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Democracy 3
« on: October 18, 2013, 06:36:27 pm »
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I'm really interested but it seems a little bit pricey, has anyone played this yet ?

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2013, 07:01:25 pm »
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Just pirated Democracy 2, because reading about Democracy 3 sounded very interesting.

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2013, 11:01:53 pm »
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I just bought it because I have excellent willpower and my god this is awesome

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2013, 04:45:17 am »
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I tried a couple play-throughs. Turns out, I don't have the patience to manage public approval and all that jazz. I basically went out and did my business how I wanted it and was either assassinated or not re-elected (by a landslide)  :lol:

  • Appoint only Socialist/Commuter/Union sympathizers
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  • Unrestrict everything (drugs, guns, etc)
  • Get rid of the police and promote community-based management


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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2013, 09:25:02 am »
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I tried a couple play-throughs. Turns out, I don't have the patience to manage public approval and all that jazz. I basically went out and did my business how I wanted it and was either assassinated or not re-elected (by a landslide)  :lol:

  • Appoint only Socialist/Commuter/Union sympathizers
  • Cancel all policies possible
  • Unrestrict everything (drugs, guns, etc)
  • Get rid of the police and promote community-based management


The toast is anarchy!

Well, my mildly anarchocapitalist france is doing fine, sitting on 40 Bn surplus and keeping it up to pay the debt. I think the point is that you have to stay coherent, so I doubt it's a good idea appointing socialist sympathizers and deregulate everything at the same time.

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2013, 06:19:32 pm »
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Well, my mildly anarchocapitalist france is doing fine, sitting on 40 Bn surplus and keeping it up to pay the debt. I think the point is that you have to stay coherent, so I doubt it's a good idea appointing socialist sympathizers and deregulate everything at the same time.

Wait, there's a debt somewhere? When I was in surplus 30Bn something, it suggested me to lower tax. I instead put the money in teaching and technology, but I still spent it.

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2013, 07:12:39 pm »
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Wait, there's a debt somewhere? When I was in surplus 30Bn something, it suggested me to lower tax. I instead put the money in teaching and technology, but I still spent it.

Yeah there's a debt, and reducing it is a good idea when you have the money, as this will increase your credit ranking and also reduce the amount of money you are paying interests for. I'm not sure it is really more useful than fixing situations but at least it doesn't cost points. You can spend your political points on derp stuff that doesn't cost money like creationism vs darwinism, abortion, gun control etc. those things can get you a lot of votes as well

The US seems really easy to play, I've been going the full corporate police state route, outlawing everything that affects the public and allowing everything for the corporations and things are going admirably well with nearly 300 Bn surplus and 64% approval.

I'm going to agree with TotalBiscuit's review of this game and say that the political power system is a little bit simplistic as it lets you do things fairly easily even though they would realistically be almost impossible.

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2013, 07:42:31 pm »
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Have you tried Australia? I have been assassinated twice by the Army of God, guess I was a tad bit too progressive. They get some pretty serious problems, although it might have been my lack of experience with the game.

Played as Canada as well for 4 terms and basically haven't had shit to do for the past 1.5 terms. I reduced poverty, homelessness and crime to nothing. Health and education are practically maxed out and still have a 12 billion surplus on 84 billion income. Halved my debt from the ridiculous number of 1 trillion that I started with. Sitting on an approximate 95% approval rate for two entire terms now as there is no opposition party left. I have also no religious population left. My state is pretty much how I want it, high tech, a little social, very liberal and postmodern.

Now started as Germany, but it's just piss easy. After like 4 quarters I already had a 70% approval rate, should be no trouble to fix the country up within 2 terms.

Honestly the game is very interesting, but probably gets old very quick. There are just a limited number of things you can do, and I doubt I will be playing much more than trying each country once. Also, the game is exactly the same as Democracy 2, perhaps a little polish here and there. Which is a shame because they could make the experience more interesting in so much ways.
 

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Re: Democracy 3
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2013, 07:54:44 pm »
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I think you can renew the experience by increasing the length or difficulty of the game. Some countries get rough during recession cycles... Also I just realised the USA isn't that easy because (it seems Australia is the same), you can get assassinated pretty easily