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Not too fond of this idea - persuasion is complicated enough (by that I mean that it's not horribly complicated, and I like it that way), and it seems kind of ... unnecessary to include these classes. Maybe they should be affected more by the issues (as in, how easy they are to recruit), depending on what "class" they are, but I don't like shoving people into social classes and having penalties if you're outside of a class. To be perfectly honest I don't think it'd matter much, and particularly not in the way you propose. It has to do with charisma and persuasion, classes matter very little in comparison to those.

No, no, it's just changed. You can get higher levels of leadership. My founder, who was basically just a gang member, could have a level of 14. At Elite Liberal, he could amass an army of 26 Liberals.

Step One: Find a sharp, relatively thin object such as a stick.

Step Two: Grip said object firmly.

Step Three: Stab it into your ears (one ear at a time).

You are now completely immune to all Talk Attacks!

Indeed, but what happens when you shoot five SWAT members? It's your group of 6 versus another 40, plus snipers... Though you could likely take out the snipers first; how would you deal with the 40 SWAT members/soldiers all shooting at you at once? What about the tanks?

I think this has gone somewhat off topic...

How about the possibility of upgrading your holding-cells in a facility, or placing a guard? I most certainly wouldn't mind shelling out a few thousand to keep my hostages/"to-be-enlightened" from escaping.

Also; wouldn't it be normal for interrogators to heal their captives if they get injured? The first-aid skill could be implemented there. It'd limit how much you could abuse your captive without them dying. Perhaps you could set whoever in the interrogation team on the particular person has the highest first aid skill to do the patching up?

As far as I know, you can't really release a hostage without confronting conservatives, either... It would be nice to be able to release your hostage in a way that didn't lead to violence or assaults on your safehouse. Hell; I'd just like to be able to ditch them before I leave sites.

Indeed Kruniac; not to mention that technically, as long they're not "Enlightened", they have a choice to leave. It is kind of crazy, but so is everything else the LCS does.

Or, like I said, you could just rig the distribution system with devices that release specific amounts of LSD. Honestly you don't need more than 40 micrograms to cause an effect; so even if the water and LSD didn't have time to diffuse completely, you would still be pretty much out of whack.

Might be too difficult to accomplish.

OH MY GOD AQIZZAR, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO MENTION THAT. Where have you hidden the Conservative Mind Reading Device?!

Because an active dose of LSD is very minute, a large number of doses can be synthesized from a comparatively small amount of raw material. Beginning with ergotamine tartrate, for example, one can manufacture roughly one kilogram of pure, crystalline LSD from five kilograms of the ergotamine salt. Five kilograms of LSD — 25 kilograms of ergotamine tartrate — could provide 100 million doses, according to the DEA, more than enough to meet what is believed to be the entire annual U.S. demand. Since the masses involved are so small, concealing and transporting illicit LSD is much easier than smuggling other illegal drugs like cocaine or cannabis.[74]

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