A Board Game: The Gulch / Atlas Shrugged

Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago to Entertainment
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khalling came up with a good idea that I think is worth expanding on. Let's see what great ideas we can come up with for a board game that follows Atlas Shrugged's theme and principals. (Is Shrugged's a word?? It's pretty hard to pronounce.)
So please contribute your ideas, for questions/tasks/etc that a player would have to answer or accomplish correctly to move forward in the game. C'mon, it'll be fun! We ARE allowed to have fun in the Gulch!

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  • Posted by no1laserjock 12 years, 3 months ago
    Hey Khalling! Great minds think alike! I actually started laying one out but decided I'd like to see it developed as a state-of-the-art computer game along the lines of Skyrim's incredible open world and immersive qualities.

    I am picturing a character system wherein you can either play the heroic value-producer, or the altruist, select your character attributes and the computer will calculate the outcome based on economic balance. For instance if you're an altruist, there'd be more taxes to pay. Hard to explain but if You have played Skyrim or a state-of-the art game of that calliber you can see at how well this could educate! Board game would be great for dinner parties as is monopoly. A computer game can provide very deep immersion!
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  • Posted by gblaze47 12 years, 3 months ago
    Like the idea, I was thinking of making a Gulch game where players can be Moochers and Makers, Moochers try to stop or use the Makers who's goal is to solve one of a few problems. The goals of a Maker would be Solve the energy problem, taken from Atlas Shrugged Movie, make a power source that uses ZPE. Perfect Regenerative Drug, a drug that allows people to live Disease free and heals from most wounds (no healthcare costs). Ultimate Manufacturing, Nanobots assemble anything you can think of out of basic elements.

    All the Moocher has to do is prevent the Maker from attaining his goal using tactics, ie. suing, federal laws, regulations, etc. Or trying to get money from the Maker (either slowing or stopping his progress) of course the Maker can get ways to protect him from Moochers but which are not easy to attain and may slow his reaching his goal.

    moved as requested!
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yea, instead of calling them moochers we should call them civil servants or public interest enhancers
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Damn, I can't believe I missed your comment earlier...I like it! Subtle. PROGRESSIVE. You'd think the lefties would appreciate the approach.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    also, what if the moochers can band together and decide on a tax rate that producers have to pay. depending on how many moochers depends on how they divvy up the taxes. also, once you are a striker, depending on how many of you are there could be a multiplier effect. 3 strikers, on any card or action the payout is 3x face value or something like that.
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  • Posted by $ kathywiso 12 years, 3 months ago
    But I am stocked up, using my prepping supplies..Haha..
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago
    I think Kathy forgot to heed Maree's advise and check the expiration date on those. for just this sort of emergency
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am still laughing 2 days later about you being freaked out as the only member with one lurker and it was AS!! another peal of laughter
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    this is well thought out. you should probably delete your posts, and either get LS something by 5pm on her desk by posting a classified with private message feature or run with it yourself. this sounds like a great game.
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