{"id":2353,"date":"2013-05-29T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2013-05-29T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:15:30","slug":"some-democracy-3-simulation-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/05\/29\/some-democracy-3-simulation-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Democracy 3 simulation changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sooo… it REALLY helps to talk over your game design with other people, especially as a lone indie. I sit here shivering in the small dark basement I program in<\/del> sipping tea in my luxurious gilded office, and realize that I am alone in a bubble of game design where other peoples input goes unheard. So after a brief chat about the design with someone else, I’ve realized I need to make two changes to the simulation stuff:<\/p>\n

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Firstly, there is the topic of dilemmas. Dilemmas are a good mechanic because they are issues you cannot kick down the road. For example, there is an application to build a toxic waste dump. Do you say yay or nay? Saying yay obviously annoys environmentalists, but for how long? Right now… the answer is FOREVER.\u00a0 I now think this is wrong. I think it should decay over a long timescale, and also that dilemma should possibly be re-usable. if the player *wants* to play an endless game of D3, surely they shouldn’t ‘run out’ of dilemmas? This is a change that needs making.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the current system has a negative effect on your popularity after an assassination attempt. This was because I wanted it to reflect how bad and unpopular your government was, implying that people who were on-the-fence about you, would see someone trying to kill you and go ‘oh Obama must be a fruitcake, look at those guys shooting at him’. I now think this is just WRONG<\/strong>. Surely the opposite is true? I might not like the UK prime minister, but would I like him less if someone tried to shoot him? Especially if I was a ‘floating voter’. I suspect the spirit of ‘rallying round the government’ would kick in, and maybe have a positive effect on your support.<\/p>\n

That also has the positive effect that it is a nice self-balancing game mechanism, rather than the current spiral of failure. I’m pretty certain I’ll replace the impact with a slight, short-term popularity jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sooo… it REALLY helps to talk over your game design with other people, especially as a lone indie. I sit here shivering in the small dark basement I program in sipping tea in my luxurious gilded office, and realize that I am alone in a bubble of game design where other peoples input goes unheard.<\/p>\n

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