PBW Entertainment Inc.?

[Aiken]

I participating in one pbw game (actually I'am replacement plr), but have awfull research and military activities. And even worse - I'm in the center of quadrant with huge empires in east, west and even north-south. So it's just a matter of 2-3 years who exactly will eat me. But I dont want to be eaten. Heh, kinda eternal Q: "Eat or be eaten". But the worst part - I'm bad military leader (so why I'm still playing SE? Hell, I really don't know why). So one day following ideas come to my mind: "How to survive? -> Diplomacy? You aren't so mighty ally, dude. -> Ask mercy? You are man, not snot nose. -> Entertain people? Wtf are talking about? Want to be a clown?" But I catched this idea, and here are the results:
1. Battle Arena: Empty sector. 2 or more competitors send their ships to this sector (or they can build them on rented SY Bases). And. They fight. All kinds of disputes can be settled here.
2. Handbook man's Office: here you can stake on the competitors.
3. GalaBank: credits, borrowing against security, low percents, good conditions, benefits for reliable bank customers. Depositions with nice yield rate of interest, if you don't want to mess around with res storages (extremely needed to maintain bank balance).
4. Insurance (????)
5. Interstellar Casino (?): I can use random number generator for this.
6. High Court (yes, you guess right - I'm the judge

So, I want to ask: if all (or something) of this make sense or game mechanics won't allow such perVersions. And more important - if anybody could find this intresting or I'm pushing a RL boredom? Any ideas/flame/praise are welcome.

[geoschmo]

Well, those are neat ideas. It would be difficult, but not toally impossible to pull off something like that in the game as long as everyone doesn't get too literal about it.

The question though is if the other guys are so much bigger then you are they going to need loans and stuff from you. But I suppose if you can entertain them enough they may decide to keep you around as a pet.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

and you can call yourself the Galactic Coordinater.

*wonders how many people will get the reference and if he got it right.*

good ideas, all.

[ January 23, 2004, 20:35: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Aiken]

Eah, it seems this banking mess was not so good idea. And I've just realized, that I won't be able to pay if someone will be lucky enough to win 20 millions (minerals, whatever) in MY casino, without financial support (from bank). I will be forced to sell all my empire to winner . So I have to throw away casino too. Remaining points are not so important to give me some kind of immunity. Sux. So damn versatile game - fight or die. But never mind, we have allies, we have guns (hopefully they are big). No pasaran!

PS: As I understand it is the very first noob question: "Why they are killing me and why all my brilliant ideas don't work the way I'd like to?"
Experience is time, that is truth.

[ January 23, 2004, 21:06: Message edited by: aiken ]

[Slynky]

Hey, it was still good reading!

[Ed Kolis]

Suicide Junkie once played an insterstellar black market dealer of starships and technology... I thought it would be fun so I tried it in one of my other games... I don't know about him but I've started to regret that, I don't want to be a businessman!

edit: actually, when I first saw this post title I thought, "oh, someone wants to expand PBW to incorporate other games, and maybe turn it into a commercial venture?"

[ January 26, 2004, 00:12: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

[Suicide Junkie]

The game is still going, kinda.
See:
http://www.geocities.com/hohoho611ca/catalog.html

I make a non-trivial amount of money from trade treaties, and the higher treaties provide more access to services.
I also provide annual kickbacks as account credits to members.

I buy and sell at cost for resources and tech.
I sell my ships for a profit, since they all use my unique racial tech of extremely low maintenance (less than 1% maint).

The resource prices are so far off because the game is being played under my P&N mod, and technology has hit the point where lots of high-energy engines and weapons are in demand, and between the buckytube gel armor and my organic tech, the ships I sell are pretty heavy in the organics department.

I have built base space yards in a number of systems to make and sell ships to the locals, too.

I cannot colonize planets at all, but
I am currently in second place.

I was in first place for the longest time, but then Fyron had to come along and start taking over the galaxy
I can't really complain, though since he's my best customer, and as the Ferengi know, "War is good for business"

[ January 26, 2004, 02:59: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Aiken]

That Galactic Services and Vehicles Catalog really rocks!
Though, I think, original game is not very suitable for such machinations. So all we really need is to find a couple of obsessed marketing managers and let them release fulfeatured Monopoly game on SEIV engine

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
I was in first place for the longest time, but then Fyron had to come along and start taking over the galaxy
I can't really complain, though since he's my best customer, and as the Ferengi know, "War is good for business"

Hey, they started that war. Slaughtering an innocent scientific craft, just going out to chart the gravimetric potential of those newfound warp points... not very nice of them.

I figured you could be of use to me, so did not wipe you out early on. I always thought it was the Darklights in 1st place for the first so many turns. Now I know! Now where are those new ships...

[Maerlyn]

really cool idea SJ!