Political Machine Update: April 2004

Where we're at..l.

from JoeUser Forums

We've been working really hard to get Political Machine ready for next week's beta for Drengin.net users. There's a lot of play balancing issues we need to work out. The multiplayer is starting to come along though.

Probably the biggest things we need to address right now are:

1) More questions for the TV shows. This is something I have to really work on since it's my area.

2) Look at the effect of ads and such more. I'm getting my butt kicked by the AI but it's not always intuitive why.

3) Difficulty levels for the AI.

4) Balance Democrats and Republicans to ensure that it's equally hard/easy to win.

5) Make sure no one thing is too powerful.

6) Introduce partisanship in the states (i.e. make it so that some states tilt more Republican or Democrat than they currently do).

7) Tweak the issues so that while there is variation in states, they don't switch sides. I.e. There shouldn't be a case where Republicans favor Universal health care or Democrats are against abortion rights.

Screenshot from this week.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I got so excited when the press release said beta for April 8th, I spent all day refreshing SDCentral to see if it was there yet... guess I'll just have to wait another week :)
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
that game looks cool brad...i've written to you before about this, but haven't gotten a response, that i'm aware of...but i am curious that if we will be able to beta test this game? will we have to go to the other site and register there as well? just curious...
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ah sorry about that.  Yea, the view was putting up a beta and then giong off for vacation for Easter wouldn't be a good idea.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Is the level of intensity of the color representative of the percentage of that state that wants to vote for you?

Cheers
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love this game the more and more I see it, I wish you could release more of these screen shots because I love to take a good look at what is going on in these maps. I am so glad I was watching CNN when they showed the game because I can't wait to play it.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I stumbled on this game while searching. There is a candidate with my name and everything. How does one get into a game?
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hi Sean, The beta is available to all Drengin.net users. Link to see how to get it.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can't wait to play the beta. I've seen a few places talk about it recently, and its getting me more excited. I don't see this game doing better than GalCiv but I really hope it does good. I'm always pulling for you Stardock......I have to think you and Blizzard are my favorite companies. I'm serious, whenever I see someone suggest Galciv because its one of the greatest strategy games in years it puts a smile on my face. I think its because I'm a strategy fan(strategy games are the only ones I can play for more than an hour at a time anymore) and you guys are one of the few companies who still focus on making good ones, or ones at all.
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