PM2008 Version 1.04 Released!

New Candidates and More!

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from PolMach Forums

Today the Political Machine team put the finishing touches on 1.04, an update that adds some new candidates to the fold (Gravel, Huckabee, and Kicinich), as well as a 'Simple Icon' mode that will add some pep to the game on slower machines.

Users will also see a significant improvement in memory usage and a slew of new candidate peices to use when building your political avatar!

Check out the link for more details!

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
:D Great news!
Is there a change log somewhere?
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top

If you previously created Huckabee or the others, the new one will not appear. You have to change the created candidate in some way or delete it.

Also am I the only one who got Dennis Kucinish intead of Kucinich? (It was a fairly easy change to make in the Data folder once I noticed it)

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting woodcojb,
Also am I the only one who got Dennis Kucinish intead of Kucinich?

We put up an update yesterday to fix that...some XML files didn't get uploaded correctly on our end :(

Quoting DrCorday,
Is there a change log somewhere?


But of course! :)

- TPM2008 v1.04 Changelog -
+ NEW: Simple Icon Mode
+ Allows the game to run smoother and use less memory on older machines.
+ Still requires DirectX 9 compatability (Shader 2.0).

+ NEW: Custom Candidate Parts
+ New Bodies, Props, Eyes, Ears and more are available when creating your bobblehead!

+ NEW: Chat During Elections
+ In a multiplayer game, you can now smack-talk your opponenet (in the appropriate E10+ fashion) as the final votes come in.

+ TWEAK: Changes to the rendering system should cut down memory usage considerably.

+ TWEAK: When playing on multiple monitors, you can now specify which display the game will come up on.
+ Command line 'adapterid 0' for the Primary monitor, 'adapterid 1' for the secondary, etc.

+ TWEAK: Repulicans in the Modern 2008 scenario are no longer 'for' Affirmative Action

+ FIXES: Various bugs and crashes.

Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top

When can you have an update for Joe Biden and/or Chris Dodd??.. maybe even FDR???? thatd be sweet.. im horrible on create-a-candidate

Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top

can the next update have changes for rudy giulliani and especially ron paul.  ron paul should support withdrawing from iraq, and guilianni is not pro life.

Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top

How about some third party candidates?

The three largest third parites are


Cynthia McKinney - Green Party

Bob Barr - Libertarian Party

Chuck Baldwin - Constitution Party


and Ralph Nader who is running as an Independent.

 

btw, there are a couple of typos...its' "Kucinich", not "Kicinich"

 

I must say, you guys could have added more features to the gameplay, but it is still addicting nonetheless. But still you can DO so much more. think about congressional races!

Reply #10 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting Wallpits, reply 9
How about some third party candidates?The three largest third parites areCynthia McKinney - Green PartyBob Barr - Libertarian PartyChuck Baldwin - Constitution Partyand Ralph Nader who is running as an Independent. btw, there are a couple of typos...its' "Kucinich", not "Kicinich" I must say, you guys could have added more features to the gameplay, but it is still addicting nonetheless. But still you can DO so much more. think about congressional races!

Independents only play a role in the game as far as the non-committed votes.  Anything else would be unrealistic.  There would have to be a whole other fundraising scheme as third party candidates raise thousand to the major party's millions.  Until third parties are willing to put in the work to get a grassroots support behind them, they will be an asterisk in American politics.  Check out their sites.  There are no persons elected to any state or federal legislatures, only one mayor in a city larger than 1,000 people, and even on the county level they are lacking.  Only one third party candidate has been elected governor in the last 50 years, Jesse Ventura.  They call it a victory when a candidate gets 20% of the vote in a congressional election.  Why should third parties feel entitled to a piece of the attention when they are not willing to put in the work at lower levels of government to be taken seriously?  Canada has third party candidates that actually get elected to parliament. 

Reply #12 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting dpcnat469, reply 11
where the heck is the patch?

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