originalmike is dumb

This is horrible and I love it!

Most based mod

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@originalmile_007 it's talking about the morons who glued themselves to streets (The same people who threw soup at famous paintings)

omg absolutely horrifying. Does the policy lead to an escalation of violence between people who can't bear to be inconvenienced in any way and people disrupting a clearly destructive car culture by protesting for environmental and human rights?

This mod is hilarious! :D

If you are still worried about raw numbers, if I were to play the USA and set the policy to maximum, after a couple years it become -0.14%.

Did you know 459,200 Americans die every year under the Pile Through Act? lol.
Should it be lower? Definitely. Does it need to be lower? Not really :)

@TurtleShroom Thank you for your endorsement. It is appreciated.
On the population point you're probably right but I wanted something to simulate the fatalities such a policy would cause, especially when unrestricted: the raw numbers are set for each country and the "Population" statistic adjusts it (though I am not sure exactly under which equation - if you know a way to look at the current population count during gameplay let me know).
Two points: 1. the population impact value is scaled with the Environment Protests so that population drop reduces as the regularity of the protests subside - a lot of effects are at their peak when protests are in effect, I did this so it is a more coherent policy. 2. The overall impact is super low. We are talking -1.5% at most initially, and -0.1 to -0.5% after a few turns nothing that disrupts gameplay, the logic there being that criminals & politicians are misusing the law to try and get away with hitting people with their cars.

Also, the policy shouldn't reduce the population. That's silly. For it to actually affect that number, it would have to kill millions.

@OP

OP, I didn't know that Environmental Protests were the only ones that blocked roads. You learn something new every day!

It is illegal to obstruct commerce and anyone that blocks roads should not be shielded from the responsibility of their actions. Drivers should not be held liable for driving through protests when protests block the road. It is wrong, WRONG to block roads in protest.

this is actually funny as fuck

Realistically I can't think of any advantage this would bring aside from appeasing fringe far-right conservatives, but then this policy would be as useless as the many other fringe far right policies that no one likes in this game

@Brisbabe Socialist: murder is unlawful, semantics aside it's possible that it would make the protests worse IRL I can agreed. I did consider making environmentalists grow slightly due to extra conviction / martyrs.

@Dreigous thanx <3

What a weird and scary fantasy to have

Murdering protestors would have a much greater effect than shown here. I don't think this would stop environmental protests, but rather make them extremely angry (and more violent)

lol @Generalíssima Aquachet I was asking for methods of suppressing riots / protests - not for which situations.

"What suggestions did you have for options to suppress protests?"

Hm... ..... .... race riots.

this is incredible

unironically based

@Nuke
In this case the Pile Through Act only impacts the Environmental Protests situation because it is the only type of situation in the base game that is disruptive to traffic flow.

What suggestions did you have for options to suppress protests? :)

Only environmental protesters? I think I'd prefer more options to suppress protests.

awesome!

I too want to be a free american