Indian Removal Act

[Idle America]

When the rework for the USA comes along, this should be the first opportunity for divergence. Right now, the player can only shrug and say "Okay, genocide it is", with the closest thing to picking sides being John Ross' protest petition. Even then, that only delays it for two years. All other options are locked behind laws that are next to impossible to pass before the IRA is finished.

There should be two options for the Act, siding with either Jackson or the Supreme Court. The flavor text could even read "...now let him enforce it!" and "...and we shall enforce it!", respectfully. Choosing the latter and succeeding in the mission regarding enforcement could have a number of effects, including simply preventing the removal altogether, reducing the Rural Folk's clout, weakening the the power of the states, or possibly an attempted impeachment.

 

[DukeLeto42]

I pulled off the law shift in 1.0, but that was when I could wipe out slavery by 1840 and use the Intelligensia support of Multiculturalism to ram through the required reforms quickly.

That's not possible now, and while it's mostly for the best (removing slavery without the Civil War in the first years of the game needed to be fixed and Multiculturalism was too easy to obtain) the fact that in the next US game I'll have no option but to sit through the horrors of the IRA is too bad. It really lit a fire under me to get those reforms in, because each alert I got was a reminder of the human cost of me not addressing the cruelties of American settler colonialism.

 

[Idle America]

I pulled off the law shift in 1.0, but that was when I could wipe out slavery by 1840 and use the Intelligensia support of Multiculturalism to ram through the required reforms quickly.

That's not possible now, and while it's mostly for the best (removing slavery without the Civil War in the first years of the game needed to be fixed and Multiculturalism was too easy to obtain) the fact that in the next US game I'll have no option but to sit through the horrors of the IRA is too bad. It really lit a fire under me to get those reforms in, because each alert I got was a reminder of the human cost of me not addressing the cruelties of American settler colonialism.

The US feels unplayable right now; with Calhoun always caning Clay, a Jacksonian Democrat always replacing Clay, Jackson never retiring, and the Evangelists becoming apathetic after Finney resigns or dies, it's pretty much impossible to abolish slavery.