Title font? Are you using IE? It displays the fonts with bizarre amounts of AA, and it also does other non-standard display things that make the game look a bit odd. IE is non-standards-compliant, so there's not a whole lot I can do about this.
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woah penalized for acting outside for party lines? lol ok. Don't know who would be for abolishing minimum wage anyway
Maximum Wage, not minimum. It was established in-game a while back by the socialist party. And yes, you will lose constituent support for acting outside of party lines. For doing it occasionally, the loss is meaningless... but it effectively makes it so that it's in your best interest to usually debate in alignment with your party.
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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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I rather do hope they reform the voting stuff since it's the only way your game ended up with more than 2.5 for a score xD
Um... dude, I have proof that you and benodoc are the same person in my DB. I sent that info with your IP address to Kongregate support. I'm pretty sure they'll be banning all your accounts for breaking the TOS. I'd appreciate it if you stopped trying to disrupt my game out of jealousy of its success and the mountains of positive comments that people leave :)
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That's mean, I used all the accounts to 5/5 your game (Thus raising it from 1.8 to 3.2) and downvote all the haters calling it pay to win. Jerk!
Actually you're using multiple accounts to downrate all helpful comments and downrate the game, which is pretty obvious as the game's rating goes up quite steadily until you trolls come back around. I've reported you to Kongregate support for this with IP information and screenshots of your admission of guilt. Thanks!
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Why are you guys calling this game Pay to win? I just made 30 accounts and now I dominate all those tools who poured a hundred dollars into the game. Lol
Well, it's actually impossible to spend $100 on the game... and you definitely didn't make 30 accounts. You made 2, and I just banned them both, as multiboxing is against the rules. Enjoy! :)
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So far, seems like an intriguing game. It's nice to not have to grind incessantly to make progress. Only thing I've noticed so far for features is that it'd be nice to have a "back" button in certain areas. For example, when in the debate screen of a bill, if you go to analyze a different player's stats, there is no quick way to close the screen and get back to the bill. You have to go back to the bills list and find the correct bill again. Repeat multiple times if you want to look at multiple player's stats.
Thanks for the feedback and support! Hitting back in your browser should send you back a page in the game. I've made sure that the game is capable of handling this properly. Some browsers won't really do this by default with how the game is framed within Kongregate, but you should be able to right click on the game and find some sort of "this frame->back" option. Let me know if you have any problems with this feature!
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Okay I really get only two times to use a computer and those times I have work to do. I think if you could you should try to make a mobile for the kongregate arcade. I think I'm not alone in having more opportunities to play it on my droid than on my PC. Just sayin'.
Thanks for the feedback! Looks like i'll have to step up the timetable for the mobile version. I'm getting a ton of requests for it lately. Also, it's kind of a roundabout and crappy solution, but if you go to the kong main site on mobile and scroll all the way to the bottom you can get the normal Kong site and play the game via your phone. Of course the interface isn't exactly optimized for that screen size, so it's not the easiest way to play. As I said, mobile version in the works. Sorry for the delay.
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you may want to add some basic animation like a senate room and an avater dressed with your clothes. just my 2 cents. great game.
Oh, the country is pretty solidly in debt. I changed the number to just be red and not negative since some people were saying that it being negative was a double negative and confusing. However, about 10x as many people seem confused by the change... so I'm changing it back.
Ask to be reset in Cronies & Associates->General Chat. Allowing characters the ability to delete themselves could open the door for a lot of exploits, and this is an infrequent request. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Wow,things are looking good in virtual America...
People are growing limbs if they go to a Hospital,
95,5% of them are not pissed
and everything is growing...EVERYTHING!!!
Let's f*ck it up,shall we?
Haha... on top of that, people have been pointing out that the in-game debt is significantly better than the real-world debt. I originally pulled all nation stats from the CIA world factbook a couple years back... so we're obviously nowhere near corrupt enough yet!
