Bay 12 Games Forum

1. If pollution laws are super lax (i.e. Arch-Conservative), you can find liberal mutants at the crack house at least.
2. Possible bug, but you could try doing riskier stuff, like killing conservative scum.
3. Learn some Dodge from the university (Gymnastics) and then go beat up genetic monsters at the corresponding lab.
4. It's probably random, like sleeper lawyers. Sometimes they can be in the right place at the right time, but not always. I'm guessing having more sleepers increases the chance, but I don't know.

The idea sounds a bit conservative but if its used, it should lead to attacks by mobsters on your safehouse.

Yes, it should, but only if your fighters end up winning too often.

What does the Teaching skill in its current version really give the player?  More grind, mainly.

...How exactly? Spend some time learning Education at the university and then you're good to go to start teaching liberals at a decent pace.

And from my point of view (and I think the game's), Teaching is more a politically neutral skill. It's a means to an end. There's liberal/moderate Teacher NPCs, and conservative Educators. Sure, you can impart new, radical ideas, but at the same time conservatives can use the same means to indoctrinate young people and teach them what's right. Keeping the populace ignorant for the government's benefit is largely an obsolete method by now, given the better alternative propaganda presents. Modern conservatives wouldn't stifle education, but rather strive to control it.

While I agree with the base concept of both your suggestions, I'd personally have Teaching indeed help interrogation, but conservatives would be able to resist accordingly by drawing from their firm knowledge base (Business, Science, Religion, depending on the teacher's argument) and their own Teaching skill. With various degrees of success, relative to skill levels, of course.

I can specifically remember destroying the hell out of tanks with my swordfighting liberals. I remember this because it was amazing.

Related but slightly off-topic question: where do you get recruits that start out with some measure of Sword skill?

But halving juice gains is quite the change. Increased (doubled, in fact) grind is indeed "only" an issue of boredom/annoyance, but I'd say that's a major problem when a game has to be, above everything else, fun!

So the question is why? What's the purpose of this change? How does the game benefit from it? How does it make the game more interesting?

Well, alternatively, you could destroy evidence so to progressively invalidate criminal records, as more and more charges would have to be dropped due to lack of proper proof. Of course, the more conservative (and authoritarian) the corresponding laws, the less effective this method would be to slim down records.

Persuasion attacks from high-level conservatives should be an opposed Wisdom vs. Heart roll, but I get the feeling that's how it already works.

So I made it to Saturn without ever lowering the difficulty, and I'm getting consistently pwned on the very first mission there. The critters are real fast and manage to swarm my base real quick.

The laser would've come in handy, but it's so damn hard to survive with so much cash, enough to research it, AND enter the next mission with enough to quickly set up a reasonable defense. :/