United We Stand - Political WIP

If you do that, they will simple cut off the money.

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Eventually, but until my party takes power that’s several years of monetary support. After all, I can hardly ally with Italy if my party isn’t in power?

And frankly once my party does take power, why would I need their money? At that point, assuming my character wasn’t an idiot, he should have saved it up and used it to slowly improve infrastructure in the poorer neighborhoods to try to spark an economic upswing in the country.

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Because Moravia might not be the most stable country, and with an economic crisis it’s better to keep the Italian support.

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And lets remind ourselves that WW2 is at the door, pissing off the french isn’t really a big problem (it’s not as if they will act in time or strongly enough to save us from the germans), but pissing of Italy (and their German friends)? Not a good choice. As soon as the war breaks out Moravia is one of the first countries to be invaded. An alliance with the Italians would spare our country from a large part of the war’s atrocities, I think.

This being said, given the history of my country, I hate fascism, so I will gladly spit on Mussolini’s hand as soon as I grab the money he offers me. My only wish would be to do the same to Salazar and Franco. Moravia isn’t going fascist in my watch, only highly conservative. Yep, in New Order I am obviously going for the alliance with the conservatives option, no way fascism is taking the reins of the government on my watch, and besides, I am basically role-playing in the New Order path as an “infiltrated” democrat that joined them just to destroy the movement from the within.

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I doubt Italy would help us, I think when it happens the alliance will end.
The same would happen with the alliance with France.

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11 posts were split to a new topic: Musings on Two Horrid Systems

Enough.

The author has asked not to devolve his WiP thread into morality arguments about ideologies and beliefs. I’m going to move some of the posts to a new thread.

Please stop and think of how your post will be giving feedback for the author and his game -

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These might have been answered already but 2 questions if I may:
1.) How long is the game expected to be?
2.) How much influence does our background choice have?

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I really love the game and I was wondering; will there be an option for our character to take over our party?

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No, you will not be able to take over.

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Is it possible to switch to the other faction instead of staying with the faction you chose at the beginning? This question may have been answered already, but thanks in advance.

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Even though we can’t take over, can we break from our own party as we did on the budget vote, but in a more significant and permanent way. Say Wulf believes the time for armed revolution the proletariat is upon us, but my character believes in the slow and peaceful evolution to Socialism (As Marx did). Would we be able to permanently break ranks from our party to stop it?

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There’s a socialist republic path if we stick with Wulf where we will be able to decide our actions during the takeover and a social democracy path if we try to moderate the party. New order have the same possibilities by either sticking with Riga or supporting the conservative coalition.

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You will not be able to break from your party. You will be able to go for the moderate party, where you will forge either a right alliance with the National bloc and the Prince to make Moravia a paternalistic authoritarian right wing state under the crown or you can make a left alliance with the SDP and continue with the Parliamentary Monarchy dominated by the left alliance
In both moderate path, the leader of the radical party will have their power undermined.

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A song I felt matches the game’s story and tone:

Particular lyrics in I feel match:

Tonight we fight
Until the bloody end
Until the enemy submits
This life we live
To feed our war machine
The souls of a nation burning down
Failure is never an option
As long as we stand
As long as we’ve got something left to fight for
And we won’t stop until there’s no more opposition
Something left to fight for
And we won’t stop until there’s no more, no more

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Hey everyone this is an amazing demo but I have a question is there a guide of some sort my New Order MC can’t get past the metro station without dying. What am I doing wrong?

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You didn’t die, that is the end of the demo.

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Hello all, the big news is that Solidarity chapter 5 is up. I hope you have as much fun playing it as I did writing. A little bit about the chapter: you find out what happened to your character after the cliffhanger at the end of ch. 4, there is a pretty hefty decision to make and the small matter of romance…

I had hoped to get it out much sooner but I went on holiday (and didn’t do any writing despite intending otherwise), moved house and also found that writing seven different romance scenes takes a long time! This chapter, although it might be shorter than the others to read, actually is well over double the length of all the others.

Apologies if it is a bit messy, I am just so relieved to have it finished, so uploaded it. There are probably typos and he/she confusion but there are no errors as far as quicktest can tell, so enjoy and please do give your feedback/error reports!

Edit: Hopefully I will get New Order chapter 5 up next week, although it will also be a time consuming process.

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Solidarity chapter 2: If you go moderate with the dockworkers, the response on leaving doesn’t make a lot of sense. I picked a calming approach so that they didn’t strike, but Kovak’s parting shots:

Seem to presume that I did want them to strike. Meanwhile, the union changed affiliation to Solidarity, which doesn’t seem like something this guy would be sneering over.

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@Dominic interesting, i’ll have a look at that section tomorrow and see what’s going on there, thanks!

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