I hope this is interesting… talking about situation balancing, modding (again) and the new protest votes/smaller parties feature:
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Sorry, I don’t understand how i can do protest votes.
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I think that the game just does it for you.
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The video explains how voters can look at the graph and disagree with the player being in control.
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Power to the people!
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I’m glad to see some realistic detail added to how people vote. A topic you are missing here is single issue voters. An example would be if I play from the liberal capitalist corner, and have a voter who is self employed, capitalist, commuter and religious. I may have a booming GDP with policies which favor small business and spend lots on transportation infrastructure resulting in this voter approving of me for all those reasons, but if they have strong feelings about abortion then my liberal approach may cause them to oppose me.
In game, their strong opinions in 3 other categories will overpower their negative views of me for religious reasons, but in reality many voters would focus on that. They might even vote for someone more socialist if that socialist also has religious conservative views on abortion. Real life voters tend to focus on what they are unhappy about and tend to not scrutinize alternatives as much as the incumbent.
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I mean, indeed this depends on how tight they think of their sympathetic group, but in Democracy 4 you can drive all the religious away which I don’t know how realistic that is.
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I think that there’s also an incumbency effect, if you’re an anti-abortion conservative capitalist, would you an anti-abortion socialist to be in power? They would probably value maintaining capitalism more than banning abortion (which is why libertarian republicans share the party with conservative republicans, for ex). But I’m just conjecturing here.
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I guess in theory, single issue voters are effectively voters who have a 100% weight to a specific voter group, and fairly mild memberships of all of the others. I suspect that in reality, most voters are not really single-issue voters, but just have a strong tendency to be vocal on a specific topic as opposed to all others.
For example, I’m sure there are a lot of democrats in the US that might describe themselves as single issue voters on the basis of the right to an abortion, but would they really swap their vote from biden to trump if the only thing trump changed his mind on was abortion?
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