Military Loyalty in Modern Era?

[Blackram67]

Well, I just finally made it to the Modern era, and my tried and true method for ensuring military loyalty up until the Cold War are no longer working. What I used to do up until now, was I'd carefully go through the list of military personnel and check their support rating for me. If they were less than 50%, then I'd fire their ass and replace them with foreign workers. But now I'm doing that, and even the foreign workers are coming in with less than 50% approval! I'm spending $5000 per worker and they still hate me!

I don't know what to do, I'm thinking I should just keep all of the loyal officers, and lock out all of the remaining positions until my popularity increases? Any downside to that? I have an aircraft carrier, and it's loyalty doesn't seem to be ever under question. So maybe I can do with a less full military and aircraft carrier to take care of rebels?

[Bearsuit]

Put agitators in barracks and bases as the managers. Also, what constituation option do you have in place for the military? Conscription will always have poorer approval (in my experience) because they are forced to serve. By modern times, I'd suggest using a professional army + Agitators. Should keep them very happy. And be sure to complete any +Opinion/Militarists missions. A high budget is always good to (from my real life experience, the better the conditions for those in the military makes service members happier haha).

[Blackram67]

I gave up on that sandbox mission finally, nothing was keeping the military happy, and i'd already won by the Cold War through an accumulation of riches. But I might try it again later. Just FYI, I had Militia and a high budget. I didn't have much of a reputation with militarists. Do militarist opinion actually affect the military in any way?

[aqvarivs]

Originally posted by bbbl67:

I gave up on that sandbox mission finally, nothing was keeping the military happy, and i'd already won by the Cold War through an accumulation of riches. But I might try it again later. Just FYI, I had Militia and a high budget. I didn't have much of a reputation with militarists. Do militarist opinion actually affect the military in any way?

Ya! The military can rebel against you. I had 60 soldiers and plenty of military buildings and was wondering why I was having so many rebels, maybe five attacks a year, then I noticed the rebels were spawning from a couple of barracks to destroy my ranches and plantations. I couldn't raise my standing with them through edicts [I'd played that card] and I couldn't give them the Contitution they wanted because I was just keeping the Communist balanced between indiffernt and rebellion, and the religious were one step from open rebellion too. Of course it might have something to do with the fact that I do as little as possible now to appease the bas*ards. I have way too much fun finding out how much I can get away with. To me that's worth a Palace or two in the grand scheme of keeping El Presidente a dictator; not some pwned fool thrown to the gnashing maw of the prepetually needy that he has become with T5. :-)

[Blackram67]

Originally posted by aqvarivs:

Ya! The military can rebel against you. I had 60 soldiers and plenty of military buildings and was wondering why I was having so many rebels, maybe five attacks a year, then I noticed the rebels were spawning from a couple of barracks to destroy my ranches and plantations. I couldn't raise my standing with them through edicts [I'd played that card] and I couldn't give them the Contitution they wanted because I was just keeping the Communist balanced between indiffernt and rebellion, and the religious were one step from open rebellion too. Of course it might have something to do with the fact that I do as little as possible now to appease the bas*ards. I have way too much fun finding out how much I can get away with. To me that's worth a Palace or two in the grand scheme of keeping El Presidente a dictator; not some pwned fool thrown to the gnashing maw of the prepetually needy that he has become with T5. :-)

I actually got rid of most of my military at one point, just kept the aircraft carrier. Demolished the military buildings. Things settled down -- for awhile. Then rebels started attacking from other places, and I needed to create the military again to quiet them down.

[Sapphire Bullets]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264994893
This guide has some useful tips on how to keep the militarists (and other factions) happy.

[MyWorldO]

Keep your military's needs met, Bribe the milatary faction leader put of untill modern if you can/want but adopt workers paradise helps arcross the map and can mostly be counter with IT Edu edict Try to keep industy and general polution away from there homes ad work place just a few simple to make it a smoother modern era.