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How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/8/2021 6:29:55 PM

Dampfnudel

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How to play anything else than democracy?

Democracy 40 PP
Else: 15 PP

Playing anything but democracy makes any stratagem feel useless as I have no pp for them anyway.

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RE: How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/8/2021 8:08:52 PM

Maerchen

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Meritocracy for the early diplomacy bonus for my farmer charmer foreign affairs.

I have no problems getting the additional democracy PP bonuses in mid to end game because of the worker strikes while keeeping meritocracy acceptably high to not get forced to switch voting system.

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RE: How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/9/2021 11:43:00 AM

zgrssd

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1. Build more Bureaucratic Offices
2. Spend more of the Budget on PP generation
3. Make sure the PP generation Task is run by someone with High Happiness

Autocracy is easy: Send in the Troops to build fear, to fight unrest. When Fear was given a increased downside in a Beta Branch, Autocracy was excempt - Fear is the intended playstyle for Autocracies.

Meritocracy is very hard. All the Event options use almost impossibly hard skill rolls.

Particulary try out Autocracy/Government/Heart:
- pretty much immune to Fear and Danger
- Fear is a tool
- Do not need anywhere close to the same money, as Government and Heart keep the people happy
- Worker, Soldier and Leader morale consistent even at low payment

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RE: How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/9/2021 9:24:33 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: zgrssd
Meritocracy is very hard. All the Event options use almost impossibly hard skill rolls.

I think Commerce makes a pretty good pair with Meritocracy, since it gives you the strategems that let you bribe zones into being happy. The difficulty rating for the unrest event skill checks (or at least the most common one) is reduced based on loyalty + average happiness, so if you get some incidental unrest in an otherwise happy and loyal city, the skill check is pretty easy. Because of this, maximizing happiness should probably be a higher priority for Meritocracy regimes compared to others. You can also use Expel Population to get rid of unrest alongside the bribes to pretty much instantly pacify a conquered city.

Meritocracy comes with some tools for generating credits. Though you do want some advisors with decent levels in the relevant skills, in addition to a steady credit income, in order to use this method of managing unrest.

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RE: How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/12/2021 9:10:40 PM

Dampfnudel

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I do love Meritocracy + Commerce as allows to kill people by draining all their people via migration.

But still, it feels so PP starved. With democracy, you swim in PP.

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RE: How to play anything else than democracy? - 5/13/2021 12:29:45 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Dampfnudel

I do love Meritocracy + Commerce as allows to kill people by draining all their people via migration.

But still, it feels so PP starved. With democracy, you swim in PP.

If you swim in PP, you should propably defund the PP generation task.
Democracies power is very heavily focussed into those passive Bonuses. That makes it a good beginner Profile to pick, but there is power in the other ones - card power and unti feat power.

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