IOT Developmental Thread

Omega124 · Mar 31, 2017

>Warhammer IOT

Oh this looks nice-

>Bretonnia

Not . Even. Once.

Grandkhan · Apr 1, 2017

Bretonnia is cool, Knights are cool, jousting is cool, smoting to your left side and your right side is cool.

It probably won't be actually set in literal Bretonnia though because the actual Arthurian source material is kind of more interesting than the Warhammer setting.

NinjaCow64 · Apr 1, 2017

Project Gears Dev Diary #1 – Overview and SOTOs

What is Project Gears?

Hello and welcome to the first dev diary for Project Gears. If you have been on the #development channel at all, you would know that I have been working on a new IOT/game/thing.

So, what is Project Gears? To give a brief overview, Project Gears is set in a world that is identical to OTL January 1st, 2013 except that the supernatural exists. What kind of supernatural? All kinds! Angels, aliens, science-fiction tech, demons, eldritch abominations, vampires, zombies, werewolves, wizards, witches…everything that you can imagine and more! The fact that the supernatural exists is a closely guarded secret by governments and secret societies. The players play as one of these organisations vying for influence in this hidden world of the supernatural. This game is heavily inspired by things like the SCP Foundation and the urban fantasy genre (things like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fate/Stay Night, Fringe ect).

Alas I don’t have too much mechanics-wise to show you today, a lot is still being worked on. There is something I’d like people to review however, and that is SOTOs.

Supernatural Oversight Treaty Organisations:

Supernatural Oversight Treaty Organisations (SOTOs) are secret intergovernmental agreements that allow cooperation between their governments in all matters supernatural. Many of these organisations were codified or reorganised in the Secret Geneva Convention that was held shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Secret Geneva Convention put an end to the reckless experimentation and exploitation of supernatural knowledge that ran rampant during the major conflicts of the 20th century and almost ended the world on multiple occasions. However, with the dawn of the 13th b'ak'tun, experimentation with the supernatural may prove more tempting for the nations of the world. Can peace be maintained even if the Secret Geneva Convention is forgotten?

SOTOs have an important mechanical function. Players have relationships with these organisations, if they perform operations in their territories they will anger them. If they do things that are in the interests of SOTOs then this will please them. Players may get funded by SOTOs or they may try and hinder their operations. SOTOs is the way I am abstracting player-government relations without simulating all ~200 countries, which would quickly drive me completely insane. I would like people who know geography better than me to look at these organisations and comment on them, see if they are realistic. Please note that this is set in 2013, so the political situation should be accurate to then as opposed to now.

Map:

Relations:

Pan-Pacific Supernatural Treaty Organisation (Light Blue):

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European Supernatural Oversight Community (Dark Blue):

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Independent Supernatural Collective (Brown):

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Hong Kong Pact (Red):

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South Asian Association for Supernatural Cooperation (Purple):

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South American Supernatural Union (Yellow):

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African Supernatural Council (Light Brown):

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Arab Joint Supernatural Cooperation Council (Dark Green):

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Kabul Treaty Group (Light Green):

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Please give your thoughts/comments, it would be extremely helpful!

Ailedhoo · Apr 1, 2017

I has eyes on this; I look forward to this project NC!

Tani Coyote · Apr 3, 2017

My main thing would be: how are angels and demons defined?

Radically alters how things go.

NinjaCow64 · Apr 3, 2017

SonicTH said:
My main thing would be: how are angels and demons defined?

Radically alters how things go.

Completely up to the player. Hell, there could even be multiple competing "species" of angels and demons.

Omega124 · Apr 3, 2017

NinjaCow64 said:
Completely up to the player. Hell, there could even be multiple competing "species" of angels and demons.

Well there is already the First Bank of Hell, a NPC that loans people money

Ailedhoo · Apr 3, 2017

Either way I am thinking of what schemes would a Bond villain style organisation do in this setting.

Laying claims to [classified]

Sonereal · Apr 4, 2017

A few maps for something I'm working on.

JohannaK · Apr 4, 2017

Ewwwwww bordersss

inthesomeday · Apr 4, 2017

San Diego resents once again being clumped into the Los Angeles sewersprawl.

Edit: Actually, on second thought, it looks like we might be in Baja instead.

JamesCaesar · Apr 4, 2017

Totally snagging Salem if this goes anywhere

Sonereal · Apr 4, 2017

JamesCaesar said:
Totally snagging Salem if this goes anywhere

I will remember this if I do do something with this.

