Starting the game.

[thefinn12345]

Kind of an odd thing to ask questions about but even the starting menu is confusing

There was a game mode where I could choose to be like a corporate entity - but now I cannot find it.
Sometimes I can be Ancient Ways government, other times I cannot.

WTF is going on ?

[ehsumrell1]

Hello thefinn;
If I understand you correctly, you're talking about choosing the government type
Corporate Nationalism I believe. You can select your race's government type if you
play a custom game. The selection is made after you've selected what race faction you are
playing. You can also mod a race file to use Corporate Nationalism as a Special government.

[Bingeling]

I think being a "corporate entity" is one way of playing where you automate a lot of other things, not a specific game mode.

[thefinn12345]

No Corporate Nationalism is what I mean, however it seems to only come up inconsistently as a choice - I'm playing humans now... perhaps it's race specific ?

[Bingeling]

Corporate nationalism is not for everyone. Humans got it, and may be the only ones.

[thefinn12345]

It seems it has to do with Theme. Idk what that means specifically.

[Bingeling]

Corporate Nationalism is a "core" racial tech for humans and possibly some races. It should be described in the manual and the galactopedia.

I have never tried it, but it merges the civilian and state economies, and may have its share of drawbacks...

[Unforeseen]

It's really not a good government style. It poorly simulates a social society based on real life bias. Basically all it does is make you economically superior to everyone else for a short time, and the longer you have the government the worse it gets until the negatives outweigh any positives it may have left and sends you crashing into debt.

Only a small number of races are able to use this by default, but that can be changed with simple modding.