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+# Solidarity Economy - as a game
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+# Gameplay
+
+You are not limited to one of these areas of gameplay.
+
+Hacking
+* Science tree - developing FLOSS software for production, malware, defense, social/blogs, encryption, automation, cryptocoins, freifunk firmware
+* Build infrastructure for Commoners (Fediverse, Blogs, Organization Software, Mining cryptocoins, Freifunk Gateways)
+* Attack institutions - Metaspoiled, DDos, Sousveillance, Leaks, Ransomware
+
+Producing
+* Something not entirely boring maybe? Minigames where you can get better with experience, but which are also diverse
+* Build, purchase or give away machines for automation, so you can quit doing that bullshit and start with other stuff
+* How can you build networks which can sustain others?
+* Surplus has negative consequences?
+* How do you get a market?
+
+Politics
+* Demonstrations build Pressure you can use as political currency
+* Network of Decision Makers you need to influence and where you can get to
+* Modules of Policy which help Commoners
+* Withstand privatisations
+
+Mobility
+* Schwarzfahren
+* Finally establishing own Infrastructures
+* Policy helps a lot
+
+Housing
+* Rent a standardized container
+* Alternative living projects
+* Squats
+* Wohnbaugenossenschaften
+
+Activism
+* Writing theory
+* Do Demonstrations
+* Talk with people
+* Information booths
+* Strike
+
+Combat
+* Nazis
+* Police
+* Machos?
+* Other forms of crime, which sink with further game progress?
+* Helping refugees flee?
+* Corporate Security Forces
+* Bank robbery
+
+# Story
+
+Late stage capitalism, everything is privatized. Cultural expression stagnates.
+
+Beginning Classes:
+* Wage Slaves: Most people are Wageslaves and do unnecessary bullshit for little money. Don't have much free time.
+* Unemployed Punks: don't get enough subsidies to pay the rent, have to do small daily jobs or become a squatter to survive
+* Corp Execs: plan the production of Wageslaves (keep as many as possible busy to get gov subsidies), develop corporate science (not sharable with other Execs)
+* Police: Beat up demonstrations, catch ppl without tickets, enforce rules, use surveillance.
+* Politicians: Make policy as you wish - you can help Commoners, but you can also take their rights away. Give public jobs to Execs, or Commoners.
+* Commoners: Not a starting class, everyone starts as one of the other 4.
+
+The people already exist, have attributes, property, identity, running costs, and a daily life - Players randomly take over their lives when they spawn.
+Every person has a few friends, it varies and changes dynamically for NPCs. players only start as characters with at least one player friend.
+Only players can start alternative projects, but NPCs can join them and passively take part.
+Some are enemies, and if players spawn in them, they can choose to play villain or help the Commoners.
+
+* You begin playing one day in corporate life
+* One day later you hear of collectives, somebody signs you up for the fediverse
+* You can start to partake in such a collective (will u lose your job one day?)
+* You probably need to become criminal to get money to start first collectives - squatting, shoplifting, fare-dodging, bank robbery
+
+# One day in the game
+
+One day lasts half an hour or so ingame.
+* 0600 stores open
+* 0800 get up, lazy!
+* 1000 wageslaves' work starts
+* 1800 wageslaves' work ends
+* 2200 stores close
+* 0100 Public transport closes
+* 0200 begin of curfew
+* 0600 end of curfew
+
+Every charakter should sleep around 4 hours a day, else they suffer. Players can read/chat in that time.
+
+# Sectors of Wageslave production
+
+Each product has a different minigame. Wageslaves get employed permanently 8h, Punks only per daily basis, more flexible and 4h.
+* Producing Food: mix the right ingredients, so tasty Soylent/Beer/other food types emerge.
+* Coding: arrange Code Snippets so they make sense, find bugs in code.
+* Server setup: execute the right commands to setup a server in different environments. (Reality ftw!)
+* Advertising: choose image snippets, place them nicely and think of a small slogan.
+* Doctor: treat illnesses.
+* Care: treat people who need your help.
+* Hardware: Completing puzzles of blueprints or small pieces to build functioning circuits -> new PCs, machines and weapons.
+* Writing: arrange nonsense texts so the right conjunctions meet up.
+* Busdriver: Drive from station to station, control tickets
+* Truckdriver: Drive from station to station, load and unload cargo
+* Control Ads: rate Ads if they are nice, sort out malicious ones.
+* Censorship: review posts on fuckbook, posts are double-checked
+* Security: Control the documents of people coming in (papers please?), beat them up if they aren't allowed to be here
+* Police: use surveillance, beat and lock up perpetrators of crimes
+* Exec: move money from one investment to another to manage employees (production & infrastructure), research, and PR. Command Security.
+
+# Sectors of Commons production
+
+* Producing Food: mix the right ingredients, so tasty Soylent/Beer/other food types emerge.
+* Coding: arrange Code Snippets so they make sense, find bugs in code.
+* Server setup: execute the right commands to setup a server for different purposes. (Reality ftw!)
+* Server admin: scale services, click on wrong database entries.
+* Doctor: treat illnesses.
+* Care: treat people who need your help.
+* Hardware: Completing puzzles of blueprints or small pieces to build functioning circuits -> new PCs, machines and weapons.
+* Writing: arrange nonsense texts so the right conjunctions meet up.
+* Busdriver: Drive from station to station, control tickets
+* Truckdriver: Drive from station to station, load and unload cargo
+* Build: constructing buildings for private space or public usage
+* Bank robber: attack banks to steal money for projects to use
+* Distribute Flyers: stand in the city and give flyers to people
+
+# Crime
+
+Police control if crime happens and pursue the perpetrators.
+People can also point out crime and get a small reward.
+
+* Shoplift
+* Squat
+* Being on the streets between 0200 and 0600
+* Strike
+* Wrongly review Ads or Posts
+* Hack
+* fare-dodging
+* Bank robbery
+* Steal at work
+* Distributing flyers
+* peacefully protest
+* violently protest
+* Drug consumption
+* and whatever else is outlawed or legalized.
+
+# Attributes
+
+Do we need attributes or is gameplay solvable by skill and experience only? Which is more fun?
+Maybe attributes promote specialization and inhibit trying out different work experiences.
+
+Maybe attributes for fighting aren't a bad idea? You need to figure that out anyway, and it would give police a comprehensible advantage.
+Weapons would soon alter this too much, though.
+
+# Other Activities of Commoners
+
+Organize Parties or Demonstrations
+* get a location
+* buy or steal necessary items
+* promote via flyers, emails, public posts
+
+# Infrastructure
+
+You can usually use existing infrastructure, until you build up own infrastructure - but it's expensive and helps the enemy.
+
+* Transport: busses and self-driving trains
+* Internet: rented flats have internet, you can build Freifunk
+* Logistics: pushcarts, trucks and self-driving trains
+* Shops: stores,