JohannaK said:
Ewwwwww bordersss

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inthesomeday said:
San Diego resents once again being clumped into the Los Angeles sewersprawl.

Edit: Actually, on second thought, it looks like we might be in Baja instead.

Patch .23

-Add San Diego to LA

inthesomeday · Apr 4, 2017

When a patch adds a game breaking bug

Sonereal · Apr 4, 2017

inthesomeday said:
When a patch adds a game breaking bug

That's the Paradox Way!

NinjaCow64 · Apr 14, 2017

Project Gears Dev Diary #2 – Squads and Operations

Hello all and welcome to another dev diary for Project Gears! Today I am going to be talking about an important part of this game, squads and operations. Note that all the rules are still in development and I am actively looking for feedback on them. Please enjoy!

Squads:

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Squads are your forces that you send on operations. Your squads contain many different specialities including combat operatives, spies, scientists and anomalous specialists. The exact structure of your squads is completely up to you, I won’t be tracking number of squad members or equipment or anything like that. Squads can only be deployed on one operation per turn and an organisation may only deploy one squad on each operation. Stats are abstracted into five attributes.

Attributes:

Combat Effectiveness: Combat Effectiveness represents how effective your squad is at combat, both lethal and non-lethal. This represents both the power of your equipment and the skill of your operatives.

Investigation: Investigation represents how quickly and how well your squad researches into anomalies. It represents on-the-ground investigation and it also represents the ability of your squad to perform research in labs, arcane libraries and similar facilities.

Mobility: Mobility represents how physically fast you squad is, how fast they can move from point a to point b. It represents the physical speed of your transportation vehicles along with the ability of your squad to get around pesky obstacles, both physical ones and legal ones.

Charisma: Charisma represents how good your squad is convincing locals to assist them or leave them alone in their operations. Charisma is important, failing Charisma checks could lead your squad to encountering major roadblocks, increasing your notability or getting the wrong sort of attention from unwanted parties. Charisma also plays a role in convincing less-violent anomalies to come in peacefully.

Covertness: The ability of your squad to avoid unwanted detection, whether that be from civilians, law enforcement, rival agents or the anomaly you are tracking down.

To make a new squad, it costs $20,000. These new squads will have four in every attribute, which is the absolute minimum needed to go on a mission. If a squad ever has less than four points in an attribute then they will be unable to go on operations. New squads can be deployed on operations the turn they are formed. An attribute of a squad can be increased by one point for $1,000, there is no limit to the amount of attribute increases a squad can have. Stat increases happen before squads are deployed on an operation.

When deploying a squad on an operation, they increase the organisation’s notability by the sum of their attributes. For example, a squad with four points in each attribute would increase an organisation’s notability by 20 when deployed on an operation. This penalty can be mitigated by investing in the Janitorial Department. Maintenance of squads are calculated in a similar way, maintained is $1,000 x the sum of the squad’s attribute. For example, a squad with four points in each attribute would cost $20,000 per turn to maintain.

Operations:

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Operations are the bread and butter of your organisations. Operations are how you acquire supernatural assets, expand your influence and keep your sponsors happy. Each player may only deploy a maximum of one squad on an operation. If two or more different organisations wish to cooperate in an operation, I will treat both their squads as one squad and add their attributes together. Cooperating with other organisations on operations always leaves the possibility for conflict over the rewards or betrayal, so be careful.

Operations are divided up into a series of challenges, each challenge has a different type. There are five different challenges, each corresponding to one of the five attributes of a squad, this system is very similar to the way that rolls work in GURPS. When I conduct a challenge, I roll 3d6 for each squad on an operation and add/subtract any relevant modifiers. If the roll is lower than the stat then it is a victory, if it is higher than that then it is a failure. The amount the roll was higher/lower than the stat of your squad is added/subtracted to a stat called victory points. When all challenges are completed, the squad with the highest positive total victory points achieves victory. In the event of ties, additional tiebreaker challenges may be done. In the case that only one squad is deployed on an operation, they simply need a positive amount of victory points to achieve victory. If no squad has positive victory points then it is assumed that all squads have bungled up the operation to the point where nobody can truly claim that they have achieved their objective. Failing/achieving specific challenges by particular margins may have additional consequences/benefits, either in relation to the specific operation or the game as a whole. Each operation will have a specific blend of challenges, while many operations will have at least one challenge of each type, some operations may have different numbers of types of challenges than other. For instance, a combat heavy operations would likely have more combat challenges than operations where combat is unlikely.

