The British PM of course!
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Some more suggestions if you are still considering adding a pardon plotline:
-Whistleblower is convicted for leaks they did during the prior Administration but those leaks helped play a crucial role in your election and civil rights organizations are urging the pardon as it was a very important leak. This might be somewhat ideological though on were people fall about whistleblowers.
-Another idea is using the powers to free a convicted foreign agent as part of a deal to free an American or so. My worry is that it might be somewhat similar as the imprisoned Russian reporter storyline.
-Similar to that is perhaps freeing a family member of a world leader to boost diplomatic relations.
-Death penalty could be an issue and the MC could commute someone, commute all death row inmates, or perhaps reinstate death penalty proseuctions or something.
Not sure if these are any good but they are what came to mind in the past few days. Also I intent to play again once the spouse proposal is implemented so I will keep an eye on the foreign trip section and see if there are some choices that can get added in for that.
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In the first cabinet meeting, we decide our administration’s stance on the death penalty at the federal level (to continue allowing executions or to stop them). I suppose something could happen that shakes the public’s confidence in our stance, but that’s up to the author.
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Oh good point! I completely forgot about that! It’s so early and I haven’t replayed the start in a bit.
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I can’t understand why killing the terrorist leader with no civilian and US casualties/injuries still gets me to get considerably lower approval ratings, it’s borderline nonsense to me.
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This is either a bug or the low approval ratings are coming from another decision/event. Just about every outcome with this event will give at least a small approval boost (the biggest possible loss is -5% and only triggers if there were American casualties).
Just about every approval rating change (except one I can think of) is a percent change to avoid values going into the negatives. Maybe your approval rating was so low that the +10% or 15% didn’t have as big an impact?
I’ll double-check the code to see, but you should definitely be seeing a pretty big approval rating increase for that outcome.
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I’ll have to re-check.
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Oh yeah my bad the approval rating actually increases!
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I love games where you can be a politician, great work!!
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During the SEAL operations I killed the Terrorist in two situations, when I told the SEAL to try to take him alive one of the soldiers died but my approval rating went up from 73% to 74%, but when I finished the operation telling SEAL to directly kill the leader many of the SEALs got injured but nobody died yet my approval rating went down to 70%, this seems like a bug.
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“As was expected, thousands lost their lives in the delayed evacuation from Delaware, and even more died in New Jersey where no evacuation order was ever given. Even more, the damage was incredibly severe. Much of the coastline was completely inhabitable, with any standing structure being scarce. Water shortages and a complete lost of power meant that millions of Americans were temporarily without their homes, and for some, they had lost their home entirely.”
Thousands dying in Delaware and more in New Jersey seems like something that’d affect a presidential run.
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Not really, it’s framed as the governor panicking and giving an evacuation order that results in the damage so the local governments should be taking the brunt of the heat. At most you lose some public approval for making yourself look apathetic to the victims of the disaster. Or vice versa by looking empathetic and taking initiative for their needs.
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I think I found a bug, when the affair with the secretary is released during the campain the attorney general lynch come and offer you to make the story “disappear” then he leave the room and you don’t get the option to accept and don’t hear about it ever again. I don’t think it’s normal 
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This is interesting – everything except American casualties should give at least a small approval rating boost. Killing al-Masri doesn’t give as big a boost as taking him alive (since taking him alive is more difficult), but you should still be seeing an increase assuming no SEALs died in the operation.
It is on my to-do list to change this number from thousands down to the hundreds. As @Rainbowshow mentions, most of the brunt is on state governments for their own handling of it, but I may add in a separate check for it beyond the approval rating check early in Chapter 5.
This is normal though I may just remove this scene entirely since I have gotten the comment that it reads like a bug a few times. It’s meant to be clear that he’s starting to suggest having them killed but stops himself and refuses to move forward to actually suggest it to you. (Whether he stops himself because of his own morals or because he believes your character wouldn’t be receptive is up to your own interpretation).
Early on, it was an idea to make this a viable storyline, but I decided it’d be a bit too dark for this story and fairly unrealistic. I also figured that the Walters route would be one of the least-explored affair options in the story and that, considering it isn’t a story-ending scandal by any means, it wasn’t worth adding it in.
I liked keeping this conversation as a way of getting at the idea of how far people go to obtain and keep power – a recurring theme – but again I may either re-write or cut it completely to avoid confusion.
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I didn’t even know Walters was a romantic option.
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Looks like a couple days ago PBS dropped Choice 2024, so now I am wondering what they said about Hoffman and MC in the run for the Presidency. Always interesting to think how the larger country views the characters in the story because we tend to get a limited look outside our bubble.
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Wait I didn’t know you could actually take him alive, I’ve tried my best but still can’t achieve it, what are the requirements to do so?
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let the miltary shoot civilian and don’t send drone you should get him alive with some wounded american soldier ( and twenty foreign non-combattant dead )
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I achieved it just now but ended up having 20 civilian casualties, is that absolutely necessary?
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if you want to capture him alive and without american death I think it’s necessary
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