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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Raise awareness in Nevada, raise money in California I think we are slowly losing hold of California so it may be less effective than Texas now. OP? Also with your funding for NASA campaign you have created an America I can be proud in.
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Herr Tog posted:I think we are slowly losing hold of California so it may be less effective than Texas now. OP? Money raised doesn't care about the predicted voting in the state, only awareness, which is still at 100% for us. We're still good with California until our returns start hitting 200K.
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B. I want to see you rip this campaign back from the grave. And maybe a president forever run next... 
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Grapplejack posted:B. I want to see you rip this campaign back from the grave. A bit late, as we've already moved on to continuing to run this poo poo into the ground, but I've been planning to do my own run from week 13 on as a post-mortem after we inevitably crash this campaign into the ground.
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TheMcD posted:A bit late, as we've already moved on to continuing to run this poo poo into the ground, but I've been planning to do my own run from week 13 on as a post-mortem after we Goons are highly tuned into the political process. We are merely being realistic 
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TheMcD posted:Money raised doesn't care about the predicted voting in the state, only awareness, which is still at 100% for us. We're still good with California until our returns start hitting 200K. sweet, i vote for that goons
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Week 13 Alright, we've reached the halfway point. We're getting there! I don't know where "there" is, but we're getting there! code:  First we fundraise twice in California...  ...then we go to Nevada...  ...and build a Campaign HQ there for more awareness. The stamina works out perfectly!  So that's it for this turn (we have a Campaign HQ in Nevada now, honest, you just can't see it behind Cruz's massive bobbling noggin), let's see what the next one brings.  Michelle goes to Florida and gives a speech on Wall Street Regulation, goes to West Virginia and picks up a political opportunity (which I genuinely just did not see), which turns out to be a Jaded Consultant, slightly hurting her ratings in West Virginia (i.E. it's loving nothing), then she goes to California and does nothing there.  She also picks up the Christian Confederation endorsement. This is a weird campaign.  Finally, here are the dumb polls again. We're not doing well. We should pull a Romney and just get pollsters who only give us good polls. VOTING As usual. State, Action, Issue. I'm still game to see how you're going to pull this off.
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hahaha you think we're gonna pull this off California, TV ad, fighting ISIS
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Friend Commuter posted:
Yeah this.
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 We lost the Christian Confederation? But Ted Cruz is belligerently Christian! How did this happen?
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Cathode Raymond posted:
It happened because I considered Religious Freedom to be a less important issue than Big Government, basically.
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Friend Commuter posted:hahaha you think we're gonna pull this off cool with this
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Friend Commuter posted:hahaha you think we're gonna pull this off Sounds good
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Herr Tog posted:NOT cool with this Florida, TV AD, ****ISIS***
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Slaan posted:Florida, TV AD, ****ISIS*** Yeah this is a better idea, we're much more likely to win Florida than California. That is, if we pretend the campaign is salvageable at this point.
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Crazycryodude posted:Yeah this is a better idea, we're much more likely to win Florida than California. That is, if we pretend the campaign is salvageable at this point. And, uh, Fighting ISIS isn't a top five issue in California, so we actually can't use it for a TV ad there.
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TheMcD posted:And, uh, Fighting ISIS isn't a top five issue in California, so we actually can't use it for a TV ad there. Minor details.
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Slaan posted:Florida, TV AD, ****ISIS*** I CHANGE
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Slaan posted:Florida, TV AD, ****ISIS*** This is it. The path to the white house....
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Week 14 Another vote, another week. code: We're going to Florida...  ...and putting down the appropriate ad there.  Then we're going to Pennsylvania...  ...and plopping down a Campaign HQ there.  Finally, I just decide to head to Virginia for a little awareness boost, since we've got a bit of stamina to spare and can still leave one to "rest". On to the next turn.  Michelle goes to California and does nothing, then goes to Louisiana and plops down a ground game ad over her supporting Reducing Wealth Gap, then goes to Florida and upgrades her HQ there. Now, it's interview time for us!  This should hypothetically be an easier interview, which might translate into better results? I don't know. I don't know a drat thing about these interviews.     I just go there and give the conservative answers (no, I didn't actually answer "I'd make math easier", I picked "I don't like it", I just thought it was kinda funny).  Apparently, I did well.  And so that's the situation going into this week.  Finally, here's the polls. I think we gained a bit. Does it mean anything? Almost certainly not. VOTING The usual. State, Action, Issue. I'd say something about trying to check whether the thing you want to do is actually possible, but I think I know you better than that. You're just being in character, I know. Spreadsheet
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Thank you for interrupting us so well and sticking to attack ads without prompt.
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Herr Tog posted:sticking to attack ads without prompt. This is really important to me, even though I kinda lost interest in the game. There just doesn't seem to be much depth.
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No, I'm not being in character, I'm just not paying attention (i suppose that might be in character but i swear it's not intentional). Ohio, TV Ad, Securing the Borders
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A glorious victory for Yeah, we have a woeful fraction of the electoral vote but actually a fairly solid majority of the popular vote. The joys of representative democracy, eh? Florida, Ad, Social Security. If anyone else wants to vote, that would be super cool!
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CirclMastr posted:What happened to win California at any cost? Well, it was a single vote. The attack ad plan was put forward by several people, and over multiple votes, so I eventually just adapted it into my general style. If there's a larger push to win Cali at all costs (and really, given the lack of voting, that's only a few people), I'll do that.
