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My big problem is, that i don't seem to have any chance of stabilizing any african country. Basically, all countries in Africa start a downwards spiral as soon as the cohesion debuff in 2023 hits. Unrest rest level rises in every country on the continent, except for Egypt, Algeria and sometimes Tunisia. Every other country just degrades. I quickly realized, that one of the main factors was high inequility, dropping cohesion rest level, which is raising unrest rest level. So i tried to do nothing but boost welfare in every contry i control. This might work at some point, but i am pretty sure, that it's too slow to matter. Take South Africa, great development points for an african nation, i immediately took it and put it on 100% welfare. In April 2024, inequility has dropped tp 5.4, meaing cohesion rest level is still at 0, cohesion is at 2,1 now, unrest rest level is 7.1. By the time i will have reduced inequality to levels that it does not reduce cohesion rst level any more, cohesion will already be at 0, meaning unrest will murder me. Most other nations have less investment points, meaning they can affect their inequality even less per month, despite being more wealthy. Botswana for example, has so little investment points, that they can not meaningfully counter any existing situation. So i am probably missing something, for example, Nigeria has quite a low inequality compared to other nations, so i was able to reduce it in the same time to 2.8. With that, cohesion rest level is at 3,8, this will slowly increase and drop unrest as well. But unrest rest level is still at 6,6. And i have no idea why. There is no explanation why unrest rest level is what it is. This tooltip should really be included. Without this information, you can't win because unrest will murder you. Also, all my nations lose gdp and per capita gdp. Why? And if i want to see information about the development of one of those stats, i can't, so it's making screenshots and comparing them to see how much of a dent i am majing in a specific problem. Basically, i am trying to figure out if i can fix these countries, or if the nature of an alien invasion just means that i will have to live with the fact that the numbers are all gonna go just down. But even if the game is designed as "shit is only gonna get worse", if there are sliders to decide how you spent the money on your nations, those decisions need to be completely transparent, so that you at least know whether there is a use for them or if the only reasonable strategy is to invest everything into space and ignore the socio economics of the nations you control.
Also, i think it is bad design, that economy, welfare, knowledge and unity do not scale with the size of the country. Why would Botswana have a harder time implementing public policy compared to nigeria? This should not matter for those internal policies. I get that the investment points of nations is not linear to the gdp, that is a balancing issue that makes sense from a fun perspective. You can use the greater powers to mostly provide science and a bunch of smaller nations to build stuff, meaning that the US is much better at boosting education and GDP to provide a great science outpout, while having Tanzania and Kenya as efficient ways of building boost for example compared to their usage of CP. But this means in the end, that Kenya and Tanzania will die in a fire because even completely focusing on their stabilisation will take years and years to keep them from constant civil war. Atg least without any councilor missions. My Tanzania currently can do 3,5 welfare projects a month with 100 % dedication to it, without ever having startet a space flight program or generating funding for me.