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Curses / Re: Reducing the grind
« on: September 10, 2009, 05:08:06 pm »
I dunno about rent reduction or decreased teaching costs.

I think a straight +4 to teaching for the last college student choice would be a strong improvement for the archtype and fairly simple thing to impliment. It could represent the students access to training literature and a basic idea of how to organize an effective lesson plan.

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Curses / Re: Reducing the grind
« on: September 10, 2009, 02:26:57 pm »
I dunno, that sounds like it would be cumbersome to do to individually pair up liberals for training. I like the system in place, I just think its expensive. I've always just imagined one liberal in a makeshift classroom giving a class to a big group of liberals about first aid.

Maybe revamp it so that you can pick the exact individual skill you want to train, and while all liberals in the safehouse will attend, the skill gains will be exponetially less and less with the more liberals that are being taught. A group of two or three liberals in a seperate safehouse would learn much faster then a small army of liberals. Higher teaching skill would help speed up skill gain.

 Perhaps the higher the skill, the lower the skill gain and maybe the higher the cost? Or impliment a straight cap on the skill number Its a simple matter to teach how to bandage a cut, but much more difficult to train your hippies to the medical level of a doctor.

Maybe make it a flat rate of cost depending on the individual skill, making incentive to train some of the more underwhelming skills? Or maybe the cost rises with the number of liberals recieving training to reflect the training aids, manuals and ammo consumption in the case of rifle skill training or whatever?

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Curses / Re: Reducing the grind
« on: September 10, 2009, 01:45:47 pm »
I dunno, I thought the old juice system was fine, you should'nt be able to take any dirty hippie off the street and turn them into hardened guerilla fighters over night.

I like to build up strength and bide my time to create a small army of nigh-unstoppable liberals.

Maybe make teaching less expensive? at the moment you need some huge sum of money to afford hardly any skill gain even with teaching with an uber-founder or highly trained liberal. 250-500$ a day is unrealistically steep, I'd think. The skill gain is always fairly slow, which is fine it could be slower, imo, it just bankrupts you to teach liberals. Laying low and training to overthrow the conservative establishment should be a viable tactic, rather then grinding the bouncers or shooting random janitors in the city park.

 


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Curses / Re: Political violence is busted?
« on: September 10, 2009, 01:09:30 pm »
I liked the old system better. Everything should be solved by terrorism and concerted violence in this game.

How about to compensate, the CCS gains more support and gains strength more then it would have without violence on your part? It would represent conservatives becoming frightened and become motivated to fight you. Like all those people that joined the Army after 9-11 to "get even" and what not.

The more you rely on violence and site actions, the more the CCS retailates in kind and their vigilantes. They quickly become more powerful like what happens if you ignore them for too long.


As it stands now with the tolerance for political violence thing, there is hardly to no way to win by juicing up Hippies and turning the country into a bloodbath to further the liberal cause.

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General Discussion / Re: Yanks boycott Scotland!
« on: August 28, 2009, 04:28:53 pm »
You forgot the Tape.  And the Guard.

Who needs Scotchguard if you no longer need to guard your carpet from spilt Scotch?

Scotch tape? I only use the stuff to tape a stand of hair between two drawers where I hide my scotch to detect intrusions to my stock by my roommates.

You are only making these scotch-related things less relevant to my life.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Bronze vs Iron
« on: August 28, 2009, 04:23:56 pm »
I'm pretty sure bronze was ill-suited for swords because longswords could not be made from bronze because it would bend or break with a swung solid peice of metal.

All those olde tyhme bronze swords were very short compared to later era iron/steel swords.

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General Discussion / Re: Inglourious Basterds
« on: August 26, 2009, 01:01:09 am »
I saw it and I liked it. Keep one thing in mind though, it is NOT and action movie and it has almost nothing to do with the "Basterds" so much as it revolves around the main villian and a pair of interchangable french-resistance female roles.

Brad Pitt is just there for comic relief with his Popeye-the-sailor-man jaw jutting and what not.