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"This game is not Pay-To-Win. It's more like Pay-If-You're-Impatient-Or-****-Up-And-Need-To-Fix-It-Before-You-Get-Unelected." Best. Quote. Ever.
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Cool game, but it would be great if negative energy would regenerate bit faster as it's boring to wait (I think) 5 minutes for 1 energy to regenerate until I can play again. Other than that, good concept and well made ;)
Thanks for the feedback and support! You definitely aren't the only one that thinks so, and I previously increased the energy regen rate by 20% based on player feedback like yours on Kongregate. However, it would significantly alter the game if I sped it up even more. If you want to read the long-winded explanation as to why, check the FAQ in-game (under Help). Ideally you just only pass out once when you're a newbie, and that's designed to hopefully get people to read the help files as the game is pretty complex and you'll be at a disadvantage if you don't :)
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you passed out. Or fainted. Pansy.
Really, I can't tell if you ended up this way from drugs, an overzealous day on the floor, or the sight of a particularly large spider... but it doesn't matter much; You'll just need some time to sleep it off.
It was t-t-t-the sp-p-p-ider.......
Stress reduces at the end of the day by 25%-1% for every active bill you have going at the time (to discourage spamming bills). You can also use various drugs to reduce it at the cost of energy.
In order to pay down the national debt, the government has to free up actual money. This means cutting spending. In game terms, this means the bill slightly reduces all other positive aspects of the nation (GDP Growth, Public Health, etc) in order to also reduce the debt by a sizable amount. Why these people might be opposing your bill in particular I'm not sure, but the GDP growth and population growth rates are currently pretty low, so that may have something to do with it. Some players also revel in being corrupt and trying to "break" the nation.
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This game seems interesting, but I made a few mistakes early on, in not trying to pass my own bills. But I'll wait it out and hopefully get some more clout soon. I do have one question: If I debate against a bill that is not from my party, will my CSP go down necessarily?
Thanks for the feedback! Debating against bills that are not aligned with your party is an intended feature of the game and will not cause CSP loss. You can gain clout from both supporting allied bills and opposing enemy bills (as long as the bill passes/fails, respectively). Keep in mind that anything you can introduce you should support, not just bills from your own party.
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Is there anyway you can give us a rundown of how items we buy will effect us? I have, on 3 occasions now, knocked myself out experimenting with the different items of the stores. Also is there anyplace that give a detailed explaination on attributes and the use of abilities? I have been enjoying the game from early on, but I think expanding the help section or making it a little more explained could help a lot. I thought it was intentional at first, but we don't get paid frequently enough and energy regenerates too slowly to be able to really explore and experiment with these sorts of things.
You're right that I need to add a detailed explanation for each stat in the help. I keep forgetting that one. I figured the drugs would be intuitive based on their real-life counterpart. You can wikipedia anything on that list and read more about it. Stimulants give energy, depressants take it. Depressants also remove stress, and stimulants usually cause some. Most abilities can't be explained concisely as you're just supposed to use them when they make sense for your position on a bill. If I were to simply list out what ability was good against what bill, not only would it be a massive mess of text that would be hard to glean anything useful from, but I think it would trivialize the game as each bill tends to have a couple obvious strong abilities and a couple less obvious ones that require knowing something about history/politics/etc.
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I not enter the debate "pay to win" but I find annoying to wait so long to play again. Maybe you can consider increasing the energy depending on the level of the player. Otherwise interesting concept, but for me it lacks clarity (for example, the cost of shares, bonus objects, abilities too) do not want to take the time to look. For now my rating is 2/5 because just that lack of fun! But continue it could become interesting;-p
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry to hear the game isn't really your cup of tea. I did increase energy regen already by 20% based on player feedback such as yours, but I can't really increase it any more without compromising how the game is played and possibly alienating my existing userbase. While I imagine many people do find the opacity of the game mechanics frustrating, it was an intentional move by me to encourage play based on personal preference and some level of roleplaying as opposed to everyone just trying to build the statistically "best" character. Sorry again to hear that you find these features offputting.
