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Scott F
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Indiana
Oct 2000
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This would make interesting scenario, be it for just the Florida matter or for the entire election as a whole. I think that the election as a whole could be well depicted. There could be one city per electoral vote. That would make for 538 cities though, which is a bit much. It might be better to have objective points be electoral votes, and most of the cities would be major objectives, some with wonders, and with a few minor objective cities as filler.
Some Ideas:
If a city went into civil disorder, it would be considered as too close to call in the polls, making it vulnerable to advertising by the opposition. Happiness wonders could be replaced with things like "Energized Base" or "Social Security Scare Tactics."
Technologies could be things like "Union Support" which would trigger the creation of Union Election Worker units for capturing cities. The Republicans could have units like NRA Voters or Christian Coalition Members, given mostly by technologies.
Technologies would represent the earning of key support from interest groups for the election.
Advertising units would replace diplomats, enabling advertising (bribing) in cities to swing them to one side or the other. Advertising would be very expensive, and the units rather costly.
Cities would use the Nemo "no food" technique and would generate only shields, shields which could be spent on things to help the candidate's local base, like Local Rallies, Yard Signs, Billboards, and the like, on national things like wonders which would represent the garnering of interest group support, or on fundraising (Capitalization), which would enable more advertising and thus the capture of more cities. The player would have to achieve a careful balance between the three to attain victory. Whoever held the majority of electoral votes (objectives) on election day would win the scenario.
Unfortunately, I don't think that the AI could handle something like this. It might make for a good two person multiplayer scenario though.
An interesting concept, I must say.
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ColdWizard
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an mge version would be nice too. the hostility of the ai would add a realistic touch IMHO
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KhanMan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:13
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*BUMP*
Darth-What problems, per se, did you run into doing it in FW? I've been thinking about doing a MGE version, and maybe a ToT expansion of that, with bigger events...are you at all interested in this? I'd like to try, maybe as a colaboration.... ?
Smash, Scot, and Co.-Anyone interested? Any suggestions?
If none of you are interested in doing this, could you at least email me some of your ideas, etc.?
khanmaned@hotmail.com
-KhanMan
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Sprecher der ToT
First Minister of Machiavellia
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KhanMan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:13
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Kull-I disagree, for three main reasons:
1. This would be an election scenario, and, as such, is blessed with replayability, with minor tweaks, for any national election. You could turn it out into the 1996 or 2004 elections easily...
2. To my knowledge, the closest things done to this were the Modern Civil War Scenarios (New England, whole US, etc), and Dracon's Aussie Civil War...none of these, imho, were flops...
3. If I did this, I would want a scenario to do with low expectations, because that is the real chance for greatness. No one expected ANOTHER good WW2 scenario when Red Front came along...no one thought OCC was possible...ToT seemed dead at first...these are the places you can rise to glory, not in repeating other's successes, IMHO.
That said, I'd love to get together with, or hear from, anyone interested in such a project. Failing that, I'll try on my own 
-KhanMan
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Sprecher der ToT
First Minister of Machiavellia
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Bush won! Woohoo for free enterprise and freedom of speech!
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KhanMan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:13
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Supreme Court to hear arguments initiated by Bush team!
Election results to drag on for another month!
Woohoo for free speach and democracy!
:P
-KhanMan
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Sprecher der ToT
First Minister of Machiavellia
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