I kind of agreed somewhere else that this release would focus on politics, so now it's time to enhance political networking and local aristocrats.
First of all, local aristocrats (those you can meet before voting) can leave the colony or die over time, so you'll have to work harder in keeping an active contact network. This will be much more likely to happen to aristocrats in a bad economic situation for obvious reasons and no, you won't be able to exploit this to get out of loan payments.
Secondly, when you are asked for a loan by these aristocrats, you will be able to choose to give the money away for free. If you choose to do that, all the money will be lost, but you'll be in control of that aristocrat from that moment on.
For now this only means that you'll get more chances to haggle during negotiations, but I'm considering a few ways to make controlling local aristocrats more fun, probably making them double agents of some sort. I'd be glad to listen to ideas and suggestions if you have any though.
Incidentally, loans are now about a 30% more expensive, which means controlling aristocrats will be a little more expensive, but also that you'll make a greater profit with banking.
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