What kind of changes would you like to see to governments in Express? What might be too strong? What might need a boost?

For the sake of simplicity, try to think of the governments as standalone for this discussion rather than strategy-based. IE: Communism vs commie indy, or tyranny vs tyr techer, etc.




Gov Revision 3 for reference:

Monarchy None

Fascism
+15% Food Production
+50% Oil Production
-10% Maximum Per Capita Income
-15% Population

Tyranny
+20% Attack Gains
-10% Military Upkeep Costs
Only 1 Turn Required Per Attack
-25% Maximum Per Capita Income

Dictatorship
+25% Military Strength
+30% Spy Effectiveness
-30% Construction Speed
+33% Ghost Acres

Communism
+20% Technology Effectiveness
+35% Industrial Production
+35% Market Sale Size Cap
10% Market Commissions

Theocracy
-20% Private Market Military Costs
+40% Construction Speed
-35% Maximum Technology
+50% Maximum Population
Double GDI Expenses

Republic
+20% Land Exploration
+20% Maximum Per Capita Income
-10% Military Strength

Democracy
0% Market Commissions
3 Turns Required Per Attack
+10% Maximum Technology

Communism
+50% Technology Effectiveness
+85% Industrial Production
+55% Market Sale Size Cap
0% Market Commissions
+45% Military Strength
+25% Attack Gains
+40% Construction Speed
1 Turn Required Per Attack

I think that might make it slightly overpowered but i would like to see that too.

Rep pci booms +50% effect
Fasc oil booms +50% effect
Tyr food booms +50% effect
Commie indy boom +50% effect
Theo expense bonus +100% effect
Dictator build cost +100% effect
Mono luck bonus +150% effect

Bring back public hangings :P

And conditioning tech!!!

wow I almost forgot there was conditioning tech lol

Dictatorship
+50% Military Strength
+50% Technology Effectiveness
+30% Maximum Per Capita Income
+30% Spy Effectiveness
+30% Construction Speed
+100% Ghost Acres
1 turn per attack
-15% luck

Dictators should get whatever they want :D

Bring back the Fame attribute !

you guys are ruining what could actually be a change to the game its needed in a long time.

Does anyone have more serious suggestions for government changes to this server?

lower dicts bpt penalty.

Theo 10% tpt bonus.

Would help the lowly techers compete for a change.

Increase the minimum auto sell floor tech prices

Communism
+10% Technology Effectiveness
+35% Industrial Production
+35% Market Sale Size Cap
12% Market Commissions

Theocracy
-30% Private Market Military Costs
+40% Construction Speed
-25% Maximum Technology
+50% Maximum Population
Double GDI Expenses

how probable are changes?

as probable as qz and pang have time.

get rid of the bottom feeder option posed by GDI......(hit and jump)

If we have good input and decide changes are even necessary, there's a good chance they'll be implemented

I like your thinking except I would go the other way and drop the tpt back to the old one which gave like 20-25% lower tpt. that would raise tech prices and thus nerf all the other strats, and make having a strong economy harder as a casher for instance.

Right now the game can't handle 2 big techers stocking as they would together supply the market with well over 2/3 of the demand.

so in this case if i was limited to make govt changes I would add "Research labs -25% efficiency" to all govts.

I think you are right about theo being exceptionally bad for primary techers tho, because the SDI is too low to double tap and single-tapping wont allow theo to gain as many total acres as a tyranny with the +20%, so theo could get "Research labs -20% efficiency" instead. A bigger advantage would likely only lead to tyr techer to theo techer being the most efficient way to go.
Could also tweak the tech effectiveness to -30% without making theo casher too good.

Relax's changes risk making theo casher really overpowered. At -25% tech max you got theos making ~97% as much as a rep per acre with high tech, and ~22% more per acre at low tech levels (after food expenses otherwise 25% more). add to that the brutally cheap private market that allows a lot of very good reselling at the end and a very cheap jump.

moderator changes and i'll play on the server

red x or primmy?

I spoke about improving a teacher option without putting any real thought into it. I see what your saying about the volume in the small market. That’s a good point. Would nerfing production really raise prices enough to be beneficial overall? I can’t decide if that would be effective or not. It ‘could’ raise prices, then you’d get more techers trying to take advantage of high price tech. Then you could just have more crappy techers with worse production. Hrmmm?? Small market is a tough thing to overcome either way.

I think we need one THERMAL NUCLEAR WEAPON per country when they build 5000 tech labs.
And when you drop it on someone it cuts the entire country in half> everything they have divided by two>

THAT WOULD BE REAL NICE>

Lol

I like that idea.