agustin-lucas
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6 years ago Also, I forgot one about nukes. The AI seems too willing to use them (or I just happen to be very unlucky). In two of my three games I got nuked within 10 years of gameplay. As Burma it was kind of understandable, since I was at war with the USA (because I was allied to China and she tried to reclaim Taiwan), although I don't think minors should be the ones being nuked, just China (or other military powerhouses on their side). But as Zaire it was during the Rwanda war. It was really stupid, France joined them and not two months later she nuked three provinces of mine. I mean, that's ridiculous. The USA didn't nuke anyone since WWII, and they have gone to much more cruent and/or important wars than a conflict between Rwanda and Zaire. I mean, maybe there should be very strict requirements for using nuclear bombs (like having a % of your territory occupied? Thus Vietnam could fight its civil war without the US nuking the hell out of them, because Vietnam doesn't need to occupy mainland America in order to win).
arandomperson5000
Hi, I'm new to both the platform and the New World Order mod so forgive me if I'm doing anything wrong. I have a couple of issues, I'll start with the simplest one.
UN Peacekeeping missions. I like the way they're implemented but there's a minor problem, and it's that if there are two requests for UN aid within two years of one another, and one fails, so will the other. For instance, playing as Zaire I was asked to help South Sudan, and readily accepted. A few months later Gambia requested a UN mission, and knowing that they're a one province minor I refused, since the rebels would win before I get there. Obviously the mission failed, but I got the event (loss of prestige, etc.) as if I had accepted. I'm pretty sure this happens because there is only one UN peacekeeping flag, and it's universal, so if one mission fails, so will all others. The obvious solution would be to have unique flags for each country (e.g. UN_peacekeeping_gambia), but I don't know how hard it would be to implement. Another solution could be having numbers for the mission flags; for instance, if there's no current mission, the flag would be UN_peacekeeping_1 or something like that, but if that flag is already in place then you would have UN_peacekeeping_2 instead, and so on. They would always be unique this way, and will fail independently.
Money. I've played as three countries so far, Zaire (1992), Burma (1992), and Yugoslavia (1946). With all three I was losing ~300 pounds a day, with all sliders to the minimum, and maximum taxes. There was basically no income, and I had to cheat for money for the first 5 years or so until my finances stabilized. After that I could manage to keep in the positive (and get extremely rich sometimes), but the initial, inevitable bankruptcy is still anoying unless you cheat. I think the reason for this is my third issue.
Administrative efficiency. It is extremely low in all three starts. I know Yugoslavia, Zaire and Burma are not particularly rich countries but they should be playable at least. I have yet to check if this is true with major powers, but admin efficiency was usually around 6%. This could be the reason for the ridiculous loss of money early game, and I believe it stems from the fact that bureaucrats were 0.1% of the population, or even less sometimes. I tried to use national focus to encourage bureaucrats, which leads me to issue 4.
National focuses. I can't be 100% sure, but they look broken. Most of them won't do anything. Promoting bureaucrats with maxed admin. spending for 20 years would increase its number from 0.1% to 0.2% or, sometimes, 0.3%. Which looks more like the maxed admin. spending doing its thing and not really the effect of the national focus. The covert action to increase party loyalty in foregin countries is also not working for me. This one I'm sure about because after years of promoting liberalism in Chad the party loyalty map mode shows a "neutral" loyalty to the Liberal party, the same as every other. Maybe it is the map mode that doesn't work, but it does show me the real loyalty in other countries (in New York for instance), so it looks like it is the NF that isn't working.
I don't mean to undermine your work or anything, quite the opposite, I'm just trying to help its development by offering (what I believe to be) some constructive criticism or informing of problems I notice. I love the mod, it is a great idea and is very well implemented. It gives the game much more "replayability" while we wait for Victoria 3, and it's an amazing game on its own too, truly one of only a handful of games set in the current era. So thank you for that :)