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.
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there should be a limit to being able to get addicted. e.g. you must take a minimum of 6 doses of freebase cocaine or 3 doses of regular cocaine.
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).
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Have you decreased some item power? My Speaking Ability and Charisma seem to have both been lowered by 1. (And possibly all my stats? But I am sure my SA and Char are 1 lower.)
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Me and henry700 came up with an idea to make a christian party. Here are the rules and stuff.
1.People with aitheist trait cannot join or they will get a penalty.
2.There win bill is either Outlaw all religions(except christianity). so they want to make a 100% christian country.
Bills:
Increase Church Tax Exemption
Increase church funding
Expand church powers
Fund priest recruitment(needs better wording)
Binaries:
1.Outlaw aeitheism
2. 100% tax exemption
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There should also be more extrasfor some of the "negative" traits. For instance Atheist could boost Rational Debate strength, or something. I feel my character is so empty while other people are buying colts and using Military Service Experience on bills and i'm here proclaiming economic benefits. It's like my character being Atheist has no effect other than a medium Charisma drop. Even if it's some kind of weird negative/neutral/small positive effect i feel it and some other negative traits need something.
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Q, i think some events, mostly assassinations, should have more impact. Like for instance, When the president or a high-tier Congressman is assassinated, a police investigation is launched and there's a chance the assassination is discovered, and that chance increases with time and is run at the nightly reset. The only way to clear it out is to do a Intricate Scandal Coverup. Also we should be able to investigate without a target in some circunstances, even if that means lower chances. For instance: Victim: Geofrey Jenkins Crime: Assassination Target: Empty(It tries to find out who conducted it, and if successful, tries to find evidence to generate a scandal). Else people could just lurk and assassinate people, like i was planning to do. I think this gets kinda unrealistic and overpowered...
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.
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.
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What would be cool, would be that each party has three types of bill: Good, neutral, and evil, depending on the effects it has on the population. Also, if you implement that, every congressperson could have an alignment, depending on the bills it has introduced, like "Pay down national debt, good, karma +3, on completion, karma +5" or something like that
The problem is that what everyone thinks good and evil are is dependent on their political affiliation. That's why there's the party system where certain bills are good for you, and certain ones are bad. This effectively creates a situation like you described without being heavy-handed and biased towards certain policies.
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Uhmmm... What would be cool is a refresh button on the bills! When you're focusing on a bill, it's kind of annoying having to go to the "Current Bills" tab and search for your bill
hm? Well, I suppose that's one definition. Not really the one I was going for. Clout effectively means power/influence, usually relating to politics or social status.
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Still playing this game and loving it, delos. :D
I have a few suggestions:
1) Allow us to buy at least 1 safe deposit box (bottom of offshore accounts) for in-game money, like $100,000?
2) Make dyes purchasable with in-game money.
3) Considering the amount of scandals released to the press everyday, you'd think the press would investigate random players automatically (don't know how'd it be implemented, but it'd be cool)
4) Make the other countries do something :D
I might do that for one box, though the logistics of doing it kind of suck considering how the microtransactions work. Dyes will never be purchasable with in-game money. I like that they give a neat way for people to display their support of the game in a way that other players can see. Allowing them to be purchased with cash would cheapen that. I've also had the idea to have the press randomly investigate folks... but it seems like a lot of people are having issues staying afloat as-is. Once I get scandals and investigations all balanced to my liking I might implement something like that. Other countries will have an effect on the game when I'm done with foreign relations.
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I forgot what poison pill and fillbuster does. Can you please explain? I think fillbuster stops others from favouring a bill or something.
Filibuster stops anyone from playing any abilities on the bill as long as you have enough energy to keep filibustering. Poison pill heavily sets back a bill and puts it into a state where you lose constituent support if you act in its favor (regardless of party affiliation).
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why is it that public health is dropping so rapidly? i havnt seen any large amount of bills that would detriment public health recently...
Not sure what you think the typo is. The 1s are intentional. It's a joke relating to stupid people on the internet who post things with too many exclamation points.
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thats not what i meant. though i think i never explained properly. i meant that enery regen seems a bit less than 8 minutes.
I'm not sure how this could be. I guess there are minute variations in it due to how computerized clocks work, but it's not going to be majorly noticeable. The discrepancy would be within seconds at most.
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I would hide this from you for my own benefit(and other peoples) but the energy regen is a bit strange. first of all it regens in less than 8 minutes. i logged out and logged in again staight away and enrgy was recovered. i even refreshed the page(by refresh i mean clicking on another page so a change is made). and it only took me 1 min to log out and all that stuff.Anyway fix the energy regen.
There's nothing wrong with energy regen. You just happened to do this when you gained energy. It regenerates using a cron job for all players, so nothing you do by logging in or out could affect it.
