Robert Can't
Éponine
Rules:
Economy
Firstly Economics is going to work a bit differently to other IOTs that have come previously. Most noticeably due to the fact that the private and public sectors are going to be split.
The Economy of a nation is split into two parts, its Private sector representing privately owned enterprises and its Public sector representing Government owned initiatives. Economy is represented as in many other IOTs simply by factories, which provide the ubiquitous IC that will fuel your nation. Both the Private and Public sectors are comprised of factories. Note: Factories represent all economic stuff, not just factories.
Each province on the map has a separate value for its Private and Public sector production, all provinces also have a value for Government Control. (Representing the authority of a state in its constituents) A Government Control of 0% represents occupation or territory not expanded into but internationally recognised as sovereign territories of your nations (i.e Uncolonized areas of Africa).
Each province then gets a value for Government Revenue which is the Government control multiplied by Public Sector IC. This value is then added directly to your total IC to spend.
Private sector income is all pooled at a national level. You can set a tax rate depending on what faction you're in (more on that later) and that percentage of Private Sector Revenue is added to total IC.
But wait - there's more! All that untaxed IC, it goes into the pockets of the factory owners and potential investors. This allows them to invest in factories themselves, this is how the private sector expands. A quasi-random amount of the private owner's money is reinvested into new factories. All the factories that you build are Public Sector.
Public sector buildings are also susceptible to decay and there is a quasi-random chance that a number of your facilities will have to be replaced each turn.
Spending
But what to do when you've managed to get all this lovely IC?
Well firstly you can build more factories, the cost of a factory is listed under your stats. Costs for private investors are usually less. You can never have more factories in a province than the factory limit which is usually 20 for the capital, 15 for core, 10 for non-core and 5 for colonial.
Spending on anything else has to come from your own imagination; there is, for example, no fixed cost for a unit of army strength - one would have to invest in recruitment or increasing military technology or some such.
This applies for all values other than factories - leadership, Military Strength, Espionage, information about your nation's internal problems (You will note that Revolt Risk is not a public value).
As technologies advance thing may change costs or benefits, for example an increased factory cap, these technologies will slowly diffuse throughout the nations of the world but investing in your own research operation could defiantly give you an edge rather than waiting for them to come to you.
Spending is in whole numbers, banking is not allowed.
Warfare
Each nation has 3 exciting values called Leadership, Army Strength and Navy Strength. These values represent your nation's ability to wage war. Leadership is used to coordinate operations and Army and Navy strength represent the forces available to you. Each of the values does not represent a single unit or army but just a general assessment of your nations Military potential in comparison to other nations.
Your army strength is then divided by your leadership into chunks for each leadership point. You can only assign chunks for any task. So, say if I had 3 leadership points and an army strength of 12 then my orders might consist of 2 leadership in an attack and 1 to stay in defense.
This would give the attacking army a strength of 8 and the defending one a strength of 4.
More Leadership means more combat flexibility and allows greater intricacies to your plans. An army group under 1 leadership point can not do anything more than advance as a block, with only one leadership points there are no outflanking attacks or encircling movements or other such things. Leadership is possibly the key to winning wars.
The Factions
One element of gameplay that has knock on effects in all aspects of your nation is what faction you are part of. Most nations previous played by players have a pre-assigned faction. There are 4 major factions each with benefits and the other things. This adds even more individuality as the old system of nations specific traits will be retained but still this system aims to make each persons nation play completely differently to each other. Bear in mind that though some factions may seem unbalance to others further balance comes from the nation's specific abilities.
Here I will list the four Major Factions:
There are also going to be 3 other Minor factions in the game. These are factions that nations cannot join but still represent powerful bodies in the world.
NPC Rules
Similarly to the original one can expand one's sphere of influence to an NPC by spending a minimum amount of IC (1 per territory controlled by the NPC) and the highest bidder wins that nation into their sphere. Investments to sphere a nation are cumulative so if you invest one turn and again the next turn your influence score is the two combined.
If you have had a nation in your Sphere for 3 consecutive turns you can spend IC equal to half of its own IC to make that nation a puppet state of your own nation. You have complete control over diplomacy and policy in an NPC and though you can't order their spending directly you can point them in which direction you'd like them to go.
However an NPC can be invaded as a puppet state and then annexed. In this process a random amount of the Puppet's army will join yours in taking over the nation.
The Rebel types
Communists: Seeking to establish an Authoritarian Left wing government, naturally aligned to the Communist Faction
Nationalists: Can be found anywhere where another country is exercising its will over a foreign people. Their goal is independence, they are not aligned to any specific faction.
Reactionaries: Reactionaries, unsurprisingly, react to changes. Their goal is to return to a previous status quo. They are not aligned to any faction as a rule however they are normally Republican.
Monarchists: Unsurprisingly Monarchists are the rebels associated with the Monarchist faction, they seek to establish a monarchy in the nation, more likely to occur where a monarchy has recently been deposed. These rebels may also represent another claimant to the throne if occurring in a location where a monarchy is already present.
Liberals: Associated usually with the Republican faction liberal rebels will seek a more democratic society.
Solutionists: Often backed by investors from other Solutions these rebels seek to topple the government and create a right wing anarchic society.
Many nations may also have other rebels unique to them, or rebels occurring with certain events.
