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warhero2019303

Apr. 07, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) can you pretty please make the pie chart in 'world view' a circle? or make numbers? thanks, it's kinda hard to tell with the elliptical shape

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Developer response from delosford

It's not the elliptical shape. I assure you that any human brain will automatically compensate for that. Pie charts in general are not good for conveying specific information. It's there mostly to look pretty, and making it a circle makes it look like complete crap.

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 07, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Are you going to add the ability to scroll down in the personal offers page?

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Developer response from delosford

Not for everyone, no. There will be a paid option for this, all filters, sending longer messages, and some other stuff because storing tons and tons of long strings is bad for the DB. Things get kept a lot cleaner if not everyone can store infinite messages of a long length. I'm not really running GMail 2, here.

Rhysdog

Apr. 07, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) delos why do you have the assasin of kings achievement(means he killed a VIP) was it YOU who killed geofrey?!

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Developer response from delosford

Players are not VIPs.

Rhysdog

Apr. 07, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) is it possible to increase our relation from abysmal? if so how, and increasing tarrifs seems to decrease trade, resulting in pretty much the same amount of money...

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Developer response from delosford

See the comment below yours. And no, that's not how tariffs are designed.

lordvaros

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) How do you affect nations "Abysmal" international relations?

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Developer response from delosford

You can't yet. That will be a special option that I haven't added yet.

Top12Gun

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Would be helpful to have a section under "Bills" where you could see the ones you've acted on that are still open instead of having to do another search...

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Developer response from delosford

There used to be an option for this, but a bug in MySQL makes the performance of that filter abysmal. (Think the difference between .0002-.0004s for a typical query and 4.5s for a simple reference to your previous actions). For reasons of game performance for everyone, I can't have an option like that in the game.

brolly123

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) So what exactly is The Lobby? Does creating a character there delete your one here? Do actions taken in there affect game play in here?

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Developer response from delosford

The Lobby is a separate game, with tie-ins to clout. Creating a character does not delete your character here. You can affect the gameplay in Clout with some actions in The Lobby, but to do so you have to accrue and spend favors with NPC politicians, which is a time-consuming process. There are also direct player->player interactions such as PC lobbyists from The Lobby offering bribes to PC Congresspersons in Clout (obviously, these interactions are disabled between your own characters).

Daddysback

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Derp, comment got cut off. Anyway, so I heard that you wouldn't reset the game if the win bill passed or the country-crashers won. If nothing bad will hpapen, then why bother?

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Developer response from delosford

Considering up until yesterday there was a big news post about how the game would be reset if the win bill wasn't stopped... I'm not really sure where you're getting that idea from.

Daddysback

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) So I

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Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) I'm hurt :O I've never been comatosed from drugs!

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Developer response from delosford

Maybe not directly....

Top12Gun

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Can't find link to "The Lobby". Help?

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Developer response from delosford

http://kongregate.com/games/delosford/the-lobby_preview

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 06, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) My second coma :')

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Developer response from delosford

Well if you keep doing all those drugs it's not terribly surprising...

febmaster

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Will there be any way in the future to change your political party?

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Developer response from delosford

No. This would severely cheapen team gameplay in a lot of ways. If you're still CT1 and want to be part of a different party, just ask. I can alter your party, but players never will be able to.

henry700

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) I approve of the diversified endgame proposed by ironsmasher, and making it different for every win bill would be coolio. A small DOOM period before endgame is awesome on EVERY game. Also, another suggestion, records for things such as "longest filibuster" "most time alive and elected" "most bills passed on a single life" "most people murdered on a single life(counts only after character dies)"

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Developer response from delosford

There will be a period of warning before everything resets when/if it happens.

ironsmasher

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Instead of an instant reset if the win bill passes can all the players be randomly murdered over the course of a few days or a week.

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Developer response from delosford

If things are going to be reset, there will at the very least be a delay period for people to prepare for it.

henry700

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) "Have a feature/bug fix you’ve been waiting on for a long time and I said I’d get to? I probably forgot!" So did i =( BUT NEW SUGGESTIONS!! YEEEEY: -New Binary for green: Automobile Ban -Increase Electric Engine Subsidies -Decrease Electric Engine Subsidies

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Developer response from delosford

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

Daddysback

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Could you please put me on the lobby list?

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Developer response from delosford

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

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) :') My first Coma.

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Developer response from delosford

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

2years_too_young

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) If foreign relations bills are unaligned, then how am I acting outside my party's lines and losing support?

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Ashkah

Apr. 05, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Foreign Relations bills currently don't show up as Unaligned bills in the bill filter.

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Developer response from delosford

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

Rhysdog

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) @q, all this nuclear power and nowhere close enough to launch it...

