Democracy 4 Developer Blog #44: TOUGHER CRIME

[@jobarin1994]

I think a fun idea for a DLC would be to expand on diplomacy, war and international relations in general. We could have NATO, UN, climate change conferences and more interesting mechanics for the army. I think that would sell stupendously.

[@miguelbeedle3429]

Definitely would like to see an expansion on security events, the more the merrier

[@zerothehero3091]

I believe you have finally settled the "What's different from Democracy 3"

[@joaopedrocruz6432]

There is a good mod for crime which adds perception of police and makes the crime a lot harder,it is pretty good. Also I think there should be some tweaks to Copyright, it should desincentivize the arts industry (like in KZbin strikes today or the music industry).

[@MatthewMcLain12]

My issue, me not knowing how to mod, everything about it is easy except images. I could have the exact same name in both areas, and it still won’t work. Also, there is this pop up that comes up when trying to update the mod says I’m unable to do this and it won’t go away no matter how many times I click on it, so I have to restart my computer. Other than those 2 things, the game is fantastic; just needs mor policies and such!

[@positechgames]

If you hover over the blank image it should show you the filename that its expecting, if its looking for an svg, make sure its just an svg, not an inkscape svg, which has a different format. I will try and make this stuff way easier!

[@MatthewMcLain12]

@@positechgames in the video you made explaining this, you use .jpg at the end of the name for both, and it worked. Are you saying those were not jpgs and in fact svgs disguised by jpgs???

[@positechgames]

@@MatthewMcLain12 policy and situation and sim value icons use svg. Events and media spin can be png or jpg.

[@MatthewMcLain12]

@@positechgames Oh, now I understand. By the way, if you want more ideas on policies, situations, simulations or any other things, I’ve been making a huge list of possible things that I may want in the game, so if you want, I could send you some ideas via Twitter DMs or something. I’m sure you’ve seen me like some of your tweets before!

[@positechgames]

@@MatthewMcLain12 forum posts ate the best way to get me tpo notice stuff, either on steam or positech.co.uk :D

[@zombiegaming5492]

I've heard of a lot of studies that increasing welfare programs, giving people food, shelter, etc actually decreases crime rates. Money and property existing goes a long way to having crime in the first place.

[@positechgames]

We already model this in that crime is inversely linked to poverty. So policies like food banks reduce crime by the route of reducing poverty.

[@zombiegaming5492]

@@positechgames then I guess you can say solving crime is "hard" in the sense that getting governors and senators on your side to actually end crime is hard More profitable to privatize everything

[@Gearjerk5]

Good idea to swap around the difficult countries, but you might choose a different symbol; using stars implies that's a rating of how "good" those countries are. Maybe little skulls or something?

[@positechgames]

hmmm skulls implies death though...

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@@positechgames How about a bar with a Color? Dark Green;VERY Easy. Dark Red;VERY Hard.

[@neongirluk]

@@cakeisyummy5755 I am good with the stars because surely the higher the star the more you have achieved if you can play it?

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@@neongirluk I guess.

[@FirestormMk3]

Definitely expansions I'd be interested in. Especially expanding events as you described.

[@酒瀬川遼郁]

The dlc in the situation room looks interesting. What is it going to be a little more specific?

[@cammrose]

Is it possible to mod in new countries?

[@positechgames]

Yes definitely and we plan on making it easier. details are here: www.positech.co.uk/democracy4/modding.html

[@billy_5658]

D4 Africa dlc would be epic :)

[@Poopdahoop]

omg has there rly been 44 videos? :o

[@snappy_one9120]

Awsome, crime has been way to easy since democracy 3 thanks for fixing it

[@KaesoQuinctius]

If you want more crime, maybe add a 'civil disobedience' stat that is affected by things like low satisfaction of certain groups and protests events. When people are protesting or blatantly ignoring the law, they are potentially committing a crime. Of course we might say this is a justified crime because they are protesting a law they see as unjust, but the reality is that it is crime and could therefore act as a way in the game to drive up crime organically in response to the conditions that exist in the country. As for the expansion ideas, both are good but I think my preference would be for voting modelling. I'm sure it would be an immense task to model whole governments but if we could actually see e.g. both houses of parliament would make the game SO much more engaging and detailed. The idea that we could watch as for example voters from rural seats abandon the government because your policies have made the massively unhappy would give more depth to the policies you enact because you're not just thinking "How does this policy affect the country?" but also "Who does this policy alienate, where are they represented in the government, and do I need their seats to maintain government?" I understand that this sort of expansion would probably be a bigger task than the entire game! Nevertheless, I still advocate for it for how much depth it could give the game.

[@KaizarNike]

I agree with Germany as one star difficulty, I was just getting relection after relection with no end to term limit.

[@TheBoesie666]

I would like to see an dlc focused on ideology. Which would be controversial so might not be the best idea. I think of a system that radicalise the population. Which one could do on purpose as well. So you could steer you're country to be less democratic. Creating for example a communist or anarco-liberial state . Even that it might be interesting to be able stage a coup in case of lost election. I'm just think aloud here. Anyway, I do really enjoy the game so far and can't wait for more content regardless of the theme.

[@000DELETED00]

Is this why people want to see cliff Harris as us President

[@CPT85]

Still no Mac release! 😭 I hope to see one after Early Access.

[@danielbackstrom4643]

I don't know if you have planned marketing and trailers for the release of the full game. Ever since this game was announced to be in Early Access until now, i'm betting the total amount of players have dropped, not increased. Do you have a plan to at least try to get more people playing this?

[@positechgames]

We will be doing more marketing, but the game has had fairly consistently high numbers of players.