civil discussions about politics and policies. Of course, all forumers are welcome, no matter their origin. As my RL career is mainly focused this issues, I'll try to update the thread regularly with news briefs, but your help with that task would be well recieved. Also, to keep an amicable ambient, here are some convivence recommendations: Prefer English, but don't be shy: English is a lingua franca we all can use and is understandable for all forumers, inviting them to participate here; nevertheless, if you don't find the right words, write it in your native tongue, we really want to know your ideas. Also, online translators are always a good help. Keep arguments concise: while is true one can talk about politics for hours, most ideas get lost on more than two paragraphs; try to mantain a conversational style. Assume good intentions: if you see something that could offend you, first think: could this be just a misunderstanding? could I improve things by taking the offense? Don't stay shut, but remember that is easy to express oneself in a confuse manner. Use data, don't believe on it: statistics are very useful to get a hold of what's really happening, but they are human-made measures that are prone to error and diverse interpretations. Show us the numbers but remember we can see different things on them. Understand political beliefs and cultures: our local cultures and political beliefs are very deep rooted and cherished, don't try to bluntly change others', talk about them in a respectful way and comprehend dissent. Welcome our friends from the world: lets keep this thread open to all forumers by using an open language, explaining context and references, and being available to answer questions.
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United Kingdom 2017 General Election (UK Political Happenings)
_Michael posted a topic in Current Events
A thread for the politics happenings in the UK. (I don't think there is already one.) So David Cameron has just resigned, and Theresa May is currently at the palace. As a fan of Cameron, it's a sad day. 6 years and 62 days in control, both in a coalition and in a majority, but I'm looking forward to seeing what May can bring. What are your opinions? There are also more issues rising in the Labour Party. Will Jeremy Corbyn go? Who knows. I think it is hard for him to stay. -
Anyone heard of Urban Empire yet? Looks to be a new city building game with a more in depth look at politics and progress through time and technics. It's made at Fragment Production and Kalypso which, looking at Tropico series, at least makes room for hopes. Game has only just been announced so there's litte info except the overall concept and some screenshots and a trailer with ingame footage at current state of production. Check it out on it's steam page I like the concept. The political aspect of city management, or better the lack of, was always something that buggered me in city building games. I wonder how it will turn out in UE...
