The Writers' Block

[Australian rePublic]

The game seems to treat theocracy and leader worship as the same thing. This couldn't be further from the truth

[Trotterdam]

The game seems to treat theocracy and leader worship as the same thing. This couldn't be further from the truth

Leader worship is one form of theocracy. It is not the only form of theocracy.

Can you point at any issue where other forms of theocracy are incorrectly assumed to be worshipping their leader?

Actually, it looks like the game is already pretty nuanced about this. In #363, only the option that makes @@LEADER@@ worship mandatory (5) gives the theocracy policy. The option that merely has the government proclaim @@LEADER@@'s divinity without making worship mandatory (1) does not. The option that subtly encourages @@LEADER@@ worship while "avoiding claiming divinity outright" (3) actually removes the theocracy policy, because it's encouraging citizens to come to their own conclusions rather than just believe what the government tells them to. The other way to introduce @@LEADER@@ worship, #243#243[/url] option 5, is reported as only sometimes granting the policy (and usually doesn't), because it's a pseudo-policy depending on your religious freedoms.

[Outer Sparta]

The game seems to treat theocracy and leader worship as the same thing. This couldn't be further from the truth

Just voice your concerns in "Help us fix old issues" or some other channel or make your own thread since this is the writer's block where people contemplate issue ideas.

[USS Monitor]

The game seems to treat theocracy and leader worship as the same thing. This couldn't be further from the truth

Just voice your concerns in "Help us fix old issues" or some other channel or make your own thread since this is the writer's block where people contemplate issue ideas.

It doesn't really belong in "Help us fix old issues" unless it's about a specific issue that seems broken.

More generalized comments on game mechanics belong in a separate thread -- in GI if you're hoping for editors to adjust our approach to something, in Technical if you're hoping for admin to tweak the underlying game engine.

[Outer Sparta]

Just voice your concerns in "Help us fix old issues" or some other channel or make your own thread since this is the writer's block where people contemplate issue ideas.

It doesn't really belong in "Help us fix old issues" unless it's about a specific issue that seems broken.

More generalized comments on game mechanics belong in a separate thread -- in GI if you're hoping for editors to adjust our approach to something, in Technical if you're hoping for admin to tweak the underlying game engine.

Writer's block isn't a good place to voice complaints about issues.

[Trotterdam]

I'm pretty sure the problem Australian Republic is complaining about doesn't actually exist, so the correct place to post it would have been "nowhere". If there is a real problem, clarifying what it is is more important than arguing about the ideal place to do so.

[USS Monitor]

I'm pretty sure the problem Australian Republic is complaining about doesn't actually exist, so the correct place to post it would have been "nowhere". If there is a real problem, clarifying what it is is more important than arguing about the ideal place to do so.

Yeah, I'm not convinced we actually need to change anything.

[Australian rePublic]

I'm pretty sure the problem Australian Republic is complaining about doesn't actually exist, so the correct place to post it would have been "nowhere". If there is a real problem, clarifying what it is is more important than arguing about the ideal place to do so.

No, it does exist. I have a card farming puppet which I try to push as an extreme dictatorship, until one day I decided that I'll pick the issue option about worshipping leader as god. After that, I gained the theocracy banner and started recieving a whole bunch of issues about how to best serve God (supernatural God, not leader god), which are redundant because leader is supposed to be god. I also started recieving a whole bunch of issues about religion and the role of the clergy, even though religion is supposed to banned and was banned until I decided on worshiping leader.

Worshipping leader as god=/=theocracy

[Apabeossie]

Hi, I got a few issue ideas to write with, but I'm unsure these are actually good topics or if they have an overlap that I couldn't find. I don't really want to write an issue then find out that the topic wasn't very good, so please tell me about your opinion on the topics. thanks.
1. What in Maxtopia: Basically what to discuss with their head of state in a meeting.
2. One about No Kids Zones in movie theaters.
3. one about toy weapons becoming so violent that they actually killed a person.
4. There's an growing belief that @@NAME@@ is not an actual country, but a simulated nation set by another civilization/universe.
5. this one is for nations with AI personhood, basically AIs facing discrimination in workplace and society.

