RoddyVR
Veteran Board NESer
Background
The year is 2024. The US two party system has collapsed. The last elections were a complete mess rife with sabotage, cheating, recounts, bribes and even a murder. The end result was highly contested. The president of the last 4 years (who publicly split from his party the day after being sworn in as president) acomplished nothing except to expose that the two major american parties have been working as one for many decades and only showing a two sided face to the nation to keep up the appearance of democracy. The public has turned away from the major parties and now looks to the individual candidates of the new elections to pick a president from. For the first time in centuries the voter turnout is expected to reach over 95%. This makes most old truths about which state is conservative or liberal or prolife or prochoice or any other old defenition prety much mute, with so many new voters it is almost imposible to know how which state will lean.
The Candidate
You have a home state.
You have a core political folowing in your home state from which build your candidacy.
And you have the Million Dollars that the government handed you to help you start your campaign.
And you have your most important asset: Your Time.
Turns
Every turn, you can spend your time doing two things: Raising money for your campaign or Getting the people to Vote for you.
And you can also spend any amount of your saved up money on TV adds, Newspaper spreads/stories or any other way you can come up with to get the people of a state to vote for you.
Each turn will be two days, though i may skip some weekend updates (which would make it a monday-wednesday-friday update schedule), reguardless of sent and unsent orders. If you do not send orders, then I will use your orders from the turn before, and do the same thing again.
Voters
Every state has a pool of undecided voters that you need to convince to vote for you. And then there are ones that have already made up their mind who you can try to win over.
Orders
Every turn you have 16 hours of your time to spend (you sleep for 8) and you can spend as much of your accumulated campaign funds as you want. Please use your time in whole hours (no 10 minute campaign stops) so that i dont go insane trying to figure out fractions of hours. but money you can use in any dollar amounts you want (so you could win a state by 1 dollar theoreticaly)
for each hour spent fundraising in a state:
$5k per point in the state at start of turn
$25k for each point gained in the state this turn.
Candidate with most Time spent campaigning in a state this turn:
1st place = gain 12 points in that state
2nd place = gain 6 poins in that state
3rd place = gain 3 points in that state
These points are taken from "Undecided Voters" pool, unless there are no more undecideds left in the state, in which case the points are drawn in equal amounts from all other (non winning)candidates (each looses same # of points).
Money Spent in a state:
1st place = gain 30% of your current points in the state
2nd place = gain 15% of your current points in the state
taken from all categories fairly (each looses same fraction of their points)
Ties:
A tie in any category (time in state or money spent in state) will result in both candidates getting the "winning" spot. So if two people spend 3 hours each in California and a third person spends 1 hour there, then the two with 3 hours will both get 12 votes gain, and the 1 hour candidate will get 3 vote gain (noone gets the 6 vote gain).
Visiting a state that you already control doesnt give you much, but visiting one you dont have any following in will give you a good boost there.
Spending money in a state you do not have any followers in will get you nothing. Spending money in a state you have a good presense in will give you biggest value for you money.
Fundraising is best done in a state you have strong support in, and/or are gaining more support there this turn.
Debate Challanges
If the regular campaigning gets boring and you want ot take a more direct risk against a specific opponent, challenge him/her to a debate. This is a bet between two (or more) candidates, they agree on the terms (how many votes each wagers in which states) and I will randomly determine the winner who then wins all the votes wagered.
Remember that both candidates have to have the EXACT same terms listed in their orders or the debate wont happen, and ofcourse both have to agree to hold the debate so this cant be forced on anyone, and it cant be used to steal votes or anything. I just REALY like randomness and wanted to include it in some form.
The year is 2024. The US two party system has collapsed. The last elections were a complete mess rife with sabotage, cheating, recounts, bribes and even a murder. The end result was highly contested. The president of the last 4 years (who publicly split from his party the day after being sworn in as president) acomplished nothing except to expose that the two major american parties have been working as one for many decades and only showing a two sided face to the nation to keep up the appearance of democracy. The public has turned away from the major parties and now looks to the individual candidates of the new elections to pick a president from. For the first time in centuries the voter turnout is expected to reach over 95%. This makes most old truths about which state is conservative or liberal or prolife or prochoice or any other old defenition prety much mute, with so many new voters it is almost imposible to know how which state will lean.
The Candidate
You have a home state.
You have a core political folowing in your home state from which build your candidacy.
And you have the Million Dollars that the government handed you to help you start your campaign.
And you have your most important asset: Your Time.
Turns
Every turn, you can spend your time doing two things: Raising money for your campaign or Getting the people to Vote for you.
And you can also spend any amount of your saved up money on TV adds, Newspaper spreads/stories or any other way you can come up with to get the people of a state to vote for you.
Each turn will be two days, though i may skip some weekend updates (which would make it a monday-wednesday-friday update schedule), reguardless of sent and unsent orders. If you do not send orders, then I will use your orders from the turn before, and do the same thing again.
Voters
Every state has a pool of undecided voters that you need to convince to vote for you. And then there are ones that have already made up their mind who you can try to win over.
Orders
Every turn you have 16 hours of your time to spend (you sleep for 8) and you can spend as much of your accumulated campaign funds as you want. Please use your time in whole hours (no 10 minute campaign stops) so that i dont go insane trying to figure out fractions of hours. but money you can use in any dollar amounts you want (so you could win a state by 1 dollar theoreticaly)
for each hour spent fundraising in a state:
$5k per point in the state at start of turn
$25k for each point gained in the state this turn.
Candidate with most Time spent campaigning in a state this turn:
1st place = gain 12 points in that state
2nd place = gain 6 poins in that state
3rd place = gain 3 points in that state
These points are taken from "Undecided Voters" pool, unless there are no more undecideds left in the state, in which case the points are drawn in equal amounts from all other (non winning)candidates (each looses same # of points).
Money Spent in a state:
1st place = gain 30% of your current points in the state
2nd place = gain 15% of your current points in the state
taken from all categories fairly (each looses same fraction of their points)
Ties:
A tie in any category (time in state or money spent in state) will result in both candidates getting the "winning" spot. So if two people spend 3 hours each in California and a third person spends 1 hour there, then the two with 3 hours will both get 12 votes gain, and the 1 hour candidate will get 3 vote gain (noone gets the 6 vote gain).
Visiting a state that you already control doesnt give you much, but visiting one you dont have any following in will give you a good boost there.
Spending money in a state you do not have any followers in will get you nothing. Spending money in a state you have a good presense in will give you biggest value for you money.
Fundraising is best done in a state you have strong support in, and/or are gaining more support there this turn.
Debate Challanges
If the regular campaigning gets boring and you want ot take a more direct risk against a specific opponent, challenge him/her to a debate. This is a bet between two (or more) candidates, they agree on the terms (how many votes each wagers in which states) and I will randomly determine the winner who then wins all the votes wagered.
Remember that both candidates have to have the EXACT same terms listed in their orders or the debate wont happen, and ofcourse both have to agree to hold the debate so this cant be forced on anyone, and it cant be used to steal votes or anything. I just REALY like randomness and wanted to include it in some form.
hiladelphia, Pennsylvania
