I don't have anything against alt-history, but it would work better if the "point of divergence" was not 1936 but earlier. Both communist USA and monarchist Germany aren't very plausible if the alt-history starts in 1936, but with NSDAP getting embroiled in public scandals or the American government botching something in response to the great depression (more dead during the bonus army debacle...) it wouldn't be that much of a problem. Getting a newspaper with the divergent history (telegraphing the possible major alt-history paths) at game start would be an interesting solution. Given that they are almost always based on internal politics there shouldn't be too much unwanted coupling between the various countries.I was afraid of this. I really don't like having a communist tree for the US.
I'm not against alt-history either, but surely there are other possible alt-history paths for America that don't involve switching ideologies.I don't have anything against alt-history, but it would work better if the "point of divergence" was not 1936 but earlier. Both communist USA and monarchist Germany aren't very plausible if the alt-history starts in 1936, but with NSDAP getting embroiled in public scandals or the American government botching something in response to the great depression (more dead during the bonus army debacle...) it wouldn't be that much of a problem. Getting a newspaper with the divergent history (telegraphing the possible major alt-history paths) at game start would be an interesting solution. Given that they are almost always based on internal politics there shouldn't be too much unwanted coupling between the various countries.
So German communists aren't plausible but US communists are? This is getting ridiculous, what's the metric here? How do they choose what to include or not? It feels like they're just doing it for the memes at this point
So German communists aren't plausible but US communists are? This is getting ridiculous, what's the metric here? How do they choose what to include or not? It feels like they're just doing it for the memes at this point
it's very weird that you prioritized a democratic path over a communist path for germany, because the democratic path is boring af and from a gameplay pov it makes sense having an extra communist major power rather than a democratic oneThe metric being 'available time for implementation'. I was personally quite miffed by it because I had ample ideas to work with. As for how we choose what to include and what not, deadlines tend to have a thing or two to say about that.
it's very weird that you prioritized a democratic path over a communist path for germany
'available time for implementation'
To me "plausibility" doesn't seem to be a metric whatsoever, from all the nations, Japan's alt-hist is the most outlandish of all.So German communists aren't plausible but US communists are? This is getting ridiculous, what's the metric here? How do they choose what to include or not? It feels like they're just doing it for the memes at this point
The metric being 'available time for implementation'. I was personally quite miffed by it because I had ample ideas to work with. As for how we choose what to include and what not, deadlines tend to have a thing or two to say about that.
Time seems to be their credit for everything. Ask why this feature or that feature wasn't added, or why this bug still hasn't been squashed. The inevitable answer, if you could actually get one from a dev would be that it's due to time.So the metric for including something or not is simply whether you have time or not, not whether it was remotely plausible historically? I'm just trying to get a sense of how things are prioritized.
Time seems to be their credit for everything. Ask why this feature or that feature wasn't added, or why this bug still hasn't been squashed. The inevitable answer, if you could actually get one from a dev would be that it's due to time.
It seems unclear who actually works on what when it comes to content; as far as I know there's no way to tell if focus tree time and mechanics time is zero sum. Either way I'll reserve the majority of my salt for the customers. If no one cared about government flip focus trees they'd probably stop making them.It just seems like if the limiting resource here is time, wouldn't that time be better spend improving the historical parts of various trees before going into Communist USA-type stuff?