Operations are generally divided into two types, event-initiated and player-initiated operations. Every turn I will generate several supernatural events around the world that the players will be expected to influence, think of them like missions that are generated in a game such as XCOM. Any player may send their squads to influence these events as event-initiated operations unless it is explicitly said otherwise.

Player-initiated operations are generated differently. Once per turn, players may say in their orders that they intend a player-initiated operation at no cost to them and next turn their operation will become available to them to send squads on (or publicly available, depending on the nature of the mission). Player-initiated operations can be whatever you want! To save on everyone’s time, I’ve already made rules for operations that I think will be common amongst certain types of players:

Attack/raids on rival organisations headquarters: Attempts to damage, steal things from or destroy rival organisations. These operations will be posted publicly, but only the attacker or defender may participate freely. Other organisations may participate in these operations with the permission of the attacker or defender, assisting one of the two sides. If the attacker is successful then they will steal and damage assets and funds of the defender. Generally, destroying an organisation will require multiple successful attempts. Failed attacks will result in the defenders successfully relocating their base, making future attacks more difficult or denying the attackers from being able to attack them for a while. If the operation is bungled particularly badly, then the defender may learn valuable secrets about the attackers!

Robbery: If you have a lot of military hardware and you are in a desperate need of cash or resources you may attempt to rob financial institutions or even the government itself. Robberies of generic banks will generally be private missions that other organisations may not interfere with, however if you attempt to rob a major government or the such it is likely that it will be posted as a public mission.

RP can affect the way that operations are conducted, think of it like how other games manage war orders. If you order your squads to sabotage another squad that you think will likely be on the mission, you may cause both your squad and their squad to undergo another combat operation. Or if you tell your squad to attempt to avoid conflict with other squads then perhaps there will be less of a chance of combat rolls. RP and “war orders” do affect these things, while it is not required the results could be beneficial for you.

Sonereal · May 17, 2017

Welcome back, Commanders.

Tiberium Dawn: Mass Combat will be an asymmetric team-based campaign in which players take on the roles of commanders for either the Global Defensive Initiative, a UN-sponsored initiative consisting of the G7 Nations + Russia, or the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the enigmatic Kane. The campaign is very loosely based on TK's old Command and Conquer IOT, as well as Lighthearter's The War to End All Wars. The game uses GURPS Mass Combat and GURPS City Stats as its two cores.

"Features":

Scaled Combat: From twenty-man Nod terrorist attacks in major cities to full-scale division-on-division warfare.
Command an array of elements, from GDI Mammoth Tanks to exotic Nod Flame Thanks.
Variable Turn Lengths: Change up your war plans on the fly as an ally finds herself pinned down nearby. Learn to treasure the turns that bring you income.
Friendly Logistics: If you can't crush your enemy in the field, crush their ability to supply their troops.
Events! When will you learn, when will you learn, that your actions have consequences.
The map to end all map (programs): 25% chance of causing your phone to run out of data just looking at it.

Zappericus · May 21, 2017

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"There is only the Emperor,
and he is our Shield and Protector."

Imperium of Man

IoM is a turn-based game centered within the Warhammer 40k universe inspired by such incredible games as: "Fallen Star" and "Botwawki". With storytelling being a focus of the game the player takes the role of a local planetary ruler in shackled vassalage to the Imperium of Man. As selected governor you're either willingly, or not, wearing the choking leash of the cold and bureaucratic imperium and is forced to pay yearly tithes, taxes and military manpower to the tyrannical galactic superpower you now serve. All are, on paper, answering directly to the loyalist and imperial representative faction of House Antaris, led by high governor Aurun delle Antaris. As the game progresses you may choose to remain a loyalist to the imperium, declare your independence and free your people, or find other and more "unnatural" solutions for your problems.

The game features

Politics in the sci-fi feudal space-future: Intense and mind-boggling political intrigues and in-fighting between multiple unique factions for every world.
Epic battles: The power to send thousands upon marching thousands of poor souls to their grotesque deaths in battlefields across multiple solar systems.
Technological mysteries: Explore dead, forbidden and/or long-forgotten worlds to discover long-lost technologies that may destroy worlds, if not entire systems, if reactivated.
Heresy: The great enemy within is everywhere and one must always be on the lookout for the signs, lest their world becomes one giant blood orgy.
There is only War: British hooligan orcs in space kill everyone they find, super-secretive space elves kill everyone they find, crazy magical storms make everyone they come across mad and heretical, hyper-xenophobic space humans kill everyone they find. GOOD TIMES, GOOD VIBES.

