I'm a huge fan of the beautiful creation called HOI4 and have clocked over a 1000 hrs (literally conquering the world with every country, even Ethiopia!)
After much expeience, I realized that the game devs could relate a party/ideology's popularity with the occupation policy.
For example when I capture British Raj as Japan, while promoting the Indian National Army/Fascism there, I still get ~150 manpower each month from the non-core provinces, which sucks and seems rather unrealistic because even if half the (100 m) population supported fascism, I'm pretty sure thousands of volunteers (monthly) would like to contribute towards the crusade against Western British Imperialism, and not sabotage the industry which is working to destroy their former colonial masters)
. Similarly, there is no motivation to increase the popularity of fascism in Germany in '36. I'm pretty sure If 40% of germans were against fascism in '39, the war wouldn't be the same. All I ask is that add a few game mechanics to the party popularity so that I can finally hire Joseph Goebbels (the fascist demagogue) to actually promote fascism like it happened historically to justify the wars to my people. This would actually make sense and make the game more interesting because you have covered all the economic, productive and military aspects of war, but not emphasized much on the political aspect which imo is equally important.
What's your opinion, should it be done??
After much expeience, I realized that the game devs could relate a party/ideology's popularity with the occupation policy.
For example when I capture British Raj as Japan, while promoting the Indian National Army/Fascism there, I still get ~150 manpower each month from the non-core provinces, which sucks and seems rather unrealistic because even if half the (100 m) population supported fascism, I'm pretty sure thousands of volunteers (monthly) would like to contribute towards the crusade against Western British Imperialism, and not sabotage the industry which is working to destroy their former colonial masters)
. Similarly, there is no motivation to increase the popularity of fascism in Germany in '36. I'm pretty sure If 40% of germans were against fascism in '39, the war wouldn't be the same. All I ask is that add a few game mechanics to the party popularity so that I can finally hire Joseph Goebbels (the fascist demagogue) to actually promote fascism like it happened historically to justify the wars to my people. This would actually make sense and make the game more interesting because you have covered all the economic, productive and military aspects of war, but not emphasized much on the political aspect which imo is equally important. What's your opinion, should it be done??
