Reply To: Need of beryllium and other rare materials for Focus Fusion

[Rezwan]

This post in from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Yay! More blackmail ammo for me. Only *slightly* edited.

What you really want is not Farmville but a massively multiple-player game. You need to have players both trying to make fusion work, and those who are trying to stop it. You have choice of various avatars. There are a variety of fusion scientists and assistants (choose your own characteristics, attire, wild hair, working style, igors), shyster lawyers whose game is to make the highest fees; high-roller capitalists scheming to take over the operation; agents of oil and gas companies—and the CIA, of course, trying to blow everyone up; unscrupulous suppliers selling faulty switches trying to sabotage the works and of course the glamorous, slightly exotic female free-lance fusion advocate who is trying to outsmart everyone and steer the project to its goal.

Unlike the standard games where everyone is accumulating gold to buy their way to the next level, each avatar is after their own point-equivalents. So the fusion scientist is accumulating fusion reactions, working up toward breakeven (and trading them for dollars to keep the show going) , the shyster lawyers are of course after dollars, the Oil and Gas characters after explosions and body counts, while the advocate is accumulating fusion converts. And of course you throw in the good old game idea of a race, with massively multiple labs all trying to get to fusion first, and massively multiple villains standing in their way. Anyway, you get the idea.