Democracy 4 Developer Blog #46: Mental Health

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@pietjansen283
@pietjansen283 3 жыл бұрын
I have a few ideas. 1. Social media regulations should decrease democracy because you are basically censoring people. 2. A total ban of social media should decrease technology. 3. At this moment lifespan only really has negative effects, so maybe lifespan should increase everyone's happiness or at least the happiness of the retired. Because knowing that you will probably get very old makes most people happy.
@willnash7907
@willnash7907 2 жыл бұрын
Also, stronger yet, you don't get to have your loved ones dies at regular intervals, or when they do it is because they are really old.
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 3 жыл бұрын
7:55 Haha that Infinity Symbol really describes Social Media perfectly, its important that mental health and even Social Media Addiction is modeled in a Game like this because its simply a part of our Society and it does effect our everyday life.
@TheRollslapper
@TheRollslapper 3 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen any data on it, but I suspect keeping children busy helps reduce social media addiction. I think it would be fair to have youth club subsidies and compulsory sports reduce social media addiction, even just a little
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
Good ideas!
@joaopedrocruz6432
@joaopedrocruz6432 3 жыл бұрын
I think that mental health should affect workers productivity. Also one other thing you could model is the design of the cities which have a great impact in mental health and health on general; like good parks and transport infrastructure, low pollution and homelessness.
@tyalikanky
@tyalikanky 3 жыл бұрын
Mental health loss raises Unemployed and Homeless in my simulation. I think you must add relation too.
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
Yes I think it should maybe feed into homelessness for sure...
@tyalikanky
@tyalikanky 3 жыл бұрын
@@positechgames Also narcotics use and events/decisions (like quarantine) should hurt Mental health. Extreme low MH can raise Suicide levels.
@GabrielAlves-ki7tg
@GabrielAlves-ki7tg 3 жыл бұрын
Cliff, I was playing The Movies these days and I'm really sad that this game doesn't have a sequel, but I'm glad you're still here developing these gaming wonders for us!
@brianfrommars
@brianfrommars 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Cliff, loving the game so far. Do you think we could ever see a Land Value Tax added in? It’s been gaining some popularity recently and I think it would make a good addition.
@positechgames
@positechgames 2 жыл бұрын
agreed
@fate1120
@fate1120 3 жыл бұрын
social media regulation should reduce your GDP I believe, since now social media companies are less interested in investing there, also less ad revenue. Should be a minor penalty I guess
@konstantynopolyt6770
@konstantynopolyt6770 3 жыл бұрын
Low mental health should encrase alcohol, tobbaco and narcotics usage
@XER0GRAVITY
@XER0GRAVITY 3 жыл бұрын
Do you have any plans to make a DLC?
@troller9838
@troller9838 3 жыл бұрын
This game looks interesting, will it be apart of the upcoming Luna steam sale? If so I'll buy it then.
@anthonydoyle72
@anthonydoyle72 3 жыл бұрын
Probably not since its semi new
@alecjones4135
@alecjones4135 2 жыл бұрын
15:08 I also love yes minister
@cakeisyummy5755
@cakeisyummy5755 3 жыл бұрын
Question 1: Will there be Many ways to deal with Social Media addiction? Question 2:Will age Demography have a bigger on the game? Age Demography is the main problem of South Korea and Japan. Both of which are in The Game. Question 3: I heard someone say that D4 doesn't have a lot of Policies that deal with Long term problems, Like the Rare Earth Crisis. Will that be Fixed?
@bradycrosby1705
@bradycrosby1705 3 жыл бұрын
Cliff, any updates on timeline for a Democracy 4 release on Mac?
@xandervixon8073
@xandervixon8073 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe for Democracy 5, you could add the option of continuing to play after losing the election, and also the option of playing as an opposition party, similar to Power & Revolution
@Luke-tt3dt
@Luke-tt3dt 2 жыл бұрын
One thing that could be added to the game to influence mental health is financial security, which would sort of be an amalgamation of different factors like personal savings, job security, worker's rights and notice periods/at-will employment (something else I'd like to see added to the game). The gig economy event would naturally have a significant negative effect on job security. But it could also have a negative effect on productivity, as people aren't going the extra mile for fear of being fired, which would be offset by good mental health resulting in higher productivity State-funded talking therapies should also be implemented in the game, or you could go the old-fashioned authoritarian route and lock people up in psychiatric institutions.
@ClaytonMalarkey
@ClaytonMalarkey 3 жыл бұрын
Cliff Harris please make a production line 2
@ProWhitaker
@ProWhitaker 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, conservatives would like the regulate social media policy.
