NationStates Jolt Archive

how did refusing to kiss the backside of economic intrests,
on one issue, something we've been doing consistently all along,
suddenly chainge our fair land from a 'scandinavian liberal paradise'
into a 'corrupt dictatorship'???

is this normal or is this resault of there being a bug somewhere?

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i would have sworn this was a tecnical question that belonged
in the tecnical forum where i posted it
i'm still awaiting some sort of answer or explaination
could someone have hacked into your 'game' and reset my original
settings and objectives?
the ones that define my nation's charicteristics
or someone with moderator privelages capriciously expressing displasure at my perspectives?
in either case we are not greatly amused!

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Was it the 'Allow cars again' issue? Well, it limits your political rights to 'gun down' protesters. So your country loses civil rights and political freedoms!

nope it wasn't that one at all

it was the congressional budget
session and of the options given i chose to prioritise welfare

(the other options were 'education' 'libertarian let em eat cake' and some kind of one other i forget which, i recall there were 4 all togather)

at least that how i read it
and prioritising welfare should make an up until then a "remarkably
uncorrupted""scandanavian liberal paradise" into a "corrupt dictatorship"???
at least that was the last issue previous to this observed chainge

up until this time we'd been "anarchy", "scandinavian ...", think i may have even gotten "civil rights love fest"
all of which are fine or at least ok

but "corrupt dictatorship"?
me thinks this no sense makes

all i can think is the game/issue somehow misread my choice of response, i somehow misread the choices, or i've been somehow hacked

this is why i origeonaly posted the question in tecnical

(ok i just looked it up in the spoiler list
it's Budget Time: Accountants Excited)

so is that what's supposed to have happened?

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I don't know who moved the thread, but this is primarily an issue-related question. The confusion is understandable; there is some potential for overlap between "Technical" and "Got Issues?".

Remember that all issues have effects on your statistics. It's possible that you didn't notice this kind of a shift, before, because it was being opposed by other issues you were deciding on.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation
"Think about it for a moment."
Founder of The Realm of Ambrosia

i've been more or less deliberately 'running on empty'
economicly because of the issues we've seen, the great majority
were without responses i would consider rational that did not
have adverse economic effects.

the only sense i can make of this is that we must have suffered
something like a military coop.

it makes no sense in the contexts i've been (mis?)perceiving but
if one adimantly insists on certain economic assumtions i find
less then compelling i suppose that
might be possible.

but if that is what this is supposed to represent
its odd that civil rights are still excelent, economy is still basket case, and only political freedoms have diminished.

well it might be fun to roll play how our citizens would deal with
such an attempted coop, but i don't see where or how to do that
here, or how to have it affect my nation's stats if i could.

i do wish someone who actualy knows could tell me if this is
ligitimately supposed to have happened.

obviously i just have to live with it if it is. but is it?

and if there are issues that have rational options that are not
economicly disasterous, well i haven't seen a large percentage of
them.

i suppose this means i should get bussy and try to come up with some
been meaning to. one of those 'roundtuit' things you know.

if this is a meaningless grumble then please forgive a goofy old man

our economy may be basket case
we may be without cars or balistic
ordance
but we have an abundance of other forms of mobility
AND of 'weaponry' (that arn't exactly weapons as such ... )

(just as idle speculation i wonder if we could get an issue that would
somehow oust a usurping dictator?)

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Hm...seems issues in the game have a far more wide-reaching power than I thought. :shock:

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, anti-government web sites are springing up, anti-environmentalist protesters are gunned down without mercy, and a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate.

Might it not have been that issue instead? It would fit with the drop in political freedoms.

modern major general?

Hm...seems issues in the game have a far more wide-reaching power than I thought. :shock:

The descriptions are greatly exaggerated :) For instance, just because everyone can eat well, doesn't mean there'll be a lot of fat people :)

My best guess is that you were right on the border already and car issue pushed you down more then the other issue brought you back up... (did you put both through at the same time?)

On a side note, my favorite puppet dropped from Benevolent Dictatorship to Father Knows Best and has resisted all attempts to kick it back for almost a week, be prepared for a long and hard struggle to get those back. (you'll need personal and political freedoms to go up to move back to your old category)