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Oh and anyone who says it's a ripoff of LCS: Dude, you're a dumbass. LCS is an RPG of sorts and involves going around massacring radio personalities and using bad pick up lines. Other than the writing style and involvement of politics, this is nothing like it.
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I did actually play the game if you bothered looking :P. I even used up all my energy before I got bored. But hey, if it helps you sleep at night
So you haven't played Liberal Crime Squad, then? Or Mafia Wars? Because my game isn't really close to either in any way. Also how can it be a copy of Mafia Wars AND LCS, by the way? Surely you agree those are completely separate games with basically no similarities whatsoever. Well, I guess they both have guns. That's something, right?
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I love text based games, and this game in my opinion is in the top ten that I have ever played. But just because I'm saying this doesn't mean that their is nothing wrong with this game, in fact their are quite a few things I think is wrong with the game. To name a few; having to scroll up and down all the freaking time kills me, and having to wait eight minuets for one energy is also terrible. Sure the game has some letdowns, but don't all. And compared to some games this is heaven. I like this game a lot, and want to thank you for taking the time and putting in the effort to make something for others to enjoy. I know I have.
Thanks very much for the highly positive feedback and suggestions! I apologize for you having to scroll the page a lot. The game was originally built on facebook back when there were no options for game page size. As such, the game has always been this resolution which turned out to be unfortunate for users with smaller monitors. I will be building a tablet version at some point that has a smaller res. The energy regen rate is slow for a variety of reasons such as balancing casual against active players and creating much greater opportunity for player-player interactions. I actually sped the rate up by 20% due to feedback from Kongregate players, but shifting it any more would significantly alter the game. I'm glad that you've been able to enjoy the game despite the flawed or disliked features.
Why yes, I'm so greedy that I limit people to buying a paltry amount of stuff on a monthly basis. And none of the top players have bought anything that affects gameplay, by the way, so I'm not really sure how the game is pay to win.
No... just the people who rate the game 1 without ever playing it (doubly so for the alt downvoters). Feel free to rate it whatever you feel is appropriate if you've actually played the game. I'm sure many people will completely hate it. Such is life.
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The only self-righteous person here is you, deslosford.
Regarding rating fraud, you apparently have no clue what that is.
I can rate the game 1/5 for whatever reason I have in mind, it's not your business. I decide how I rate, and noone else. Show me any rules about rating in the Kongregate ToS. Fraud would be if I use a dozen alts to downrate your "game".
Furthermore, I find it quite amusing that you think your butthurt insults would help your case any. Maybe you'll recognize that it did the opposite when your game rating falls below 2.5.
Sorry chumpski, but rating a game 1 without playing it is fraud. You might be allowed to do it, but it's a fraudulent and illegitimate rating. I'm sure you'll also be happy to know that the troll posting users you're defending DID actually commit your version of rating fraud with multiple alt accounts. They're using alt accounts and bandwagoning to uprate comments that have nothing to do with the game and fraudulently decrease the rating of the game while downvoting comments that are helpful to new players.
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Was going to try the game, but after reading how you rage at some users for them posting their opinion, I rather rate it 1/5 and leave. Learn to respect others and their opinions.
Claiming that my game is P2W and a copy of liberal crime squad are not "opinions". They're just troll posts that are factually inaccurate and made by people who haven't played the game and came here as part of a forum invasion to commit rating fraud. If you look through the comments for legitimate opinions from actual users, you'll find my responses are quite different. But then of course you didn't play the game or bother to read anything either and you're the same kind of sadsack troll they are. Maybe try using your time for something productive next time instead of pathetic bandwagoning. It's really funny to me that you can try to be self-righteous while committing rating fraud on a game you haven't played. Good job being clueless and contributing to the problem.
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Keep up the good work, this is one of the few non-pay to win MMOs and therefore deserves my support! Do cigars and booze do anything good? I just knocked myself out with booze.
