{"id":2439,"date":"2013-07-09T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2013-07-09T18:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:50:38","slug":"oh-canada-la-la-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/07\/09\/oh-canada-la-la-la\/","title":{"rendered":"OH CANADA!!!! LA LA LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I have been in Canada fact finding mode. Would you like to know the average Canadians maple syrup consumption? or the latest estimates for moose population? Forget all that&#8230;lets get down to the nitty gritty. A lot of statistical browsing has led me to the rather worrying conclusion that getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/\">Democracy 3<\/a> economic model to make sense over different countries is all but impossible. I am giving it my best shot, but don&#8217;t play the game thinking &#8216;this is Canada&#8217;. Play the game thinking &#8216;this country could vaguely be something like Canada&#8217; and you will be fine!<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am torn between polishing and balancing and adding content that works in the model as a whole (I added some new policies such as flat tax), and making the different countries &#8216;feel&#8217; more different. I cannot decide which is more important.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOnQROgk1IM\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For example, Canada is big on mining. Should there be a &#8216;mining law&#8217; policy to decide how lax environmental controls are? or is that already covered under pollution controls? Are there other issues or events or policies I should add that are Canada specific? or should I worry more about the core simulation and balancing the central game?<\/p>\n<p>Something that is easy to do is to &#8216;nudge&#8217; the countries attributes more in the direction of the real world, by adding scripts and overrides. I can make Canadians less violent and more law abiding (or vice versa), less (or more) prone to obesity, entrepreneurship or patriotism. I&#8217;m open to any commentary from Canadian readers.<\/p>\n<p>BTW I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developconference.com\/page.cfm\/Action=Seminar\/libID=2\/listID=19\/libEntryID=46\">giving a talk at develop tomorrow<\/a>. Do come along and say hi if you are at the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I have been in Canada fact finding mode. Would you like to know the average Canadians maple syrup consumption? or the latest estimates for moose population? Forget all that&#8230;lets get down to the nitty gritty. A lot of statistical browsing has led me to the rather worrying conclusion that getting the Democracy 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; OH CANADA!!!! LA LA LA<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/07\/09\/oh-canada-la-la-la\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy3","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}