JarlWolf's Custom Factions

[Buster's Uncle]

Your leaderhead is a smokin' hot babe, something you can hardly go wrong doing.  More tomorrow when if my brain is working...

[JarlWolf]

Mhm.. I wanted a very sophisticated and tantalizingly sexually attractive leader for this faction, because a lot of her propaganda utilizes the emotion of lust for her and embodies her as an object of attraction to inspire both loyalty and love for the leader. Not saying she poses nude or in lewd fashions where she'd lose respect, but sort of where she plays with the emotions of her followers in more way then one... hard to describe I am still a bit groggy over here.

[ete]

hm, interesting, at +5 growth either Demo or Planned would be enough for a pop boom, but with a penalty to demo and planned bringing her to -4 effic (all non-HQ energy lost) she'd have a hard time getting there if not for creches. But creche=pop boom. I'd imagine with all those key facilities free and constant easy pop boom she'd be considerably overpowered compared to normal factions, though perhaps the drone problems would get so severe in AI hands that she'd be unable to cope with a large empire.. I'd have to test how playing with -1 Effic (Knowledge will be essential for her) works, and how long till drones (especially with GJ) become unbearable.

[JarlWolf]

Yeah, I played with her faction a few times and she constantly has drone riots, and even with rec commons drone riots is her biggest problem. However she expands like crazy and makes lots of bases, though her research isn't lightning fast either.

[Buster's Uncle]

Along the same lines for a leader, this is Ukrainian beauty queen (and billionaire trophy wife) Oleksandra Niklo(something).  These shots have been laying around my files for years...

[Sigma]

So basically this faction is the World State meets Rapture? Unbridaled hedonism, a superior, libertine upper class supported by a genetically engineered worker caste? I'm not really sure if the stats necessarily support that. The +5 Growth doesn't really work for either source material; in Brave New World everyone was having sex all the time but contraception was mandatory, so infact growth was stagnant; and in an underwater civilization where space is at a premium, being in a constant state of population boom could be potentially disastrous. If anything, they'd have a growth penalty.

Instead, I should think that the bonuses would translate to improved Industry, due to having an abundant labor pool, and superior research and economy, due to having a highly educated and pampered consumer caste. Penalties would probably be to Morale or Growth, or both maybe. But that's just my angle on it.

[Geo]

Genetically modified workers?
How about a severely stratified society with the uppies indome, and the lowdowns gill-enhanced and mostly toiling outdome?
Reminds me a bit of the Revelation Space Demarchist faction/society, on their Europa colony before their 'children' took the ice cities down.

[JarlWolf]

Perhaps. Though the society has problems regulating the clones is why the growth would be so high:

Though I can change it if need be. Mind I did not say that "This is what America wants" I more or less said, "This is the 1% faction" meaning the 1% want a life of luxury and for society to support their endeavors.

I can certainly modify it though, a research focused faction is what I lack. It is inspired off of Rapture to a fair extent, but its not as... the word escapes me... but I think oppressive?

Hrm... maybe readjust this, have it with genejack factories+pressure domes, 1+ Talent, 2- Effic, and maybe something else... I'll have to think on it.


Edit: Geo, the society is basically like this:

Poshy, rich and powerful upper class that has all the joys and luxuries of life, as well as being able to pursue more advanced things supported by genetically modified (stupified) clones that work to their death. The clones reproduce like crazy and are kept in check mainly by automated defences, so there may be a ratio of 1 original or 1 rich and wealthy citizen as opposed to the 99 clones, but those 99 clones merely have some tools and can be gunned down by automatic gun emplacements all over the facility. But as you may suspect, drone riots are still common anyways, which is why I gave them the genejack factories (both for the cloning+riots.)

[JarlWolf]

Bumped so new folks can read.

[JarlWolf]

Just so you know I will eventually finish the last 2 factions, but my AAR comes first, among some other personal things.

[Geo]

Just so you know I will eventually finish the last 2 factions, but my AAR comes first, among some other personal things.

AARgggghhhhhh!!! 

 

[JarlWolf]

Least there be some interest in it! 

[JarlWolf]

Right... im going to fix up the Clones. I just played a round with them and they are horribly overpowered. Being the lone sea faction they are pretty aggressive and expand like crazy... I think I am going to modify their stats.

Revised stats:
Agenda: Plutocratic Dictatorship. (Do note while she prefers Free Market, she is not averse to using planned: provided the planned economy is mainly supporting her and stifling any competition to her interests.)
Ideology: Thought Control
Anti-Ideology: Fundamentalism. (There is no gods in her society, and even though she likes to have her own personality cult and doesn't want religion obstructing her rule, going as far as claiming herself divine is a different matter entirely.)


1+ Research: Very intelligent, pampered upper class with no responsibility of physical labour leaves a lot of time to think, and the focus on science helps too.
Genejack Facility: Cloning operations of genetically modified workers that can survive (somewhat) outside the pressure domes. However, the brutality of their lives makes them very unhappy.
Pressure Dome: Being underwater, this is a must. The Sons of Oceanus are very adept at living underwater.
3- Support: The fact of living underwater, combined with the trouble controlling the clones means that it is hard initially build new settlements.
Penalty to Democracy: The majority of the clones are illiterate and often very angry, violent or deformed, and thus their decisionmaking is often affected. And being a form of genejack, they often have problems with thinking to begin with.
Penalty to Green: Industrialist Motives.
1+ Growth: The unrestrained, liberal views on sex combined with the problems regulating the clones leads to population problems.

Edit: I changed 3+ to 1+, my reasoning for this is due to her being an aquatic faction, and that she'll have time on her hands to expand, it'll mean she'll have undisturbed growth anyways. This way she's more balanced to boot too, and the with negative support and the drone problems with genejacks, it should limit her expansion and such.

[JarlWolf]

So, any thoughts?

[Buster's Uncle]

Very intelligent, pampered upper class with no responsibility of physical labour leaves a lot of time to think,

Possibly.  More likely, very intelligent, pampered upper class with no responsibility of physical labour leaves a lot of time to drink [intercourse]and fight.

-1 to police because they're overworked due to the above, and the upperclass can't be managed by mere cops who don't party with the leader?