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[Tarran]

It would be pointless. It's extremely easy for a person to copy and paste their favorite RTD system and tweak it a little bit, so it's basically done already.

[lawastooshort]

assuming I can get by without knowledge of the source material.

Yes.

It sounds fun! I'm not sure I could pull off a decent priest RP-wise, but I'd sure give it a shot.

I don't think you'd need to do a decent priest.

Anyway, I have noted your interests and am busily thinking away about structure and stuff.

[ExKirby]

This might be a stupid idea, but what if we created a unified RTD system for the heck of it? Something beyond just rolling 1d6 plus the occasional modifier?

As the resident master of good(?) ideas, I say we do this ASAP.

[Digital Hellhound]

Ehh. I think a showcase of different RTD systems would be a better idea. People new to RTDs might think they need to use that specific one even if another would suit their purposes better.

[Remalle]

I would love to help write a unified system, but I probably wouldn't use it.
Also, post 4999!  This is what's called an assist.

[Dermonster]

We already have a unified system. It's just the basic D6.

What you're all doing is extending it. There's no need to really make a standard when there already is one and people just modify it anyway to suit their needs.

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[10ebbor10]

(As mentioned before, I had some plans for an X-COM forum game. (That's right, no RTD, but the Forum games equivalent of roller's block didn't work out so I'm posting the idea here.)

Players are divided in two teams of three people each. One side plays as the aliens, the other side as secret organisations who have studied alien incursions for years. The exploratory time however, is over, and the invasion is about to start.

Spoiler: Earth (click to show/hide)

Earth is divided in multiple places. The humans bases are constructed in one of these spots, and each place might have it's own unique modifier. Each place has it's own Fear ,Faith and knowledge stat. Fear indicates how much a threat they think the aliens to be, Faith indicates how much they trust the human forces defending them and knowledge how much they actually know about what's going on.
 
-Canada
-America
-North Latin America
-South Latin America
-Europe
-North Africa
-South Africa
-Russia
-India
-China
-Japan
-Australia
-South-East Asia

Spoiler: Turn order (click to show/hide)

Turns are always completed in the following order.
>Diplomacy
>Interception missions are launched
>Surviving alien mission are returned to base
>Construction/ Trade/ everything else
> New missions are launched
> Missions are discovered

Spoiler: Missions (click to show/hide)

Both missions are actually availble to both teams, but it is unlikely for the aliens to need to intercept a human mission, or the humans to do a strategic strike. It can be usefull though. Aliens can try to retrieve downed ships to deny the humans research material, and such

Available alien missions
       -Resource gathering (Both construction materials and food)
       -Knowledge gathering (Performing studies about the humans society)
       -Strategic strikes (Taking out military post, kidnapping important people, stuff like that)
       -Terror missions (attacking major population centers to inspire fear. (Seriously increases awareness))
       -Base attacks (If someone knows another players base, he can attack it)
Human missions
       -Interception missions (Intercepting aliens so that they can't do anything )
       -Scavenge missions
       -Investigation missions(Even if you come to late, you can learn things from the ashes they leave behind
       -Reinforcement missions (If your faith in a region is high enough, you can order the construction of defenses and such)
       - ase attacks (If someone knows another players base, he can attack it)

Spoiler: Bases and buildings (click to show/hide)

Every player starts with a single base, which is located on Earth. Players do not know the locations of other players bases. Construction and destruction of additionall bases is perfectly possible. Bases can be modified by the construction of buildings and such.

Alien building
Human buildings

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Human resources:
    -Money (Gained by selling stuff and awarded monthly based on your progress)
    -Common resources (Can be bought)

Alien resources (Note: If humans want to use alien tech, they need these to)
    -Elerium 235 (High energydensity alien fuel. Used to power all techs, and can also be used as a high explosive. Needs to be shipped in from the alien homeworld)
    -Alien alloys (High strength alloys. Need to be shipped in from the alien homeworld, or can be synthesized in the base with the correct techs)
    -Common resources (Need to be scavenged from Earth. Can be bought/demanded as tribute if you have subjugated a human nation)
    -Food (All sorts of biological matter(like cows and humans). Needs to be scavenged from Earth)

Spoiler: Tech tree (click to show/hide)

I'm going to need help for this one.

Human techs

Alien techs

[Remalle]

An X-COM forum game sounds amazing, and I want in.  But will there be tactical combat missions?  Even with abstracted mechanics?

[10ebbor10]

An X-COM forum game sounds amazing, and I want in.  But will there be tactical combat missions?  Even with abstracted mechanics?

If I'm going to run it. No. I have a game/semi going where a similair system is in place, and it is quite a lot to update, and over the past half-3/4 year we haven't even finished turn one

[Digital Hellhound]

Half a year? How have you managed a system like that?

[Caellath]

Ebbor is a master of complicated yet logical systems.

[10ebbor10]

Half a year? How have you managed a system like that?

Note that not the entire delay is to be blamed on the system. A part of it is also me not updating. (Mostly due to the complexity of the system).

Actually, know that I think of it, I got several of those way to complicated games. It's no good when you break the character limit on a numbers based game. The reason they become so complicated is that they make up rules as I go along.

Spoiler: This one is still the worst (click to show/hide)

To be fair, that isn't the calculation used in game, but what happens when you solve it for X. (Note to self: Should update that game).

[ExKirby]

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[Dermonster]

Bwuh?

[IronyOwl]

We already have a unified system. It's just the basic D6.

What you're all doing is extending it. There's no need to really make a standard when there already is one and people just modify it anyway to suit their needs.

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This is a surprisingly insightful, high-quality 5000th post. I approve.

(As mentioned before, I had some plans for an X-COM forum game. (That's right, no RTD, but the Forum games equivalent of roller's block didn't work out so I'm posting the idea here.)

Do you have any ideas on specifics yet? How to calculate resources gained, what affects a mission's chances of success and by how much, and so on?