Comments for Clout: The Game

isn't that inherently obvious from the fact that it's a timestamp and you can see the time in the header?

Most traits in the game represent something permanent/something about your character's past. They aren't something that's just going to change over time.

Neither of these things is true.

Are you calling the supreme court a partisan entity? My word.

I dunno. Drugs have enough drawbacks that their non-use confers some significant advantages. As for the trait, adding traits at this point would be a bad idea for a variety of reasons.

SCOTUS is a commonly-used acronym for The Supreme Court Of The United States.

There actually isn't any record of this in the scandal DB.

3 days? Or maybe I changed it to 5. Can't remember. I'll add it to the help when I finish some things and do that (within a couple days. RL has been retarded lately).

This would make money too good. Nobody is supposed to be perpetually invincible. The only way I would add an option for this is if it were somehow scandalous as well.

I forsee a lot of people dying in the future.

Well, that was mostly my rationale for the choice :P

Can you actually afford it?

no

probably double clicked the button. To the server, this looks no different than POST hacking.

He also runs a free boarding school.

Because real politicians can't, either.

The tiers end at 5000, 30000 and 100000... so you should be able to infer it from that and the bar, roughly.

CH-CH-CHANGES

I intentionally omitted this and made most mechanics fairly opaque to encourage choices based on things other than powergaming.

clearly

You mean Yeltsin? I could probably do better than that for that guy.

last day of each month

once per RL month

For as much work as that person put in to abuse stuff, I'm pretty sure they profited more from the one good target than the rest combined. Though I'll probably be adding some randomness to the missions just to stop the newspaper spam from people who feel they really need to annoy everyone for an incredibly tiny advantage.

Maybe this is related to that whole "power corrupts" thing.

Treaties are the primary way to raise a nation's relations from the "Abysmal" level.

lol... what should I make for 1 kred? Brown dye? :P

It is a bit dark, but read the ability texts a bit more closely. The ability is specifically about American children and NOT children from other countries.

Colored names are never linked. Besides that, the posts aren't really supposed to be representative of an actual in-person interaction (so how would you see them?). If you want to look at someone you can't see readily, run an investigation on them and click their name.

I love the smell of freedom in the morning

Ironically, his life expectancy was probably better at his old job.

It would be possible... but if you're looking to customize the appearance of your character, for now you can look in the Pawn Shop for custom item tokens and dyes.

That will occur once all planned functionality is completed, prior to the move to v1.0.0.

ah. I did like those games, but no, no intentional reference.

Random events are a planned feature. Just kind of a low priority.

I wasn't going for anything in particular. Did I accidentally reference something?

sure seems like it these days. I'd have replaced the justices by now, but I'm locked out of my hosting account due to some issue that I'm getting resolved.

I'm gong to hold off on revealing exactly how it works until I'm done balancing it. It'll probably need a good bit of that.

I don't remember this

someone almost certainly has by now

no idea

If you adopt that strategy, you'll gain Clout extremely slowly. Notice how Moses popped back up from roughly 0 clout to over 300k in what... 2 weeks at most? He doesn't do that by soloing piddly bills. The most effective way to gain clout is to introduce a bill, act on it enough to keep it supported, and then help pass/fail the bills of others with most of your energy. The system is designed for multiplayer interaction to be the most lucrative option already. You should also probably read the design doc for The Lobby that I posted on the Facebook page a while back. You haven't even begun to see how the two games will connect from what's currently in.

yeah... though, its targets are theoretical electoral opponents of yours without names... so it's kind of a tough call what to put there.

Then nobody would have any incentive to ever introduce bills. The system is presently designed so that introducing bills and helping the bills of others is the most effective way to gain clout, which seems to be the best possible situation for the health of the game and increased multiplayer interaction. The inflation in the number of bills happened somewhat recently mostly due to research committee (and also somewhat due to the new FR bill options). You'll see the count go back down now that I've altered research committee.

just like uh... don't tell the FBI or anything. that would probably be bad.

There are assassins everywhere, so I'm not sure they really have a choice.