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Career Mode

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Career Mode is the second game in Fantasy President. The presidency game hands the player the White House for a single term, but a career instead starts in any year from 1990 to 2025, as a private citizen, a state legislator, a member of Congress, a governor, or a President. A career runs through a world that keeps its own record of offices, people and races. Losing an election sends the career back into that world rather than ending it. Winning the presidency hands the career over to the presidency game for the length of the term, and returns it afterwards. The setup screen marks Career Mode as a beta feature that is unbalanced and has only been lightly played.

The pages in this section describe how a career begins, the life it lives between offices, the races that move it up the ladder, the desks it lives at in office, and the systems that move the world around it.

Contents

Beginning

  • Career starts describes the start screen, the seven playable starts, the 1990 to 2025 year range, the templates, the state grid, the Real and Arcade pace, and the Historical and Sandbox worlds.
  • The character sheet covers age, education, job, household, health and savings, the action-point budget these add up to, and how the answers carry over if the career reaches the presidency.

A life between offices

  • The board describes the monthly schedule, the activity catalogue and its action-point costs, who each activity reaches, and the order in which a month resolves.
  • Money in Career Mode covers the personal and political accounts, what a job pays, living costs, self-funding, fundraising, and the era scale.
  • Recognition and favourability describes the one record kept behind every figure, tracked per persona per state, and how activities, lines, and word of mouth move it.
  • The party machine covers the named officials of the player's own party, how each one comes to know the player and forms an opinion, the party's asks, and meetings.

The races

  • the seat book describes every seat on the ladder, along with its holder and ground, a district's people, the incumbent and the field, and the door into a race.
  • Races and primaries describes how a candidate's strength is measured, how fields form, how a primary night, a general election, the presidency and the midterms are counted, what filing requires, and how the elections the player is not in are settled.
  • Campaign season covers the campaign board and its trail activities, the events that break out of them, debates, endorsements, the running mate book, and campaign money.
  • Election nights describes the animated count that plays before the result card of every race except the presidential general election.

The desks

  • The legislative desk describes the home of a state assembly member, a state senator, a representative, or a United States senator. It covers the month's event, sorted into four buckets, the docket, the committees, the member's own bill, and the votes that resolve at the tick.
  • The governor's desk describes the mansion. It covers taking office, the month's event, the statehouse, the state's own numbers, and re-election.
  • The presidency from a career describes the seeded desk, the reset of the term clock at the inauguration, the presidency game's rules taking over, the President's standing and the elections it decides, and the papers rule.

The world

  • The historical curve describes the wings of each party by period, the federal and state numbers following real history between the game's start years, what a desk inherits at the door, and the drift back after leaving office.
  • Papers and NPC events describes the state papers as verbatim reprints, the generated national front pages, the era's dated headlines, and the IN POLITICS section.
  • Difficulty is offered on the career builder and carried with the career's office dials.
  • Eras, Era shifting and Lineage explain the casts of voters a career crosses between the 1990s, the 2000s and the modern era.
  • The Presidency describes the turn and everything that judges it, which a career President plays, and which a governor also plays at state scale.
  • Glossary defines the terms used on these pages.
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