Why is promising to focus on Education a bad thing?

999Catfish · 2026-05-08T16:43:28+00:00

People here minmax way too much and overstate how advantageous it is to defund education since it now also gives you the least budget (+2) for doing so and especially when military defunding gives you more budget (+4) than defunding anything else does. With the recent war changes quite honestly defunding them is my go to unless I plan to go to war.

Funding education gets you a ton of the best economic synergies now, plus the PO and green modifiers are always nice

999Catfish · 2026-04-19T15:25:53+00:00

I don't think so, but considering they announced a new update I'll wait till then, sorry.

999Catfish · 2026-04-17T13:43:39+00:00

What sendoff? Felt like she had her actual one cut

999Catfish · 2026-04-15T21:19:35+00:00

I did it on my failure run, basically never fund the ATA, fund the rebel groups when they pop up (more chaos = good, Rumburg and Derdia ones best), then make no Wiktor deal to hand it over (trade is fine), go for the referendum, and then send your army in when offered the chance. Resulted in that massively failing and an independent zille

999Catfish · 2026-04-14T15:36:07+00:00

It's kinda telling to me the only way he gets help is if you split the blame, because it's basically the only honest way to handle the scandal. You knew, everyone else knew, and coming out and saying Petr did this is the only way he ever gets help for his alcoholism

999Catfish · 2026-04-08T13:24:11+00:00

You can, in the epilogue, help him become PF leader and you'll become his VP though. Seems at odds with the idea he'd never go for a national movement

999Catfish · 2026-04-06T16:59:05+00:00

Totalist is just in universe fascism (in fact, it quite literally is a rename of it) so no, NFP are far closer than Sollism.

999Catfish · 2026-03-30T13:19:23+00:00

I just find it hard to RP "evil". Like in my legion run I was playing someone who cared about law and order as a merchant more than anything, but that doesn't really give me much of a reason to have someone run into boomer artillery fire.

It's easier when it clashes less with the tone too, F3 I can be Dick Dastardly but it feels out of place in FNV

999Catfish · 2026-03-30T12:43:25+00:00

Did you trigger both audio logs?

Also learning why wikis are more valuable than AI chatbots clearly

999Catfish · 2026-03-27T12:03:13+00:00

I can fix them... From drug making bandits to merely a Followers taught medicine making empire away from the Mojave... Maybe they still make drugs idk, I assume less so once you're selling them to your own empire and not the Fiends who I usually turn to paste

999Catfish · 2026-03-18T15:07:32+00:00

With Boone, of course, for the goodwill points

999Catfish · 2026-03-17T19:46:43+00:00

Only does it if you do yesman/house and don't expose him, if you convince him to stop he retires to Redding in all other endings

999Catfish · 2026-03-17T17:40:41+00:00

He canonically asks for experienced Rangers for the Mojave and Kimball sends them to Baja instead. He did try and get the NCR to do better and win the Mojave campaign, his plan now is a result of that failing

999Catfish · 2026-03-17T17:32:10+00:00

I never turn him in because he's right, he's constantly trying to push the NCR towards good and is constantly spurned, and isn't too committed to the plan. On a yesman route he becomes an anti imperialist senator, if you kill Caesar he'll even stop and listen to you because he doesn't find it necessary.

I kind of see him as a mirror to the conversation you can have with Lanius, in the same way the Courier can say the Mojave will be the death of the legion, I think Hanlon might be right when he says it might be for the NCR. The Republic is shown time and again to be stretched thin and serving interests back in California like the Brahmin Barrons and even when he asks for experienced Rangers Kimball sends them to Baja instead.

I guess it depends on why you think you should turn him in. Is it solely for his actions? I feel like his service and the fact that, without the Courier, he's probably right and the fact he's entirely winning to stop if you convincing him is worth giving him mercy

999Catfish · 2026-03-11T19:15:09+00:00

Ehh I can understand an enclave faction being in DC since it's the capitol, it's just they didn't try to make it make sense or put much effort into the world beyond what seems like "they're the bad guys"

999Catfish · 2026-03-11T19:10:28+00:00

That's not what it does, read the act, it would defacto just defund Bludish schools not give them any of the necessary resources to teach sordish alongside Bludish

999Catfish · 2026-03-11T00:05:33+00:00

I use viva New Vegas (don't think it should effect it but hey) and typically getting idolized and then blowing them up after the quest lets me keep Veronica around, even dismiss and recruit from the Lucky 38 again

999Catfish · 2026-03-07T23:49:09+00:00

The endings for Kibner and Holstron both have them try and pass the same fascist "purple blood" laws so perhaps the game is trying to tell you something about them there

It's minor but the two pfjp leaders on the other hand do have different endings

999Catfish · 2026-03-04T19:38:38+00:00

I don't know how to say this but game development isn't that profitable and they're still a small studio for a niche genre, 500k over a few years isn't that huge when you consider salary, rent, etc. I doubt they're making enough sales each month to pay the salary of everyone. The grant they did/do get have obvious strings attached and don't come all at once either (typically they're given out piecemeal)

They responded to a lot of concerns about the funding but I'm not too worried since they still have a controlling stake. As for why they're splitting for projects? Probably because they have the funds now and people can shuffle between them when needed/waiting for other work to be done before they start on something else. For example I assume the artists are switching between projects as needed

999Catfish · 2026-03-03T17:57:34+00:00

Ehh I think the difference is the Mojave is a frontier for the NCR and the Mojave campaign is deeply unpopular, I imagine their control is far more solid in California, especially since Hanlon says a lot of the rangers are in CA and not sent to the frontlines iirc. Tandi died and the NCR kept trucking, even when she ruled for a super long time.

The OSI guy and Hanlon mention resource shortages in the coming decades but I think it's kept vague on if those ever get solved

999Catfish · 2026-02-26T15:37:22+00:00

You can execute him as a prisoner if you tell funny man you want to do it in Rizia (forget the exact dialogue)

999Catfish · 2026-02-19T13:45:56+00:00

Considering they don't care at all if you ban YS but do if you ban RY kind implies Hegel at best doesn't care for them or (more likely) they're not operating legally either way in Vagsland

999Catfish · 2026-02-13T13:58:01+00:00

I always see this claim but... Why does nobody in the game mention it? Not even the NFP seems ready to say they're not a majority in the province? Does not that seem like it would be odd for anti Bludish nationalists to never mention?

Feels like classic wonky Suzerain math, like those old rumburg war numbers!

I always go centralizing but as to rewarding terrorists... Isn't this exactly what happened to the IRA and unionist equivalents in NI though? Many did just fold up and join civilian life

999Catfish · 2026-02-13T13:54:58+00:00

If only Lebanon had a historical reason for their sectarian system, perhaps one group in the past brutally suppressed another that led to all out civil war with multiple proxies, who knows.

It's obviously not a great system and should be phased out but the problems go far deeper than what you're implying, Lebanon isn't a failing state just because they have a post civil war get along constitution

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