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Private investment driving the growth of technical schools is probably the best way to approach that. If a Polish arms industry is making a lot of money, it would make sense for them to fund schools to ensure they have employees. The governments might partly subsidize, or or give legislative preference too the business of these colleges, but they don't necessarily have to be the primary financiers.

You just have to look outside the box. The real world isn't a video game, so these things are much more complicated. The Government doesn't drag a research funding bar up or choose what tech they are going to grind. Rather, they go out of their way to clear obstacles in the way of what they want to develop. And this will be partially egged on by the fact that successful politicians will be the ones being funded by the arms industry.

To simplify, The Arms Industry makes shit loads of money from selling arms, they use that money to buy off politicians and pay for the infrastructure and schools they need to make that arms industry more successful, and the politicians they pay off earn that money by pushing through whatever benefits the arms industry.

...which happens to mean the conflict in Russia and Polish involvement in it, since war sells guns and selling guns is what the arms industry is all about. That means jingoistic propaganda, and a populace who's jobs depend on militarism and, for the most part, know that.

This is what an "Military-Industrial Complex" is, btw. That is what that word means, for the most part.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Are there are issues with my revised, app? It comes with twice the Zubrowka and rage.

@Jeddaven

I think it is fine personally, but Aaron should probably read it before any decisions are made since he had issues with the original.

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There Hug, I helped.

@Shyri

Oh shit, this is a brilliant idea! Lets see if we can get him a post ready sometime this week...

Frederick scratched one of his many beards, and found a peanut. He had no memory of eating peanuts recently, so he began to fear that his beard may very well be alive, and moving of it's own accord while he slept. Hours later, when somebody tried to get him for dinner, they found him on the floor of his room, holding a pair of scissors, seemingly wrestling with his beards. Everyone decided it would be best to ignore it, and moved on with their lives. Frederick still has no idea where that peanut came from, but decided to let his beards live another day.

@Shyri

After he had washed, made his way downstairs to the throne room of the Uberpalace, where he took his seat on the Uberthrone of Prussia. The Uberthrone was thirty feet wide and seventy two feet tall, so tall that it dwarfed the courtiers who waited on him at the foot of his seat (the courtiers were, of course, literal dwarfs since Frederick liked how being surrounded by Dwarfs made him feel big). From one side of the room to the other it stretched, like an eagle stretched out majestically with a mug of beer hanging from one wing and a pretzel hanging from the other.

"Mein Spaankingfuhrer" a little blonde dwarf warbled far below him, his knees bared by his high-rising lederhosen. "Lord Manhavver Deutschlong is here to see you."

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@Aaron: Sweeto, I'll get it done asap.

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The American border in the Columbia territory isn't what the NWC was there right? Did you guys change the NWC territory?

Used to be all of Alberta and half of BC, not vice versa.

Also the US looks like the ocean :P

@Isotope

It should be following the NWC border. It (very) roughly follows that line on the lore-summary map of North America...



Good catch. It should be fixed.

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Aren't we still retaining Persia for Veo?

The symbol system is clever, but the symbols should definitely be larger. Also, it's Tanganyika/Mozambique that is tied to Ethiopia so it wouldn't be a bad idea to symbol it since that alliance is going to play its own roll in the war story.

The only other thing I would change is the color of the US, since it's so close to the color of the ocean that it sort of blends in when its in your peripheral. I don't think anybody is going to confuse it for ocean or anything like that, but it is a slightly annoying aesthetic.

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Also, I think 'Eduardo' is pretty much exclusively a first name.

@Pepperm1nts

Nice thing about Ethiopian names. People just use their fathers name as a surname there, so I don't have to think too much.

Oh? I can edit that in real easy, gimme a sec.

Also yes it totally is Hugs, however i ain't know crap and just grabbed a bunch of names off a list and rolled with them, you you know Chilean last names i could use that would be cool.

@Isotope

One thing you can always do is go to the wikipedia page for your nation and scan through names of people who come from there. Take your favorite pieces from several names and you're good to go.

That being said, for Chile I found this. Personally, I like Sepulveda.

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You should definitely mention how tenuous Poland's grasp on its non-Polish territories, especially the Ukraine. That's the only glaring thing about the later part of the app for me. One thing you could do to help yourself out is make more out of the dissonance between the government and the industry, but that will depend on what you are wanting to rp.

The early part of the app isn't ideal, however. I think the way you describe the rise of Poland needs work. For one, tech isn't the field that an economy starts with. Tech means education, and education means a functioning middle class. One thing you could pose Poland as in the thirties and forties is a place that Russia bought from because they were cheap that way. Polish machinists make replacement parts for Russia and the Ottoman Empire. They rebuild their military through a universal draft where draftees are divided between military service and public. From their, they are able to form the middle class necessary for a bureaucracy.

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Chill out, Chapinlap.