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Although it's not my kind of music, I think... it's the kind of music I would listen to, while writing Othor II. Well, I started it with Nirvana, and intermittently used Mark A. Pullen's soundtrack to a game "Sauerbraten". Which goes into an extremely heavy category on my list... It's like, I need more energy in music, to have it in writing.

You mean this weird thing called SQL?

_{Or I just shouldn't embarrass myself with my ignorance?...}

Hm. Can anyone explain to a person absolutely ignorant of the workings of this IRC thing, but having a default IRC client installed, how you get there? Or point me to a topic (I'm sure one exists), where Bay12 IRC channel requisites (or whatever) can be found.

Again!

Ok. I was going to ask, if anyone is going to write with a partner. I recently found out, that voicing your plot to someone is very useful for moving it along. For that purpose I've got my sister, even if it's not brainstorming, as she usually resorts to "uh"'s, but beside that she's very much into age psychology, and I seek her help for realistic character development.

I don't see why sampled population wouldn't sleep. There may be a problem with syncing different activities, but it's for programmers to solve.

I've been trying to visualize the interface (poorly),
and I think that simish-civish layout should work. First, you move between levels with a button, like in Sims, second, you've got your ministers for stuff, to notify you when something need attention. You can move camera freely, but you can see in realtime only what your friendly units see, and here friendly are only your spies and surveillance. And, maybe, police, some kind of CIA.

Hey, I've just found in Celtx an option for an audio play. I wonder, do we have a demand for such a genre? And if it is any different from writing a trite screenplay.

I'm completely out of tune, but some side of the concept, the picture in the beginning, and something from my own ideas, gave birth to this idea:

You are a single governor-tyrant, who has this city in his iron grip, and all the stuff you talk about, but, being a tyrant, you always have to fight rebels... or, gradually, in the course of the game, the rebellion appears and grows. You are represented by a game world person who lives and rules from his/her high castle, and the game ends, when the rebels reach you, and overthrow the tyranny, via the means of assassination.

I don't know if I understood the problem of nation-in-a-building correctly, but for some reason I had the visions of Bladerunner as a solution. I mean, any single building being explicitly multi-cultural and buzzing - one corner is occupied by Chinese restaurants, another side is all European, everywhere bright signboards, maybe in a different corner a war is going on...