I have a great game called “Puerto Rico” which some friends of mine refuse to play. Not because it’s a bad game, but because the game involves little brown “colonist” markers that the player uses to activate plantations, factories, and other things.
It occurred to me that it would be very simple to “reskin” the game as a moon colonizing game where various settlements are competing. Starting by painting the colonists silver.
So a couple questions:
As per usual responses that don’t fit in the boxes can go in the comments.
In response to what you asked in the post with the messed-up poll:
Yes, “it” can be variable. I’m open to learning new games. And despite what you may have heard, this old dog *can* learn new tricks! 😉
We’re not “insane political correctness nazis.” Personally, I find the brown colonists hilariously wrong, emphasis on the “hilarious.”
What’s wrong with being a brown person?
I just wanted to see what was in the kit.
You have my address. I’ll be watching my mail.
Ok, so the ships become rockets, the trading house becomes the mining assay, the plantations and goods turn into different kinds of mines and ores. I’m less sure about the quarries. Solar panels? And then I’d have to look at the roles and buildings to figure out how to rename them. Credits instead of dubloons. MoonCorp shares instead of victory points? Call the game Mare Tranquillitatis after Apollo 11landing site?
Of course then you get all sorts of questions about the sociological unfairness of your future history. What kind of colonists are they? Why the competition? Are they competing? Which nations/peoples? Why are they dressed in silver? Maybe they’re robotic automatons, and not people? Are they intelligent machines? If so, isn’t that the equivalent of slavery? At what point is machine servitude unacceptable? What form of trade represents commerce with a machine intelligence, rather than indenture? Wouldn’t exile to the moon be close enough to indenture, or would you consider them robotic homesteaders? Under what imperialist expansionist doctrines are we sending robots to the surface of the moon to disturb its pristine state? Are we planning for humans to settle afterwards? If not, why disturb it? Are the machine intelligences uploaded human minds? Does that change the nature of their service? And so on…