Atomic Society is a post apocalyptic title in which players build a city and get faced with moral choices, in the latest dev blog (#18) Far Road Games talks about some of the titles features.
Managing a society always means that you’ll have to have some form of discipline, and it seems that Far Road Games have the answer for their Atomic Society title. The Prison Sentence solution will see players being able to send people to jail for a long or short period of time, or even execute them. It all comes down to choices and consequences, if you allow prisoners to serve a sentence, then they’ll be able to return to society once the sentence is over and they can be of us to you once more, however the downside is that the building is quite large and takes up a fair amount of real estate with funds being crippled by providing for prisoners needs and lack of building repairs allows for escapees.
There are also plans to guilt the player if they choose to condemn an innocent person to death without knowing it by showing a message on the screen to give a small insight into that characters life and the family they had. On another note, there has also been a Culture Critic system added which basically means that citizens will require specific structures to enjoy themselves, such as a Tavern, or a Chapel, and if those structures aren’t available to them, they’ll become sad. They will now also age, before characters just lived on for infinity, but now they can pass away from old age, however the system is still in needs of tweaking it seems as no one seems to live past 90, and there’s also faecal based diseases floating around.
A new UI system is also in the works and being improved which is bringing a highlighting effect and improved options.
Atomic Society is available on Early Access and the update being talked above above, the most recent one is Update 7.
You can read the full dev blog here on IndieDB.
