Welcome future Presidents!
Your careers are a delicate balancing act. You have to consider many elements and make sure they all work together. Your political opponents, global turmoil and moody constituents will try to throw you off balance. In the game, this will be represented by a number of statistics you have to take care of. Projects are the way to make sure they are all well balanced, while you still fulfil the political goals.
Along the party lines
After the initial questionnaire, you will be given access to the project tree compatible with your party’s policies. Both Republicans and Democrats will have their own separate projects based on their policies from recent years. There are 15 major sectors in the projects tab, they have been chosen from the yearly federal spending reports. Each party has 6 sectors to choose from and develop. There are 3 additional sectors available to the president regardless of their affiliation.
Risk and reward
Each round, you can spend action points and statistics to invest in a project tree, increasing the benefits it provides each turn. After reaching maximum funding (typically 5 investment points), you unlock a specific project and are able to move to the next tier of the project tree. This decision can be made up to four times per project tree, so be careful! Once unlocked, the project provides permanent benefits - and, sometimes, permanent drawbacks. Balancing the costs and perks arriving from your project trees is how you survive the unexpected.
Prepare for a crisis
When in office crises are inevitable and you have to understand how to run the White House, so you can survive until the next election cycle. Planning which sectors to fund and accumulating stats to minimize losses will help you not only from day to day but also on a larger scale.
Save yourself from game over
Unfortunately, sometimes planning alone isn’t enough and you need another option to save your skin: that is where projects come in. Defunding a project tree you’ve previously been pursuing might provide a much-needed statistics boost that allows you to survive and fight another day!
These skill trees will be your best friend in fulfilling the promises you’ve made at the beginning of your term in office. Invest wisely and make sure to plan ahead. If you have any questions about the project trees, you can ask them on our social media and in our Discord!
