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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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Once you get a message about being blackmailed how long does it take for the scandal to be released if you do nothing?
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Can you add killing foreign leaders to mess up the world. I would love to send ninjas into North Korea. And maybe annexing Mexico.
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there should be a bill that has no purpose other than to reduce public happiness, the american public have no right to be more than 100% happy!
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.
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third like the idea of a president whether npc or playable. would be cool to have a prez send war proposals to congress. also having the prez elected every so many months and be from a random party if npc therefore more likely to vetoe the opposing parties high impact bills. fourth think you should put more countries into the world. fifth health problems caused by drug addiction and worse health problems with long term drug addiction and perhaps some sort of rehab. overall good game with a lot of potential and given your commitment to your game and players I think it is likely to reach most if not all its potential
President/VP, presidential assassinations and speaker of the house are next on my implementation list. It should be a pretty quick one. And yeah, the president's affiliation will affect how he vetoes. It won't be totally random. Drugs are already really bad to use frequently due to scandals, though that's probably not a part of the game you've encountered heavily yet if you're CT1/2. Thanks for all the feedback!
Nope. New feature. Helps out casual players, and also makes drugs make more sense for newbies. Sometimes people would come in, buy a stress reducing item, lose energy and not really get the point/think there was a bug. Now your stress can go negative so it's more obvious what happened.
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You get reports that your latest transaction went sour costing you 1$ in operating expenses... Uh I don't really care about 1$!
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Jennifer Government's NationStates is a multiplayer political themed online game that predated this game by several years. Nonetheless, it's existence doesn't detract from Clout's uniqueness.
I do not believe the victory criteria for any party is achievable. It'll be a 1-4 battle passing the bill, and with equal access to sex, drugs and rock & roll on both sides, I don't see any single party with sufficient resources to push it through. So are those bills just available for people to waste clout on and cause drama?
Finally, I think that having a suicide option should be available. After all, politicians have the right to commit suicide in real life. The lack of such an option deprives my digital avatar their rightful civil liberty and surely goes against the Constitution.
NationStates is a nation-building Civ game. It seems to have added an opt-in multiplayer voting element on top of the basic Civ formula, but it would be an extraordinary stretch to call it "politically-themed" the way Clout is, and such a stretch would end up including many other games that predated NationStates. Maybe "Government Themed" or something would be more fitting? There aren't really any "politics" in your nation since you just choose what to do. Anyway... yes, win condition bills are intentionally incredibly hard to pass. Certainly you agree that passing such a bill through congress would be pretty difficult? Killing yourself is not an option for gameplay fairness and balance reasons, but if you would like to have your character removed so you can make a new one, feel free to let me know.
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Monday on this game in a nutshell after the overdose update:
Debate, drugs, debate, drugs, debate, drugs, Debate, drugs, debate, drugs, debate, drugs, debate, accidentally OD
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You seem to respond to every comment made, even this one. You also make a more than realistic game about politics (although you make it so that the people actually stay relatively on topic, while in real life tax decrease would wander off into NASA funding and so). You even don't make it a pay-to-play or pay-to-win game. I was honestly considering that you are an isolated rouge AI set out on emotionally controlling the world. Mainly due to the comment responses. Honest.
It's always your allies investigating you. They just can't handle your success and are trying to tear you down. The voices under the podium told me so.
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Just because it didn't work once doesn't mean they won't try another method. Why are you so confident that they won't simply try another poison, or hire a sniper/trained killer?
This organization seems to have a need to keep their activities secret as well as appear to be the good guys. They've literally tried claiming that the things occurring are the result of god. Yes, I am serious. It's not just scientology involved, as I said before... though really I'm pretty sure they're running the show.
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Actually, Schrödinger's stalkers are both stalking and not stalking simultaneously. Would be more reasonable I guess.
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It seems people are having problems with getting on - I haven't, but I think I'll be emailing them anyway. Is it possible to petition or otherwise organize protest against this kind of thing? Or is the best any given person can do just send them emails? If they're not doing what you pay them to do, they're doing something illegal, and it's also inconsiderate and deceptive if they're trying to lie about it. I hope this issue can be resolved.
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Oh, and pretty sure having a 'written' rule posted in a transient medium such as global (which disappeared very very quickly) hardly counts. Everything I have said about you has either been true, or a reasonable conclusion to make based on the facts available to me, despite your constant accusations of lying. On the other hand, you've lied, slandered, contradicted yourself in comments, made logical errors in your sob stories, and denied all of these activities. Oh, and changed the subject/shifted blame every time anyone calls you out on it. Not all bugs are related to the stalkers, not all dissent comes from the stalkers, and actions after banning cannot be used to justify a ban.
Oh, so you admit you saw it and deliberately did something you know would get you banned? Ok, glad to see we've completely discredited everything you ever said. Have a wonderful day.
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The game from what I can see is enjoyable, but isn't capable of being fast-paced. In comparison, gamemaker, check out War of the Web. It's limited but never murky.
When trying/failing/succeeding to play this I just feel slow.
May I suggest energy coming at 3/ten minutes or 1/5 minutes or something similar?
