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For the new year:
I'm playing a lot more TnP these days and I am lazily dreaming the idle dream of making a few fun 'n' fast scenarios. Here's what I have in mind:
1. Capture the journalists:
The liberal Washington Post (blue) and conservative Washington Times (red) journalists are running amok in the nation's capital trying to dig up news about the nation's politics. The entire map will be a mass of Washington DC. The fact that all the buildings are largely diamond-shaped means it should fit perfectly into the square map (and the fact that Washington is a diamond anyway).
Larger competing factions could include The Post-owned Gazette (purple) which holds sway in the northern Maryland suburbs, and the Examiner (orange), a conservative contender trying to eat the Gazette's lunch.
Scripted elements could include: Congressmen being put on trial, lobbyists pigeonholing lawmakers, and even the rare Administration Announcement! YOU control the nation's newsmakers and YOU must be on the scene first. Find creative ways of bypassing the White House and Congressional police (white) and use Spies like Wonkette (www.wonkette.com) and Michelle Malkin (www.michellemalkin.com) to your advantage. All against the backdrop of random events like gangsters shooting up a Northeastern neighborhood, horrific car crashes on the Beltway and radial highways, and arson attacks, drug pusher arrests, and occasional sniper strikes.
Each time a newspaper gets to the source of the news they get a series of resources, which decreases if more people have made it there first.
Bonus resources are awarded if you make Scott McClellan cry.
"Cities" will actually be used to mark out major neighborhoods, e.g. Chevy Chase, Brookland, Silver Spring, etc. If we could have a Lakota tee pee city represent Takoma Park (known for its somewhat ecologically "enthusiastic" liberals) that might be accurate.
2. Braless in Beijing:
The entire map is the Chinese capital up to the Fourth Ring Road. Northwest will be the Universities at Haidian District and the base of these operations. YOU play as wild crazy foreigners "studying" "hard" in Qinghua or Beijing Universities. As the median income rises sharply, the stranglehold on entertainment venues and strip clubs once held by the foreign visitors is fast slipping. Get out there and enjoy yourself in an orgiastic explosion of debauchery before the floating currency basket makes your dollars redundant!
If the scripting language works, periodically the computer can designate buildings that must be reached by your units (which will mostly consist of Partisan Scholars). Various scramble locations include shopping supermarkets, pirate software shops, and wholesale fake factory clothes outlets to increase Wealth. Strip clubs and massage parlors naturally increase Wood, and every so often Bars are needed for Food. Reluctantly you will be subject to University Testing, so don't forget to visit places like the Confucius Temple, Forbidden City, and Chairman Mao's tomb (or "Maosoleum" for short) to increase your Knowledge before the countdown expires.
Occasionally unique tasks will surface, such as visiting the Russian-owned Kempinski hotel to pick up East European prostitutes and taking them to BJTV (Beijing TV) to film Pepsi Cola ads. These confer a very large Wealth bonus.
But be careful who you cross because if you venture into the Southwest of town or cause problems with police, the Chinese military may send a few policemen to make your day much more interesting and immobile.
Note: this scenario has nothing to do with personal experiences during the 5th Communist Party Plenum in Sept. 2002. And the Beijing wujing (armed police) only thought they saw naked people running through Sanlitun's bars.
I'm playing a lot more TnP these days and I am lazily dreaming the idle dream of making a few fun 'n' fast scenarios. Here's what I have in mind:
1. Capture the journalists:
The liberal Washington Post (blue) and conservative Washington Times (red) journalists are running amok in the nation's capital trying to dig up news about the nation's politics. The entire map will be a mass of Washington DC. The fact that all the buildings are largely diamond-shaped means it should fit perfectly into the square map (and the fact that Washington is a diamond anyway).
Larger competing factions could include The Post-owned Gazette (purple) which holds sway in the northern Maryland suburbs, and the Examiner (orange), a conservative contender trying to eat the Gazette's lunch.
Scripted elements could include: Congressmen being put on trial, lobbyists pigeonholing lawmakers, and even the rare Administration Announcement! YOU control the nation's newsmakers and YOU must be on the scene first. Find creative ways of bypassing the White House and Congressional police (white) and use Spies like Wonkette (www.wonkette.com) and Michelle Malkin (www.michellemalkin.com) to your advantage. All against the backdrop of random events like gangsters shooting up a Northeastern neighborhood, horrific car crashes on the Beltway and radial highways, and arson attacks, drug pusher arrests, and occasional sniper strikes.
Each time a newspaper gets to the source of the news they get a series of resources, which decreases if more people have made it there first.
Bonus resources are awarded if you make Scott McClellan cry.
"Cities" will actually be used to mark out major neighborhoods, e.g. Chevy Chase, Brookland, Silver Spring, etc. If we could have a Lakota tee pee city represent Takoma Park (known for its somewhat ecologically "enthusiastic" liberals) that might be accurate.
2. Braless in Beijing:
The entire map is the Chinese capital up to the Fourth Ring Road. Northwest will be the Universities at Haidian District and the base of these operations. YOU play as wild crazy foreigners "studying" "hard" in Qinghua or Beijing Universities. As the median income rises sharply, the stranglehold on entertainment venues and strip clubs once held by the foreign visitors is fast slipping. Get out there and enjoy yourself in an orgiastic explosion of debauchery before the floating currency basket makes your dollars redundant!
If the scripting language works, periodically the computer can designate buildings that must be reached by your units (which will mostly consist of Partisan Scholars). Various scramble locations include shopping supermarkets, pirate software shops, and wholesale fake factory clothes outlets to increase Wealth. Strip clubs and massage parlors naturally increase Wood, and every so often Bars are needed for Food. Reluctantly you will be subject to University Testing, so don't forget to visit places like the Confucius Temple, Forbidden City, and Chairman Mao's tomb (or "Maosoleum" for short) to increase your Knowledge before the countdown expires.
Occasionally unique tasks will surface, such as visiting the Russian-owned Kempinski hotel to pick up East European prostitutes and taking them to BJTV (Beijing TV) to film Pepsi Cola ads. These confer a very large Wealth bonus.
But be careful who you cross because if you venture into the Southwest of town or cause problems with police, the Chinese military may send a few policemen to make your day much more interesting and immobile.
Note: this scenario has nothing to do with personal experiences during the 5th Communist Party Plenum in Sept. 2002. And the Beijing wujing (armed police) only thought they saw naked people running through Sanlitun's bars.
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