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[Jonathan S. Fox]

I added it in the early days when I was the only one working on the game, before we put the project on SourceForge. My intent back when I did the code that simulates incumbency was to make Congress look far more believable and vastly easier to understand. You can visually see how well each election goes by seeing seats changing or holding fast, instead of just seeing every letter change randomly, which made for a slow and then-unskippable animation that I found difficult to get any meaningful information out of.

[Pesi]

I don't want to complain about what has worked for this long, I started wondering about this part because of the effects it has, which seem weird. Conservatives and Liberals are only ever replaced by either Arch-conservatives or Elite Liberals. Arch-conservatives are only replaced by Elite Liberals, and Elite Liberals are only replaced by moderates. The "automatically stay put"-part leads the non-extremes to end up at the extremes, in time making the country extremely polarized. (Maybe that's what happens in real-life, I wouldn't know.) With the ability to prevent the amendments from happening, this becomes more of an issue.

[BoxOfAids]

Question!

Does Juice affect whether your liberals crack and give you up when they get arrested? I know Heart does, but does Juice come into the equation at all?

Like, if I had a guy with 0 juice and 7 Heart (high base heart), and a guy with 200 juice and 7 Heart (low base heart, with stat increases from juice), would they have the same odds of cracking, or would the one with more juice be less likely to crack?

[Pesi]

It's not heart alone that counts, but the difference between heart and wisdom. Juice is also a significant factor; 200 juice is enough to ensure they'll stay safe, as long as wisdom is not higher than heart. Psychology skill also helps.

[Stargrasper]

Which I guess makes sense.  Dumb as a rock and highly trusting should make for a blindly loyal subordinate.

I need to start paying attention to this game again...I forget, does high wisdom serve any beneficial purpose?  Or should I be recruiting based solely on heart and hard to raise skills?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I believe Wisdom does not do anything positive at all.

Trivia: In VERY early versions of the game (before even the official Bay12Games 3.0 version), Wisdom determined the number of starting skills characters had.

[Ottofar]

I think business skill is determined by the average of intelligence and wisdom

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I think business skill is determined by the average of intelligence and wisdom

It was at one point, but I think all skills are now based on only one stat, and none are tied to wisdom.

[SealyStar]

I think business skill is determined by the average of intelligence and wisdom

It was at one point, but I think all skills are now based on only one stat, and none are tied to wisdom.

What about religion and science? Those are conservative skills.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I think business skill is determined by the average of intelligence and wisdom

It was at one point, but I think all skills are now based on only one stat, and none are tied to wisdom.

What about religion and science? Those are conservative skills.

Religion, business, and science are all based on intelligence.

[Oksbad]

Can corporate mercenaries still raid you? Didn't encounter them my last game.

[Stargrasper]

Can corporate mercenaries still raid you? Didn't encounter them my last game.

I remember this question coming up a while ago...I think the consensus was "We're not sure".  Jonathan or Kay may remember or otherwise know something I don't, though.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Can corporate mercenaries still raid you? Didn't encounter them my last game.

I remember this question coming up a while ago...I think the consensus was "We're not sure".  Jonathan or Kay may remember or otherwise know something I don't, though.

I'm not sure. (Joke aside, if they can't raid you, it's probably a bug.)

[Alpheus]

Regarding the merc raid question: In 4.04.0 I got raided my corporate mercs awhile back. 

They killed my tailor and paralyzed my leader with a neck shot, thankfully they left him for dead and she survived to be a stone cold crip. 

Funny thing was, they raided my fully fortified/upgraded safehouse, and they didn't take or destroy any of my investments.  Which I guess could be said to make sense since they're professional assassins with very specific orders, like not causing a big scene by burning the place down or blowing it up.  Still you think they'd at least bother to smash the printing press & cameras.

I think I'll go into the code and add a bunch of gag names to the default name lists.

[majikero]

How do you fortify locations? Can't seem to find that option.