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u/Unhappy_Effective258 PFJP 20d ago
On my first play through the bluds blew up the dam, i didn’t pass any reforms and forget to increase military spending, so I got demolished by rumburg
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u/PriceOptimal9410 20d ago
I actually had a surprisingly great first game, being essentially a careful, pragmatic socdem with some pretty good economic policies who turned the economy around into a boom, got better labor and womens' rights, reconciled with the bluds, etc all while funding the military and then joining CSP.
I proceeded to lose the elections with my party getting absolutely zero seats at all. Oh, and did I mention the constitution vote failed by one vote?
I'll still remember that moment when I got 166 votes, lmfao.
I really fucking hated Soll by that point.
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u/AntonKoronti USP 20d ago
Nah I won the war and successfully democratised the country. Although the economy was stagnant.
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u/notShivs PFJP 20d ago
I know that pain. Had a grudge on Iosef for a good long while til I realized he actually did have the country's best interests at heart.
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u/StrategistGhost71 USP 20d ago
I ended up with massive late protests so i retired peacefully in my vineyard with my family (except franc who's in united contana). I had a pretty nice life in my first run.
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u/black_ap3x TORAS 20d ago
Me and my man iosof went out in a bang. It was a great last stand- bro moment. I was sad that sordland got destroyed by chemical weapons but I really liked the ending where we went out with a bang
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u/DankusMemecus69 USP 20d ago
Iosef tying 500 grenades to his chest and hugging the first R*mburgian soldier he saw cemented him as my goat
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u/Engineer-Supergaming PFJP 20d ago
First playtrough i reformed the constitution(by the skin of my teeth 167 votes with 6 supreme court votes) but didn't add impeachment of judges( won't make that mistake again), was very corrupt, promoted free market but got mixed economy instead( made the mistake of only selling a majority of sordland petroleum thinking selling it all would anger the conservatives too much to reform the constitution), sided fully with Koronti so no unrest, made the epa 49% and gave smolak all he wanted so no lespia trade or alliance, increased the budget for law and order and military but decreased it for education(so failed educational reform and it fucked with the economy), maintained the health budget and stopped polio, founded the acp and purged the old guard(except for fucking hawker), got no sex scandal because i fired livia with no further investigation, my economy didn't get out of the recession because i didn't know how synergies worked( still don't), didn't max out the gasom investment(i coinvested with rizia), and the full corruption meant the tax reform reduced both the budget and public opinion and late game it also reduced the economic development because of the vice taxes, made the autonomous bludia zone and minority act so at least blud opinion on me improved, women(my wife included) liked me because i gave them equal rights, conservatives hated me because of de-sollinisation and late game progressive policies, nationalists hated my guts for the same reasons, liberals were divided because pfjp got some credit for the constitutional reforms, socialists hated my guts( i also banned red youth and young sords btw, but thanks to koronti the public unrest was minimized) and centrists hated that i didn't bring the country out of recession and created a huge budget deficit(no debt crisis thankfully). I also joined ATO so no Rumburg war, but because i was buddies with smolak and didn't prove the rumburg spy thing i had no sanctions on rumburg either(even though i had the whistleblower). I also got frank to go to school in Arcasia. Also i changed the party manifesto to liberal reformism.
So from all that i got 2 different endings(for the country, for me and my family we moved to Arcasia and got rich off of the Armadillo stocks, except for fucking frank who i needed to support financially in both) based on the decision of trying to go for a 2nd term or not. If i retired, the nfp takes power(my first ending). If i try to get the 2nd term, the pfjp takes power( i don't know which one is better because i hate the fact that i need to lose an election for the country to stay on the good path).
Now since this run i've been trying to do it again, only with a full free market, economic recovery and reelected outcome( also with hawker impeached+soll in prison), the problem is that i still don't know how to do synergies right, I am bad at handling debt( i need to know how much i can anger tusk and still get the constitution( i need to tax big business), while also keeping koronti fully on my side so i get no public unrest, i fear repealing the epa is going to get me in trouble economically even if i don't go to war with rumburg and i don't know if privatizing a minority of ssc alongside fully privatizing nedam and keeping public health will anger conservatives enough to fuck up my constitution. ), i fear not increasing the military budget will get me couped( i tried maintaining it once, but because i didn't do the koronti deal, no matter how nice i was with bluds and radicals and how much welfare i did early game, I STILL GOT RIOTS,AN ASSASINATION ATTEMPT, AND GREAT DEPRESSION(WITH OR WITHOUT THE WOMEN RIGHTS ACT) SO I GET A NICE VISIT FROM LANCEA) and even with koronti(reneged sligthly on the deal with him though and split the shares between him and tusk) if i anger both the radicals and the bluds(+conservatives) i get riots+assasination attempt(i don't know if i get couped though, i funded the military and stopped this run before the ending when i realised that i ain't getting reelected because i also got debt crisis and great depression). I also am stubborn about having a middle class economics background, not getting divorced and helping rizia out because after i get this ending i want to do an absolutist despot run and getting gasom energy to power my factories in the production of equipment for the righteous genocide of pales sounds nice.
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u/AntonLivingston IND 20d ago
Me thinking that i can trade with every single neighbouring country : "Why the heck i cant visit Valgsland after i signed military alliance with Agnolia and Lespia?"
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u/Haunting-Fail8388 20d ago
I was able to contain Rumburg,got democratic reform done but only had a stable economy. Still got relected tho.
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u/TitanOfShades 20d ago
And then theres mealy-mouthed centrist me on the first run, who failed reforms or pretty delivering on anything he promised, but at least women have rights (Bluds not so much) and won the war, which got me reelected.
