Ministers & governors (AKA player's court)

Chris · 2014-06-22T09:44:25

You are a dictator of a tiny banana republic. You have cabinet (like 5 positions) for which you need to appoint ministers, provinces (around 8-12) which need governors and maybe army (like 3 positions) which require generals. So you have a central government and a local government. You have a pool of "officials", you take people from there and appoint to various positions. These officials have exactly 3 stats: competence (how good they are at anything), corruption (how much they steal - everyone does in that game ) and loyalty (how loyal they are to you as a dictator); they could have also some special traits if you insist An important part (I think) is competence being an universal stat, so there are no people being better as governors or as minister of justice, competent means competent at everything. This way the player is less limited who to appoint where (more choices, decision where to put best people). Politics probably could be an issue here too. For example each official is either conservative or liberal. And you want to keep a certain ration of these in your government or face discontent (or, what worse, some faction might get too powerful if you give them all positions and overthrow you!). Alternatively, I'm thinking of making more factions than these two... Questions: 1) How to make it (appointing/switching positions/browsing) interface wise? 2) How big the pool of offiicals should be? How new ones appear? Does old ones/unused disappear? 3) You can say something on the politics part (please keep it relatively simple, it's not a political sim!) 4) How to make it fun

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Started by Acharis May 14, 2014 04:23 PM

22 comments, last by Acharis 9 years, 10 months ago

powerneg

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June 12, 2014 11:44 AM

you can't see at a glance who is who

give them (short) names ?

Acharis

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June 12, 2014 11:47 AM

you can't see at a glance who is who

give them (short) names ?

I meant who has what trait/properies/etc (like who is liberal and who is conservative for example). If I try to add a tiny bar like on the congress page the whole government will not fit on one screen...

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powerneg

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June 12, 2014 02:03 PM

Well, you can just stick to what fits on the screen, and then you're probably already done,.

Or add characteristics, then when/if those characteristics are implemented make a choice about which ones are best to show on the screen(s)

(maybe add a characteristics-cycle button to let the player decide which characteristics he wants to see)

then have all the characteristics show up on an individual profile screen(like when you click "hire" a screen pops up with the selected official and all his stats, and both a "hire"-button and a "cancel"-button.

Acharis

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June 22, 2014 09:44 AM

I'm still thinking how you "recruit" new people to your pool (court).

Like this: there is a price (money) for clicking the RECRUIT button, it starts at 50 then decreases by -1 every turn (or by -3 if the price is above 20), when you click it (recruit) the price increases by +20.

Then, when you click recruit you are given 3 groups of random people (4 people per group) to choose from, you need to take a whole group. The first group would have on average more skilled people, the second less corrupted ones the third more loyal.

What you think?

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