The way fonts work in HTML is not equivalent to how they work in an image manipulation program. Aside from Impact, obviously, I doubt you'll find exactly equivalent fonts elsewhere, and sometimes the fonts will look different for different users due to variations in fonts in browsers/OSes.
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filibuster should probably he harder to do on win/binary bills, otherwise someone may filibuster a win bill which would be very unfair, plus binary bills its also unfair
You're basically asking for me to remove filibuster from the game, because its only real purpose is on binary bills. Win bills work like regular bills. There is also an energy cap that stops it from being particularly unfair (at most, you can only filibuster for about 2.5 hours in a stretch by yourself).
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if we could link our facebook and kong accounts i think people might spam their friends this game on facebook, i would but i'd look stupid if i didnt even have an account on FB...
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Unknown personal offer:HELLO SIR AND/OR MADAM I AM HIGH RANKIG OFICIAL IN VIOLENTLY DSPOSED NIGERIAN GOVT AND NEED HELP MOVING USD 10 MILLION DOLLARS BUT I NEED YOUR HELP. PLESE TO GIVE SICOAIL SECURITY UMBER AND BANK ACCOUNT AND ROUTING NUMBER SO YOU CAN SAVE ME!!1!
Seems legit.
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also, you should add a number that represents the score next to countries in world view, so we can know exactly how the USA compares to the other places
I wouldn't know. I set the nation to the IRL stats of the US originally, and again when I moved the game from alpha->beta. It originally came in very high on the list, ranging between the top and top 3 depending on how I did the ranking formula.
I considered adding this but figured nobody would use it. Realistically, the game is half-dead on facebook because their advertising is borked so I can't really grow the game on that side unless I run reddit ads for it (which is expensive and much more effective when I point them at Kong. Everyone hates facebook!)
It's hard to say. Honestly I haven't completely gotten what I want to do with it worked out. I have a lot of ideas, but I'm not sure which ones are workable until I think some more about how to implement them and incorporate them into gameplay in an interesting and fun way. Some of the ideas I'm working on: defense rating for nations, plays into wars. Wars, obviously. Removal of the generic "tariffs" bills and addition of tariff bills and other foreign relation bills that have a generic base and target a nation (this will make an actual bill as a normal bill introduction would). I have more, but these comments are quite limited in length. Suffice it to say that it'll probably be about a week minimum before I actually open up the foreign relations tab, but you'll likely see new things on the world page and such before that.
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Hmm, i would love to see a 'non-scandal' option of gaining energy such as coffee? Maybe coffee should be absurdly expensive in this 'America' lol
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hypothetical here: if one were to use a form of stress reducer (say, Benzodiazepines) and then wait a day or two before using it again, would they have a higher chance of getting addicted the second time. If so, what is the amount of time you have to wait before you can use it again wihout becoming addicted?
Addiction isn't that complicated. It's just a random roll every time you use something. I guess I could make it more in-depth, but I'm not sure it would really add to gameplay much.
Haha... this is because committees and poison pill cost clout. I believe I lock it out once you're negative, and was going to lock it out if you didn't have enough... but then I was faced with the problem where someone might spend most/all of their clout to buy one of those abilities, and then be disappointed that they couldn't use it since they wouldn't intuitively know that it cost clout to play. So I left it able to go negative. I'm not really sure which would be a better solution that players would prefer.
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@delos, can you at least give us a way to see the basic gist of what every bill does? e.g. when you mouse over a bill your about to introduce it gives you a basic overview of the bill
You need to be CT3+, and you use the sticky buitton next to the post button. If you don't see a button and you're using firefox: use a different browser.
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If alot of people start funding human cloning research, would it finally be discovered that we can clone? This would be interesting, this way when we die or lose election, we can just clone ourselves with the sam traits and start over.
I imagine it would take hundreds upon hundreds of years to achieve such abilities, and it's not even clear if doing such things is really possible. In reality, cloning isn't really all that exciting, and it can't really create a duplicate like you're thinking. Even if your base genetic code is the same, it can't copy your experiences and such.
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could you make a game in the "tutorial" category that details the effects of all the bills? It would be very helpful!
Posting what each bill did would be quite unrealistic and trivialize the game somewhat. Just as a real congressperson: you can only really estimate the effects of your bills.
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what does the number directly next to the name of whoever introduced a bill(in the list of bills) do? and how does one change it?
CT3+, but there should be a sticky button next to the post button. It will be disabled if you aren't CT3+. If you don't see it at all, your browser isn't displaying something right. The last person with this issue was using Windows 7 with firefox and switched to chrome which fixed it. I'm not quite sure why firefox is displaying that wrong in some instances, and it may be a bug with the rendering engine since firefox on XP, chrome on XP, IE on XP and Safari on XP have no problems.