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New Suggestions:

1. If at the time of Hindenburg's death Otto Braun is president, but we have an event where he asks the party to resign due to personal circumstances. We can refuse (then everything is as usual), or agree - and then there will be an event for the presidential elections of 1934

2. Make it harder to persuade the Center Party and the National Liberals to support the candidacy of a socialist in the presidential elections of 1932. If in 1934 this was still theoretically imaginable within the framework of the "anti-Nazi front", then with Hindenburg alive this was extremely unlikely in real history. Otherwise, I propose that in the elections of 1932 and 1934 there will be a fine if we forced the Center Party and/or the liberals to vote for our Social Democratic candidate. For example, that a third of their voters will not vote for us. Otherwise, the mechanism of incomplete conversion of party votes only when we support the candidate of the Communist Party.

3. I propose to make a similar vote loss, when we support some candidate who is not ours in elections. I supported Adenauer's candidacy - then the left wing (some 2-3 percent maybe) must vote for Telmann, and not for Adenauer.  In the 1924 presidential elections, Gustav Noske supported Hindenburg in the second round, although the SPD supported Wilhelm Marx. So this is historically accurate.

4.  Not to combine all the votes of "other" parties to the DNVP in the 1934 elections. This is not entirely correct - it is worth giving them at least half and/or two thirds, but the rest - to the candidacy of the liberals or Adenauer. Still, all these microscopic parties were very different. I don't think that they would all become part of a united far-right bloc.

5. If the march on Berlin takes place under President Otto Braun, then one option could be to hold early presidential elections and/or his resignation with Hindenburg returning as acting president in the name of "national unity." For example, that with the reformed courts they took a neutral position, began negotiations - and the Nazis, in order not to look like the instigators of the Civil War, are ready under pressure to make a temporary compromise in the form of Otto Braun's resignation and snap elections to the Reichstag. Besides, if the SA and the DNVP paramilitary were banned, they will be legalized as part of this compromise

Conciliators in KDP or Joos in Zentrum makes that's easy. The most hard part — get a good moment to drop DVP out of coalition.

Spy in Comintern will give you boost to KDP without hate from Center. Also use advisors for relationship

KPD+DDP+you+SAPD=51% in Reichstag . With that you can make abortions legal. Even if KPD hostile to you

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2. The civil war will start, if you do too much progressive reforms and dont do investigations of the far-right

No, they can. And KPD wiil demand improved relations with the USSR

Not good enough relations with Zentrum, as far as I remember. And yeah, that's a bug. In the sense that you are not shown the reason. And yes, just "any" warm relations with the center are not enough if they are on the verge of neutral.  Sadly, the specifics of reflecting relations in the game

I think they will be copying reformists on most issues (Kurt Schumacher have reformist economic plan), but also support Reichsbanner, any anti-far right things and bunch of rally for republic and democracy. 
In my opinion, advisors from the Neorevisionists just too weak. They show up in mid-late game, but they can give you... Rally for democracy, event on Reichsbanner and just buff on Iron Front... This is simply not enough.

My options for fixing this
1. Give Mierendorff the ability to beat the Nazis rally through our paramilitaries, which will reduce their popularity. Add this feature only after the Iron Front is formed

2. Give Schumacher the ability to strengthen the Reichsbanner, but for free. Also, instead of the reformist plan, give him the opportunity to increase the number of police in Prussia by 40 thousand, and not 20 as in the usual event for recruiting police in Prussia.

3. Give Leber the ability to rally without the possibility of disruption. The rally is not for democracy, but simply an event for the rally.

4. Give Mierendorff more buff to his ability "Warning about the Nazis". I like the idea, but impact just too weak. That ability can, for example, reduce dissent of all wings — like Wells, but 2-3 times stronger. Or/and improve relations with all parties, including the communists (Excluding NSDAP and DNVP), and reduce dissent in the coalition. Improving relationships with parties can also be improved, but not by much - 1.5 times, for example.

In other words, make them stronger than other advisors. Because they appear much later. So they should have some abilities that only they have, which give us a significant advantage over those advisors who are available to us from the very beginning of the game.

Suggestions:

1. Make a constitutional coalition possible only by 1932-1933.

You can simply call early elections through Müller in December 1929 or January 1930 - create a coalition, and as a result do nothing. The next elections - in 1934 or by the end of 1933. As a result, you can agree to austerity, do nothing, and the Nazis will do nothing.

