Core
Renamed and balanced issues
Improved AI and Masochistic level difficulty
Building balance changes
Candidate balance changes
Endorsement system balance changes
Minor adjustments
Renamed Issues
Old: Public School Funding, New: Public Education
Issue Balance Changes
We wanted to further refine issues rankings to better reflect today’s issues, ads, campaign event messages, and themes across the United States over the last month.
Added Issue “Democracy in the U.S.” into the top 10 issues in the following states
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Increased importance of “Stop Illegal Immigration” to the top 10 issues in the following states
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
Increased Importance of Reducing Wealth Inequality to top 10 in following states
California
Colorado
New Mexico
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Increased Importance of Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Protection in following states
Washington
Oregon
California
New York
Pennsylvania
Maine
Minnesota
Hawaii
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Lowered Importance of the following issues across states
Leave the UN
Public Education
Higher Minimum Wage
Decreased Importance of Individual Tax Cuts in Washington
Increased Securing the Border issue to the top 5 in New Mexico
Decreased Importance of Unions in Ohio
AI and Masochistic Difficulty changes
We wanted to make sure that AI was making better decisions of what states they conducted actions at while making sure that our more experienced players get their sense of challenge.
Building Balance Changes
We realized that our Enthusiasm nerf across the board was harsh but wanted to further incentivize HQs as some of the most consistent boosts in enthusiasm.
Increased all Headquarters in-state Enthusiasm gain by 3%
Candidate Balance Changes
We wanted to fix our Intelligence spread so it was better kept balanced and unbiased.
Kamala Harris
Dan Crenshaw
Joe Biden
Tim Walz
Jill Stein
Ronald Reagan
George W Bush
Dwight D Eisenhower
Endorsement Balance Changes
We realize that United Labor was not as an impactful of an endorsement as one of the highest-costing Endorsements. We decided to replace this endorsement with more prominent issues instead.
Removed United Labor Endorsement
Added and replaced with Body and Mind Autonomy, a pro Abortion and Mental Health Services Expansion Endorsement
Minor Adjustments