Unlike most games on Kongregate, the game isn't really designed to be fast-paced and played constantly. It's intended that you use energy about once or twice a day, potentially extending this under special circumstances using drugs (or perhaps all the time if you're very rich).
The game is entirely multiplayer (some people do not notice this at first, forgive me if you did), and the low energy regen is partially to force player-player interactions. The energy regen rate is also balanced against the gains you can make playing abilities and the other timed actions you can commit or other actions you can take with energy (some timed).
I will however mention that you'll likely feel much less limited as you gain better abilities and equipment. Your effectiveness on bills will go up 3-4x.
No, I am perfectly sane and present nothing except supportable factual information... which is why only the banned and a couple people who don't even play the game are still posting about this. Because nobody else really cares about your lies anymore.
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we have a big debt, bad health, 75% taxes and bad defences (even mozambique can conquer us) but people is happy. I wonder what could make them sad.
Turns out you can spend a lot of money and make people happy even if things aren't generally going great. Of course the problem is that it all unravels after a while, much like the Soviet Union.
Oh, so you see nothing relevant, your buddy thinks it supports you, and everyone else sees it as damning evidence? Why yes, it looks like I did indeed ban correctly.
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http://i.imgur.com/k9dJ9iY.png If you're talking about this one it doesn't show furoa doing any of the things you are talking about.
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Also I never defended kiran in any way here. I love the guy to bits, but I don't even know what you guys are talking about in here. Just looks like text walls that I'm unwilling to read. So, I'm glad I proved you right?
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Well I mean, ok I guess. Ya got me, I've spent 4 years building badges on an account just so that you'd never suspect that I hack a silly flash game. Darn. /sarcasm
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What is this "Deep Throat case"? I actually never heard about before (and DELOSFORD actually clean me of suspicion, it's not a trick).
Seems all the newbies definitely altered the debt:gdp ratio quite a bit. It jumped from ~30trillion to ~50trillion in a day. You'll see people trying to correct that now.
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Ok, just went on google, got the first screen recording software i could find, and recorded the game eating my messages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F43alIFnoNc
The front-end could easily be modified on your computer to do that. People routinely spread information about how to do things like that around the game. Oh, and they're all your friends that I also banned. I posted the code. Anyone can read it. That trumps your video in a lot of ways.
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What exactly about that screenshot proves your suspicions, then? You claim to be so good at debate but every time we ask for clarification or rebut one of your points all you do is dance around the issue, use ad hominems, or handwave the rebuttal away without addressing the issue at all.
No, I give you proof, you claim it isn't proof, everyone else accepts it as proof, and we all go on with our lives while you keep asking the same question over and over again in the comments as though the answer is somehow going to change. Again: common stalker tactic to try and make me look evasive when I'm actually just tired of answering the same fucking question over and over again while you pretend I never answered it.
I just showed you the code. That's not possible. Please point out the line on which it sets your message to a blank message. After noticing that there is no such line, you just might notice that the check for rejecting blank messages is on the very next line after your message is set to something non-blank. Which means your claim is logically impossible. Go away, stalker.
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President Gote Focker has vetoed an Expand Anti-Discrimination Programs bill that was introduced by Kingsaa. its official. the president is racist. if theres one thing we can rely on obama on its to not be racist!
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These assassins are crazy, a car bomb blows up then on the way to the hospital the ambulance blows up. Later i'm apparently having a speech in my hospital bed and an assassin somehow misses the shot.
And everybody always wonders why they don't just give themselves massive salaries... well, I guess the round of new players needed to learn that somehow.
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joining the socialist party and accusing opponents of being commies: pretty good. accepting a campaign contribution and accusing opponents of being corrupt: genius.
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I'm interested in knowing whether 'Almost Flawless Past' affects the ability of people to uncover scandals on said person with that trait.
Yeah. The way it works is that an investigation has to be of at least a certain roll to even have a chance of finding a scandal. The value of that cutoff point is higher when you investigate people with nearly flawless past.
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I looked in the store but I can't find xXxEXTENDERxXx TURBO EDITION anywhere. I saved up my $359,820,000 and I'm self-conscious about my little congressman. Wat do?
In recent news, congressperson Warhero was arrested on charges of corruption. Authorities are reportedly questioning how exactly he managed to get more than a quarter of a billion dollars spending only a scant few years in office. More details at 10.
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This game is like herding cats while fighting over the controls of a plane in a downward midair spiral. This can only end in a glorious trainwreck.
Thanks for saying so! I'm not sure why other developers wouldn't... I certainly don't think I know what everyone wants off the top of my head, and player feedback just helps me make the game better.
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I really wanted to play the worst politician ever, so I find it a little annoying that I can't just pick every single negative trait. Is there a reason for that?
haha... The game would be near impossible if you picked that many negative traits. Your stats would be super low to start and you'd have a hard time doing anything or gaining any clout. I tried to make it so all character creation options give you a viable character. Please don't let that stop you from playing the worst politician ever, though! Remember: stats aren't everything :P
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Am i missing something then? I haven't seen one person support the banning of furoa and it looked like the only evidence you had for dancraig being a stalker was his name.