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WCG -> RE: Tariff strategy? (6/23/2020 1:01:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sieppo
IMO its moot since everyone is going to attack you anyway pretty soon regardless
I hope that's not true, since I'd really like the game to be more varied than that. I'm still in my first game, so I guess I'll find out.
But I've got one major regime at 100 relations. A Realpolitikers faction controls them, and we've been helping them maintain their political control. We still don't have the option to ally with them or anything. The game says that I can't even offer a non-aggression pact, for some reason.
Indeed, the main reason I was asking about tariffs is because I didn't want to screw up our relations with this regime. So far, tariffs in and out of their regime hasn't seemed to affect anything except the amount of money I get each turn (and it's a significant amount of money).
A second major regime was friendly, but turned cold. They're a bunch of religious nuts, and I suspect that they turned cold when the Crusader faction took control. (I'd forgotten to check that earlier, or maybe we just didn't have enough recon then.)
We've still got high relations with them, though. And we've been using our spies to help the Humanist faction gain power. (They're currently the least powerful faction, though. So I don't expect this to end well.)
The third major regime I've discovered is militaristic, but Isolationist. So, I expect war with them, but they've been ignoring us, so far. That's fine with me. We've got plenty of minor regimes who don't play nice with others.
I'm not much of a wargamer. The economic and political stuff interest me the most. Of course, I need armed conflict, too. But there's been no shortage of that in my game. We've taken out three different minor regimes who were raiders, and two who were farmers,... for reasons. [:)]
But we've been friendly since the start of the game with another minor farmer regime. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much we can do diplomatically with minor regimes. I could offer to defend them from another major, but no other major can get to them, anyway. Will I have to attack them, eventually? Or do I have options?
Anyway, sorry about the book. But yeah, my question about the consequences of tariffs was not just about the economic consequences, but about the political consequences, too.
I like to have reasons for doing things. And I like those things to have consequences - good and bad, perhaps (to varying degrees, of course) - which go beyond just making me money.
Admittedly, making me money certainly isn't a bad thing. [:D]
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