Mass media has a huge effect on modern society not just democracies. Take the USSR in the 80's when western newspapers got in and started to teach people about how great democracy is complared to stalinism. Our American system is corrupted by the big 4 being very left and never tell the whole story or things that really damage the left.
The big 4 are CNN ABC CBS and NBC the 4 main news networks in the United States. What people hear there is what they repeat and do. While this is not completely true many do. Now for the game.
1. Mass media will gradually take over religions place as a changer of your citizens ideas. This will happen after you discover some new techs maybe mass media, electronic entertainment, and broadcasting.
2. Mass media will effect how people feel about certain things such as wars and SE. If your a police state and your control over the media(I have no idea how to implent this) is weak then people will riot(if the media is pro democracy SE) have revolutions, ally with opposing civs.
3. Mass media could tie in with the political party ideas, if one party is strong but when you get media the opposing party could gain power and change how your government runs.
4. Media could be a weapon, you can use it against opposing states without directly declaring war, maybe if you give a city with strong media to them and it spreads it could cause a change to a new government pro you. Spies could implement a few dissidents to help 'spread the word' who would spread to other cities telling about democracy(think cold war) and if not stomped out soon could create unrest and opposition.
5. Direct control of actions. If the media was anti war because you lost 4 armor divisions and killed nothing or you never started a war and just did the media could influence the senate(democracy again) to via for peace sometimes shafting you without your consent. While you can oppose you will have to fight(don't make it too hard) for popular support.
6. Charisma rating should give how much support you have. This could be raised by being dynamic during campaigns, speechs, radio adresses, television appearences, finally and election in a democracy. Because you never lose elections, if you don't campaign well then you lose popular support and maybe the support of the senate until next election.
7. Wars won could give you popular support. Whether you win or lose will gain/lose support for your actions. If you have television appearences and people trust you then you can raise taxes without worry(unless it is an insane raise then people get pissed) but if your not popular taxes might not pass but lowered hurting your military and budget.
8. Effects on citizens. Spies should be able to attack civilian targets, I don't know about military attacking civilians because the media would know(doesn't necessarily mean they don't support it). If your people keep getting killed by terrorist and spy attacks you lose support for not protecting them.
9. Effects
Taxes could be set by you if your popular and ratified by the senate but if your not popular the senate would choose their own taxes which are lower and hurt your budget, stayin' in the black will turn into stayin' in the red. Senate could end wars and shaft you and your country. Opposing countries could really harm each others military(supplies, money, morale, recruitment) by changing public opinion with mass media. This could be bad for democracy vs democracy wars.
10. examples
a. Americans and Japanese are at war. Americans just took australia from Japan so Japan needs to hurt the American military. Japan implements media(I have no idea how to do this) into America supporting cutting money from military because of casualities that are fake. Senate makes President cut spending by 25 percent which means some battleships and carriers are disbanded stopping the invasion of Japanese held China and giving Japan time to raise a fleet of subs to attack the weakened American Military.
b. Russia needs to change support to democracy in France held Europe. Russian spies attack French civilians homes and implements media that says French government doesn't protect you so change to democracy and ally with Russia. 3 cities agree and Russia has created severe unrest in France and has a puppet states for France to attack thus starting a war and getting the people mad. Also if France was an hostile religion, it could start a Jihad(briefly mentioned in my hello post) giving extra recruitment and production for military units.
Any other ideas are welcome I don't think this has been really gone over but if it has, I just wasted alot of time typing
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The big 4 are CNN ABC CBS and NBC the 4 main news networks in the United States. What people hear there is what they repeat and do. While this is not completely true many do. Now for the game.
1. Mass media will gradually take over religions place as a changer of your citizens ideas. This will happen after you discover some new techs maybe mass media, electronic entertainment, and broadcasting.
2. Mass media will effect how people feel about certain things such as wars and SE. If your a police state and your control over the media(I have no idea how to implent this) is weak then people will riot(if the media is pro democracy SE) have revolutions, ally with opposing civs.
3. Mass media could tie in with the political party ideas, if one party is strong but when you get media the opposing party could gain power and change how your government runs.
4. Media could be a weapon, you can use it against opposing states without directly declaring war, maybe if you give a city with strong media to them and it spreads it could cause a change to a new government pro you. Spies could implement a few dissidents to help 'spread the word' who would spread to other cities telling about democracy(think cold war) and if not stomped out soon could create unrest and opposition.
5. Direct control of actions. If the media was anti war because you lost 4 armor divisions and killed nothing or you never started a war and just did the media could influence the senate(democracy again) to via for peace sometimes shafting you without your consent. While you can oppose you will have to fight(don't make it too hard) for popular support.
6. Charisma rating should give how much support you have. This could be raised by being dynamic during campaigns, speechs, radio adresses, television appearences, finally and election in a democracy. Because you never lose elections, if you don't campaign well then you lose popular support and maybe the support of the senate until next election.
7. Wars won could give you popular support. Whether you win or lose will gain/lose support for your actions. If you have television appearences and people trust you then you can raise taxes without worry(unless it is an insane raise then people get pissed) but if your not popular taxes might not pass but lowered hurting your military and budget.
8. Effects on citizens. Spies should be able to attack civilian targets, I don't know about military attacking civilians because the media would know(doesn't necessarily mean they don't support it). If your people keep getting killed by terrorist and spy attacks you lose support for not protecting them.
9. Effects
Taxes could be set by you if your popular and ratified by the senate but if your not popular the senate would choose their own taxes which are lower and hurt your budget, stayin' in the black will turn into stayin' in the red. Senate could end wars and shaft you and your country. Opposing countries could really harm each others military(supplies, money, morale, recruitment) by changing public opinion with mass media. This could be bad for democracy vs democracy wars.
10. examples
a. Americans and Japanese are at war. Americans just took australia from Japan so Japan needs to hurt the American military. Japan implements media(I have no idea how to do this) into America supporting cutting money from military because of casualities that are fake. Senate makes President cut spending by 25 percent which means some battleships and carriers are disbanded stopping the invasion of Japanese held China and giving Japan time to raise a fleet of subs to attack the weakened American Military.
b. Russia needs to change support to democracy in France held Europe. Russian spies attack French civilians homes and implements media that says French government doesn't protect you so change to democracy and ally with Russia. 3 cities agree and Russia has created severe unrest in France and has a puppet states for France to attack thus starting a war and getting the people mad. Also if France was an hostile religion, it could start a Jihad(briefly mentioned in my hello post) giving extra recruitment and production for military units.
Any other ideas are welcome I don't think this has been really gone over but if it has, I just wasted alot of time typing
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I use this email
(stupid cant use hotmail)
gamma_par4@hotmail.com
Don't ask for golf tips
Your game will get worse
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