V0.0.33 Patch 1 Nov 7th

New features:

• Dashboard UI overhaul. The dashboard is now well a actual dashboard that has a list of cards that tell you a metric and then a button to take you to that screen. It acts as a hub for the player to navigate the game easily.

• New staff tab. The staff tab has been overhauled.

• New news overhaul UI for different news outlets including their articles.

• New political party UI overhaul for different political parties.

• New lobbying outlets UI overhaul for different lobbying groups. This is still WIP though and isn't entirely complete.

• Overhaul of the campaign tab UI.

• Full implementation of the Vote prediction modal.

• Modified the Judicial UI slightly as well.

• New Politician Creator Screen. Made for easy navigation but also for power users and on top of that you no longer have to always do the questionnaire.

• All ideologies answer all questions and get their label properly for the politician creator.

• New live vote session UI. Looks a lot better now.

• New Election Simulator screen.

• New Party Creator screen. It includes the new option for an ideology or policy questions individually. A much better pixel art party logo editor, and more.

• Political party taglines in the new political party view has a lot more name variance.

• News outlets have much more different names. Like acronyms, or just simple last names.

• Ethnicity data for all countries.

Changes:

• Removed temporary changes of EVs for candidates for testing purposes of the reporting system to now they only change during actual results / projection.

• U.S Primary elections are more condensed so less days where they actually happen.

• Removed careers and actions tab.

• Refactored and rewrote a lot of the code involving the Presidential election due to bugs and poorly written architecture.

• Technical Changes:

• Refactored the entire structure of data files for the game.

Bug Fixes:

• Load and save party setups not persisting per playthrough has been fixed.

• Japanese prefecture assembly offices not being generated nor in an election. This bug has been fixed.

• Vote prediction modal not working for anything other than the city level.

• Fixed Presidential election from not using coalition data. This was causing weird results usually landslide elections as a result.

• Stopped Presidential elections from having states still calculating votes after clearly being at 100% reporting.

• Fixed error when handling PluralityMMD elections with the new election system.

• Fixed issue where the state details screen was fetching the wrong political party data for regions. So their alignment was different from what was on the region select.

• Stopped Presidential elections from not properly being complete when we use skip to results.

• Fixed the new Presidential elections to work properly in the election simulator.

• Fixed counties that had no population. This was due to population weight issues.

• Sometimes party names will not correlate with their party ideology. Social Democrat being called a Communist Party, Liberal party being called Far-Right, etc.

• Fixed STV elections in Australia from using the plurality fallback because it wasn't generating the ranked ballots.

Bugs I'm Working On:

• Tooltips going off the screen sometimes with reporting of election results.

• Getting the German national bills actually passing along the new stages properly.

• On some screens such as the coalition formation screen post election, an auto-generated party that has been manually edited by the player sometimes defaults to the initial name/color. (This was a user reported bug).

• The elections tab UI not updating what election you are in when you lose.

• Incomplete Features:

• With the new system Independents basically cannot win the Presidential election. This is because proper calculations for independents has been disabled for the Presidential election for now as I figure out how to do them properly.

What I'm Working On:

• New Scenario Editor Screen.

• New Scenarios Saving ang Loading System.

• Judicial cases triggering properly.

• Other custom events fully working.

• Custom events system overhaul and UI overhaul for easier use.