Jurassic Park National Project, and Velociraptors

[Eviljak]

I dont see a point. Why would anyone want to take the chance.

[last187]

i agree with the feeling from this thread: it would be a good addition for april fools day for peeps to mess around with but that should not be in game. why not you might ask?

it is not in line with the pnw theme 

 

also also im not totally sure about calling it jurassic park coz i think that name is trademarked and copyrighted  

 

but yea dont do it

[Shakyr]

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

I suggested a Project about bears, a while back

 

http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2630-project-suggestion-thread/?p=79658

[stetonic]

Raptors should not eat your food.They should eat your population.

[Thomas Paine]

While the idea would be fun it seem that a lot of people feel it strays outside of the game. If you want to implement something similar, in line with the game, then the project should allow you to recruit rebels, or guerrillas to send into other nations. The same principles could apply a have cap limit, they destroy/eat food, and it takes cash to find and kill them.

[Oskar]

I like it

[Aerys Targaryen]

From the discussion, I suggest two projects based on the same idea.

 

(1) Bio weapon (microbes) to destroy crops stored in the targeted nation (or)

 

(2) Rebel/Guerrila/Terrorist training camp which will increase the crime rate and reduce income of the targeted nation.

 

I believe both of the above projects will match the theme of this game very well.

[Dan77]

I think it's a terrible idea.

 

Is the reason behind this that food is too plentiful or that prices are too low?  It would be easier to change the production formula.

 

It would be nice to create something that gives people stuff to do outside war anyway.  Most people spend the majority of time not being in a war and with rather little to do in game.  Wars are already an interesting experience and I think it would be better to add to the out of war experience.

[Spooner]

I like this idea. It's silly, but I think you can have one-two tongue in cheek mechanics without ruining the tone of the game. I'd be one of the first to build this and piss around with it.

 

Support.

[Kim Jong-Il]

Why not make it cheaper and not take up a project slot, and make it non-permanent to the game instead?

[Roger Campbell]

I like the idea of a rotating bonus type thing. Maybe nations could build a genericly cryptic "Special Weapons Research Laboratory" (think Torchwood or SHIELD) that lets them periodically get something sci-fi like. So maybe today it's raptors. Next month maybe an advisor comes to your leader and says you've lost all the raptors, but figured out how to train sharks. Maybe Halloween brings some new contagion, or an otherworldly space ship.

 

I think this has potential in the long run as a pleasant little feature for veterans, if the numbers are tweaked right.

 

Also, this is totally the kind of thing I'd be very tempted to shell out a credit subscription for, even as a purely cosmetic/ VIPs only thing. Who wouldn't want to broadcast to other nations about their secret weapon programs?

[Jose Garcia Perez]

how about the park increases income (not commerce) instead. it would make sense since people are visiting the park and money is being made off it from ticket sales.

[Caecus]

In reference to how everyone is saying that this doesn't fit with the game, how about we change it from raptors to blight infection? 

 

All wars in the past have had some sort of sabotage which affects the lifeline of an army. Burning fuel, spreading disease, destroying crops. A blight infection is something that we have to deal with commonly in the real world, and has been considered as part of a biochemical warfare option by some countries. Think of it as poisoning the well, but the food instead. 

 

Still keep the numbers though, I suppose. Personally, I think we should modify the CIA project a bit. 

[Hooves]

Just change our military units to dinosaurs and that'll be enough.

[Buorhann]

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.

 

[Caecus]

Temporarily forgetting about the aesthetic "raptors" part of the project, let's briefly look at this in terms of how many people will actually purchase this project. 

 

This project costs roughly ~$6m, depending on the market prices. This project obviously takes up a project slot. This project is dependent upon spies. This project requires you to use money to execute operations...

 

Already, this project is a financial drain. Unlike the gold standard Iron Dome, this project doesn't pay for itself. In fact, this project requires money. And spies. Purely from a financial standpoint here, this project is something people wouldn't get unless they are trolls, have too much money, incompetent, or all three. 

