Ya, but gotta get that second term so America has to deal with the ritcher for 16 years, not just 12!
Fair, although the characters I tend to make tend not have large financial resources, which I think are necessary to arrange the land slide! But that might just be my preference and I should reconcile myself to another term of close run wins!
You can get the best possible result with just $25 million if you’re willing to play dirty, $35 million if you don’t want to play dirty although it still means making a certain tough choice before the convention, and $50 million guarantees it.
As for the 16 year Richter thing, history isn’t really on your side, although of course there’s no reason you can’t defy it. The same party being elected three times over is already kind of a rarity in modern politics, four times over, that hasn’t happened since Roosevelt. At a certain point, fatigue is going to sit in. None of this will actually be covered by the game beyond what happens after your second term and the election there, but it’s just one of those things
We’ve had a total of three presidents who’ve actually gotten impeached, one of them twice, but all of them failed in the Senate trial. Another, Nixon, resigned under the threat of impeachment, then we’ve had four died in office of natural causes and four shot
Absolutely. Just assuming two terms for Ritcher because they make it two terms after us in the epilogue to this game and three for one party is already very unlikely. Maybe they will also manage another 8 years!
To go into way to much detail on this, there wasn’t an official prohibition on a third term for most of American history, but the first president George Washington established a precedent of only going for 8 years in office. So no president successfully ran for a third term until Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). He was president for the great depression and world war 2 and was very popular, being elected to four terms. He died during his fourth term and after that the Constitution was amended to establish the 8 year limit. Trump is only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms as well.
Ideally you want something like the Reagan/Bush years. Bush almost managed to win four straight for the GOP, but the economy tanked, he took the blame, voters were tired, and Clinton was cool. At a certain point, overall voter fatigue, increasing competence from the opposition party, and just plain old shit Luck is going to become more and more of a factor
This game is incredible and I really wish it was on Steam.
The author deserves a lot of praise for the research, details, and love put into every bit of this thing.
If I remember correctly, it was something about cell research. Highly dangerous if my memory serves me well
Genetic diseases that could be removed via altering or destroying harmful cells in the patient’s DNA (I think?)
It’s an act that would ban the use of embryonic stem cells in research. Not exactly genetic research (although it is affected). Embryonic stem cells, or rather, how they are obtained, is a rather controversial issue that Republicans feel strongly about.
A total federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. it’s one of the tenants of the pro-life movement, although abortion is considered more of the priority, this isn’t all that far behind
This goes is into the whole fetal personhood thing. If you’re someone who opposes abortion on moral grounds, you’re going to oppose the use of embryos for scientific research, because you sincerely believe those embryos are human. Translation, the pro-life movement, or at least some segment of it, view embryonic stem cell research as Experimenting on people. There’s a lot more that goes into it and it’s more complicated than I’m framing it, but that’s the idea.
I Will give you the fact that this is a more esoteric position that doesn’t come up anywhere near as often as some other stuff does
One thing I wonder about this story is, how can we manage American foreign policy? Is it possible to start a small-scale or large-scale war? Can new territories be acquired? Or could the Monroe Doctrine even be applied to overthrow antagonistic governments like Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua?
Don’t worry, almost all of your domestic stuff is more or less handled in this first game, there’s some other stuff like the budget and one or two little things that are gonna get covered in the sequel, but the primary focus is going to be foreign policy
Get hyped for WW3!
From what RFKramer has said, the foreign policy plan in TPH2 is going to be interesting…
It’s the part he’s been the most excited about, for sure, after the very easy to manage budget, that is
I am sure the budget will be very easy, doing nothing about the deficit wont backfire, and I can easily sneak in a little high-speed rail project in there…
In all seriousness, the budget is going to be a massive logistical nightmare, both to program, and debug
I think it may be my second guide project for this series once TPH2 comes out.
I fear it might be needed! Probably going to have a lot of consequences as our major domestic action for that book.