Social Engineering discussion

AdamTG02 · November 1, 2002, 12:42

My term begins today. For the moment, since there isn't enough time to poll, we will stick with the status quo -- Democracy, Planned, and survival. But we have the capability to go to Wealth. We can also go to Free Market, and even back to Frontier if we need to.

What should be our social policy? Any thoughts?

lucky22 · November 1, 2002, 12:47

I brought up the notion of wealth/planned in the CCCP's Workshop a while back... I wondered if such a combo was ethically defensible. A couple of folks made reasonable comments on its behalf. While I'd never agree voluntarily to wealth/FM, wealth/planned could do well for us.

Kirov · November 1, 2002, 15:23

Well, in general, I think at the stage of exploration and expansion we should resign from FM. It seems to me that the more polluting industry we set up, the more these... mind worms appear and attack our forces, and who knows, maybe even our colony modules.

At now, more centralised economy should be continued, allowing us to increase our population and capacities of our industry. Yes, maybe it's less efficient than FM, but I say research is not our priority at the moment.

DeathByTheSword · November 1, 2002, 15:38

as long as we want to expand stick to Planned about wealth i dont really know if i want that or not...

Earwicker · November 1, 2002, 15:44

Both planned and wealth support our current desire to expand and get new bases on their feet. At the moment, our ability to capture energy is restricted - that will change in the near future, at which point the effects of the inefficient planned economy will soon become more apparent.

When that happens, a switch to a free market economy will be quite worthwhile, and our society will be able to better absorb its drawbacks. The important thing is that our research must not be allowed to lag far behind our neighbors'.

Drogue · November 1, 2002, 16:24

I agree with Kirov and Lucky that we should leave FM for the moment. I think a switch to wealth would be benaficial, it aids constuction and the morale hit shoudlnt be to disasterous at the moment, althouhg i'd go for a switch to knowledge as soon as possible.

Kirov · November 1, 2002, 18:44

I would be careful to switch to knowledge, esp during the war with one of our neighbours (if there will be more than one). We can't allow others to steal our secrets or even raise riots in our empire, can we?

[OOC]: From my experience, Morgan is one of those factions really using Probe Teams against his enemies. [/OOC]

GeneralTacticus · November 1, 2002, 19:59

The solution to that is simply to station lots of probes in border bases, and expel or kill any enemy probe teams that are or appear to be heading toward our bases.

Archaic · November 1, 2002, 22:28

And once again, the negatives of FM are being woefully overstated by the socialist machine. *Sighs*

Kirov · November 2, 2002, 01:09

Quote:

Originally posted by Archaic
And once again, the negatives of FM are being woefully overstated by the socialist machine. *Sighs*

Be patient, we will choose you favourite economical system as soon as possible (i.e. as soon as socialists establish a sufficient empire

)

Frankychan · November 2, 2002, 03:10

I agree w/GeneralTacticus. Kill off any probes coming our way.

As for our glorious empires' social engineering, stick to Democracy and Planned. I personally think we shouldn't switch to Wealth, but should wait for Knowledge to come our way and select it. I do not think we should switch to FM under any circumstance. I'm rather fearful that our Drone's rioting may be too much for us to handle.

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 03:12

Franky, once we pull the troops back, the only bases with even the potential to be troublesome will be NA and possibly TBIBTU, which can be dealt with via Psych.

Frankychan · November 2, 2002, 03:19

I dunno, I just don't like other factions spying on our glorious government. In my experience, if another factions even catches one of my probes going into their territory, they declare Vendetta against me. I think we should do the same...

....well, maybe not go as far as Vendetta.

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 03:25

Why should we go to war over units that don't officially exist?

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 06:49

cant we start Chiron Intelligence Agency (CIA

) to take on these none existing troops? lemmy maybe something for you? or have you already diverted secret funds to do that?

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 06:52

I suppose we could divide the DoEI into two directorates once we started building a lot of probe teams... However, this would leave Lemmy with a lot less authority, given that exploration is likely diminish in value as the game goes on and we gain access to toher factions' maps, and will eventually vanish altogether.

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 06:55

i dont think we should devide it maybe rename it after a while

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 06:58

Yes, I was thinking that too. Especially if we build the EG (which I will be strongly supporting, once we get the tech... I've asked TKG to make that a priotity after we get the other techs we're after), exploration will take second place to intelligence gathering.

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 07:00

EG?

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 07:02

Empath Guild.

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 07:04

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 07:08

What?

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 07:15

that i didnt know what EG was....

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 07:19

Oh.

Method · November 2, 2002, 11:04

@the last 6 posts

Quote:

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
Especially if we build the EG (which I will be strongly supporting, once we get the tech... I've asked TKG to make that a priotity after we get the other techs we're after)...

uh huh. i'll be dropping hints here and there. Zak has SotHB, so i'm sure we can trade him for it. then, next turns, we can research empathy

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 11:52

maybe a stupid question but what if zak does want to trade?

Method · November 2, 2002, 11:57

i'll assume you mean "doesn't"

the answer is: we're fuhked

DeathByTheSword · November 2, 2002, 11:59

i ment doesnt

/me has to stay away from those winegums because he is starting to see thinks

GeneralTacticus · November 2, 2002, 17:20

TKG is quite right: if Zak doesn't trade, we're ****ed.

btw, where is everyone? The turnchat is now, you know.

EDIT: no it isn't.

Archaic · November 3, 2002, 04:34

Alright, so Zak doesn't want to trade. What options does that leave us with? We probably can't "allow the freeflow of information" until its too late, so does Morgan have it up for offer?