SKILORD
Insurgent
The Game Thread has Launched.
This is a pre thread. Before the Game launched it served as a place to sign up or discuss the mechanics of faction creation. Since the thread has been launched I am simply intending to use this thread to hold all of the posts about the rules and mechanics of the game. This keeps the game thread from being cluttered with these things, so that you can easily get to your stats and also easily find the rules. If you want to discuss how specific mechanics work, this is still the place to do it.
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The Rafiki began as a simple, simian, space horde. Conquering planets willy nilly, looting every resource and scavenging any technology and then moving on. Life was good. Two thousand years ago, following the noble resistance of the proud Puumon’s, the Rafiki began assimilating the conquered people into its horde. They found that the diversity of skills and genetic predispositions made the process significantly more efficient. In fact, soon they were able to obliterate the political and military institutions of a planet and suck the whole thing dry in less than what we would think of as eight months.
Then they came to Earth.
Their technology was vastly superior, and very soon most of the highly populated cities had been reduced to rubble, few nation states retained any sort of control of their borders, mass panic ruled the first few weeks.
The Americans responded by launching nuclear missiles at orbiting command centers, a particularly ballsy strategy that, while not insurmountable, posed the first major threat to the invasion. Soon Russian hackers were sending entire squadrons of troop shuttles to the bottom of the Pacific by overriding their navigation systems. The ground war in Africa became a quagmire of unbelievable proportions and Aliens technology proved no better than human when it came to the caves and mountains of Afghanistan. Emboldened by the Americans Pakistan fired nuclear missiles at some of the larger hovering ships, which had much more significant environmental impact but which was also much more effective than firing the missiles against well defended and distant orbital stations.
The coding community took on the challenge with renewed vigor after the Russian’s success and were soon able to target the crashes on specific groups of the aliens, trying to sow dissent and break down what they could already tell, a month and a half into the invasion, was a conglomerate of different species.
Their plan worked better than they had hoped, identifying a race’s ships and codes became simple and when their navigational computers accidentally charted them on intersecting courses on frequent and unexplained occasion the aliens of the Rafiki Conglomerate shot at each other as much as they shot at humans.
By three months in, the invasion was a total bust, and the races who were used to quick and easy victory had either fled the system or settled into vicious infighting. The last faster than light ship in the system was destroyed by a series of American missile strikes that overwhelmed its countermeasures.
Fresh start map. I'm now using this nifty map.
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This is the template.
Name:
Species:
Role/Organizational Structure:
Population:
Economy: 3/3
Corruption: 0
Reputation:
Fuel: 0
Technologies:
Troops/Encampments:
Name: Leader Name / Group's Name
Species: Are you a human? If not, please elaborate.
Organizational Structure/Role: For Humans your organizational structure will fall into one of two camps, either a Nation State or an Independent Organization. As far as starting territory is concerned there will not be a considerable difference. If you are not a human put your Role here. The Rafiki specialized the species of their horde. What role did you serve in the invasion force. You have three options: [Land Troops, Pilots, Command Structure]
Population: The higher your population the larger your economy, also the more corruption you accumulate. The corruption factor exists mostly to provide a disincentive to starting with too large of a population. A good reputation will cause your population to grow as people join your cause, and once your population reaches certain points it will cause spontaneous economic growth until the economy is big enough to encompass your total population. Population is never required for economic growth, but if a player’s reputation is high enough population is sure to grow.
Economy: Everyone’s economy is going to start at 3. If your population is big enough for spontaneous growth then that won’t happen until after the first turn. But spontaneous growth is not the norm. It costs 3 points of economy to expand the economy by one. For players starting in South America it only costs 2 to expand their economy, in the Middle East it costs 4. After an economy has reached 5 the player will have to establish exclusive control over some form of reliable power source. There are still some remaining power plants and wind farms around here somewhere aren’t there? Low Efficiency, MacGuyvered facilities can be built, although they may be less reliable. To proceed beyond 15 Economic Points a turn requires a reputation above 20.
Corruption: Corruption is subtracted from your economy. I want to list it separately for the sake of complete upfront records, but the total amount you have to spend will be the first number in your Economy. When your population starts growing, and your economy is reaching fruition, it’s something you might have to worry about. But at the start of the game it won’t be too much trouble. Let’s say you decide to play as a colonel and his division claiming the right to reunite Liberia. Nation States receive extra corruption, as do players who start in Africa. On the first turn this double whammy would amount to probably 1 Corruption. That number would grow, yes, and having 1 corruption on the first turn is not the norm, unless your population starts very high.
Reputation:
Your reputation is a statistic that determines how outsiders treat your group. A high reputation will draw civilians into your group, who will grow your economy slowly, but without any direct effort on your part. A low reputation number will mean that your convoys encounter frequent resistance when exploring and scavenging. Everything you do affects your reputation in some way or another, but you have to have a well developed reputation to have an economy larger than 15. A well developed reputation can either be over 20, at which point rogue groups respect you enough not to attack your encampments, or under -20. Dealing with civilians outside of your headquarters zone, they subtract 5 from your reputation.