 

Secondly, from a strategic point of view, this project is only useful when dealing with someone you have already blockaded. After all, without the blockade, they can just buy food if they desperately need it. Even during wartime, food doesn't go too far over 120 ppu. It's like an expensive way to flip the wheelchair of a paraplegic terminal cancer patient. If you have that much spy dominance over another person to go walk over and eat their food, a more useful use of that operation would probably be to kill the guy's missiles or nukes. The only case where I see this operation being used is when you have practically won the war, but just to screw with this guy, raid his fridge. 

 

So, all in all, this is a project that takes up a slot, eats $6m, requires you to have more spies than your target for any decent success, requires money for those spies to have any decent success, and is only used when you are kicking someone's nuts around like it's the dominatrix world cup. 

 

Amount of people buying this project in the next 6 months: 3

 

1st guy is a troll, second guy is a 10-year-old inside who loves dinosaurs, and third guy is some guy in tS who has too much money. 

 

 

Edit: 

Perhaps instead of adding this as another project, perhaps you can put this op as something you can unlock if you have the CIA project, that way it buffs the CIA project and makes people want to buy the project a bit more. CIA project needs a bit of buffing. Only 3 people in the game (as far as I know) have it, and this might expand the usage of CIA to more nations. 

Edited June 10, 2015 by Caecus

[Buorhann]

Eh, I think more people will buy it than what you believe.  Afterall, it'll be useful for at least one or two people in an alliance to use.

 

Would also synergize well with CIA Project, and encourage more spy operations to determine how battles operate.

 

Honestly, I'd consider this project along with CIA project.  Would suck not having Iron Dome, but it'd be nice to put "Hippos" ( Not Raptors, although Raptors are pretty cool too ) on people blockaded to starve em out even faster during a alliance war.

[Alex]

Well, as I originally stated on IRC, without overwhelming support (via this thread, specifically the poll) this isn't going to happen.

 

Regardless, it's been amusing watching everyone debate this and fantasize about dinosaurs.

[Chickensguys]

How about we do the Narwhal Invasion Project.

 

Code name Nip. You basically strap laser beams to there heads and allow them to roam around enemy ports. They destroy a few ships a day and put a damper on your economy. In short the laser beam and the harden horn complement each other quite nicely making them a formidable threat. 

[Lord Balian]

One thing I think would be fun to do is to have a 'Project Design' competition where people submit their suggestions for a new project, and whoever wins gets to choose a bonus in either money or resources.  Or perhaps have it so whoever wins get an alliance bonus for his/her alliance, such as perhaps everyone in the alliance gets a +5% increase in gross income for a month.  Just a thought.  I dont know if it would be better to have a particular nation or alliance bonus.  I am kinda new so I imagine you may have done this before....but it would be a great way to keep the people of Orbis engaged in the forums. 

[Isolatar]

third guy is some guy in tS who has too much money. 

 

Me!   

Edited June 10, 2015 by Isolatar

[Delyruin]

To be honest I would make it so that it makes your soldiers fight better. The idea would be that you're unleashing packs of raptors to fight with your troops. Everyone(who isn't terribly boring) would probably want it then and I'd think it would be absolutely absurd and a 9000/10 idea.

 

Barring that, you could make a simple "Genetics Laboratory" to boost soldiers....that's less absurd.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Delyruin

[Buorhann]

I'm actually kinda surprised that there isn't a overwhelming support for this.

[dmjohnston]

It's like an expensive way to flip the wheelchair of a paraplegic terminal cancer patient.

/thread

[Dark Specter]

I like this idea and would make things interesting but wouldn't go with the games theme. But maybe we can look at it this way. Orbis is earth in an alternate universe and is like 100x bigger then our earth and has a larger population and who knows how many more nations. So how about we keep the project sense orbis is most likely far more advanced and was able to revive the dinosaurs and then created an amusement park for our citizens to go too, to see them. So basically instead of using Dino's to attack other nations they can be used as a tourist attraction and the project can give your nation a boost in income, not commerce but income.