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OK, so make a procedural alien planet. Multiple diverse and non-earthlike biomes, all kinds of threats. This planet is a node in an ancient alien FTL network (a bit like Stargate). Humans discovered this network and send a ship through to unlock the secrets of the technology, and it almost worked.

The ship crashed onto the surface, leaving the survivors to explore the planet and rebuild their technological base while dealing with the hostile world.

The game is played from a first-person perspective. Players are explorers who travel over the planet surface finding resources, returning them to the base, and building new settlements. Traveling over the planet is slow and difficult unless there is significant established infrastructure.

Hey so I had an idea. Hear me out.

A new electoral system where instead of voting for one person, you can vote for or against each person who's running.
For each candidate, their total approval (votes for minus votes against) is recorded as net voting power. For example, Jane Smith receives 5,532 + votes and 2,211 - votes, resulting in a total of 3,321. John Smith (no relation) gets 11,323 + votes and 10,026 - votes, resulting in a total of 1,297.
Those with the highest net voting power are appointed to a council, where they retain that NVP. If a bill comes up and Jane votes for it while John votes against it, her 3,321 votes outweigh his 1,297 votes. Either John needs to build a coalition of other controversial or minority groups, or it's not getting passed.

This is a strongly consensus-driven polity. Extreme positions are forced out, while those who are able to argue respectfully with the other side excel. Also, EVERY vote counts; first, gerrymandering is impossible, and second, the more votes past positive approval a candidate gets, the more powerful they are. Most importantly of all, every _single_ person in the government has at least a positive approval rating.

It works at small scales and large. I recommend that the size of the committees is something like the cube root of the population.

This game got me through the shutdown. I don't have so much time anymore but a chill game would be nice.

Anyone else finding that as an Indian ruler, random people in your court will be naked?

I'm really curious if Trump realizes that the three largest Antifa organizations are the US Army, Navy, and Air Force.

(I know that they aren't exactly socialist bastions, but that's not what Antifa is-- it's killin' nazis.

Within hours of the president re-tweeting "the only good democrat is a dead democrat," two democratic-leaning people in my town were killed by a trump supporter.

Paradox announced a September release for CK3.