Sonereal · May 21, 2017

GDI Arsenal and Mass Combat

Mass Combat has a lot of preset elements. Many of these are "assumed", such as the naval elements. This list only covers notable GDI units.
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GDI in the context of the campaign typically have access to advanced weapon systems for the majority of their troops. Equipment and training for GDI troops tends to be consistent in quality across the board, with advanced weapon systems like the Mammoth Tank being the exception. In the First Tiberium War, the Global Defense Initiative relies on overwhelming firepower to defeat the Brotherhood of Nod in the field and beyond.

In terms of infantry elements, the GDI isn't very flashy. GDI Riflemen are well-trained and equipped. For anti-air and armor purposes, GDI's standard FIM-92s and AT4s aren't significantly more powerful or reliable then similar equipment fielded by the Brotherhood of Nod. GDI Combat Engineers are better equipped than their Nod counterparts, but meet their match and betters when it comes to dealing with Nod Flame Troopers and Chemical Warriors. GDI Commandos aren't very different from their Nod counterparts. Again, the equipment and training regimen may be different, but the results are the same.

Where GDI excels tactically versus Nod infantry wise is the Grenadier, a heavy support element equipped with kestrel grenade launchers. Secondly, all GDI infantry come equipped for nighttime fighting by default.

Where GDI begins to shine is in the realm of vehicles. GDI forces are largely mechanized, and aforementioned infantry units are often transported by M113 APCs. Humvees provide motor recon and light fire support to GDI forces in the field. The star of the GDI artillery force is the M270 MLRS, which is capable of delivering a devastating salvo of rockets at a range of nearly thirty miles.

The workhouse of the GDI is the M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank. Even with the birth of the monstrous X-66 Mammoth Tank, the M1A2 position on the battlefield remains relatively secure and capable of dealing with most armored Nod threats when massed. The Mammoth Tank, equipped with two 128mm cannons, is large enough to provide artillery support. Powered by an atomic generator, the Mammoth Tank hosts an advanced suite of computers that feed tactical data to command in real time.

The X-66 Program is controversial. Critics argue that GDI's fleet of M270s and M1A2s are more than enough to deal with Nod forces, and that a company of M270s and M1A2s can outgun an X-66 at a discount. Defenders point out that an X-66 can engage a platoon of M1A2s ten miles beyond the effective range of the M1A2's armament, and that the ability to shell Nod bases from afar with a vehicle that can sustain attacks from Nod hit-and-run tactics isn't anything to scoff at.

Moving on to air units, both GDI and Nod make use of Chinook and Hercules medium and heavy lift aircraft. For GDI, the Hercules is able to carry a single M1A2, and a pair of Hercules can carry a Mammoth Tank. GDI also makes use of Blackhawk helicopters that can insert commandos or other infantry forces behind enemy lines stealthily.

In terms of close air support, GDI makes use of the aging A-10 Thunderbolt and smaller, newer Orca Assault Craft. Both perform very well versus anything Nod field, but the Orca program is definitely on the ascent. Black Widows provide tactical air support and can duel with their Nod counterpart very well.

At sea, GDI has access to the Gunboat and Hovercraft. The Gunboat is a small ship equipped with tomahawk missiles and is invaluable for providing heavy artillery support to GDI forces on land. Hovercraft, on the other hand, can move troops and vehicles from carrier ships to beaches and provide minimal fire support. Hovercraft have the added bonus of being able to operate on land, especially in deserts or swamplands.

Finally, there are the GDI defensive structure. The Guard Tower is nothing to write home about, but the Advanced Guard Tower is a significantly powerful defensive structure. If not for GDI's Obelisk of Light, the Advanced Guard Tower would likely have been the star of military fortification enthusiasts.

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In summary, GDI doctrine is simple: Hit hard. GDI forces are well-disciplined, well-equipped, and often mechanized. Very rarely does will a GDI company be outgunned by Nod company.

The biggest drawback for the GDI is the sheer expense of most of its standard forces and the cost of supplying them. The cost of maintaining a single Mammoth Tank for a month could support 350 GDI riflemen for a month. Lower tier Nod troops are worse equipped, but make up for their lack of training and equipment with a fanatical dedication to the Brotherhood. If not for the combined economic might of most of Europe and the Western Hemisphere, GDI's war machine would grind to a halt due to lack of repairs.

Terrance888 · May 21, 2017

Well, since I PM'd you and you haven't edited it.

I'd like a platoon of "exotic Nod Flame Thanks" please and than you.

What's their stats?

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