Secret Government
Game events
As the name suggests, game events are different events taking place in the game world. Events are triggered when certain conditions are met. For example, some game events may be caused by the capture of one of the masters, the lack of money from any estate in a country, or if there is an upcoming war, etc.
When an event is triggered, the player needs to decide on how they will react to this event. There are different consequences to any reaction. We tried to create an interesting choice of options for events. Still, the effect will not always be positive.
We hope to make the game world more vivid and realistic with the help of game events. It’s an additional opportunity to influence what is happening in the world. The historical events that we also created will make the game world seem more realistic, too. These are the real events that occurred in the particular time period. The player will be able to make his choice in a certain historical event. Additionally, we will try to introduce historical characters. Most likely, we will tell you about this in a little more detail in the following articles.
Your feedback is very important for us. You can share your thoughts on social networks or on our discord.
The Lodge significance
As we told you earlier, you’ll be able to level up the lodge due to gaining experience. Getting to the next level brings a certain number of upgrade points. You can unlock different upgrades to the lodge using these points. They are available as a tree of technologies that will get unlocked as the lodge gets levelled up and the available upgrades are applied.
The upgrades are likely to be divided into several areas: Brotherhood, Resources, Lodge. Each upgrade will earn bonuses or expand the mechanics already available in the game. Probably, the players will be able to level up the upgrades, making them more effective. We are still working on this matter.
Using these new mechanics, we want to strengthen the importance of the lodge and create motivation for players to level it up. Also, it opens a whole new world of interesting decisions for the player. It’s you who will decide what upgrades you should get first and adjust the lodge to your gameplay style.
As usual, we’d like to hear the opinions of our players. You can send your feedback both on social networks and in our discord.
The Brotherhood Lodge
Now it’ll be necessary to create a Brotherhood lodge before you start your activities in the country. Without a lodge, it’s impossible to recruit members of the government and neophytes. Also, a number of master's errands will be unavailable. This way a lodge becomes the base of the Brotherhood. As soon you’ve established it, you’ll start your expansion into the country.
There will be a head of the lodge. This is a new type of character that has his unique errands. The lodge doesn’t function without its head. The confrontation with the Dark Brotherhood will also be associated with the head of the lodge. It’s him who becomes the priority target in this confrontation.
You can develop the lodge, just like any kind of a base. By gaining experience from the Brotherhood, you’ll be able to level up the lodge. Depending on its level, new errands will be available for the members of the lodge, as well as upgrade points will be awarded. They will help you to unlock lodge upgrades. We find these game mechanics very interesting and probably we’ll publish a separate article on the lodge levelling up.
Also, we’re currently working on some other mechanics for the lodge. These are high-level processes. At a certain level of the lodge development, the player will be able to launch processes in the lodge that allow managing the situation in the country, without being distracted by tracking indicators and sending brothers on multiple errands.
As you can see, this is a very large-scale update of the lodge mechanics. In our opinion, these changes will be an interesting part of the gameplay. Of course, we’d like to hear the opinions of our players. You can send your feedback both on social networks and in our discord.
Secret Government in the Steam Winter Sale!
The holiday season is here once again, and that can mean only one thing for all PC gamers: Steam Winter Sale is here! If you've been waiting for a chance to grab Secret Government at a lower price, wait no more - it is now at 66% off, and with the recent major update improving the game greatly, there has never been a better time to buy it and start ruling the world from the shadows!
These incredible offers are valid now through January 5th, so don't miss your chance and grab the game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/946990/Secret_Government/
For the connoisseurs among you who would enjoy the beautiful artbook and soundtrack of the game, you might also consider purchasing the new Deluxe Edition, which, besides the game itself, contains these very items!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24125/Secret_Government_Deluxe_Edition/
And once you've played the game, please, give use feedback in form of a Steam review, in the discussions or come chat to our Discord server. It is very much appreciated and helps us make the game even better for our fans!
Major Update for Secret Government Released
It has been some time since the last update, but rest assured, we have not forgotten about the game. We have heard all the voices asking for a simplification of many gameplay and UI aspects and other various feedback. And we have prepared a major update changing many of these things.
