By the way, worst to worst you can edit your candidate's issue values manually by editing the xml file, but that is a bit of a pain and of course allows you to cheat with massive values if you're so inclined. Glad to hear the fixes are done, thanks so much for responding promptly.
I've had a fair bit of success with a custom candidate with: - max initial money to get a good base of money-making hq's up (plus enough left over for at least a 3-point-per-turn clout producer) - zero comeliness and intelligence, I just avoid the tv show appearances altogether; I may have to revise this at higher difficulties - max charisma because I give speeches constantly to build awareness, change issue priority, and build political capital - Right now I'm
By the way, you can manually edit a candidate's issue values, the default candidates are found in the game directory, the custom ones in your user directory, for example: C:\Documents and Settings\keith.lamothe\My Documents\My Games\PolMachine2008\Candidates\KeithLaMothe.candidatexml Vista users would find a somewhat different structure. For my single custom candidate, the file looks like this (after editing, but all I changed was numbers) : (note, I had