In case anyone is interested, here is a Progressive Democrat guide that lets you pass the progressive healthcare bill, get the best midterm result, and win a landslide re-election while (mostly) sticking to progressive policies and (mostly) avoiding corruption.
I don’t read the code, so I cannot say if this is the “best” or “optimal” playthrough, but it seems a lot better than what America is currently dealing with.
Summary
Northeast - Pennsylvania
Democrat
Middle-Class
Wealth
Junior Counsel
(…) of the people
Attorney General
a Democrat of course - Hill
Key politicians
Strength!
Gleefully take questions
Certainly
25th birthday (not sure if this matter though). I let my child make the follow-up decision.
Talk to Hill and the Reporter, saying the nice things. You can skip talking to Cassidy, or if you do, dodge the question.
Lee, Yates, Bartley, and Hirono
I’m afraid not.
Members of Congress
Healthcare - Progressive. You can choose a different area if you want. I know the guide works for the progressive Employment and Education bills.
EOs - Minimum wage, climate change, and education. Not sure if it matters much though.
Of course, great idea. Generally, be nice to spouse, say yes to their requests, spend time with them, and don’t cheat.
Asia
Cabinet
Stress you are a team.
Agree
Revoke - our civil rights lawyer is obviously against federal executions.
Proposal 1
Discharge petition
Large lobbying effort
Boycott
Appeal to his ego.
Let pass 50-50, Hill has our back.
Democratic policies
Move a low priority satellite to get leverage.
Take spouse and Hill.
Jackson’s plan.
Traditional cuisine.
Stay, send Hill back.
Agree for SEATO.
Ignore it.
Refuse - sanction China
Climate change speech
Authorize the operation, yes to diversion, standard roe, yes to additional drones, lethal force, focus on military targets.
Keep Lilah
Slow rebuild efforts.
Refuse - let OPOIDS Act pass.
Veto the diversity legislation (sorry women).
Attend the fundraiser.
Senator Roger Moore
Agree to award Cassidy the construction grant (necessary evil).
Invest $25mil into the midterms.
Senator Edwards
Make public aware while keeping markets open.
Don’t lie.
Yes to Special Prosecutor
Agree to testify - show them why you shouldn’t invite a trial lawyer to testify re. made up charges.
Focus on the future.
Sam
Fundraising effort - other one doesn’t matter.
Dodge
Dog or cat
Don’t allocate funds.
Duel in Wisconsin.
Attack Hoffman.
Take the risk.
Keep Hill
Yes to high speed rail - I would have agreed even without the blackmail.
Stand with the union.
Attack dog
Nice
Moderate free trade.
Ignore the data
Reduce the deficit
Slow walk (sorry journalist)
Condemn ties
Take the attack
Shake, stand by pledge, support Taiwan, Emphasize experience.
$10 mil, or as much as you can.
You can flex and vote for Hoffman - he’s gonna lose in a landslide anyway. Also you get an achievement for it.
Touchingly, our home state of Pennsylvania sends us over the 270 electoral vote threshold.
OK, so there’s a couple changes you can do to make this better. You can capture the terrorist if you don’t allocate the extra drone support and choose to take him alive, minimal casualties on all sides.Don’t dodge the pacs question, explain why they are a necessary evil. Your og VP works better if you have them in the spotlight alongside you as opposed to an attack dog. You can afford to pick Jackie as your campaign manager now and all of this together means you won’t run a negative campaign so no relationship losses amongst your family. Also, what’s your media approval during the cyber breach? If it’s above 50%, you can keep the news quiet and then choose to hold off on the attack for more verification and you get a small boost in popularity
If you don’t have the approval, you can go ahead with the cyber attack anyway, six out of 10 chance you succeed anyway, but if you fail, it’s not great, it’s a matter of whether you want to take the risk or not
Since someone else decided to make a progressive Democratic guide, here I present a Dream Team Republican Maverick with a hard approach to terrorism, no matter the consequences. Unlike the other guy, I do read the code, which is how I know this all works so well. And I suspect some of it is actually coding mistakes but there are no morals in politics!
