Dantilla
27-04-2004, 07:50
My nation description looks like that at the moment:
... are either ruled by a small, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of ...
I suppose this is some kind of bug, so i posted here.
It's not really the worst thing, sure, but it doesn't make sense.
From the Tech FAQ:
My nations description is saying contradictory things!
The nation description is broken down into primarily 3 paragraphs. Your first paragraph contains some information about your population, a key feature of your government (these are usually very hard to loose once you get them), and a description based entirely on your UN type (which can cause a lot of problems). The second paragraph starts off describing your government with some adjectives (similar to the population paragraph) and lists your prioraties and major industries, as well as tax rate. The third paragraph contains some strings directly based on your last five issue choices and some info about your national animal and curency.
The problem is that all of these adjectives and descriptions are based on different things. So, for example, a popular complaint used to be that a nation that was listed as an Anarchy had no government in the first paragraph, but an "omni-present" government in the second. This was because the player had met the requirements to become an anarchy (none of which have to do with government size), but had done so through masive government intervention.
The solution? Well, there really isn't one. You can take whichever of the contradictory descriptors you want to be the "correct" description of your nation, but the game would practecally have to be rewritten from the ground up to get these contradictions out, and it won't be happening.
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