Bay 12 Games Forum

The concept. The issues make the game unique and different from other roguelikes.
 
Combat is quick and simple and fun, which is why so many let's plays are so violence centric.
 
The freedom in which you can choose almost endless combinations of playstyle.
 
I like winning the game. Gives me a feeling of success.

What does "we didn't start the fire" do? It makes the CCS active from the start, and puts them automatically into mode 2? Or mode 3 or 4? I'm basing off this:
 
"Right now the CCS can't kidnap your people or siege your safehouses. While progress is slow on the next release, as I have other pressing things to do, there's untested code in place to allow the CCS to attack your safehouse, starting an average of 2 years after they first appear. They will progress through four stages of strength:

1) Dormant. They don't appear anywhere, and don't do anything.
2) Appearance. They start taking actions and appearing in the news. You can find them around town sometimes. This will start after you've succeeded somewhat in getting Liberalism more dominant.
3) Attacks. They start ambushing your site action teams as you leave sites. This will start, on average, 12 months after they start doing site actions, but it's random, and can be sooner or later than that. This isn't something you can do to them yet, but eventually I hope to allow you to have squads assigned to patrol parts of town in cars, as a way of responding to any events they stumble across in those areas.
4) Sieges. They start to attack your safehouses. If they succeed in an attack on one of your upgradable permanent safehouses (not homeless shelter or apartment), or a former CCS safehouse, they will capture it, and turn it into an Enemy Safe House until you take it back. You won't need sleepers or maps to know about these sites, they'll be permanently known to you, because they used to be yours. This starts an average of 12 months after they start ambushing your site action teams.
5) Defeated. They cease operations of all forms, permanently. This happens after you capture their last base of operations."
 
from an old post of jon's
 
Does this still even apply?

Currently the Fire Station doesn't affect any issue, right? And the only time the firemen are interesting is during arch conservative times when they all get flamethrowers. (which makes no sense) (neither does a lot of LCS... duh...)
Anyhow, an army base sounds good. Put it back, why not?

You might as well just set your sleepers to promote liberalism, since effectiveness doesn't go up in the current version.

But printing CIA secrets is treason.

Currently my record is 4 years 2 months... 2 games ended then. I guess it has to do with the dates of elections and propositions? Anyhow, was wondering what the fastest time possible is.

...nearly hit me with a SMG. Seriously, where had he been hiding that? I shouldn't have been surprised, yet I found myself momentarily flummoxed. The gun laws were so lax that any citizen in his right mind could carry such weaponry, even in such a peaceful place as the park, and unleash it at the slightest hint of need. Clearly, the jogger would be claiming self-defence in this one.

That's a 9mm semiauto, a PISTOL, not an SMG. The only SMG is the MP5.