Technologies: (Don’t worry too much here, but for your information) Just because you start with the capability of using a technology does not mean that you have access to those weapons or transports.
Troops/Encampments: Where are your population centers, and how many troops do you have at your disposal? You will start with one Encampment wherever you choose.
Troops:
Encampments: Encampments do not have to be continuous, in fact for many organizations, such as nation state organizations centered in military bases, and internet based independent organizations they probably won't be. But your encampments are where your population resides and where you construct buildings.
Starting Zones: Your first encampment will determine where you start, there will be bonuses and also negatives. Dealing with civilians outside of your headquarters zone, they subtract 5 from your reputation.
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To Summarize briefly the advantages and disadvantages of the different combinations:
Nation States:
High Reputation
High Corruption
Normal Research and Development costs
Advanced Human Technology from start
No access to telecommunications at the start
Generally start with more weapons than soldiers
Independent Organizations:
Normal Reputation
Low Corruption
Normal Research and Development costs
1 Advanced Human Technology from start
Access to telecommunications at the start
May have 1 building in their first encampment from the start (Not a Factory).
Starting equipment based on the nature of the organization.
Alien Races:
Low Reputation
Normal Corruption
Low Research and Development costs
Some Alien Technology from start
Access to telecommunications at the start
Start with more soldiers than weapons
NPC Factions:
I will be adding NPC’s in the first update.
The statistics for NPC Factios will be simplified. NPC’s don’t have reputation, corruption, or an economy larger than 2. They only have one encampment. The name of that encampment is the name of the NPC. NPC’s do not have strong political leadership, what leaders they have are shady and anonymous figures. They can attack you, although with only 1 or 2 Economy they won’t be very effective. They can only use standard human technology or standard alien technology. If your faction is NPCed because of absence it will not be limited by these rules.
You can invade and conquer their capitals; it is one way to deal with NPC’s. On the other hand, with a high enough reputation and a good relationship these factions may elect to join you of their own free will. In some events the differences will not be surmountable, anti-alien militias are unlikely to voluntarily join an alien faction and belligerently anti-state organizations may be reluctant to join a nation state.
Name:
Population:
Economy: 1/1
Fuel: 0
Troops/Encampments: 1 Militia / 1 Firearms / 1 Computer
This is a pre thread. Before the Game launched it served as a place to sign up or discuss the mechanics of faction creation. Since the thread has been launched I am simply intending to use this thread to hold all of the posts about the rules and mechanics of the game. This keeps the game thread from being cluttered with these things, so that you can easily get to your stats and also easily find the rules. If you want to discuss how specific mechanics work, this is still the place to do it.
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The Rafiki began as a simple, simian, space horde. Conquering planets willy nilly, looting every resource and scavenging any technology and then moving on. Life was good. Two thousand years ago, following the noble resistance of the proud Puumon’s, the Rafiki began assimilating the conquered people into its horde. They found that the diversity of skills and genetic predispositions made the process significantly more efficient. In fact, soon they were able to obliterate the political and military institutions of a planet and suck the whole thing dry in less than what we would think of as eight months.
Then they came to Earth.
Their technology was vastly superior, and very soon most of the highly populated cities had been reduced to rubble, few nation states retained any sort of control of their borders, mass panic ruled the first few weeks.
The Americans responded by launching nuclear missiles at orbiting command centers, a particularly ballsy strategy that, while not insurmountable, posed the first major threat to the invasion. Soon Russian hackers were sending entire squadrons of troop shuttles to the bottom of the Pacific by overriding their navigation systems. The ground war in Africa became a quagmire of unbelievable proportions and Aliens technology proved no better than human when it came to the caves and mountains of Afghanistan. Emboldened by the Americans Pakistan fired nuclear missiles at some of the larger hovering ships, which had much more significant environmental impact but which was also much more effective than firing the missiles against well defended and distant orbital stations.
The coding community took on the challenge with renewed vigor after the Russian’s success and were soon able to target the crashes on specific groups of the aliens, trying to sow dissent and break down what they could already tell, a month and a half into the invasion, was a conglomerate of different species.
Their plan worked better than they had hoped, identifying a race’s ships and codes became simple and when their navigational computers accidentally charted them on intersecting courses on frequent and unexplained occasion the aliens of the Rafiki Conglomerate shot at each other as much as they shot at humans.
By three months in, the invasion was a total bust, and the races who were used to quick and easy victory had either fled the system or settled into vicious infighting. The last faster than light ship in the system was destroyed by a series of American missile strikes that overwhelmed its countermeasures.
Fresh start map. I'm now using this nifty map.
-
This is the template.
