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ORIGINAL: Dashwood

Having a blast with the game. One thing I'd be interested in seeing Is more depth to the modelling of different government types. For example:

Fascist Dictatorships- more strats that allow for direct appropriation, and the ability to purge free folk/non capital populations for happiness gain or fast IP gain. I think it's important to model the self destructive and short half life of such governments, while also acknowledging that smashing and grabbing the good stuff can work well in the immediate short term.

Socialist States- be nice to see the abolition of private property in these states, generally I think these states should be less productive overall than others but have huge bonuses to general happiness and long term stability (assuming an "ideal" of post capital socialism, not a dictatorship masquerading as one!) Heart/Government already models this pretty well, the ability to seize the means would be great for RP purposes.

Capitalist States- would be amazing to see a boom bust cycle modelled. Is fractional reserve banking on the cards? Surely s powerful state with capitalist tendencies could move past the energy credit standard! Would be an interesting mechanic to play around, a boom of several turns in which your wealth and industry grows turn upon turn moving into a catastrophic bust in which you are vulnerable.

Cheers Vic, keep up the great work!

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ORIGINAL: Dampfnudel

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ORIGINAL: Dashwood

Having a blast with the game. One thing I'd be interested in seeing Is more depth to the modelling of different government types. For example:

Fascist Dictatorships- more strats that allow for direct appropriation, and the ability to purge free folk/non capital populations for happiness gain or fast IP gain. I think it's important to model the self destructive and short half life of such governments, while also acknowledging that smashing and grabbing the good stuff can work well in the immediate short term.

Socialist States- be nice to see the abolition of private property in these states, generally I think these states should be less productive overall than others but have huge bonuses to general happiness and long term stability (assuming an "ideal" of post capital socialism, not a dictatorship masquerading as one!) Heart/Government already models this pretty well, the ability to seize the means would be great for RP purposes.

Capitalist States- would be amazing to see a boom bust cycle modelled. Is fractional reserve banking on the cards? Surely s powerful state with capitalist tendencies could move past the energy credit standard! Would be an interesting mechanic to play around, a boom of several turns in which your wealth and industry grows turn upon turn moving into a catastrophic bust in which you are vulnerable.

Cheers Vic, keep up the great work!

Why would socialist regimes receive a happiness bonus? Socialism is about having zero economic freedom and rights. This does not lead to happiness. neither does economic collapse or poverty. The benefit of socialism for society is the ability to put all economic efforts into the military while being able to completely neglect the demands of the population.
So in-game it is autocracy+bureacracy/enforcement.
Fascism (at least the historical versions in Europe) is a socialist form of government. Just a xenophobic version.

The boom-bust cycle of capitalism is indeed about government actions using the central bank, but I do not see how it adds anything fun to the game. It doesn't fit here.