Securing Votes

"PastelMermaid;c-16992622" wrote:

"Monday;c-16992015" wrote:
Make sure your sim is in a good mood, I like to make sure my politician sim is feeling confident. I'll generally do one or two of the other political discussion options first. Something about talk about/hype issues? Can't recall off hand, but do that one first, and if it goes through and the other sim reacts positively to that, then I'll try to secure the vote. But if that first one fails, then I don't try to get the vote right then, because it absolutely won't work.

I've never been super great friends with any sims first. I just make sure my sim is in a good mood and ask one or two other political career-related questions first to gauge my changes of success.

I've begun to start off with general chat and interactions.. then get everyone in a pleasant conversation - promote some policies, maybe make some false promises and if they go down well try and secure the vote - but seems to be better relations are more successful (need to try with a sim I don't really know)

To be honest with you...I think I'd forgotten that my sim was often on good terms with other sims. I mean, I definitely always promote policies and make false promises before I secure the vote. But now that I'm thinking on it, I'm pretty sure that my political sim also had Good Manners as a trait, so he could use a Polite Introduction and practically already be friends with another sim. I'm over here lying through my teeth because I completely forgot about that.

So yeah. Having the Good Manners trait with a polite introduction goes a long way to winning other sims over quickly.