Project Thalassa It Is About People

My goal with Thalassa is to make managing people the central point of the gameplay.

• Each island starts with a neutral population

• Population growth is slow

  • Population can increase either in the neutral camp or yours

• Your population increases by ‘recruitment’ not by birth

  • Recruitment can be volutary, forced or special (mind control)
  • Your population can be kept by different means (wellbeing, coercion, special…)

• Your followers can pop up on islands you don’t control

  • Same for the other cults
  • They can be overt or covert

• Genocide is frowned upon

• Morale - affects productivity and recruitment

• Loyalty - affects retention rate and spying

• Food, and health is global to island (archipelago)

  • You can provide or hoard, to the benefit/detriment of the neutral population

• Neutral population can help defense or offense, depending on your standing

• Neutral population can be more or less suggestible (depending on the living conditions)