Where's Taiwan?

[Che-Lin Chan 詹喆麟]

I can't find Taiwan on the map :(

any special reason? (just curious :)

[Che-Lin Chan 詹喆麟]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Metal Izanagi:

Początkowo opublikowane przez chelinchan24:

This is big problem, because Taiwan has 23,000,000 people

If Taiwan not in the game, the world people number will be wrong

It's not a problem, though. Taiwan isn't THAT big a deal.

If this Island is not in the game, where's these prople go?

[76561198123023651]

Początkowo opublikowane przez chelinchan24:

I can't find Taiwan on the map, Why?

As the other posters have said - we couldn't include every single country in the game simply due to gameplay reasons, it would be difficult to click a lot of smaller countries as well as potentially overwhelming in terms of information to the player. Absolutely no offence is intended here and it was entirely a gameplay decision. Hope you understand!

[Isengrim]

No one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about taiwan

[brothercake]

Guys can you stop with the racist ridiculing. It's completely arbitary to say that one country or one country's people is "more important" than another. And at least 23m people care a great deal about what happens in Taiwan. Its ommission is purely a functional necessity of gameplay, and that's all there is to say on the subject.

[brothercake]

Oh I'm sorry, did I say "racist" when I meant "xenophobic".

How do you know what the vast majority of the world cares about? What you mean is that *you* don't care, and you're projecting that opinion onto other people to give it credence. You may not think that's offensive, but I do.

Anyway, I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just asking for some respect to be shown.

[david38]

I was initially disappointed with Taiwan being excluded thinking that it may have been political.Taiwan is one of the only regions in the world not part of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and it would be a valuable member as it has one of the top 10 best health care systems in the world. WHO membership is continually blocked by the CCP, which try to cover up outbreaks to minimise social unrest (SARS and the current outbreak, which will hopefully be less severe) and only react and become "transparent" when cases are confirmed outside China. However, when I saw which countries were included and that many countries are left out I was less concerned and understood that it was due to game play mechanics. While Taiwan is a densely populated island, it is a relatively small land mass and I guess leaving it off implies it is not part of PRC, which it never has been. Interestingly, I am also from a 'small' democratic country of about 25 million people, so I hope that the world would give a damn about Taiwan as it does about Australia.

[Hanuman]

Początkowo opublikowane przez NdemicMarc:

Początkowo opublikowane przez chelinchan24:

I can't find Taiwan on the map, Why?

As the other posters have said - we couldn't include every single country in the game simply due to gameplay reasons, it would be difficult to click a lot of smaller countries as well as potentially overwhelming in terms of information to the player. Absolutely no offence is intended here and it was entirely a gameplay decision. Hope you understand!

It would be great if the game was updated with an optional DLC based on the current ~2020 numbers of new airports, high-speed rail buildout, and reflected the increased global travel and population density in major city centers. Including the huge boom in the China economy as well as the increase in India, increased diaspora populations and travel etc. etc.

[-StarlinkEDMPaypal-]

yes , same as vacatian city , Litchstian , catalan, luxembourgish , igbo , arlo arto

[Maxygen]

Avoiding something controversial.

[JasonBourne]

Because TAIWAN is a part of CHINA，after all, Taiwan has little influence in the world

[MajorCow]

Początkowo opublikowane przez JasonBourne:

Because TAIWAN is a part of CHINA，after all, Taiwan has little influence in the world

Republic of China NOT People's Republic of China

[Fronz 47]

Yeah, nothing in this game is political motivated, just lock at the Brexit archievement, or those news popup windows that tell you stories, that have nothing to do with the game. Honestly, if the developers or whoever writes that stuff comes forward and says this game includes political opinions, no biggie, but to write stories that border on propaganda and inserting them in some underhanded way just feels plain wrong.

[Your Neighbour]

Początkowo opublikowane przez brothercake:

Oh I'm sorry, did I say "racist" when I meant "xenophobic".

How do you know what the vast majority of the world cares about? What you mean is that *you* don't care, and you're projecting that opinion onto other people to give it credence. You may not think that's offensive, but I do.

Anyway, I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just asking for some respect to be shown.

It's not racism, they are just people that would suck up to mainland China at every turn 'because murica bad so china must be good boi' logic

[Cacomistle]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Fronz 47:

Yeah, nothing in this game is political motivated, just lock at the Brexit archievement, or those news popup windows that tell you stories, that have nothing to do with the game. Honestly, if the developers or whoever writes that stuff comes forward and says this game includes political opinions, no biggie, but to write stories that border on propaganda and inserting them in some underhanded way just feels plain wrong.

Almost all media includes something related to politics, because politics covers a lot.

I don't believe anything in this game is intentionally political though. On the contrary, it would require a lot of effort to not include anything political (even something like listing a country as poor could be considered get people to say its political).

Basically they'd have to remove all news stories related to any specific country. Then they'd have to include countries based only on a land area cutoff (or population but it seems ability to click on a country was part of their decision. Rich vs poor would be a cutoff so no one cries "but my country is/isn't poor/rich". And even then, maybe someone complains that diseases spreading faster in China is commentary on hygeine instead of the obvious case of them having more population.

Political messages are actually impossible to avoid, and I like that they didn't try (to be clear they obviously didn't try to make it about politics either). Because that would send the political message that we should keep politics out of all media.

[Selleu]

Początkowo opublikowane przez MajorCow:

Początkowo opublikowane przez JasonBourne:

Because TAIWAN is a part of CHINA，after all, Taiwan has little influence in the world

Republic of China NOT People's Republic of China

There is no "Republic of China" don't spread propaganda. Only People's Republic of China. CCP tells us and they know best don't fall for lies Thank you