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Developer response from delosford

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

Magistro

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) "The rate of regular energy regen is 1 energy/8 real-time minutes for all characters"....you mean to say that it takes normal people 40 minutes to catch their breath before they can say a simple sentence? o.O

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Developer response from delosford

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).

henry700

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) It means he was the first person to be assassinated. Q JUST GOT NINJA'D

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Developer response from delosford

i was kinda busy making another game

balony67

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) What is First Blood?

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Developer response from delosford

he got it right

SaladinSpartan

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) First they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak out for me. This quote from pastor Martin Niemöller demonstrates that fascism can creep up on us if we don't oppose bills like this one." I love that qoute :P

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Developer response from delosford

thanks for the feedback and support!

valkros

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Is there a problem with the clout bar cause I have earned at least 6000 clout and it says 4090

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) How does it work when Moses loses his speaker of the house? Does he immediately lose his seat or does he survive until next end-of-month?

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Developer response from delosford

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.

nick41

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) er,a admin*

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Developer response from delosford

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

nick41

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) some admin told me...well,made the conditions that i will only play on this account.

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Kwil

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) It doesn't seem possible to add a research committee to the Win bill. Is this intentional?

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Developer response from delosford

Yes

nick41

Apr. 04, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) so i cant make an player in FB and a player here?.

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Developer response from delosford

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

Rhysdog

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) we might wanna attack korea soon... before they attack us...

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Developer response from delosford

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

ironsmasher

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) binary idea: universal pre-k. Socialists and liberals would be for it. Conservatives, libertarians, and greens against.

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Awesomeiz

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) what does ascended mean?

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Developer response from delosford

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

Noly

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Ehh, it makes sense that we cannot increase aid to any countrys with abysmal relation, but tariffs...??

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Developer response from delosford

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.

lordvaros

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Any chance of an "Internation Relations" bill filter?

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Developer response from delosford

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

Tarikla

Apr. 03, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Q, i don't know if it's because i'm a liberal, but i can't seem to access to some country in FR. Iran, Colombia,Cuba,Nicaragua and North Korea. Is there some reasons for this ? I find it odd i can't even get access to the states of our Relationship with them.

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Developer response from delosford

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

Diolki80

Apr. 02, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I just went outside my party lines by opposing increasing foreign aid to Israel. My party is Socialist. Unless of course it's outside every party's line, what with the powerful lobby they have.

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Developer response from delosford

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

nick41

Apr. 02, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) rUMORS A Spider strikes you when you run out of energy...

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Developer response from delosford

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

ironsmasher

Apr. 02, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) america technically annexed all of their territories outside of the 13 original colonies including alaska, hawaii, guam, virgin islands, philipenes, and they also tried (and failed) to annex cuba, the dominican republic and probably some others I'm forgetting.

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 02, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) If the game restarts, do I lose my custom item?

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Enfold

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) What does this '[H]' next to my bill's progress bar mean?

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Developer response from delosford

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

ironsmasher

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) will it be possible to annex territory either through war or the purchase of land?

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Developer response from delosford

This hasn't really happened historically, so no.

martei

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) so, if the game resets we all lose everything? Because it might be nice to let the winning party keep their stuff (and I'm TOTALLY not asking because I'm a green party member).

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Developer response from delosford

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

miiia01

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) can you remove a poison pill by playing something against it?I mean...is there something to play against it?

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Developer response from delosford

Conference committee can remove poison pill.

ras1982

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) really appreciate the quick responses but I think you still clearly not understand my problem. I know where is the link and how should I use it. The only prolem is that I do not have the link right now, and do not have any access to it, because it is inside the game, but as I am not re-elected, I can not access any Clout stuff, because I am stuck at the choice screen with Retire/Lobbyist/Re-election, where the last is inactive. So I all know about what to do, but I do not have access to the link itself at the moment, and that is my problem. I hope this is clearly specifies my problem. And big thanks for the effort put in from your side, not only to the game but to all the user ideas/problems and so on.

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Developer response from delosford

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.

ras1982

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Yeah I know where the link is, the problem is, that I can not access it, as I am showed the "You lost" screen with the three choices, when I clikck on the Lobbyist, I get back to the Kong main page.

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Developer response from delosford

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.

balony67

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Realistily if you introduced a win condition bill wouldn't you lose ALOT of Voter support cause lets face it I wouldn't vote for a congressman who wanted to Legalize Homicide

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Developer response from delosford

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.

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) What does slimed mean in the hall of shame?

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Developer response from delosford

special event surrounding a couple people asking to be killed off

Gear_Of_Road

Apr. 01, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Hey got reelected cause he won speaker of the house

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Developer response from delosford

this is correct

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