Mark_W

It's not a fair ballot because Americans have never had proper pancakes

Aye sure

Nay to Alan Greenspan for Treasury, Aye to the rest.

Equality Democrats and Stuart Symington for Democrat Leader.

Is Stuart Symington eligible? If not I'll stick with Kefauver assuming he still is?

2 minutes ago, Arkansas Progressive said:

 Leadership

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Ken Hechler for House Minority Leader in our only vote.

He could endorse mine 😅

If they're eligible

Senate Majority Whip - Frank Moss

House Minority Leader - Ken Hechler

I sense danger

I do think factions swapping in the year drafted isn't ideal. I wouldn't say 10 years, but they shouldn't be available to steal the year they're drafted.

Feeling more comfortable about not getting to draft Ted now.

31 minutes ago, Mark_W said:

I'll work out the other stuff this evening if that's alright.

Scratch that

Progressive to Liberal
Helen Gahagan Douglas
George Brown Jr
Dolores Huerta
Harvey Milk
Robert C Weaver
Glen H Taylor
Thomas B Adams
Noam Chomsky
Thomas D’Alesandro Jr
Leonard Woodcock
John Dingell
Carl Levin
Elmer Austin Benson
Frank P Graham
Henry B Gonzalez
Lyndon LaRouche

LW Populist to Progressive
Mike Gravel
Karl Rolvaag
Quentin Burdick
Gus Hall
William C Bulitt Jr
Jose Mujica
Henry Howell

Progressive to LW Populist
Richard W Leche

I don’t think I have any eligible conversion options or Kingmakers.

Private Sector: Carl Levin
Military Sector: John Tunney
Judicial Track: Sarah McNamara (No Judicial Ability)
Governing Track: Richard Lamm
Legislative Track: Herb Kohl
Administrative Track: Yvonne Burke
Backroom Politics Track: Dianne Feinstein

I'll work out the other stuff this evening if that's alright.

• 93% Socialist
• 92% Democratic
• 91% Green
• 91% Women's Equality
• 90% Peace and Freedom
• 88% Transhumanist
• 74% American Solidarity
• 31% Libertarian
• 7% Republican
• 4% Constitution
  
   
• 94% AOC
• 93% Kamala Harris
• 91% Bernie Sanders
• 89% Elizabeth Warren
• 89% Pete Buttigieg
• 88% Joe Biden
• 80% Amy Klobuchar
• 70% Tulsi Gabbard
• 65% Elon Musk
• 62% Mark Cuban
  etc.

4 hours ago, Willthescout7 said:

Instead of nerfing the platforms immediately, I believe we should try having each faction submit one part of the plank. This does several things:

1. It better demonstrates the real world coobbling together of platforms as factions squabble.

2. This would help nerf as the computer and online players won't be able to collude to make a super platform.

This could also have a few rules, such as a nominee with Iron Fist could block a faction from submitting if the faction leader has pliable.

I suggest that the playtesters all agree here that if we try this in 1964, we won't collude together so we can run a proper test. If it doesn't work, then we nerf.

It shouldn't have that big an impact even if you do get everything right though. Do that AND nerf.

I think it will often depend entirely on the context of the playthrough. Public opinion on almost any of these topics could be vastly different depending on how the country has developed. I think the AMPU 2 solution could be to have meters for things like Religious Affiliation, Fundamentalism, Luddism that are moved depending on the length of time a policy is in place (eg. if you pass and implement disproportionately more evolution>creationism in education legislation, then over time the religious affiliation meter moves towards agnosticism/athiesm. If you pass and implement legislation that discriminates against religious groups then fundamentalism goes up over time, if you improve access to quality education for a long time then levels of luddism drop etc.) and then the significance of court cases is determined by the circumstances. Eg. Roe Jr. vs. Wade Jr. is a huge case if the population is split in terms of religious affiliation, there are higher levels of fundamentalism. If the court finds in favour of abortion rights but the country has large religious membership and moderate to high fundamentalism, or if the court finds against abortion rights in a country with low religious membership or fundamentalism. For marrying AI/Robots it could be a combination of luddism/religious membership+fundamentalism. I'm sure there's other things that could be tracked, but ultimately I would think the importance of the case should be determined by the context of the playthrough.

And for the sake of throwing out ideas, I would love to see your take on a Weimar Republic political game.

These are the ones I'm most interested in/would be most keen to help out with

1. The Long War

2. Victorian Prime Minister (I would really love it if a good system could be created to allow the game to expand further into the future and allow for the formation of new political parties/death of older parties depending on how a game plays out)

3. A game set in 1888 London

4. Build London

5. Creating the Bible

No no no we need a great music industry sim much more than a tv sim.

Gus Hall withdraws having achieved nothing and asks his communist supporters not to assassinate JFK if he wins Lee, no such request is made re. Reagan (JFK endorsment).

Estes Kefauver backs out and endorses JFK, Gus Hall will persevere for the time being.

Kefauver focuses on New Jersey and gives a Policy Speech

Estes Kefauver focuses the campaign on IL

26 minutes ago, MrPotatoTed said:

Two actions.  I'm making a major speech, and I'm doing campaign focus in New Hampshire.

Ah ok (why would you do your speech now, you better not be throwing this 😅)