EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 22, 2009 AbortionAlcohol Budget Surplus Children's Rights Corruption Education Environment Europe Foreign Policy Healthcare Industrial Policy Law and Order Northern Ireland Rural Issues Same-Sex Unions Tax Cuts Transport UK Relations 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 4 1 3 1 2 2 4 2 1 I don't know how exactly issues can benefit parties. Here is a list of areas where the parties are seen as particularly strong. FF would be better on tax cuts, rural issues and Northern Ireland, FG on law/order and corruption, Labour on healthcare and education, PD on tax cuts, maybe Green on environment, SF on Northern Ireland and healthcare. I would keep FF at Centre on Tax Cuts, they didn't make reducing the higher rate an issue during the election. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 Okay thanks- I'm going to test out what I have. And a question: what issue helped FF defeat FG on? Like what did Ahern attack Kenny on? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 The appearance of competence in economic management after ten years of fantastic GDP growth. This is also why the backlash against the government has been so severe after the house price and fiscal crash. Also, the difference in charisma was like 4 versus 2. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 24, 2009 All right, I think I'll replace UK Relations with Economic Management and make that FF's strong spot and FG-Lab's weakness. What should the positions be? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Hard to say. You could just handle it using the Experience statistic: 5 for Ahern, 3 for the other three, 2 for the left-wing parties, High or Very High profile. If you want to make a more ideological Economy issue, try this: Socialist economic policy. Nationalisation. Widespread economic planning. (Soc) Expansionary economic policy to pay for public services. Regulate prices. (FG, Lab, Green, SF) Moderate economic policy. Continue social partnership with unions and business. (FF) Expansionary economic policy to pay for tax cuts. Major public sector reform. (PD) Laissez-faire economic policy. Privatise and deregulate industry. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 26, 2009 Gaffney, You're right on the experience issue. I put Ahern at 5, Kenny at 2, Rabbitte 3, McDowell 4, and Sargeant, O'Caolain and Higgins at 2. All right, I'll give the scenario a try now. I changed FG to CR on Law and Order, as apparently Kenny campaigned on the issue (so did McDowell). It seemed to work out well. I will send you a copy. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 27, 2009 You're right to put Kenny at 2 rather than 3, but dial McDowell down to 3, he made a comment that basically started the collapse of the housing market when he speculated about changes to property transaction taxes, plus he was heavily criticised for predicting 5 to 5.5% annual growth during 2007-2012. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Gaffney, What's your email? I can't find it due to the fact my email is cluttered up. If anyone else wants the updated 2007 scenario, they can have it. I will submit this to 80soft once betatesting is complete. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mz452 18 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Matty1019@yahoo.com 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Patine 35 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 You know my address. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 gaffneep@tcd.ie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 Sent to all who requested! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 I will play this now and then make suggestions! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 Party leaders: I don't know if you've chosen the stats for balance purposes. If not, the party leaders should be 4/2/5, 4/3/2, 3/4/3, 3/4/3, 2/4/2, 3/3/2, 4/4/1. Abortion: C position should be the current CR position, i.e. worst cases of rape, incest etc.. CR position should be "No legislation for abortion" and R position should be "Criminalise women travelling to the UK for abortions". Issue positions are then correct for all parties. Same Sex Unions: CR position should be "Weak support for civil unions. The status quo is fine too." Tax: I wasn't very clear about the CL issue description. Instead of "... introduce wealth tax", it should be "... stop tax avoidance by the wealthy". Move SF to CL on Environment, Labour to CR on Northern Ireland, Socialist to C on Northern Ireland*, FG to CR on Same Sex Unions, Labour to C on UK Relations. The one big change I would make to issues would be to replace UK Relations with Economic Management, since the UK relationship is only ever discussed in relation to Northern Ireland, and that's already an issue. It looks good, now I will play it. *This is an interesting case. The party's policy is "a socialist Ireland as part of a free and voluntary socialist federation of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales". Clearly, that's not going to happen, so the closest position to what they believe is probably C or possibly R. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 Didnt Fine Gael openly endorse Same-Sex unions? Changes have been made, but I need to make some modifications for Economic Management. Will update it soon. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RI Democrat 0 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 I'd also like to try this, scoyleri@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EGaffney 17 Report post Posted December 29, 2009 Didnt Fine Gael openly endorse Same-Sex unions? Changes have been made, but I need to make some modifications for Economic Management. Will update it soon. Sure, maybe they did. I can't remember, they just seem conservative on most things. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 30, 2009 Changes have been made. Will send it out again. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JKLPirate 1 Report post Posted December 31, 2009 jklpirate at yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Treasurer 28 Report post Posted December 31, 2009 treasurerofthepc at yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted January 1, 2010 Sent out, what do you guys think? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matvail2002 803 Report post Posted January 2, 2010 Could you please send the updated version to me? matvail2002 at gmail.com 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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RI Democrat 0 Report post Posted January 12, 2010 I played through it once as Labour, won about 20-25 seats, I think. It's a good scenario, though as in some previous Ireland scenarios, Sinn Fein seems to do better than they do IRL. Also, aren't Fine Gael actually a bit to the right of Fianna Fail on economic policy? This scenario seemed to have it the other way around, with FG embracing more centrist and center-left positions on the economic compared to FF. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites