Sorry For the very late response. But Congrats!
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I’ll still buy the game to support @RFKramer, but it’s going to be too painful for me to play anytime soon. 
After last night/this morning anything to do with politics (real or fictional) just makes me unbearably sad.
Also extremely angry. Can’t forget the anger.
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Is there a release date yet?
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Nope
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Just want to ask, can you lose the primary challenge, because I just went out, had a horrible approval rating, and the opposite ideology, and I just can’t lose to Nunez
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It should definitely be possible. There was a bug before that made it impossible to beat him, so I may have gone too far in my adjustment. I’ll look again and make sure it’s fixed before release, thanks for flagging this!
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So this is a basic request. In the prologue of the story, can you have the protagonist to set up their ideological line before being elected president. I can understand if it’s the (public’s and party’s) perception of the protagonist, but they have been in politics for years before entering entering the White House and even then, they would have set up a political image during their presidential campaign for everyone to know about.
They of course can still have their ideological line change over the course of the story.
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It could definitely affect how the party views them from the start. For example, if they’re a conservative Democrat or a liberal Republican, the party might be more skeptical of them at first (lowered opinion), since their views might not completely match what the party expects. Plus, if they end up doing more conservative things as a Democrat or more liberal things as a Republican, it wouldn’t feel like such a big shock to the party or the public.
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It would be interesting if it did more flavor to the story. Since you can already receive flack from your party for radically departing from the party line during the first 100 days major bill and during the presidential election and party nomination.
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Minor update for you all:
Still no news from Choice of Games–I imagine the process will take some time given their workload and the length of the story but I will let you know as soon as I hear further!
I do have a running list of minor changes to make–readjusting how difficult it is to pass some pieces of legislation, tweaking the primary challenge sequence slightly, and I will try to add in a decision early on about the type of campaign you ran (so that your character does not always start as a centrist). At this point in the process, I can’t change too much more of Book 1 as it’s been submitted and is being actively reviewed, but I think I’ll be able to get in the smaller changes I mentioned above without much difficulty.
In the meantime–I am working on a different writing project to keep myself busy while TPH makes its way through the publishing process. Book 2 will be my main priority once the first is published, but until then I wanted to work on something different. I won’t say too much about this project just yet (mainly because I’m still fleshing it out, and it likely won’t be completed for a while), but Patrons can expect a sneak peek at it sometime this month.
Again, I’ll keep you all updated as I hear more, and thank you again for your kind words of support!
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Is this about a book where we can become a dictator? Or this about a secret project where you wake up and discover you’re the only human being on Earth left and it becomes a pseudo-sandbox game where you can do whatever you want while trying to survive in a post-human world?
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I won’t say too much but it is quite different from The People’s House–set in a very different time period and in a fictional world. Without giving away too much, it will be possible in this story to become a dictator. Again, won’t say too much right now as TPH is still my main project, but it is a fun side project that I’ll likely share more of in the near-future.
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Good story, the only thing I would add is a Primary campaign that leads to you challenging Hoffman, as it would let you define your ideology, pick you Vip, and establish relationships with both parties, media, and business, plus I just thing having to do a Primary election against multiple opponents would be fun, but one thing I thinkbcan be added is that both parties have rival factions within the party, like the Establishment Moderate Republicans, and the more Conservative Freedom Caucasus, and then you have the mor Neo-Liberal Establishment, and then the more left wing Bernie Sanders type Democrats, don’t know what they’re called, I think that could add alot to book 2
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As a fun little tidbit, could you give us the offering of ethnicity to choose from? Just something to munch on. Also if we veto the OPOID Act in this book, and get re-elected and spend another four years and the OPOID Act again manages to survive congress, can we sign it? Or would it be just forgotten.
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The primary campaign does already exist
Im not talking about leading up to your reelection, I mean one before you become President.
It’s a deliberate decision from the author to have PC always start as the elected president (with the road to power serving as the prologue), and he’s going to add the choices to define our ideology early on. Besides we already get to pick the VP in the prologue.
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What the actual f*ck?! How did this happened? In my older playthroughs going through this was easy, why has the game suddenly made it so that I’d get 300 nays?! I managed a discharge position, I have majority approval of the cabinet, democrats love me and so does public support, I also put in a large lobbying effort!
How, just how?
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Including what party you’re playing as and what bill you tried passing would be helpful.
I did mention a few posts ago that the healthcare bills may require some tweaking as I previously got feedback that passing them was too easy.
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I tried to pass progressive healthcare bill
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