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mrmitchell
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Introduction
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. "We can't win!!!11" So we're not coming in first, we're still required to play and send the save every time it comes around. We might as well make it fun right? I'll try to contact all the old fogies that rarely come here any more.
How it Works
Basically, just like the $Mini and now the Feudal DG. You buy tiles and they accumulate foods and more.
Tile Codes
Tiles will be named by this system:
LETTER OF CITY - WORKFORCE NUMBER
For example:
A9
City Letters:
A Monterrey
B El Paso
C San Antonio
D San Diego
E Santa Barbara
In the event two cities share a tile within their borders, precedence is given to the city that has a lower letter (A being the lowest and E the highest).
Purchasing Land
Land will be auctioned off at a date that will be set later. You may purchase one tile on money borrowed from the Guv'ment, and after it is paid off you may purchase more tiles (no more debt buying allowed, though.)
Production
Each tile produces as much food, shields, gold per turn as it does in the game.
Wasn't that easy?
The slightly harder part is that it costs $2 to produce food, $3 to produce shields, and $4 to produce gold.
Consumption
Tiles' production are, obviously, consumed by cities. City managers (or mrmitchell) will be appointed to control purchase of the production by the cities.
Although goods produced anywhere can be transported to any city, as they travel "one turn" for a slow unit (three tiles, in other words), their cost goes up by $1 for the city. The $1 is lost forever (unless someone comes up with a better suggestion of what to do for it.)
Cities consume:
Food Their population * 2
Shields From 1 to the number being consumed in game
Gold From 1 to the number being consumed in game
Transactions
...can be initiated between players, other players, and cities. A given good can move once per turn.
Basic Price
On the first turn, the prices are:
Food $3
Shields $4
Gold $5
(per unit.)
However, after that, players may sell for as much as they want, and cities may buy for as much as they want.
The Goal
To be the richest jackass when the real Game ends!
Comments, Suggestions, and Questions are ENCOURAGED
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Arnelos
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of the Free World
Sep 2002
time: 00:36
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My personal suggestion would be the same one I made for setting up our $mini-game for the Morgan Industries faction in the ACDG:
The mini-game should allow players to take advantage of situations in the real game and trade, purchase, etc. as if they were capitalists in that empire. HOWEVER, the mini-game should not have a direct impact on the play of the real game.
The reasoning here is less solid, but remains in existence: it is still vitally important that we run our empire at the maximum of all available efficiency so that we can play as much of a role in this game (primarily through finances, but soon enough through production) as we can.
So what I would suggest is that for a mini-game, you establish a system for people owning tiles or whatever you want, but that it not impact the real game itself.
The mini-game system I worked up for the Morgan Industries faction won't work here since we won't be treating each of the cities as subsidiary corporations in which we can buy stock (this isn't Morgan Industries  ). However, we could establish a difference between corporations, whose job it would be to buy and manage tiles, and individual capitalists (players), who can invest in corporations by buying their stock, sell their stock, and be chosen by other stockholders to manage that corporation's finances.
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mrmitchell
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That sounds like a good proposal as well.
I suggest we draw up a ballot and poll it between me, Arnelos, Togas, God King if he's here, and then the bum that won't leave Monterrey.
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mrmitchell
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About Consumption.
I said Cities don't have to purchase their full implement of production and gold consumption, but they go into a Shortage, and become willing to pay more for the shields or gold. At the end of the game, market prices will be used to cash out all players' inventories of Gold and Shields and Food.
Cities only have to consume as much food as they are eating, however. Nonetheless, if they can't buy all of it, they still get a shortage. (But a city MUST purchase as much food as it can except past shortages  )
Excess food, shields, and gold purchased will be kept in the City for use to cover a future shortage (or would y'all rather have City Managers be the greedy Capitalists of the game as well? )
EDIT:
Purchasing Tiles
Just to make it clearer, here is the current proposal for purchasing tiles (so long as we don't use Arnelos's suggestion, although I figure Corporations will work the same way, right?):
-Turn 1 of $Mini. Tiles are auctioned off. Each player may bid on 1 tile (I may modify this later if we get more or less turnout ).
-The highest bidder for each tile gets his tile.
-The bids were made using BORROWED MONEY from the government. The players must now sell their production until they can pay off their debts (or they can just keep the debt and remain limited to one tile. )
-Once all players' debts are paid off, a second Auction is held. More than one tile may be bid on, and Players may borrow money from the government to bid on one tile, but not more than one. They may use their existing treasuries to bid on more tiles.
-As players' debts are paid off, Auctions are held every 10 turns until no more tiles remain.
NOTE: At any point, players may buy, trade, and sell tiles to and from each other, and they may very well get loans from other Players instead of the Government to do it.
EDIT: I realize all the rules may seem like a lot.
Don't get overwhelmed by the rules! The game is far easier in practice than in writing 
Last edited by mrmitchell on 23-06-2004 at 00:45
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mrmitchell
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quote:
I've played the Settlers of Catan. Cool game, including the expansions, but I don't like the robbery idea for this. |
Why not? **it happens.
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Nuclear Winter
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Hey guy, won´t this get overshadowed (or overshadow) the feudal/civil war PBEM?
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