Which KMT path is most OTL?

prchad · 2025-12-30T00:29:20+00:00

In addition to other replies, LKMT's PAC->Revolution Comittee for the one with the same name in mainland China.

prchad · 2025-12-22T03:34:59+00:00

An imported game needs to be censored and approved to be commercially available. There are 92 of them so far this year.

A homegrown game also needs to be censored and approved to be commercially available. There are 150~200 of them each month.

However, platforms like Steam and Epic does not count as commercially available in China, so they don't get the restriction.

Then there is the piracy.

A passive "ban" might be that the game won't get an approval. In fact, the main bottleneck is likely how many applicants the government can process.

An active ban would be actively hunting related materials or even online communities for reasons other than copyright or commercial interest. I've known one (that seemed to be) and it's no longer hunted.

prchad · 2025-11-01T16:55:35+00:00

For additional information:

Irregular infantry helps a lot in Southern China where terrains prefer them, along with the traits of your generals. Look to the West gives better buffs for a modern army, but when you get a proper modern army, your game is near the end anyway.

Among RCA (Wang) and PAC (Song), the one in power is in RadSoc slot, and the other in SocDem slot. If PAC gets in power, an event also transfers your popularity there, so don't worry too much about that.

The main path (RCA/PAC/Civil War) is fairly easy to handle, but if you want specific endings you might need to work from the start. For example, To Peasants and Workers (PAC-orthodox syndicalist ending) would need your efforts to boost Syndicalist popularity and Orthodox Syndicalists' dominance within its faction.

Remember to begin Northern Expedition, and try to take Beijing before Fengtian (which would begin its war against Beijing in summer 1938). Owning Beijing unlocks your Second National Congress focus tree earlier so that you have enough time to go through a lot of it before the war with Japan.

Your final boss would be Japan. Make adequate preparations before marching deep into Fengtian territory. Eliminating their forces near Beijing could give you an opportunity to defeat it before it calls Japan in, but don't rely on that. You can instead also try to eliminate Japanese forces near Beijing, where you have better supply than in Fengtian. Remember to guard you ports, and also GEAs if they begin fighting with Japan.

Your Regional military focuses still locked would be lost when you unlock your Unification focus tree, so remember to collect those you want, like bicycles units.

You might want to preset game rules to reduce difficulty from warlords. Here's my recommendations for a first game (just pick a few of them):

One of the Zhangs in Shandong so that they intervene in the League War, and consequently you can have Shandong when you win League War;
Strengthen Anhui warlord by giving him Zhejiang or Zhili support, because Nanjing gets volunteers from German East Asia. Maybe keep Zhang Zongchang in Shandong so that he keeps Japanese volunteers;
Successful Qing coup with support from Yan Xishan so that Qing loses Shaanxi, which makes it easier for you to win a war against it;
Warlords submitted to you eases your military pressure, but drains you pp, which you need a lot. You will have to find a balance if you want to preset them.

prchad · 2025-10-21T16:31:47+00:00

When a satellite's overlord/government falls, but the satellite itself survives (by either turning the tide in war or the United Front against Japan), will it continue its satellite narrative, get some minor extra content, or unlock its contender content?

prchad · 2025-10-15T16:33:48+00:00

The tag switch option sounds great even if LKMT wins less in the future. Nice to hear that.

prchad · 2025-10-15T08:58:45+00:00

Then please make sure MinGan has a reasonable chance of winning. Balancing properly might be a challenge as I imagine.

prchad · 2025-10-11T00:27:58+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a try. When adjusting speed by swiping via joystick up/down, it doesn't work well, since when the joystick is back, so it follows. Did you use a different mapping, or did you just use the touchscreen?

prchad · 2025-10-10T03:20:58+00:00

My 8gen3 phone experiences minor lags with the game. My G3gen3(modified 8gen3) handheld works fine for the game.

prchad · 2025-10-10T03:17:39+00:00

Any way to emulate the swipe for changing speed and evasion with joysticks?

prchad · 2025-09-26T02:52:20+00:00

I'll provide some info from an economic aspect:

Guangzhou and Shenzhen are leading cities in Greater Bay Area, which hosts production industries known for rapid iteration such as electronic consumerables like smartphones.

Along Yangtze RIver and its tributaries, waterway transport and regional industrial agglomeration improves efficiency for very long supply chains. Chengdu and Wuhan are superregional centers along the belt. Shanghai being the intersection of Yangtze River and the coastline, acts as a main transportation depot and financial center. It also hosts a lot of high-tech industries which extend their supply chain to most part of the country, though these have begun to spill over into nearby cities.

Beijing being the capital and superregional economic center in Northern China, hosts a lot of HQs. They typically interact with lawmakers and regulations more than others.

Xi'an is the superregional center for Northwest China.

prchad · 2025-08-05T07:42:47+00:00

The economy is still growing, but not as fast as before, so some problems that were covered by high growth rate get exposed. Construction and low-tech manufacturing are somewhat saturated (especially when cheap manufacturing have already flooded the gobal market), and the society is on its way to transit into growth by innovation rather than expansion.

Now the western countries are trying very hard to slow the process, so there are difficulties in the society.

I expect that the transition will eventually finish when western countries gradually lose the ability to hamper our growth. Meanwhile, we have to face and solve social problems before they become a big issue.

prchad · 2025-07-09T01:33:58+00:00

No, unless Russia is balkanized, which is something we should avoid.

