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So, I was surfing the web, and came across what I consider to be an undiscovered gem from 90s: Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance.  Anyone else play this game?

After discussing my exploits at far greater length than appropriate in the Show us your Empires topic, starting here, I've decided to make a topic dedicated to showing off the Reaver American Unity Empire.

Link to the mod's official forum: http://terranova.dk/viewforum.php?f=15
For some reason, I find their forum hard to navigate.

Here is the Reaver Empire currently:

Here is the state of the three alliances:

I think my alliance might be winning.

Post if you want to join your fellow forumites on the front lines:

Today, I read a news story that seems destined for the newspaper in LCS as a random event:

Woman donates kidney to son, loses job

A Philadelphia woman said she lost her job after taking off time to donate a kidney to her son.  [Random Name] said she lost her job last week at [Random Company].  She said she was told she might not have a job to come back to.  She took the time off anyway, after signing a paper acknowledging that fact.

The company said it was within its rights.

Real story, I just removed the individual and company name.  Granted, the article uses the term "she said" far too often for my liking, and the company is undoubtably misquoted.  Still, scary stuff.

Here's a list of links to topics with mods, as far as I can tell.  Many were programmed for previous versions.  Fortunately, LCS generally works off the .exe file, and the mods change the .exe file.  Therefore, most should be installable over current versions of the game.  Your traction will vary.

Please add any mods I miss!

Thrown Weapons Mod (Should be current): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=74743.0
This mod adds thrown weapons that DON'T explode and kill your squad.  I haven't tested it yet.

Arsenal Mod (Version 4.01.4 I think, REQUIRES CODE ADDING SKILL TO IMPLEMENT): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58596.0
This mod adds many more weapons.  I don't know how to edit or compile code, so haven't tested it.  In theory, one can just add the code from this topic into the game's code, and Viola!  More weapons!  Lots more weapons!

Stalinist Comrade Squad (Shortly before the game went to 4.0): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47525.15
This mod adds the Stalinist Comrade Squad as new foes!  Unfortunately, this version of LCS (not the mod's fault), included the failed attempt at the "public tolerance of violence" issue.  In theory, the determination of "Rampage" vs. "Strike" would be based on the public's tolerance for violence compared to the activites of the squad.  In reality, it made the game far too unpredicatable.  Stalinists will definitely affect the issued "behind the scenes", but due to lacks in the programing, the Stalinists will be hard if not impossible to directly attack. NO LONGER UPLOADED

Extremely Easy/Hard Edit (LCS version 4.04.1 I think): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=46637.45
Pick option 5 at the end, and you can chose whether to use a founder of superness, or a cripple of minimal stats.

I didn't program any of these mods.  Hopefully, a catalogue of mods will both allow the updating of mods of interest, and encourage future moding.

In real life, College Students usually move on to other things after a few years.  So our college student sleepers should be able to find new jobs, such as Office Workers, CEOs, or Lawyers.

If someone would be willing to program this, I'd be glad to lay out exactly how I think is should be done for each and every sleepers.

The general jist is: Every year (or month), the game checks each sleeper, rolls to determine if they change jobs, then selects one from the list.

For example: If we use a yearly check, then college students should have a 1/4 chance of changing jobs, to reflect that we don't know if they were recruited in their first year or the final year.  This also represents them staying longer for whatever reason, perhaps they didn't pass several of their classes, or maybe they are getting graduate degrees.

Perhaps the system could check the sleeper's age, stats, and skills to determine which job they change into, or if they change jobs (kinda like how now teenagers grow up into political activists, but it would no longer be automatic).  But that would definitely be secondary to just allowing sleepers to change.

If a system in which stats, skills, and age determined the job change, then another idea would be for the sleeper command "study [blank]" could be implemented, so sleepers are more likely to change to the job you want.

The system I invision would be similar to the Travellers job system when rolling characters.  Of course, a simpler system can and probably should be implemented.

Finally, the system I invision would also have "negative' job changes.  Negative would be those jobs that make a person less influential in Conservative Society.  Perhaps our College Student flunks out due to drug use and becomes a Crack Head.  Or the shiny CEO gets demoted to Office Manager.

Worried about food, I cook the booze.  So what, there's plenty of water, right?

I was playing this fortress when all of a sudden a couple dwarves die of thirst.  It is winter, and the water is frozen, so I check to make sure they have unfrozen water.  They do, and I ignore it.

After the Dwarven Caravan leaves, more dwarves die.  So I dig out some more underground water, just in case.

Then I remembered this map was on the ocean coast...

So I quickly devise two plans: First, Brew some booze.  Second, construct pumps!

I assigned a dwarf to brew some booze, and assign my carpenters to construct wooden blocks, wooden corkscrews, and wooden pipe sections.  I even build a second carpenter's workshop.

After several minutes, a dwarf finally gets ready to brew some booze, and I get the "No barrels" notification.  So I have to get my carpenters to make barrels instead of anything else.

At this time, the Miner punches out the sherrif (why is it always the miners that go agro?) as the fortress population is halved by the latest round of deaths.  But I perserver, and the pump is finally constructed.

As the remaining dwarves die, I keep asigning the pump operator task to anyone alive.  Eventually, there is only one, and Thrist McUrist starts working that pump with all his dwarven might.  But he is still thirsty.  I attempt to zone the pumped-out water as a watering hole...but apparently pumps no longer take the salt out of the water.  He dies, end game.

As requested in the LCS forum, where the maker of BGC module for TOME is now working on Crime Squad, I'm making a brief tutorial for Bubble Gum Crisis.  However, my first game broke (the game is in .5 alpha state), so I had to restart, so it is two tutorials.  Let's Play!
Pick the Bubble Gum Crisis Module.
I chose Linna to start this time.  The active character is the white "@" sign that tends to be centered on the screen.  Arrow keys and numpad move the character.  To enter the buildings, walk on the ">" signs and press the shift and ".", which should be the ">" sign (if it is not, just press whatever is the ">" sign on your computer.  If the symbol is "<", press that instead, but I do not know if that happens in this game.This is your cellphone.  You use it by pressing "u".  THE CELLPHONE IS YOUR FRIEND!  LOVE THY CELLPHONE AS THY LOVE LIFE!
Speaking of cellphones, press z to access the cellphone options, and select the option that says "enable incoming calls".  Now people can call us, yay!

Anyways, the most important thing in the early game is to get some steel plates for your battlesuits, as the initial battlesuits need armor in order for the girls to survive combat with boomers.  But we do not know who to call in order to buy some steel plates.  Let's earn a little extra money first!
There's a building to the south right in the area we start in.  Maybe they have work?Hey, they do!  How did I know that?  Oh, there is a really nice documentation you can access by pressing "?".  Among other things, we learn that basically there are only two ways of actively acquring paying jobs.  Tokyo Express is one, the other is the mercenary forums you can access from the computers at the Silk n Dolls, which is our headquarters.  The passive way to acquire paying jobs to just wait until your phone rings, thus we enabled incoming calls.Oh no!  They acutally expect us to deliver ACs to an opposing mercenary company!  How dare they!  Nah, just kidding.  There are no Armored Cores in this game.  Raven's garage is just an automobile garage where Syivia's brother works, which is good as he might be able to recover destroyed boomers for us.  Raven's Garage is just south of us.Wow, that bonus restores my faith in Delivery Missions.  We also got a bit of experience.  When the girls level up, you can press "g" to learn new skills, but you select the skills and press spacebar to save.  That part messed me up a few times.
Now that we have earned some money, my next update will cover how to spend that money.

Protip: Press Ctrl and x to save and exit.  Otherwise a bug may cause you to restart, like me after the next update.