I think you shouldn't change mod's name with new versions. You can change version number just in description at data\mods\Cyberpunk.txt .

Definitely agreed. Thanks for all your help.

Excellent update! I just cleared the 1.2 Novgorod scenariuo, and it was brutal. I had to run both income tax and flat income tax at full, simultaneously, for 10 years in order to bring my debt back under control - the early game shattered my budget, until debt spiralled north of $35,000 billion. But, I survived, and won myself a fifth term in office. Good job!

Glad you liked it.
What policies were you trying to pull off in Novgorod that sent you so deep into debt?

Well done for this one mouseshepherd! Really enjoyed it ;)

This is actually a great mod, with very challenging scenarios. I wish there was a way I could write a review for a mod, since one of the main problems with Democracy 3 is that it's too easy.

I like how this mod actually provides a use for anti-crime measures, In the default game, Police Force and Community policing are all you need, the rest is just if you want to simulate being a Tyrant or really hate liberals - they have no purpose. But in the mod you need to actually use some of them, not only to protect against the fact that you'll face more assassination attempts than the Fuhrer, but also to strike down the red buttons, both unique to this mod and from the original game.

I also like the possibilities of strategies that you might be able to use. Usually mods or games this hard only have one clear path to victory, but here there's several options. For example, in the infamous NAF secneraio, Liberalism seems like a good idea. I mean, all drugs are legal, there are zero restrictions on alcohol, augmentation and abortion are totally unrestricted, etc. But you could actually try to ban or restrict these things and win with conservative support instead, since most of the population is conservative by default.

I had even thought increasing equality in your first term to a respectable amount was impossible in NAF - it starts so far below zero that replacing tax shelters with CEO Pay caps doesn't budge the meter. But I had completely overlooked augmentation vouchers, which cost a giant pile of money but they increase equality through the roof.

The only real drawback to the mod is the main flaw with democracy 3 itself - once you finally manage to get reelected once, you are basically irremovable from office. Seriously two turns into my second term, I went from yellow bar to absolutely full green bar. Nothing could stop me anymore. I declared Sovereignty a few turns later, and followed it up with increasing the military budget to "Overwhelming force", sure that the Oligarchs would get their still-loyal puppets to declare war on me and/or send assassin after assassin. But uh... nothing happened.

Sure, Oligarch favor went to *ZERO* at once, and I was stuck with perpetual corporate exodus the moment I repealed Tax shelters, and I had to run taxes to the moon to pay for all this... but it didn't matter. Even the -40% to everyone didn't matter, my poll numbers were perfect and there weren't any assassination attempts.

Eventually I was stuck with incurable water shortages and cyclones thanks to climate change, and even 100% "the environment" didn't help much, presumably because the rest of the world is still a bunch of polluting oligarch puppets. Again though - this happens in the game by default, it just takes longer.

PS - "Internet currency adoption", which was supposed to increase by "Year" never budged even when "Average temperature" was maxed. I'm guessing that's a bug with Democracy 3?

toad_004, thanks for the glowing "review."
I completely agree with you that in Democracy 3 it's far too easy to get to a state where you've "won", having become impossible to remove from power and solving all of the country's problems permanently.
By the way, increasing your military after Declaring Soverignty was a good idea--in addition to pleasing the flood of Patriots it probably curbed the Cyber Warfare that the angry oligarchs sent your way.
As for the "bug", that's more of my design, as I didn't increase the "Year" variable directly. Perhaps I should budge up Internet Currency automatically as well, since it rather fits in a cyberpunk setting.