Post originally by Gavin C hadaller at 2003-11-30 17:22:53
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Hello all,
I appreciate your input here and after reading all the posts I felt that I would like to add my two cents.

As for spelling Corps with a period... let's just chalk that up to artistic license. I kept it consistent throughout the game.

Now as to accusations of me being a commie/pinko dope smoker I have to reply that this is not really the case. I am not a communist, a capitalist, a republican or a democrat. I hold no dogmatic political values and try to vote for the person who will make the right choices as far as the sustainability of our country is concerned… I am not going to defend my smoking habits. However, these accusations are amusing and gave me a good chuckle... keep 'em coming.

To respond to the question "How high can you build buildings like in Blade Runner?" Well, some of you may know that Japan has plans for a mile-high building to be constructed off the coast of Tokyo. They are building machines that will build the machines that will build the building. So, I guess we'll see just how high you can build eventually.

As far as big business/big government/monopolistic governments are concerned I feel that anything that supercedes the sovereignty of the people is a bad thing. When you feel like your vote doesn't count because the system is corrupt then there is something wrong in Babylon. This feeling is rampant in our country and there is a good majority that just doesn't vote because they feel like it won't matter anyway. This makes me a sad panda. To value democracy (though we live in a republic) is to value every man's vote and to ask for it and let it count. When Nike has a vote, or Halliburton can influence American policy, or public interest is snowballed by corporate interest then it really is time to rethink the value of corporate personhood. In 1886 it was officially decided that the 14th amendment applied to corporations... heh... and they have been gaining more and more ground every year.

I have just taken the threat (not the true reality of the situation mind you) and carried it to its worst possible ending where AI controls the corporations and they in turn control the human population of America. It's a game... that is all (for the most part) and in any game you need conflict. I tried to take the CP genre over the top. You get no snazzy implants or dermal armor 'cause you're too damn poor. You are living like a third world refugee while people only a few miles away are being tended by cloned servants and holographic interfaces. Now, they don't like life any more than you do really and they are forced to work for the controlling Corp or lose their breeding license or get sent to the Vats to be turned into amniotic fluid to make new clones, or exiled to the Outer Sprawl with the other Non-Productive people.

I have intentionally stayed away from global politics and simplified economies because it really does not matter when all that the characters want is some fresh water and an ancient hand-gun to defend themselves so that they can live another day. There are numerous supplement in the works that will focus on various parts of the corporate empire and life in Dystopia. You can tear these apart as well, for I hope to make them just as over the top as all the other books I do.

As far as Dystopia being a "Politically Correct" game or not... I think that that comment came from the fact that the game used to be published by Politically Incorrect Games. It is now published by Order of The Eight Press. As far as wanting a game where you kick the @!#$ out of hippies and leftists... just wait, I'm working on that one now. It will piss people off just like Dystopia pissed off some of you but that is the nature of conflict and that is what makes gaming so much fun.

Again, thanks for all of your comments (good, bad and mean) keep 'em coming.

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