The Political Machine 2012 1.02 update

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Stardock is excited to announce the latest update for the recently released The Political Machine 2012. The Political Machine 2012 allows players to hit the virtual campaign trail by creating your own custom candidate or choosing from a variety of candidates, such as Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum or Ron Paul.

Player's can now choose from 8 new historical candidates, from founding fathers to modern icons. Various fixes for issues reported have also been integrated, including stability improvements.

See the full change log for v1.02 below:
  • Adding playable Historical candidates
    • Abe Lincoln
    • Bill Clinton
    • George Washington
    • John F Kennedy
    • Richard Nixon
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Thomas Jefferson
  • Paul Ryan is now shown as the Republican VP on the main menu
  • Improved description text for Cheerleader operative to more accurately describe their effect
  • Fixed inaccurate tutorial values for Advertisement types
  • Stability improvements
  • Fixed game window positioning for users with non-standard Windows taskbar positions
  • Improved error message when connection lost in lobby
  • Misc minor grammatical fixes

Current customers will automatically download the update through Steam.

The Political Machine 2012 can be purchased for $9.95 from Stardock, Steam, GameStop, and GameFly.

Visit www.politicalmachine.com for more information.

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top

Sounds good. But one problem I've been having is that the "Fixer" doesn't work. When I use it to eliminate my opponent's Spin Doctor or Smear Merchant, the polling in that state stays the same, as if I never got rid of them. 

Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

It was taken down because the news channel is not the appropriate place for lengthy discussions on mod support.  Try the TPM Modding sub-forum.

Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top

Hi. I know I have created headaches but just one question-why only have exit polls based on issues? Why not on the actual demographics-i.e women, Latinos, African Americans, youth, men, etc.

Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top

Will there be a new update? Will you include the 'war hero' operative? I love the 'definer' but he is not the 'war hero' as described in the manual. It's always good to get the endorsement of a veteran.

Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting LionDemocrats, reply 5
Hi. I know I have created headaches but just one question-why only have exit polls based on issues? Why not on the actual demographics-i.e women, Latinos, African Americans, youth, men, etc.

Also, demographics on religious voters- how Protestants and Catholics vote.

What about the Jewish-Israeli American vote? 

exit polls on votes by income?

Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top

It's strange that Oklahoma, West Virginia,  Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana are won by Democratic candidates so easily when I play [almost always as a Democrat]. Oklahoma is the reddest state, and the last Democrat to win in the other five was Bill Clinton, who appealed to white southern men and Scots-Irish, blue collar voters [aided of course that this was largely his home region, being from Arkansas]. Are your models based on 1992-96?

Reply #8 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting LionDemocrats, reply 8
It's strange that Oklahoma, West Virginia,  Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana are won by Democratic candidates so easily when I play [almost always as a Democrat]. Oklahoma is the reddest state, and the last Democrat to win in the other five was Bill Clinton, who appealed to white southern men and Scots-Irish, blue collar voters [aided of course that this was largely his home region, being from Arkansas]. Are your models based on 1992-96?

It seems really biased to the Dems, it is a lot harder to win as a Republican

Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top

I noticed that as well, so I went into the game files and changed the state statistics to give states like VT more dems, and states like OK, AR, WV, LA, ad KY more republicans. It makes it a bit more realistic. 

just go to  

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Political Machine 2012\Data\English\Maps\USA

 

then open the state files with wordpad or notepad and edit them. It's a pretty neat

Reply #10 from PolMach Forums Top

you could actually do that? Great! Will try it. Thanks.

However, a 2016 Political Machine may state that Democrats in these states are Blue Dogs, like Ryan's wife and Blanche Lincoln and West Virginia's Joe Manchin, and therefore subject to vote Conservative Democrats for Congress and Republicans for White House.

Reply #11 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting RickyMcGaynis, reply 10
then open the state files with wordpad or notepad and edit them. It's a pretty neat

tried that, but for some reason Microsoft Internet Explorer opens them instead and is impossible to edit. Any ideas?

Reply #12 from PolMach Forums Top

right click on them, and it should said "open with" and then findf wordpad or notepad in your programs and open them

Reply #13 from PolMach Forums Top

will try tomorrow. midnight where I live.

Reply #14 from PolMach Forums Top

it works. thanks.

Reply #15 from PolMach Forums Top

How come you left out the print out bumper stickers application?