Goonhub
01-22-2022, 10:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-22-2022, 10:57 PM by Love. Edited 1 time in total.)
So, I played a borgo. Love.
It wasn't a misery, as described before, for silicons. We communicated well with eachother. We helped one another as we could. We had some small goals like setting up power independence and securing a ruck kit. Silicon nation was a place of calm and peace compared to elsewhere. We had fresh coffee!
I enjoyed the round, because borgfriends hanging out and borging around is always nice.
But there are still issues. Paralysis because lost limbs and death were irrecoverable. NKTA spent half the round as limbless nugget barely able to move. We only eventually got that fixed because TURTLE independently negotiated with medical, then we bypassed the heads and lied to a doctor about having the MDs permission to take him. (We will love you for real, Josiah, even if we got you via deception!) Because as with everything else, waiting for after the latest Summit was a joke.
The heads didn't run things. They sat in a room and pretended to run things while the actual round happened and things were done. They weren't leaders, they are roadblocks to leadership. Not due to personal failing, just by design. They precluded other leadership while being cloistered away in a bunker. Even us silicons, who were lucky enough to have a leader that couldn't take off their headset, were directionless. All we had was a mandate to keep halls clear that nobody knew about and not even the peacekeepers, who we were doing it for, supported.
To offer a TL;DR, it wasn't a game of diplomacy and warfare for borgs. It was an economic simulator of a scrappy developing nation with abundant natural resources trying to bootstrap itself to self sufficiency. ...Then giving up because it's an anarchy and just kidnapping doctors from developed nations, and holding them in a cave like a bunch of strange backflipping hill yokels.
It wasn't a misery, as described before, for silicons. We communicated well with eachother. We helped one another as we could. We had some small goals like setting up power independence and securing a ruck kit. Silicon nation was a place of calm and peace compared to elsewhere. We had fresh coffee!
I enjoyed the round, because borgfriends hanging out and borging around is always nice.
But there are still issues. Paralysis because lost limbs and death were irrecoverable. NKTA spent half the round as limbless nugget barely able to move. We only eventually got that fixed because TURTLE independently negotiated with medical, then we bypassed the heads and lied to a doctor about having the MDs permission to take him. (We will love you for real, Josiah, even if we got you via deception!) Because as with everything else, waiting for after the latest Summit was a joke.
The heads didn't run things. They sat in a room and pretended to run things while the actual round happened and things were done. They weren't leaders, they are roadblocks to leadership. Not due to personal failing, just by design. They precluded other leadership while being cloistered away in a bunker. Even us silicons, who were lucky enough to have a leader that couldn't take off their headset, were directionless. All we had was a mandate to keep halls clear that nobody knew about and not even the peacekeepers, who we were doing it for, supported.
To offer a TL;DR, it wasn't a game of diplomacy and warfare for borgs. It was an economic simulator of a scrappy developing nation with abundant natural resources trying to bootstrap itself to self sufficiency. ...Then giving up because it's an anarchy and just kidnapping doctors from developed nations, and holding them in a cave like a bunch of strange backflipping hill yokels.