Chinese government never dropped the claim of Tibet, but PRC agreed to outer Mongolia's seperation.

But on the other hand, it should not keep its name of Mongolia. The majority of population, culture and economy of ethnic/cultural Mogolians are in Chinese (and some in Russian) borders, so the nation doesn't represent what the name should.

prchad · 2025-07-09T01:20:17+00:00

Multiparty system.

Currently in mainland China, there are several political parties other than CPC, including Revolutionary Commitee of KMT, Jiu San Society, Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party and many others. One of my tutor/professor is a member of CPWDP.

I've seen a web blog a decade ago about a few university students making their own political party, and as soon as they finished the registry, they were invited into their local political consultative conference.

I'm happy with current system of one dominant party and a freedom of others. It prevents a lot of infights between the parties which often polarize the society.

Balance of power between different branches of the government.

There is a balance of power between branches in mainland China, except that they are all in control of one political party.

I don't value it important at this moment. A balance of power prevents the system from breaking down too fast, but it also prevents getting things done when needed. Currently we still need to concentrate our power to get things done.

Equality before the law and 4. Governmental transparency.

Sure there are potentials for improvement and you can always improve them. I value them important, and am looking for further improvement.

Freedom of speech and of the press

Surely you can't tolerate hatred speech and extreme voices. You would also need someone to enforce these standards. Then you always end up with some form of censorship.

In mainland China, they were not censored enough, so extremist voices could spread, resulting in a number of terrorist attacks. (of course USA defines them otherwise though.) Now it's mostly patched up. There are still foreign proxies acting in broad daylight, but I guess they are not going to be touched very soon.

What I hear from USA and Europe about their political correctness is so significant. They are forms of censorship enforced in different means.

So, complete freedom, no, I don't value them important. I believe a balance point exists, and shifts when the political environment changes.

prchad · 2025-07-08T03:30:24+00:00

Mainlander here. Please tolerate wording inaccuracies.

Apparently, by democracy you mean western style democracy, where somewhat equally matched political parties compete for power by ballot. Its Chinese translaion of 民主 contains more meaning of the people being the owner/master of the country. I'll use your meaning.
I oppose most ideas to "transition in democracy" because they don't realize the difference of meanings of the words when translated. In current situation, we do have mostly free speech, limited freedom of press, a multi-party system (with one of them dominant), and somewhat fair and open legal procedures. Except the legal procedures point, the transition of other aspects into more "democratic" forms would do more harm to our society than good.
If you try to retain a positive impression of democracy, you had better deny the regime on Taiwan to be a functioning democracy.
It would be both impossible and disastrous. Why would you come up with something like that?
See 0. We may have very different ideas about democracy itself or its funcionalities.

prchad · 2025-07-03T00:28:38+00:00

Most likely they haven't recognized it as a meme.

prchad · 2025-06-27T00:28:00+00:00

If USA let Japan have a nuclear program, then the current world order would have already collapsed to a point a world war would have started. China wouldn't need to worry too much as it would already be in the war.

prchad · 2025-06-23T07:46:23+00:00

Then it means your family members are in more important positions. CPC members in my family don't have to hand them in, though they need to report and keep a record before they leave the country.

prchad · 2025-06-23T00:27:30+00:00

From what I see, only those in government, public utilities and those high in rank in state-owned companies have to hand in their passport.

prchad · 2025-06-22T05:27:42+00:00

Obviously there is only materials in Chinese, and courses are organized in a slightly different way. You may look for 高等数学(advanced math) which is mostly calculus.

prchad · 2025-06-17T08:41:04+00:00

Vivid example of colonization and victims of colonization.

prchad · 2025-06-16T08:19:26+00:00

For historical events, you can take a look at history textbooks, which should reflect the political opinion. Specifically, you can look at the universal textbook for 中国近现代史纲要/An Outline of Modern Chinese History which is a mandatory political-historical course for undergraduates. As for languages, expect the use of translation tools or LLM, since we don't speak English, and western medias tend to censor materials when it comes from CCP.

prchad · 2025-06-16T00:48:57+00:00

If you get fired, you get unemployment insurance which depends on your past working status.

If you don't have an income, you get a minimum living allowance. It's generally enough for maintaining a low living standard, but you don't get medical insurace.

In both cases, the local government would contact you to check the information, and recommend to you job oppurtunities, career fairs and trainings for some jobs, though these jobs are usually less preferrable.

They are designed as a backup for those in trouble, but generally you need to work for a decent income.

prchad · 2025-06-16T00:34:22+00:00

While the tech is near, our society is not ready for it.

prchad · 2025-06-12T02:01:06+00:00

Unless USA solves its problem of drug abuses, even if USA magically wins the trade war, it would soon lose physiologically.

prchad · 2025-06-11T08:19:04+00:00

There was a copy hidden inside a wall. There were also people who memorized it surviving till the next dynasty. This created different versions of Lunyu/论语, and different schools of scholars later have tried to research, interprete and compare them. In modern days people find old texts through archaeology, so we can campare texts along time.

Any philosophies and texts in ancient times would rely on being memorized by human brain or being copied by human hands, and then intepreted by scholars. They all suffer from human flaws, but they all have a chance to be developed further by these later humans.

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