Anyways the main achievements this run will get will be True Maverick, Dream Team, Deja Vu (Absolute Midterm Victory) and The People’s Champion (Absolute Reelection Victory)
Also we’re secretly a Liberal.
May contain corrupt and Immoral Choices
Be born in either a Republican state or a swing state. I like Florida.
Become a Republican
Actively choose to be poor. We’ll get our wealth the honorable way
By marrying into money! You care about your partner’s wealth. And honestly nothing else.
Take your first job as Junior Counsel at Morgan Law. It gives a massive charisma boost which we’ll need to defend against biased and baseless accusations.
Tell Brown you’re a man of the people. Approval and Charisma is always good.
Run for Congress, winning will make you charismatic and popular with the party
Run as Unity Candidate and take the best democratic VP of all.
Robert Hill. As a veteran, he’ll support your campaign against terrorism, and if you’re from Florida, you can bond over memories of wrestling alligators.
Put Key politicians to sit with you. Those are the people you’ll be seeing most for the next 4 years.
Make a speech focused on strength. It will make us charismatic.
Take a few questions from the media. It makes the media slightly happy, doesn’t anger your cabinet, and only your family loses.
Agree to talk with former president Hoffman. It fits your Maverick style and will get your charisma over 70.
Have your child be 7. It lets us get the most media support at the low cost of destroying our relationship with them.
Pose for photos with the media and take questions even though your family hates it.
Stay for another two hours at the Gala ignoring your sick child.
Say you’ll reach across the aisle to be more Maverick
Talk to your VP
Talk to Jacob (Media) and bribe him.
Talk to Bill Cassidy, tell him you want further cooperation but signal that it will be in the future, not making Davids secretary of Treasury.
Make the button give you whiskey. Its important to not be sober while making such monumental decisions.
Make Richard Griff your secretary of state. It will fit our hard stance against terrorism, and the party likes it.
I don’t think the secretary of defense even matters but I took war hawk Winston Schatt.
Put Janet Bartley on the treasury. We’ll be taking a progressive approach to the economy.
Put Kendra Jones as Attorney General. This Cabinet will truly present a unified Front. Also approval ratings. And Florida.
Agree to talk to Mozorov and take his bribe. We don’t really need it, but, it doesn’t hurt either.
Use the last hour to talk to the citizens. Approval is all that matters.
Take Terrorism and pursue a Conservative Approach. We’ll win the war on terror this time!
Sign a Centrist Order for Affordable Housing, a Progressive Order for Gender Equality, and finally, a Bipartisan Commission to balance the Budget.
Go to the Middle East as Griff Advices
Say Hill is your best ally. I just like him.
Agree with Hill and Bartley to stimulate the economy.
Stop Federal Executions. Just because it’s fun being a liberal. Also human rights or whatever.
Push Forth the Conservative Counterterrorism Bill. Hill likes it, and that’s all the democratic approval I need.
Use a Discharge Petition to pass the bill. We have a beautiful approval rating of 70%
Use a Small Lobbying Effort to get the best result, and most importantly, +5 pure approval.
Set up the call with King Abdullah, be aggressive and refuse everything. Your raw charisma will convince him to return prices to normal.
Appeal to the Senator’s Ego. No need to turn him against us or open our wallet.
Tell Bill Cassidy to get you the money for nothing at all.
Focus on Bipartisanship, you are borderline progressive.
Be loyal to your neglected partner. I think affairs can bite you later.
Move a low priority satellite to hit a Russian one. We don’t have good enough relations with the Kremlin for a peaceful approach, so…
Bring Vice President Hill to the Middle East. Because I like him.
Take Jackson’s plan and downplay everything, it’s the least damaging option.
