An issue of randomness

I’m glad the issue of minister starting loyalties got fixed, however there is another problem:

Too much of whether the first re-election will be winnable will depend on what loyalties my random draw of ministers had, and how many of them will bail on me and do how much damage to me in the polls. I really think we need some sort of pre game. Nobody wakes up one day to realize they started being president or prime minister today, it’s something people put a great deal of effort into striving for. In doing so, they will have run a campaign with a platform or manifesto or whatever you title the package of promises they made to get into office, and what groups of voters put them there. We need a pre game where we set a couple manifesto topics and voter group sympathies. This could then be used to influence what random draw of loyalties our starting ministers have.

I think I’m going to start every game by checking minister loyalties, and just restarting if there are too many who are going to be a problem.

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Has this changed?

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It doesn’t seem to be as pronounced as it was (either that or I got used to it) but the actual problem still exists. Ministers still start as a random draw of loyalties. Weirdly, you don’t find out what they are until turn 2. On turn 1 they all have a combination of Liberal/Conservative and Socialist/Capitalist, then on turn 2 they have their actual loyalties.

The replacement ministers are all random draw too, meaning that you might only have one candidate for a particular ministry, who is loyal to exactly the two groups you’ve pissed off the most.

Also, “9 months later” wow, this game as been out for this long? And this problem still exists? Ok, wow, this needs to be dealt with already.

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Maybe it reflects the different factions in your party? IDK, Cliff will have to weigh in on this.

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I would like to know if difficulty affects it, like the adjustments are there to not be randomized and then the rest to go foolhardy and make it very hard!

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And does this setting affect the loyalty of your ministers?

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Well, it would be very dubious if your nation started as liberal-environmentalist and your transports minister threatens to quit for no reason although he’s liberal-environmentalist.

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It would be hot spam indeed! But it would be a random start too!

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