01-11-2019, 12:15 PM | #101 |
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Yes. Wikipedia says the US budget for fiscal year 2019 is just under $675 billion. The other NATO powers each spend less, but it's going to add up.
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01-11-2019, 01:59 PM | #102 |
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After considering the options, playing the political game has come as the cheapest one:
1. Genesis will raise 2 billion dollars to present 2 presidential candidates (about the same as other candidates). 2. Genesis will raise 4 billion dollars to present 200 senate candidates (x4 of the total spending of other parties). 3. Genesis will raise 27 billion dollars to present 1305 candidates for seats in House of Representatives (x15 of the total spending of other parties). Total Cost: 33 billion dollars. Results after running the numbers: House of Representatives: Seats held by the Genesis Party: 300 Seats held by the Democratic Party: 65 Seats held by the Republican Party: 61 Seats held by third Party: 9 Senate: Seats held by the Genesis Party: 69 Seats held by the Democratic Party: 15 Seats held by the Republican Party: 14 Seats held by third Party: 2 The presidential elections are won with about 70% of votes. Last edited by Alonsua; 01-11-2019 at 02:15 PM. |
01-11-2019, 02:09 PM | #103 |
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The biggest problem I see with the majority of these threads is that you’re set on what you’ve written and now just need to get people to accept it as rational. You don’t want feedback, you want people to help file off the rough edges. But, when we start pointing out that the entire thing is rough-edges, and you should really re-think it from the ground up, you get defensive.
This megacorp isn’t plausible in a TL8 world. Maybe a (TL8^+Comic Book)×Conspiracy-theories-are-all-real reality. Even in San Francisco. As others have pointed out, it would have been dealt with long ago the moment the governments realized it was illegally researching any form of military technology. Without pre-existing ultratech facilities, gear and allies, they would have been wiped out and all of their assets absorbed by whichever government had jurisdiction over them. The best way to fix it is to not have it be a megacorporation as was suggested. Megavillains know if you keep all your eggs in one basket, it’s easier to lose that basket. I have little trouble seeing a tight-knit group of super villains gathering together to control a dozen corporations to make their schemes a reality. No, existing, corporation could even begin to approach it to do any damage to it. Only national governments could. And they wouldn’t have let it get formed in the first place, removing the need for it to be destroyed at a later date. And . . . you don't know much about American voters. Many of them vote party line and don't care about advertising. It would be harder than you think to buy that much of Congress. If it were that easy, Apple would have done it years ago, they have $285 billion sitting in their cash pile. If buying the US Government were that easy, they would have done it by now. If it would only cost them $33 billion, they'd save $5 billion from the $38 billion they're expected to pay in taxes. They'd certainly have done it. |
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1. The rules say this happens, so it can happen in my campaign, and it's realistic for it to do so. 2. The rules say this happens; is it actually plausible for it to happen, or are the rules producing unrealistic results? You present your writeups as if your stance were 2, but from your reactions it often seems as if your actual stance were 1. For example, in an earlier remark, you were asked, "How can X happen?" and you answered that it's a Quick Contest. Well, that's a valid question about game mechanics, but it only explains how X can happen realistically if you accept it as axiomatic that the game rules produce realistic outcomes. So what is your actual approach?
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Yeah, if there are election rules somewhere in GURPS that say it's that easy to introduce a new party and have it take power, those rules are bonkers!
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