Trivia / Old World Blues

• Development Gag: One event for Middlemark mentions someone named Nordikon who bought Calgary Tower but never moved in, a reference to how it was originally implemented in the game to replace Nordikon, a tag shelved due to issues in development (Nordikon and its six subminds Ant, Bumblebee, Wasp, Mosquito, Yellowjacket and Termite took up a fairly small portion of the map and had a unique design and ideas that made them hard to work with).
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally New Reno had a path where the Enclave, under Mason Salvatore and Sergeant Dornan, could take over. This path was cut because it was discovered that people were purely playing New Reno for the Enclave rather than playing through the various routes on their own merits. The Enclave remnant coup proper as a gameplay mechanic was moved to Eureka.
  • The original cause of the NCR civil war was Grant Hayes trying to resurrect the Enclave as a force for good, angering a large chunk of the population and political establishment of the NCR. It was cut because said decision was out of character for Hayes, through Hayes does retain his Old World Nostaligia and can pardon Enclave supporters, even going as far as to have them serve in the government and the army.
  • Redding's "People's Republic" path that can emerge from the NCR Civil War was once a full blown Communist state that can seek to resurrect the ideology of Communism in the New World before being retooled to being supporters of Bill Calhoun's Californian Way in the Civil War, albeit supporters with quasi-socialistic economics, aesthetics, and politics. Pure Communist sympathizers however exist in the form of Communist holdouts in Canada.
  • Originally, Jack Johnson's plans to restore the Commonwealth system across North America would have had far more complex mechanics rather than be the simple conquer-and-puppet affair it is in the 5.0 release, with the player being able to go as far as to choose who to lead each of the reestablished Commonwealths.

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