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EARTHDATE: February 11, 2007

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I PREDICT A RIOT

by Hazed

Bella is working on the code for planetary riots right now, and it will be going into the game to be tested in the next couple of days. Assuming that no major bugs show up, it will be turned on for players on Friday. You have been warned – get your houses in order, keep your populaces happy, or suffer the consequences.

The figure to keep an eye on is your disaffection which shows on the planet display. This is a percentage, and the higher it gets, the higher the chance that something horrible will happen. Every day at reset, the game will do the equivalent of throwing a 100-sided dice, and if the resulting number is lower than your disaffection figure, there will be a riot. For example, if your disaffection is at 20%, then there's a 20% (1 in 5) chance there will be a riot.

If there is a riot, a number of things could happen. First, one of your stockpiles will be wiped out at random. Then things get more serious, and one of the following will happen:

  • One of your infrastructure builds will be sabotaged, and will have to be rebuilt from scratch
  • A factory on your planet will get razed to the ground
  • A depot will be torched
  • A warehouse will be looted then destroyed
  • Disaffected hackers will hack into your planetary treasury or your personal bank account and embezzle between 30% and 60% of the balance

So you can see the results can be catastrophic - and they won't just affect you but could also damage property belonging to other players!

You will be sent some in-game mail telling you what happened, and the details will appear on the SpyNet Financial report, so everyone else will see the results of your negligence. If the damage happens to property belonging to another player, they will get mail – and will no doubt be very, very angry with you for allowing things on your planet to get to such a parlous state. You have most definitely been warned!

Warning:
The planet that all this will be tested on is Rigel 4, owned by Pugwash. When the testing starts, we only want to have property on the planet which is owned by staff characters, so we can see the results from both ends. Therefore, if you own a warehouse, depot or factory on the planet you should sell it right away. If you don't, then the depots and factories will be expropriated.


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