Originally Posted by Borodin

For what it's worth, my suggestion is to make your foreign policy conservative, and your domestic policy liberal. Suck up to the US. That's worked for me, though I know there are other strategies that will do as well.

Originally Posted by Japo

I only played once. I tried to be centrist, and when I thought I had stabilized things enough I called elections, then the death squads from the Farsante appeared out of nowhere and assassinated every leftist candidate. These were powerless to defend themselves, because I had cracked down on the leftist guerrillas much harder simply because they were very active while the Farsante death squads had been apparently sleeping, until I called elections.

I think this game pushes you into cultivating one of the violent sides and bind your fortune to theirs and end up a dictator. The initial status quo heavily favors the right, although with your all-mighty powers as provisional president you can end up as Fidel Castro and crush them if you want. I suppose there must be a happy ending when you manage to hold some frigging elections, but it must be very hard and I gave up.

Originally Posted by MonsignorGabriel

I downloaded this game along with Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator, and it's amazing how the two seem related to the other. However, Hidden Agenda is definitely meatier, customizable and more interactive, but significantly more difficult than Conflict. I can't seem to figure out how to do things correctly so that everyone is at least relatively happy and the economy isn't in the toilet. This game kicked my ass 7 more times before I gave up.

It's sad, really, because I got really into it.

Originally Posted by kyrubb

Geezer?

"Click", "click" (in case more heel clicking is necessary).