Dearmad

Dearmad

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Reply to Carter creamed me: Why? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Well, possibly inthe other thread Brad is mentioning the picking of our VPs... he says the AI is very good at picking them. Maybe it makes a huge difference... I'll have to try another game. But all the same ADVERTINSING UP THE WHAZOOO (hitting CNTRL-M for $5,000,000 instantly) and I STILL can't gain... that's a little much to believe.

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Reply to Carter creamed me: Why? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Well then what is this magical thing, because I'd like to know how to take advantage of it. It's getting sorta spooky how states just start flipping really fast to the enemy.

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How about this idea (another type of special event) in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Where suddenly a previously ignored issue becomes ISSUE #! or much more important than it was due to outside unforseen events.. like the Korea issue is suddenly on everyone's mind on the west coast since the Koreans are sighted suntanning on the beaches, or something... or suddenly the ANWR issue is #1 in NW states since even MORE oil was discovered under there, or- the ECONOMY suddenly heats up, or ABORTION RIGHTS get to the forfront of a bunch of N

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Reply to Carter creamed me: Why? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Mine occurs in freeplay or whatever, so it's not limited to campaign mode. I'm satarting to think it's linked to difficulty level maybe? I mean it's got to be some particular setup we do since not everyone's complaining about this. I am using a custom candidate, are you guys?

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Reply to So is this a bug, or what am I missing!? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Heh... maybe that little old lady story teller is working in EVERY State or something?? I can't be losing that badly! And the other thing is that I was winning NORMAL level games handily awhile ago and then of late- WHAMMO, this happens to me everytime. It's too annoying to play the game like this.

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Reply to So is this a bug, or what am I missing!? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Additional notes and a screenie: NORMAL level of play. I gav eone interview after which the press said I was great! Also this "bug" doesn't happen instantly... things will be going swimmingly and then as the game goes on it's like Bush ahs magical powers or something around turn 20+. It's like a bug that builds on itself or something. Anyway in the image not all m

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Reply to MORE stats at game end please: in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Yeah I know about those... that's why the stuff I mentioned is the stuff I'd still like to see because it's not on the map. Also the State-state results coming in with totals showing would be COOL, as sugested ABOVE by FIREBALL. GREAT IDEA!

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Reply to Carter creamed me: Why? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I've seent this too. It's ahppened to me at Normal and Tough levels. At the last bit of the campaign the other guy just seems to magically turn states where I have like 5 TV adds playing, a TOP level HQ,, radio, newspaper, etc... I'm wondering the people are just saturated with me? It's a strange thing.

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Reply to So what level of difficulty is "balanced." in Political Machine PolMach Forums

You're funny, Brad. This reminds me of GalCiv where there's no level that is: 100% turned on AI. 0% no extra resources to AI. Could you guys consider this time adding in that sort of difficulty level? I like that level as I like to see what the AI can do without having extra whatevers. Such a game balancer you are, Brad, but please consider my request.

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Reply to So what level of difficulty is "balanced." in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Oh I will. I'd just like to know about where things are "fair" so I can divide evaluating the AI vs. the resouces- ie which is killing me more, lack of resources given to the AI or the AI itself. Then I can decide better what sort of game I want to play. Right now tough is truly that for me. Tough. And I take back normal not being a challenge- I got caught with my pants down last night- but I WAS playing a silly game in whi

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MORE stats at game end please: in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I'd like to see advertising budgets divided by type. Fundraising totals for a candidate Things like where the cnadidates spent most of their time. WHAT they spent most of their time doing: %'s of time spent fund raising, making ads, wasted (you know what I mean!), travelling, building HQ's, etc...

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Well, the game is fun but... there are no repercussions... in Political Machine PolMach Forums

IMO the one critical element the game lacks is dealing with the political fallout of all your campaign promises. If this game were half of a political game and the other half was living down your election strategies while in office (in a similarly abstracted way) the game would have a lot more oomph to it. That way it wouldn't be such a simple strategy for me in the election to decide to make some issue the other candidate hasn't campaigned on and is

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Reply to Brad's Suggestion thread in Political Machine PolMach Forums

On the last minute blitz of political operatives: DO NOT FIX THIS- it should be SOP- just get the AI up to speed on how to do it, and make sure it does it. Geez, don't cripple the game needlessly by making stamina even MORE important than it already is. One change to political points I think should happen: make the political favor points degrade by 1 point per week if >0. People who owe you favors are more likely to DO them when tyhe iron

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