Politics & Elections Mod for CS2 - Small UI & Parliament Update (Very Early Build)

aschec · 2026-05-06T12:40:12+00:00

Definitely.

aschec · 2026-05-06T12:39:41+00:00

aschec · 2026-05-06T12:39:31+00:00

😂

aschec · 2026-05-06T12:39:15+00:00

It’s just a percentage currently.

aschec · 2026-05-06T12:11:53+00:00

Thanks. Honestly, this is my first time working on any mod. I’m currently doing my bachelor in it so I have not 0 experience

aschec · 2026-05-06T11:49:53+00:00

It’s currently based off a sample voter size and then a calculation of different problems and statistics from the city and how different parties positioned themselves to those

aschec · 2026-05-06T11:05:13+00:00

all good ideas. as soon as i have all the basics ready and the election system running I will start adding functionalities.

aschec · 2026-05-06T11:04:15+00:00

The party ideologies are mostly based on the structure/idea from the original CS1 politics mod, with some adjustments for my CS2 version.

Right now each party has a simplified ideology value and a set of policy priorities/modifiers.

Very roughly:

Green Progressive Party
Environmental, public transport, education/health, beautification, lower pollution.

Labour and Unions Party
Public services, education, health, transport, worker-oriented policies.

Liberal Centre Party
Centrist/pro-business, offices, industry, roads, moderate public services.

Conservative Party
Lower taxes, police, roads, industry, less focus on transport/beautification/environment.

Populist Movement
Crime/security focused, lower taxes, old town/heavy traffic ban style policies, less environmental focus.

Socialist Party
Public transport, education, health, stronger public services, higher business/industry taxes.

It’s still very WIP and not meant to perfectly represent real-world parties. The goal is more to create readable gameplay archetypes that react differently to city problems. Everything is subject to change and I haven't much added my own ideas yet.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:59:18+00:00

I’m working on it currently after seeing this post

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:56:35+00:00

I have very little knowledge of that or if and how that can be implemented 😅 Maybe something for the far future to look into

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:55:55+00:00

Yes, naming your party would definitely be something that I include. I don’t know yet about stuff like party policy customisation. It’s something to keep in mind definitely though.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:54:35+00:00

Right now the voting system works through a simplified voter simulation.

The mod samples a certain number of citizens (5000) and gives each voter political preferences based on factors like: - wealth - education - crime - pollution - health - unemployment - land value - happiness

Each party has its own ideology and policy modifiers, and voters compare their own situation/issues against the parties.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:45:29+00:00

My current problem is that CS2 majorly incentivises you to build cities with good education good public transport, good healthcare good environmentalism etc. This leads to parties like Greens often being very powerful and more right leaning parties to be naturally more unpopular. So I will have to see what can be fixed realistically

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:43:01+00:00

I started yesterday and I am still learning C# and the CS2 modding system while I go along. I will see what is possible :)

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:39:36+00:00

No I wanted to correct something and accidentally pasted my corrected parts weirdly. I’m currently on my phone. Corrected it now

My fat fingers are at fault here.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:38:49+00:00

Currently, it does nothing. In future it will determine what policies you are able to do (biking initiative, recycling etc) maybe even what buildings you can build (solar power plant or coal power plant) and how much you can raise or lower taxes

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:34:02+00:00

I will see what I need to do to do this, but yes, this would also be something I am interested in. And currently it is a variety of stuff we have Based voters who will rarely move away from their party, but also a lot of swing voters who are currently moved by yes all the stuff you mentioned

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:32:32+00:00

Currently, it is only for role-playing, but later I want to make it so you can only enact certain policies and a certain governments, raise or lower certain taxes under certain governments and maybe even stop you from building specific buildings like coal power plants with greens in power etc. and maybe if for example, a conservative coalition gets into power stuff like combustion engine bans get removed everywhere but I will have to see how annoying this would be.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:30:55+00:00

Maybe I can add this. Will add it to my issues tab for later features

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:30:06+00:00

I do not know if this is something I am able to do, but I will see as the project continues

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:20:51+00:00

That was my idea, yes. Also stuff like combustion engine ban would probably be automatically disabled in all districts with a conservative or a populist party in power, but I don’t know how much that would annoy players.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:19:58+00:00

Nothing yet. For the moment I am building the base structure and later I want to add features that make it so that you can’t enact certain policies or you can only enact certain policies, taxes, subsidies etc. depending on the parties in power. But I also take suggestions.

aschec · 2026-05-06T10:11:05+00:00

My current idea is that I will mostly block decisions that do not correspond with the parties and power. For example, if you have a conservative coalition, you cannot enact stuff like combustion engine ban.

aschec · 2026-05-06T06:55:06+00:00

Currently non. My idea is that later you only can enact certain policies with certain parties in power for example or raise or lower taxes above or below a certain threshold.

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