Comments for Clout: The Game

Let's just say that some bills aren't exactly a good tradeoff in nation stats.

i have fixed the bug in question

In US law, unless there's a law against what you're doing, you're allowed to do it. Therefore child labor laws would necessarily be created to put restrictions on child labor.

connect the gems political games? Now that's a first for me.

[R] is for LRC, actually, but otherwise this is correct.

The help pages need some serious updates. Apologies for that. I'm going to be doing a major overhaul of the help files in the coming week or so after I get some more features in. V1.0 and the beginnings of the lobby will follow.

I don't make that decision. Kongregate chooses which games to put badges on, and they only do so for games with either a 3.65+ or a 3.85+ (can't remember which)

The mission roll happens when you enact the mission, but police protection is computed when the mission actually goes off based on the current game state.

nope. The sender is "unknown" for blackmail.

G Jenk has none as far as I know, though Q has some.

It's random. Sometimes this will happen. Also, nicotine is one of the more addictive drugs in the game (as in real life).

Thanks for the feedback and support! Within the next couple times you come back, I should have moved Clout to V1.0 and have The Lobby in a playable state.

There is no way to see the exact value anymore, which was always the intent. Your status screen will give you a message that gives you a general idea, and the main subterfuge info screen will tell you your chance of reelection.

Dyes aren't used up... so this would be no different than getting 7 of each. You only have 7 equipment slots.

I think if people ask Kongregate to add a forum for a multiplayer game that they do. Many games that are pretty small have one. Also, I've found it's less effective to advertise to political non-gamers than it is to advertise to gamers who are non-political. The gamers don't really care about the political theme as the gameplay is semi-familiar enough, whereas the political folks often just can't figure out how to do anything because they aren't used to video games... and this one doesn't exactly have a shallow learning curve.

Yes. Your health improves by a set amount each day. This amount is doubled if you're hospitalized.

I'll look into making an offsite forum, but won't be adding one in-game. I can probably just set one up on my hosting, though I'm not sure I want it eating the extra bandwidth.

SO YOU SAY

Don't worry too much til you get 2 or 3.

It's called police protection, and it happens automatically. You can also pass bills such as congressional protection and martial law to increase the baseline protection level. It's very effective. If you don't want to be assassinated easily, the best protection is to not do so many drugs that any successful assassination kills you because you constantly hover at 16 health. Every single person who has died from an assassination with the exception of Jenkins was already low due to their own actions. The person that assassinated jenkins just got extremely lucky.

relics increase stats by a set amount.

Not exactly the best use of your money I don't think.

lol... I think all the trolls made people think you weren't joking or something.

Investigations, slander, and of course you can go after their bills or rally support against them from your team, etc.

Wait, recent events? Link me. Also, I don't think I'd want this as a general mission, but I've been trying to figure out a semi-realistic filibuster interrupter, and I think I can work the pieing into that somehow.

The name of an item will generally give you some idea of its stats (there are obvious themes), but I don't list the stats because I'd rather people wear actual outfits than just try to powergame their equipment to be the "best". Realistically, no items are better than others if you're spending an equivalent amount of money. I use a rigid formula to determine item stats to ensure that items are balanced AND useful compared to other items at a similar cost level.

41? Why not 47?

veeeeery little. Some bills have an extremely minimal impact on the nation.

this is true

I figured they'd be mostly self-explanatory. They're all real things. Heroin tends to make you pass the fuck out... I assumed that was well known.

Investigations do more than just uncover scandals. You know how you look at someone at most of their stuff says "unknown"? The stuff that isn't is revealed because of your investigations into that person.

I have no idea why you think this would abuse the system somehow. It doesn't sound like you'd gain anything by doing this.

yep. Guess you'll want to pay attention to that protection level number.

You can now see people's level of protection when you look at them. It was a minor update I added a couple days back.

I can delete them manually, but there's no way to do it with the UI currently. I'll add something for this eventually.

Just the description you see when their CSP is maxed out/near maxed. It implies that they have unwavering support like you might find towards the leader of a cult from their cultists.

yeah, but it's gonna be a bit before I get to it. Sorry.

I may add a system like this for discovering bill effects, though I haven't decided yet.

I do apologize for the delay on that. It's a combination of the running string of crap ever since I"ve been trying to work on that and some level of general exhaustion from all the coding. Again, sorry for the delay and it will be done soon along with other planned features I have mentioned.

but not rockstars. THEMS THE DEVILS WORK

I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT MOTHERCRAP IS JESUS CHRIST

STRIKE ME DOWN AND I WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE

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all dogs go to heaven

JENKINS! Attend to the players! They're getting unruly again.

While the game is coded such that adding parties isn't hard, the real problem is adding them to the character creation screen. The way it is now makes it pretty tough, and adding another party mid-way would be kind of infeasible at this point since they'd be screwed on number of members.

That is a good point. I hadn't figured anyone would ever get hit that hard. I'll give you your weekly salary manually, and will implement something that checks for high stress/low health or something like that. You are definitely correct that this shouldn't happen.

response in other comment.

I have considered implementing a system that changes constituents' feelings on issues based on the nation... but then I remembered that people don't actually do that. We already have the lowest taxes out of the entire developed world (by a good margin), yet our right always pushes for more tax cuts. And no matter how high the deficit goes, people will still demand more social programs and bizarre subsidies that seem borne of crony capitalism. Essentially, I ended up feeling that the partisan hackery was actually more realistic than an informed populace with moderated views based on changing world events and factual occurences. As for the crime rate... that's sort of worked in to bills with population growth and public health... but it's hard for me to say too much without revealing specific bill stats.

I think that one was via reddit.