>>2078756
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=106150
>Sometimes this game popped up in my mind because I never managed to "win" it, just stay in power with a union dissolved and a nation surviving but in ruinous debt. So I decided to try again and perhaps discover the intricacies of the most mysterious part of the game: the budget. My challenge being: Can I keep the union playing as a hard liner?

>So I used cheat engine to give myself an "infinite" amount of money to see if maxing all social values I could have a different outcome, and the result, as I suspected back then when I first started playing this game in my teenage years is: No, you can't keep the union. As I can infer, many of the events are scripted and cannot be altered regardless of how well the nation is.

>You can set economic aid sliders of republics/soviet bloc/foreign aid to 9999 and it won't affect any outcome.

>So the game sets you up in a linear path and only gives you the illusion of choice and control, you can have all your stats maxed in the green and it won't matter;

>This is not an ask for help, I just want to leave this here for posterity.
I guess this settles the debate forever.