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Now what could that be... I'd bet on France (sixth city teasers), Italy (close to the Cumaean Canal), Germany (Empress' Shadow), or Austria-Hungary (Vienna)
what if an american industrialist shows up
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Has Carnegie not suffered enough of our theorizing XD (no he hasn't)
@mr-veils who has the power to sell an American city? 🤔 leadership in Washington DC feels too distant, even the governor of California. Place is huge. I guess maybe the mayor of LA or the most influential businessperson?
Also this is still how we can get Walt Disney in the neath-
Ah, but Los Angeles is part of the good ol' U.S. of A -it's not a single person selling it off, it's a democratic vote (that only the rich, white men actually know is happening and take part in). I'm talking about the Studio System that was in place from the 1930-1948.
In 1948, a lawsuit, the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., seems to be coming to a close -and against the Studio's interests. All chatters indicates that the outcome will deem the studio system illegal under the violation of the nation’s antitrust laws. If they become considered an unfair monopoly, the Studios will need to make crucial changes to their businesses, involving giving up the ownership of their movie theaters.
As you can imagine, the head honchos of Warner Bros., MGM (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Paramount, 20th-Century Fox, RKO, Universal, Columbia, and United Artists see that their power is waning, and will do *anything* to get it back. So they decide to pull a Bioshock and get their own little Capitalist Utopia, and contact the Masters to sell the city. They convince the Masters of the romanticism of Hollywood and movies, and all the love stories the city creates every single day. The Masters, finally dealing with a set of businessmen and not a single monarch, eventually come to a good deal.
And 5 years after that is when we'd start playing, in the City of Fallen Angels.
