Hi,

Im sure those that have been playing at TPM 08 have a good handle on this questions...

1.  When adjusting your platform, is it better to give each option a +1 or -1 depending on what you believe in, or is it better to leave them all neutral and only give major +'s and -'s to those items that you believe strongly in?

To add one point (+/-) to each item in the platform takes roughly 69 points (I may have left some of them as pure neutral though), so that leaves roughly 31 points left to allocate to the platform and it takes 21 points in an item to just make it "moderately" favored or non favored so putting one point in all items one way or another, will only leave one item to be boosted to moderately favored or non favored.

Which basically means I can make one subject matter in the platform have a moderat to strong positive or negative influence since it takes so many points to get the stats to change from slight, to moderate to heavily etc.

2.  How does the scale of points work?  If I add just one point to an option in my platform, I have a slight favor or slight non favor of that item, does having 8 points in a platform item make any difference over only having 1 point in an item?  I mean I understand that there is obviously a point system that should mean something, however since the verbage under the item doesn't change until you add 1 point and then again at like 21 points, it leaves me wondering if it makes sence to put more than 1 point in any one particular item unless IM trying to make that my platform main cause.

Your insight into how this functions is greatly appreciated.

Jalida.