[Ghost Land]

As a kid I had an idea known as "Bathroom Expenses", where people were taxed a certain amount for the amount of #1 or #2 they deposited into the toilet. Is there some way this could be worked into a new issue (perhaps in a modified form, where it only applies to unflushed material and/or to public bathrooms)?

I do know some places have public restrooms that you need to pay for it, although the concept of poop taxation is something I have never heard of.

Fair enough, and I have heard of public bathrooms you need to pay to use, but that's what issues are for, right?

[Australian rePublic]

As a kid I had an idea known as "Bathroom Expenses", where people were taxed a certain amount for the amount of #1 or #2 they deposited into the toilet. Is there some way this could be worked into a new issue (perhaps in a modified form, where it only applies to unflushed material and/or to public bathrooms)?

I do know some places have public restrooms that you need to pay for it, although the concept of poop taxation is something I have never heard of.

How would you know? And what do diaharetic hobos do?

[Kerchistania]

Hi all!

Not sure if this is the place for this, but here I go...
Basically I selected the only option that will clearly promote civil freedom and reduce social conservatism but surprise - it didn't. They were not even included. Can we change this

[Outer Sparta]

I do know some places have public restrooms that you need to pay for it, although the concept of poop taxation is something I have never heard of.

How would you know? And what do diaharetic hobos do?

Plenty of places in Europe use pay toilets.

[Outer Sparta]

Hi all!

Not sure if this is the place for this, but here I go...
Basically I selected the only option that will clearly promote civil freedom and reduce social conservatism but surprise - it didn't. They were not even included. Can we change this

The Writer's Block isn't the place for such inquiries. Go to thread about unusual issue effects and tell them there.

[USS Monitor]

Hi all!

Not sure if this is the place for this, but here I go...
Basically I selected the only option that will clearly promote civil freedom and reduce social conservatism but surprise - it didn't. They were not even included. Can we change this

The Writer's Block isn't the place for such inquiries. Go to thread about unusual issue effects and tell them there.

This.

Also, explain specifically which issue you got and which option you chose.

[Apabeossie]

sorry to repost, but i posted this yesterday and nobody replied. Can someone please feedback on my issue ideas? Thanks!

Hi, I got a few issue ideas to write with, but I'm unsure these are actually good topics or if they have an overlap that I couldn't find. I don't really want to write an issue then find out that the topic wasn't very good, so please tell me about your opinion on the topics. thanks.
1. What in Maxtopia: Basically what to discuss with their head of state in a meeting.
2. One about No Kids Zones in movie theaters.
3. one about toy weapons becoming so violent that they actually killed a person.
4. There's an growing belief that @@NAME@@ is not an actual country, but a simulated nation set by another civilization/universe.
5. this one is for nations with AI personhood, basically AIs facing discrimination in workplace and society.

[Outer Sparta]

sorry to repost, but i posted this yesterday and nobody replied. Can someone please feedback on my issue ideas? Thanks!

Hi, I got a few issue ideas to write with, but I'm unsure these are actually good topics or if they have an overlap that I couldn't find. I don't really want to write an issue then find out that the topic wasn't very good, so please tell me about your opinion on the topics. thanks.
1. What in Maxtopia: Basically what to discuss with their head of state in a meeting.
2. One about No Kids Zones in movie theaters.
3. one about toy weapons becoming so violent that they actually killed a person.
4. There's an growing belief that @@NAME@@ is not an actual country, but a simulated nation set by another civilization/universe.
5. this one is for nations with AI personhood, basically AIs facing discrimination in workplace and society.

1. There are issues describing head of states with Brancaland and Daguo. #237 deals somewhat with relations regarding Maxtopia, but it doesn't explicitly mention their leader. That should be fine.
2. I remember an issue that was accepted recently that deals with age restrictions on movies, though I'm not too sure what the exact issue is.
3. I'm not too sure if this idea has been implemented or not. Give that a go, but check in with the editors to make sure.
4. Another interesting premise, but I think an Easter Egg (the Fourth Wall one) has that covered.
5. I think there are issues dealing with AI discrimination, but again, check with the editors on that one.

