Talk:Second Sphere History Paths

Tech Index Bonuses

Design Concepts

• History should inform present focuses
• Slapping bonus SP on non-TI paths is grossly inelegant
• Slapping a TI on every path is too many bonuses
• Solution: Let people choose X of their Y TI bonuses

Path Structure

Exploration:

• World choice
• Precursor presence
• Velan presence
• Posthuman presence

Colonisation:

• Region
• Transhuman stance
• Economic development
• Special event (or colonial makeup)
• Local affairs

Breakdown:

• Economic upsets
• Circumstance
• Effect
• [for longshots] Isolated event

War:

• Unchanged

Current:

• Future Government

Chaos:

Proposed Bonuses

Outstanding Issue: Excess of +2 civilian and +2 mass production. Need to mix it up a bit for the non-special indexes.

Exploration Era

• No Suitable World [+5 shipbuilding, -5 ground] does not count for bonus limit
• Adapt [+2 transgenics]
• Build Our Own [+2 shipbuilding]
• On The Castles Of Gods [+5 basic theotech]
• Tough It Out [+2 materials]
• Make Do [+2 materials]
• Thousand Year Plan [+2 power]
• Get To Work [+2 power]
• Artifact Rush [
• Fascinating Pharmaceuticals [+2 transgene]
• Terraforming Failure [
• Population Boom [+2 civilian or mass production]
• Cash Crop [
• Xenomorphs [+2 transgene]
• A New Old World [
• Limited Drones [+5 xenotech]
• Extensive Drones [+5 xenotech, +5 xenotech]
• Data Core [+5 basic theotech]
• Industrial Spacetime and Magic [+100 advanced theotech]

PACT Colonisation

• New Freedoms [+2 transgenics]
• Liberal Market Capitalism [+2 civilian]
• Primarily Primary Industry [+2 mass production]
• Warring Economy [+2 mass production]
• Research Lab [+2 to Aerospace, Electronics, Particles or Shields]
• Lingering Posthuman Help [+5 basic theotech]
• Drone Deconstructors [+5 xenotech]
• Any Excuse For An Upgrade [+2 transgenics]

EU Colonisation

• New Freedoms [+2 transgenics]
• Liberal Market Capitalism [+2 civilian]
• Primarily Primary Industry [+2 mass production]
• Warring Economy [+2 mass production]
• Regulated Market [+2 civilian]
• Lingering Posthuman Help [+5 basic theotech]
• Heart of Darkness [+5 basic theotech]

China Colonisation

• Control Them [+2 transgenics]
• New Freedoms [+2 transgenics]
• Liberal Market Capitalism [+2 civilian]
• Primarily Primary Industry [+2 mass production]
• People Power [+2 civilian]
• Warring Economy [+2 mass production]
• Regulated Market [+2 civilian]
• Emerging Exhuman Help [+2 transgenics]
• Cut a Deal [+2 transgenics]

UN/Longshot Colonisation

• Control Them [+2 transgenics]
• New Freedoms [+2 transgenics]
• Liberal Market Capitalism [+2 civilian]
• Regulated Market [+2 civilian]
• People Power [+2 civilian]
• Primarily Primary Industry [+2 mass production]
• Warring Economy [+2 mass production]
• Never Gelled [+2 ground]
• ARROWs Formation [+5 basic theotech]
• Pod People [+2 mass production]
• Posthuman Guidance [+100 advanced theotech]
• Civilian Government Backed [+2 civilian]
• Military Government Backed [+2 any weapon]
• Fleeing Transgenes [+2 transgenics]

Local Affairs

• Currency Crash [+2 mass production]
• Full Scale War [+2 any weapon]
• Feral Drone Attack [+5 xenotech]
• Posthuman Involvement [+5 basic theotech]
• A Plague On Both Your Houses [+2 transgenics]

The Breakdown

• My Toaster Hit Singularity
• Saved By The Catapult! [+2 civilian]
• Capital Flight [+2 mass production]
• The Chinese Are Coming [+2 any weapon]
• Reconstruction [+10 catapults]
• Conflict Investment
• Fire Upon The Deep [+2 any weapons]
• Stand Alone Complex [+2 mass production]
• Posthuman Bootstraps [+5 basic theotech]
• Strange Discovery [+5 basic theotech]
• Shoot Your Way In [+100 advanced theotech]
• Confucian Collapse
• I'M BEING EATEN BY DRONES! [+5 xenotech]
• Just Have More Kids
• Refugees! So Many Refugees! [+2 mass production]
• Go Weird [+2 transgene, +2 transgene]

War!

These bonuses are much larger and defining and should probably be considered seperately.

Current

• Future Government [+2 transgene] or [+2 AI]