Policy

General Policies

• Rations
  • Regular rations - Survivors each eat 1 food per day
  • Decreased Rations - Survivors eat 25% less food per day; happiness decreases
  • Increased Rations - Survivors eat 25% more food per day; happiness increases

• Shower Rationing
  • Let People Shower as Much as they Want - Receives positive feedback from the Pharmacists, increased happiness
  • Limit Showers to Once a Week - Minor happiness loss on a regular basis
  • Limit water use to bare necessities - Bigger Happiness loss on a regular basis

• Ammo Use
  • Balanced Ammo Use - Keeps ammo use and gun power the same
  • Spray and Pray - Increases usage of ammo, +1 defense boosts from guns
  • Conserve ammo as much as possible - -1 Defense from Guns, halved ammo use rate

• Foreign Policy
  • with Open Arms - increases faction relations and chances of recruitment success, -Fortwide Defense
  • with Caution - maintains balance of relations and defense
  • with Hostility - increases fortwide defense, decreases recruitment success chance and faction relations

• Churches vs Bars
  • Churches - Churches become more effective than Bars happiness-wise
  • Bars - Bars become more effective than Churches happiness-wise
  • Evenly on Churches and Bars

• Mandatory Guard Duty
  • No, volunteer Guards are enough - Positive feedback from The Pharmacists, only those who are on Guard Duty contribute to fort defense
  • Yes, all people go on guard duty - +happiness, everyone contributes to Fort defense and gains Defense skill with attacks

• Democracy
  • No, I will make all decisions - allows you to choose the decisions to policies
  • Yes, the people should vote - creates a new option, "Let the People Vote" and disables all other options for

policies

Faction-based Policies

• Cannibalism
  • Decide during situations
  • Reject Cannibalism and those who do it - decreases relations with Pig Farmers
  • Eat all dead bodies - increases relations with Pig Farmers

• Bath Salts
  • Allow them - increased happiness for Addicts
  • Ban them - decreased happiness for Addicts

• Gender Roles
  • People can do what they want - increased relations with Dahlias and The Pharmacists
  • Everyone does chores and guard duty - Increased relations with Dahlias, decreased relations with The Pharmacists
  • Women should stay safe at home - Decreased relations with Dahlias

Governance Policies

In story mode, these policies become available as soon as you build a Town Hall.

• Crime and Punishment - What should be our most severe punishment for murderers and treasoners?
  • Take away their luxuries - No time off, low order
  • Put criminals in jail - Criminals jailed, normal order
  • Kick them out of the fort - Criminals exiled, high order
  • Capital cannibal punishment - Criminals eaten, high order

• Nationalism - What is our attitude towards outsiders?
  • Take care of our own: increased defense
  • Help our allies: Friendly factions will like us more
  • Help anyone who needs it: More survivors will come to us

• Our Highest Priority - What do we value most?
  • Repopulating the world - More new recruits
  • Keeping people safe - Increased defense
  • Providing a religious moral center - Churches are more effective
  • Trading and prospering - Better trade deals

• Private Property - Should people own their own things?
  • People share all resources - Produce more resources, lower happiness
  • Some shared, some private - Normal resources and happiness
  • People keep their own stuff - Fewer resources, increased happiness

• Rock the Vote - How do we structure our government?
  • Leader chooses policies - regular policy system
  • Leader and senate choose policies - Occasional government conflicts; happiness increases
  • All survivors vote - Random policies will be chosen; happiness increases