SD.Net World Redux Comment Thread IX

[Beowulf]

Companies of Tian Xia:

Military:
Douglas Aircraft(part owned by Boeing International)
Lockheed (massive multi-national)
Ling Temco Vought Raytheon
Grumman
Hughes-Bell
Sikorsky (helicopters)
Austal (also civilian applications)
Gibbs & Cox
various Navy Yards

Civilian:
North American Rail-lines (railroad)
General Electric (makes far to much to list. see real thing)
Orange Computer Company (makes computers, smartphones, and game consoles)
Tian Xia Telephone (national level telephone company, competes with as yet unnamed companies)

[Crossroads Inc.]

Few quick questions...
!: IS there a world map that actually has NAMES on it, so we know whose country goes where?
Also, who MAKES things? Im planning on setting Crossroads up as the "Apple" of our world, makking computers and ipd/iphone knockoffs... Anyone already hold patents to these things? Or am I free to dominate the markt?

A shortlist of corporations in the OD:

Dominion Power & Electric: Power plant/Utility/engineering company. Also makes the "Micro" reactors for isolated installatons, reactors for naval vessels, etc.
Dominion Electronics: Electronics company, ranging from consumer electronics to government/military sensors. Think Texas Instruments/GE.
Fister Farms:Big Agro
Dominion Motor Works: Auto Company
Combat Optics: Defense Conglomorate.
Chesapeake Arms: Defense Conglomorate
InGen: Bioengineering, pharma
Todd Hatteras Shipyards: Ship construction(also owns Newport News Ship Building and Steel Working)
Energy Metals, Inc: Mining, petrochemical refining
Dominion Boeing: Aerospace company
Mimir: Major software company, uses UNIX-type OS. Think Sun Microsystems and Google. Makes the "Mandroid" OS for smartphones.
Roark Instruments: Electronic firm, makes consumer electronics, calibration and testing equipment, telecommunications equipment.
Dominion Parcel Service: Delivery service
Dominion Airways: duh

Good Honest companies you have going on their, I actually fished up a list of companies from the very FIRST SDnet World game.

INC Airship Aeronautics: Government run Airship manufacturer
INC Motors: government run Car Manufacturer (now produces only Electric vehicles)
INC Arms: government run arms manufacturer
Gm'Fird: Produces both electric and gas vehicles
4-Square Inc: Mining company
Eustace Banks Family Farms: Mega agricultural conglomerate.
Petrew Power: Owns most solar and wind power plants.
INC Electric: Government ownes power company, owns all Nuclear Plants.
Praxis Arts: Large Computer game design company, produces games for all OS's
Satyr Entertainment: Largest Porn Company in Crossroadia.
Yaoi Unlimited: the "Harlequin books" of Crossroadia. Produces vast amounts of Yaoi books and Manga.

Looking back I can think of a BUNCH Of other companies I'd like to add to the list, though it heartens me that I probably supply more Porn to the world then any other nation.

[Siege]

Well, I guess if we're doing this...

Highlights for the NFT:

Air Gemini - Airline, passenger & freight
Blues Brothers Steel & Shipping - Shipyards & freight
Coilerburg Heavy Industries - Heavy industry, machinery & power
Integral Dynamic - Robots, satellites, computer chips
Keystone Agricultural Industries - Industrialized farming, pesticides & fertilizers, genetically altered crops
Morgan Finance International - Any financial service you can imagine
Ralson Concerns Ltd. - Weapons, rocketry, satellites, PMCs, pretty much anything else
SinTEK - Pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering, cybernetics
Standard Oil - Oil, gas, petrochemical products, chemicals
Trans-Frequesuan Heavy Rail - Rail transport throughout Frequesue
Triassic Resources Corp - Any kind of mining imaginable
Universal Motors - Personal transport, military vehicles, construction, nuclear physics

Welcome to the megacorps!

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Few quick questions...
!: IS there a world map that actually has NAMES on it, so we know whose country goes where?
Also, who MAKES things? Im planning on setting Crossroads up as the "Apple" of our world, makking computers and ipd/iphone knockoffs... Anyone already hold patents to these things? Or am I free to dominate the markt?

http://sdnworld.wikia.com/wiki/Economy_of_Byzantium

[Steve]

Y'know, I don't recall Setzer having "insurgency" problems, so that "hundred year insurgency" remark is a tad puzzling, Shep.

[Lonestar]

Y'know, I don't recall Setzer having "insurgency" problems, so that "hundred year insurgency" remark is a tad puzzling, Shep.

Setzer mentioned it like in his very first post mang. In the Hecate mountains.

EDIT: Strictly speaking, he mentioned it in his "Building your country" post, and in-game here. I have no real desire to wade through more of the story than I have to.

[Ryan Thunder]

Miratia has Mirakarm Aerospace and MADNESS weapons manufacturers.

[Master_Baerne]

Lesse. I've got a bunch of nationalized companies, in keeping with my bizarre aristocratic-Socialism ideology. Mainly, there's:

Ducal Armaments: Fairly self-explanatory, builds most of the stuff in my OOB. Has subsidiaries involved in shipbuilding.
Baernish News Service: Government newspaper, TV channel, and general all-around source of news for the populace.
Sabrino Shipping: A private corporation owned by the family of the Minister of Finance, handles a large portion of shipping around Frequesque.
Transworld Information, Inc: Computers and electrical systems, mainly. Not much original work, but is well know for producing reliable, if middle-of-the-road products.

[Steve]

Ah. Very well then.

