{"id":5771,"date":"2020-05-14T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:46:31","slug":"democracy-4-variable-slider-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2020\/05\/14\/democracy-4-variable-slider-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy 4: Variable slider costs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An experiment for <a href=\"https:\/\/wwww.positech.co.uk\/democracy4\">Democracy 4<\/a>. The game now differentiates between &lt;10%, &lt;25% and larger policy slider moves with differing political capital amounts, indicated on the slider by red\/green if achievable right now. Very happy with this :D. #smallerchangesareeasier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders-1024x738.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders-1024x738.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders-680x490.png 680w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders-768x553.png 768w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders-317x228.png 317w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sliders.png 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It makes sense that a 5% tweak to income tax (just an example) is easier to get agreed than a 50% rise or cut, and it also makes people stop and think about the various positions they can put sliders on some of the smaller and less dramatic policies. I think the green\/red lines surrounding the chunks on the slider are self explanatory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment for Democracy 4. The game now differentiates between &lt;10%, &lt;25% and larger policy slider moves with differing political capital amounts, indicated on the slider by red\/green if achievable right now. Very happy with this :D. #smallerchangesareeasier It makes sense that a 5% tweak to income tax (just an example) is easier to get<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Democracy 4: Variable slider costs&#8230;<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2020\/05\/14\/democracy-4-variable-slider-costs\/\">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":[132,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy-4","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}