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[CYOA] KaT : The Epoch of the Kaiser Tanks
The Ender
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Salutations, captain. It has been 5,780,002 zettaticks since your last synthesis. This Kaiser Fleet has emerged from a Category 6 tesseract 40 light years from it’s previous position, and is on stand-by in low orbit over an iron planetoid populated by red candidacy replicators. If you are experiencing acute reconstruction distress and / or have been synthesized with intolerable defects, please submit yourself for disintegration so that synthesis may be attempted again.
Antagonist [A] has been identified; they have no acceptable transmission receivers, so Type [1] contact will be our method of engagement. Our time frame for catalysing the replication cycle will be 378 ticks, when the follow-up Kaiser Fleet will arrive to stabilize the cycle.
All stores & personnel remaining from the previous production cycle have atrophied into inert waste. Our first objective upon making contact will be the acquisition of replacement personnel and materials to fill template requirements.
Cite the identification number of your desired Kaiser Tank when you are ready to proceed with contact.
What is all of this, now?
This is a choose your own adventure game. Participation is open-ended, so everyone who wants to play may do so for as many or as few turns as they wish. Just read my latest update in the thread and vote for the option(s) that most appeal to you (if you bolded said vote and made it red, that would make things a little easier for me).
A random ballot lottery will be held every update to determine which decisions will drive the game forward. I'll try to get two updates out every day.
What type of game will this be?
This will be a strategy game of sorts. It'll be a bit like Star Trek: Bridge Commander, and a bit like Dwarf Fortress, but with ridiculous giant tanks at the center of the action. Also, the mechanics are still in sort-of rough shape (and by 'in sort of rough shape', I actually mean that they are in a brutally mangled state), and there are probably horrific balance issues. So feedback is welcome.
A lot of the game will rest on the strength of it's narration, and while I'll do my best in this department, player contributions are strongly encouraged!
When do we start?
Right now!
The first decisions to be made are which Kaiser Tank (or 'KaT') you'd like to command. Vote for one of the following models:
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Tread Master
Seeing as this is all about giant tanks the tank that makes tanks seems like the right tank to tank.
Very well.
We'll do this in bite-sized chunks.
Battalion Printer
Kekekeke
BEAST LOADER
Alt post: I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frikkin laser beams attached to their heads!
Shock Roller
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I have no idea what this is, but I approve.
A tank that makes tanks, and also has the biggest gun! Maybe we can make the gun shoot tanks!
Tanktical Espionage Action.
Twitch Stream
Who needs tanks if you can FLY?
I didnt even read most of the info, that one just looks the coolest.
I'm reading through Mojo's CYOA, which is awesome, and I have a sudden desire to participate in one.
Let's get those trooper engrams printed onto bodies, shall we?
Wait wait wait, it launches robobeast missiles? Voting Beast Loader!
I too am interested in this. It looks like Ender has a Beast Loader as his avatar, now I want more information. Though, I worry that if the game is based closely around an existing IP too much knowledge may spoil things.
Can't join in with this first choice because the images are all blocked at school, but I'll definitely be in once it starts in earnest.
I am to blame for the both the game & source material, I'm afraid.
Ballot Selection: 1d24 18
And Loxx's ballot is chosen for the tank model.
You'll be rolling in the Tread Master.
Now you'll need to decide what special hardware to install on this machine. Select 4 options from the following choices:
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1 2 3 6
Aww, so majority doesn't win? I was looking forward to blasting out beast rockets. At least we've got meta-tank with the giant gun.
Also how did I come up with 18? By my count I was the 16th vote?
You were the 18th post after the update.
2356
We won't need the super armor if we kill stuff before it can attack us, with that in mind:
We focus on burning fuel to make more tanks faster and equip them with better targeting and take steps against friendly fire incidents (not supposed to be killing ourselves here). And no one has ever gone wrong with making smarter missiles...
And no real need to move fast. We can make small tanks that go fast. We crawl along as an inexorably harbinger of tanky doom.
As for the majority versus random ballot, I can see benefits both ways. I liked the majority rule of Space Australia, but knowing that everyone has an equal chance to get their selection picked without having to play politician to get others to vote with them seems like it might lead us into some fun (or bizarre) tangents that the group wouldn't be likely to vote for. For example, the Ministry of War coming from building a militia unit, it would have been hard to convince everyone to spend a turn on militia when we could have rovers or iron men instead.
On the other hand, some of the best player generated stuff from Space Australia came from just that kind of politicking. Pretty sure that's why I stayed up till oh-my-god:30 in the morning righting a mediocre parody of "Piano Man" to get people to vote for rover upgrades (we got them too, that's a win for the Rover-Man). Not that I'm declaring that the best stuff, it's just the first example to come to mind and I'm feeling too lazy to track down other examples of the journal entries (and a little fearful of spending all night reading through the 100 page thread).
From the Desk of Darth Vertroue Diplomat to the USA.
Permanent bonuses > Temporary bonuses (especially 1, which is literally a OPG)
And 4 sounds like it might be permanent and agility > minions anyway.
Option 1 is not a OPG, just FYI. You just need to replace the tiles after you spend them.
Does 4 give a permanent maximum speed upgrade or just a temporary one?