[Voxija]

Is there an issue where citizens think pro wrestling is real, which sets up the real dilemma of whether it should be banned or not?

[USS Monitor]

Is there an issue where citizens think pro wrestling is real, which sets up the real dilemma of whether it should be banned or not?

That sounds familiar, but when I search the spoiler thread, the only thing that comes up is my dwarf wrestling issue -- which is not really the same thing.

[Trotterdam]

That sounds familiar, but when I search the spoiler thread, the only thing that comes up is my dwarf wrestling issue -- which is not really the same thing.

You might be thinking of #1101, which is about reality television, or #1277, which has an effect line that riffs on this ("pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked"), but is mainly about something else.

[Australian rePublic]

How would you know? And what do diaharetic hobos do?

Plenty of places in Europe use pay toilets.

Yes, but it doesn't tax people who shit in place with free toilets. Moving on, how do you know who's pissing and who's shitting

[Tarchuna and Ravenna]

I am writing a book, "Imperium Etrusca".

[Ghost Land]

Plenty of places in Europe use pay toilets.

Yes, but it doesn't tax people who shit in place with free toilets. Moving on, how do you know who's pissing and who's shitting

Highly advanced weighing technology that's able to tell the difference between solid and liquid.

[Australian rePublic]

Yes, but it doesn't tax people who shit in place with free toilets. Moving on, how do you know who's pissing and who's shitting

Highly advanced weighing technology that's able to tell the difference between solid and liquid.

Okay then. It doesn't address poor people who can't afford the tecnology, but moving on...

...Next question, why? Any money generated through this tax could will be wasted on this idiotic technology. And what if you drop jewlery or something into the toilet? What if you vomit?

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I have a (rather niche, admittedly, but I think it caters to centrist social democracies, allowing them to be serviced, despite the amount of issues given to more extremist nations) issue:

-Moderate capitalist nations, as business obviously wouldn't exist in a socialist nation and they wouldn't be that dissatisfied within an ultra-capitalist, certainly not enough to a coup.
-Ones with a weak military (although I will most likely have two options, one for nations with strong diplomacy, involving them losing to the businessmen and setting up a government-in-exile against the "neo-fascist state", rallying their allies against them, and one for nations with a strong military, which involves the formation of a military commissariat and a civil war beginning, although this is most likely too complex for me to be able to do without the ability to make issue series)
-Socially liberal nations (although this, again, will most likely involve things being split into two, as a socially liberal state will have to fight off evangelicals cooperating with the businessmen against the "degeneracy" of @@ADJECTIVE@ society, whilst a socially conservative state will fight off right-libertarian forces protesting against the social conservatism and restrictiveness of the government)

Generally, the issue will effectively target social democracies, who, in my opinion, have probably not been catered to a lot to due to their centrism. I plan to call it "The Businessmen's War" or "The Neoliberals Come Marching Again!", generally a title which shows the economic radicalism of the businessmen, as this would be their main issue.

The options would go something like this:

Option 1: Accept businessmen's demands. Slash tax rates, welfare and healthcare significantly, along with increasing business subsidies.

Option 2 (strong diplomacy): Call upon a regional alliance/the World Assembly, to help fight off the businessmen and set up a temporary government-in-exile whilst placing significant sanctions and punishment on the new government. This, like its military counterpart, will cause significant economic damage.

Option 2 (strong military): Begin fighting them in the streets, mass arrests for sedition and treason, start an outright civil war with them. This will cause significant economic damage, but will allow the user to continue their social democratic policies without any changes at all except a slight increase to the military budget.

Option 3 (evangelists): Implement conservative social policies to placate the religious and begin turning them against the businessmen, crushing their conservative and religious rhetoric.

Option 3 (right-libertarians): Implement liberal social policies to placate urban elites who will convince the businesses to call off their attacks and destroy their right-wing militias' reason for existence.

Option 4: Turn full socialist and begin mass arrests, nationalisations and other anti-business regulations to curb the power of business and prevent them pulling off something like this in the future. About as aggressive as option 2, will most likely cause even more economic damage without any of the side effects like weaponisation or crime.