Comments for Clout: The Game

An automobile ban would be more like a win condition bill. That would completely destroy the country.

I'll send a message to Kongregate letting them know to do so.

Hah! Well, be glad it was only a coma. Could be worse :P

Parties are still sometimes against the passage of certain unaligned bills. If you're unsure about how your party feels about a certain topic on foreign relations, google the official party platform of the party your character is in. That's where I usually draw the party positions from. Some parties are pretty ambivalent/nonspecific on foreign relations, whereas others have hardline views on tariffs and foreign intervention.

Thanks for reporting that. I'll make note of it in the pre-1.0.0 changes list that I'm compiling.

just start shooting in random directions. I'm sure it'll work out fine.

Taking the floor in Congress is a slightly more complicated procedure than just saying a sentence to yourself in your house. Do also keep in mind that if you're low on energy at all, it means you've been debating a rather lot already, which requires time to recover from as it would for any normal human being. Obviously nobody works 24/7 because you require rest after exerting yourself (or a whole lot of meth, I suppose).

i was kinda busy making another game

he got it right

thanks for the feedback and support!

When you/somebody else passes your bill, only your net gain counts towards your lifetime clout. If this wasn't true, passing your own bills would be more than twice as good as doing anything else to advance your lifetime clout.

The speaker election happens just before the general election, so if he is no longer speaker then he's subject to normal elections immediately as he loses that position.

Yeah, that was me. I can move your account to facebook if you want, but you can't play a character on both platforms.

Yes

No. It's the same game whether you're playing on FB or Kongregate.

Technically we're really only worried about them attacking South Korea and Japan. Their weapons technology isn't exactly modern.

I'm not sure people would feel very strongly about this one way or another. I try to pick binary bills that will get people to fight strongly for/against them.

I made those players' old characters into an admin character of sorts to help me run the game after they died.

Some of what you can/can't do definitely needs some work. I just threw it in so you guys could get to using it. It'll be improved a lot in the not too distant near future.

I'll be adding a couple new options to the bill filter soon.

You can't introduce any of those bills for a country whose relations are too low. You can view relations on the world page.

Hm... That seems to have been in error. The socialist part of the US opposes foreign aid. I'll fix it.

The SPIDERS are EVERYwhere. THEY just don't want us to know...

I assumed he had meant the more general term of annexation rather than the voluntary process of inclusion into the US. My point was mostly that the US doesn't go to war to annex land, so that won't be an option in-game.

If you lose your character for any reason you will lose the items you have. Make sure to tag the item to a deposit box if you're wearing it, and store it in one if you're not. If you're having some kind of issues with your safe deposit boxes, let me know. Some people couldn't see them due to a bug, though I thought I got everyone.

Somebody played Form Research Committee on your bill. This usually helps the bill at end of day towards passing, but will sometimes hinder it.

This hasn't really happened historically, so no.

Aside from safe deposit boxes, that's probably what will happen, unless players strongly dissent.

Conference committee can remove poison pill.

I now understand what you're saying. I'm currently speaking with someone from Kongregate via email and it seems I can have him add people by kongregate username so they can access The Lobby normally. I'll have him do this with your username and send you a message when it's done.

As the note with the link states, due to how kongregate works with unreleased games you have to log out, visit the link, then log in when prompted (or with the header if the prompt doesn't come up. I dunno why it doesn't sometimes). I'm trying to get a hold of someone at kong to change this so it's not so ridiculous.

The presumption is that your constituents secretly support that view. Obviously it's a bit of a joke. Though, do consider that congresspersons tend to be WAY more polarized and partisan than presidential and gubernatorial candidates.

special event surrounding a couple people asking to be killed off

this is correct

I posted the link in a sticky in the general post. You have to log out of kongregate, follow the link, then log in. Also, be aware that the game isn't exactly playable yet. It's just an HTML realtime chat after you get done with character creation, but it'll start to be playable in the next couple days/weeks.

The Speaker Of The House automatically wins reelection (IRL the Speaker can be anyone, not just a member of congress).

i guess we'll see

What bills get challenged at all depends on the bill itself and the constitution. It's not generated, it's something I put in ahead of time. Any major bill that can be challenged will be challenged (as in real life). The supreme court decides on the case mostly based on their affiliation, but they aren't purely partisan and the AG can swing things quite a bit. Whether the AG chooses to intervene or not depends on the affiliation of the AG and the bill in question.

You can already do this by passing the congressional security/martial law bills. While in effect, they offer protection of 1 and 3 levels, respectively, to everyone in the game. If you mean something on a personal level, nothing is currently implemented as I don't want cash to be too powerful. I may add something in the future, but it may also be scandalous (bribing the police or somesuch).

I think it was Cersei. But the game could be lying I guess.

Conference committee can remove poison pill, though your fellow congresspersons have to vote to help you out. If you don't have CC, try asking for one on your bill in team/party chat.

But you did it FOR FREEDOM

GDP growth and population growth are not part of the formulas directly. Eventually they'll tank the nation if left negative for a number of weeks.

This is much less effective than it used to be since I changed how intricate coverups work.

It's a sign of things to come.

Banning something out of fuzzy feel good intentions isn't exactly in-line with the constitution, and it being struck down has nothing to do with immorality.

I just checked and appeal to emotion is strong for outlawing it... so i'm not sure what you mean.

Game balance.

Probably due to lack of such games in general.