KickStarter Atomic Society: Be judge and lawmaker of your own post-apocalyptic city

[thesheeep]

I just saw the new trailer. Religion is in the game now and you can set policy based on religious freedom. For example, Shintoism might be your colony's official religion, and you might set your policy to exile Protestants, "educate" Satanists, and torture Jehovah's Witnesses. (I counted 24 different religions, you can have a policy for each.)

Are you telling me you can make Satanism your official religion?
Finally!

Do the religions actually differ in anything they do?

 

[Zombra]

Are you telling me you can make Satanism your official religion?

Yes, I was pleased to see all 24 religions on the character creation screen. Presumably whatever religion your character is becomes the official religion of the colony.

Do the religions actually differ in anything they do?

Highly doubt it, suspect it's just a label for faction #1, faction #2, ... faction #24. I agree that it would be super awesome for each belief system to carry specific gameplay impact. I haven't actually played the game for months, I like it but want to see it mature into its best playable form before I spend more time on it.

 

[Jenkem]

So did anyone end up playing this? It's on sale and the final version is ready to play (on beta branch now but the update will be made official after the Steam sale)

Had it wishlisted and am curious how it turned out...

 

[jebsmoker]

whoa wait atomic society is technically done now? might as well see how it is compared to how it was back in october 2018

 

[Zombra]

I liked what I saw in early pre-alpha. Looking forward to exploring the release version.

 

[Norfleet]

I just saw the new trailer. Religion is in the game now and you can set policy based on religious freedom. For example, Shintoism might be your colony's official religion, and you might set your policy to exile Protestants, "educate" Satanists, and torture Jehovah's Witnesses. (I counted 24 different religions, you can have a policy for each.)

Are Pastafarians and Jedi on the list?

 

[laclongquan]

I don't think it really was an issue, because people back in those days simply didn't even have the OPTION to try junk-restructuring. Which, incidentally, doesn't apparently do anything for them, because they still end up committing suicide at the same rates as those who do not undergo junk-restructuring.

Worse. If you dont do the operations, your suicide rate is not bad. HIgh, but not as bad, because historically people dont notice such high suicide rate from those troubled individuals, right?

AFTER you do the operation though, the suicide rate is skyhigh. A pro-tran SJW doctor did do tracking and collecting death number among recovering patients of that kind of operation and the sample size is significant enough that he tried to hide the result or mis-interpret away. Codex discover and discuss that sometime in the past, you certainly can search for it.

 

[Jenkem]

I liked what I saw in early pre-alpha. Looking forward to exploring the release version.

you can play it now if you select the beta, check the latest update for info...

I want to know how it is before the sale is over

 

[Alpharius]

So what is the codex consensus?
Is it shit?

Was tempted to try it but i've bought too many mediocre games that looked interesting at the first glance recently.

 

[Zombra]

So what is the codex consensus?

I don't think a lot of us have played it. The early alpha was promising. There are certainly a lot of cool new ideas surrounding setting governmental policies. It's a small studio so I'm sure there's some jank, but you should try it anyway or risk missing something unique.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

It has hit 1.0 and left early access. The release update is well worth a read. You can change the topic title.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Looks and sounds an awful lot like Kenshi, with more of a focus on the town building aspects.
The fact that transgender crap is even considered is a terrible, terrible sign. Does your colony reach the 200-300 people necessary to have the 1 trans person that current statistics claim? (Also, the current statistics are wildly high because it's currently a fad)

In a post apocalyptic world, where people have to make hard choices like whether to lynch a suspected rapist, the idea that anyone would give a moment's consideration to a weirdo wanting people to pretend he's a pretty lady is completely laughable. The idea that this little colony that is trying to preserve the human race has time to make policy regarding how to properly coddle the mentally ill is so stupid. It suggests the dev is getting feedback from people who would suggest trans people should be a major factor in a post apocalyptic city builder, which means he's at the very least got terrible judgement, and more likely is an SJW himself.

Still, despite all those red flags I'm desperate for a decent city builder game so I'll keep an open mind. Anyone here play it, any thoughts?

EDIT: No combat, no external threat, no point, ultra short tech tree, yep it's abandonware.