#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Oblivion, the Prince of Darkness}
^SPECIES: {Male Bulbasaur}
^AGENDA: {Perverted pleasures; establishing demonic rule}
^TECH: {Information Networks}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+3 GROWTH: {Procreation encouraged}
^+1 RESEARCH: {Keen to try all sorts of new... things}
^-1 EFFIC: {Corruption a way of life for followers}
^-1 PROBE: {Vulnerable and afraid of the Light}
^-1 PLANET: {Apathy towards clean operation}
^Free RECREATION COMMONS in every city.
^Need HAB COMPLEX for bases to exceed size 5: {Perverted activities poison water supplies}
^Immunity to negative SUPPORT penalties: {Somebody... or something... is helping him?}
^{May not embrace Cybernetics.}
#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Cutie Stephanie}
^BACKGROUND: {Iceland, Unity Television Star}
^AGENDA: {Learning, growing, and making things fair for everyone}
^TECH: {Centauri Ecology - she likes growing Good Stuff}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+1 PROBE: {Everyone likes to watch LazyTown}
^+2 SUPPORT: {Citizens eager to defend Steph}
^-1 POLICE: {Doesn't like being mean to people}
^-1 INDUSTRY {Would rather play than work}
^50% reduction in EFFICIENCY penalties: {She motivates people}
^Free HOLOGRAM THEATER when discovery of Planetary Networks {LazyTown filmed in HD}
^{May not use Free Market economics in Social Engineering - people should share.}
^LEADER: {AntiMind}
^BACKGROUND: {Mindworm/Progenitor Cyborg Hybrid}
^AGENDA: {Mindworm Freedom}
^TECH: {Centauri Ecology}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+4 PLANET: {Able to tap into Planetmind's neural net to capture mindworms}
^-3 INDUSTRY: {AntiMind experiences pain when pollution enters its "body"}
^-2 GROWTH: {Human slaves are restricted from reproducing to maintain worm majority}
^Free Ability: {Hypnotic Trance: Can turn psi powers against user}
^+2 Nutrients and Energy in fungus squares
^Immune to PLANET penalties
^Receives free Mindworm unit at start
^{May not use Free Market economics.}
^LEADER: {Central Communications Node}
^BACKGROUND: {A powerful civilization of enhanced humanoids from the Delta Quadrant.}
^AGENDA: {Perfection via total biological, mechanical, and technological integration.}
^TECH: {Planetary Networks, Biogenetics}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+3 PROBE: {"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."}
^+2 EFFICIENCY: {A collective government and an advanced comprehensive adaptability}
^-4 PLANET: {"Planet is an irrelevant species. It cannot be assimilated, only exploited and used for our purposes."}
^-2 GROWTH: {Little innate reproductive capability. Relies on assimilation of other species for growth.}
^-2 RESEARCH: {Must accomplish research objectives through assimilation}
^{Bases immune to mind control}
^{May not chose Democratic politics}
^LEADER: {Perry Mason Jr}
^BACKGROUND: {United States Supreme Court, Unity's Lawful Consultant}
^AGENDA: {The True Respect of the Law}
^TECH: {Information Networks, Social Psych}
#DATALINKS2
^+1 ECONOMY: {High Fees}
^+1 PROBE: {Professional Secret}
^-1 EFFIC: {Individualistic methods}
^-1 MORAL: {Lack of ethics}
^+50% Votes: {Gifted speackers}
^Extra DRONE each 4 citizen {Lack of ethics}
^Robust Police: (Citizens fear the Lawyers)
^May not use Eudaimonic Future Society
^
-Also, it's not in the datalinks, but Antimind also gets +50% to psi combat on top of its PLANET bonus.
-Planet's Law actually isn't very Lal-like. They've got half of Lal's council bonus, but instead of Lal's talents they get Zak's drones.
