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And there's no gender. I mean, you can change it by a press of a key. Yeah.

Actually, I think the game keeps track of the conservative definition gender of characters. For example, female-born males may be intercepted by the club bouncers for not being male.

LCS is fun. LCS was fun.

I find the very idea of LCS most entertaining. Few games allow the player to influence the politics with such a broad assortment of tactics. Few games allow the player to create a large secret underground military force that can shut down the city in a single day. Few games pit the player against the very system itself, forcing the player to be most careful when choosing what to do.

However, now it's gone somewhat. I've beaten the game so many times in so many different ways (from a solo martial artist to a liberal newspaper) that I simply don't find it entertaining as a game. But as a concept, an idea, LCS still keeps me very entertained. I still find great pleasure in discussing the game, imagining potential new features, sourcediving... perhaps I'm becoming somewhat developery, enjoying the game's progress rather than game progress. Perhaps I should refamiliarize myself with C++ so I can help more.

Actually, I think the colour system is the least important thing in the 2-dimensional political system. Other implementation aspects are more important. There are many ways to visualize the alignment apart from colors, for example simple letter codes in parentheses after the character's name in site mode (although this wouldn't look as nice).

No problem. In any case, LCS isn't the most realistic game. Or rather, it is realistic, but that realism becomes more and more distorted and perverted when you look at it. Just think about 6 hippies with relatively little training fighting off the US military and their jet bombers. With swords. What is the Matrix, by the way? 

By the way, if we had miniguns, we COULD blow off limbs... and trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2008_season)#Tree_Machine_Gun

But there is never a condition where a single bullet could ever blow off anyones limb. Despite what the internet may tell you, lol.

Sure there's are such situations, although I think they're very unlikely. And if your limb is hanging on by a small scrap of flesh, I think it's smarter to model it as severed (gameplay-wise). On the other hand, AK47, M16 and M4 in LCS can sever limbs, but if I've understood correctly those machine guns are more like portable rapid-fire miniartillery (in LCS).

I also find shotgun's limb severing a tad unrealistic. But it's not the top one Hollywood unrealistic effect I've seen - EXPLODING CARS are. Maybe we should have that in LCS as well?

See, I imagined it as being a far less mixable scale, but I like your idea better.

I'm currently trying to create a colour scale with GIMP (Liberal alternative for Photoshop) but it might need slight tweaking to look nice in any case.

By the way, the idea of extremely authoritan moderates amuses me greatly.

"I don't care what kind of government we have. As long as it bosses me around!"

EDIT: RGB doesn't look very nice, at least the system I'm toying around with. For comparison I'll try also creating one with two colours only.

MOAR EDIT: I tried tweaking it a bit, looks nice but some colours are very similar looking so they'll have to emphasized somehow in case this system is used.

I don't want to sound overly judgemental, but the cons aren't real. No rifle allows disguises, and if you use one, you don't need a disguise. Money in LCS inflates very quickly as you get cracking with regular raids, so expensive ammo clips won't do any good for the balance. The clip size, however is a real setback (even those 10 bursts provided by AK47 seem to run out fast), but not very dramatic when having a squad of 6 trained liberals.

However, I suggest that you keep working on it, in any case. Creativity is why we have liberalism in the first place! The current LCS weapon system is rather boring and at least I'd like to see more specialized weapons in the future: stealth hits with knifes or SMAPs (Sileced Movie Agent Pistol), covering fire with SMG or assault rifle, kneecap shots (yay) and such... If I have time next summer I'll familiarize myself with C++ and then I can help Jon code all the interesting features instead of just suggesting them ^^.