Key features of the update:
- In-game resources system is simplified
- New system of recruitment is introduced
- Brothers' traits system is reworked
- The Brotherhood greatness is introduced
- Tutorials are reworked completely
- Title-specific errands are introduced
- The Brotherhood goal system has appeared
- Ideas spreading system is changed
- The Dark Brotherhood behaviour is reworked
- Trends are introduced
Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the changes, this will make the new version of the game incompatible with older save files. Any player who wishes to access the original game build can do so by activating the beta branch called "beta" (right-click on the game in your library, select "properties" and then "beta", from the drop-down menu of "Select the beta you would like to opt into" select "beta").
Logistics costs in Secret Government
Logistic costs heavily depend on the geography of the region and its transport accessibility. If it’s a large mountainous area, the transportation costs will be high in this region. There is a logistic coefficient for all regions in the game. Bear this in mind when considering directions for trading if you want to reduce the final price of the goods.
You can also influence the logistic costs directly. To do this, use an errand for the Minister of Industry in the government of the country you need. The "Develop road infrastructure” errand will reduce transportation costs.
You might use this tool if you want to influence the economies of countries at a deeper level.
Ideologies
The key point in the spread of ideologies is ideological pressure. It shows how quickly ideology will spread among the population. Our brothers, estates, political forces create pressure, as well as trade relations also help to spread pressure. We have added bonuses that will help you speed up spreading ideology and increasing ideological pressure. If you want these bonuses to work, certain conditions must be met. You can see the effects of bonuses and their conditions in the tooltip for each ideology.
We have also added ideological resistance so that there will be a counterbalance to the possibility of enhancing ideologies and diversifying the mechanisms of influence on the estates. Ideological resistance of estates shows how much a particular estate can resist ideological pressure. All people are different. Someone is more susceptible to new ideas, and someone is less. In combination, it allows you to make the spread of ideologies more interesting. You need not only to create conditions for the spread of the ideology you want but also to influence the estates. At this point, reducing the ideological pressure will be possible for masters as their errand. In the future, this will be an indirect impact. After all, one of the main features of Secret Government is the indirect impact on countries.
And as always, we will be glad to receive your feedback and comments.
Secret societies in the game
You might have already encountered the Dark Brotherhood when you saw red-hooded adepts in the government of the countries. In this case, there may be several options for the story. If the Dark Brotherhood considers the country important for reaching its goals, you should be prepared for a very tough confrontation. On the other hand, they may decide that they’re not ready for a conflict and will leave the country of your presence. After all, they are not willing to destroy your Brotherhood, but to achieve their goals as soon as possible and change the picture of the world in accordance with these goals.
There is also an option to avoid conflict or try to act unnoticed. The secrecy of your brothers plays an important role here. As you know, secrecy is spent on running errands. But it also serves as your protection against exposure. If you are in a safe secrecy range, enemy agents can’t blow your cover. The safe range of secrecy is colored green. If you have gone beyond the safe zone, it becomes red. In this case, your brother may be exposed and attacked. As a result, you either have to flee the country or start a head-on collision.
You can choose the tactics that you like better and more in line with the capabilities of your brothers. The traits of your brothers can give an edge in both stealth tactics and direct confrontation. The mechanics with the ability to act unnoticed will be in one of the upcoming updates. As always, we will be happy to receive your comments.
Men of War II Announced - New WWII RTS game coming 2022!
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Strategic situation assessment
Any strategy game requires you to assess the situation. After all, you make your decisions thanks to this. So it’s very important to easily receive accurate information about the situation. This is exactly the tool we have added.
This tool is called trends. The trend shows you the changes of any parameter so that you can see its movement pattern. For example, you raised taxes for peasants to reduce their numbers and started tracking the parameter of the number of peasants to do so. Trends are perfect for this. The trend will show how the number changed in the past few days after the chosen actions.
This feature allows you to quickly and easily read information about the status of the parameter you need. Trends are displayed as a graph, which makes them very easy to understand.
Now trends are visible for almost all parameters in the game, which makes the gameplay in such a challenging and complex game even more transparent.
You will be able to see and try out this new feature in the next updates. As always, we are happy to receive your feedback and comments.