The Roadie

Verboten By obvious reasons I must add.

Germany was highlighted to support my theme of OVER regulation as a cause of the crises as opposed to just UNDER regulation, if I remember an article of Economist magazine correctly. They said the Landesbanks (a special kind of German bank) profits and thus survival were in a death grip from over conservative regulations well before the crisis. They went to AIG out of desperation to survive supposedly, whereas the other banks went to them out of greed. Well I thank you for being supportive in general, but I should admit I pushed the theme a bit far and folks are probably being too polite to point out a few holes in it. Interesting to consider the less reported angles anyway. It seems far-fetched to blame regulation or government intervention, especially as the United States government hardly "forced" poor poor Beyond Petroleum to drill out there. Rather, they lobbied quite intensely to make it a reality. If the US government had refused, you as well as other critics of regulation would instead have complained about them preventing growth, meaning that the government no matter what it does is the bad guy. In this case, the responsibility rests on the shoulder of BP. There's this 150 000 $ switch which could have prevented the leak after the explosion on the oil rig. It was too expensive for BP so they ignored acquiring such switches for their rigs. No matter where you stand ideologically or what solutions you advocate to solve a problem, no one is better off by just blaming everything on the government for ideological reasons and to uphold this false dichotomy between government and corporations. The governments exist in order to enable corporations to increase their profit margins - primarily, as well as to ensure that there is a system which could educate the workforce of the corporations so they have a sufficient pool for manpower.

Well, only to get a few more then

Otho has no political or military office, but a considerable fortune and a reputation for throwing parties. He could also conduct undercover assassinations, as could every other character. Nero could appoint governors, move military forces around, veto senatorial legislation, propose laws himself, control the military part of the imperial budget... basically all the powers of the Roman Emperor. You're taken Otho now.

Other forum? I weas unaware there were any other Roman forums on the internet It isn't a Roman forum.

Really? What 'other game' is this? ~So is the position mine? The very same game, only on another forum ^^ We are in year 70 AD there now. The position's yours.

Funnily enough, in the other game I have, the Senate was an extremely popular choice.

Amazing how popular governors are. But who will play as the Emperor or any member of the Imperial court, or senators for that manner?

I've written you up ^^

Of course

I worship Paradox. EUR is quite good if you acquire the Vae Victis expansion. My only problem is the exceedingly atrocious morality rates if you play as a kingdom. Also, the review is unfair in the fact that the player could adjust the game speed.

The accusation of wanting to acquire kingship is actually more usual in contemporary American politics than you first see. Only that they supplant the term "king" with "marxist muslim anti-christian dictator".

Can you explain a bit about what sort of actions these might be? For example trying to sire an heir, move yourself to another province, plot against another character, deploy legions and so forth.

You are added as the first governor character.