RI Democrat Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Which file contains the regional issue centers for the primaries? Campaigns Forever only seems to allow me to adjust the general election issue centers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwkulcsar Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 I think its only general. I'd say this is a use because some states have really liberal democrats (like the black populations in Mississippi for primaries) meanwhile in the general election the whole electorate the independents need to be swayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahaadoxyz Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 This kind of gets at a point I've sometimes made, which is that I think one improvement that could be made to the game would be more in-depth demographical dynamics. Though, as noted in a previous exchange about demographics, what's actually going on in political demographics is tricky to determine and even harder to model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RI Democrat Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 Wait, so it's not there in the files at all? How do the positions get determined for primaries, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahaadoxyz Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 The issue centers that you set aren't specific to one election or the other; they're for the whole scenario. In the primaries, there's some process by which the state issue centers and the party issue centers combine to make state party issue centers, but obviously that can't account for varying distributions of political ideologies between the states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RI Democrat Posted September 24, 2009 Author Share Posted September 24, 2009 The issue centers that you set aren't specific to one election or the other; they're for the whole scenario. In the primaries, there's some process by which the state issue centers and the party issue centers combine to make state party issue centers, but obviously that can't account for varying distributions of political ideologies between the states. OK, so setting the state issue centers further to the left, for example, would probably also pull state party issue centers further left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwkulcsar Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Yes it would. The game sorta rewards centrists in primaries; when in reality it the primary voters usually choose a right or left-wing candidate. Like as I mentioned each state has very divided on issue Democratic and Republican parties, where they are Left or Right on issues, not Center-Left or Center-Right. Since in most general elections with a country as big as the US. The job of a candidate who is usually a liberal Democrat or conservative Republican is to go towards the center to try and win independent centrists in the general election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RI Democrat Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 Are the party issue centers the ones in the "platform"? If so, maybe part of the trick is to set the platforms further to the right and left, since they don't actually affect anything in the general election where the candidates' issue positions are the ones that affect gameplay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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