GameStrafe Browsergame Nations Development

[PsylentStorm]

Originally Posted by Simon Moon

Although time alone would not make much sense. So you would need some indicators along with it. Maybe we could mint it down to 3 basic products, food, industry and research. depending on what buildings you build, you make more or less in one or another area. Also you can assign citizen to one or more of these areas, making your population grow, shrink or research go faster/slower. What you guys think?

that is GENIUS.

for a moment, i was a lil worried that this game was starting to become a modified/upgraded version of cyber nations... with the ability to task citizens, we start going into a separate game and along the lines of an RTS (which i love).

my question is, what specifically can you task citizens to? products? couldnt it be expanded to match the resources our nations produce like happiness, income, population count, research, etc?

for example, if you put more citizens into the medicine field, itll increase population (higher health) and happiness (a healthy population is a happy one), but lowers citizen income (taxes towards health care and research), etc?

[Simon Moon]

I think it would rather be depending on buildings. Say you get +1 happiness per research point you create, or per industry, depending on the building. Keeping it simple is the essence to get this going at all

[Krewsader]

Starting to sound like the game "Black & White" great game jsut got repetitive

[Simon Moon]

Black and white did it that way? I have it a lot different in memory then...

[Krewsader]

You would assign your citizens to gather or do differatn things. (Make babies, gather wood, gather gold, build, and farm)

[TheGnome]

^^ I would think that a lot of RTS games have that. Rise of Nations, Warcraft, etc... (Except to have babies )

It's a great idea as it gives the player more control over his nation.

[Simon Moon]

I think you could make it simple by having a certain need for food to survive. So if you make surplus in food your nation grows faster, the more surplus you make. If you make not enough food, your population will shrink. If you want to finish a project for research badly, you can do so by putting more people into research.

You like?

[Krewsader]

Si, me like

EDIT: 2 things,
1- Si is yes for all you non spanish speaking peeps

2- Once this is finished, will we(the gamestrafe pub) get any recognition for ideas and help and stuff like a sub title for our nation?

[ike44]

nice... this game is looking awesome... will there be a donations box or something in case some kind fellow wishes to donate some $ to keep the webiste going? and what about admins?

[TheGnome]

Yes, there will be a donation box for a one time bonus.

As for admins, I have no idea.

[Timmy_theHat]

Originally Posted by Simon Moon

I think you could make it simple by having a certain need for food to survive. So if you make surplus in food your nation grows faster, the more surplus you make. If you make not enough food, your population will shrink. If you want to finish a project for research badly, you can do so by putting more people into research.

You like?

Will there be obesity problems?

[Simon Moon]

Originally Posted by Krewsader

2- Once this is finished, will we(the gamestrafe pub) get any recognition for ideas and help and stuff like a sub title for our nation?

I will find some sort of recognition for everyone who has brought input into this early stage of the game

Originally Posted by ike44

nice... this game is looking awesome... will there be a donations box or something in case some kind fellow wishes to donate some $ to keep the webiste going? and what about admins?

You will be able to donate. Depending on how much, you will get one time bonuses for the donation, to "give back" for your contribution

Originally Posted by Timmy_theHat

Will there be obesity problems?

Yes. TheGnome runs weight watchers in the game though.

[Ashen]

Originally Posted by Simon Moon

Yes. TheGnome runs weight watchers in the game though.

Finally, a point system I can understand!


This is looking really good guys! Keep it up!

[Panchovillaa]

Originally Posted by Krewsader

Si, me like

EDIT: 2 things,
1- Si is yes for all you non spanish speaking peeps

HEY i got that joke lolz

[Kaninen]

I really think assigning "experts" to the game would make it stand out from the crowd.
Besides assigning citizens to research, you could have:
- merchants to improve bonuses from trade or give you extra trade slots.
-doctors to improve nations health.
-taxmen to improve tax revenue.
-military officers to strengthen your armed forces.
-and..?
The number of experts available could be a simple percentage of your overall population.
Prioritizing one would give you a loss in the others, allowing you to balance your output to suit your needs, but at the same time balancing the game so you can't choose one thing, without taking a loss on others. I really think it would help make you feel like you were more in control of the game.

I like the idea that some techs take actual time to research, besides costing something. I think it would make the game feel more realistic.