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
Agreed...will add.
@jasperwhite0320
@jasperwhite0320 3 жыл бұрын
i was thinking it would be cool to have a coalition feature if you lost the election by a small margin but i dunno how hard this would be in practise to have a coalition government and how that would reflect when you’re making policies, maybe a happiness bar for the other party you’re in coalition with?
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
Coalitions are already in the game :D
@jasperwhite0320
@jasperwhite0320 3 жыл бұрын
@@positechgames oh no way! how do i do this, i just lost an election narrowly but all it said was retire in glory :(
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
@@jasperwhite0320 it depends on whether the country you play has a 2 or 3 party system
@jasperwhite0320
@jasperwhite0320 3 жыл бұрын
@@positechgames i have a 3 party system, i assume it was because the coalition wouldn’t form enough votes maybe?
@positechgames
@positechgames 3 жыл бұрын
@@jasperwhite0320 coalitions are formed by the top 2 parties, if no single party gets over 50% of the votes, so you can win, lose, lose to a coalition of others, or win with a coalition :D
@JimPea
@JimPea 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there should be more effects of high/low Mental Health, might be difficult since IRL different mental conditions can lead to different effects and they're all being grouped together here, but it seems reasonable to say that low Mental Health would have a tangible impact on both Health and Productivity. Even though Health has its own output for Productivity, it kind of makes sense that both would impact Productivity since, for example, if someone's chronic anxiety lead to a stress-related heart attack, they're now suffering a loss in productivity from both the heart attack and the original mental heath issue.
@ClaytonMalarkey
@ClaytonMalarkey 3 жыл бұрын
Make a production line 2
@explodethebomb
@explodethebomb 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps policies like youth club subsidies could reduce social media addiction as it encourages teens to be active and do things other than spend hour on social media. It also seems the kind of problem that could be combated with awareness campaigns
@burakalicay5258
@burakalicay5258 3 жыл бұрын
Can you add Turkey pls?
@willnash7907
@willnash7907 2 жыл бұрын
Hello Cliff Big fun of the game. I've bought all of your titles since D3. Enjoyed each of them. However I have one serious gripe and that is arbitrary caps. Very often I find myself maxxing out values like Health and Technology or Education which makes my further policies for advancing them meaningless. I strongly reccomend altering the functions to introduce a "diminishing returns" system (mathematically the simpest way to do that, that I can think of, would be a sigmoid function) in order to accurately represent a "leveling off effect" where compounding policies are rendered less effective but not useless. Another issue I encountered was the very strange way income groups and income focus groups are ccalculated; I had people with HUGE disposable incomes in the "poor" bracket... In an ideal world, I'd like to see a rehaul on the functions of certain simulation values and social classes. However I understand these changes may be difficult to push through and I'm sure you are doing your best. Keep at it, you've got something here. P.S. Universal Basic Income really should improve overall happiness. P.S.2 If you do ever try to overhaul wealth classes, I think a few "Income Inequality" metrics demarkating the differences in social class could come in handy to increase realism and immersion. These would track how poor, mi and wealthy citizens differ and scale all effects based on income accordingly. Societies with cabals of the few extremely wealthy should be radically affected by anti-wealth policies, like a high luxary tax, while societies where the wealthy are a large portion of the population representing merely the upper crust of the middle classes should have all such effects scaled back. Alternatively you could track membership/loyalty of a population to these groups live, so that a huge number of well off people, elevated often by the players egalitarian governance, do not go berserk over absurd luxary taxes because they are programmed to belong in a billionaries interest group. Societies that are highly socialist and that spread their wealth should result in multiple citizens on the upper crust of the middle classes having a small loyalty to the "wealthy" bracket, with perhaps a few more on the medium side, not to 30% of their population (can be as absurd as 80% if you abuse UBI), who are all socialists by the way, suddently acting on the interest metrics of Jeff Bezos.
@4nth365
@4nth365 3 жыл бұрын
I think in the Black style of the menu, the grey would match better than blue. Try it 😉 great video
@f1sh98
@f1sh98 3 жыл бұрын
First Also thanks for your work, cliffski!
@jobarin1994
@jobarin1994 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Cliff, I have a question. The current implementation of the “genital mutilation ban” policy makes no sense, in my opinion. To my knowledge, FGM is already banned in all the countries in the game irl, but for some reason it is not banned in-game at the start. On top of that, banning FGM seems to really piss off religious and conservatives. That just doesn’t make sense. Why should this be the case in western societies where FGM is not traditionally practised? If anything, I think Christians would be angered by FGM’s being legalised, and not the other way around. May I ask what are the reasons for this?
