O.T. Political Machine

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Is 4/8 still a go for the beta of the political machine?
I bought my drengin.net subscription just for this last year.......

Please say yes, it's been a long wait.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
This is from the SD announcment

The Political Machine is scheduled to be released in June 2004 at most retail outlets. Stardock will be starting a public beta of the game starting April 8th via its Drengin.net (www.drengin.net) gaming network.
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More new about TPM can be found at http://www.stardock.com/newsitem.asp?id=581
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I read that release already, my question is this:
Will the beta actually be available on the 8th of this month as mentioned in a couple of other releases?

I've got plans to try a couple two player games to see how she runs on the 9th. Tentative plans of course.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
We've moved the external beta date to April 15th. 
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Ack.... the beta date moved back? I was expecting it tomorrow.... on the other hand, I do have a 20 page research paper due Monday, so maybe it's for the best.

Personally, I'm not quite sure why I upgraded to Drengin.net. I had already bought GalCiv online, and while Political Machine sounds nice I probably won't play it for long.

I guess I really just upgraded to Drengin.Net as a show of support for StarDock because I really appreciate the level of support they give to their products.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
You might want to try The Corporate Machine if you like strategy games.  I found it very addictive, but then I love Monopoly too.  (You know it's a bad sign when you set up the monopoly board with pads of paper to keep track of loans and deals and you buy old sets from garage sales to get more houses and hotels.)
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
You know it's a bad sign when you set up the monopoly board with pads of paper to keep track of loans and deals and you buy old sets from garage sales to get more houses and hotels
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It's good to hear I'm not the only one. LOL
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
I bought my Drengin Subscription today and im interested in the political machine. Will there be a editor to nake my own country or will there be other countries? Im gemran so i would like to have the german map there, also we have another political system it would be quite funny i think! :d

greetz

Chris
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Yea, it was the old problem of "put the beta, go off for easter break an deal with tons of angry emails because of some issue or other we didn't think of." ;)

 

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
I guess. You were going to release it on a Thursday so it's not like Saturday night...anyway, maybe you can throw us a bone and surprise us on Monday or Tuesday next week. I am fired up to play. As I mentioned, I'll give it a two player run through next weekend assuming you don't delay again.

Cheers.

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
and you buy old sets from garage sales to get more houses and hotels.
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Incidentally, not having enough houses and hotels in the game box was intentional. You're not supposed to be able to build up every property.

~SDC~
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
Incidentally, not having enough houses and hotels in the game box was intentional. You're not supposed to be able to build up every property.
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Bah! What real estate tycoon would let a silly thing like the rules stop them? :D :D :D
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
It's looking like it'll be tomorrow.
Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks Brad, I look forward to the game. Screenshots look pretty good. The doonseberry election game was buggy as hell and President Elect is pretty darn old.
This will definately fill a void.
Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top
It's now up.