Idea Info Name: Rise To Supremacy Index: Primary Category: Simulation Submitted: 7/17/2003 4:07:28 AM Written By: Elite Soldier

Intro

What if reality could be simulated to fit the many changes that could have happened in the world before WWI had occured, effectively altering history and spawning new superpowers and new world wars?  It could simulate alternate paths towards the start of world wars.  It could simulate the what-if's had WWII ended with an Allied defeat.  It could even simulate the balance of power in countries due to simply making different choices or by pursuing or engaging technological advancements in a more clever way.  How about changing the leaders who ran those countries during that time? 

Rise to Supremacy is a simulator that simulates all the choices that you would make to a country that you have chosen to lead.  Everything from the type of military training that your armies would recieve to the type of research your scientists are conducting, could change the way history ends up being written!  You can even take the steps to try to change your government to make it communist, fascist, or to take on a type of democratic-socialist government combining the best of a democracy with socialism! 

It is all up to, to take your chosen country to the top, to make your country the one that will rise to supremacy in your simulated world.  Will you rule over this world through war and conquering all nations?  Will you win through the anexation of other countries that are in awe of your supreme power and priviledged lifestyle?  Or will you establish peace throughout the world or need to be the police officer that keeps the peace?  This simulator will allow you the chance to take a gimpse into a possible hypothetical history and future that you help to create with all the choices you make during gameplay!

Gameplay!

The countries that you can choose from in this game are:  USA, Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, China, and maybe some others.

This game might seem to be a distant twin from Civilization 2 or Civilization 3, however this game incorporates the type of strategic gameplay found in games like Western Front.  However you won't be stuck with history's known military tanks and vehicles since your country's scientists may end up discovering new technologies, or you may request the construction of more finer and advanced military vehicles.

When fighting battles in a small or worldwide war, gameplay is ocurring all at once unlike the turn based Western Front.  How you would conduct these battles depends on you, whether or not you give your generals full command and just sit back watching the battles as they unfold or you giving your generals orders in how to use your army to fight.  Depending upon what type of government you have established for your country may determine the level at which you can order your generals to use your army in wartime and in peace time.

Off the battle screen, you are responsible for setting up the economy of your country with it's established government.  Such things you can do are exporting military equipment or importing military equipment that can give you technological ideas to improve upon or technological advancements if any!  You can use this to throw off other countries about any sort of military research or projects by selling low tech military equipment while conducting secret research or secret construction of the most advanced military equipment for it's time in the game!  You can choose what you import and export as well as how much!  Generating revenue through exporting and taxing is key in this game!

Ofcourse everything will be simulated just like Sim City 4000!  Depending upon which government you have...you can control however much of the education in your country!  If your country is a fascist state...you can brainwash your population and practically turn everyone into obedient, loyal, and scared citizens of some kind reich you wish to establish.  If you are a communist state, you can do the same to some extent. 

This game will also allow you to act like Joseph Stalin if you wish...and simulate any kind of Social purges you wish to start in your country.  (THERE WILL BE NO GENOCIDE SIMULATIONS IN THIS GAME)  *For Fascist and Communist states...purges can be carried out...*

Research is key in this game, depending upon what you wish to do for your chosen country.  Military research can be given frequent boosts through importing foreign military equipment.  You can be clever and try to eliminate any curiousity from other countries as towards your military research and development through either exporting very low tech and primative military equipment for it's time or building up a small or large "show" army of this low tech military equipment and arms.  Or you can choose to do both!  Depending upon how secret you wish your research and development to be, is purely up to the player.

For your military units in general, you can choose what your soldier's military uniforms look like, both dress and field uniforms.  You can make your soldiers wear uniforms much like that of German soldiers during WWII, or like Russian Soldiers.  The helmets your soldiers wear can be German, Russian, Japanese, American, etc.  You can choose what type of training your army recieves.  You can place heavy requirements where the soldiers must meet the highest of standards or be forced to undergo the strict training over again in order to get the highest quality of soldiers.  Or you can place light requirements to get as huge of an army as you can for the quantity goal.  Even researching camouflage can give you choices for what your soldiers will wear out on the field to possibly give them an edge over other country's soldiers!

Your military tanks, aircraft, and ships can all be designed in a certain way according to your orders and specifications.  If you wish to build the most huge and fortified ships afloat, you can do so...but it depends upon your resources!  If you wish to build the most heavily armored or fastest tanks around with the most powerful guns...it all depends upon what research you have aimed for and requested along with your resources.  You can request to develop the most aereodynamic or sleek and curving aircraft to cut through the wind and reach unbelievable speeds for their time!  You can decide if you want 3 or 5 or even 6 bladed props on your airplanes!  You can stress research to find out every kind of way to increase your country's aircraft performance!  The game will simulate your choices and apply them for the war scenes according to historical and hypothetical data!

If you wish to hold a rally or military parade in a city to either uplift your citizens or increasing national pride (Fascist, Communist, and Democratic-Socialist states only), you can choose to let your propaganda minister set them up or you can choose how it all goes!  *This should be alot fun!*

What The Heck Is Democratic-Socialism?

Demoractic-Socialism is only a made-up and curious government that I personally thought up!  It is another theoretical government that sort of fits Marxist thinking towards a "Utopian" government.  However since strict communism and socialism can't work and be flexible in today's world...melding the best and practical elements of a Democracy with Socialism is what my idea of Democratic-Socialism is.

In this government,  businesses, even corporations are owned by the government through ownership of the buildings that these businesses use.  Through renting these government owned buildings to businesses, it theorectically eliminates the need to tax every service that a country's citizens use.  Since it would be easy for an entrepreneur to start a business through renting a government building, the rent from all of the country's businesses should produce a decent amount of revenue.  Since rent amount depends on the size of the business, rent varies for these businesses with corporations paying the highest rent of all businesses.

Democratic-Socialism has a free-market economy obviously and does not solely have a single party operating within the government.  Two or more government parties must exist to help keep the Democratic elements alive in this government.  With two parties, the citizens will have true elections for not just one elected leader but for many elected leaders in a "High Council" as the executive branch for this government.  The "High Council" makes all executive decisions in the government and truly symbolizes full representation of the people with half of it's members in one of the government parties and the other half of it's members in the other government party comprised of both men and women.  However when adressing the nation, one person is elected as the "High Council Spokesman" to relay the decisions or words of the "High Council" back to the country's people.