Comments for Clout: The Game

This is not correct. Any bill that could potentially run afoul of the constitution is subject to a constitutional challenge.

Never strong/weak, does high random damage that can be negative.

Two of those are already planned.

That bill is pretty old and I probably need to go back and update it to take into account new abilities and such.

It doesn't reduce taxes. In fact, an ability text of that ability references exactly why it doesn't apply in that situation.

this is correct. sort of. Think tank alters how rational debate works on the think tanked bill.

The scepter is a lavish display of wealth and makes people dislike you. The trendy smartphone decreases it as it's something trendy (ie purchased for reasons other than its merits). That's the theme of that line of T3 gear.

Sure they do. It's just the least common result.

If you go to start the mission you'll get a screen that explains what it does, how much it costs (and it'll let you cancel out).

No. You get a vague indicator of it with the line in your character pane (top left)

NO WINNING EVERYBODY LOSES

That feature isn't enabled yet. You're merely seeing a preview of the interface.

Hm... I have noticed this bug, but I think it's happened even when there was only one challenge in the day. I'll be looking into it after I finish most of FR (possibly today!)

Looks like somebody's not quite as spry as they used to be!

yes, though it'll be done soon (couple days).

Legalizing homicide is exactly what you describe. It doesn't encourage homicide. (also, I've actually gotten a lot of gleeful comments from green party members about that bill. I know more than a few of those types IRL and they do actually hate humanity/think we should all die. It's an oddly common opinion amongst them.)

wom wom wom

Only the background trait "skeletons in your closet" can result in prison. Most scandals are indirect/suggestive enough that their discovery isn't really sufficient for a criminal case (or it's about something that congresspersons have immunity for).

Yes. Each scandal has an individual chance of discovery, which is checked against when your investigation roll is sufficiently high.

Seems a bit complicated. Also, generally speaking, reinforcing desirable behavior works better than trying to discourage undesirable behavior.

dirty lies

Sometimes people don't like what you do as a congressperson (though, that message is just a random event).

It has no special function like that.

It's never strong/weak, costs more energy than a normal ability and does a highly random (and potentially large) amount of damage that can be negative. The ability texts are mostly gibberish/random political gaffes.

It's almost like the green party is trying to kill us all...

Yes.

I DONT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS

I will be making it so you have to nominate yourself in order to be electable. For technical reasons this is much easier to do right after I run the elections.

um... it's been 2000/box since I introduced the feature prior to the game even being on Kongregate.... I think you may be misremembering or perhaps experienced some kind of bug.

Drugs make your head explode and fund the cartels and terrorists. DARE told me so.

Thanks for the feedback and support!

If you die/get unelected, the piece of equipment you're wearing in that slot will be moved to your deposit box when you die. Primarily this was introduced for people with custom items, so they could wear them but still save them if they were to unexpectedly die.

I STOLE THE LAUGHTER

Clout Tier 2. You are also protected from skullduggery until you reach CT2, which is why it's locked out until that time.

Did someone get assassinated recently? I must've missed it in the paper.

Good question. I'll look into it.

Thanks for the feedback and support!

I can't remember exactly how I limited it, but the inductor may need to be CT3 for a CC... though I thought that only applied to PP. I can't really remember how I set it.

Not quite as high as I expected upon looking, but it's well over 100.

Yes. Your energy is always displayed in the top bar, and playing abilities costs energy.

Hm... I'll look into it, though there may be unrelated reasons why you can't CC those bills (inductor CT too low, oversight committee, etc).

Thanks for the feedback and support! And sorry I guess :P

ah man. and here I was rushing to see who died this time. LIES DIRTY LIES

Thanks for the feedback and support!

This game is about the United States Congress, where the majority of members identify as religious, and many as devoutly religious. The more devoutly religious are not shy about stating that they make policy decisions based on their religion.

As a joke. Originally it was a far different set of characters that had more to do with the political aspects of the show... but they all got assassinated.

Your bill did actually fail, but I brought it back to life as it got put low due to a now-fixed bug with research committee.

If I did that, the amount salaries moved with the passage of the bill would have to go down as the effective increase would be higher across the whole game (and kind of difficult to compute/control).

That was for The Lobby if I'm correctly assuming which changes you read.