A spontaneous community faction project.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay, I'm running on only a few hours of sleep, and need to take a nap, but I think I can slap something together before y'all get up tomorrow.

[Buster's Uncle]

The 'somebody called' random event triggered and I got sidetracked, but here's the most time-consuming bit, the leaderhead, already dropped in.  Hopefully, my brain will be more functional tomorrow.

[Davyboy]

Looks V nice BU.
Weren't you tempted to chop him a ponytail like Santiago / Sven? (I think it's great 'as is')

[Buster's Uncle]

Never occurred to me...

[Davyboy]

The 'somebody called' random event triggered and I got sidetracked, but here's the most time-consuming bit, the leaderhead, already dropped in.  Hopefully, my brain will be more functional tomorrow.

I've got one of those 'random events' tomorrow afternoon.
(True story)

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah.

Here's the logo.  I hue-shifted the Virgin Galactic logo to a golden color.

The bases are gonna be some work...

[Buster's Uncle]

And they were, but now 'tis done.

[Green1]

OMG! LOL...

Well, he made a fortune selling 1 USD (or less) to make CDs for 20 USD a pop in his Virgin Megastores that were located in the top 50 US cities. Now that the internet killed all that, he branches out.

Virgin Mobile actually is a pretty good deal. In fact I use cell phone, game and post online through a tether at 200- 300 ms, no stupid contract, decent service. I often joke to the Virgin Mobile counterperson that i am making another payment on Spaceship2 whe I pay phone/internet. I still say his Virgin galactic is just an expensive rollercoaster ride. Elon Musk and Bigalowe have it more nailed.

But.. back on topic.

Mars one seems like the "space elevator project". A money sink going nowhere.

No... you do not want to film every move or have some corp on earth owning "rights" to intellectuall property on Mars. The lack of privacy is asking for animosity. You want to go like Morgan with a combo of Miriam. Freedom. But, there is no freedom when only "the select few" can escape. You also need industrial base to make things out of stuff there. To quote SMAX, "One does not create a dataprobe out of sand....."

[Buster's Uncle]

Weellll, it seems like a Branson faction ought to have a dash of retail/entertainment/shipping/communications to it - though how you'd get that across any more than they did with Morgan, I don't know.  I've argued before that Morgan is Donald [Sleezebag] - which is fairly true as far as personality.  But Branson is closer as far as diversity of business interests, and for that matter, in that backing the Unity project and then stowing away sounds more like Branson.

...

I'd think that the privacy concerns vis the reality show wouldn't be the problem.  The sort of people who make good astronauts are very careful, self-controled folks, the sort who line up their shoes a certain way at bedtime and practice fantastic impulse control.  How would the producers get them to fight, and badmouth each other in interviews? 

The drink/screw/squabble sorts that populate these things aren't my idea of good TV at all, but if they didn't get over with most people, those shows would be different. 

I doubt anyone planing this has considered it; a group of ice-cold workaholic PhDs talking about their work is hardly going to make for $2.6-billion-dollar TV.  It'll tank pretty fast if the mission goes well.

[Green1]

Virgin Faction
Leader: Sir Richard Branson
AGENDA: Free Market
AVERSIONS: Fundamentalism.

CANNOT SELECT FUNDAMENTALISM SOCIAL CHOICE.

+1 POLICE. RFID tags and cameras in every area including bathrooms.
-2 MORALE. Tons of games and holoreels makes population less anxious to go outside and fight.

FREE REC COMMONS ALL BASES.

Starting Technologies: Social Psych, Industrial Base.

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Davyboy]

Taken your Branson.pcx out for a 'Test-toast' with a TXT file I knocked together, filling the Branson2 and 3 slots with Hive clones for the moment.

BUncle, it looks seriously nice on the landscape!
Can't say quite the same about the gameplay, I might have handicapped him too much. I'll post a copy of it as soon as I've given it a bit more testing.
(He*l, I don't have a monopoly on assigning fac parameters; but I did give him a penalty for Fundamentalism...)

[Buster's Uncle]

Taken your Branson.pcx out for a 'Test-toast' with a TXT file I knocked together, filling the Branson2 and 3 slots with Hive clones for the moment.

BUncle, it looks seriously nice on the landscape!
Can't say quite the same about the gameplay, I might have handicapped him too much. I'll post a copy of it as soon as I've given it a bit more testing.
(He*l, I don't have a monopoly on assigning fac parameters; but I did give him a penalty for Fundamentalism...)

We'll need to see a screeny, then.

Of course, we want to post the final product in downloads when it's ready.  I've enjoyed working on a number of community projects, but few get completed.

[Davyboy]

We'll need to see a screeny, then.

Of course, we want to post the final product in downloads when it's ready.  I've enjoyed working on a number of community projects, but few get completed.

That's going to likely be problematic. ANY other game I could cap a screeny, but SMACX is THE one exception. Doesn't matter if I have Photoshop 7 running in the b/g, whatever I cap is acidhouse.

But I can attach a copy of the fileset later on today. I'm just knocking a few typos out atm. It's been unusual gameplay on a huge planet map.

[Buster's Uncle]

Screenshots is easy when you know how; tab out of the game (Windows key, or something of the sort) and paste WHILE the game's still running.  It'll still look wrong at the moment, but when you exit the game, the colors will be right.