ScottTykoski

Hey HiddenAuror! The big thing we wanted to add across the updates for TPM2020 were the Candidate and Ideology Workshop support, giving modders an easy way to easilly share their creations. We're really happy with how this turned out: In the candidate workshop alone there are over 400 candidates to pick from! As for deeper modding, the XML should be pretty easy to tinker around with in the game's Data directory. Is there anything in particular you wanted to do? Perhaps I

Greetings fellow Political Junkies! It's almost here - the moment we've all been waiting for - Election Night 2020! Of course, being 2020, experts warn that the surge in mail-in ballots may result in an 'Election Month', but...whatever. I know WE'RE pumped! And with early voter

Hard to believe there are only 6 weeks until election day! With a new slew of issues on everyone's minds, we thought it would be a good week to make some additions to bring the state of the game in line with the state of the race. <b

Greetings fellow Armchair Politicians! Well...isn't this the craziest election year we've ever seen? I've been on every single version of TPM, and between Coronavirus, Protests, Economic uncertainty, and Biden's "turtle" strategy, I've never seen an election cycle like this! <span

Hey Everyone! We've been hard at work on The Political Machine - some cool v1.2 stuff that I can show you now, but also some super secret stuff that I've sworn an oath to keep under wraps! ;) <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http

Yeah, IIRC Life and Death magic are just the two sides of 'Creation' magic. You have to explicitly play an evil race to have access to it, though.

Yeah, we definatly have some Debate gameplay ideas for next time around, but they just didn't make it in to this version :(

Can you post from your debug.err (my documents/my games/polmachine2008/debug.err). We can get a better look at what's going on from there :)

What you'll want to do is... 1. Start a LAN game on one of the machines. 2. Jot down the IP number displayed in the upper right corner. 3. Have the second player start a lan game, but type use the IP address from the first machine into the upper right window. 4. Press enter! That should do it. Let us know if you continue having issues.

No, it should make no difference, and your computer certainly has the specs. One last suggestion...try playing with 'simple icon mode', see what that does for ya.

Try bringing your resolution down to 1024x768 and turning off multisampling. And you already posted your debug.err so you're a flippin' computer genius in my book ;)

Garvik: The backporting of the Espionage improvements (as well as any other easy changes to make) will be done once the beta cycle is over. This probably meens that DA 2.0 will be about a week behind TA 2.0, though we'll try our best to time a duel release.

nathan: Can we see your Debug.err file (my documents/my games/polmachine2008)? Perhaps that holds some clues as to what's locking things up.

Gah...sorry again, we're running into issues when updating from SDC...problems that may not be fixable but we're making sure that there's not somthing wrong with the files. I'll keep you all posted.

Still shooting for tonight...had a staging issue where the files were posted twice, so we'd like to fix it so you guys aren't forced to download 600 megs of worthless files [e digicons]#:([/e]

The Betas are only going up on Impulse. Once all the bugs are worked out, we'll put the 2.0 gold up on SDC as well. :( Sorry for the inconvenience.

Weird...try bringing up your 'my games\polmachine' folder and removing the SarahPailin.candidateconfigxml files under 'Candidate'. This should jar her out of baldness [e digicons]:)[/e]

Yeah, we've talked about several ways to do this. Perhaps in our next update we can squeeze it in :) Glad you're digging the game! :D

So everyone knows, we'll be doing Tuesday nights from 6-8 EST. Cya'll there! :D

I bet it is in moderation..I'll look into this tomorrow.

garber: I'm sure we can find the patch for you :) We had no idea 2004 didn't ship with serial numbers until we dusted off then busted open some old copies. In fact, we should just make the patch available on the website somewhere (I doubt Ubisoft even remebers publishing PM2004)...I'll look into it.

Originally we were going to go all out with the Editors, including everything people would need to make their own scenerios, etc. However, as time grew short, we didn't have nearly the necessary time to get the map editor polished for this...and with the lead programmer on that side of the game gone, I don't know if it'd be possible :(

We put out an update 1.50.05 to solve this (along with a few other issues). Should be available on Impulse! Enjoy :)

Sorry your having problems, and sorry for the following questions but I have to get them out of the way ;) 1. Are you updted to 1.50.05 2. Are you choosing the 'LAN Game' option in the multiplayer window? 3. Are you getting a port error, invalid data error, or something else. 4. Can you post your debug.err file here (available at my documents\my games\polmachine2008) Again, thanks for answering these...we'll try our best to help you get to the bott

It's really just for streamlinging the choices and hiding the rediculous ones for the truely inept candidates :)