Nepotism

[Merrick Chance']

I'm an idiot.

I chose Nepotism as the Netherlands, and now my 5 Capi pops are making half money. This simply won't work, especially now that the world has advanced to Steel Railroads.

So anyways, what event triggers the Bureaucracy VS Nepotism event, will it work, and will the Bureaucracy events start firing?

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

That invention comes from State & Government technology. But it's not that invention that gives -50% to your capitalists, it's meritocracy vs aristocracy.

 

[jamy30]

whats the best option to chose? ive always gone for the top option... i think its aristocracy

 

[unmerged(86954)]

whats the best option to chose? ive always gone for the top option... i think its aristocracy

Top choice is meritocracy. Some prefer aristocracy because it supposedly really cuts down the chance of the Stock Market Crash events, but I always go with meritocracy. Unless I play something like, oh, Annam or Korea where the other choice would make sense. Maybe Prussia or Austria if I'd want to maim myself. Otherwise, no.

I actualy have no idea what the Nepotism vs Bureaucracy event does. Maybe it's effects are hidden?

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

I actualy have no idea what the Nepotism vs Bureaucracy event does. Maybe it's effects are hidden?

Some events have either nepotism or bureucracy flag as triggers, like for example Bureaucratic Quagmire.

 

[unmerged(86954)]

Some events have either nepotism or bureucracy flag as triggers, like for example Bureaucratic Quagmire.

Never seen that event, or at least I don't remember it.

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Never seen that event, or at least I don't remember it.

Check political_events.txt.

 

[unmerged(86954)]

Check political_events.txt.

I see them now. I've had the Efficient Management and Efficient Taxation happen though. Strange, there's quite a few political events I've never seen happen there.

 

[Minarchist]

As a rule of thumb, if you are/planning to be an industrial state, choose meritocracy. If you are/planning to be an agrarian state, choose nepotism. So nepotism is better in some circumstances (like when you have an agrarian economy) while meritocracy is better in others (like when your economy is predominantly industrial).

 

[Kagernaut]

I think you mean, aristocracy is better for an agrarian state.

Nepotism is for the way a government is formed, ie when a new leader takes power he chooses from among his own accomplices to lead the government.

A system which the US uses, but we're hardly an agrarian state.

 

[Aethis]

USA was an agrarian state when they introduced the usage of of nepotism?

 

[Merrick Chance']

USA was an agrarian state when they introduced the usage of of nepotism?

However, they changed it by 1930, which seems REALLY odd to me.

You should be able to similarly change it by the end of the game.