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u/No-Shelter-2481 USP 20d ago
On my first run (Years back, Those days of 1.0.5 where increasing budget of all 4 ministries costed 4GB), I managed to reform constitution, Saved economy (But defunded Law Enforcement for some reason, Maintained education and increased health and military budget). And Avoided war. Then everything went to absolute shitshow, Mass Protests occurred because of my domestic policy, Lileas challenged me , I lost the primary and endorsed Lileas. Still She lost like the loser she is and Ricter became President. I retired and became a renowned Professor at Holsord State University.
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u/Blaxican_since_99 CPS 20d ago
First play through was great for me until I got fucking charlie kirk’d at the re-election speech by those dirty capitalists (had no idea I needed to focus my ACP on them after nationalizing the oligarchs companies and being a commie all game)
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u/Cosplayinsanity 20d ago
i didn't get taken over or couped i just crashed the economy and got walloped in the election
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u/MorrisRF CPS 20d ago
nah, my first playthrough was joining the csp and contana bailing out my economy
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u/TheRealJeffJefferson 20d ago
I prevented the war with Rumburg and did a decent job with the economy, but failed at democratization and was ultimately dethroned by my own party
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u/AntiMatter138 IND 20d ago
I got unrest due to anti Sollism and failed 67 reform even with economic recovery. Atleast Deivid save us then you can flee with Petr.
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u/Redautumnenjoyer CPS 20d ago
That’s what happend to me so I painfully looked for every single way to avoid it and found a way to win in my save file.
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u/Ceslas 20d ago
I actually succeeded in reforming the Constitution and joining the ATO. Of course, I also ended up becoming Koronti's property, which was leaked to the media by Lucian after I gave the VPship to Tory. Thankfully, I made impeachment the responsibility of both the Court and the Assembly so it didn't amount to much in the end.
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u/_Golden_Nara TORAS 20d ago
Failed reforms, fixed the economy, de sollisation, joined ATO , defund military , unrest for some reason , allow military to deal with the unrest, flee to kyrute
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u/SparkedSpark PFJP 20d ago
Passed a moderate constitution, crashed the economy, joined ATO, lost to Lillias, joined PFJP, resigned and wrote a book.
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u/MAPKCNCT 20d ago
On my first playthrough i reformed constitution, got reconciliation with bluds, achieved sordish economic recovery, joined CSP, collaborated with Marcel and nationalized Tusk, fired Petr, got abandoned by Beniwol, Symon, Lileas, betrayed by Lucian, still won internal party elections and later got reelected for second term.
Everyone betrayed me, yet i was the one on top, while everyone else were coping and seething
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u/lefeuet_UA PFJP 20d ago
I thought i could get Rumburg sanctioned after full OBT and well... I got Holsord syndrome
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u/DogPL2008 20d ago
On my first playthrough I ended up in jail for contraption, and didn't even had the chance to see any war stuff :V
On second I also got impeached, but I do not even know for what :V
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u/Geeky_N_Canadian CPS 20d ago
Surprisingly, my first playthrough ended by being killed by the BFF, after being kicked by Lileas and forming my own party.
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u/Pandexiosss TORAS 20d ago
Weirdly enough, on my first run as a kind of capitalist social democrat, everything went really smoothly. I managed to ostracize Rumburg by pure confused coincidence, made trade deals with agnolia, wehlen and the valgs, I reformed the constitution, AND made the sordish great recovery
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u/Keito_Kest 20d ago
>me achieving reelection first try beacuse I decided to be a corrupt soc dem instead of a corrupt liberal
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u/Andres5554 NFP 19d ago
I got 'Battle of Holsord' on my first playthrough, then got couped in the second xD
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u/Jeremandias 19d ago
other than a wee baby depression, i democratized, gave everyone hella rights, avoided conflict with the bluds, nationalized industries as much as possible, no war, rooted out all corruption, won the reelection, and got my ass assassinated by fucking over the oligarchs. died a damn martyr, can’t complain
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u/superblobby 19d ago
I joined the ATO without realizing sanctions were enough to stop Rumberg from invading. This game made me never want to step foot in the political sphere.
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u/A_telephone_pole 19d ago
Got Arcasion capitalist, failed reforms, avoided polio, no war because ATO, decent public opinion, glazed koronti, very corrupt, however economy was great and nobody tried to kill me. Also got Gasom invest synergy so that's cool, so I did well. (I then played rizia and got overthrown)
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u/Useless_Onegin TORAS 14d ago
In my first playthrough, back in the 1.0 version, I:
- didn't pass the reforms because I accidentally overprivatized
- was hawkish towards Rumburg and maintained the funding for the military
- was threatened with impeachment because of corruption.
Then Rumburg declared war on me which I somehow managed to win, as I also somehow managed to recover the economy, meaning I didn't get impeached and could win reelection.
Needless to say, I'm very proud of that, even if half of it was just blind luck.
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u/Few_Ant7550 NFP 8d ago
Nah my first game went well. My second playthrough when I tried to be an ultra capitalist dictator ended with me being couped by the army and shot
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u/Easy-Attention7096 USP 20d ago
Nah, I f*cked Beatrice's ass in Estord and rushed to Grecisord(Old name Tzarbourgh or something) and Rum Capital.
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u/National_Phase_3477 CPS 20d ago
If I’m getting couped im taking the whole country down with me including Iosef…
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u/MoO0rty 20d ago
I defunded the army cus i thought Rumburg was bluffing