Go play American Totalists.
Surely, though, there has to be a way to implement the purge in-game without this. If that's so, why not the Holocaust as well?
Personally, I'd probably have made the Great Purge automatic and starting it obligatory, with your choice being between having it complete, or having an ahistorical choice of Yagoda realising Stalin was about to turn against him, launch a preemptive coup and have Trotskyites or Whites get a chance to come out on top in the chaos of Stalin's death and the NKVD's rushed powergrab. Compromise between the gameplay push to have an alternative and the need to make clear the Great Purge was not justified by having the alternative be the forces unleashed to do the purge consuming the Soviet leadership, and not a failure to root out supposed traitors, that had the purge never happened the coup never would have.
Presumably the reworked Jacobin tree will be the purely communist tree.
If you know anything about me or my stances on this thread, you would know I am the last one to justify any of Stalin's actions about anything. Frankly, you need to get a grip. Because to me this seems more like you placing meaning on something where it simply doesn't exist. A gameplay mechanic is a gameplay mechanic. Big fucking deal.
At the end of the day, if you have a problem with how people have made their mod, that's your problem. But you don't get to paint players like myself or @Worffan101 as stalinist apologists because we disagree with you.
Actually show what the corruption actually is. Corruption is often portrayed as this faceless entity. "The regime is incredibly corrupt". Okay, well what does that actually mean? It means politicians, bureaucrats, and other government or military officials do favors for their friends, family, or allies. Generals giving commands to their children or siblings, bureaucrats taking bribes to protect certain individuals or businesses, police looking the other way. Keep in mind almost none of this is done out of malice. Think about it, if you were in a position of power and were able to help say your brother or a close friend out, wouldn't you?So something I am wondering about is for narrative purposes is how to show case the corruption that Qing China has at the start. While this is something that everyone has to handle, it will be of particular note to Ren Jiyu(the Minister) and his storyline since he refuses to engage in it. Just saying that things are corrupt I find to be a bland and since this is a narrative AAR, this is to be seen from their eyes.
so any advice.
Warlords will place their political allies that will help them (money, power, guns, etc.) as high in the government as possible. This means that those politicians allied warlords will receive support from those warlords (money and influence) that enable them to reach higher posts than those who don't.Thanks any other advice, particularly in how the warlord guys(and their lieutenants) will be doing this beyond what you said above.
For example this awful meme here-https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/a9xslg/every_ideology_a_jew/
