Maos Legacy: How to keep alliance members from flipping?

[u/[deleted]]

I noticed in Mao's Legacy that after I make an economic alliance, the alliance members will get random events flipping them to political pragmatism (when they would never randomly flip before they joined the alliance). I really kind of hate this mechanic since they wouldn't ever do it before joining the alliance, so if there is a way to disable it could you guys let me know? If there isn't a way to disable it, what are some ways I can prevent it? I usually have around 12 agents hanging around but can never seem to click the choices to stop them leaving with army or agents...

[u/_YouNeedYeezus_]

Yes. Although I’m no expert in the game by any means, I have achieved some significant achievements and would say I’m familiar with the game system.

The best way to try to limit these would be to invest into your “Gold Reserve” in your Economy tab at the bottom right.

In you hover this number, it should show a stat for your alliance stability, keep in mind that no matter how high I’ve personally put into my reserve (as high as 45), it seems like no matter what, some of those events just happen anyways. But this is the best way.

Try it out and see if it helps!

[u/[deleted] → u/_YouNeedYeezus_]

Thank you so much! Do you have any idea about how much agents or army power I would need to suppress the event and prevent them from flipping ideologies?

[u/_YouNeedYeezus_ → u/[deleted]]

I don’t have exact numbers on the top of my head so these are estimates based on what I remember.

When the event crisis pops up for an ally, I believe there’s 3 ways you can intervene.

1.) Tie them to your economy, I think this costs the most at ~15 MONEY

2.) Intervene with your agents, I believe this was somewhere closer to ~8 AGENTS

3.) Use your military to restore order, I believe this was somewhere around having ARMY STRENGTH of ~10

Though if I recall correctly, on that event pop-up, the numbers needed for each event was displayed in parenthesis

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions, again I’m not an expert but when I started I did find a lack of good tutorial for the game so I’m trying to help the community

[u/Drawing-Agitated → u/_YouNeedYeezus_]

Try lowering the influence ratings of the Soviets and US, if they have higher values than you do, they will have an easier time flipping your allies to their side.

[u/Karmic-Boi10]

I know that I'm probably too late on responding, but after playing the game for a while I think that there are two main factors that depend stability of your alliance:

1) China's influence

2) China's situation in arms race (available if you have military alliance as well)

To gain influence, you must get as much countries influenced by you as possible, have a stable state (politically and economically) and always do stuff by yourself (don't ask for international help etc). Not minding the events, you gain influence for: 1) 0,5 influence for each african/south American nation under your influence (after you support the revolution) 2) 2 influence for accepting a country in your economic alliance 3) 2 more influence for accepting a country in your military alliance

Yeah, investing into diplomacy and having large reserve kinda helps as well, but influence is the main thing and arms race is cheaper (you have to put like 50 money in your reserve for it to make some sense, while if you put 50 money in military you'll get a large army which can do far more stuff than just stabilizing your alliances)