BUG's Bugs..and more Bugs.

Hello Game support

Got a couple of issues you ought to know about. I don't require a response as much, this is just FYI to help you with the next patch.
Earlier this evening, I was playing a candidate I created of myself in Campaign mode. I have reached Bill Clinton so far. Up to this point,game play has been error free. First time I played, the game crashed, no warning, just shut down. I reload it, Play again. Instead of what Clinton does in the election, I see Kerry's name inserted. A topic of Bill Clintons was 'Bush/advantage'. Bush wasn't even in this game I played against Clinton. Other times I noticed that where the state should have been in the news wrap up at the end of the week, it was not included..it just said "Clinton (or myself) was in STATE this week..."

Like a lot of people who have written, I too have noticed errors in the history of Political Candidates. The only one I have seen so far was that Bill Clinton profile is that he escaped Impeachement by the House of Representives.

No, he did not. The House of Reps did indeed Impeach him. The Senate tried him and found him not guilty. You can be impeached as President without necessarily being removed from office. I know there are many factual errors like this in the game from what I have read from others writing in, but this is the first one I have found personally.

Anyways, as the point reached where we both picked Running mates, I picked mine and he picked himself. Apparently, Human cloning has been fast forwarded in the game to where you can pick yourself as a running mate. Either that or he is having Split personality issues with himself?
Seriously though, I'm not certain about anyone else having this problem, but for the game, you should not be able to pick yourself as your own running mate.

One other thing, and this is a direct question I DO need a response from Game Support;
My High Scores, come up as zero, everytime I play, no matter what level I am on. Exactly what do I have to do to get a High score recorded?? It does confirm who won and who lost, but doesn't put a score up there at all. Again, this is just me, but I'd at least like to have the ability to have a score recorded if it's going to be there.


Well, that's all I have. All I care about isyou guys have all the info you need and that the next patch or succeding patches have all these bugs squashed and put to rest. Thanks

/Reagan's Clone/..
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Are you getting the message at the beginning about corrupted files?
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Hi Cari

Thanks for responding. No, I am not recieving any messages about corrupted files. It just shut off. I've been playing the game now for about a week or so without problem, at least until last night. I just tend to take more notice with my games and saw the errors (i.e. state missing, wrong topic, candidate in game, etc). I figured you guys would like to know. I'm not sure what can be done for it at the moment and I am hesitant to go into the game files and start messing with it even if something could be done to fix it. I'd just as soon wait it out for the next patch and see where that goes. Any input regardess of what you think is causing that would be cool too.

Thanks Cari
Appreciate your time looking into it

/Reagan's Clone/
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Well it sounds like you may have a bad autosave file or something. Do you have any save files that reproduce any of problems with Kerry showing up instead of Bill Clinton, or the bush advantage thing? Or one that reproduced the zero score?

--Cari


You can e-mail any save games that reproduce bugs to me at Email
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Cari

The only problems I have had so far was with that one game I had played. I'm only guessing here, but I'm willing to bet that problem will repeat itself when I play other combinations. I've been keeping a pretty keen eye on bugs and errors of that sort.

Just to be clear so I don't confuse, Clinton showed up in text, not in picture, and even Bush has appeared (George W) in the text instead of me during that game. I'll play a few more games against Kerry to see if that repeats itself and if it does, I'll be sure to let you know first opportunity I have.

As for the Zero score; Now, that has constantly repeated itself over a dozen times without fail. Every game I play either on Fantasy or Quick or even the Campaign mode I am working on now, every time I have gotten a zero score at the end and I just know that's not right.

I'm pretty litterate on my computer and clicking around and into files, but I'm not sure how I would go about sending you a game save file directly. I could use instruction on how to go about that.

Thanks again

/Reagan's Clone/
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Well, I get a Zero score as well. Since this is kind of on my questions as well, (I'm getting a new computer between tonight and tommorow morning...) The Political Machine would crash when I went to play Republican or Democrat. I tried every single candidate, and it crashed every single time. Well, I hope someone can answer me. Hope you get all your questions answered, Reagan's Clone...
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Deaniac

Thanks, I hope so too. So far so good on getting recognition to my problems. I'd be just happy beyond belief if the bugs I am experiencing were included in the next patch. (ahem, cough cough)

Good Lord! I hope you're not getting a brand new computer just to play Pol Machine. I had to buy a new video card.

*Cari-
If you happen by on your post wanderings answering others, let me know. I still check by here on this posting every day or so. I did like I said I was going to and started a new Campaign other than the one I am working on just to see if anything else buggy happens. Everything at the moment is going well. No bugs, text errors, crashes, etc to speak of.

Thanks again.

/Reagan's Clone/
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The save games are the files with the extension .pmsave in the data directory of Political Machine. To attach a file in an e-mail using Outlook or outlook express, click on new e-mail and then click on the little paper clip button. Then browse to the data directory of Political Machine and select the files that you want to send in the dialog. Then click ok.

Deaniac, if you are also getting zero scores I would also like to see your save game. Without knowing more information about your old computer, I can't determine why it would be crashing. Since you're getting the new computer, are you going to want to pursue debugging Political Machine on the old system?

--Cari
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Cari

Thanks. I had been wondering if that was how to do it. I know how to do attachments, but it's going to come to you through hotmail just so you know what to look for.I'm usually just hesitant to go into a game file to mess with it. I'll make the Subject pretty obvious for you so it's easy for you to look for. I had another no-warning crash last night in a campaign. Just shut off again. Fortunately, it did somehow save my last completed campaign before it stopped so I was able to continue on when I reloaded the game.

And yes, I'm am still getting zero scores on the High score table as well. I have a whole row of scores on the high score table that list my wins as zero and my only two losses as zero. This new campaign I've started, it won't even recognize my new character score for this one.

Cari, I'll have to send you those game save files later this evening. They'll be in your email box under the subject of "BUGS and MORE BUGS."

Thanks for taking a look at this for me. Appreciate the time.

/Reagan's Clone/
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For anyone following this thread, if you use the cheat keys, you will get a score of zero. In future updates we may change it so that you can see what your score would have been if you got it without the cheat keys, but it's not in the 1.02 build that is currently going through QA, so it won't be in 1.02 unless Ubisoft wants us to make changes to that build.
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Cari

Thanks so much. I got your e-mail yesterday. Appreciate all the time you put into answering my problems, which aren't problems anymore now that I understand what's going on.


/Reagan's clone/