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Friend Commuter posted:A glorious victory for I'm curious if we could retake Florida. I'd also advise to do something about the Midwest. Also purple Kansas is the most insane poo poo on Earth, talk about pipe dream 
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Grapplejack posted:I'm curious if we could retake Florida. I'd also advise to do something about the Midwest. Fun fact: We're currently splitting Florida 48% Dem, 2% Indy, 50% Rep, and both of our awarenesses are capped at 100%. Unless Michelle goes in and does more to Florida, our superior ad position should net it for us. Of course, that's a big "if".
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We lost the Christian Confederation and now we don't have enough faith power to cast Miracle Shower and our ground game is suffering for it. Is what I think is happening.Slaan posted:
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Extra - The 1.03 Update and Hillary's Worst Nightmare Alright, the game just updated again, so I guess I might as well do a little side-update to show what's new. We might as well just look at the changelog, and I'll go into a bit more detail. Also, before we do that, I've now learned that there's no real problem with updates as far as keeping save games goes. Everything just stays the same way as it was before, so our Hindenburg of a campaign is going to proceed soon. Alright, so, what do we have? code:code:...I'm not just going to poo poo on the Greens in this update, don't worry. It's this game, not the Greens, really. It just makes me want to take entirely unwarranted snipes at people. Like a politician would! Not that it matters. Who's going to read this, anyway? code:code:Dakota Access Pipeline: Democrats are against, Independents are for, Republicans are for. National Anthem Protest: Democrats are for, Independents are for, Republicans are against. Zika Funding: Everybody is for, Republicans less than others. Oh, also, I have a question that I'm sure nobody will be able to answer: Why is National Anthem Protest not a top five issue in California, but is one in states like Indiana and Pennsylvania? You'd think the state that has the team that Colin Kaepernick gets paid real well to sit on the bench while a loving Jaguars QB takes his job for would have that issue be fairly important. It's like how "Fixing Flint Water Crisis" isn't as important an issue in Michigan as "Fixing Infrastructure". If the specialized version isn't going to be more important than the generalized version in the loving state it's about, then why even have it? code:Now, let's take a closer look at those new candidates.  Ajamu Baraka: Stamina: 9 Money: 4 Fund Raising Ability: 4 Charisma: 7 Appearance: 5 Credibility: 4 Experience: 5 Intelligence: 7 Minority Appeal: 8 Religious: 4  Bill Weld: Stamina: 8 Money: 5 Fund Raising Ability: 6 Charisma: 5 Appearance: 5 Credibility: 5 Experience: 7 Intelligence: Minority Appeal: 4 Religious: 5  Jill Stein: Stamina: 9 Money: 4 Fund Raising Ability: 4 Charisma: 7 Appearance: 5 Credibility: 4 Experience: 4 Intelligence: 7 Minority Appeal: 6 Religious: 3  Tim Kaine: Stamina: 6 Money: 6 Fund Raising Ability: 6 Charisma: 6 Appearance: 4 Credibility: 6 Experience: 7 Intelligence: 5 Minority Appeal: 4 Religious: 5 The funny thing that I was talking about is Baraka's and Stein's stats. They're basically identical, except Baraka has more experience (based on what I don't know), has more Minority Appeal (because he's a human rights worker with a history of fighting for minorities, or because he's black? You decide which the developers picked) and has more Religious appeal (based on what I don't know). Disregarding that two of those three seem entirely arbitrary, the funny thing is that this makes Baraka an inherently better candidate than Stein. So basically, if you wanted to win with those two, you'd be running Baraka/Stein, not the other way around. And really, Weld and Kaine's stats are pretty funny too, if just for how generic they are. This is an inherent problem with statting political candidates - beyond a few particular cases, people like Weld, Caine, Pence, Kasich, etc. are basically all the same. So you just get some arbitrary swaps and that's it. Now, I promised "Hillary's Worst Nightmare", and this is what I mean with that: If you've been reading the thread (you don't, I know, but just go with it), you might have noticed that I ran a game where I took my custom candidate, Monaca, and ran a campaign with her where I used only a single issue: Funding NASA. I won fairly handily. Now, I decided to try something else that might be fun - run a campaign against Hillary using nothing but Probing Hillary's Emails as an issue. So basically, I'd be running speeches screaming EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS and running ads all over the country screaming EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS, meaning that not only will this scandal remain in the headlines the entire time, but people will actually give a poo poo about it.  This is the latest version of Monaca. I decided on dropping a few points in Charisma, Credibility and Experience in favor of jacking up Stamina. The benefit to this is more fundraisers and more building, primarily. Essentially, I can fly into a state and build a level 3 HQ in that state in one turn, money permitting. That's pretty cool. But of course, the real question is, how did the campaign go?         I don't know, you tell me. The Week 16 update should be coming before the weekend.
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Oooh you are in Germany. So the reason the national anthem is a more serious issue outside of California is because the other states care more about football than California.
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Herr Tog posted:Oooh you are in Germany. So the reason the national anthem is a more serious issue outside of California is because the other states care more about football than California.  We Californians see Kapernick for what he really is: a crappy QB. EDIT: Our crappy QB.
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TheMcD posted:
McD, I respect you enough to be honest with you. It's going to get so much worse. So, so much worse.
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