Incredibly cool because I 'lost' the game on every conceivable level with everyone in my cabinet betraying me, leaving the party, running against me, impeaching me, attempting to assassinate me, and forming a coup on me for refusing to play by bourgeois and liberal rules on the reformative level, and gaining alliance with the reds internationally

Knowing how big the shit storm was going to be I escaped into exile at the last second but my actions and broad support for just about every leftist faction in Sordland lead to the left becoming entrenched enough to beat out every shitty long-standing party.

Down with the USP and old Sordland. Bit silly that fairly out and out communists take power without issue and don't invite you back but that's life in exile

    • doesntmatter [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I did some reading after playing blind and you can do even better theoretically by not being couped and becoming VP of the People's Front but that requires extreme loving up to the military and all sorts of liberal dishonest political sucking and fucking. so i'm not roused enough to try for a second run. by force of will and near complete honesty i got this exiled but overall epic-ly winning ending. only possible better ending IMO (i don't think can happen in the game other than an unresolved civil war?) is complete proletarian revolution and wiping the governmental slate clean

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lmao you went Dictator, defunded the military, joined CSP, didnt promote Lucian, and didn't form the Anti-Corruption Police, didn't you?

    I'm pretty sure thats the route you have to take to alienate literally everyone in the cabinet and have every possible bid to overthrow you go off.

    • doesntmatter [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Hell Yeah. I say near-complete honesty because the only shit thing i did was promise the reformist vice presidency because I didn't think Lucian would become an option at the time, just knew Petr would need to go because he's a loose cannon POS. And i fulfilled the promise. As for the other things the anti-corruption police wasn't an option because i didn't want to fund the police and didn't think anti-corruption police would be an option. See this game gives you some real out of nowhere choices sometimes and gives you "hey fuck you decide on this really important thing right now in a very dichotomous way without talking to anyone that matters" a lot of other times

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah my first run (Reformist but lost the war) I funded Health and Education thinking I would get prompted for a new budget annually and initial investments there would pay off Keynesian-style.

        But funding Law Enforcement is actually extremely important if you intend to

        spoiler

        root out the Sollist deep state root and branch.

        Which I did to a maximalist extent in my second, successful run.

        • doesntmatter [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Yea it doesn't give very much to go on about how time progresses and what exactly you'll have the power to do within certain time periods. Which is a fair bit of why I just went balls to the wall left unity accelerationist at all costs. If I can't properly plan then that's the best I can do isn't it