Economy
Firstly Economics is going to work a bit differently to other IOTs that have come previously. Most noticeably due to the fact that the private and public sectors are going to be split.
The Economy of a nation is split into two parts, its Private sector representing privately owned enterprises and its Public sector representing Government owned initiatives. Economy is represented as in many other IOTs simply by factories, which provide the ubiquitous IC that will fuel your nation. Both the Private and Public sectors are comprised of factories. Note: Factories represent all economic stuff, not just factories.
Each province on the map has a separate value for its Private and Public sector production, all provinces also have a value for Government Control. (Representing the authority of a state in its constituents) A Government Control of 0% represents occupation or territory not expanded into but internationally recognised as sovereign territories of your nations (i.e Uncolonized areas of Africa).
Each province then gets a value for Government Revenue which is the Government control multiplied by Public Sector IC. This value is then added directly to your total IC to spend.
Private sector income is all pooled at a national level. You can set a tax rate depending on what faction you're in (more on that later) and that percentage of Private Sector Revenue is added to total IC.
But wait - there's more! All that untaxed IC, it goes into the pockets of the factory owners and potential investors. This allows them to invest in factories themselves, this is how the private sector expands. A quasi-random amount of the private owner's money is reinvested into new factories. All the factories that you build are Public Sector.
Public sector buildings are also susceptible to decay and there is a quasi-random chance that a number of your facilities will have to be replaced each turn.
Spending
But what to do when you've managed to get all this lovely IC?
Well firstly you can build more factories, the cost of a factory is listed under your stats. Costs for private investors are usually less. You can never have more factories in a province than the factory limit which is usually 20 for the capital, 15 for core, 10 for non-core and 5 for colonial.
Spending on anything else has to come from your own imagination; there is, for example, no fixed cost for a unit of army strength - one would have to invest in recruitment or increasing military technology or some such.
This applies for all values other than factories - leadership, Military Strength, Espionage, information about your nation's internal problems (You will note that Revolt Risk is not a public value).
As technologies advance thing may change costs or benefits, for example an increased factory cap, these technologies will slowly diffuse throughout the nations of the world but investing in your own research operation could defiantly give you an edge rather than waiting for them to come to you.
Spending is in whole numbers, banking is not allowed.
Warfare
Each nation has 3 exciting values called Leadership, Army Strength and Navy Strength. These values represent your nation's ability to wage war. Leadership is used to coordinate operations and Army and Navy strength represent the forces available to you. Each of the values does not represent a single unit or army but just a general assessment of your nations Military potential in comparison to other nations.
Your army strength is then divided by your leadership into chunks for each leadership point. You can only assign chunks for any task. So, say if I had 3 leadership points and an army strength of 12 then my orders might consist of 2 leadership in an attack and 1 to stay in defense.
This would give the attacking army a strength of 8 and the defending one a strength of 4.
More Leadership means more combat flexibility and allows greater intricacies to your plans. An army group under 1 leadership point can not do anything more than advance as a block, with only one leadership points there are no outflanking attacks or encircling movements or other such things. Leadership is possibly the key to winning wars.
The Factions
One element of gameplay that has knock on effects in all aspects of your nation is what faction you are part of. Most nations previous played by players have a pre-assigned faction. There are 4 major factions each with benefits and the other things. This adds even more individuality as the old system of nations specific traits will be retained but still this system aims to make each persons nation play completely differently to each other. Bear in mind that though some factions may seem unbalance to others further balance comes from the nation's specific abilities.
Here I will list the four Major Factions:
Spoiler :
There are also going to be 3 other Minor factions in the game. These are factions that nations cannot join but still represent powerful bodies in the world.
Spoiler :
NPC Rules
Similarly to the original one can expand one's sphere of influence to an NPC by spending a minimum amount of IC (1 per territory controlled by the NPC) and the highest bidder wins that nation into their sphere. Investments to sphere a nation are cumulative so if you invest one turn and again the next turn your influence score is the two combined.
If you have had a nation in your Sphere for 3 consecutive turns you can spend IC equal to half of its own IC to make that nation a puppet state of your own nation. You have complete control over diplomacy and policy in an NPC and though you can't order their spending directly you can point them in which direction you'd like them to go.
However an NPC can be invaded as a puppet state and then annexed. In this process a random amount of the Puppet's army will join yours in taking over the nation.
The Rebel types
Communists: Seeking to establish an Authoritarian Left wing government, naturally aligned to the Communist Faction
Nationalists: Can be found anywhere where another country is exercising its will over a foreign people. Their goal is independence, they are not aligned to any specific faction.
Reactionaries: Reactionaries, unsurprisingly, react to changes. Their goal is to return to a previous status quo. They are not aligned to any faction as a rule however they are normally Republican.
Monarchists: Unsurprisingly Monarchists are the rebels associated with the Monarchist faction, they seek to establish a monarchy in the nation, more likely to occur where a monarchy has recently been deposed. These rebels may also represent another claimant to the throne if occurring in a location where a monarchy is already present.
Liberals: Associated usually with the Republican faction liberal rebels will seek a more democratic society.
Solutionists: Often backed by investors from other Solutions these rebels seek to topple the government and create a right wing anarchic society.
Many nations may also have other rebels unique to them, or rebels occurring with certain events.
