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.
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is blackmail scandalous? if so doesn't that mean you could blackmail someone for blackmailing someone?... for blackmailing someone.
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For the Speaker of the House, are you going to implement a system where instead of all CT4 party members are up election, each party will elect 2-3 of their own CT4 players? This could say run in the Party Chat and last 1 week those with the most votes could then advance into the actual Speaker of the House elections. This would help cut down on those thinning votes from there being too many people to nominate.
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.
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"Some paparazzi got pictures of you smoking a cigar, and now it's in headlines due to the general anti-tobacco sentiment of the nation." Good think I wasn't drinking liquor or there could've been a riot outside my house.
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.
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Amazing Game. If you are a fan of satire, politics, Those Facebook Mafia games or even just old school Text Based RPGs this is the game for you. Delosford did a great job and he's great at Bug Reports too. 5/5.
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oh. I didn't know there was a limit on the clout tier of the founder of a bill to play a CC on it. it does work on a CT 4 introduced bill, and I think I was trying to play it on a CT 2 bill.
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.
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i think the conference comittee cooldown might be broken. I played two (on two speperate bills) 2 days ago. Now I can't play a conference comittee on any bill.
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This is actually a pretty addicting game T.T I commend all the effort that has been put into it. I further compliment how active the developer and supporting cast members have been. My biggest complaint is....why do I get addicted so easily XD. Great game though!
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I'm not one for religion I am an atheist but the majority of the world is not crushing it is boutist and to you people from the USA look it up. also why dus religon deal with polotics. (srry my spelling is horaboul)
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.
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Just out of interest why did you put battlestar Galactica characters as Secretary of State, President, Vice-President and Secretary of Defense??
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.
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The research comittee seems to have a bug. I got the message that the commiteed bill failed to pass despite of the bill being active!
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Also, it would be awesome if there was an inflation dynamic in the game. When salaries go up, campaign contributions and management should yield higher rewards.
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).
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I read the proposed changes list and you are absolutely right. This game definitely needs Cthulhu. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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Sorry for the double post. Error message (minus my session key):
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Session key authentication failure
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@penguinkirby You can increase you protection level by acting to pass the Congressional Security Binary or the Martial Law Binary. You can also increase it by getting assassinated or assaulted.
There's no way to just increase your own protection level. As lynx correctly stated, you can only increase the base level for everyone by passing the Declare Martial Law or Enact Congressional Security bills. If you aren't low on health from repeatedly overdosing, you don't really have much to fear from a single assassination unless it gets a very lucky roll.
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You could call the debt 'deficit' to remove the negative sign. Not sure if it would help ppl understand the value easier.
Public Debt and the National Deficit are two different (but related) things... so I think that would cause even more confusion. Debt is generally notated with a negative sign on financial statements, so I'll leave it how it is. It's mostly just people's confusion at it not being red but being negative. Which is what I wanted people to see... but they didn't exactly interpret it how I wanted them to.
It's the effect caused by budget accounting committee. Once a bill that's had that ability used on it (shown by the [A] tag) passes, it is delayed from affecting the nation as a bill normally would at the end of the day after it passes. Once the budget delay ends, the affected bill will go into effect.
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Bug: the poison pill affects bills in budget delay. Not that I wouldn´t like it this time... but it shouldn´t happen, because the bill already passed.
It was changed to alleviate confusion when speaking of the conditions under which debt is bad enough to factor into the weekly check for congress-wide CSP loss. I would always be telling people "well, when a stat is in the red, except debt which will be counted when it's 2:1 or worse with gdp, etc... and then decided it would be easier if I just made the non-standard stats go red when they're bad enough to cause a problem. Hence the white (but still negative) debt.
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So, for making it more difficult to get high exponentials on bills, maybe the support granted by a passed committee could multiply as well? +10%, +20%, +40%? That would have the effect of capping multipliers at 32x, and you could only get that through great expenditure of effort.
Not a bad idea. I think the CC cooldown will definitely introduce some sanity to the process, but if it's still not enough I will probably do something like you suggested. It makes sense that repeated conferencing would increase support exponentially.
It's hard to say, but I hope to have it done within a week. I will likely be changing some things to affect national defense/foreign relations today (ie increase/decrease defense spending and other extant bills).
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When hovering over traits in viewing a character, can you make a pop-up box show what the traits stand for (similarly to when hovering over equipment)?
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Can you make it so public appearances (which cost 50 energy) give more than just 15-20 clout? How about 150-200? That's still not even that much, but it's something to get back off the ground with in case someone loses all the clout that's had from an accident... say... buying an ability too fast or having a bill failed.
Couple things: the amount of clout a public appearance gives varies by the type. Political rallies pay less and give more clout. Corporate fundraisers (you may not see these) pay the best, but give little/no csp/clout. Other thing: you don't need to introduce your own bills to gain clout. Acting on the bills of others and being on the winning side earns a lot of clout as well. Depending on your stats, this can actually be better for gaining clout than passing your own bills.
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I gotta' honestly say, this is one of the most underrated games on here! Almost daily updates make this a unique game, with a very caring and efficient developer. Kudos to you, Delosford!!
Thanks for the feedback and support! The game's rating was actually dragged down a while back by trolls that are against all games with any sort of micropurchase system. It's been steadily going back up since, and we're about to hit "top rated" at 3.5 stars. I have little doubt it will continue up from there thanks to input from players like you and the impending release of The Lobby.