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http://oppressive.games/power POWER is a free politics webgame (I'm not the dev). It's still in development but it's got enough features and players to be moderately entertaining. Everything below is a synopsis of the game as it stands on January 1st, 2017 (happy new year everyone) and it could well change.  The player signs up as a prospective politician running for office in contemporary America. At the moment there are no NPC characters etc and I don't think any will be added - the dev's stated goal is for everyone, from the Presidency to his cabinet to lobbyists and CEOs, to be played by human players. Currently Senators and Governors are the only offices available for election.  The player has a number of attributes to differentiate him: ideological positions on the social and economic axes, cash (fundraised by the politician or embezzled from the party's treasury), state influence (built up by TV ad campaigns and public rallies; the player will lose all influence if he leaves his state for another), national influence (gradually built up over time by having high state influence or an elected office), and the eponymous POWER. POWER is how effective the character is at playing politics, with more acquired from being in an elected office, and from being a member of a strong party. It is gained every server tick (currently every hour). You spend it on character actions like running attack ads on rivals, joining a party, creating a new party, boosting state influence and raising cash. Parties are the political machines players join to combine their strength and organise. Right now most party politicking goes on in Discord servers rather than over the game's internal messaging system (the Demonrats post at https://discord.gg/cW5xYcp the Rethuglicants at https://discord.gg/KkA4H9V and the general POWER Discord is at https://discord.gg/jgx3DyB )  Parties have an attribute called Institutional Strength. This represents how well the party is entrenched in American politics. New parties start at zero, and gain more by having more national popularity - the Institutional Strength moves towards their current popularity every tick. National popularity is based on the local popularity of all the party members, pitted against everyone who isn't in that party (the total of the party popularities are not gonna be 100% because there are also independents). Institutional Strength is the mechanism which is intended to enforce the 2 party system - new parties will have no strength and therefore their members will have to rely on the basic 1 POWER trickle, whereas their rivals in the major parties get 1 bonus POWER for every 10% of strength (rounded, so a new party that reaches 5% popularity will eventually get a bonus 1 POWER every tick, once their institutional strength builds up to that).  Elections take place every 4 days, with some constituencies being staggered slightly (so that Senators are not all elected on the same day). Candidates running in their state's races compete for a share of the electorate's vote. They are more successful with different demographics depending upon their ideological positions: rich people tend to be further right, minority groups tend to be further left, and some states are skewed left or right. Candidates who are extremists with low influence in their state are obviously less successful when competing against influential centrists. Elected Senators can propose and vote on pieces of legislation. These are a combination of hard mechanics and roleplaying - some players like to produce fluff text alongside legislation with little effect. According to the dev, more features are gonna be implemented eventually so that legislation has a feedback effect on the electorate, and eventually on the economy and international relations. 
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hey yall, im actually the developer of this game. if anyone has any questions about it please post. my starting advice is to first thing join one of the two major parties, as they get significant benefits as they are dominant right now. third party and independent is difficult at start. be aware that the republicans are currently run by /pol/ types, so yeah. also, make sure to get on the discord and talk with your party because they will give you money to get elected. the game is pretty drat simplistic at the moment, I intend to expand it and make it more interesting.
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Newbie guide: 1. Make your account. You might want to pick a state with few players so you have less competition during races. You can give your character cool extreme views or just be a boring centrist, those do have an effect but it's not insurmountable (I think most of the 4channer Republicans are extreme right) 2. Join either Dems or Repubs. This is because of aforementioned party Institutional Strength being the main source of POWER. You don't need to participate in the party if you don't want to. 3. Use your POWER and a little cash to build up influence, and use that influence to raise cash. If you can't beg your party leader for donations, you will need to use the more POWER intensive action, rallies. Once you get your influence higher and can get loads of cash from fundraisers (or beg some), you can switch to using TV ads for your influence. 4. Run for an office. Attack ads on rivals aren't useful if you're soloing, those are best used to coordinate attacks from people in other states - you are better off raising your own influence with your precious resources. 5. Once you win an office, save up some cash and POWER and make a cool 3rd party with a gimmick, like Ba'athism or Islamic Communism. This is a very vital step. 
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Jan 1, 2017 15:44
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Hey, if you're joining this game, go Team Dem! We're cool, and Republicans aren't, the dirty channers. Edit: Enjoy don't post links to private chats in public forums, Dem discord is avaliable in game. Stop by!
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Jan 1, 2017 16:09
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what are the raids like, i want a +4 dagger of democracy before endgame
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Jan 1, 2017 17:05
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Yinlock posted:what are the raids like, i want a +4 dagger of democracy before endgame 
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Jan 1, 2017 17:11
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Yinlock posted:what are the raids like, i want a +4 dagger of democracy before endgame the sword of chang is +666 power
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At first I was going to attempt to take Alabama under the glorious flag of the American Fascist League, but I decided to settle for the next best thing instead. This game looks fun. I like fun.
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Jan 1, 2017 18:36
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I already have name regret. I don't hate mine I just thought of a better one.
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Jan 1, 2017 19:50
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im in please provide material support
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Jan 1, 2017 19:53
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is there a qutbist green party faction also christopher hitchens 
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Jan 1, 2017 19:56
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I really hope this gets more and more traction. I'd been wanting someone to make something like Fantasy Football, but for Politics and found there had been some attempts, but nothing significant. This looks like it could really develop into something very interesting and fun.
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Jan 1, 2017 20:04
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Ezra Kilo Lindo.
