[rdonj]

I downloaded the demo and gave this game a bit of a try. It does seem like it could be interesting, but I had a few problems with it.

1. France, russia, japan, the UK, the united states... what do they all have in common? Apparently they are all headed towards mass starvation. I haven't looked at the rest of the major nations yet, but in the demo scenario (the end of diplomacy) it is looking pretty much like no one in the world is capable of producing a surplus of food. I don't get it, how is it that people are supposed to survive in a world without food.

2. Most countries don't have sufficient IPUs to keep their goods and arms at positive values at the same time even in peacetime, and many of them can't keep their arms up at all without importing massive amounts of oil (I'm talking about you, france). And letting your arms drop to incredible negative values doesn't seem like a very bright idea. And when you inevitably run out of goods trying to keep your army supplied, debt begins running rampant. I really don't understand how you're supposed to do anything else in wartime other than produce endless waves of arms from all your cities, digging yourself even further into debt as all of your income dries up. I guess it is possible to operate still, but it seems as though your economy is destined to become worse and worse the longer the game goes on, until no one has any bullets and can't produce anything because lack of food and income have obliterated their IPUs....

Hopefully some of the other scenarios that come with the game make it less pointlessly hard to maintain a stable economy.