NationStates Jolt Archive

Title undecided: suggestions welcome
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After reports of alcohol-related crimes soar, mainly due to binge drinkers, Parliament has demanded a solution.

[option] "This is an outrage!" roars MP @@RANDOMNAME@@. "We cannot allow these crime levels to continue to rise. I say, enforce stricter closing hours - that way people won't get so drunk and violent in the first place."
[effect] pubs close at 8pm every night across @@NAME@@
[stats] civil freedoms go down, health goes up, crime goes down, happiness goes down, economy takes a slight hit

[option] "Now wait a second!" says local publican @@RANDOMNAME@@. "This is my job you're talking about. If we close even earlier every night, then I lose customers and hundreds of pounds profit." The landlord's mate, @@RANDOMNAME@@, chimes in: "Yeah, let the public have some freedom for once - we can hold our drink. Oi, did you just spill my pint?"
[effect] drunken brawls plague pubs at closing time
[stats] civil rights go up, crime goes up, economy goes up, health goes down

[option] Foreign student @@RANDOMNAME@@ has a different idea. "Beh, you know, monsieur, we do things differently in Bigtopia. We allow our pubs to run on into the morning. That way we can enjoy our fine wine over time and don't have to rush. We don't get angry then, and our crime rates are low. Why don't you give it a try, mon ami?"
[effect] old ladies complain about the noise from pubs open 24 hours
[stats] happiness goes up, economy goes up, health goes down quite a lot, civil rights go up, crime drops slightly


Well, what do you think?

[option 1] "This is an outrage!" roars MP @@RANDOMNAME@@. "We cannot allow these crime levels to continue to rise. I say, enforce stricter closing hours - that way people won't get so drunk and violent in the first place."
[effect] pubs close at 8pm every night across @@NAME@@
[stats] civil freedoms go down, health goes up, crime goes down, happiness goes down, economy takes a slight hit

[option 2] "Now wait a second!" says local publican @@RANDOMNAME@@. "This is my job you're talking about. If we close even earlier every night, then I lose customers and hundreds of pounds profit." The landlord's mate, @@RANDOMNAME@@, chimes in: "Yeah, let the public have some freedom for once - we can hold our drink. Oi, did you just spill my pint?"
[effect] drunken brawls plague pubs at closing time
[stats] civil rights go up, crime goes up, economy goes up, health goes down

Well, what do you think?

First, I would argue that health won't go up if you close pubs earlier, only because people will probably just take their drinking home. Other than that, I'm happy with what you've scripted out.

I will ask you to entertain a 4th option: "Last Call". California NightClubs make use of a "last call" an hour before the venue closes as do many professional sporting events. The idea is to have a cool off time from when patrons drink to when they go home. I would just add a measure where there is an enforced last call, and make the game stats change very little.

A 5th option is the government approach, to have government sponsored cabs, and you could make this a crazy idea ... play with taxes and the like.

This might be a little too many options, but I would have one where you ban alcohol entirely.

Oh, by the way, it's [option], not [option 1]