I understand what you are saying, Brad, but what does it mean on an issue such as More Jobs where I get 3 thumbs up regardless of whether I say I favor it or my opponent favors it. Why would the voters of a state stand behind me in both of these situations? It doesn't "feel" right. It almost seems like if I say "Opponent Favors" or "Opponent is Against' that the results should be to his ratings, not mine.
One suggestion I have is to throw my voice behind those wanting to see a running mate join the campaign at some time. He should have the same abilities that the candidate does, perhaps to a lesser extent. I think there might be too much to do near the end of the campaign for just one person running around the country. But again, this comes from someone that has no real grasp of the game yet.
I don't really know how to comment at this point because I'm realizing I really don't understand the mechanics of the game. You feel that speeches might be too powerful. My response to that is "What do speeches do?" What effect do they have gamewise? Why if I say that I favor jobs do I see 3 thumbs up? What does that mean? And if I say my opponent favors jobs I still see 3 thumbs up. Does that mean I gain support by regardless of who I say supports job
Sounds excellent!
Thanks for the link, Frogboy! Everything is working now. Time to get into the game and check my current list of issues!
How do I go about reinstalling? If I uninstall it where do I go to reload it?
Hopefully someone can help us figure out what's going on. I want to get the Political Machine beta.
Is there something wrong with Stardock Central? Every time the automatic update gets the downloading file 3 of 4 it crashes to Windows. Is there another way to get the new Political Machine beta?
I have Stardock Central on 2 systems, a Win2000 and an WinXp. The Win2000 machine hasn't required any Stardock Central updates lately, but both last night and tonight my WinXP system has needed updates. Last night was fine but tonight it crashes Stardock Central.
Political Capital has to be purchased using Stamina points.
So a Media Bias of 10 would be good, meaning that the media is slanted towards this candidate?
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Can someone explain me what the values mean in that screenshot? For example, it would appear that the environment was the most important issue in the election. How do the numbers of 6%, 85% and 14% relate to that?
Here's my list, in addition to the one in post #30, from my most recent game: · Fantasy game set up is completely nonfunctioning. · I finished a game as Gore vs. Bush. When I reloaded TPM to start a new game both candidates were set as Al Gore and when I went in to change the candidates there were 3 Al Gores at the top of the list. · The game should save the Player Name and game settings as the default for the next game. · What is
Here is my current list after a game with the current beta. · After clicking Candidate Info and clicking Done you cannot open up Candidate Info again. · Is there a way to see the Candidate Qualities during the game? · The online documentation says that the Opposition quality “determines how much this candidate motivates the opposition to get out an vote.” Does this mean voting for or against your candidate? · None of the state issu
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have a copy of the rules printed from the game page and it sounds really good and having it explained makes it all the better.
So I can look at Awareness as the percentage of support I have from the electorate? That makes sense. I was thinking it was a more complicated concept, such as you first had to achieve the "Awareness" of the people before you could then gain their support. I will try to get into the game again and see if it's a bit easier for me.
Maybe I was misleading, Brad. I played The Political Machine under the first beta just to work around and get a feel for the game. I don't dislike your game at all; I just don't understand most of the mechanics of it. I will probably get a better feel for it once I play it some more but it's probably just my frustration at not understanding what everything means that is discouraging me. I've been waiting for this game for a long time and just want to s
My observations so far in my first attempt at Beta 2: 1) I would like to see at least one Independent candidate so that you could at least have a 3 way election. 2) When you click on the magnifying glass to examine a candidate there is a box called Points that contains a symbol and a number. The number is different for different candidates? What is this? There is no popup help to explain what this value means. Unfortunately,
Part of my problem is I don't understand what this "Awareness" is. How does Awareness relate to popularity?
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I have it, as well. It is an excellent game and after playing it I almost dread messing with The Political Machine now, as TPM is much less understandable, though graphically superior.
How about a screen shot detailing what all the screen elements are? What are those percentages at the top of the main screen? Is that the poll information? What do the thumbs up and thumbs down of different colors mean? See President Forever for ideas and a well explained execution of game mechanics.
I get the following Windows error for PolMachine.exe when starting the game: The instruction at "0x004a2935" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". It then changes the resolution on my screen and runs the intro video (which is great!). After the intro it pops back to this message and when I acknowledge it the program closes. I'm sure that if I acknowledged it before the intro started it would close then.<br
So this means that if you live in D.C. you are not allowed to vote for President, who lives right in your city?
Any chance of this topic being moved to The Game forum?
Will these details (numerical formulas) be explained in the final manual?