If you don't like the meandering and tense conversations that are in every Tarantino film ever, you might be wasting your time with this movie. I considered the interview of the dairy farmer, the bits with Hans Landa and the tavern scene to be the highlights of the movie.

Especially the tavern scene. That part was really good.

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General Discussion / Re: Yanks boycott Scotland!
« on: August 25, 2009, 05:07:13 pm »
Actually its pretty easy and effective to boycott Scotland. The only thing they really export is scotch whiskey and the USA is its primary market. Just don't buy scotch.

If its "typical American jackassery" that scottish people get targeted by an American boycott, I think thats a bit of a double standard.

If you were in Europe as an American tourist you would be treated like goddamn pariah because of the US government's decision to invade Iraq. Hotels and restaurants boycotted American tourists to protest the war from about 2003-2006 and some still do.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dwarven king is an...
« on: August 25, 2009, 12:09:51 am »
Come one guys, Chuck Norris is still only a man. His mighty life could be ended in an instant with a stray crossbow bolt.

You doubt the lethality of a crossbow bolt?

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General Discussion / Re: Yanks boycott Scotland!
« on: August 24, 2009, 11:36:36 pm »
I never got into the whole "Freedom Fries" nonsense either because I didn't think that France should be targeted for not agreeing with the WoT.

I can get behind a boycott of things Scotland exports because they freed a goddamn mass murderer from a life sentence.

Not to mention that the only thing Scotland exports is over-priced whiskey. I think I can comfortable live the rest of my life without that and I don't have to buy scotch and call it "Justice Juice" either.


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Life Advice / Re: Parking Violations
« on: August 24, 2009, 10:33:36 pm »
Bicyclists need to get on the sidewalk with the rest of the slow-moving pedestrians anyways.

And for god sakes, if you won't buy a real car for transportation, at least get a motorcycle or a scooter. Do it for your own safety and personal pride, at least. Nobody over the age of 16 in a developed nation should be riding a bicycle.




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General Discussion / Yanks boycott Scotland!
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:48:33 pm »
So there is apparently a sentiment growing in the USA over the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie Bombing that killed 270 people including 187 Americans.

Since I pefer bourbon over scotch anyways and the gas at the BP is about $0.02 more expensive then the Texaco, I think I might contribute to the boycott myself. Setting free a convicted mass murderer is absurd and I think I'll vote against it with my liquor consumption habits, what do you guys think?

http://www.boycottscotland.com/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208538/Lockerbie-payback-time-boycott-British-goods-American-anger-grows.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6807288.ece

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Curses / Re: Dancers & Yoga Instructors - the Ultimate Liberal Recruits?
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:35:18 pm »
Yeah, Martial Artists, Dancers and especially Athletes have very high stats. They are difficult to recruit early on though, so it balances it out, and none of them come with very useful skills.

Just a few points of random skills, which makes them worst then the old standbys of hippies and college students.


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Curses / Re: Starting the Liberal Revolution
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:27:43 pm »
The best way to raise juice for new recruits is to get them in a squad of six and have them spray liberal graffiti at the crackhouses. It goes up to 50, which raises them to "Socialist Threat" if I'm not mistaken.

SELL BROWNIES. This wracks in an incredible amount of income and allows you the income to teach your liberals. It also boosts their cooking and street-wise skills, which makes grocery bills/ maintaince cheaper.

The only problem with this is eventiually the cops will come knocking on your door and they will take a big chunk of your money if you surrender during a seige. Consider sending them on missions to the policestation naked to get them arrested to clear their rap sheet after you have your sleepers in place.

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Life Advice / Re: Parking Violations
« on: August 08, 2009, 08:19:05 pm »
Unless they get a subpoena to show up to court, its not. They can show up if they want to, they can tell their supervisor that they need to go to court, they will not get paid, but the union rep won't let them get fired for skipping work to contest a 40$ parking fine either.

Chances are, Officer Friendly is just going to leave his 200$ Wal-Mart suit in the closet and go to work.

Nobody has to show up to court unless the court requests it and unless the judge has a wild-eyed vendetta against the officer issuing the citation, its not going to happen.


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