Comments for Clout: The Game

...Japan isn't allowed to have a military, just so you know. They've been a protectorate of the US since the end of WWII. Israel has an incredibly strong military that is directly supplied by the US. Not only do they have the latest technology, but they mandate service in the armed forces for all their citizens. Israel is extremely well-defended, which is the only reason it continues to exist. Central Africa's rating, however, is just a bit of a joke.

You get the money for passing contributions at end of day when the bill goes into effect. This is stated in a couple places in-game.

This is a common request, but any non-scandalous option for stress reduction or energy gain would make cash way too powerful and destroy game balance.

The system will stop you from doing that. Break association is just new and I forgot to make it take people out of cronies. Didn't really figure anyone would be breaking with their cronies.

Hm... they're probably going off your IP or something like that. It can be used to get a rough idea of someone's physical location (or the physical location of their proxy server).

Dyes carry through automatically without needing to be stored because they don't actually affect gameplay. Once you buy one, you have it forever. Custom items need to be stored/tagged to deposit boxes.

That's not a player name, but it does identify a player somehow. All of Deep Throat's messages are somewhat cryptic. Ask around and you can probably get somebody to tell you what that kind of message means exactly.

Funny story: I didn't even know LCS existed until a Kongregate user mentioned it in the comments a few months back.

Poison Pill persists unless removed by a conference committee. Though, I will note that how poison pill works is likely to change quite a bit in the not too distant near future.

I have plans to add a global option to hide all your posts from other users that you specify. People have requested this to reduce the "spies" in the team/party posts.

Why would you care about a player that does nothing, though? Aside from that, I may add links to people's names in the posts. Problem is that it breaks from the trend of linking uncolored names. So I'll have to think of some way around that.

25% per day, less 1% per active bill that you have in Congress.

Unlike kongregate friends, in-game associate requests must be approved before they activate.

You can click people's names in most places you see them in white and get to the look screen. It's missing in a couple places that will eventually be added.

Thanks for the feedback and support! Some browsers have some display issues with buttons when they're tightly-packed alongside other controls. I've tried to get this worked out as best I can, but some people are still having issues. If you could send me your browser/OS version as well as a screenshot of exactly what you're seeing it'll help me figure out what's going on.

Good to know!

A non-scandalous way to regen stress/energy would make cash the most powerful asset in the game by far. That's not a situation I want to create.

I was worried that the permadeath thing might drive people away once it happened, but that doesn't actually seem to happen much at all.

Send me a screenshot with your OS/browser version.

I'll add a way to remove associates. Been meaning to do that for a while.

It's actually the opposite. He chose a more complicated coverup that skips over weak scandals.

It was successful. You simply had no scandals which that coverup affected. Intricate scandal coverup ignores minor scandals. I'll probably be changing it so that it will roll over to minor scandals if you're out of worse ones as you're the third person that's done this recently.

There have been various suggestions to add spiders to the game based on that... but they all seem like they'd just end up pissing people off more than anything.

lip-service christian, like most IRL congresspersons in the US.

Of cooouurrse not

The bills that each party has access to are set. The teams are grouped by which parties share more bills. A system like you describe would be severely unlikely to result in a situation any different than the current one.

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You can always be cronies/associates with members of any party and contact them directly. I lumped the teams together just based on who has more shared bills. Realistically you should probably use private communications of some sort for anything important, as anything posted on either team chat tends to get around to everyone.

Ummm... no? The VIPs affect bills in various ways. The alignment of the supreme court and attorney general affects legal challenges. The alignment of the president affects what gets vetoed. The alignment of the secretaries of state/defense will affect foreign relations. By assassinating VIPs, you change the outcome of all these events.

Wrong Q. Think TNG.

You can store/tag custom items to deposit boxes.

Considering how hard he's fought to stay alive, I doubt that's his plan.

Extremely unlikely if you're playing actively. Though, if you've stacked your scandals full of them I guess they could add up. I should probably make it so certain scandals can't drop you below a certain point. I need to retool investigations and scandals a bit for balance, and will be doing so soon.

Well, that's good to hear.

I don't see that adding this would add anything meaningful to gameplay, and it would require tracking something that the game doesn't currently track.

I don't write browsers, so there's not much I can do about this.

Probably, yeah.

Um... it kills the person you target, or it fails and doesn't.

You didn't play any abilities on your bill. If you don't and the bill passes anyway, you don't gain clout. This is stated in a couple places in-game.

Then you're likely just remembering incorrectly. Nothing in-game changes your stats, and even if I were to change an item it wouldn't automatically change the stats of those wearing the item (which is why I tend to not modify them).

Thanks for the feedback and support!

Probably drug withdrawals. I haven't changed stats on anything lately.

ideas are always welcome.

I may add bills that are specific to background traits in the future, but a new party like this will not be added.

I don't have any idea how to make videos, so I can't really do this.

Some negative traits do give you something special. Atheist isn't one of them.

I agree that it's a bit easy to get away with highly scandalous stuff at the moment, especially with how coverups work. I've got a few ideas on how to address this, though the police launching an independent investigation is a pretty good idea. I'll probably work that in to what I'm doing.

They might not both fit, but I do need to add 1 or two more to make it fit evenly on the page.

Frankly I've felt that we should have "freed" North Korea IRL a while ago. The people in that country are being forced to live an insanely backwards and terrible life.