DSW You just seem to be letting specific words or ideas trigger your imagination. E.g. totalitarian traditionalism was one of the vying options after the mutiny. It makes a lot of sense that the first generation will be zealots, which isn't the same thing as a super repressive society, and in any case, yes, it does make sense to have tight controls and hierarchy when you know anything fucking up on the ship means no escape. Like, you're not saying anything nonsensical in and of themselves, but you seem to be responding to things that don't exist in the update.
So the first generations would be ready to sacrifice everything for the dream. Their zeal would cement the totalitarianism and the loss of freedom that comes with it. For the greater good!
- This is a thing, which do exist in update. It is not viable option from the beginning. It is not correspond to the concept of the game and how psychologists would tune colonist to perceive their goal.
People on board are already colonists, which already has a colony on the ship. They are not adventures, which goal to reach the Final Frontier. You should not design a Colony Ship game with adventure game cliche in mind. Colonists have nothing to sacrifice. Their dream comes true as they stepped on the board. Their good is to be a colonists on Colony ship. This approach should be used as a premise of colony ship social order design. You should not stretch human life frame to the size of hundreds or thousands years. It is obvious error and already explored in "Space colonist psychology for dummies".
All firearms are ship-made; most are crude, angular weapons. It’s a 'rediscovered' tech (we all know what flintlock weapons are but we don’t make them, so if we have to start making them again, we’ll have to rediscover the tech we’re vaguely familiar with).
- This is another thing from update. Please google a "prison made fire arms", "3d printed m1911" and then take a look on CGS Pistol Designs from update. Do you see that "rediscovered tech" has no difference with prison masters tech? Could you assume that 3d printers would not be available on Colony ship?
One more thing from update:
We can consider ammo variations within each class but it’s not necessary as 3 different types are more than enough.
- This means that Colony ship has production of three types of ammo. Do you expect that Colony ship ammo would have attributes of custom made ammo like misfire, stuck in barrel, burst in hand or other malfunctions? So, Colony ship and Earth prison, both have custom made quality firearms with industrial quality ammo. The difference is that Colony ship does not have outer supply of industrial quality ammo like prisons have. I suppose you understand that prisoners make firearms fitted to industrial ammo, not custom made ammo. Otherwise prisoners will switch to crossbows or whatever else less sophisticated and dangerous. Custom ammo making is more sophisticated metal and chemical technology than firearms. But this will be reflected in the game the other way around.
True colony ship game should have better design than introduced. It has to use potential of future technologies. Mutiny has to start because of resource fighting, which was caused by unpredictable thing, may be by some kind of technological overlook or space exploration related disaster. Firearms tier lines have to start with respect to level of imaginable future technologies, and m1911 should be custom made raritet for collectors of old junk. But instead of exploring Colony ship potential we got colonial age cliche with down to modern prison degradation.
I believe that if cause of resource fighting is ended then unitarian governance of total colony is ensured. Independent and antagonistic factions as parts of total colony can exist autonomous or with outer support only. In case of Colony ship it depends of layout design, but if any faction does not have autonomous life support then this faction could not exist as antagonist to others. Conventional gangs can exist due to disguise and getting resources from united colony, which should be big enough.
So, if game needs constant factions fighting then game needs united colony with gangs or degraded colonists to the level that nobody knows how switches operate, so every faction can be sure that nobody switch of the light on their block. Both are shit designs of Colony ship.
, sounds boring. Why not Chrislamist as in Hammer of God or something wild and looney? It really would not have to be any real organisation, the whole setting is unrealistic an sich.
