[WIP] End of Civilization: Canada
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geek_knight
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Why is the thread dead, why
,why , why , why ?
,why , why , why ?
Los Tirano
God-King
Im waiting for more results. For something more to be put up.
(PS: add zombies!)
(PS: add zombies!)
Los Tirano
God-King
Well the zombie movie genre covers a lot of possibilities that could be implemented. Disease is one, or if a plague is sweeping the U.S there is no reason it couldnt be a 'zombie' plague. I have another idea though, the U.S has a huge number of asylums and a ridiculous number of imprisoned people. The highest in the world (correct me if i am wrong). You could add escaped convicts or escaped psychopaths as barbarian units. If they were reskins armed with Ak's, hand guns, nail bats or meat cleavers it would certainly strike fear into the players.
William III
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William III of Orange-Nassau, Governor of the Seven United Provincies of the Netherlands, Count of Holland, Count of Frisia, King of England, King of Schotland, King of Ireland, etc., to HP:
Hail!
This is a very original idea! Is HP somewhere out there, or is this thread dead?? Just my two cents.
I don't think it's realistic to add zombies: The human body is a very, very, very, very complex machine(did I mention it's complex?
). If you would change only the smallest of things, there is a horribly small chance it would work and live; so forget large changes to the human body, other than by purposeful design by very skilled and wise architects, wich will be technically impossible for the coming 1,000 years, methinks.
Your epidemic scenario is not very realistic neither; Such a thing would not very soon result in an overall chaos. There is an example, quite resent, of such a disease as your invention seems to be.
In 1918, the last year of the First World War, something more terrible than guns and grenades hit the world: Influenza! This disease, called Spanish Influenza, was a somewhat mutated form of the flu; It spread rapidly, mostly in Europe and the USA. 50% of the total World population was infected by the Spanish Influenza, and over 5% of all ill people died. Casualties amounted to over 2.5% of the world population, most of them YOUNGconfused: that is very, very unusual 
) people, aged between 15 and 30. 50 Million people died of the disease, more than three times as much as the losses the First World War inflicted. Some countries lost over 10% of their population in one summer; complete Allied and German divisions in France were reduced to grave and sickbed by the disease. In 1919, the world had over 65 Million dead men, and ten's of Millions invalid humans, thanks to the Great War and the Spanish Influenza, and most of it was suffered in Europe and the US; yet not one country fell into anarchy, or changed regime. Man became immune to this type of the flu (in fact, you would not even be ill after contamination with this virus nowadays), mourned, and lived on.
What would be a more realistic scenario, (and that could be distinctly possible, I guess) is that the disease does not kill the victim, but makes him or her schizofrene and aggressive. In the US especially this would be a large problem, due to the easy acces to small arms. An aggressive schizofene would just kill his neighbour, if he thought the man was his enemy. This would disorganize the whole society, and anarchy would be the result. Then a military leader could rise, and try to expel the disease by force, i.e. by just killing everyone who has the symptoms. This to could create a very large source of barbarians; Madmen-saboteurs with small arms, and later with stolen military goods and foul nuclear weapons(tons of
waste in the US is just dumped in barrels in scarcely inhabited area's. They are unguarded and not looked after 
, so they could be picked up and used, attached to a conventional bomb, to intoxicate the area where the conventional weapon explodes for up to 50,000 years). That is quite powerful.
One other thing: please release your background story, or just post your Civipedia articles on the forum, if you like. It would illuminate things for me anyway, and we could come up with some suggestions.
I'm looking forward to playing this scenario!
Yours sincerely,
William of Orange-Nassau
Hail!
This is a very original idea! Is HP somewhere out there, or is this thread dead?? Just my two cents.
I don't think it's realistic to add zombies: The human body is a very, very, very, very complex machine(did I mention it's complex?
). If you would change only the smallest of things, there is a horribly small chance it would work and live; so forget large changes to the human body, other than by purposeful design by very skilled and wise architects, wich will be technically impossible for the coming 1,000 years, methinks.Your epidemic scenario is not very realistic neither; Such a thing would not very soon result in an overall chaos. There is an example, quite resent, of such a disease as your invention seems to be.