Name:
Species:
Role/Organizational Structure:
Population:
Economy: 3/3
Corruption: 0
Reputation:
Fuel: 0
Technologies:
Troops/Encampments:
Name: Leader Name / Group's Name
Species: Are you a human? If not, please elaborate.
Organizational Structure/Role: For Humans your organizational structure will fall into one of two camps, either a Nation State or an Independent Organization. As far as starting territory is concerned there will not be a considerable difference. If you are not a human put your Role here. The Rafiki specialized the species of their horde. What role did you serve in the invasion force. You have three options: [Land Troops, Pilots, Command Structure]
Spoiler :
Population: The higher your population the larger your economy, also the more corruption you accumulate. The corruption factor exists mostly to provide a disincentive to starting with too large of a population. A good reputation will cause your population to grow as people join your cause, and once your population reaches certain points it will cause spontaneous economic growth until the economy is big enough to encompass your total population. Population is never required for economic growth, but if a player’s reputation is high enough population is sure to grow.
Economy: Everyone’s economy is going to start at 3. If your population is big enough for spontaneous growth then that won’t happen until after the first turn. But spontaneous growth is not the norm. It costs 3 points of economy to expand the economy by one. For players starting in South America it only costs 2 to expand their economy, in the Middle East it costs 4. After an economy has reached 5 the player will have to establish exclusive control over some form of reliable power source. There are still some remaining power plants and wind farms around here somewhere aren’t there? Low Efficiency, MacGuyvered facilities can be built, although they may be less reliable. To proceed beyond 15 Economic Points a turn requires a reputation above 20.
Corruption: Corruption is subtracted from your economy. I want to list it separately for the sake of complete upfront records, but the total amount you have to spend will be the first number in your Economy. When your population starts growing, and your economy is reaching fruition, it’s something you might have to worry about. But at the start of the game it won’t be too much trouble. Let’s say you decide to play as a colonel and his division claiming the right to reunite Liberia. Nation States receive extra corruption, as do players who start in Africa. On the first turn this double whammy would amount to probably 1 Corruption. That number would grow, yes, and having 1 corruption on the first turn is not the norm, unless your population starts very high.
Reputation:
Your reputation is a statistic that determines how outsiders treat your group. A high reputation will draw civilians into your group, who will grow your economy slowly, but without any direct effort on your part. A low reputation number will mean that your convoys encounter frequent resistance when exploring and scavenging. Everything you do affects your reputation in some way or another, but you have to have a well developed reputation to have an economy larger than 15. A well developed reputation can either be over 20, at which point rogue groups respect you enough not to attack your encampments, or under -20. Dealing with civilians outside of your headquarters zone, they subtract 5 from your reputation.
Technologies: (Don’t worry too much here, but for your information) Just because you start with the capability of using a technology does not mean that you have access to those weapons or transports.
Spoiler :
Troops/Encampments: Where are your population centers, and how many troops do you have at your disposal? You will start with one Encampment wherever you choose.
Troops:
Spoiler :
Encampments: Encampments do not have to be continuous, in fact for many organizations, such as nation state organizations centered in military bases, and internet based independent organizations they probably won't be. But your encampments are where your population resides and where you construct buildings.
Spoiler :
Starting Zones: Your first encampment will determine where you start, there will be bonuses and also negatives. Dealing with civilians outside of your headquarters zone, they subtract 5 from your reputation.
Spoiler :
-
To Summarize briefly the advantages and disadvantages of the different combinations:
Nation States:
High Reputation
High Corruption
Normal Research and Development costs
Advanced Human Technology from start
No access to telecommunications at the start
Generally start with more weapons than soldiers
Independent Organizations:
Normal Reputation
Low Corruption
Normal Research and Development costs
1 Advanced Human Technology from start
Access to telecommunications at the start
May have 1 building in their first encampment from the start (Not a Factory).
Starting equipment based on the nature of the organization.
Alien Races:
Low Reputation
Normal Corruption
Low Research and Development costs
Some Alien Technology from start
Access to telecommunications at the start
Start with more soldiers than weapons
NPC Factions:
I will be adding NPC’s in the first update.
The statistics for NPC Factios will be simplified. NPC’s don’t have reputation, corruption, or an economy larger than 2. They only have one encampment. The name of that encampment is the name of the NPC. NPC’s do not have strong political leadership, what leaders they have are shady and anonymous figures. They can attack you, although with only 1 or 2 Economy they won’t be very effective. They can only use standard human technology or standard alien technology. If your faction is NPCed because of absence it will not be limited by these rules.
You can invade and conquer their capitals; it is one way to deal with NPC’s. On the other hand, with a high enough reputation and a good relationship these factions may elect to join you of their own free will. In some events the differences will not be surmountable, anti-alien militias are unlikely to voluntarily join an alien faction and belligerently anti-state organizations may be reluctant to join a nation state.
Name:
Population:
Economy: 1/1
Fuel: 0
Troops/Encampments: 1 Militia / 1 Firearms / 1 Computer
. I meant to change that when I copied it.
