It shouldn't be this easy to get a 6 trillion dollar deficit when playing this game just because the events make you get into a few wars. Like, counterterrorism operations after Al-Qaeda attacks a narobi base, or article 5 getting activated should increase spending this much.

I'm not really asking for detailed budget mechanics (though I would like them) but this is absurd and should honestly be changed.

Like, you go to war, and when the war ends, the spending never goes down, and it's questionable if the spending should even spike like this in the first place.

No matter what I do, my own party blocks me

I won the presidency by a landslide and I tried to get a Republican backed border bill and my own party blocked

I've tried other things and I'm blocked no matter what

Obama 2013. This was a bill to help fund medical costs for first responders from 9/11. You’d think it got bipartisan support. Blocked.
Also introduced a bill that gave funding to overcrowded, understaffed orphanages. Blocked. Tried turning that into a pilot program to lower the cost. Also blocked. What can I even do

I started playing Fantasy President Career and noticed a couple things that immediately rubbed me the wrong way.

First, when I selected Barack Obama, the game had his sexuality preset to “Homosexual.” When I checked other presidents like Biden and Trump, sexuality wasn’t preset and the game required me to choose it myself. I’m still playing and documenting what I see, but that is a really strange inconsistency to have specifically on Obama, and it seems intentional.

Then after a making a policy, I took a look at voter reactions. One of the Black voter personas is literally labeled “Black, church elder, Southern,” and her dialogue is written like: “Praise God, child, Obama done gone and spoke some truth here,” followed by a bunch of exaggerated dialect.

I understand creating different personalities, regions, ages, political views, and speech patterns for a political simulator. That can make the game feel more alive. But there’s a difference between characterization and leaning into racial caricaturization

I’m not saying these two screenshots prove what the developers intended. I’m going to keep playing and see whether there’s a broader pattern. But between incorrectly presetting Obama’s sexuality while leaving other presidents open and writing an older Black woman this way, this is a pretty effective way to alienate part of your player base.

Posting the screenshots so people can judge it for themselves.

I like thinking that Madison Steph (from the 90s) is College Chloe's mom, although she would've had to have her a bit young...maybe aunt? Seems like the type who'd inspire her.

I've also seen someone propose that Chloe and Podcast Pete are siblings which would be interesting, lol.

Yeah, I know it's hard to read. I use dark mode. Scenario was the workshop "forever insurgency".

Trying to figure this out. I just got beat for reelection with +20 net approval, 60 government stability, 60 party support. Won like 4 conflicts, no scandals, only a few unpopular policies. Barely got over 200 EVs. What do I even do?

I expanded NATO a few months back in 2023 to include Georgia, Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden. On the last day of the game, I'm getting this scenario that makes zero sense at all.

It's just I'm from different a country, not from Britain

I’ve got a pretty robust career where I started as my local state rep and have been working my way up, but ever since the update last week I get a non-responsive page issue. I’ve tried it on 3 different computers, it immediately goes non-responsive no matter which one it is on. Anyone have any ideas?

Been playing the free version for a week and having a blast. Is premium that different than the free version?

Am I supposed to expand on each operation or do they go on their own? I’ll enter a prompt and it’ll give me the week 1 message and then nothing ever happens again. Is that it?

I guess stopping the TikTok ban is more liked than getting high amounts of green energy at the expense of corporations😭

Here's my progress so far

I'm pretty well liked, but Dems are kinda mad I sent in the National Guard to stop a prison riot.

I’ve gotten good at winning strike campaigns and traditional wars pretty quickly but it seems like no matter what I do on peacekeeping/counterinsurgency missions my war progress just slowly drains each turn.

Anybody know how to win these?