Political Parties Refusing to Disband

[New Chilokver]

So a while ago, I banned political parties and had all my politicians run on an individual platform. However, I continue to get issues involving them, most recently one about a hung parliament. Is there a way to somehow flag issues like these so that those who shouldn't get them won't?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

So a while ago, I banned political parties and had all my politicians run on an individual platform. However, I continue to get issues involving them, most recently one about a hung parliament. Is there a way to somehow flag issues like these so that those who shouldn't get them won't?

There is, but we haven't used it. We call these policies, and we can flag within the game engine that certain decisions have been made, like banning elections, getting rid of capitalism, banning computers. Adding a new policy is often a thing that's done, and it has to be accompanied by several things, including but not limited to reviewing existing issues to see what issues and options it should render invalid, deciding its effect on the simulation's numbers, and adding it to a list of policies that must be reviewed for all future edits.

At the heart of it, there's a battle between the desire for simplicity/elegance and the desire for granularity/player agency. In this case, simplicity/elegance won out. While this has a cost in player agency and in simulation granularity, it's far from being alone in being a player decision unacknowledged by coded narrative changes. In this case, the numerical stat effects are basically all you get.