@jobarin1994
@jobarin1994 2 жыл бұрын
Arguably ethnic minorities could be made to feel pissed off for banning FGM. But religious? in Europe? I don’t get it
@positechgames
@positechgames 2 жыл бұрын
@@jobarin1994 As I recall we renamed this, so its not just female. The policy is set up to also allow you to ban male circumcision, which I suspect would be extremely unpopular with certain religious groups?
@jobarin1994
@jobarin1994 2 жыл бұрын
Oh alright. I though there had to be some reasoning behind it. And yet in that case I find it odd that the policy should boost gender equality, which maybe shouldn’t be the case when the policy is affecting men primarily, as the current implementation would imply. On the other hand, the percentage of jewish population in some of the countries in the game is extremely low (notably Spain) and doesn’t justify such a hit on religious support. I wonder whether ethnic minorities wouldn’t be a better group overall to represent the groups affected by this policy.
@dwavenminer
@dwavenminer 3 жыл бұрын
Shame getting rid of social media isn't that simple in real life... Might be worth having things like racial tensions modify the social media addiction and mental health events...
@riky95
@riky95 2 жыл бұрын
ban light mode
@nafak1
@nafak1 3 жыл бұрын
Democracy 4 elo rank when? lmao
@CPT85
@CPT85 3 жыл бұрын
You set the difficulty of the United States too low. The policy presets should definitely be adjusted for a more believable difficulty. With the US having the most overblown military budget in the world, foreign policy should have anything short of conscription and religious indoctrination that’s military related like the border navy and drone program should be set to maximum, National Armed Forces day set to maximum (Veterans Day and Memorial Day) with The national trade council already set to maximum (refer to the existence of the US Chamber of Commerce). On the law & order side the US should also have torture activated, indefinite detentions (refer to Guantánamo Bay), moderate taser usage, use of teargas, use of water hoses, all police armed, prisons set to the second-highest of harsh treatment (Orange is The New Black wasn’t just a TV show) and social media regulated to age. There should also be other issues similar to media monopoly like “military industrial complex”, “prison industrial complex” “oil industry monopoly” and “pharmaceutical monopoly” which holds influence over both political parties that have all run out of control for decades impacting the democracy rating, giving little accountability to those who hold or held high office, and corruption through legalized bribery called “lobbying”, with plutocracy and oligarchy. Although socialism has gotten more popular among Americans in recent years, capitalists still hold plenty of power as a disconnected ruling minority. Gerrymandering (which can also be applied to France) and the electoral college needs to play a role as well. The US has been considered a flawed democracy for a fifth year in a row for a reason. Spain, South Korea and Japan have more democracy by comparison. The only playable nation that’s considered more flawed than the US is Italy, and their difficulty is considerably high.
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 3 жыл бұрын
Same could be said for Germany, like why isnt there a State Funded health Service or a Curfew for anyone under the Age of 16? Also the US had a distinct feel in Dem 2/3 because it had the Technological Advantage from the very start like why is that not a thing anymore?
@CPT85
@CPT85 3 жыл бұрын
@@aturchomicz821 I want to say because of the military budget having an impact on that, it’s nod to how technological innovations come from war. But this is a bit of a catch 22 because military manufacturing companies overcharge the taxpayers for profit. In some cases, single pieces of equipment cost 80 times more their worth. To make matters worse, measurements for the military budget is always passed with bipartisan support showing the PMCs grip on the party duopoly. Leaves me wondering how Italy has things worse… 🤔
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 3 жыл бұрын
​@@CPT85 Well yeah but the starting Option for the US in the current game *doesnt* have the Technological Advantage, thats what I meant
@CPT85
@CPT85 3 жыл бұрын
@@aturchomicz821 Oh. Gotcha. 😐
@kaiserteddie9564
@kaiserteddie9564 3 жыл бұрын
why doesnt regulating social media lead to a decrease in democracy?
@aturchomicz821
@aturchomicz821 3 жыл бұрын
Civil Rights, maybe. But what does Social Media have to do with you ticking a Party and that Party then getting that vote? In some way it actually should increase democracy because voting cant be as easily manipulated !
@dwavenminer
@dwavenminer 3 жыл бұрын
You could also argue that even having social media decreases democracy, as it polarises and over simplifies politics to: "da other side is literally Hitler", with no discussions, no negotiates, and no nuance...let alone policy discussion...just hate.
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