Jurassic Park National Project, and Velociraptors

[Alex]

Alright everyone, the movie Jurassic World is about to come out and everyone is buzzing about dinosaurs. I got to thinking about what I thought might be a neat little addition to the game. Hear me out, and vote in the poll whether you like this idea or think it's stupid.

 

Adding a "Jurassic Park" National Project that you could buy, just like any other National Project. What this project unlocks is an Espionage Operation, called "Unleash Velociraptors."

 

What happens when you unleash velociraptors? You roll a random number generator, between 1 and (your target's score / 50, with a hard cap of 5 regardless of score) to determine how many raptors get loose in their nation. So what happens now if you've got velociraptors in your nation? Each velociraptor consumes 0.5 units of food per turn, for as long as they're alive in your nation. You have the option to put the velociraptors down at any point, but it costs $50,000 per velociraptor. So, you're faced with a choice, let your food supplies dwindle down and pay a premium for extra food each turn, or kill off the pests and save yourself some money in the long term.

 

That's pretty much it. The number of velociraptors in a nation would simply increase with each espionage op, until they were killed off. To keep it from sounding too utterly ridiculous, the "Jurassic Park" project would have a nice science-fiction-y description.

 

Also, for legal reasons, we probably couldn't call it the "Jurassic Park National Project". Something along the lines of "Dinosaur Genetics Research Laboratory" might be more on par with how it actually plays out. That, or "Triassic Park"

 

EDIT: Projected costs from further down in the thread: 

Maybe $3,500,000; 50 Uranium (for mutations and stuff); and 200 Steel (for the building).

 

[Jodo]

Replace tanks with Raptors, and I'll actually use them.

[George W. Bush]

DO iT

[Princess Bubblegum]

Uh... April Fools! ... no... wait wut

[Alataq]

What does it do to the nation building it?

How much does it cost?

 

Edit: I get this isn't fully figured out, but what is your idea of it?

Edited June 10, 2015 by Alataq

[Kurdanak]

I see no flaws. \o/

[Alex]

Uh... April Fools! ... no... wait wut

 

I know it's far from the most serious suggestion ever, but I think it could be fun and portrayed as semi-serious (kinda).

 

What does it do to the nation building it?

How much does it cost?

 

Edit: I get this isn't fully figured out, but what is your idea of it?

 

I didn't project any costs, but it would be comparable to other "cheap" projects. Maybe $3,500,000; 50 Uranium (for mutations and stuff); and 200 Steel (for the building).

 

As for what it does to the nation that builds it, it would put you at a bit of a disadvantage "wasting" one of your national project slots.

[Pubs Dignity]

[Yosodog]

Sheepy, we might have to tone down your medication.

[Atzuya]

up to 100 raptors... potentially ten mil for each veloci-ops targeted at my nation

 

Sheepy you are a madman

[Ayayay]

Yes

[Arthur James]

is this A different type of Spy?

[Princess Bubblegum]

 

 

is this A different type of Spy?

 

Yes

 

[Rozalia]

So if targeting a 1,000 score nation you'd have the chance to set off 1-100 raptors to consume 25-2,500 food per turn, 300-30,000 food per day. Than if the targeted nation wants to kill the raptors it'd cost 100,000-10,000,000. Not only that but it sounds like you can increase the number with more "Raptor Espionage Op"... no limit given to how many ops can be stacked and people can take 3 ops per day... which considering the project cost you put down there everyone will have so in reality you'll be taking 3 of those daily... 

 

Well it certainly sounds like game over for whoever gets hit. Raptors will consume their food supply totally with ease to the point they will have to devote much of their income to buying food (whoops if they are blockaded). Once they are in the situation of having no food they'll quickly become unable to get the cash to kill all the raptors anyway who will pile up more and more.

 

So basically... what this entails is making food useless and having us all play with no food. Certainly a unique idea I suppose.

[saeton]

 

 

Also, for legal reasons, we probably couldn't call it the "Jurassic Park National Project". Something along the lines of "Dinosaur Genetics Research Laboratory" might be more on par with how it actually plays out. That, or "Triassic Park"

 

The raptor was actually in the Cretaceous Period... so it should be Cretaceous Park. >_>

[Alex]

up to 100 raptors... potentially ten mil for each veloci-ops targeted at my nation

 

Sheepy you are a madman

 

 

So if targeting a 1,000 score nation you'd have the chance to set off 1-100 raptors to consume 25-2,500 food per turn, 300-30,000 food per day. Than if the targeted nation wants to kill the raptors it'd cost 100,000-10,000,000. Not only that but it sounds like you can increase the number with more "Raptor Espionage Op"... no limit given to how many ops can be stacked and people can take 3 ops per day... which considering the project cost you put down there everyone will have so in reality you'll be taking 3 of those daily... 

 

Well it certainly sounds like game over for whoever gets hit. Raptors will consume their food supply totally with ease to the point they will have to devote much of their income to buying food (whoops if they are blockaded). Once they are in the situation of having no food they'll quickly become unable to get the cash to kill all the raptors anyway who will pile up more and more.

 

So basically... what this entails is making food useless and having us all play with no food. Certainly a unique idea I suppose.

 

Perhaps my idea was a little misguided. Maybe we put a hard limit on the number of raptors that can be spawned per attack, at something like 10.

[Ayayay]

I thought this was a joke so I supported it, if it isn't a joke I don't.

[Kadin]

It's a little different, but to say you don't support it just because is pretty stupid. Obviously you can't have 100 raptors eating 30,000 food per day. There has to be a reasonable limit. But the idea itself is fun and different, and I wouldn't mind seeing it get done in some way.

[Arthur James]

Replace spy as Robin hood or Velociraptors and activite stealing someone's money or resources

Edited June 10, 2015 by Arthur James

[Alex]

It's a little different, but to say you don't support it just because is pretty stupid. Obviously you can't have 100 raptors eating 30,000 food per day. There has to be a reasonable limit. But the idea itself is fun and different, and I wouldn't mind seeing it get done in some way.

 

Yes, I hadn't considered the extreme consequences of this, and updated the OP to throw in a hard limit of 5 raptors/op. That's a max of 15 raptors unleashed in your nation per day.

 

After rethinking the numbers, how about this:

 

Max of 5 raptors unleashed per attack. They cost $50K to put down, each. They eat .5 tons of food/turn, or 6/day.

 

So, for 15 raptors, that's $750K (50000*15) to put them all down, or pay $9K/day (0.5*15*100*12) to put up with them. Seem more reasonable?

[Kadin]

Yes, I hadn't considered the extreme consequences of this, and updated the OP to throw in a hard limit of 10 raptors/op. That's a max of 30 raptors unleashed in your nation per day, a total of $3m to get rid of, or ~$900K/day in food (12*25*100*30)

 

Even that seems a bit much. Perhaps reducing that hard cap to 5/attack would be better.

 

EDIT: As well as reducing it to $750K to kill the raptor. 

 

That's a max of 15 raptors unleashed in your nation per day, a total of $1,125,000 to get rid of, or $450K/day in food (12*25*100*15).

Why not just cap it at a certain number of raptors per nation? Seems like a safer way to do it.

[Speaker Faris Wheeler]

Uh oh, I just got dinosaurs out of my dreams DX

 

But seriously, this in Politics and War, not Dinosaurs and War, it would change things up and the meaning of the game way too much I think.

[Buorhann]

Can we substitute the "animal" with something else?  Like say...  Hippos?

 

Just saying, Hungry Hungry Hippos is an actual game you know.

[Phiney]

Yeah no, seems completely out of place with the style of the game

[Dwemyrn]

I can't take this idea seriously no matter how I look at it.