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henry700

Apr. 10, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) After watching a video about how a guy lowered the total amounts he needed to try passwords by using many means, so he could bruteforce a PHP session key some days ago... I have to ask... You don't use the standard open source PHP Algorithm for that pseudo-random generation...Do you?

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Developer response from delosford

Just because something is called a session key doesn't mean it's the same thing you watched a video about. This question honestly makes no sense. There is also no such thing as a "pseudo-random" number, even though people love to throw that one around when talking about algorithms. RNG numbers are significantly more random than any physical event, which always have a predictable outcome.

JamieWolfyCook

Apr. 10, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) It amuses me quite a bit that Communists can learn "Refer to Opposition as "Socialists""

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Developer response from delosford

yeeeah... I kind of want to remove that for them, but then I wonder maybe I should remove other abilities for other parties and it kind of creates a bit of a slippery slope there when I wanted all abilities to be available to every party from the start.

henry700

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Q, Top12Gun just kinda gave his auth key out when he pasted that error...

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Developer response from delosford

Nothing I can do about it. Though it's probably expired by now anyway.

valkros

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Why when I play on an Increase Foreign Aid [Russia] I lose some constituent support ?

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Developer response from delosford

Some political parties have hardline stances on foreign policy. Check your party's official party platform IRL to find out about yours.

RRRT77

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) how do i get to the lobby

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Developer response from delosford

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

Noly

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) maybe that was because of kong mainternance?

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Developer response from delosford

That is something that will cause kong auth errors.

Top12Gun

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) getting " Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.kongregate.com/api/authenticate.json?user_id=4183727&game_auth_token=2c8653697c396439b691564c352f05f664096036e9c5e3ffd5c34cd91ea59079&api_key=951cebd7-4d88-4897-b11f-7de02076ddf6) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway in /home/cabinca/public_html/clout/clout.php on line 57 Session key authentication failure. Please reload the page. " after every action I take.

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Developer response from delosford

bad gateway/kong auth errors are problems on kongregate's end. You'll have to take those up with them, though usually they're temporary.

penguinkirby

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Is increasing mexican tariffs a green party bill or a neutral bill? Because I just lost some constituent support from playing on it.

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Developer response from delosford

Some parties have hardline views on foreign relations. I based these on the official party platforms for the parties' IRL counterparts.

CosmicJester

Apr. 09, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Could there be a way to tag specific bills so they show up near the top of the bill list or even on our status pages? It would make things easier when you're working on other people's bills.

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Developer response from delosford

Try sending that person an associate request and adding them as a crony. Then you can see all their bills in the cronies window.

Top12Gun

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) It'd be very convenient if you could travel directly to an associate or crony's profile by clicking on their name from "Cronies and Associates" > "Main" page. Can't do that at the bottom.

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Developer response from delosford

This is on the list of minor fixes. Kang is on your side... worry not.

Zeron

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Hasn't been working for like 2 weeks...

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Developer response from delosford

That's odd... there's nothing that should prevent the game from loading in a specific browser. Try loading your browser in safe mode or whatever turns off all plugins/extensions and see if it still works. Or just use Chrome.

Daddysback

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) How does rhetoric work?

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Developer response from delosford

rhetoric gets stronger the more abilities have been played for your side of a bill. It gets weaker as people play rhetoric for your side.

Zedzero2

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) "Your scandal coverup has finished. It erased 0 scandals!" Yet it is supposed to coverup between 1-4 (Quick Cover)

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Developer response from delosford

Do you actually have any scandals?

TheMasterPunk

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Is there any chance we'll see more types of illegal activity?

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Developer response from delosford

I can guarantee there will be some associated with The Lobby

henry700

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Good good, LET THE PAYDAY MONEY FLOW THROUGH YOU...

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Developer response from delosford

nor do you

Rhysdog

Apr. 08, 2013

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Developer response from delosford

Nope.

Zeron

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) Game won't load for me on Firefox anymore :\

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Developer response from delosford

It's likely you experienced some kind of temporary connection-related issue. The game was experiencing more of those than usual yesterday. In addition, I was changing a lot of stuff and if you happen to try and hit the game as I'm uploading something you'll usually get some kind of error.

Rhysdog

Apr. 08, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) @q, so who did you assasinate?

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Developer response from delosford

I was testing the feature, so nobody.

nick41

Apr. 07, 2013

Under rating threshold (show) good good,let the payday money flow.

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Developer response from delosford

you really don't have to post this every week

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.

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