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yeah if the game isn't supposed to be a wacky grimdark setting then i just got extremely unlucky with events on all 3 runs. it was literally like every year there were forest fires, floods, and diseases popping up all over the world, from turn 1. there were a comical number of disasters going on

The game is a fairly simple system. I was able to brute-force it with a dozen or so tries. You can clear the game in round 5-8 if you do the following:

Round 1

• Implement: accelerationist curriculum, animal liberationist curriculum, champagne socialism, consumerist curriculum, factory farming reform, stakhanovite workers, indigenous sovereignity, marine protected areas. This wins you political capital in the short term, til emissions come down.

• Go to 'change production': and whack all the fossil fuel sources down to 0% and replace them. Same with fuel sources: everything to 0% except biofuels to 15% and blue hydrogen to 85%. This takes several cycles to implement, but around round 4 you'll suddenly get all the political capital in the world, and then the game is a pushover. The imbalance in the game is they give all the political capital for reducing emissions; shortages and unrest don't matter.

• Implement cloud brightening. The game's win condition is to reduce warming to below 1°, and this does it directly.

Rounds 1 and 2

• After implementing the things in the first bullet point, you have about 32 points to spend. Get an early headstart on useful research and infrastructure projects. There are two ways to get research projects done: spend points (which is costly) or start early (which is prudent). Start on: sewage treatment plants, remediate and protect ecosystems, pedestrian cities, passive building retrofits, recycling, expand public transport, expand nature preserves, energy conservation campaign, electrify road vehicles, direct air capture, co-generation, cloud brightening, carbon-negative concrete, carbon capture and sequestration, battery storage network, automation, next-gen solar, electric aviation, high-density batteries, green container ships

Later rounds

• You'll get mad capital when the emissions come down, and then do what you want.

• Don't spend points without getting an effect. Reducing research time from 7 years to 6 does nothing for you. That's the same planning cycle. If one spend brings research time down multiple years, e.g. from 23 years to 18, then it's worth it.

• Get about 10-20% of your energy from BECCS and use the Cloud brightening process. This will get you under 1° warming and win the game. The BECCS process is overpowered in the game.

• Electrify everything (so fuel isn't an issue) and use vegan mandate (so meat isn't an issue).

• Draconian mandates are worth it: ban cars, impose energy quotas, restrict air travel. The blowback doesn't affect your outcomes.

Don't bother spending points on:

• Anything to do with fuel: 3rd generation biofuels, green hydrogen (just use blue hydrogen)
• Alternative refrigerants (small gains)
• Hempcrete (small gains, and a trade-off in land)
• Desalination
• Low-methane cattle fodder, rotational grazing (small gains)
• Restore desert (increases temperature by decreasing albedo)
• Anything to do with space
• Anything to do with population control
• Anything nuclear

It's a simple game.