2. Make the "March on Berlin" event likely if the Nazis have the ability to paralyze the Reichstag as a result of the elections. This simply partially solves the problem of manipulation of elections in the early stages of the game and allows the Nazis to use more force to overthrow democracy. By, for example, 1932, if they have enough votes to paralyze the Reichstag (for example, if the anti-republican parties have more than 50%), the "March on Berlin" event occurs, where they demand snap elections from Hindenburg. This is also consistent with history, because after the Reichstag elections of 1930, the Social Democrats seemed to be able to create a "constitutional coalition" and sit quietly until 1934, but this is not true. So I propose that the constitutional coalition be made more difficult, or that it is more difficult to come to an agreement about it with the DVP or the "Other" parties - or at least only by 1932.

3. Add more events about internal party politics.

Add events to requirements for changing advisors. For example, instead of a party event about disagreements in the party, and then a split, you can do it differently. For example, the left faction, threatening a split with high discontent, demands to replace advisers with members from the left wing. If you agree, you are obliged to replace the adviser with a member of the left wing and cannot replace him within 6 months without this wing splitting. Or, if the advisers are already in their posts, they do not simply "leave", but, again, issue an ultimatum or agreement. For example, as with the communists, you promise them to fulfill something within X months. Or ultimatums like:

—Centrists/reformists demand to cut funding for the Reichsbanner

—The left wing demands to reduce commercialization in

our media (minus 1 resource)

—Reformists demand big concessions to bourgeois parties in matters of the program

—Labor demands to put pressure on the government for the sake of increasing social spending (if we are in the government, then they simply demand, if not in the government, then threaten a vote of no confidence)

—Left wing demands to soften our line towards the communists (this will anger the bourgeois parties).

Or add another option with the solution of disagreement through resources.

Left wing - decommercialization of our media, increase in funding for Reichbanner, our youth organizations, 

Reformists - funding of our cultural and educational programs, sports leagues

Labor - More mutual aid and welfare programs

Centrists - finance a broad newspaper party debate on ideological issues.

Or finance (-1 resourse) a broad rally in accordance with the program of a specific wing.

I also suggest the possibility of events on conditional compromises between the wings of the party.

For example, we are promoting the Labor program on the economic crisis, but in exchange for support for this plan we need to make concessions on some other issues with other wings of the party.

For example, the reformists are ready to agree to the Labor economic plan, but demand in exchange for this to cut the Reichsbanner. Or "The Centrists are ready to accept the left economic plan, but in exchange they demand a more anti-communist line."

The idea is to make the early adoption of the plan extremely difficult without concessions to the other wings. For example, it is impossible to accept "any" economic plan right away without an alliance with another wing (the second or first in strength). But with time of promotion (at least 1 more time for there to be an event) of this program in the party, the wings no longer need concessions for its adoption.

We can also add demands from the wings according to the ministries, if we control them — or press our coalition partners for that. Or a change of cabinet to the corresponding wings. Or add this opportunity as an additional one for concessions, if we are in the government. In the spirit that we can give in either "within" the party, or in government policy

Labor Ministry:

Centrists — demand to support workers' councils

Reformists/Labor — demand to support worker and consumer cooperatives

Left wing — demand to socialize key industries.

Ministry of Finance:

Left wing — increase taxes on the rich

Centrists/Reformists — make tax system more progressive

Labor — Cut overrall taxes.

Internal Security:
Left wing — unban the communist RFB, Ban the Stahlhelm

Reformists — Ban the RFB or press cummunists furher

Labor — investigate corruption by big businesses

Agricultural:

Left wing — state buyer

Labor — food procurement

Centrists — land reform

Reformists — Agricultural Financing

Foreign:

Left wing — improve relations with Soviet Union

Another idea: if the reformists are disloyal at event "The Prussian Bulwark", we cannot choose options because they are not ready to listen to orders from the party

Suggestions about mechanics:

1. Make a punishment for the increase in funding for the army, if there was no agreement on reducing Versailles. For example, sanctions

2.  To make it possible, with a strong Reichbanner and left wing, to attack the SA at the expense of worsening relations with the coalition and the center party.

