Re: Warsim, text based randomly generated stratogy
@Niklas, the eventual plan for the game is for the player to begin as an individual npc, the game will go by day by day and you will live in the world of warsim, you could be any random character, for example a peasant living in a village on the outskirts of the capital, you go out, buy an axe with your savings and become a woodsman, then you head out and chop wood, you have a run in with a pack of wolves but get saved by a passing knight, you loot the wolves corpses and skin them, bring them back to the village and trade your wood and game for more money, you keep this up for a while finding all sorts while wood cutting including a dead soldier, you eventually have enough money to buy a house within the city walls and you sell your house in the village, in the city life is much busier, you work as an assistant shopkeep for a weapons merchant, occassionally heading out and returning to woodcutting on some days, you eventually build up enough gold to buy your own market stall where you sell odds and ends you have collected, after a while you hire a staff member to run this themselves and you begin training as a fighter, you join one of the larger local houses of nobility and work your way up, they are House Rhen, Though doing quests and general tasks for the House over the course of several game months you become an anointed knight of House Rhen and end up sitting at the nobility table where you and the other nobles discuss stratergies for growing the houses power, in the weeks to come House Rhen begins a hostile invasion of the territories of the other houses within the city walls, taking over their businesses and launching sneak attacks on their manors, the town guard lock the city down for a while and House Rhen lays low, but you have an in, one of the high ranking members of house Rhen has a cousin who is one of the captains of the city watch, with his help you incriminate one of the rival houses in all of the attacks and the King Decrees them outlaws, th eir holdings and split between the other houses and House Rhen is more powerful than before, you are now nominated for leading house Rhen, there are two other candidates, your co-conspirators during the previous campaigns, you decide you do not want to leave it to chance and hire a local assassin in a tavern to kill them both, the deed is done and you are declared leader by default, House Rhen is yours and you begin your reign as ruler of the house. You spent a great deal of time growing the financial side of the house, building business and you have done before, setting up deals with other guilds, even working on behalf of the crown, the whole city grows more prosperous but you more than any other, rumours even spread that House Rhen is wealthier than the crown, this does not go down well with the king and he orders House Rhen to divide into five smaller houses to curb its power, but the King, O' the fool, is far too late, with the masses of gold at House Rhen's disposal they have hired three mercenary armies and bribed half the city guard and several local armies to turn on the crown, the battle is a short one as most of the kings men surrender, the King is cut down on his throne and you are installed in his Place, some flee when you are crowned, many opponents of House Rhen band together with the loyalists who remain loyal to the previous king, these men form a rebellion and begin trying to unhinge your power from within, meanwhile you have other things to worry about now, you have been informed by your new diplomat Old Croll that one of the far off kingdoms of Goblins has launched an attack on your lands... and thus begins WARSIM!
So of course, this is one of 10000s of scenarios that could happen, I want the game eventually to be a massive simulated sandbox of being a peasant in a fantasy world, you could do anything but you will most likely not succeed like the character above, perhaps you get mauled by wolves at the start, perhaps while r unning your stall a theif kills you, perhaps you die on one of your quests for house Rhen, perhaps the Rhen conspiracy fails and the house is destroyed and you must go into exhile!
I want all this to be possible but it will take a whole pile more work than warsim ever did haha!
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