Jurassic Park National Project, and Velociraptors

[Adama]

While I do think it needs to be thought out before being implemented like what the ramifications would be in war, there's nothing wrong with it. It would be nice if we could have a laugh every once and a while when we are playing, and whats more fun than being able to wield dinosaurs as a weapon.

[Alex]

While I do think it needs to be thought out before being implemented like what the ramifications would be in war, there's nothing wrong with it. It would be nice if we could have a laugh every once and a while when we are playing, and whats more fun than being able to wield dinosaurs as a weapon.

 

I updated the OP with some more well thought out numbers.

 

Aside from being amusing, this is an interesting tactic. Using spies to essentially bankrupt your opponent, especially if you can blockade them and infest them with raptors. If they don't have a big supply of food, they're SOL, since once you're out of food you lose 1/3rd of your income.

[Shakyr]

People really do not have a sense of humour. That's what I get, from reading the responses.

 

This is meant to be something fun and slightly out there. It's not meant to be game-breaking (else Sheepy would have kept in the original possibility of 100 raptors, with $10 million to kill them off) and he's stated it'll be named something better than "Jurassic Park Project", so it's not like it's entirely outside roleplay either. I mean what nation wouldn't want to play around with genetics.

[Atzuya]

Why can't I sic my military at them? Instead of paying 50k to wish the raptors away, why can't we just, you know, slap 2000 tanks into existence and exterminate them with high explosive

[Ayayay]

Why can't I sic my military at them? Instead of paying 50k to wish the raptors away, why can't we just, you know, slap 2000 tanks into existence and exterminate them with high explosive

You're Australian, you should know that doesn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

[丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™]

Why not add a new "holiday" slot for players that have been around for awhile like WoW does.

 

In that slot you can build a raptor farm and grow raptors. It'll be a cosmetic item and new players won't have said raptor farms, but still have access to buying raptors for cosmetic purposes in-game.

 

Also mandatory:

 

Edited June 10, 2015 by Shifty Stranger

[Rozalia]

The lowering of the figures is an improvement but... it raises a question (well more than one as raptors would be a very odd inclusion). Why not just implement a destroy food op instead? Or if the gradual loss of food is wanted so much than an op that increases food needed to feed your people by how many % deemed appropriate (more food needed because some of it is getting destroyed). Everyday at update a check occurs based off your spy count that determines if you stop the sabotage of your food supplies... as nations effected by this will likely have little spies perhaps allowing alliance mates to do an op against the targeted nation to stop the sabotage would be nice (you'd also be able to target yourself with your spy op to get another opportunity at stopping it).

 

 

[TellUrGrlThx]

Why not add a new "holiday" slot for players that have been around for awhile like WoW does.

 

In that slot you can build a raptor farm and grow raptors. It'll be a cosmetic item and new players won't have said raptor farms, but still have access to buying raptors for cosmetic purposes in-game.

 

Also mandatory:

 

 

A holiday slot in general would be interesting.

[Kadin]

The lowering of the figures is an improvement but... it raises a question (well more than one as raptors would be a very odd inclusion). Why not just implement a destroy food op instead? Or if the gradual loss of food is wanted so much than an op that increases food needed to feed your people by how many % deemed appropriate (more food needed because some of it is getting destroyed). Everyday at update a check occurs based off your spy count that determines if you stop the sabotage of your food supplies... as nations effected by this will likely have little spies perhaps allowing alliance mates to do an op against the targeted nation to stop the sabotage would be nice (you'd also be able to target yourself with your spy op to get another opportunity at stopping it).

Because raptors. Stop trying to suck all the fun out of it.

[Rozalia]

Because raptors. Stop trying to suck all the fun out of it.

 

Raptors are the jobbers of the dinosaur world so I ask what fun is there in that? Who wants to have command over some poor jabronis. Give us the main event talent if something like this is going to be done surely.

[Atzuya]

You're Australian, you should know that doesn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

The army used machine guns back then, that's why I said use high explosives

 

Try dodging that you feathery pricks

[Lu Xun]

It's a fun little gimmick introduction, but it has to be balanced specifically so that the only way it'll operate will be as a joke. Having raptor warfare be a serious part of the game will totally take away from the tone of the game; if you need a balance "target" for the game, think of using raptor spy ops as something you use on your friends, instead of your enemies, or as a way to humiliate a foe who's already losing.

[saeton]

you want the game to be interesting but cry when fun stuff is added.... smh. 

 

raptors are second only to bears. 

 

do you want a bear army running amok? DO YOU? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN??

 

 

bears. 

[Moreau]

Why not Water posion or Food posion?

[Kamea Arano]

I really don't see how this is going to work.

[MRBOOTY]

Would spies be able to protect against raptor attacks?

[Phiney]

Less boring, more I can see this being the start of a downwards spiral that includes stormtroopers, wizards and aliens

[Lu Xun]

Don't forget the catgirls. Everyone wants 1% of their effective score to be tied up in catgirls.

[Kadin]

Would spies be able to protect against raptor attacks?

It would be a spy op, so yeah. Get a decent number of spies and it becomes expensive/difficult enough to not really be worth it.

[Dwemyrn]

Change the name of spies to velociraptors and call it close enough.

[Lord Balian]

I think it would take away from how 'real' the game feels...when I play P&W, I can envision a nation, like mine, like many others, with policies, a military force, etc., but adding raptors to it would take it out of the realm of 'feeling real' and into something more comic book like or fiction.  For me, the appeal of the game is that you can use your imagination and your nation feels real, but with this, i think it would take away from that.  Just my opinion. 

[Aerys Targaryen]

It is really a good idea, but too off topic from politics and war. How about a bioweapon, microbes which will damage the crops? We spend money to clean it up, else it will keep destroying the crops daily.

[Gustav Dvornik]

dafuq did i just read?

[Atzuya]

Can't we just have this feature, but make it costs nothing and do nothing in return? Purely cosmetic stuff that can still make some people pissed.
 
Imagine, you can send out a fleet of raptors twice or thrice a day to anyone you like and you can watch as their nation page starts descripting it being overrun by oversized death-turkeys, and there's a little notification on how many wild raptors in their nation, and there's a leaderboard for this kind of thing. There is no need for penalty or whatnot, just RP materials.

 

Really, all you need is to slap a leaderboard to something and all these cracknuts will fawn over it
 

raptors are second only to bears. 
 
do you want a bear army running amok? DO YOU? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN??

I think everyone knows what that mean

 

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2875

[Goomy]

you want the game to be interesting but cry when fun stuff is added.... smh. 

 

raptors are second only to bears. 

 

do you want a bear army running amok? DO YOU? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN??

 

 

bears. 

I think having Bears as a military unit would be great js