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It's probably a hold-over from Dom 4, which obviously didn't have a strength bonus on its ranged weapons. So not so much of a bug as an oversight?

Except your friend didn't occasionally remind you he owned you money by waving a bunch of bills in front of your face and commenting on how he was slowly collecting it. Josh has certainly acting strange and handling this situation worse than he should but he hasn't been completely hiding either. This entire discussion was prompted by a video he suddenly made detailing his development on the game, 3.5 years after the kickstarter. If he was like your friend then he would have never brought the fact up himself. It would draw too much attention to it.

For the record, I'm not defending Josh's behaviour afterwards or saying that he isn't completely in over his head. His actions are certainly something no developer should emulate. I just think that when he made the kickstarter he had a prototype which he believed he could make into a finished game in time. It's not fraud to have your predictions turn out false. Just shitty all around.

You can do so through an extremely convoluted series of events as Germany and a conquering spree. Forming the Holy Roman Empire in HoI4 is very much 'We're on so many different layers of alt-history we might as well have fun with it'. Not only do you have to restore the Kaiserreich and ally with Great Britain, you have to get Wilhelm III on the throne instead of II, reform your succession laws, and finally have the Hindenburg survive long enough to kill off most but not all of the royal family. And then after all of that you still need to conquer many other countries to get the land needed for the decision.

It's... very much something you'd only figure out how to do by reading the raw data.

Working game does not mean being close to finished or that it only needs art assets. It means that they have the underlying structure completed and need to fill it out with additional content, which is why a quarter of their budget was laid out for further programming and development. Development which could have easily shown that their game did not work as well as they thought it did. The stretchgoals they reached also meant that this underlying structure needed to be redeveloped to accommodate them, which obviously required much more development time than anticipated.

The kickstarter does have trouble differentiating between 'What is' and 'What will be' though. I think this is mostly due to inexperience. That and the fact that they didn't anticipate people would be closely analyzing their choice of words in the future to determine fraud.

Then everyone dies of liver failure and we can let the thread sink into obscurity again?

The only problem with that is that the Pacifist faction is the 'greedy energy-grubbers' faction. They want peace and stability to get rich, not out of philosophical ideals. Expanding the different factions and making more of them is probably needed too if this idea is being perused. _{This would also help make empires and ethics feels more distinct from each other too, which is something I really want out of Stellaris. Right now the different ethics mostly feel like different styles of hats. Not identical but still functionally interchangeable in most cases. This is why I like gestalt empires because they at least try to feel distinct even if they don't completely succeed.}

Isolationists want to be left alone.  Being in a defensive war would really motivate their type.  Cause GTFO invaders, up till you push them out. 
(But really, should be some logic for when the same enemy continues to declare war again and again.  Final solution.)

The solution is simple. Make the Isolationist faction happy when you create a buffer zone out of taken systems/planets. _{And then expand that buffer zone to the entire galaxy.}

Accidentally detonated a series of bombs around a nuclear reactor, killing 20,000 people, wounding uncounted others, and undoubtedly spreading radioactivity across a wide area.

This was the good ending.