Feil
16-03-2005, 20:16
I know that the reactions to certain decisions are generally taken to their extremes to make them more visible in this game. But still...Some inexplicable lacks of continuity are present in the game.
For instace...For the past week, my income tax marker has been floating between 18 and 20 percent. Now, without me having done anything to change it (my last few decisions were entirely social in nature, nothing fiscal at all) it drops to 13 percent. That's not all...
I close down a neo-nazi rally, and my worldbook entry the next day reads that 'making racist remarks in public is outlawed'. Fine, I can see how one flows to the other, given the extremism of the engine. But then, after saying that the government won't force or reward the media to represent minorities only in positive ways, the worldbook reads that an incredibly racist TV show is a huge hit.
Now, I don't particularly mind either one--they both make sence in the crazy methodology of the game. But it appears that the current state of the nation has no impact on what the changes wrought by your decisions are. I think a more linear scale for each aspect, each with a sentence or phrase representing each value on the scale and each decision you make attributing a certain number of points to some scales would make for a far more comprehendable game.
I'm not sure if this should be here or in another section, but this made the most sence to me.
-Feil
For instace...For the past week, my income tax marker has been floating between 18 and 20 percent. Now, without me having done anything to change it (my last few decisions were entirely social in nature, nothing fiscal at all) it drops to 13 percent. That's not all...
I close down a neo-nazi rally, and my worldbook entry the next day reads that 'making racist remarks in public is outlawed'. Fine, I can see how one flows to the other, given the extremism of the engine. But then, after saying that the government won't force or reward the media to represent minorities only in positive ways, the worldbook reads that an incredibly racist TV show is a huge hit.
Now, I don't particularly mind either one--they both make sence in the crazy methodology of the game. But it appears that the current state of the nation has no impact on what the changes wrought by your decisions are. I think a more linear scale for each aspect, each with a sentence or phrase representing each value on the scale and each decision you make attributing a certain number of points to some scales would make for a far more comprehendable game.
I'm not sure if this should be here or in another section, but this made the most sence to me.
-Feil