Hi, this is a redo from start of my first subject. It is not a crucial topic, anyway I hope you'll find this cleaned version more useful than the last expeditious one. The game as far as it takes place in the future, is also a representation of our earth in the future, and will be read as it by many of us (the scifi passionated people mostly).
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n my opinion, thru the maps, the geosphere, and some choosen elements of the story telling, we can only implement a 2084- model that postulates that in the future (lets say since 2050), the earthling choosed the way of the moderation in everything. Let's follow my explanation below in (A).
(A)
Let us imagine that we choosed another postulate, which differes from the "moderation" postulate. Now let's apply this to the global amount of the earth population. This hypothesis can be realized into a very concrete implementation thru the game system (geosphere, maps.etc..). That done, the player will certainly encounter a game-world organized around very big cities. Those cities will contain a very big amount of civilians by square unit. We would also meet poor people (flooding poor quarters of sad appearance) whereas at the same moment, rich boys and girls would be walking around the nice quarters and over heavily guarded private zones. But, that obviously doesn't fit the way the game is actually going. This "unmoderate" description is more the classic extrapolation of our world that is so often implemented into many other futuristic games (let's say Fallout for instance). So, in the way the game is designed today, the earthling occupate the earth peacefully (until the alien event came on...). Let's read the 2 arguments listed below.
- 1- Each nation seems to have its own dedicated space, with no more conflict at the borders.
- 2- The UNO rules as the main global force, and apparently the single still maintened correctly in order to face a global threat. Anyway, this last point should be slightly changed in the future : some national policemen or soldiers should give of themselves living signs at some occasions...
So, and to conclude partly, the UFOAI world assumes
the way of the moderation. But that doesn't mean that this would be credible to pretend that the earth from today to 2084 had never encountered some concrete evolutions, in the interlude. The earthling have just found the way of the moderation,
at last. But the story taking place between today and 2084 is certainly worth to be told.
I made a draft list-like description of possibilities for a 2084 humanity history that I put at the end of this introduction. In fact it is a summary of what was described in a book named
"2100, récit du prochain siècle - Payot 1993" or in english
"2100, history of the next century".
About this book the great thing for my purpose is that it postulates that between 2020 and 2060 the world is overruled by private organistations based on capital. As consequence comes a lot of limitation of freedom and peace is rare. I wont go into an extensive picture, it is sufficient to say that if you launch a nuclear attack in this world you will obtain a "mad max"-like universe.
But there were no bomb, so came the after-2060's where the people decided to get their peace and freedom back.
So, the 2020-2060 world postulated and predicted here, is exactly the world that we encounter in postnuclear stories. The fact is that in our case the bomb was not released and the survivors had not to inherit of the well known futuristic violent and autoritary scheme. Assuming that until 2084 the nuclear disaster was avoided, there were all the reasons for human people to choose not only a freedom and peace order, but also a low populated model for cities and some illuminated return to nature... A choice that apparently intrigated enough the aliens to make them have a close look at earth!
You can go to
http://www.worldwatch.org/ to get other examples of possible earth for our next century.
Visions of 2084 - DraftPopulation : 1- explosion
2- stabilized low/hi
3- decreasing (controled)
Governements models : 1-nations like
2-capitalistic-based - Consortiums
Artificial living forms (...)
New architecture like ocean cities
Language : optimized pictograms rather than national idioms
Art of making gardens, thru the grounds and oceans.
Ocean Cities
Grounds over the sea( ...)
Recycling pushed very far.
Light material generalized (useful consideration for setting a weight system)
Implantation of artificial organs. (can explain a resolute turn into the evolution of the amount of population at the favour of a decrease).
And so on
