The first one. I imagine the second would be pretty easy. Just program it to have no standards whatsoever.
Pretty sure InOps is using the party to trap actual noddies. Sure, it's a legit political party with admirable views and people who believe in the cause, but you set the trap where the game goes.
I'm pretty sure that would be brainwashing ethically speaking.
As a dedicated Starbound voter, that was her hoping for housing... IN SPAAACE!
It's the second. Well, maybe.
Oh, for sure. Monitoring him, providing bodyguards, and also using him as flypaper for violent fanatics from all sides. (Imagine COINTELPRO, without the subversion/destabilization aspects, done mostly-ethically.)
I mean the Guidance Files from the wiki has some good ideas and uniting everyone in peace sounds great. The problem is that they want to do it through violence and green super cancer crystals.
By the time Kane comes back I hope NOD has had enough religious schisms to make the Reformation look small. I'd like to see him in the middle of a huge religious debate about what he meant while being completely ignored.
If we go by the "AccomplishingProvidence is Kane's account" general pseudocanon then the Open Hand Party has the Kane Stamp Of Approval (tm)
I hope not because any openly NOD party in the GDI is just not viable.
Given that we have a ten thousand person legislature now, I honestly think Open Hand's gonna win a few seats.
That's the thing: It is an openly NOD party. But it's an openly NOD party which believes the current Nod has betrayed the original goal of Nod, and lost their way. So they're looking at the New GDI which has found their way again and started to truly mean what they say they are... And they're basically going "Who Nod wished to be is not so different from what GDI said they were. Now that they actually are becoming that, why can we not peacefully bring what Nod wished to be into the present, and see what miracles come from walking together hand in hand? Rather than two brothers fighting to the death to prove their way is the only way as has been the way of the world since before Hiroshima."
I desire for them to have enough seats to keep the Dominion party as the smallest Independent Party. I also think that showing Noddies that they can make a difference peacefully would be good for getting deserters.
I feel being an openly NOD party will give it a solid core of die-hard supporters, but they're going to have a tough time expanding into the general population. BZoners on one end, YZoners with vivid memories of what NOD was like out in the wild on the other.
Honestly, considering how much larger we're making the Parliament and how much even those Yellow Zoners who have fled from the Nod Warlords have been exposed to the propaganda/religion... I'd actually think it should be a 1d10 without a penalty. So they're still minute and a fringe party that are mostly the true believers who think that Nod and GDI should be able to work together as Nod should be and GDI has now become. But there's enough of them that they actually have an undeniable voice and presence.
Huh. The number I heard was "ten thousand," but if you're right, that gives us more like five thousand.
Thing is, they won't always. Or at least, I believe they will call out GDI's injustices and failings as much as they do NOD's. That's the pain of dealing with idealists.
We already built all the phases of Orbital Comms, all of which brought in a load more new voters, so really the only way I see to immediately expand our voter base is to start pulling in more refugees via Fortress Towns and YZ MARV Hubs.
