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Congratulations bro it makes me happy knowing that your back on the form and knowing that you got your motivation back bro also congratulations on joining the military that’s a big accomplishment that not a lot of people can do, I been following this thread since it first started way back then and wow time fly’s and so proud of you man seeing your growth and deal with the obstacles life throws at you your a fighter bro , congratulations and it’s good to have you back

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i remember back when i had my Pandini (rip) account someone had mentioned that recruiting people publicly to code for a story was against forum rules or sum like that … :grimacing: ian trying to get hit with the banhammer again so :sweat_smile: but i’ll definitely receive clarification and if it is okay i’ll make a post either today or tomorrow :slightly_smiling_face: luckily i’m in contact with sb who’s interested already so i may not have to create one, we’ll see how it goes .

spoiler: if i can work sum out with somebody … the story is back on guys :slightly_smiling_face: :pray:t5:

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i’m getting ahead of myself here and this is 99 percent not gonna happen but i suddenly wanna make a military WIP :moyai::moyai: maybe it’s bc i just went thru basic training recently LMFAOO :joy:

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okay so … not tryna get ahead of myself but i’m deciding between 3 diff people for a coding spot… so the story is back on! :slightly_smiling_face: people really love this game :sob::sob:

depending on how fast i decide on someone (or someones :laughing:) i can start writing the next chapter by tomorrow ! and well from then the sky’s the limit . best best best case scenario… well you guys can be looking at the first update in over two years by next weekend :relieved::bangbang:

stay tuned . :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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also with me finally picking this story back up, i feel like i need a couple people to offer advice and/or ideas on how this game should continue to progress. this game has wild potential to be deep and “worldbuilding” (a president has the option of serving for two terms so perhappps a potential sequel :sweat_smile: ) so i think ima need between 3-5 people to be my “thinktank” and help with ideas, story continuity, character arcs, special events, achievements, plot twists and general story direction! hmu if you want to be considered for a spot. :slightly_smiling_face:

okay back to writing ! be back soon.

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Wow that’s great you literally made my day and here i thought this game is already RIP. I’m glad it isn’t.

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Also got a heart attack thinking this game won’t carry on, I really enjoyed it, definitely a hit

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I would like to do this. This has potential and I literally am trying to romance as many RO’s as I can so that I can be pretty scandalous especially when it comes to the Bodyguard and the VP.

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hi guys ! how are you all ?

i’ve been away because we had to go out to the field (think a camping trip but with a M-4 and military gear) for a couple days and i haven’t had any access to the forums or internet in general :slightly_smiling_face:

I wanted to provide a update on the story progress, I have decided to completely rewrite/revamp the first 3 chapters and add scenes to the chapters already present as well . And maybe (possibly) a character or two :thinking: … still deciding on that part . But besides being (very) outdated, it’s certain continuation issues, plot issues and character development issues that were present and weren’t really refined when I wrote the first time at age freakin 15 :joy::joy: so I feel like a fresh start is needed . that being said look out for brand new content soon after ! If i can, i think i will possibly re write the story PLUS another chapter if i really slave this weekend :sweat_smile::sweat_smile:

if anyone has any ideas, scenarios, a character you want to be more involved in the story/needs more building, anything you want to see more of in the upcoming chapters (yes even sex and extramarital affairs :slightly_smiling_face:) tell me ! whether it’s in the thread or pm, I welcome criticism as well. just let me know ! thank you all !

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Will you write about Area 51?

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So I just found this game and I got floored right at this option “Let’s just say that there are a lot of fake news”

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Can we have a war route option? Also can we have the option to set up our cabinet, make a designated survivor, and I wish our oldest kid was older. Let’s say we’re 35, our kid could be 17 or even older.

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So you wanna have a kid at 18 years old??

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What’s wrong with it?

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There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just that my character was a soldier before running for president and I’m sure he enlisted when he was 18 so for me it wouldn’t make sense for there not being relationship problems coz you know the kid don’t know you that well……I think it’s also an option to add a choice where you have a kid on a later date with your RO or maybe even a baby mama drama where you didn’t know you had a kid, that’s my opinion tho, hope you don’t take it to heart.

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I really liked the proposal, I was looking for something like this for a while. I can’t help you with possible misspellings or something, because English is not my first language, my writing is far from very good :sweat_smile:

A point that I found funny, being a native Brazilian, is the description about Colombian cartels, in Brazil there are no Colombian cartels lol. In general, there is a lot of violence here, a lot of corruption too

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Oh wow

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We could send our child letters during deployment. If you have seen Dear John their relationship was amazing.

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I found this WIP literally today and I’m already hooked. I’ve always loved political games and so this seems right up my alley.

I do have a couple of suggestions though.

  1. I feel like having a separate romance variable would be a benefit for this game. Seemingly the best way to increase the relationship variable with the other characters is to just go straight out romance. I’d like the option to be close, but platonic, friends with my Secret Service agent or the reporter.

    Like for example, in the Infinity Saga, there’s a separate Katarina Rel variable and a Katarina Rom variable. High Rel but no Rom means you’re just good friends, but High Rel AND high Rom means you two are making bedroom eyes at each other across the battlefield.

    Just because I don’t want to screw my bodyguard doesn’t mean that I want to be a jerk to them either.

  2. Another thing is the speech at the State of the Union and the NATO response.

  • SotU: the speeches which side with each party seem… odd.

    I understand that Democrats are generally anti-war, but the “democrat” speech is a bit too isolationist. The speech seems to say that your goal as president is to stop interfering with the rest of the world and just focus on our problems at home. This sounds less like “anti-war democrat” and more like a “Trump/America First republican”.

