V0.0.34 Early Look January 31st Patch

Fixes:

• Fixed every politician and candidate from having default values for ideology and stances.

• Fixed Party Name Not Saved When Creating Party Manually In Election Simulator.

• Fixed Election Date Displays as "0/0/0" In Election Simulator.

• Fixed Ethnic Groups Textbox Shows Function Code.

• Fixed Create New Event Causes Error.

• Fixed Failed Scenario Load Error on Manager Screen.

• Fixed Party Selection Not Persisted to Campaign Setup When Using A Custom Scenario.

• Fixed Custom Scenarios not having heatmaps for party popularity for region select.

• Fixed County Political Landscapes Not Updated When Parties Change In The Scenario Editor.

• Fixed Campaign Tab Shows Sub-tabs When No Campaign Active when you already hold a position but are not running in an election.

• Fixed Polling Tab Shows No Polling Firms Available within the campaign tab for doing a poll.

• Fixed Election Results Modal Slow to Appear when there are a lot of elections.

• Fixed News Articles Use Player Theme Instead of Outlet Theme.

• Fixed Branch Text Missing in Office Information.

• Fixed skip to end for Presidential elections (I had worked on it and marked it as fixed despite me not fully fixing it yet).

• Fixed state maps in electoral college Presidential races from not updating UI wise in real time.

• Adding custom politicians as candidates to elections in the election simulator should be fully working now.

• Fixed bug where declaring an election quickly after campaign start would break the overview section of the campaign tab.

• Once again fixed the bug where saving a generated party would reset their ideology to centrist along with the selected ideology within the party management stage.

• Fixed State Senators from being considered upper house instead of regional legislature in the filter within election night.

• Fixed other UI issues with the presidential election. Presidential elections now work properly from the election night.

• Governor races in campaigns now use the state election card.

• MMD elections should finally now elect more than 1 winner. (I may have said I fixed this earlier but I did not fully test it.)

• Election night elections were not showing up in recent election history so I fixed that as well.

• Fixed policy stances UI in the campaign tab removing the value sliders and it will load your personal stances by default. Which you can save and change for the campaign.

• Campaign stances affect your personal stances, this way it affects your election polling and coalition alignment score.

• Election Results Modal Slow to Appear, worked on making it much faster performance wise when using many elections.

Additions / Changes:

• Score breakdown for campaign score to explain how certain things contribute to your campaign score and polling.

• Added back interviews and quizzes to the hiring system.

• Changes for performance reasons to how politicians are handled regarding their policy stances.

• Upgrade staff UI to use the new full screen view for certain screens.

• Removed placeholders for electoral results and in the news functionality for politicians.

• Redesigned the UI of the regular election night for Presidential elections.

• Created a relative scale system for region level maps for consistency in size. This should make state maps look more cohesive. No more blown up states or weird positions.

• Added a UI and actions for inaugurations for new offices. Their speeches are based on their ideology currently for simplicity.

• Results UI for campaign actions and more now clearly shows what changed with an animation towards the new values in a full screen.

• Added news and electoral results for the backgrounds and histories of politicians.

• Changed winner announcement UI to make it look nicer and more grand.

• Worked on Minnesota, Iowa, and Florida party popularity results to be more realistic.

• Edit politicians has been added back into the game, I have not tested it fully yet. So it may not be working properly.

• Added world gen options and party control to the scenario editor.

• Click Politicians in Politicians Tab to View Profile.

• More Bill Names.

Working On:

• Another 20 identified bugs.

Next patch on February 3rd.