In 1918, the last year of the First World War, something more terrible than guns and grenades hit the world: Influenza! This disease, called Spanish Influenza, was a somewhat mutated form of the flu; It spread rapidly, mostly in Europe and the USA. 50% of the total World population was infected by the Spanish Influenza, and over 5% of all ill people died. Casualties amounted to over 2.5% of the world population, most of them YOUNG
confused: that is very, very unusual ) people, aged between 15 and 30. 50 Million people died of the disease, more than three times as much as the losses the First World War inflicted. Some countries lost over 10% of their population in one summer; complete Allied and German divisions in France were reduced to grave and sickbed by the disease. In 1919, the world had over 65 Million dead men, and ten's of Millions invalid humans, thanks to the Great War and the Spanish Influenza, and most of it was suffered in Europe and the US; yet not one country fell into anarchy, or changed regime. Man became immune to this type of the flu (in fact, you would not even be ill after contamination with this virus nowadays), mourned, and lived on.What would be a more realistic scenario, (and that could be distinctly possible, I guess) is that the disease does not kill the victim, but makes him or her schizofrene and aggressive. In the US especially this would be a large problem, due to the easy acces to small arms. An aggressive schizofene would just kill his neighbour, if he thought the man was his enemy. This would disorganize the whole society, and anarchy would be the result. Then a military leader could rise, and try to expel the disease by force, i.e. by just killing everyone who has the symptoms. This to could create a very large source of barbarians; Madmen-saboteurs with small arms, and later with stolen military goods and foul nuclear weapons(tons of
waste in the US is just dumped in barrels in scarcely inhabited area's. They are unguarded and not looked after , so they could be picked up and used, attached to a conventional bomb, to intoxicate the area where the conventional weapon explodes for up to 50,000 years). That is quite powerful.One other thing: please release your background story, or just post your Civipedia articles on the forum, if you like. It would illuminate things for me anyway, and we could come up with some suggestions.
I'm looking forward to playing this scenario!
Yours sincerely,
William of Orange-Nassau
HPLovecraft said:Plus, I'm from PEI, and everyone always makes a Maritime bloc, and I never get to play as them! I made room for expansion off the coast of PEI in a few areas, so you will be able to survive if you're good enough.
Greetings from a fellow expatriate Islander. I currently live in Fredericton, but grew up in Cornwall.
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Any chance of testing this on a Mac?
Hurray for Canada!!!
Well anyway i think u need helicopters since Canada likes helicopters.
Also you need some Native Resistences Maybe a few cities or enough forces to take a few cities.
Maybe some rouge robots(since canada has the most succsesful robots in the world)
I am a proud Canadian and a prouder Algonquin.
Lookin good tho
Well anyway i think u need helicopters since Canada likes helicopters.
Also you need some Native Resistences Maybe a few cities or enough forces to take a few cities.
Maybe some rouge robots(since canada has the most succsesful robots in the world)
I am a proud Canadian and a prouder Algonquin.
Lookin good tho
Los Tirano
God-King
Yes William, the 28 days scenario is more what i was getting at. Hence the suggestion of the asylum escapees.
Los Tirano
God-King
Lord Neil. Do you really thing Canada has made better robots than Japan? Or is further in the field of robotics? There have been some new robotic developments over on those islands recently.
By the way i am not anti-canadian. your society is exceptional in many ways.
By the way i am not anti-canadian. your society is exceptional in many ways.
JFogg
Chieftain
I was thinking about the factions, and, perhaps it's just that I'm American and not all that familiar with the different Canadian regions, but I didn't find them all that interesting. I suppose mainly, besides the independent Quebec and ARF, none of the factions seem to have much personality. Besides the strategic position, I wouldn't feel much difference between playing Ontario or Prince Edward Island. It's all the same to me.
I wanted to suggest that you take a look at the Crimson Skies universe (or maybe you have already), which has the US and Canada splintered into lots of different independent countries. Specifically, I think it would be neat because each country seems to have its own interesting personality: besides the obvious countries like Texas, Quebec, and the South, you have a fundamentalist Christian socialist commune in Kansas, some Native American nations, a few buffer states, a few semi-anarchic regions, states dominated by large cities like LA or NY, states dominated by their particular economic base, or anything you could think of.
I wanted to suggest that you take a look at the Crimson Skies universe (or maybe you have already), which has the US and Canada splintered into lots of different independent countries. Specifically, I think it would be neat because each country seems to have its own interesting personality: besides the obvious countries like Texas, Quebec, and the South, you have a fundamentalist Christian socialist commune in Kansas, some Native American nations, a few buffer states, a few semi-anarchic regions, states dominated by large cities like LA or NY, states dominated by their particular economic base, or anything you could think of.
Los Tirano said:Lord Neil. Do you really thing Canada has made better robots than Japan? Or is further in the field of robotics? There have been some new robotic developments over on those islands recently.
By the way i am not anti-canadian. your society is exceptional in many ways.
I mean that Canada has the most succesful robots considering how much money they have put into them and stuff like that... not that they have the best.
Shabbabaram
Might makes right
I want this scenario...
Now...
Now, not later, NOW!
Now...
Now, not later, NOW!
NovaScotiaGuy
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Any news on the status of this scenario? I've been eargerly waiting to play it.
Splinter13
The Learner
Very, cool. Can't wait to play it. I like the idea how you have provincial flags.. How is that going to work out then? Are you going to have the provinces as single countries?
Nice work though Keep it up
Nice work though
Keep it upsdLeo
Cosmopolitan
so... is this mod downloadable?
Pax Canadiana
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All the Canadian players like myself are waiting. But I think it's safe to say that this project might have been abandoned.
