newzealdan
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2 years ago I love the idea of more tiered housing items {radio, computer, TV}, which when powered and near a broadcasting tower give a points boost!
Open naed21 opened 2 years ago
newzealdan
commented
2 years ago I love the idea of more tiered housing items {radio, computer, TV}, which when powered and near a broadcasting tower give a points boost!
The basic idea is to add a layer of public vs private investment that can both provide a boost to housing score and help players joinging late catch up. There are three tech levels: Radio (mechanics), Tv (Industry) and Computer Interenet (Electronics).
Each provide a low "inactive" housing score but when in range of a broadcasting tower will provide a large boost to housing score. But to activate the broadcast tower you need a broadcast station. (Think of it as a generator providing power to a transmission pole, but in a much larger area) In the station you will have multiple projects available. One basic job that provides a little extra housing bonus, then one job for a number of professions that requires lvl 5 of that profession that when used gives everyone that has a star in the profession a small amount of exp.
Radio, Tv and interent each have their own broadcast station. The Radio broadcast station focuses on profressions like loggins, mining, campfire cooking and hunting, whereas the Tv and Internet are focused on more mordern professions. The radio broadcasts are also always available to Everyone and can not be limited. Tv and internet broadcasts can include people into an access list so there can be private channels that you need to pay for.
Channels are set by the broadcast station and are seperate foreach broadcast type, you pick one of 8 channels (could do more channels for tv and interenet but not sure so many channels are needed) and there can be laws passed to auction/limit the channel to a specific access list. Like channel Zero being restricted to Everyone as the government public access channel.
In addition to the job projects for housing and professions, you can add an advertisement that will display the name of a store just above the Radio/Tv/Computer that is receiving the channel that adds a notificaiton to the player that directs them to the location of the store. (Or if possible they can click on the name of the store above the device).
For construction of the devices, I'd recommend adding a Vacuum tube as a requirement to the Radio and Tv and allowing glassmakers to make them. Thus giving glassmakers something to do during the early modern part of the game. The radio and tv broadcast stations can also use the vacuum tubes as well. Radios can be built in the mechanics workbench, with the tv being the assembly machine and the computer in wherever it's currently being built.
On a mostly unrelated note, the process of higher skilled players providing skill points to lower skilled players can also be used by the paper making profession as profession magazines, a one time uses boost to give paper making more use and help late joining players catch up.