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New "gamemode" Idea - Player-forced Bankrupcy


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Basically, the idea is to use the savegame editor to remove buildings from organisations that are raided when their budget is less than 0.

When they have no money and get raided with financial losses, the raided building is taken by Government.

 

What, you, people think about it?

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Basically, the idea is to use the savegame editor to remove buildings from organisations that are raided when their budget is less than 0.

When they have no money and get raided with financial losses, the raided building is taken by Government.

 

What, you, people think about it?

 

Cool idea, but would it crash the game when they have no buildings?

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I take it their vehicles will still operate in the city? I mean the odd rider and vehicle that pops up every so often. COS vehicles like to pop up a lot after an air skirmish and there are UFOs to recover. Then there are the gang's suicide flyers.

 

What would happen if almost the entire city is government owned? I wonder what'll happen when someone tries to raid another organisation? Where will the vehicles come from when purchased? Some rather interesting questions raised.

 

- NKF

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I know that if you try to purchase goods from an org that doesn't have any buildngs the airtrans spawns in the top left corner of the city and won't budge. You can still force it to arrive at your base by using the fastest speed setting. (edit: same with purchased air vehicles, don't know about the ground ones)

How about making the building available for purchase by the player instead? Nothing like setting up your base in a former CoS temple. :)

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I know that if you try to purchase goods from an org that doesn't have any buildngs the airtrans spawns in the top left corner of the city and won't budge. You can still force it to arrive at your base by using the fastest speed setting. (edit: same with purchased air vehicles, don't know about the ground ones)

How about making the building available for purchase by the player instead? Nothing like setting up your base in a former CoS temple. :)

 

Wow. I like that!

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I take it their vehicles will still operate in the city? I mean the odd rider and vehicle that pops up every so often.

I observed the city for about 5 minutes and no enemy vehicles appeared - I observed it for 2 minutes with buildings present and 2 enemy vehicles appeared.

 

How about making the building available for purchase by the player instead? Nothing like setting up your base in a former CoS temple. :)

Heh :) .

It's a good idea :) .

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It seems that orgs need to be set to neutral to avoid attacks and set to neutral with all other orgs to avoid later trouble.

 

 

I made some experiments to see how the game treats X-Com bases being attacked, both from air and from the ground.

I discovered that one succesfull raid is enough to destroy the X-Com base (which is given to the Government) and razing the building to the ground has the same effect.

It doesn't matter how much money X-Com has.

 

So, winning a raid should be equal to eliminating a building and razing a building to the ground should have the same effect on corporations (it makes some sense, taking in account that there aren't infinite amounts of soldiers and wealth in the Megacity.

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..how is that even possible? ...o_o

you must have spent a crapload on tunneling weapons and explosives ..o.o

No, I just won attacks on their bases :) . All their bases are belong to Government :D !

 

I killed off Psyke and Diablo on the same day (I ran out of money and I had to start a war.) :D .

I ran out of the resources, so now I'm fighting against Osiron - I eliminated 1 warehouse and 1 slum with minor losses - It was pretty profitable :D .

Now I have to eliminate only two more :D .

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...well that just makes it stupid.. o.o

it doesnt cost the government money to run all those buildings does it?

That's what government is for. Also, X-Com's buildings return to government too.

Multiple raids on the same building are an exploit - simply, the game acts like the owner automagically rented new cops with expensive equipment - it's absurdal that I can make a many raids on a building each time gaining tons of items like Launchers, Plasma Guns, Mini Launchers, Psiclones and Elerium.

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Well if we can buy more, why cant They? :P

It depends - the player has to deal with hiring soldiers, buying equipment, etc.

It all costs time and money. Especially, in my mod, where some weapons have a high cost - for example Laser Rifles cost 6000$ and Heavy Launchers 12000$.

In game, organisations get them for free in unlimited numbers.

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Why do the weapons cost so much??!? O.O

Those Rocket launchers are pretty...uhm.. useless xD

even in recent times they wouldnt cost Near that ammount to make O.o..

Even a high tech thing like a Laser Rifle.. the materials wouldnt cost more than 400 dollars, and the processing would cost around 300 or less.. so the gun would probably sell for about 1200.. O.o

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Guest Azrael Strife
Yoni, in order to deal with Inflation the government would need to print more money, thus lowering the value of the money.

 

Are you familiar with the great depression?

Not nearly as simple as that.

