Comments for Clout: The Game

Pass chance never reaches 0, and no. Binary bills end at the end time, and have a chance of passing indicated by the pass chance.

theoretically one could pass at a value between 0 and 1%, to be fair.

pass chance = pass chance

It will do so very soon.

He didn't exactly abolish it. If you see someone on the wrong side of a binary on the list, it means the court struck down the bill. I may indicate this differently in the future.

"Autoerotic Asphyxiator" if I recall.

It's based on how damaging the scandal is, not per-scandal.

not quite, no. Quick coverup isn't that crappy.

Campaign contributions are random and shared between all players in the game. They also change frequently (most of the time).

This was originally included and removed for performance reasons relating to an apparent bug/shortcoming in SQL. Fixing it is on my to-do list, but it'll probably take a while as it's going to be something I have to hack around in a crappy way.

got back to you in game already

done

Yeah, check your messages. I already unlocked your account.

unfortunately, such a thing would be much more likely to just uselessly take up a slot for a while, which is why binaries and win conditions don't show up there.

Your account got picked up for multiboxing because you're playing from the same IP as another user. Did one of your friends just show you the game in person from their computer or something?

I dunno. There's strong protections against griefing with just about anything in-game, which is why I say "should you manage to find a way" in the help.

Maybe. I think perhaps this will only be enabled if you repeal a certain binary bill I haven't yet added.

"Please note: use of intended PvP game functions does not qualify as griefing. Those have automatic protections in place against that sort of thing."

War is going to be part of foreign relations when I finish it.

...Japan isn't allowed to have a military, just so you know. They've been a protectorate of the US since the end of WWII. Israel has an incredibly strong military that is directly supplied by the US. Not only do they have the latest technology, but they mandate service in the armed forces for all their citizens. Israel is extremely well-defended, which is the only reason it continues to exist. Central Africa's rating, however, is just a bit of a joke.

You get the money for passing contributions at end of day when the bill goes into effect. This is stated in a couple places in-game.

This is a common request, but any non-scandalous option for stress reduction or energy gain would make cash way too powerful and destroy game balance.

The system will stop you from doing that. Break association is just new and I forgot to make it take people out of cronies. Didn't really figure anyone would be breaking with their cronies.

Hm... they're probably going off your IP or something like that. It can be used to get a rough idea of someone's physical location (or the physical location of their proxy server).

Dyes carry through automatically without needing to be stored because they don't actually affect gameplay. Once you buy one, you have it forever. Custom items need to be stored/tagged to deposit boxes.

That's not a player name, but it does identify a player somehow. All of Deep Throat's messages are somewhat cryptic. Ask around and you can probably get somebody to tell you what that kind of message means exactly.

Funny story: I didn't even know LCS existed until a Kongregate user mentioned it in the comments a few months back.

Poison Pill persists unless removed by a conference committee. Though, I will note that how poison pill works is likely to change quite a bit in the not too distant near future.

I have plans to add a global option to hide all your posts from other users that you specify. People have requested this to reduce the "spies" in the team/party posts.

Why would you care about a player that does nothing, though? Aside from that, I may add links to people's names in the posts. Problem is that it breaks from the trend of linking uncolored names. So I'll have to think of some way around that.

25% per day, less 1% per active bill that you have in Congress.

Unlike kongregate friends, in-game associate requests must be approved before they activate.

You can click people's names in most places you see them in white and get to the look screen. It's missing in a couple places that will eventually be added.

Thanks for the feedback and support! Some browsers have some display issues with buttons when they're tightly-packed alongside other controls. I've tried to get this worked out as best I can, but some people are still having issues. If you could send me your browser/OS version as well as a screenshot of exactly what you're seeing it'll help me figure out what's going on.

Good to know!

A non-scandalous way to regen stress/energy would make cash the most powerful asset in the game by far. That's not a situation I want to create.

I was worried that the permadeath thing might drive people away once it happened, but that doesn't actually seem to happen much at all.

Send me a screenshot with your OS/browser version.

I'll add a way to remove associates. Been meaning to do that for a while.

It's actually the opposite. He chose a more complicated coverup that skips over weak scandals.

It was successful. You simply had no scandals which that coverup affected. Intricate scandal coverup ignores minor scandals. I'll probably be changing it so that it will roll over to minor scandals if you're out of worse ones as you're the third person that's done this recently.

There have been various suggestions to add spiders to the game based on that... but they all seem like they'd just end up pissing people off more than anything.

lip-service christian, like most IRL congresspersons in the US.

Of cooouurrse not

The bills that each party has access to are set. The teams are grouped by which parties share more bills. A system like you describe would be severely unlikely to result in a situation any different than the current one.

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You can always be cronies/associates with members of any party and contact them directly. I lumped the teams together just based on who has more shared bills. Realistically you should probably use private communications of some sort for anything important, as anything posted on either team chat tends to get around to everyone.

Ummm... no? The VIPs affect bills in various ways. The alignment of the supreme court and attorney general affects legal challenges. The alignment of the president affects what gets vetoed. The alignment of the secretaries of state/defense will affect foreign relations. By assassinating VIPs, you change the outcome of all these events.

Wrong Q. Think TNG.

You can store/tag custom items to deposit boxes.