3. Strengthen the police and its capabilities to counter the Nazis. Because relying on the police, even through advisers, is always unprofitable. Although, it would seem, we control the legal force in Prussia

4. I propose to make additional events in case of the creation of the league. For example, it is possible to publish the results of the debunking of the myth, this will reduce the popularity of the Nazis, but will worsen the relationship with the coalition and with the DVP. Hindenburg can also do us harm, because he is actually one of the main authors of this myth and its main beneficiaries as one of the leaders of the Army in the First World War

5. Add Strasser. It seems to me that in addition to the idea of "sending a spy into the Comintern" in inter-party relations, something similar can be done with the Nazis. Make possible a connection with their "left" wing, the Strasserists. And with a certain level of "rightism" and cooperation with the conservatives, it will be possible to split the NSDAP before the end of the game.

6. Add event for "right wing turn" in the party of the center Ludwig Kaas.

7. Add an event for problems with the ruling coalition in Prussia if relations with the center party become worse than neutral.

8. Add the event of the Prussian Landtag elections of 1932, where the ruling coalition loses its seats and becomes a minority government. Formally, this and the disorder in Altona provoked Papen to putsch in Prussia, so this can be played out by the fact that it happens if we fail to resolve this political crisis in Prussia, and not just when Papen is appointed

9. To make it possible to put pressure on the Brüning government on the issue of reparations for our party interests. If we a in toleration and have a good relationships with Center party.

10. Instead of simply appointing Papen suddenly to replace Brüning, I propose introducing a scale (hidden or open) for tolerance towards Brüning, if he runs minority government. When the scale falls, he is replaced by Papen, etc. However, it falls gradually during a crisis, if he is in power by the will of the president Hindenburg. It's just that in a regime of toleration you lose in any case, because Brüning is replaced by Papen according to the script just like that — even if you formed contitutional coalition, but was not included in it. I think it's worth adding that ability to avoid the rise of the Nazis to power, although it should be made difficult. For example, so that the internal split constantly grows or the popularity of the party falls for each 2/3 month of the regime of toleration or something like that.

11. Add event on the growth of the SA with the appointment of Ernst Röhm as SA chief in April 1931. And what, for example, with a strong police, with the SA ban or the Reichsbanner/Minister of the Interior can somehow weaken this growth.

12. Make it harder for Otto Braun to win the presidential election. It's cheating to some extent that you can simply do nothing in the first round, so that Hindenburg leads, so that the Nazis don't support him in the second round — and at that moment convince the Center Party or the Communists to vote for you. It seems to me that it's worth making the conditions for their support in the second round more difficult. For example, that the Center Party  always demand money for support, as do the Communists (or a stronger relationship with them is needed).

13. Add more benefits from reconciliation with the communist paramilitary. For example, that the communist paramilitary can now, together with the Reichbanner, defend our rallies.

14. Make the confrontation on the streets more important, especially in 1932 and 1933. If you are not going to have a civil war, the dominance of the far right in all security forces simply does not feel like a threat - well, yes, the SA breaks up your rallies, but nothing more. And if you do not pursue far left policies, these armed gangs will not do anything special to the republic. I think it is worth adding more events on the problems of the SA, if compared to the SA we have a very weak Reichbanner and/or police. For example, if we make an event in the media, the SA takes our newspapers out of the press - or destroys our radio stations if we do not protect them. Or when we are campaigning — our agitators get beaten.  Or the SA even interferes with state policy, if they very strong: they forcibly dissolve workers' councils, attack trade unions friendly to us, or furiously demand the return of reactionary judges, investigators and laws after judicial reforms.

15. Make it possible to use a loyal Reichswehr outside of a civil war. The Reichswehr as an organization really only has some influence when there is a far-right putsch or Hitler comes to power - and even reformed and buffed up, they are usually weaker than the SA and Stahlhelm. I propose making it possible to use the army to suppress the right if they break the law or interfere in any way, as I suggested in point 14.

16. Make the campaign for the Young plan not free. For example, that you need to pay 1 resource from the party budget. Otherwise, it turns out that it is always profitable to conduct a campaign for it - and it costs us nothing

17. Make a clear and specific distinction between "bolster the loyalty of the police" and "purge the bureaucracy of reactionary elements" in Prussia. My suggestion is that purging bureaucrats does not increase police loyalty, but it does improve the effect of subsequent attempts to increase police loyalty. This shows the cumulative positive effect of police reshuffles and purging the apparatus of reactionaries.

