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~~HuManBing~~ · 11-04-2009, 07:37 AM

One final observation about the Hive that struck me is this:

In most real-time strategy games and turn-based strategy games, you are - essentially - playing as an absolute ruler with control over all military, economic, and security powers! Even in games like Civilization, where you can nominally run a Democracy or Capitalist nation, you (the player) are still in charge of production, troop disposition, and so forth. That's a tried and true formula for making a game fun... and it's a valuable insight as to what might make the Hive a cool faction to role-play. Put the players in the driver's seat, and then suddenly a faction with authoritarian leanings becomes full of potential.

11-04-2009, 07:37 AM	#65
~~HuManBing~~ Banned Join Date: May 2008 Location: TIE pilot aboard the ISD Butterball	Re: How is GURPS Alpha Centauri. One final observation about the Hive that struck me is this: In most real-time strategy games and turn-based strategy games, you are - essentially - playing as an absolute ruler with control over all military, economic, and security powers! Even in games like Civilization, where you can nominally run a Democracy or Capitalist nation, you (the player) are still in charge of production, troop disposition, and so forth. That's a tried and true formula for making a game fun... and it's a valuable insight as to what might make the Hive a cool faction to role-play. Put the players in the driver's seat, and then suddenly a faction with authoritarian leanings becomes full of potential.