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A) What is the organization name? (Use 1 vote in this category) B) Where will the organization start? (5 votes for this category) (If the country has multiple cities, vote will be reset with countries changed to cities within the selected country)

A) N.O.P.E.
- 2 (7.1%)
A) S.A.N.T.A.
- 0 (0%)
A) A.E.G.I.S.
- 4 (14.3%)
(Suggest more organization names)
- 0 (0%)
B) Greenland
- 1 (3.6%)
B) The Nordic Kingdoms
- 4 (14.3%)
B) Rohan
- 3 (10.7%)
B) Russia
- 4 (14.3%)
B) Zimbabwe
- 0 (0%)
B) Japan
- 4 (14.3%)
B) Winterfell
- 4 (14.3%)
B) Alaska
- 2 (7.1%)

Total Members Voted: 5


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Author Topic: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll reset, please use all votes this time.)  (Read 2848 times)

Zanzetkuken The Great

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Would anyone want to play a play-by-post game of XCom set in a world where you would start in a garage in a small city and grow an organization dedicated to fighting toe-to-toe with superpowered individuals?

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Money will be rolled for, which you will then use to buy a garage/retired fire station/retired police station/section of the sewers/etc, your starting supplies, and hire soldiers.  Underlying mechanics will be based upon the original XCom, though with the maps being top-down with  a number in the lower right-hand corner that designates time unit cost to move on the square, and having psionics replaced with a 'powers' rating that would determine which chart would be rolled on for the person to possess a superpower.

To those who are wondering why I didn't just post a turn in the medieval Xcom game I was starting to run: I had run into a brick wall with determining how the enemies would work.  Here I can just pull up a basic "minion" formatted enemy and tweak it, while there it was a pain trying to figure out what I could use as different classes of units.

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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2014, 10:08:35 pm »

Organization Name: N.O.P.E.
City of Origin: Miami, Alaska
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2014, 03:42:06 am »

Organization Name: N.O.P.E.
City of Origin: MiamiEngland, Alaska

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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2014, 04:30:48 am »

Organization Name: S.A.N.T.A.
City of Origin: Thule, Greenland
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2014, 02:48:42 pm »

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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2014, 10:18:54 pm »

I had an idea and ran with it.  I've created the world map.  For some reason, I have decided to have Alaska and Greenland at war with each other at the start of the game.  Geography was created with this tool.

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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2014, 03:30:56 am »

Uuh.. ok?
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2014, 04:31:59 am »

Interesting, not what I expected... I PICK NORDIC KINGDOMS
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game)
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2014, 02:58:38 pm »

Uuh.. ok?

My though process was, if I remember correctly:
1) 'What if I made Alaska its own country?'
2) 'I'd have to get a new map.'
3) 'Greenland will have to be its own country as well.'
4) 'Why not put in some historical countries?' (Added the Nordic Kingdoms and Macedonia)
5) 'Maybe some fantasy ones as well...' (Added Rohan at this point)
6) 'A couple modern day ones could be used...' (Russia and Mali)

Then I fell into the formula of drawing from Historical, Fantasy, and Modern countries/provinces, using names of towns and cities within them as the city names.



Started up a poll since there is no consensus upon which city will be started, and the highest number of votes for an organization name is 2.
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2014, 03:09:49 pm »

Well, I can see your reasoning there.
I was just stumped because I did not expect a fictional world.
This will be quite interesting however.
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2014, 07:26:59 pm »

I feel this will be a interesting game.
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2014, 08:08:44 pm »

I feel this will be a interesting game.

I hope I don't have to use a line similar like this later on:
"Hello, S.A.N.T.A?  This is the Leader of Mali.  I would like to hire your group to kill a Ringwraith that's got a fortress in Macedonia built by some Ming Dynasty architects.  Minions?  There's some Khajiit Samurai and some Alaskan Bears.  Only calling this in since you said you needed to get your troops from getting rusty since you haven't had any real combat since you killed Russian Superman in Winterfell.
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2014, 08:16:53 pm »

"No! We need to flank the argonian necromancers but don't let them surprise you, they can easily overwhelm if they gain an upper hand but those Ringwraiths could easily be broken out of that spell, the ringleader appears to be a chrysalis, your objective is the blast core, good luck."
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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2014, 06:58:17 am »

I feel this will be a interesting game.

I hope I don't have to use a line similar like this later on:
"Hello, S.A.N.T.A?  This is the Leader of Mali.  I would like to hire your group to kill a Ringwraith that's got a fortress in Macedonia built by some Ming Dynasty architects.  Minions?  There's some Khajiit Samurai and some Alaskan Bears.  Only calling this in since you said you needed to get your troops from getting rusty since you haven't had any real combat since you killed Russian Superman in Winterfell.
You don't simply kill Russian Superman... Unless he is Sean Bean.

If posible, I suggest A.E.G.I.S as a more serious organization name, just so the GM doesn't want to kill us.

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Re: Super-Com (Suggestion Game) (Poll created)
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2014, 05:26:20 pm »

If posible, I suggest A.E.G.I.S as a more serious organization name, just so the GM doesn't want to kill us.

Added name.  Poll reset to remove all the countries with no votes.  This time, please use all votes you are allowed for a section.
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