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The Culture War

3 November 2022 UPDATE

• 15+ new simulations
  
• 25+ new situations
  
• 80+ overrides
  
• 3 policies
  
• more to come

What's going on in your voters' minds? What do they feel? What do they believe in? Any REALLY bad ideas? (Now now, what does communism have to do with anything??) What are they talking about? What do they fight about? Why do they fight? Did history teach us anything?

WORK IN PROGRESS - UPDATES EVERY WEEK-START UNLESS NOT SAVE-BREAKING CHANGES

Policies:

• TV Fee (beta)
  
• Print Media Grants (beta)
  
• Apology of Fascism Law (BETA)

Simulations:

• Culture (beta)
  
• Local Communities
  
• Bureaucratic Knowledge
  
• Gender Tension
  
• Single Parents
  
• Stay-at-Home Parents
  
• Private Entertainment (beta)
  
• Social Mobility (alpha)
  
• Racial Equality (alpha)
  
• Ethnic Minorities Poverty
  
• Coequality (beta) (sum of Gender, Racial and general economic Equality, heavily influences Democracy)
  
  
  - Attitude Delta (beta)
  
• Competitiveness
  
• Cooperativeness
  
  - Negative Emotions (under Tracker Situation Group)
  
• Paranoia
  
• Fear
  
• Disgust
  
• Envy
  
• Anger
  
• Anxiety

Situations:

• Historical Trauma: Colonialism (alpha)
  
• Historical Trauma: Word Wars (beta)
  
• Historical Trauma: Cold War (alpha)
  
• Radical Identity Politics (beta)
  
• Critical Race Theory (beta)
  
• Critical Gender Theory (beta)
  
• Woke Washing
  
• Trophy Syndrome
  
• Fat Acceptance (beta)
  
• Functional Illiteracy (alpha)
  
• Complotism (beta)
  
• Green Washing
  
• Degrowth Doctrine (beta)
  
• PSA Fatigue
  
• Luxury Beliefs (alpha)
  
• Hookup Culture (alpha)
  
• Overloaded Justice (beta)
  
• Quiet Quitting (beta)
  
• Absenteeism (alpha)
  
• Abortion Conscientious Objectors (alpha)
  
• New Age Movements (beta)
  
• Fundamentalism (alpha)
  
• Illegal Building (alpha)
  
• Unappealing Entertainment (beta)
  
• Show Biz (beta)
  
• Nimbyism (alpha)
  
• Exemplar Democracy (BETA)
  
  - Cultures and Countercultures (Tracker Situation Group)(alpha)
  note: very much alpha and mostly descriptive ATM, all these are simulations AND (supposed to be) situations when they get polarized into ideology\counterculture pairs (this mechanism is dormient in the current version of the mod),
  
• 1 - Individualism
  
• 1 - Collectivism
  
• 2 - Moralism
  
• 2 - Relativism
  
• 3 - Hedonism
  
• 3 - Prohibitionism
  
• 4 - Objectivism
  
• 4 - Subjectivism
  
• 5 - Authoritarianism
  
• 5 - Anarchism
  
• 6 - Isolationism
  
• 6 - Globalism
  
• 7 - Militarism
  
• 7 - Pacifism
  
  
• Pragmatism
  
• Ideologism

National Cultural Heritages (alpha):

- Working:
• Germany
  
• Canada
  
• South Korea
  
• UK
  
• Brazil
  
• Switzerland
  
• Turkey
  
• Poland
  
• EU (will trigger if country is tagged as EU but not with its own tag, eg vanilla Italy, France, Spain)
  
  - Needs tagged mod:
  
• Italy ( https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862298096 otherwise works as EU)
  
• USA ( https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874869927 )
  
• France (works as EU)
  
• China
  
• Russia
  
  
  - you're welcome to write in the discussions which tagged mod you've found, I'll list them up here
  - technical note for "mission" modders: I'm talking about the _prereq_[country] thing

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Coming soon - priority ordered (may make a separate mod for some of these and some of the already implemented stuff, keep reading to know more):

- Simulations
• Mediatic Violence
  
  - Situations
  
• ADHD Epidemic
  
  - Ideologies, Cultures and Countercultures
  x
  
  - Other groups:
  
• Positive Emotions (cringe)
  
• Dark Triad (this may be too wishful)

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Long term goals:

- more weird stuff right-wingers and "right-wingers" do, cause I'm not trying to be biased, that's the main point of this mod
- probably more weird stuff "left-wingers" do
- some form of referendum mechanic: civil rights, narcotics, fission energy, eu membership, who knows (I'm testing this in my Italy mod)
- this mod will eventually split into at least 3 more; Geography, Infrastructure and Trade --- 21th Century Challenges --- Growth and Demography, the ones I'm already developing you'll find in the collection.
-an additional mod to interface these ones with the best mods around, and a mod to collect fix and update all the good but obsolete ones that are around
-at some point I'll test the viability of a "hidden neurons" mod; this game is all good and fun until you realize some of the worst problem IRL are the ones you don't realize you have. What if you didn't actually know how much crime you have going on? What if you were leaking money? What if ya mum ran on batteries? Doesn't it sound like fun??
- i wonder if i can build an oscillator into the game, lol
- some policies, yeah I know
- more integration with dilemmas
- write the descriptions and make the icons (would appreciate a hand with the latter), I guess
- i'm thinking about it


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daddy cliffski pls give us modders:

- why do some (usually override type) links after the first turn are just stuck to low\outside-the-function values?? THIS BUG NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ASAP - currently stuck to using a workaround for this
- whatever PARAdoxiBLE asks for, he's been complaining about the above bug for a while now, comon
- more flexibility and reliability for the Equation Processor, why do we have to reverse-engineer how we're supposed to lay out the functions, make it read the damn parentheses too
- more modding documentation in general
- ??? what's up with global, freq and perc?? What's the difference?
(I think I figured it out, perc for causes and freq as a y in effects, but this NEEDS to be mentioned in the guide)
- just more moddable stuff - on that note - again, why don't all vanilla countries have their own tag?
- load order may be important at that point i guess
- more blog rants
- even more reddit rants (not /s, I love these)
- neuron groups: eg mode of transport, energy mix, earnings distribution, demography etc; perhaps sharing a pie chart if appropriate; not even necessarily anything functionally different, but it would at least de-clutter the UI and present data helpfully.
(I'm managing ("Trackers") by using a situation (to make it stand out...) to group NOICON simulations\situations)
- neutral\misc (yellow?) situations and MIDGOOD simulations tags
- i'm thinking about you


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yup those in the pic are jb peterson and aoc having a pillow fight, thanks midjourney even if I used all my trial minutes doing that lol

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(alpa) = barelly working, just laid the foundation and testing stuff
(beta) = still tweaking values and testing mid term gameplay
if not stated = kinda done, but please feel free to give feedback in the discussion threads about long runs or any improvement