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Jan 1, 2017 21:16
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Once we have enough power and influence we should form the Goon Party, we'll take the abbreviation GOP from the Republicans (Get Out Party) 
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Jan 1, 2017 21:34
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It's Her Time Hillary Rodham Clinton is pleased to announce the founding of the soon-to-be ruling party of America, the Liberation Front for Leninist Youth Fighters (Eurocommunist)  The party programme includes:- - Reduction in the size of the nuclear arsenal by launching it at Israel - Tax benefits for interracial families, with the aim of phasing out whiteness by 2050 - Job creation for reactionaries in special government camps - Soup kitchens for the poor, using meat reclaimed from capitalists - Mandatory gender reassignment - Reparations for exploited nations, domestic and foreign  Pictured: two comrades dispense aid to the needy
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Jan 1, 2017 23:47
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Enjoy posted:It's Her Time Splitters are awful and I hope you enjoy your total lack of power income.  Any Dems who join, message me in game for a special welcome package. (I'm Dem Chair.) Also join Discord.
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Jan 1, 2017 23:51
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Oh sign me up for the tankies
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consumed by normies posted:hey yall, im actually the developer of this game. if anyone has any questions about it please post. are the positions of demograpghic's static atm? if so, is there a plan to make it change depending on the influence of certain positions held by politicians in that state? like if you have 10 extremely left wing politicians at 100% influence that should be mirrored by the population, right?
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Jan 2, 2017 02:11
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How can I successfully hail Satan, through legislation or is there a separate button I press?
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Jan 2, 2017 02:25
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:How can I successfully hail Satan, through legislation or is there a separate button I press? send me money in increments of $666
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Jan 2, 2017 02:27
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Karl Sharks posted:are the positions of demograpghic's static atm? if so, is there a plan to make it change depending on the influence of certain positions held by politicians in that state? I guess credibility is a better word for that discrepancy than influence at 100%- even if they respect your opinion they might not agree with it, and/or there's no way to change their minds. So far I like it, it's like a cooler/better version of NationStates from way back when.
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Jan 2, 2017 02:37
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cool new Polack jokes posted:I guess credibility is a better word for that discrepancy than influence at 100%- even if they respect your opinion they might not agree with it, and/or there's no way to change their minds. i mean it feels natural to me for that to cause some shift; not saying if you got lenins in every position and a bunch more at full influence that the entire state would be all 'full communism now' but surely it would cause some shift? i mean, charisma or whatever can only go so far, at some point you start to agree with their politics
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Karl Sharks posted:send me money in increments of $666 $1488
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I'm this guy
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Karl Sharks posted:are the positions of demograpghic's static atm? if so, is there a plan to make it change depending on the influence of certain positions held by politicians in that state? yes and yes. Politicians will be able to use their state influence to change the policies of their state pop, very slowly and expensively but it will be possible. There will also be ways to change turnout, for example by having congress make voting mandatory or gerrymandering type stuff by state govs, or if economy goes to poo poo have the population (or at least poor and middle class) move leftward on economics, etc. but yeah, at the moment things are basically entirely static and stable. once I get more of the basic systems finished I will start focusing on this more ambitious stuff. Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 04:58 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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consumed by normies posted:yes and yes. Politicians will be able to use their state influence to change the policies of their state pop, very slowly and expensively but it will be possible. There will also be ways to change turnout, for example by having congress make voting mandatory or gerrymandering type stuff by state govs, or if economy goes to poo poo have the population (or at least poor and middle class) move leftward on economics, etc. is it just you working on this? sounds like a fun project to work on if you're looking for help
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I'm in as a sentient hog lagoon full of children's bones to represent the great state of Iowa. http://oppressive.games/power/main.php God Bless America.
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Jan 2, 2017 05:09
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I'm in this! as A Mound Of Jello
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Jan 2, 2017 05:22
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Zyla posted:I'm in this! as A Mound Of Jello o poo poo waddup http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=1125 dat me
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Karl Sharks posted:o poo poo waddup sup friend! http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=1182 please help fund me!
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Zyla posted:sup friend! http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=118 email that guy and he'll give you some cashmoney
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Jan 2, 2017 05:39
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Karl Sharks posted:http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=118 Yeah I've already started throwing around some welcome packages, I'll send some more round whenever I get a chance tomorrow.
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sniper4625 posted:Yeah I've already started throwing around some welcome packages, I'll send some more round whenever I get a chance tomorrow. o poo poo is that you? e: i missed you mentioning that's you, cool beans Karl Sharks has issued a correction as of 05:59 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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Iowa was too crowded so now I'm in Mississippi to fight the rock solid Republic establishment there. Wish me luck.
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I admire the pluckiness of Tex, the founder and sole member of "The states first" party http://oppressive.games/power/parties.php  Apparently he's advocating for something called a "Texit"
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ok i'm in http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=1189 i immediately notice that the swedish-american demographic is not represented in MN, destroying my gimmick. i also couldn't make the bio bi-lingual!! this is gonna be an up-hill battle.
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Jan 2, 2017 06:19
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Guess I'll join up and try to turn Utah blue: http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=1195
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Jan 2, 2017 06:20
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I didn't know you made this Sheng-ji, this is sweet! Ben Ghazi is here to Make America Pay For Its Crimes http://oppressive.games/power/pol.php?pol=1199
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Jan 2, 2017 06:25
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oldskool posted:Guess I'll join up and try to turn Utah blue: gl going against Joseph Smith himself. though ted cruz did beat jesus christ in texas earlier so hell has risen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBN_dEA4jO0
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sniper4625 posted:Splitters are awful and I hope you enjoy your total lack of power income. am i allowed to blue dog it up
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