Agreed.
Aaron Burr! WE NEED YOU!
*Killian sings once more*
Hey, Aaron Burr. Where are you?
We got some shooting to do now!
Aaron! Aaron Burr!
Hey, Aaron Burr! Where are you?!?!?
Then Iowa would be perfect. I can bring him to near death and keep his body frozen with all of our snow. Then I can come to Australia, pretending to be Gorth, and begin my mad conquest for beachfront property!
I just have to shake my head on this. The best way to promote piracy is to piss off enough gamers with stupid copy protection schemes that makes them want to pirate the game in protest. No single player game should require the person be online to play the game. Stupidest copy protection ever.
The prblem is that there are way too many ideologies being played about inside the US. People are yelling and screaming and ready to fight. The US is on the verge of civil war and its not going to be as clear cut as North versus South. There will be many differing ideological fronts and each will be at each other's throat.
Break up the nation into 13 nation states, each with there own militaries, government, and whatnot. Have a singular currency, like the EU's Euro, and a joint defense force. That could work.
I don't think anyone here is trying to say make it the only way to save. Making it tied to the difficulty slider would be the best way of doing it, or check in a box in the options screen.