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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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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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Yinlock posted:what are the raids like, i want a +4 dagger of democracy before endgame 
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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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Moose_Knuck posted:I made multiple accounts without realizing it was against the rules. How do I go about getting one of them removed? My Man Shran posted:My incredibly unfunny gimmick of being a racist populist who advocates full communism (you know, for the right people) is stupid and I want to change it. You can PM rumsod on his Discord server about deleting accounts https://discord.gg/jgx3DyB
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Paper With Lines posted:lol enjoy who is funding LF4LYFE Lots of powerful people, you should pay me as well to buy me off 
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Jan 2, 2017 22:16
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logikv9 posted:Should I go for the open senate seat or the governor's seat? Can governors do anything yet? Governor gives you more power and is the first thing you see when you hit the map and is therefore cooler
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GlyphGryph posted:There's... nothing particularly racist seeming about crypto-jews guy there? BTW that is the dude who is currently cheering the genocide of gypsies in the off topic channel quote:Gov. George Wallace - AL - Today at 4:09 PM Have fun with your racist party sniper, I'm going back to LF4LYFE after this election
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Join up y'all http://oppressive.games/power/party.php?party=14 It's time to kill the Democratic party
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Jan 6, 2017 16:25
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Paper With Lines posted:that happens to me occasionally (I'm HHH with the goatse trump avi) but then I realize that these people are literal children. The guy you're owning is 18 but many of them are 13-15. One guy in the Dems thinks Qadaffi was the best leader ever. He's 15. Gaddafi was pretty trill
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Jan 6, 2017 19:07
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C'mon guys, with your help we can push the Libertarians and Greens down a notch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBjblKtj1ag
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Jan 7, 2017 12:08
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freckle posted:I don't want to help Hillary Clinton do any such thing. 
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Jan 7, 2017 14:29
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Reputation should be renamed corruption or else it should start at 100% and go down when you do bad stuff.
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Jan 8, 2017 09:05
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18 Character Limit posted:This is the guy I'm running against in a senate race. Haha
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cams posted:seriously what is this horseshit Switching parties is only 5 AP so join LF4LYFE while fundraising, it will be cheaper if you do more than 1 at a time
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Jan 9, 2017 19:15
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reignonyourparade posted:Effectively being a 1 party state should give a huge boost to 3rd parties until one of them also reigns supreme. Why would being a 1 party state boost 3rd parties?
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Now that rumsod is adding mechanics to further penalise 3rd parties we are gonna have to organise a little, so here is a discord for leftists https://discord.gg/SbzXnwh
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Karl Sharks posted:oh no you can't switch to our party and leech off of us Cry some more lmao
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Jan 12, 2017 16:27
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sniper4625 posted:Everyone make fun of Enjoy for working with King Autist Johnny Kamehameha. 
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Jan 14, 2017 21:29
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We're doing the goon pals thing now I don't need help in an election, are we
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Jan 15, 2017 17:27
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lmao
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Jan 22, 2017 01:07
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consumed by normies posted:dude tried to threaten me into making third parties better by saying hed get His Boys to attack ad me lol he's right
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Jan 23, 2017 06:07
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Crazycryodude posted:Oh man sounds like there's some good drama I missed.  http://pastebin.com/L6aUSZeX
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Jan 23, 2017 15:55
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Paper With Lines posted:fwiw, I have nuked the USSR into oblivion for this and conquered Moscow. Enjoy got kicked out of leading the USSR and now NATO is 2/2 for winning RealPolitik. I don't think it counted as a win for anyone
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Jan 28, 2017 08:31
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Cheen posted:they (some gop person) were running sql injections and dropping tables and then the clock turned over and all their poo poo was hosed lmao
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Feb 17, 2017 19:04
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Crazycryodude posted:The Republicans had about 100 members arbitrarily switch to the Democrats, then they all voted for one of them as chairman. The new chairman mailed the entire treasury home, then set party fees at 99% so nobody could raise any extra money. This all happened in the span of about 5 minutes. That makes them smart.
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Feb 18, 2017 19:40
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rumcode strikes again
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Apr 4, 2017 00:13
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Paper With Lines posted:holy poo poo enjoy, what did you do to get that red text? Enjoy posted:A war can be legal, for example when a legitimate government invites a foreign government to aid them against terrorism. Eg, the USSR in Afghanistan. 
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Fat Twitter Man posted:The Presidential election is a function of "campaign strength", which can be pumped up by people spending money and power, and party institutional strength, which is derived from national support. The 4chan nazi Republicans had been a supermajority and were still at around 50% institutional strength, the not-Democrats and the Libertarians were each around 25%. Accurate elections simulator http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39696861
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