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I'm hoping someone can help me here.

I've gotten the game to run perfectly, hewever, no matter what actions I take or don't take, I'm always assassinated at the end of the first month. Also, at the summary screen, it states "Simulation Terminated".

What is deal with popularity and budgets? I keep going from 48% to 0%.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sami Ahmed @ Sep 22 2007, 04:55 AM) [snapback]312390[/snapback]</div>

What is deal with popularity and budgets? I keep going from 48% to 0%.
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You suck? LOL!

I don't know... I usually get a very good budget and have a popularity rating of over 60%...

Mmm. Some simple economic rules may be in order...

Income tax. Cut it every year if possible. This will be popular, and the loss of money will be made up by higher economic growth. (In a few years, anyway)

Corperate Tax. Leave alone if you need popularity. Cutting it will be unpopular, but raising it will hurt the economy.

Sales Tax. Remove immediatly. The amount it raises=unpoplarity caused ratio is higher than income tax. Again, this will help your economy.

At least keep your social spending level. Increases in military spending helps very slightly. More aid is massivly unpopular.

Unless there is unforseen events ie. nuke wars, etc, you can cut income tax by 0.5- 1.0c every year and due to a booming economy (growth can shoot upto 9%) you will be able to in a few years afford guns AND butter. Obviously, this will make you popular.

This is a tried and tested method.. for me , the year is 2016 , the GNP per capita is 33,259, my military budget has doubled, my aid budget has quadrupled, I am running a surplus of 100-200 billion p/y, and my income tax stands at a tiny 3c per $. My massive aid has managed to co-opt nearly all of the poorest countries to me, and even France in my alliance! And only 3 nuke scares!

And my popularity? 86%

And thats after five Vietnam's (Iraq '90-'91, Lybia '94, N. Korea '97, Iran-Syria-Pakistan '99-'01 and Brazil '11-'12)

Of course, all this tax-cutting will not save your behind if you are as popular as GW. Bush , but it may if you are hovering around 50-52 to get you in the clear.

To get the game to work in XP, just run the Sndsetup exe and set to no sound... works for me.

I think this may have been mentioned... where do I change the speed of the game?

[_r.u.s.s.]

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If it moves too slow for you, make sure to turn off the action sequences in options and up the speed. The game is kind of built so that you shift time to fit your needs (at least thats how I find it easiest to play). Also the more countries you try to engage in any way good or bad means you will have more action overall. If you do nothing it seems like the whole world will follow suit which is kind of weird.
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hmm, oddly enough, I cant seem to find a speed option in the options menu. I see, elections, sound, clock, disasters, animations, and auto-pilot toggle on/off for all. I cant seem to find anything related to speed. :/

[The Fifth Horseman]

Try the "clock", perhaps?

[Donners]

Has anyone else had a situation where the game wrongly accuses you of launching a nuclear attack?

Just after Iraq defeated Kuwait (I withdrew my troops due to plunging popularity), my Press Secretary walked out and I was getting condemnation left, right and centre for nuking Kuwait. Then China nuked the US!

It's not possible to accidently do this - it takes three clicks to launch a nuclear attack, and I know I didn't do that. Some sort of bug?