Stick to Stability over Democracy. It’ll get us a better deal.
Listen to Griff and take a hard stance against Iran, it also gives us money.
Discreetly take the money. Always take the money.
Stay in Riyadh and send the VP back to Washington, he will save millions of lives.
Ignore Hill’s speech, he didn’t mean it.
Build Closer Relations with Israel, for something very important
Agree to declare Palestine terrorist so you can get the Olympus Technology, and give it to the Department of Defense.
Deliver a Speech on combating climate change because I think it’s fun become a liberal again.
Authorize the operation against Al-Masri, this is literally why we have Hill as VP.
Take Hill’s Advice and Authorize a Diversion. Loosen the Rules of Engagement. Refuse Additional Drones. Take Al-Masri alive. Focus only on Military Targets. You’ll take him in alive, with no soldier casualties and only 20 civilian casualties. Expendable numbers, celebrate.
Fire Lilah, I’m not sacrificing my approval rating for her.
Engage in Public-Private Partnerships to get both short term and long term benefits. We have enough business relations for it to work.
Refuse to Veto the Opioid Act. No amount of money will compensate the political suicide.
Veto the Stem Cell Research Legislation. Keep your approval safe and you’re even more liberal.
Go to the Fundraiser. Politics over family, always.
Go with Senator Roger Moore, he’s the best option.
Agree to give Cassidy Construction the Grant. Literally no downsides.
Refuse to move your partner’s office to the west wing. The approval is more important (not really, but well)
Invest all your PAC money into the republican campaign fund. We won’t need it after this.
Attend the Rally with Congressman Wilkes because being a republican Liberal is funny.
Make no public announcement, try to contain the breach and order an immediate counter attack. If you read that it fails, open the show stats page and close it until you read that it succeeded, then touch next so it saves.
Enjoy the Speaker Standoff
Appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate Ms Kopesh, and end this impeachment trial before it even begins by testifying directly to congress.
Run for Reelection. We’re going for everything.
Offer Sam the job, we’ll need every point of campaign we can get, even if it means putting our family on the line.
First, take a massive early ground effort for more votes, and a lesser focus on Media Support. We don’t need money for our PAC.
PLEDGE TO ACCEPT NO PAC MONEY, WE’LL WIN THE ELECTION WITH THE MONEY WE GOT FROM OUR OWN CORRUPTION AND FUCKING THE 1%
Prohibit Sam from stopping Nunez, it would hurt our overall campaign, and we’re gonna win against Nunez handily without it.
Keep your surrogates focused on the election. We’ll just have to beat Hoffman again.
Reject Sam’s illegal plans. We don’t need them.
Refuse to Authorize the Leak and destroy the medical records. We’re winning handily.
Take the attack to Hoffman, it’s the most effective option.
Go to Wisconsin and Invite Common folk to the event. If it fails, show stats until it succeeds.
Keep Vice President Hill. He’s done a great job until now.
Promise to fund a High Speed rail project so you’re not sabotaged at the event.
Stand with the Conservative Teachers Association. Eventually we do have to play to our base.
Keep Hill in the Spotlight with you. Having a notorious Democrat expressing his full support for your administration will be incredibly effective.
Repeal the Agreements and put American Businesses first.
Ignore the Economic Data and just convince people by making shit up.
Pledge to Eliminate the Deficit in your second term, it’s very popular, and definitely not borderline impossible.
Slow Walk negotiations with Russia. The media likes us enough already.
Issue a statement condemning Mexico and commit to democracy in the world.
Pay for the questions to be leaked. We don’t really need it, but since they’re offering.
For the Debate. Defend your plan with Specifics, Share a personal story about meeting with educators, Support Taiwan Militarily, and Emphasize your proven leadership.
Finally, we have just over 50 million dollars of personal wealth for the biggest election push of them all. I’m pretty sure it’s overkill, but, it’s not like we’ll need the money later.
