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I haven't had the time to test the new version yet, but it just bumped on my first-thing-to-do-tonight-list.

On a general level, thank you for your service to the Greater Good, grand mister-master Duke sir! I think Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a great example of how a game can live on after the original creator leaves it while staying true to the heritage. So hopefully, something like that can happen with Chapter Master too before/without the Evil Empire shutting it down.

Hope you have fun on one of those pleasure planets I keep hearing rumors about!

It isn't like corruption and violent guards were not a problem in other countries too... Besides, with electric chairs and all, it is pretty pseudo-US. Saying you are not in the USA while everything in the game points towards being in US is pretty lame.

I think corruption and such would add interesting additional layer into the game. Basically, if you want good staff, you'd need to spend more money on them for training, hiring educated people and doing background checks. Likewise, the pool of good, qualified candidates should be quite small, so you'd be limited in the amount of hiring per day. If you were willing to hire anyone, it would be much cheaper, but come with increased chance of problems. (Smuggling and prisoner abuse; first getting contraband inside and the second pissing off/wounding prisoners.)

Perhaps you'd have a chance to benefit from corruption yourself; you could have the mob offering you - the warden - money to give benefits to their members or turn the blind eye while a snitch get whacked or the like. However, every you accepted something like that, you'd increase the culture of corruption in the prison. Since you are running a private prison, perhaps you could spend money on corruption too, like bribing local judges to convict more people to send you more prisoners or letting a shady cult use your prison as recruitment center.

RNG giveth, RNG taketh away. I bet you get soon infected with the blue plague.

This is a very interesting game worth your attention, folks. Basically, if you like Unreal World, if you like Cataclysm, if you like permadeath in the most annoying ways, you will love it.

The game seems to consist of two challenge phases - first is initial survival, since you run around naked in wilderness. Hypothermia has killed most of my characters. Second is surviving random fuck you's, like a fookin' werewolf coming to eat you while you sleep. I lost my longest progressing character storywise to that, even though I had excellent equipment etc. I thought I was in a safe area, but guess I wasn't.

Maybe it is preparation for ranged weapons? So you can have a ranged weapon and a melee weapon set.

Played the new version a bit. Intersting as always, but the targeting priority is quite wonky.

I was assaulted by bandits and promptly drafted everyone into militia. My brave soldiers - regular and irregular - immediately spotted the worst threat. It was an Infernal Dodo pretending to be an innocent bird, while really it was the mastermind behind the bandit attack. All colonists started thus chasing the big duck while the bandits merrily looted the colony. This chase led them to the sea, revealing a dozen Deep Ones. They were promptly ignored while everyone concentrated on the birdy. Outrageously, the fishy ones were quite ungentlemanly and ate everyone.

Teleporting rebels are harmful to AI nations too, though. Anyway, it is completely plausible - haven't you heard of the time when Lenin and 10 000 revolutionaries swam across the Baltic to take the Czar by surprise? Requiring transports is being stuck into the decadent mindset of dying nobility!

If you really wanted to defend teleportation, I guess you could argue it represent popular support to the rebels. Their troops are ferried in small numbers by fishing boats and other small civilian vessels etc.