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Can you add a thing where we can type somebody's name into a box and hit "go to profile" and it shows us their profile (whether we've investigated them or not)? I would really like an easier way to get to people's profile.
I could... but I kind of like it how it is. It was originally an oversight, but why should you be able to just look at someone even if you've never seen them? The investigations I assume are giving you pictures and such to look at.
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Could you post somewhere the energy and clout cost of committee actions? Or are we supposed to find out the hard way?
i've posted them on the fb page and some other places before. It's not really supposed to be a secret. I'll probably add it to the help when I do The Great Help File Update.
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Why is the Political Party Proportions in Congress graph NOT A CIRCLE, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, *cough* *cough* I mean i don't like the oval graph too much.
Well, it's a quick way to end all aid to the country (though at the cost of ending all trade as well). It also significantly decreases relations with the target country, almost assuredly bringing it into range of eligibility for war.
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how about a foreign relations win bill "declare war on USA"?
DEVELOPER RESPONSE
FROM DELOSFORD
I'm not entirely sure how that would work...
Civil War?
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is it just me or does a bill in committee by moses malone get between 50 and 100% more votes on it than a bill by anyone else?
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Is it just me or can Harvey Dent not make up his mind whether to be liberal or libertarian? (cuz the the name color keeps changing).
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Can a scandal of drug addiction (i.e. Painkiller Addict) still be released about a person even though they're not addicted to it anymore?
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Well the thing is most people OD their health, and then if they oppose someone who has a little extra money lying around, then they might be dead within a few weeks
It should have its own button in the ability play panel. Hold control and roll your mouse wheel to change your browser's zoom setting if you can't see it. That's usually the problem when people can't see buttons. If that's not the case, send me a PM with your OS and browser type.
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after seeing the libertarian party chat i thought, why not have a forum? when you sign up you have to paste your session key to verify what party, and when you make a thread you can select which parties can see it.
I could easily put a forum in-game of my own creation. That's what the posts are at a rudimentary level. It just doesn't seem that necessary as the posts aren't all that active in the first place. The Lobby will likely feature some objects that are forum-like in their operation as well (such as a bulletin board in the HQs.)
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As a friend of DeaD's, I can tell you that he's already being hassled by the enemies he's made here on Kong, if that hasn't stopped him, your idle threats won't even phase him.
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Time for a more review-ish comment. I'm impressed that you've made a game that has none of the pet peeves that most, if not all MMOs possess (powergaming, P2W BS, etc.), there is also how new content doesn't immediately seem to disrupt the well-maintained balance in the game. Let's not forget the witty humor and your quick, thoughtful responses to the community. I wish for more power to Clout and all of your projects!
In short, 5/5 would eat potatoes with dev.
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This may be too much, but I have run into this a few times, There should be a "last played on.." section for yourself. So that it's easier to get back to bills you were helping trying to pass/tank.
This used to exist but was removed for performance reasons. I've been trying various things to get around what seems to be some kind of bug in mysql, but have not been successful yet.
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i see that most of the bills have "Increase" or "Decrease" or "reduce" etc. at the beginning of their names but it bugs my mind to see on the bill list "Income Tax Decrease" because it doesn't start with an action word D:
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Hey, um, I think I got glitched... I should be CT4 right now, as of this morning, I had 92,942 lifetime clout, I passed two bills worth 4150 each, totaling 8300 clout, and it says I only have 99,242 lifetime clout instead of 101242
Passing a bill only gains you lifetime clout equal to the difference between the cost of the bill and the gain. If this didn't occur, passing your own bills would be significantly better for gaining lifetime clout, which is a situation I didn't want to create.
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I know taxes don't exist in this game, but in the real world using offshore accounts is a crime for tax evasion (punishable by multiple years in prison). Shouldn't using them in the game be scandalous too.
There could be, but I deliberately made it so they aren't on the list. You should use a bit more strategy with those. They'd also clog up the list for a lot longer than normal bills do.
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Once you get a message about being blackmailed how long does it take for the scandal to be released if you do nothing?
FYI: if you continue to do this, you will be banned from the game. You are kind of circumventing an intended feature of the game and making it worse for everyone else.
Thanks for the feedback and support! I'm actually in the process of making another game that ties into this one. It's called "The Lobby", and can be accessed if you're on some list kongregate has to add people to at my request. I expect to release it completely within a month or two.
Mes oui! Tu professeur n'aime pas quelle idée, je pense. Really though, the problem is that kongregate doesn't support non-flash mobile games. You can still get to the game through the mobile site, but it's kind of a pain. I'll see if Kongregate has any way to allow mobile devices to bypass that by default for the game.
I don't really see how this would encourage more activity. If anything it'd just split the playerbase and destroy the game. It also wouldn't make much sense in general as other governments don't function quite like ours. So they'd need an entirely different system per-country... meaning a massive amount of work.
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Why can't a person get a relic for denying a binary if there is enough fighting over it? Also how is it possible to have a negative Charisma, I thought it would be impossible and would stop at 0, but that would probably allow for someone to game the system, ignore my stats.
um... who said you can't get a relic for stopping a binary bill? There are no eligibility requirements for a relic when a binary bill is stopped, only when one is passed. As for negative stats that's completely intentional.
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Gah. Did it again. I need a way to reverse my first taken position on a bill, because sometimes I screw up and hit the wrong button. (Usually when I'm doing a double negative.. ie.. play against a bill that's against something).
Reversing shouldn't be cheap, though. Probably a double or triple gaffe in terms of support, and some clout as well.
That wouldn't even begin to cover the fallout from "flip-flopping" in our current political climate, which is why you can't do it. If I made the penalty realistically large, nobody would ever do it. Additionally, think of how many people would end up mis clicking into a flip flop and screwing themselves badly.
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when we win a war do we get set to a very high trade or do you increase trade by a large amount? if the latter we should beat every last resource out of north korea and afghanistan!
Kind of a long story. It's a combination of two ideas that I had at different times. At some point I decided it would be neat to make a game where you played a single congressperson in congress. I've always liked the idea of games where you WEREN'T the magical unique hero set out to save the realm (which makes even less sense in an MMO). Prior to having that idea, I played this web game that was supposed to be you playing as a computer hacker hacking into forums and governments and stuff. When you played abilities, it would generate text, but it would be kind of nonsensical. Like they'd have "SQL injection" or whatever and it'd make a bunch of weird characters, and enemies would like... "chat" back (they weren't players) which would damage you. I thought that idea would have been a lot cooler if the text wasn't nonsense. At some point I realized that those two concepts could be put together into an interesting game.