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May. 19th, 2004 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerWhat if Wargames were more like real life? here
I want a War Sim...
1. ...where I spend two hours pushing across a map to destroy a "nuclear missile silo," only to find out after the fact that it was just a missile-themed orphanage.
I want little celebrities to show up on the scene and do interviews over video of charred teddy bears, decrying my unilateral attack. I want congressional hearings demanding answers to these atrocities.
5. I want that "Public Support" meter to rise and fall according to Troops Lost, Length of Conflict, Innocents Killed and Whether or Not There is Anything Else On TV That Week. I want to lose 200 Public Support points because, in a war where 8,000 units have been lost, one of my Mutalisks happened to be caught on video accidentally eating one clergyman. Then, later, my destruction of an entire enemy city goes unnoticed because the Nude Zero-Gravity Futureball championship went into overtime.
12. I want mutinous units that chainsmoke hash and frag their Sargents and sell Heroin on the side and rogue commanders who go mad and shave their heads and set up fortresses in the jungle decorated with human skulls. I want to have to send a CIA assassin in to take him out. And then they chop up a donkey, for some reason.
15. About every five minutes I want one of my helicopters to crash, completely on its own, for some fucking reason.
17. In my Public Support display let me find out that the news media has run, in the same magazine, one story blasting us for going to war for minerals and another story blasting us for not acting on the cointinuing mineral shortage back home. There should also be simultaneous stories about the outrageous expense of the war effort, and another about how the troops are under-funded and under-equipped. Set it so that I somehow lose Public Support points with each story.
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:13 am (UTC)If so, what time?
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:17 am (UTC):-(
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:50 am (UTC)I always liked that in SLA you had to do things that would be popular on TV
and as I recall, Vice City tells you your news rating (ie local paper, front page of national press) etc...
I'm sure some war game or other has started down this route...
In the first Command and Conquer game, some of the air units would randomly explode, but that may have just been a bug rather than realism ;-)
It's a water buffalo, by the way. Not a donkey. What kind of crazy person would chop up a donkey?