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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 8803637" data-attributes="member: 54364">So I've just been doing some blue sky thinking about ways to gamify social groups and their interactions. Below is a list of things I think could be considered when trying to define groups and their actions.Stats for Groups Type - social class, religion, economic interest, proximity (ie: a local community), sporting, government, political, criminal, militaryOrganisation - formal/informal?SizeCohesion – aka Class Consciousness. size reduces cohesion & makes it harder to increase cohesion.Leadership – united, disparate, rivals, enemiesSupport – where in the organisation does the leadership get its support? Esp. if there are rival factions within the leadershipGoals – a list of things the group would like to see happen, rated as “Common” (commonly shared throughout the group) to “uncommon” to “extreme” (shared by very few members of the group.) Each goal is also rated by importance.Grievances – a list of things that group doesn’t want. Perhaps done as Goals but with negative scores as opposed to positive ones.WealthSocial InfluenceCoercion (Internal)Coercion (External)Membership – individuals, other organisations, overlapAffiliation – relationship with other social groups, which may be totally external, or totally internal, or a mix of both.Interests - as per pemerton's example in post #49, below,Tools to Manipulate GroupsPropaganda, including speechifying, media, zeitgeist? folk songs (because Billy Bragg!)BriberyShared goals – use this to manipulate other social groups, by creating/manipulating areas of shared interestManipulation - Direct control of the actions of another group through blackmail, bribery, revolt/purgeCosts- what does an action cost the group? Money? Cohesion? Power? Home?ThoughtsHow far down do you want to dig? What level of granularity are you looking for for your game?It occurred to me that one could just grab a copy of Steve Jackson's Illuminati (either version) and use that; maybe modified, maybe not, to reflect groups and their interactions.EDITED: to add interest, as per [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER]'s suggestion. Also to add folk songs to the list of vectors for propaganda.</blockquote>

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