China acted normally, it's just that the entire world has shifted it's political behaviors so far out of whack that normal seems weird. China did what every other diplomatic corp in the world USED to do... congratulate the winner in vague laurels and watch to see if anything critical changed.
Steam accomplishment.
I have a warehouse in a FO4 mod, with lots of material on pallets.
Someone told me that my pallets were sideways... because they were, 90 degrees. All of them. Never fixed it, and it's still under my skin a little bit, eight years after publishing.
"Where are you going with that :-, Nikov?"
Money loses value over time but unused items gain value faster, but start depreciating with use.
User encouraged to use items, depreciating them faster.
Stored money eventually becomes worthless, user must act to keep funds up.
No funds, no sustenance. Endgame? Success or death by starvation.
The endgame for a player is either a powerful personal portfolio, functional stasis, or they slowly lose and starve to death, unable to obtain basic goods.
Maybe that's too close to home...
Oh, and certain items with high appreciation rates get harder and harder to obtain as the game moves on, just naturally. That's motivation to excel and get those whale items ASAP.
...so, as you sit on something it gets more valuable, and you have a little penalty for a little use, but a big penalty for heavy use.
Now, it's up to the game to give a short term reward, possibly pyrrhic, for using invested items for tension's sake.
I think I have an idea for that... spur of the moment, too.
Have an economy that inflates, but occasionally devalues itself on a specific indicator. Just cut an couple zeroes off the end when needed.
Now... items get an appreciation rate, but that rate reduces with use to the point it depreciates
Targeting is likely fine, CEP in a high inertia package and choosing a terminal trajectory in clutter-crowded air is the homework for them. These are BIG missiles, chances of hitting something on the way in accidentally goes way up on shallow approaches.
Latecomer hit some debris in the air?
Might be a conventional late arrival that managed to meet some frag on the way in and just blew shrapnel and redirected debris down everywhere. Clusters don't usually deploy like that.
Wonder how fast DARPA could cram together a rapid-reaction drone emplaceable geophone that can be arrayed to detect voids, reflectors, and vibration sources in areas suspected of having underground bases...
(reads context)
Holy crap, did someone rig extra EW to a Ka-52 and fry their own controls?
Lol, NPC script generation with a randomly seeded 'correctness' stat that enforces wrong advice a percentage of the time...
"Where?"
"It's... uh.. that way, I think. It's been a while."
just cut off the NPC and raise the player's "Rude!" reputation stat by a point or two.
Imagine NPCs that slowly grow to dislike you and their spoken responses change to fit that 'opinion', from "Hey, good to see you!" all the way down to "Shit, it's you again."
Sorry for the booklet, this is an idea that's been stewing in my brain's back pocket for years.
Imagine a tree with 8 different possible ends over 4 paths... at minimum, 32 different 'speeches' through and closing. An hour worth of audio work for each, or banging out a script for a machine reading... which is a 'hobby modder' going to want to perform?
For modders that would be a godsend because all the visual content can go along with storyline that can simply be written out, or even programmatic... changeable on the fly, conditionally. Quest trees can be that much more complex because the voice scripts are all text, no hours recording clips.
All I really hope for... and this is legit, I'm not being ironic or anything... is an AI integration into a moddable open world game where it's sole purpose is to read a script and sound believable. Yes, I know voice actors would hurt, but it opens the game to be able to say anything in a script.
Yeah, you're right.
Is there an asset the cards have that's reused, that could be swapped for one with a subtle but ultimately cosmetic change, like a card surround image that could be replaced with a slightly scorched looking one for a time?
Bankers boxes, piecemeal moves, and a couple hundred bucks at the end for a Home Depot box van, pizza, and beer...
Furniture moves easy when there's nothing left to work around.
That's not my fault.
It's Hank's.
And Iran decides to target.... Ukraine.
Did I read that right?
Iran, who's down to ballistic missile and drone attacks, is threatening the country who's been soaking up missile and drone attacks from russia for FOUR YEARS now?
Just... put it with the other fires, they'll get to it in a minute.
Close, but not quite. It's just a single hull and not armored at all, so that's just steel plate. The S bends kind of give it away as a contact charge on the surface.
From inside you'd expect a consistent 'flowering', maybe even forward-rolled edges depending on the material and the brisance.
Prison time.
If they dislike him that much, they're either desperate or someone had the bright idea of how to get rid of the guy without getting their hands dirty.
We'll see how much sand he has left in his hourglass....
They can offer something the russians absolutely can't... future supply.