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Well of course its not as simple as that Az, you know I have a habit of oversimplifying things xP

 

but either way, there is no understandable or logical reason that those weapons would cost so much-- they dont even appear to have an interface on most of them.

Mabye the missles for the rocket launcher might cost a bit, around 150 or so dollars, but the marsec machine gun for example is a fairly primitive weapon compared to most of these! xD

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The prices look odd to me too, but you do have to ask: What real-world currency are you basing the Apocalypse prices on? US dollars? Pounds? Dinars? Rupees?

 

Sometimes its best to not make any sense of it and just go along with it.

 

- NKF

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Yoni, in order to deal with Inflation the government would need to print more money, thus lowering the value of the money.

 

Are you familiar with the great depression?

Here in Belgium economics work so that every year the value of money drops with about 2 %. (Something of that magnitude). It's an artificially created inflation, so that money keeps slightly dropping in value and people are more stimulated to spend their money rather than hoard it for interest. Thus stimulating the economy. (I think it's robbery)

I don't know how it's done in the rest of the world. I assumed it was common practice everywhere.

 

And yes I'm familiar with the great depression.

 

Either way, my answer wasn't intended as THE answer. Just as a possibility, slightly in jest. Personnaly, I believe, I KNOW that the makers of the game never ever considered any such things. None of the designers ever gave item prices that much thought. They just slapped on prices which were balanced compared to each other.

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although thats an interesting concept Yoni, I dont believe anyone of the working class would keep money for 1% interest or so a year xD

everyone does indeed need to eat.. x;

 

but that is a rather clever little trick belgium uses I must say, but what does it do for imports?

Causes all imports to cost more money.

It all works out in the end as the government is printing more money to cause the inflation.. but either way xD!

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Hey I'm bumping this thread.

I started an Aliens 250 game on Superhuman today. I got a "Live Alien Spotted" in a Recylcotorium which was fun, but after the mission I noticed something

 

OWNER: X-COM

 

I didn't have a base there though. So it should be possible to set ownership to X-COM after a successful raid without having a base inside it.

Also I think just 1 raid is stupid, unless the guards inside the build are numerous, like 20+

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Was this the Superhuman map? There's the large COS building known as the Temple of the Apocalypse (or something like that) a couple of blocks north of it. The Recyclotorium is just next door to one very common Superhuman level starting base location.

 

The Recyclotorium always belongs to X-Com, and is treated like an X-Com building. You can't do anything with it though.

 

It's just one of the fun peculiarities of the superhuman map.

 

- NKF

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Was this the Superhuman map? There's the large COS building known as the Temple of the Apocalypse (or something like that) a couple of blocks north of it. The Recyclotorium is just next door to one very common Superhuman level starting base location.

 

The Recyclotorium always belongs to X-Com, and is treated like an X-Com building. You can't do anything with it though.

 

It's just one of the fun peculiarities of the superhuman map.

 

- NKF

Yeah it was

Also, on a tactical map, why is the Recyclotorium's tunnel system thingy filled with bodies?

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Of course X-COM has a Recyclotorium. Whenever you click "Destroy Alien Specimens," you don't think the AC guys just dump 'em all in a CoS Temple, do you? ROFL

 

The Recyclotorium always belongs to X-Com, and is treated like an X-Com building. You can't do anything with it though.

 

It's just one of the fun peculiarities of the superhuman map.

Actually, you can attack it. If you've been raiding like crazy (or abusing stun raids) and you don't feel like getting cloaked-&-shielded Aliens in the next drop, you can send a few bikes and cars with Bolters to cause some damage to the city. You won't retaliate against yourself, and I'm pretty sure that you don't have to pay for the damage.

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Of course X-COM has a Recyclotorium. Whenever you click "Destroy Alien Specimens," you don't think the AC guys just dump 'em all in a CoS Temple, do you? ROFL

 

The Recyclotorium always belongs to X-Com, and is treated like an X-Com building. You can't do anything with it though.

 

It's just one of the fun peculiarities of the superhuman map.

Actually, you can attack it. If you've been raiding like crazy (or abusing stun raids) and you don't feel like getting cloaked-&-shielded Aliens in the next drop, you can send a few bikes and cars with Bolters to cause some damage to the city. You won't retaliate against yourself, and I'm pretty sure that you don't have to pay for the damage.

Is it possible to actually raid the building?

 

Also using Recyclotorium for disposing alien bodies is a great answer

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