    The “republican” speech also shares similar criticisms (once again due to Trump’s new populist Republican platform). The speech (at least to me) seems less “jingoistic America should lead” and more “America should lead the way to help support other nations through trade agreements and increasing globalization,” which actually seems to be a more Democrat style.

    One way I could see to improve it would be to have 4 choices, Radical Democrat (kinda a Democratic Socialist, AOC, Bernie type), Radical Republican (Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene), Order/Traditional Democrat (establishment Democrat, Pelosi, Biden), and Order/Traditional Republican (Romney, Murkowski, Collins).

  • NATO: This seems to also be mixed up with the political party preferences. (For the third time now due to Trump) Trump’s take on NATO has been very anti-NATO, to the point of people discussing whether or not the US was going to leave. Republicans have been very critical of NATO due to the (justified or not) belief that the other member-states are not carrying their fair share. Which has led to Democrats generally supporting NATO and the US’s inclusion. And so the NATO response is kind of odd.
    The first response which seems to reaffirm NATO increases Republican Rel and decreases Democrat Rel, which seems flipped. (or technically you could say that it should do nothing as generally one of the first things every US president has done is reaffirm that NATO is a thing that is here to stay and that the US is always gonna be a part of it.)
    The second response about the US withdrawing from NATO increases Democrat Rel and decreases Republican Rel, which, once again, seems flipped for the reasons above.
    And then there is the “nothings gonna change” choice which kinda just seems unnecessary, as again, the status quo response should be the first response reaffirming the US’s commitment to NATO.

    I feel like reaffirming NATO should be the generic move that either improves rel with both parties or changes nothing because, once again, it is the response expected of every US President and widely supported by the vast majority of both parties.
    Whereas leaving NATO would maybe decrease rel with the opposing party, but increase your radical stat and increase rel with your party (signifying your radical position becoming more prevalent in your party.) And this one could also tie into the coup route, with you having a follow-up question on why you decided to leave (just like an internal question in your head) with you able to choose that you’re leaving because you think that NATO is outdated or something, or you’re trying to isolate the US to make it easier to coup.

Finally, two smaller suggestions:

  1. I feel like having a military background should change the text of the ambush scene. It seems kind of odd that the former-covert-ops-special-forces-soldier-turned-four-star-general would be absolutely helpless during the ambush and embarrassingly be hopeless with a gun. I mean even if it’s been years since they last shot a gun, some of that training has to come back right?
    And the text makes it seem that the, let me say again, former-covert-ops-special-forces-soldier-turned-four-star-general, has never killed anyone before, which would be odd for a former-covert-ops-special-forces-soldier-turned-four-star-general. (I get it’s a training exercise, but still, it seems a bit odd.)
    *also about the “B: the rest of your troops are kept safe!” line. I feel that should say agents right? Because they’re Secret Service agents, not troops, right?

  2. final thing, you…uh… you might want to not shorten Secret Service to SS. I mean it’s funny(the Reddit post about it was actually how I found out about this WIP, and I did have a nice chuckle after seeing it meant Secret Service) and I’m sure you did it on purpose, but umm… you know… SS… WW2… massacres… genocide… so on and so forth.

Just to close things off, I loved playing through this game, even if it was just a short demo. I’m real glad I found it and I’m also real glad that you’ve returned to continue it. I’m gonna be looking forward to the day this gets released and gonna be reading through the forums. (though I’m probably just gonna go back to lurking like I usually do. Like seriously, this is the longest COG forum post I’ve ever made.)

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Hey! Thank you for the detailed response. I have been aware of the need for a more platonic relationship stat instead of a high relationship meter simply meaning that you want to bang the character in question :rofl: :sweat_smile: . that being said, I will implement a set-apart stat meter for strict friendship. I want to possibly make it possible where an “enemy” can also be a romantic option. I do love that trope.

Yes. The writing actually needs major improvement, which is why my focus is more on re-writing the beginning chapters to better the flow of the story overall, vs pushing a new chapter, though that is definitely also high on my list. Thank you for details on each “faction” of both parties. I will put in more customization when it comes to parties as well, my goal is to implement a blending system so that the OC isn’t tied down strictly to one party.

I exaggerated the military background heavily when I first wrote the Oval Office. Aside from the rare attainment of a 4 star general in the first place, its definitely straight up impossible to earn that rank with the possible age of 35 (youngest age possible to be president of the US) which makes the story incorrect. Instead, I will reduce the rank down to a 1 star (which is still incorrect as TIG (time in grade) for the officer ranks… which is still mathematically incorrect). That being said its assumed in this story line that you were exceptional during your military career and achieved promotions almost unfairly quickly. I’ll make the exception, though if any historians were to take a look at my story, they would certainly be disappointed :upside_down_face: . That being said, with a military background, certain scenes will be tailored to your ability, specifically during combat scenes or in the cases of war development you will be ahead of the curve.
p.s: I said troops because in my experience in the army (I earn Pv3 in a couple more months yay) everyone will be referred to as troops, to describe both active military personnel, to simply employers speaking about their employees. If it is too incorrect of a term I will find another word to replace it .

YES! Another thing I’ve been messaged about actually, I will definitely change the “SS” term. That was laziness on my part, I apologize if what I wrote triggered anyone or offended anyone .

ALSO…! There is a reddit post about my story?? Link me! That’s unbelievable :scream: I am beyond flattered to hear that!

Thank you! My current military career has helped to put a lot of my writing on hold, as well as college, but I promise upon me working with a new coder, I will eventually push out updates way more consistently. Thank you for reading, and I am honored by your review! Keep a look out for another update really soon!

P.S: not that anyone cares but my birthday is in a couple days on June 15th :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile: so there may, mayyyyy be something that happens that day… we’ll see :upside_down_face:

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