Originally posted by แมวไง:

so i played like 5 time as trump but i always get low by riot event

I've tried multiple times, but I'm guessing you're meant to lose for gameplay reasons.

so I have only gone through the trump route twice and I don't think that you can get high approval without cheats. the first time I completely failed, didn't stop the riots and barely stopped the spread of COVID before the civil war. however I did manage to squeak by on my second run with I think like 4 percent approval, what I did was completely focus on crushing the riots and backing the blue (which gives you 15 approval) and preventing the white house siege once there were no more moment hideouts I did the 50 pp decision to get rid of them and got a 20 approval boost, but again that barley pushed me over the edge to win and that was with me spamming humiliate the Opposition decisions.

overall I just focused on the riots because its a lots less pp intensive, with COVID you need to continually purchase masks and use more masks when vaccinating affected states not to mention when you chose the decision to increase mask production it only gives you an increase of 250 per week which is basically nothing and considering that the decision takes I think 26 days and the COVID timer is 8 or so days your basically letting 3 states get infected with almost nothing to show for it. with the riots they only take 10 CP to quell them and a 50 pp cost decision to deal with them permanently and quickly, allowing you to focus on vaccinating your civil war states and saving pp for humiliating the Opposition and for counting heads

Hello, I'm back!
I managed to get to high approval.

You have to rush the vaccine with Operation Warp Speed first and have to issue the vaccine ASAP. I used my mask options in the mid-west states as you don't need that many and also it helps to slow the spread.
You need less than 15 states infected to issue the vaccine, so keep on top of it.

After that, wait around 12 days and the "Back The Blue" option should open. I did "Crush The Riots" which cost 10 cp and has like a 2 day cooldown for every stronghold that they control. Once you crush "the movement" it should be easy to certify you as the winner.

Make sure to also check in on the Approval Meter constantly and take any decision that can help you. The "Back The Blue" option on there helps a lot as well.

You're going to be pressing a lot of buttons and being attentive.

If you do all these, you unlock a seperate focus tree which will help you A LOT more in the coming civil war and it makes the LARPing more fun as well.

Good luck!

Did this get patched out or something? I still ended up with -40 approval even though I kept a tight handle on Covid. Must've been the riots, I didn't do enough rounds of police.

Nevermind, I barely managed to get to the 50 percent chance and got elected! I can definitely optimize what I did however-I also got some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck with the pandemic.