[Shroom Man 777]

Regarding the issue of game consoles, if we're in late 2017-early 2018, we should be in late eighth-generation to early ninth-generation territory. The original Degenatron is outdated; hence, the Degenatron 360 (and the upcoming Degenatron 720, too!).

And the GAYSTATION X!

Shroomanian companies include the MacMillan Megacorporation and SchromKorp.

The MacMillan MEGACORPORATION has subsidiaries that are involved in almost everything. They make consumer electronics, they partner with Byzantine Aeronautics (Byzantine Air) and collaborate with Sukhoi and Mikoyan-G to produce CATO's latest 5th gen fighters and bombers, they help make warships and missiles and bombs. They have megamalls, they have clothes retailers, they have fastfood joints, they butcher whales for meat and blubber for soap, they make movies and TV series and broadcast stuff on worldwide television, advertisement, mass multimedia corporations, they deal with pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, computers and electronics their CEO Michelangelo MacMillan looks like ROBERT DOWNEY JR!

The same goes for the SchromKorp. It's less into consumer electronics and bullshit Shroomywood movies and more into fast cars and guns and equipment stuff, though.

[Ryan Thunder]

There's a few other ones that I haven't named yet, but Mirakarm and MADNESS are the only ones that have actually warranted names yet.

And in case anybody's wondering, MADNESS produces all of our wackier weapons, like the synchropter howitzers and high-calibre gatling cannons.

[Siege]

I cut Frequesue out of the map Steve is building, slapped a few numbers on it, and put it in the wiki article of the continent, for easier reference for anyone not fully in the know of the goings-on.

[Ryan Thunder]

I forgot to mention Hatvak & Koss, aka H&K. ( ) They produce some 'civilian' model weapons that are avaliable throughout Frequesue and high-quality small arms for the MAF. Think Heckler & Koch, just smaller.

There's a computer company and some software companies as well, but the latter's so small as to be virtually insignificant anyway.

[Shroom Man 777]

SchromKorp (SK) provides Shroomania its G36 rifles.

[Steve]

As I just told Fin, the really damned ironic thing about that "Meet the Press" show is that Buckner, as a Yukon Assemblyman, is probably little more pro-MESS than the Gene Keller U fellow. He's just an anti-Communist as well.

The joys of complex political influences!

[Master_Baerne]

I cut Frequesue out of the map Steve is building, slapped a few numbers on it, and put it in the wiki article of the continent, for easier reference for anyone not fully in the know of the goings-on.

Would it be possible to get everyone's various Wilderness territories added in? My colony on the north of that giant lake has a couple million people in it, is why I ask.

[Siege]

If Steve modifies the map to include those bits and pieces then sure. I don't have the time to edit them in myself however.

[Raj Ahten]

Well I'm going to put up a post about the cross CFR road/rail project. For those interested in the project, just be sure t mention that on the game thread.

[Steve]

Is there a map of the way the Unclaimed territories are cut up?

And 2 million people? That's.... a bit much.

[Siege]

Is there a map of the way the Unclaimed territories are cut up?

Indeed there is. It is however fairly old and a more accurate map of the CFR has since been made.

[Steve]

I don't remember Veleria getting hit by bioweapons, just Astaria proper plus the launches on the Old Continent and, IIRC, the America/Tonkin continent. And the Astarian quarantine snapped into place pretty quickly. How did it spread to Bissauru and, frankly, how did it not then spread to the rest of South Veleria?

Also, given what you and Stas are setting in motion, I'm figuring the post by Shinn that had Hugo Shroomvez having taken over Bissauru with the arms he was given by the CSR to fight Astaria is being ignored? Not that I mind since I thought that was a bit contrived.

[Siege]

Survivors from Astaria proper got to Astarian Velaria, the diseases supposedly spread from there. I recall that mention was made of plague in Velaria just after the Pathogen War, although I don't recall if it was from the strikes against Astaria or the ones launched by Shepistan. In case of the latter, you can chalk it up to my anti-hero being misinformed. Either way this is a continent with nonexistent mass transit, so the diseases wouldn't be able to spread as far as they would in a first-world country, so they burned themselves out at some point in the past.

Also, I put "Bissauru" in the search engine, and didn't see no "Shroomvez". Now that you mention it though I do seem to recall that bit. I'm kind of ignoring it, although I could just as well off Hugo. Since nothing came of that storyline though, I prefer to ignore it and go with the 'god-president' that Marina set up.

[Master_Baerne]

And 2 million people? That's.... a bit much.

I've had that settlement since the first game year, and it was built specifically as a way to relieve population pressure on my existing cities, the water, electrical, and social services of which were being forced to operate vastly ahead of their existing capacity. It was deemed cheaper to simply build a new city, rather than upgrade every civil service in the nation.

[Steve]

Survivors from Astaria proper got to Astarian Velaria, the diseases supposedly spread from there. I recall that mention was made of plague in Velaria just after the Pathogen War, although I don't recall if it was from the strikes against Astaria or the ones launched by Shepistan. In case of the latter, you can chalk it up to my anti-hero being misinformed. Either way this is a continent with nonexistent mass transit, so the diseases wouldn't be able to spread as far as they would in a first-world country, so they burned themselves out at some point in the past.

Also, I put "Bissauru" in the search engine, and didn't see no "Shroomvez". Now that you mention it though I do seem to recall that bit. I'm kind of ignoring it, although I could just as well off Hugo. Since nothing came of that storyline though, I prefer to ignore it and go with the 'god-president' that Marina set up.

Oh, I have no objection to retconning it.

[Ryan Thunder]

The Sasquatch system was operational.

Not to mention a hilarious waste of resources...