CXII: Propagande Par Le Fait

Day 1,514, 19:46 • Published in USA USA • by Little Old Halfling


Music please.

With the removal of Pfeiffer as a forum admin and the banning of Pizza the Hut from IRC, the nation has lost two of it's most interesting people. For a bit. The issue everyone seems to be avoiding talking about, however, is how I've written so much and still don't have a Media Mogul. Much more attention should be paid to the pathetic panderings of this halfling. Much, much more.



So Fionia and I go way back. So far back, it seems, that she feels she can get away with blattantly ripping off my contest idea and passing it off as her own. Outrageous as her plagiarism is, eRep doesn't really do complaints against copy cats. Thus, I've sought to rectify it in the only way fitting: winning it.



Assassination
Yes, an assassination module. I've thought about it for a long time, and it seems right to introduce it into the game. It happens in the real world all the time, so why not here? I'm sure you've had the temptation. If only someone wasn't running against me. If only that person wasn't in charge of this. If only that person would just disappear. If only I could kill other people in the game with no real world moral repercussions.


Though I have a better game to recommend to you if that's the case.

In short, it would make things interesting. I'm not an expert at how to set these things up, but I'm imagining basically a hitman system where you pay gold to have someone assassinated. In game, there would be button under everyone's profile where, if you had the right amount of gold, you could take them out by pressing the "Order a Hit" button. I feel that 20 gold would be appropriate for such a hit, with multipliers being factored in such as how strong you are, if you're in congress or are a president, and if you have a guard.


Because nothing says "armed and dangerous" like "bald and fat."

Yes, guards. Naturally if you have a system set up where you can kill people, you would have a system set up where you can protect people. The two ways I envision this is either being able to modify MU's so that you can assign that squad to guard duty for a person, or you have another little button on your own profile that you pay to guard yourself with. Naturally, others might choose to make MU's into death squads, but that's for a later module update. This does, however, illustrate a point: that this would be freaking awesome.

Assassinations would take you out of the game for a certain period of time, your storage and money would be subject to looting, and you would wait to rejoin once you were revived. While permanent death would not be good, the impermanence of an assassination like this would still be crushing. New presidents could ascend via assassinations, coups could be planned, a great war against aggressors and defenders would be played. In short, this game would get a much needed boost of interesting things to do.

And this isn't just a win for the players; with people spending gold to take out hits, that would create a huge demand. Gold would mean death in a very literal way. People would trade for it. Black markets would boom. Admin wouldn't know what to do with all the people clamoring to play their game and get more gold.


Though I have a few suggestions to recommend to them if that's the case.

Now, this isn't a final plan by any means. This isn't the be-all-end-all plan of how to approach this. I'll leave that in the hands of the people in charge of implementing it. What this simply is is an outline. Everyone has different ideas for how everything should be done. What's important is that the core concept, an assassination module, remains in all of this.

The endless possibilities provided by an assassination module being added to this game would lead to new levels of player interaction. In a time when admin seems to be taking out the social aspects of this social game, this would be a breath of much needed fresh air. Assassinations would become a bridge between the war module and the political module.

In short, there would finally be a legitimate reason for milfags and politicos to actually speak to each other.



As a bonus question to you, my viewers: who would be your first target in the new assassination module and why?



Stay frosty.