Suggestions about mechanics:

1. To make fundraising as an inevitable event in the spirit of the death of a party leader or a crisis. Otherwise, firstly, the problem of safescam, and secondly, the imbalance in the passages due to its different fallout. And so do it once or twice a year as an event.

2. To make snap elections possible if Otto Wels is Chancellor
3. To give special opportunities to politicians who die in the middle of the game. Müller's ability to defend tolerance is de facto useless at this stage of the game. You already have Hilferding with same ability at the beginning. For example, we can recall Müller's work on organizing the media of the Social Democrats under the German Empire. And accordingly, give him ability to cause an event in the media. Secondly, there are too few advantages to Müller's appointment as chancellor. And when the possibility of elections not in 1929 becomes more or less relevant, he dies. In the event of a "hunger chancellor" under Müller, popularity falls rapidly.  In other words, there is almost no reason to appoint Müller as chancellor.I propose to remove the possibility of snap elections from him and give different one.  Müller was head of the Foreign Ministry in 1919-1920 and signed the Treaty of Versaille. So you can give him an ability to an event at the Foreign Office if he is the Chancellor, even if you don't control the Foreign Ministry.

Suggestions about achievements:

1. The vice Fuhrer. Let Göring win the president election

2. The pain of democracy. Let Hitler win the president election

 3. A "big" popular front. Create a minority government that only the Nazis and DNVP will vote against (KPD and DVP in this situation is voting against the far right). 

4.  A sweet opportunists. Convince the KDP to tolerate the bourgeois government. Either a variant of a broad constitutional coalition, where the Social Democrats are not in government and commie OK with that government, or a really centrist coalition/a emergency government of the Center Party from Hindenburg, where the SPD and KPD tolerate this because of the far-right. 

5. The Red Threat. Increase the militarization of the Reichsbanner to the maximum (high) and the Reichbanner is stronger than the Reichswehr and all right-wing paramilitarist groups combined. (Yeah, I did that one time) 

6. The Red Army. The Reichswehr and the police are generally loyal, peace with the paramilitaries of the Communists, the Stainhelm and SA is banned. 

7. The Gender equality. To carry out all reforms of women's rights: at work, in marriage and legalize abortion.  I did that too. 

8. I said "No"! For President Otto Braun to refuse the Nazis to form a government so many times that they launched a military coup. 

9. A social-fascist. Ban the paramilitaries of the Communists, pursue it further, increase the budget of the Reichswehr, do not reform the Reichswehr and the legal system, and do not purge reactionaries in the police and Interior Ministry, always support employers in disputes with workers and support the construction of the battle cruisers. 

10. Heirs of the Spartacist suppression. Make Peace with the paramilitaries of the Communists, create a popular front, convince the Communists to support you in the presidential elections, then ban the paramilitaries of the Communists and organize their further persecution. 

11. The Comintern's Dog. Improve relations with the Communist Party through  the USSR or spies in the Comintern 6 times in one game. 

12. The eurofailure.  Start forming the European Union, but the project failed due to lack of seats in the Reichstag. To make sure that the European Union can be created only if the majority of holders are: SPD, Z/BVP, DDP, DVP. The rest voting against it. So it is impossible with a constitutional coalition or with a popular front. 

13. Free-money party. decrease the fundraising in the party to zero. 

14. The Overfulfilled Versailles. Reduce the number of Reichswehr to zero. 

15. Blind in the right eye. The judges legalized SA and Stainhelm 5 times in one game.

16. Recommunization. Suppress the Bluthmai and ban the paramilitaries of the Communists, and later legalize it and make peace with it. 

17. The police power. Ban paramilitaries of Communists, SA and stainhelm, and organize further persecution of all of them. 

18. An opportunist in the very top. President Otto Braun appointed Hitler Chancellor. 

19. A small party, big ambitions. Nominate Otto Braun for presidential election, but don't be able to convince anyone of his support from other parties, because they are more popular than the SPD. 

20. The Anti-Hitler Coalition. Convince the KDP, Z, DDP and DVP support you, and then support Hindenburg in the president elections.

21. Only legal methods. Do not increase the militarization of the Reichsbanner, do not create an iron front, hold 3 rallies that the police protected from the SA.