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I have to agree with these sentiments.  It'd be a nice breath of fresh air to play a "Woah, (INSERT ENEMY HERE) is invading!!" game in the perspective of another country.  Or even an offensive war against another country.

As proud as I am of my country, it'd be fun to pretend to be British - 007 doesn't do it for me, though.  I've never really liked Bond's character, so I can't connect with him very well.

I remember my dad playing this game.

It's like learning to play DF all over again...  I don't understand why my units keep dying, and everyone's running out of ammo with no apparent way of getting more.  The mission I tried also had a turn limit, so that made it even harder.  I just don't have enough time patience to invest to learn to play another complex game.

Looks cool, though.  I'll have to get back to it some day.

Thanks for all the answers, guys.  I knew there were a few things that I was missing.  It makes more sense, now.

I don't think it's fair that the politicians are turning a debate over policy into something that could potentially harm contractors.  I worked construction for a company that contracted for the local military base and lost my job after some red-tape got fumbled around, lost, or was never done in the first place.  I'd only worked there a month, and it was the last time I had full-time work.  I understand that aspect of it.

At the risk of receiving criticism, I have to say that I don't see a problem with someone backing down and saying, "Okay, we'll review this stuff."  They'd prevent anything bad affecting the working class families (And the businesses that employ them), and even potentially cut some of the wasteful government spending, which is an obvious problem that's been going on since forever.

More than anything, I wish everyone would just quit with the whole "They said that, so I'll say this just to oppose them!" spiel.  It's getting old.  I mean, I enjoy politics, since differing viewpoints intrigue me, but I hate it when politicians do something stupid just to gain some political points or just for the sake of being contradictory.  I hate it even more that people buy into it.


I guess a lot depends on how long the shutdown lasts.  If it lasts until the next elections, I see a potential problem.  If it only lasts a few months, the effects may not thunder throughout time and eternity.  We'll see what happens.

Again, thanks.

It'd melt all the ice, of course, making Iceland a perfectly temperate, mild, comfortable place to live.  We wouldn't want that, now, because then they'd have to change their name, and Greenland is already taken.

This really isn't anything new.  Central America has been playing the "I steal your land without an ounce of stealth" thing for years, and I doubt Costa Rica will do more than whine to the USA.

For those not from the US: Two opposing parties are stubbornly refusing to give ground on a spending bill that authorizes them to spend money on government programs and such.  Essential things, such as security, health, and infrastructure are not shut down.


So, now the point: I've been kind of confused lately, since everyone seems to think that a government shutdown will end the world - At least, that's what politicians and the media have be saying.  I usually try to keep informed on these sorts of things, so I've tried doing some searching, but I can't find much to support the worry about it.  I feel like the media's just hyping it up, while politicians on both sides are hoping for political repercussions similar to the 1995 shutdown.

The employees will just get some paid vacation time.  That's the only problem I see, is paying people money for work they're not doing - But they'd be able to apply for welfare even if they weren't getting paid.  Either way, people would get money and the government would spend it.

I don't see anything else that will completely ruin us by having the government catch its breath while politicians sit down and figure things out.  I'm rather clueless, though, which is why I'm asking - I was too young to notice the last shutdown that happened, so I don't have any experience to base it on.  I don't give a darn about the actual debate behind all this.  I have my opinions on that, and I'm sure everyone does, so let's not go there.

I just want to know: What's the big deal with a government shutdown?

It looks good.  I understand and appreciate the attention to detail you're giving.  Having deities with so much detail is...  Awesome.  Most statically made deities aren't so detailed.

So, will magic be an important part of the game?

I think it'd be interesting to form a cult, or have cults form on their own, that are opposed to deities and seek to remove them from power by force and/or disbelief (Without making it a one-sided commentary on RL religion).  While it'd be cool to be able to do that using pure physical prowess, fighting a being equated with godhood with just a bit of muscle and cunning on your side would be a bad idea.  Having magic would also solve the tools thing, since magic, or psychic powers (Avoiding the "Is magic magical if it's understood and controlled" thing) is a very potent tool, and would also allow for creatures that can't talk communicate mentally.

Having a number of modifiers for the game would be ideal, similar to Dwarf Fortress's race personalities, but for the world in general as well as for races.  Starting up a world with 0% spirituality and trying to convert the masses would be fun.  Being able to choose how random the world's races are (And if it includes humans and other creatures from earth) would be awesome.

On that note, how far will people be able to progress physically?  Far more than here on earth without magical assistance?  How realistic do you plan on wounds to be?

Finally: Do you have some sort of plan for how and when you're going to do this?  I just realized that that's one of the things I see in most successful indie games, but I didn't know if you had one or not.  I'm asking these questions more for myself than to help with the design process, but I guess the result is the same.

Oh god. Pun intended?

I noticed it right after I wrote it.  My best puns happen on accident, unfortunately.

So...

If Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Portal were mixed into one super game...

We'd probably have the most amazingly addicting mining/dwarf simulation with cool physics puzzles and blocks with lots of FUN and crazy AIs, beards, people made of blocks and slaughtering elves with endless lava spouts and...

Well... it'd be awesome.