Thanks for the support! Cigars and booze both reduce stress at the cost of energy. Any drugs that take energy from you can make you go negative and pass out. Don't worry about trying to reduce stress with drugs unless your stress is well over 25%, as you regenerate 25% stress per day, minus 1% for every active bill in Congress.
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I came by to give your game a 1/5. Not because it's 'pay to win' (which you openly admitted to in the forums ironically enough), but because it's just a shameless energy based rip of liberal crime squad and the 10,000 mafia war games already around. But mostly because you have the audacity to make yourself out as the victim here...otherwise it probably would have been a 2-3/5.
You're joking, right? Liberal Crime Squad's gameplay is nothing like this. I've been working on this game for a couple years and didn't even hear about LCS until someone mentioned it in a comment. You play a congressperson in LCS? Oh, no? You don't? Yeah, you play a GROUP of random citizens who goes around a city killing people. With a political theme. It's pretty damn dissimilar from my game. Of course you didn't actually play my game at all so you wouldn't know that, now would you? Congrats on being wrong about this being pay2win as well. I thoroughly proved it wasn't and people like you are so clueless you don't even understand what p2w means in the first place. Sorry chump. Go commit rating fraud some more and pretend you're the good guy.
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The tutorial system needs a lot of work. I'm all for tutorials being out of your face, but you need enough to get the ball rolling.
Is there any specific part of the tutorial that you felt was unclear or unhelpful? I'd like to address your concerns in order to retain more new players, but I'm not sure I understand them specifically enough to do so. I guess you can't respond to these comments, but shoot me off a PM or something with your specific concerns if you would please.
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Delosford, i would like to express my support for you and your game. Despite the ignorant sabotage of your work i hope you know that you are not short of supporters, including me, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the support. It's always helpful. Truly unfortunate that some subsets of the kongregate community engage in this sort of behavior. It only hurts the site as a whole, which I really like as a concept.
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@developer. This definitely is pay to win. While 5k Clout might not be much for high level players, early game that is a huge amount. Pay to win. If you buy it early game (which is your goal, of course) gives you a high amount of Clout, and if that's not an advantage, you tell me what is. Oh and having been on facebook doesn't mean anything, all these facebook games want you to pay just as well.
Oh, so you're aware of the fact that buying a large amount of Clout will advance you to CT2 and reduce your ability strength against CT1 players? And it actually puts you at the bottom of CT2 compared to the upper bound of 30kClout, so it's really more like pay-to-lose until you gain more clout normally? Oh, you weren't aware of that and judged a game without ever playing it for more than 5 minutes, reading the help files or knowing anything about it? Thanks for proving my point. Also I mentioned the tenure of the game on facebook because the last complainer erroneously assumed the Top 20 had all bought massive amounts of Clout (nobody on the top 20 has bought any clout. A couple have bought unusued safe deposit boxes.) So if my game is pay to win... why are none of the winners paying?
Unfortunately something like that isn't an easy change. Most pages in the game have pixel-specific layouts for cross-browser compatibility. So I'd have to change just about every page layout to do this. Sorry. The closest thing to that which I'll be doing is creating a version for mobile browsers. I will post an announcement when I'm finished making that, but it won't be for a few weeks at least most likely.
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Hey there, Mr. Developer! I was wondering if you'd like to read an advance copy of my upcoming novel. The first chapter is 300 pages long, written during a period of brief insanity, and I changed every third letter to that symbol Prince used during the editing process. I believe this will encourage people to skip straight to chapter 2, which is more interesting (it is also read-to-win)! Thanks for your attention!
Hey there, terrible troll! I'm not sure what kind of mental deficiency made you think that your analogy was good, apt or funny... but I regret to inform you that it wasn't. I also can't help but notice you don't have a little D next to your name, and I have a completely unique game based on politics that generates actual money from people who play it. I might have slightly more of an idea what I'm doing than a troll who hasn't even played the game. Enjoy your report for spam!