Thanks! We were thinking about getting a set of oyster spawn plugs to try later in the summer - I have relatives who log for firewood, I think we might be able to convince them to let us plant mushrooms in the stumps. Otherwise we'll wait and see how these go! Now that we know how to start these, we can keep an eye out for future opportunities.
What a cool idea! I like the idea of swapping things so rivers are in the center of the state rather than forming the borders, with the watershed split in half by state lines. In some ways that'll better fit how people interacted with rivers, central to their transportation and industries and habitation.
That's a good idea, I'll see what I can find!
Definitely agreed it'd work well on footpaths. I think given what frost heaves and the city budget have done to local sidewalks, it might still be useful (I'm not sure they count as modern or well-paved). If I can find some more square tubing, and some mesh or perforated metal for the guard around the wheel, I think it could be a fun bit of welding practice. It's too bad the larger bike wheel sizes seem to be very expensive.
This is great - I kinda want to build one for hauling groceries now. There are sidewalks all the way to the big grocery store here but they're so messed up that those collapsible shopping carts with their little wheels are more trouble than they're worth. I've thought about getting/building a cargo bike but I don't like my odds on that road, though it'd be useful elsewhere. Mostly we settle for just limiting it to what we can carry or driving once in a while. Might be a fun project though, I'll have to look up modern designs.
I don't know why I needed you to point this out, but I appreciate it!
I love this, you summed up my thoughts on the south far better than I could have had I gone for it, and I really like both of these non-state solutions. I think there's tremendous potential in them, and even if we keep the remnants of the states clinging on to different degrees in different areas, I really like the idea of overlapping, likely more important, systems of organization showing the transition to a post state world. I'll talk with the others and see if we can at least add something around the watersheds, and if we can't include it in the game I'm 100% saving it for my own writing. If we can do something with it, would it be okay if I reached out to discuss this? You've put a lot of thought into it and it's the first time I've thought about organizing things this way.
I'm just the newest dev and the group has been working hard to finish the game manual so I don't know how much we can change now but I'd be happy to at least add something on top of what's there.
If I remember right that's actually the bad guy's gun and it fires bullets that chase you! (At approximately the speed a human can run). Its silly and great and if I was remaking it for a modern setting, it'd be some kind of launcher/targeter for tiny suicide drones.
I was thinking the old spy vs spy cartoons but more cute
The book is excellent and the audiobook narrated by Paul Giamatti is so good it ruined the text for me - I couldn't do the voices as well in my head as he could. First and only time that's happened.
Whichever form you take, the book is very worth reading
I did, his prediction about conflict over water was obvious yet prescient. I suspect the train company's theory of hydrology was presented along with stacks of green paper but maybe that wasn't necessary