🔧 Update v0.2.30 — Major Politics & Elections Expansion, Intel Operations & Key

🔧 Update v0.2.30 — Major Politics & Elections Expansion, Intel Operations & Key Polish

Hello Commanders!

This update introduces a major expansion of our political and election systems. It also adds new intelligence operations, tutorial updates, and key research interface polish.

🗳️ New Feature: Real Elections & Political Parties

• AddedSpheres of Domestic PowerReal elections, political parties, voter support bases, and coalition alliances are now fully simulated! This massive political overhaul brings a new layer of depth to your nation's domestic landscape and paves the way for future political features, policy voting, and internal gameplay mechanics .

• Curated Electoral Cycles: Experience realistic electoral schedules, including the historical four-year US presidential election cycle, alongside managed political timelines customized for non-democratic regimes.

• Historical Starting Alignments: Starting governments and ruling coalitions at the January-2026 starting point are now seeded directly from real-world historical election results to guarantee realistic geopolitical setups.

• Refined Ideology Blocs: Ideological leanings for political parties have been audited to ensure parties behave realistically based on their faction alignments.

🕵️ New Feature: "Fund Opposition" Espionage Operations

• Manipulate Foreign Politics: You can now launch "Fund Opposition" operations against rival nations. Deploy an idle strategist to weaken a target country's ruling coalition from within; your strategist will return to your pool once the mission concludes.

• Political Ops Tracking: Operational upkeep costs for funding foreign opposition are now tracked in a dedicated "Political Ops" ledger lane in your national treasury.

📖 Onboarding & Research Polish

• AddedPolitics OnboardingMaster domestic leadership with newly integrated Politics and Elections tutorials, added to both the Guided Tour and the Objective checklist across all 13 languages.

• Research Completed Polish: The "No Active Research" warning pill in the HUD will now correctly turn off once you have fully completed the entire technology tree, keeping your interface clean in the late game.

⚡ Game Performance

• Standing Calculation Optimizations: Re-engineered political standings updates to run allocation-free, reducing system memory churn to ensure smoother performance on lower-spec and low-RAM devices.