Where they really could do well, though, is commerce. The robust POLICE means that even when running free market they won't have pacifism drones (no police, but no pacifism), and they start with +1 ECONOMY, meaning that they can (and generally will, by the way the AI is programmed) go Dem/Market/Wealth for +4 ECONOMY (granting +2 COMMERCE, on top of what they get for being governor if they manage that via their bonus votes) and still be able to explore. (Fight too, but they're fairly weak militarily due to the -1 MORALE.)
^LEADER: {Sister Miriam Godwinson}
^BACKGROUND: {Christian States of America, Unity Psych Chaplain}
^AGENDA: {Life of Religious Worship}
^TECH: {Social Psych}
^
#DATALINKS2
^+25% Bonus when attacking enemies, from strength of convictions.
^+1 PROBE: {Devout believers difficult to brainwash}
^+2 SUPPORT: {Citizens eager to defend faith}
^-2 RESEARCH: {Suspicious of secular science}
^-1 PLANET: {Believe Planet is their promised land}
^Accumulates NO research points until MY 2110.
^{May not use Knowledge value in Social Engineering.}
So THAT's why Antimind is such a beast. Goodness....
I don't know who Jack Chick is.???
I don't know who Jack Chick is.???
Do they not have those little black and white mini comics about the apocalypse and going to Hell in Oz?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick) You wouldn't approve of his teaching, I expect.
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Would a funny faction be in order? It will come as no shock that I think Shaggy is hilarious...
Shaggy is only partly mine, too.
Well, my interest has always been in the creative end - the Pretty Princesses is the only one of my first seven that was all my own work, if you include the .txt. The art part is more my thing. Nothing in particular leaps to mind, aside from the funny that is the Cannabis League.
A more in detail look at my work in progress faction here:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3737.0 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3737.0)
Let me know if you want to utilize it, I'll be getting it up and running soon enough anyways.
Edit: Its basically complete so if you want to use it I'll be uploading it shortly.
Yes. One of the big things of 1980s and 90s United States Christian fundamentalism was an irrational fear of communists. Indeed, in the more hardcore fundy churches, Ronald Reagan was often mentioned in the same sentence as Jesus himself. However, by Miriam's launch date, glasnost was well in effect which changed things and the USSR had broken up. Never mind most of these guys never even read the Communist Manifesto! Much of what is in there has actually been implemented into US society to an extent.
Atheists, of course, were the icing on the cake. On the chart of evil, atheists ranked even below Satanists. Of course to me, that makes no sense. Satanists are a parody religion based on pageantry and selfishness. Atheism is based on rational thinking and "free thought". But, back in the day if you called yourself an atheist in many parts of the United States, you were a social pariah. Only stupid kids who wanted an excuse to be retarded and wear black called themselves Satanists. Atheists actually read more and were better conversationalists than the fundies! Thank goodness the internet came along and got rid of (most) of that BS.
Atheists actually read more and were better conversationalists than the fundies! Thank goodness the internet came along and got rid of (most) of that BS.
Atheists actually read more and were better conversationalists than the fundies! Thank goodness the internet came along and got rid of (most) of that BS.
It almost looks as if you're saying that the internet stamped out being well-read and a good conversationalist, especially among atheists. Actually, that's not far from the truth. :D
There are a few sanctuaries of sanity on the net, though, like this forum.
Plus, last I checked spambots and other nuisances aren't really pigeonholed here much either given the small amount of people this game generates.
I think I went a little crazy today with custom factions, I was playing so much the game, and my computer froze xD
^LEADER: {Vazheli Vatzev}
^BACKGROUND: {Russian Commonwealth, Unity Chief Janitor}
^AGENDA: {Communist Communal Society}
^TECH: {Centauri Ecology}
#DATALINKS2
^+3 SUPPORT: {Resources are willingly shared}
^+1 MORALE: {Diehard revolutionaries}
^-1 ECONOMY: {Rejection of free enterprise and capitalism}
^-1 PROBE: {Information is also shared, vulnerability}
^Free Formers {Janitor access to unity storage}
^{May not use Free Market in Social Engineering}