I'd like to see a way to modify the number of electoral votes per state, and blank out states that are assigned a total of 0. I have a book (The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections) that shows all the historical presidential elections with the number of electoral votes per state...it'd be cool to make some scenarios with the past configurations, such as, in 1820: NY 29 VA 25 PA 24 NC 15 MA 15 KY 12 MD 11
I've done more "realistic" stats for my candidates...download them here: http://home.comcast.net/~jaguarusf/JaguarUSFCandidatesv2.zip
Please change the ratings to more realistic values...I don't really have the time or knowledge to get them apporoximately correct...I just did random values.
Download 42 Candidates with pictures...some are mine, some are previously posted. With the ones I made, I assigned random values for each of the attributes...feel free to change them to more "realistic" values. Here's the link: [url]http://home.comcast.net/~jaguarusf/JaguarUSFCandidates.zip[/url] And a list of the candidates: Russ Feingold Chuck Schumer Richard Daley Joe Kernan Janet Napolitano Eliot Spitzer<br
Endorsements are mainly useful for (a) awareness and (b) an instant boost on 2 issues. They do cost a lot of stamina via political capital and are not constant like ads, but cost no money.
Yes. Thanks.
Later on tonight, I can make some individual canidate files from these and post them, or I'm sure someone else could too, so that we can consolidate the new people.
"Tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
Treehouse of Horror VII, episode 4F02...Kang and Kodos kidnap Clinton and Dole and pose as them to run for president....Kang and Kodos would make good additions to the game http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F02.html
It happens every time I start the game after I insert the CD.
Yeah, level 3 HQs are pretty sweet.
The first time I start the game, it lags heavily...the mouse pointer skips and drags, and it's basically unplayable. If I exit the game and reenter, it's fine. RAM leak? System specs: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ 896 MB RAM nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4400 v 61.77 Windows XP Pro DirectX 9.0c
After thinking about which level of HQs are best for getting the most $ per week, I took a look at them: HQ 1 Cost $250,000 Return $10,000/week = $25/$ HQ 2 Cost $750,000 (250 plus 500 upgrade) Return $30,000/week = $25/$ HQ 3 Cost $1,750,000 (250 plus 500 plus 1000) Return $90,000/week = $19/$ So, as you can see, you get the same amount of $ for building 3 HQ1s in three different states as 1 HQ2 in one state....I see no real advantage
I think it may be more effective to pick numerous issues to make speeches on or take out ads for. I usually try to find the most important issue in a crucial state for which I have a 5 rating, and do a speech/ad on that...this way you can downplay the opponent's issue while making them address new ones.
For future projects, I'd like to see more contemporary possible candidates, such as the most wealthy senators... from http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/ John Kerry, D-Massachusetts: $163,626,399 Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin: $111,015,016 John Rockefeller, D -West Virginia: $81,648,018 Jon Corzine, D-New Jersey: $71,035,025 Dianne Feinstein, D-California: $26,377,109 Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois: $26,132,013<b
I was playing the campaign as Forbes against Gephart (?) and I lost mainly because he spent so much more money than me (15 mil to 23 mil). We both built the same number of HQs around the same time...where is he getting all the extra cash from? I was doing fund raising about once per turn trying to catch up, but his ads took the country. I'm a monetary/fund raising genius (at least my character is)! Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks. Here's another question: Is there an advantage of pushing controversial issues that have thumbs up for you but thumbs down for both the opposing party AND independents. It seems you'd lose those neutral voters. Maybe you could say your opponent agress with one of those to bring independents to your camp? I usually just go with all positive issues because I'd rather not lose those opposing party votes, espeically if I want to try and tak
Some strategic questions: 1. Say my opponent has made The Environment the #2 national issue (which 100% of the voters agree with him). What's the best was to lessen the importance? (a) Make my strongest issues more important through debates (b) Make his less important by sending the appropriate operative to states where it's #1 or #2 (c) Anything else? 2. It seems that getting endorsements is very important. Does getting an endorsem
If you use historical figures, are the demographics of the US historical as well? I'd be kind of cool to redo, say, the 1840 election with 27 states and 294 total electoral votes (visit a cool site about old elections here: http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/ ) Sounds like a grand idea for a free expansion!!!
I've noticed (at least in the demo) that the voters' preferences for each canidate is 33% Rep, 33% Dem, and 33% Undecided. What, then, is the point of having "Democratic" or "Republican" states, those shaded in blue or red under the Liberal vs Conservative map? Shouldn't a liberal state start out with an advantage for the Democratic canidate (approx. equal to the Democratic population advantage in the state, with some undecideds taken out), since most