jscott991

It seems to replace your lower stats with their higher stats, or at least adjust them up. Its an enormous factor in elections as I was just shown by Frogboy. If you choose your VP correctly, you can have near max stats.

I think all custom candidates start with a 0. If you look at the .candidate file, they have a 0 in their judgement score slot. Two candidate files posted. Link Link

That's what I thought. Thank you.

Thanks for all your help Frogboy. I'm not sure I understand completely how judgment works but I appreciate the support you've provided on every issue. I am running the latest versions. I think I posted that the penalty wasn't big enough but now I can see that it does matter. I'm curious why Republican loyalty weight is so low and Democratic is so high but that's not so important. I emailed my savegame in already to the email addresses you

Should custom candidates have a judgment score of 0? Somehow Richardson/Sullivan's ticket had a judgment of 5 to my Custom/Forbes ticket having a judgment of 1.

Ohio: I can see in the spreadsheet some of the issues that led to him coming back, but a few don't make any sense to me. What is judgement and why would Richardson have me 91% to 9% on that issue (weighting is 100, compared to the outsourcing jobs weighting of 164)? He also beat me 70-30 on Republican loyalty (weight of 30) and 65-36 on Democratic loyalty (weight 84). Media bias, minority appeal, and credibility were als

My problem is that the guy didn't even campaign in these states (no ads in Ohio and newspaper only in Pennsylvania) and he is in a position to win both. I campaigned ridiculously hard in both states (plus California and NY) and its not having an effect.

Frogboy, I don't mean to sound shrill, but aren't my candidates scores listed up there. I didn't type in the name of each trait but I'll do that now. I'll list my stats again with their names, Charisma 8, Comeliness 8, Compassion 4, Cred 5, Experience 5, Integrity 5, intelligence 4, Media Bias 2, Military 2, Minority 2, Religious 6, Stam 9, Fundraising 8, Money 7. There is a gap of 4 in Media Bias, a gap of 2 in compassi

Control S brings up the savegame menu.

Frogboy, I listed what was in Ohio. Pennsylvania at this time had a GOP spin doctor (mine), a third level GOP HQ, a first level Dem HQ, 2 GOP TV ads, 1 GOP newspaper ad, two Dem newspaper ads and a Dem intimidator. Both sides had 100% awareness. My candidates traits are not going to explain this. I use the same candidate. Her stats are 8, 8, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 2,2, 2, 6, 9, 8, 7. My running mate is Mike Forbes. The Dem runni

The 2000 version of President forever was kind of horrible. I'll try the demo and see what I think of the updated game.

Another state from that same game that I actually won because I put a spin doctor in on election night. Why is this state so close?

Thanks Jefferson, but I think the problem is deeper than that. There really is no reason that this state should be close and I'm concerned that it is. It shouldn't take a smear merchant/spin doctor to win every state where the AI and the player are at 100% awareness (although, I'm finding that this is largely true). What does it take to build a lead in a state? I thought that the AI's advantage in the upper levels was confined to mo

I agree with all fury's list except the Third Party candidate (not necessary and probably would really damage the demographic model and the weather. Great list.

Jefferson, you are wrong. I'm winning outsourcing jobs. I'm against it (hence the negative score) and so are all three groups of Ohio's voters. I won the issue handily. In fact, I won every issue except prescriptions for seniors. Again, I ask. How did I lose the state?

I'm not sure it is. I didn't have any problem giving them an extra $10 just to help them make the game better in the future. Honestly, though, as the game stands now, having an issue editor really is meaningless. I would have preferred a candidate editor or a demographics editor.

Ignore the poll. Look at the issues. How was it even close?

Your game isn't working right. I haven't encountered any of these problems (except the lack of news interviews). You CAN save in single player by the way.

Each side had a level 1 HQ. I, as the GOP, had two newspaper and two TV ads. The Dems had zero ads. There are zero operatives in the state. So, how did I lose it?

Political Machine is definetely worth 19.99. As long as you don't expect the next great game, you are getting a game that is fun and quick to learn and play. It doesn't have the longevity it needs, but hopefully Brad and the others will give it that through bonus paks and possible expansions. I'm very wary of PP3 the more I look it over. I think it is just an updated Doonesbury.

Excellent points Laststand.

Interesting. I didn't think it was possible.

I'm not sure its possible to tie. The electoral college is set up in such a way that someone is guaranteed to get 271 votes. I don't think there is a result that can give 270-270.

Power Politics III looks like Doonesbury '96 in almost every respect. I was inclined to buy it for 19.95 and try it, but I'm really wary of the huge bias of the '96 game (especially since the 2004 election is far more charged than the '96 election; the incentive to be partisan is greater). I still would say that PP3 will be more detailed and more of a strategy game, while Pol Machine will play quicker (too fast in my opinion) and be m

Some stats on HQ's: Level 1: 250,000 Money earned if built on day 1: 400,000 Level 2: 750,000 Money earned if built on day 1: 1,200,000 Level 3: 1,750,000 Money earned if built on day 1: 3,600,000 I never think that the level 3's are worth it. You can only build 1 of them on day one and after that its hard to lay out the 1.75 million and 12 stamina points after day one.