GENERAL

New Features

Over the past day, I have been working on performance enhancements and other new features. While AI still isn’t ready at the time of writing, I did managed to do some other neat things.

Service by Requirement: Its back! As part of the manpower law tree, it now provides +10% Total Manpower, and has continued negative attributes from its predecessors in the tree.

Bugfixes

Giving Them Both Barrels: Scraping the Barrel now uses the correct icon

PRESS LAW

Press laws are designed to be cheap ways to shift the way your nation is going on a temporary basis. For some of the effects they give out, they might be a tad too cheap.

Press-to Change-o: Press Laws now cost 50 PP to change, up from 25.

Productive Press

Answer me honestly, have you ever used any other law than this? If you answered yes, than you will have missed out on how strong its been. Re-tooling it to increase Production Efficiency Gain instead of a flat production bonus should reduce the "fire and forget" mentality of this law, and bring it in line with its peers.

8 Hour Work Day: +10% Factory output replaced with +10% Production Efficiency Gain

Call For Volunteers

2% Manpower for 25 PP is a tad crazy. Even with it being brought up to 50 PP with the rest of the laws, this is still way too powerful for what it is.

Bad Reception: 2% recruitment bonus reduced to a 0.5% recruitment bonus

Nationalism Press

Seeing how situational ideology drift defense can be, throwing in a small national unity bonus would also be nice.

Peace Through Power: Added 5% National Unity to Nationalism

WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW

Lets talk about why cost is an ineffective balancing factor. Lets say we are playing an RTS game that has a Superheavy Tank available for 10 times the cost of the next most expensive unit. This Superheavy Tank can easily destroy anything else in the game without fear of destruction, even when outnumbered 10 to 1. It doesn't matter that the player has to wait for credits in order to acquire that Superheavy tank, because by the time they do get one, they essentially win.

That Superheavy tank is Womens Rights laws right now in NWO. They may be very expensive, but they still offer no downside for the massive bonuses that they provide.Saving up 400 PP to get 10% bonus Manpower was, in short, really dumb.

We Can Do It Later!: Reduced Women Workers to +20% Factory Output from +25%


Axed Aux: Factory Output reduced to 10% on Auxillary Force. Added -10% Political Power Gain


Greater Limitations: Factory Output reduced to 5% on Limited Female Service. Added -25% Political Power Gain


EQUALITY B*@%#: Factory Output reduced to 0% on Egalitarianism. Added -50% Political Power Gain, -10% National Unity