Comments for Clout: The Game

The US no longer annexes territory at the conclusion of wars, so no. I don't even think we do the protectorate thing like we did with Japan anymore.

I haven't really implemented rewards for winning one. It's kind of the assumption that the US will generally win, which means you should go to war mostly for the purpose of changing the government of the target country to one more friendly to us. It'll also generally improve their nation stats and relations with us such that trade will occur (which indirectly improves the nation).

Declaring war isn't really supposed to be a positive thing...

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I think I designed it with the rationale that most aligned bills only loosely apply to your party, so your constituents might care if you're getting paid for it... whereas they wouldn't necessarily care otherwise. If you're getting paid for an in-party bill they of course don't care since your motives don't seem at all spurious.

If I recall, I purposefully made it so you'll lose CSP for contributions from non-party bills. It may be somewhat less restrictive than that, but I can't remember. I'll check into it to make sure.

It doesn't take the clout back or anything... it just won't apply to the nation. Additionally, if you override a veto you'll gain clout again.

I did just realize it might be a good idea to put people in the hospital after an assassination attempt and make it so you have to leave manually (even after waking from a coma).

You automatically gain health over time. You gain more if you're in the hospital.

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Who needs the ballot when you've got the bullet?

seems not

No... it means they reward clout like a normal bill if they have minimal/no opposition.

As you may have noticed, binary bills award much more clout for being passed/acted upon.

I suppose I hadn't considered anyone would really care to use that particular name.

You both hit the page while I was changing some stuff. It works fine now.

If you're referring to the change I made, even without it you'd be far from guaranteed a relic. Most of the time even a relatively high chance at one is around 20-40%, and that's assuming you have no relics currently. But realistically, you should blame the people who have been gaming the system so long that I had to make the change.

I made it so you can do that sometime last week.

That is accurate, there is nothing wrong, and it's actually something I had to specifically code, not a value error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(calculus)

With the game? Not really. Jenkins and Obvious are the only people who have any sort of admin ability aside from myself.

The game is mostly exempt from copyright on that topic due to a couple things: first and foremost, the game is satire. That alone is a valid defense against copyright claims. Second: copyright rarely applies to something like a fictional name. It DOES apply to something like a character which LOOKS like superman, though. That's why City of Heroes had issues and had to restrict people from creating likenesses of popular superheros (also consider that City of Heroes is not satire -- you're playing a superhero in as realistic of a way as possible). Finally, since they're now player submissions it gets a lot more difficult to claim I'm trying to do it to make money off of their success.

That seems a bit too nonspecific for me to address properly.

presently, no... though I guess war should probably decrease all relations to some extent.

lol... I was already aware. I really should do more from the napoleonic era.

i used up my joke quota for the week on The Lobby D:

Only Qs and the Speaker of the House can sticky to global.

nope.

Attacks ads are better when your support is fairly high.

Everywhere you go: there you are.

Binaries never go under 0%. They simply approach 0 from the right.

nope

isn't that inherently obvious from the fact that it's a timestamp and you can see the time in the header?

Most traits in the game represent something permanent/something about your character's past. They aren't something that's just going to change over time.

Neither of these things is true.

Are you calling the supreme court a partisan entity? My word.

I dunno. Drugs have enough drawbacks that their non-use confers some significant advantages. As for the trait, adding traits at this point would be a bad idea for a variety of reasons.

SCOTUS is a commonly-used acronym for The Supreme Court Of The United States.

There actually isn't any record of this in the scandal DB.

3 days? Or maybe I changed it to 5. Can't remember. I'll add it to the help when I finish some things and do that (within a couple days. RL has been retarded lately).

This would make money too good. Nobody is supposed to be perpetually invincible. The only way I would add an option for this is if it were somehow scandalous as well.

I forsee a lot of people dying in the future.

Well, that was mostly my rationale for the choice :P

Can you actually afford it?

no

probably double clicked the button. To the server, this looks no different than POST hacking.

He also runs a free boarding school.

Because real politicians can't, either.

The tiers end at 5000, 30000 and 100000... so you should be able to infer it from that and the bar, roughly.

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