V0.0.33 Patch 2 Nov 11th

New features:

• Vote prediction view is much more accurate and realistic to how they actually vote. It was previously mostly a placeholder.

• Re-added political party popularity line charts for city, state, and nation.

• Party popularity is now calculated differently to work with the full integration of coalitions for more realistic elections based on actual party popularity across the nation, city, and region.

• STV elections are more realistic and have proper ranked choice ballots.

• News now truly does effect party popularity and coalitions completely. The news impact UI has been updated to show the actual results.

• U.S Senator, and Governor races are now updated to use the proper calculations so the maps are realistic.

• New scenario editor.

• The Wiki has been updated to the latest version of the game.

• Vote alert now doesn't show for all votes. There is a setting to allow for all vote alerts but by default only the player sees vote alerts for their own chamber.

• Political capital has been modified to update monthly properly and also give bonuses and be more generous with how it generates political capital.

• added Party political capital to the dashboard UI.

• New campaign staffing system in terms of scouting.

• Proper calculation for the bill authoring when it comes to policies and laws.

• Relationships for politicians and political parties has been fully integrated and the actions should work correctly along with endorsements and their effects on campaigns.

• Upgrades to how rallies work and staff when a campaign ends or starts.

• Upgrades to advertisements and polling in the campaign system.

• Upgraded the government offices tab UI wise somewhat.

• Election history for politicians and in general election history. Which is also saved and loaded correctly.

• Campaign staff deduct from campaign funds.

Technical Changes:

• Refactors to how elections are identified and used. To streamline the process and avoid bugs.

• Refactor to how policy data is referenced and saved as a huge means to lower memory usage and save file sizes. Reduced the memory of this system by 96% thanks to the optimizations without any data loss at all.

• Refactored save and load for scenarios and for campaigns. Reduced file sizes by 80+%.

• Removed legacy politician updates as it was causing lots of bugs with updating values for the player and referencing the correct values.

Bug Fixes:

• All office seat select for all countries for the player should now be working. When you choose to select a starting office / seat.

• Great Britain now generates MP elections.

• Japan's House of Councilors now get their government offices generated at the start.

• Re-election modal pops up for all offices now.

• Committee votes for Japan not working because no committees were assigned members on the State level.

• Removed the ability to pass bills for the wrong level. Adding a state level policy to a city bill for example.

• Updated the changes in the policy and laws to show how they will impact accurately the city, state, or nation.

• Germany national legislature now passes bills using the new system.

• Coalition formation just generates a new candidate each time for now as a fallback until a proper system is implemented.

• Updating the UI properly for political capital.

• Fixed all bugs related to managing parties in the parties management stage and panel.

• Fixed issues with the party creator.

• Fixed issues with personal treasury not being updated when you had a job.

• Fixed issues with the scouting system not showing the interview modal, no quiz, so no way to reveal the attributes of a candidate.

• Fixed bugs related to committees not being populated correctly and issues with government offices not being generated.

• Brought back the negotiation of a salary for a campaign candidate.

• Bills can now trigger judicial case reviews properly.

• Endorsements for campaigns is now working correctly.

• Laws and policies are filtered by what level of government you are on.

• Lobbyist names are not always focused on the United States.

• Current office saying none for a office holder.

• Election history not showing properly in different places.

• Deficit news not showing a body for the article.

• Issues with the election simulator in terms of population fetching.

• Fixed another 7+ bugs or so.

Known Bugs:

• Canada does not have tooltips in election night live.

• Tooltips can go off the screen.

• Mock election in main menu tooltip contains incorrect data.

• Some minor UI bits that need to be fixed / changed.