r/FantasyPresident

I was playing an extremely anti communist run in 1949,this is 1952

Asked chatgpt to pick a random verb and it chose "congealed," so thats what I went with i guess

Seriously, I'll do tons of policy getting them to 75, then some random policy that doesnt even pertain to them will drop them back down to the 50s 😭

Playing as Biden in 2020: got almost all of my legislation passed, had a great lead-up to the midterms, base was "solid" or something in the election UI, I both had a bigger war chest than the Republicans and had better national polling, had 64% approval, (+14!!!! genuine +24 difference to Biden OTL), economic metrics were ALL better or equal to OTL Biden's (4.2% GDP growth vs. 2.6% / 3.9% unemployment vs. 3.7% / 6.2% inflation vs. 7.1%).

The election UI itself was predicting +2-3 House pickups and no Senate change (Dems flipped Pennsylvania IRL in a worse environment, but fine, whatever), everything is lined up for a great midterm, right?

Right?

Then the midterms roll around, I somehow perform worse than OTL and lose -27 seats in the House?? AND THEN lose a further 7 seats in the senate??????????? Why is there a -8 seat difference compared to OTL? How the hell is this being calculated?

For reference: the only two presidents since split-ticket voting died down who went into a midterm at ~65% approval were Bush in 2002 and Clinton in 1998: they gained +8 and +5 House seats, and went +2 and even in the Senate.

The result the game gave me is literally worse than "2006 six-year-itch lame-duck Bush at 38% approval loses 30 seats in the house and 6 in the senate". Not second-FDR Biden at 64% approval (who somehow severely underperformed OTL Biden at 40% approval in the same election IRL).

I literally only have 2 stakeholders in opposition, my base was "solid", I fundraised more, I was predicted to win in the election UI, my government and party stability were +13% and +15% higher than game start respectively. So really, how?

I've seen other people on the sub complaining about this exact thing too, is there literally no way to perform realistically other than specifically metagaming (farming stakeholders)?

Also, why does the game not have Senate classes? It'd be pretty easy to implement and add way more realism. I somehow lost a Class 3 election for a Class 1 or 2 seat in New Mexico.

Mods, feel free to delete if this is too off-topic, but since my last post got some interest, I wanted to share a few more examples and invite other people to give this a try👍🏻

Follow-up to my last post about using GPT to visualize fictional presidents from the game. These were made using the game’s generated wiki/bio pages, then using a main portrait as reference for consistency in later images.

Photo 1: President Jerry G. Fatass in a fake modern TV interview defending his “Second Helping” agenda. More satirical/parody, but it shows how policies and scandals can become fake media moments.

Photo 2: A 1957 Reform Party campaign poster for 105 year old Bernastre Buckets and VP Wade Bramblett.

Photo 3: A young Buckets before the presidency, in an old frontier-style archival photo — basically a “before they were president” documentary image.

I think this could be a fun feature in the game someday: official portraits, campaign posters, cabinet photos, scandal/news images, inauguration shots, or old biography photos.
Basic prompt method:
Paste your president’s generated wiki/bio into GPT.
Ask for a realistic, period-accurate portrait.
Use that portrait as the reference image for future posters/photos.

Prompt:
“Create a realistic, period-accurate portrait of a fictional U.S. president based on the biography below. This is an alternate-history president, not a real person. Infer the president’s age, personality, ideology, public image, clothing, hairstyle, and expression from the bio. Make it look like an authentic White House or campaign-era photograph from the correct time period.”
Then paste the wiki/bio underneath.

For later images:
“Using the attached portrait as reference, create an authentic campaign poster / inauguration photo / candid White House photo of this same fictional president. Keep the face consistent and make the image period-accurate.”

Bottom line:
If anyone else tries it, post yours here. I’d genuinely like to see what other people’s presidents look like.

All I did was make a statement reaffirming withdrawal from the Israel/Hamas war. Clean, balanced statement. Government and party were around 60%. Never seen a drop that big. Very very annoying. Was doing a weekly run

Hey y'all - I've enjoyed this game for a few months, but more recently mid-terms and prez elections seem very skewed. Almost every single time, I get BLOWN out of power, like 420-15 in the House, for example. Unrealistic results. This was not the case before.

The pic I included had me keeping the Senate, but near one party control in the House. My approval rating was +3 and economy fine. Nothing crazy. I also think it is dumb Congress switches control right after an election, rather than that coming January.

Thoughts?

Got an interesting mix of reactions, haha

New to the game and don’t post here much, so apologies if this has already been discussed, but I was curious if people would like this as a feature.
The game doesn’t currently generate presidential portraits, so I made this one separately with GPT using the generated wiki page for my current president, Ranger Holloway (elected 1969)

Would you want something like this built into the game? Maybe a generated official portrait after election, reelection, major scandals, cabinet changes, or retirement? Campaign and propaganda posters would be cool too.

Its been a pain to deal with! The economy is doing decent but inflation just wants to persist being high, no matter what I do