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Ultimate Game Balance Updated

Democracy 3 is a great game, but too easy. This mod introduces and tweaks policies in an attempt to raise the difficulty and prevent you from ever getting to the infamous utopia end-game.


My main goal is to prevent you from "winning" the game. The game is too easy, especially the socialist/liberalist path. To prevent this, I have lowered the impact certain policies have on socialists, and introduced some new policies. I have also tried to change some policies to make the game slightly more realistic. For a full list of changes, see below.

If you have any suggestions, please leave me a comment :) The mod is still in a development phase, I just wanted to publish it to get some feedback.


New policies:
- Retirement Age
- Severance Pay
- Minimum Wage
- Wealth Tax
- International Tourism Advertising
- Sex Education (idea and picture from cliffski, tweaked numbers myself)
- Immigration Policy
- Firearms Tax

New situations:
- Job Market Segregation
- Foreign Crime Organizations
- Elderly Wave
- Worker Shortage
- Slothful Youth

New statistics:
- Birth Rate
- Life expectancy
- Legal Immigration
- Illegal Immigration
- Legal Gun Usage
- Illegal Gun Usage

New events:
- Accounting Scandal


Minor adjustments:
- Increased sales tax's effect on black market. The black market problem barely ever appears, and I feel like higher sales tax should make it occur more often.
- Made corporate exodus occur easier by increasing the effect of maternity leave, as well as adding minimum wage and severance pay.
- Changed the link between GDP and immigration so that high GDP increases immigration, and not vice versa.
- Made general strike occur easier by adjusting the impact from labour laws and unemployment. Minimum wage can be used to counter the strike. Also made general strike decrease productivity.
- Made petrol protests occur easier by adjusting the impact from petrol taxes and oil prices.
- Reduced free school meals' impact on poverty. Seriously, how does free school meals do more for poverty than free health care or state housing?
- Removed the link between membership of retired group and winter fuel subsidies.
- These policies now have a reduced impact on socialists' happiness: Capital Gains Tax, Corporation Tax, Income Tax, Inheritance Tax, Property Tax, State Health Service, State Housing, State Schools, Unemployed Benefit.
- Low border controls increases tourism
- Reduced community policing's effect on violent crime rate. I might take steps to reduce the effects of community policing even further, as it is a really strong and cheap policy.
- Changed the link between productivity and unemployment so that high unemployment reduces productivity instead of increasing it. Must have been a little mistake by the game developers.

Future plans:
- Big mac index / Consumer prices index
- Add new events and dilemmas (I have a few ideas, but I'm going to need pictures and sounds and that takes a while)



Changelog

V 1.2:
- New crisis: Slothful Youth
- New stats: Legal Gun Usage and Illegal Gun Usage. Handgun Laws no longer directly reduces number of liberals, decreases life expectancy and causes violent crime. All this has been put into the new stats. Though, strict handgun laws now increases general crime.
- New policy: Firearms Tax.
- Legalizing narcotics now reduces crime rather than increasing it, but still causes organized crime.
- The direct cost of Elderly Wave has been reduced. Instead, Elderly Wave increases the cost of State Health Service, State Pensions and Disability Benefit, and reduces the income from Income Tax and Flat Income Tax.


V 1.1:
- Fixed the American debt issue.
- Hospital Overcrowding now leads to Doctor Strike.
- Changed name of “Racial Segregation in the Job Market” to “Job Market Segregation” and reduced the effects.
- Wealth Tax now goes from 0% to 10%. Increased max income and the impact on wealthy and capitalists. No longer affects retired or retired income.
- New stats: Legal Immigration and Illegal Immigration.
- New policy: Immigration Policy.

V 1.0:
Made the mod! Yay!