Well that one is one I do consider doomed to failure as basically the Jews want the Palestinians to sod off and the Palestinians want the reverse and both groups have strong ancestral claims to the land.
That conflict has been the grave of diplomacy for generations now, so I wasn’t to disnmayed I failed to solve that one. I think the option where you do solve it is the far more unrealistic than making South Vietnam survive in an eleventh hour reversal basically. But it is of course nice to have for the “feel good” factor in gaming.
I do think you need to check the game files because during the Cambodian crisis it made mention of how I lost South Vietnam when I actually managed to make it survive, albeit just barely in what I guess roughly corresponds to the two Southernmost provinces of OTL Vietnam.
Whoops that’s embarrassing, I’ve fixed it in my version and I’ll probably push it through with the rest of the update when that get’s released.
I had imagined it to be basically the light green and the yellow district containing Ho Chi Minh City itself but I’m probably never going to get too strict about what exactly they held.
Initially that could certainly be the case, you do mention a second offensive a couple of months or so later and I don’t think it would be impossible at that stage for the South to push the border to include districts 42, 40 and most of 40 on that map, particularly if they can maintain morale while sapping some morale on the northern side. As the Delta and the South East seem to have been the regions where the Southern regime had some actual support.
And also Economically they are kind of the Saigon hinterlands.
I had imagined that would probably end up establishing more of a DMZ like in Korea and South Vietnam having almost collapsed a few months ago might not exactly be in a position to go a conquering. But it’s not impossible to imagine that the areas where the South Vietnam government had more support might be more difficult for the communists to hold onto and that they might be in a weird turnabout war against southern guerillas. So overall I’d say that it’s entirely possible but I honestly haven’t given it much thought and it probably won’t come up too much again outside of the ending.
An update for any following, the code rewrite is done which has fundamentally changed how the style of governance stats work. I decided to rip off Choice of Rebels and just switch it to 1’s and 0’s since I seem to just operate better when I’m working in binary making it easier to overall write interactions congress interactions. Second the second congressional session has been added and I’ve added the interactions with Rockfeller and Connally for passing the laws. As well as implemented the healing from watergate mechanic and set up an approval meter for the player although that is currently TBD.
Unfortunately I can’t help but feel that this is something of a light update as their are no major changes made to the game and I’ve been rather busy at work so I haven’t had the time to put stuff aside and write like I usually do. So I’ve decided that even though I’m pushing this update I don’t want to move on from this part of the game yet and I want to add two new law domains to the game to give the player more options in the congressional session. So I’ve decided to try and test out the poll mechanic and ask people what they want me to bring back from my old notes in terms of laws to potentially pass. My only caveat being that if the voting produces an equal result I reserve the right to choose or flip a coin.
Government Reform(L:Parlimentarianism, M: Seperation of powers, C:Unitary Executive)
Civil Rights(L:Civil Rights Act, M:Make school busing a state matter solely, C:Ban School Busing)
Amendments(End Electoral College , Instant-runoff voting, Campaign Finance Reform)
Education(L: Department of education, M: Increase federal block grants to schools, C: Institute a Federal School Voucher program)
Social Issues(L: Equal Rights Amendment, M: Amendment to make abortion solely a state matter, C: Make abortion illegal)
Welfare(L:Universal Basic Income, M:Federal Job Garuntee, C:Negative Income Tax)
0voters
Edit: I’ll probably close this by Thursday or Friday to give my work some time to calm down.
So I was thinking that during the first congressional session we might be able to pass three laws because during the no election year congress is more focused on law making and then in the second year everyone is more focused on getting reelected
Let me see how the balance on it shakes out when I get the new laws implemented. The only issue that I can see with that is that it removes some of the uniqueness of VP Baker if I go down that route.
I can add it to the list if I ever do another poll for more laws but I’m not entirely sure what the law you pass would do. The US military’s budget was pretty stably high throughout the cold war and while it did reduce here or there it rose overall as time went on.
So does the second session not include a basic legislation period? Because that was my favorite part. Right now I am the president who lowered taxes AND reduced the deficit. That’s an amazing legacy on its own, and was hoping to build on that. I chose the Amendments in the poll, because all 3 of the options there are interesting, and don’t seem to immediately play to stats. I was glad to see government reform though.
Also, if Baker gives you an extra law, and Rockefeller and Connally have extra scenes, what about the other VPs? Anything special about them?
The second congressional session operates the same as the first, so yeah you’ll be able to pass laws in one of the six categories you saw in the first plus whatever two I get implemented.
Dole and Anderson both provide assistance in getting laws passed reflecting their experience as a legislator and those are already implemented. Calling them extra scenes is probably a stretch though it’s mostly just extra sentences mentioning them working with congress to pass the law. They also give you some other stat boosts with Dole giving you some status with conservatives and Anderson giving some bonuses with centrists as well as healing from Watergate.
Okay is there supposed to be a delay between the creation of a law and the results?
Because after passing a law that taxes corporations and the rich to bring down the deficit, I still have " The government debt is increasing at a rapid and uncontrolled pace and at this point you don’t even have enough to pay off the interest either do something about this or … well I’m sure something bad will happen because of this, right?" on the stats page.
And I look forward to the day when the popularity mechanic actually changes, because I find it hard to believe that the guy who brought universal health care, crime to an all time low, a booming economy, and made the dollar one of the strongest currencies in the world would poll at 49%.
The effects of the law should populate as soon as you hit the pass screen it might be a case of the stats being a little off. Can you give me any further details about when you passed the law was it in the second congress or the first and who was your VP and such?
Yeah that’s still TBD I just wanted to add it since I thought I would be heading into the election stuff but it’s going to be on hold until I get whatever new laws I need to address done.
And it was in the second round, I think either the second law passed or the third.
I had Baker as VP, so I’m getting all the laws passed.
So yeah, it maybe that I confused your game with it being the sixth law passed. But it might have been my fifth.
But all the others showed up, although economy would be hard to tell becuase it was already booming when I passed the law. But since I can pass 6 laws, I figured I might as well pass a law so the economy remains booming after my administration.
So I’ve tried to recreate the issue as you described but haven’t really had any success. The only other thing I can think of is if you were potentially using a save from an old version which might have messed things up.
Could it be possible to pass laws from the same section twice? For example, in cutting the budget, I could cut from military or state support. Could I go the second time and choose the other option?
Currently, having Baker doesn’t seem a major benefit.
How is not passing a whole extra law not a major benefit? If the issue is being unable to perfectly balance the stats well that’s sort of the feel of being president. Also part of the point of the legislative section is supposed to be that you can’t get everything you want done and he’s the only VP who let’s you do that.
