Almost every single one of you saying the game is unplayable is running into this one Major bug that is stupid but an easy fix.

1. Do not MAX out any sliders. You can still change them but do not push the slider all the way to the right on any popup, and when decreasing on popups such as opec do not put it to the minimum. Not OPEC, Not Taxes, Not Subsides, not manpower additions. When you max out a slider it breaks the parameters oftentimes and will affect absolutely everything about your game, mainly power consumption followed by GDP Crash from it. If you are changing a value and want to dramatically increase just put it about 95% from the max.

For the slider, as an example lets say you want to add subs to an industry, the max out is $10, you can put it at 9 and be fine. I always scroll down about 10% of whatever the max is just to be safe. Then right after confirming it, if the max you can put in is increased because more manpower got into the industry i again bump it up to 90% of whatever the new value is

This one rule, assuming you are not using cheats, will be the source to most of the errors your game is having when it comes to values changing.

At no point does this say do not play and just sit afk watching the screen. You 100% can play and do whatever as long as you do not MAX out the sliders....

2. Dont click the checkbox that auto builds after finish again. Same thing but it breaks your manpower pool.

3. Don't use gods and spy. If you edit ingame parameters please refer to step number ones consequences. Im in year 2053, there has been 0 need for it. No bugs thats even remotely game breaking by just not doing these 3 things.

IK they are stupid stuff but the entire game is basically just one big parameter.

KEEP YOUR AUTOSAVES ON AND FREQUENT

I personally have very rare crashes, like i think in the past 60 hours i have maybe crashed 3 times total. Which even paradox games crash so this is not out of the norm for these types of games. As for bugs in the past 8 hours straight i have not had to revert to an autosave once. So take that information as you will

For those posting in the comments "Basically don't play the game and no bugs, make sense to me." please uninstall the game, delete windows, and go back to PS5. Since you can not read.

This is not a bug, if you look at your population chart you are probably seeing the bulk of your population in later stages of their life. Most of which are starting to hit social security\disability. They are no longer a productive member of the states GDP and are now an expense.

In real life especially for Europe, this is becoming a massive issue this decade that will have to be answered effectively or they will face total economic collapse of their welfare states. By year 2050 most developed countries will have entered this stage and if this problem was not solved by then they too will start facing total collapse. The USA is one of these. Countries are starting to see no growth to their populations or even negative growth and that makes this issue exponentially much worse.

This problems main source is the worker\elder ratio. Ideally you want about 10 workers per elderly\disabled person. Most countries in Europe are starting to hit the 1.5 worker\elder - 4 workers\elder ratio which is extremely bad for a welfare based state. Even for a mostly non welfare state this is terrible so think about that if you plan on getting later into the game.

I will let you figure out how to fix this in-game, part of the fun right? :)

Not a bug. This time it has to do with employers motivation to hire an employee.

The main fix ingame is to lower minimum wage, but you can exponentially make it better by lowering anything that has to do with employers having to add benifits to their employees.

Example: Lets assume I own a smaller business barely making ends meet because of taxes, and im too busy to clean my own place but its also probably too big of a facility that a full time janitor is needed. The government is making me pay this man $20 an hour minimum, along with paying onto his pension\retirement \ also taxing the money i put in, and forcing me to take care of his medical insurance. Thats around 40k a year in just the salary, then additions\benifits around $50k-70k a year. That is a massive loss to me per year. So instead im just going to pay some dude that just got of of high school 200$ for 8 hours per day and maybe some other under the table benefits like a work truck "under the table" to cut my expenses.

This happens in mass when employers refuse to fully hire people due to government policy. It forces the employees to accept illegally paid positions in fear of being fully unemployed. Why snitch when the man is offering an "under the table" job that you have to pay 0 taxes on, and can still claim unemployment checks while "working there". If you do snitch then who else would hire you even under the table? You both benefit and the only person being screwed is the government when this happens on mass.

Theres a small chance it could be a bug but only if you did not follow rule 1 and 3 on my fixes for this bug. Power consumption is directly related to violating rule #1. When you max out subsidies on a sector instead of putting it slightly below , like at 95% of the slider instead. It will break parameters and cause havoc on your economy because those subsides will go back into the employees wages\benefits = higher standard of living = more power consumption but in a very broken way. Keep in mind it will be a dramatic value increase like an increase of double in less than a year time so you can tell if its bugged or not.

Power consumption will always naturally go up so long as peoples standard of living is increasing. With electric cars becoming ever more common, you will start seeing extremely massive increases in a short amount of years if your standard of living is increasing.

If you are growing your economy well, your power consumption will reflect. People that are becoming better off financially are buying more consumer based products such as computers\phones\electric cars and making their lives better. Obviously you are going to have to start building a better power grid but just know, its because grandma got her brand new tesla charging in the brand new house with all the lights on, computers on, vacuum on, washer and dryer all at the same time :)

This one is really a bug, one that I never encountered because I do not do command economy's ever but when i played as the Soviet Union i got some help from Tepee to explain some stuff about the game mechanics in this regards and he taught me about a nationalization bug.

Long story short, this bug stems from the "glorious" developers adding to many sectors in the industry sectors and not actually integrating them properly.

Consequence: As a full command economy state ONLY, it prevents you from adding manpower to sectors and proper subs starting at the bottom of the list and slowly going up the list as more tech is unlocked.... Its incredibly annoying if you try to play as a full command economy.

Fix: None atm

Workaround: Simply make it partial ownership and let the free market guide it while you still have partial ownership to collect some money from it.

Who to ask for any future workarounds for this bug? "Tepee" he is all over the discussions and is better suited to discuss socialist\command economy gameplay.