President Infinity v. 2.9.4 sneak-peek for Windows has been released!

This sneak-peek continues to refine the new Favorability system, in particular making improvements on keeping voters in their ‘party lanes’ starting in the primaries. Improvements will continue to be made. Feedback is welcome!

Note: this version changes Main Screen > spacebarring for Done Turn to ‘n’.

(Note: for goals for this release cycle, Autumn 2018, see here.)

If you are a President Infinity owner on subscription (or if you purchased President Infinity within the last year), you are eligible for this upgrade.

This is a comprehensive update.

You can download this release by requesting a download e-mail at the link below. From the e-mail, click the link to the web page. On the web-page, there will be a ‘Sneak-peek’ link.

To update:

http://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/

Version information:

https://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/president-infinity-version-information/

What’s new in this upgrade from the previous sneak-peek (v. 2.9.3).

• each eligible voter now has a desired platform that makes up part of the Favorability score that eligible voter has for each candidate
• if boasting, 50% of the time it will also be an attack on a leading candidate from another party (helps balance contested primaries vs. uncontested primaries dynamics)
• if attacking, 50% of the time will also be a boast
• Main Screen > spacebarring for Done Turn -> ‘n’ (next)
• Elections > checks whether candidate withdrawn or not on ballot
• if computer player changes to Not Seeking, they withdraw as well
• fixed several bugs related to momentum
• fixed bug with graph coming back up every turn despite having closed it
• Direct pop. vote > Election Screen > fixed bug if campaign has less than 6 regions
• region-specific leader bonuses are no longer by %, but affect Favorability – these should roughly map to what used to be the % bonuses in most cases
• region-specific vice-leader bonuses are no longer by %, but affect Favorability – these should roughly map to what used to be the % bonuses in most cases

With the Autumn 2018 release getting close (it will probably take until the end of December February for all versions to be released, including hammering out Favorability quirks and Australian preferences for PMI), it’s time to start charting the Winter 2018-2019 release.

All features are goals, not promises. List subject to revision.

Networking is planned for Spring 2019. Electoral blocs is also planned, probably for Summer 2019.

President Infinity

1. United States – 2020 (this campaign will then be updated as we move towards 2020)
2. New polling system (created by actual random sampling of population which is now modeled at a low level in game engine, different pollsters with different biases release public polls which player can then weight accordingly, can release internal polls to drive news)
3. New graphs system (improved charts, works with new polling system including creating best-fits for multiple polls)
4. Primaries > Can view hypothetical head-to-head match-ups for %s, seats, pop. vote (depends on new polling system, and expands the ability to select the candidate viewing from each party’s primaries introduced in Autumn 2018 but which was only available for Favorability and Momentum)
5. California Governor – 2018 official campaign added

Congress Infinity

1. See PI 2.-3.

Prime Minister Infinity U.K. and Canada

1. See PI 2.-3.

Feedback welcome!

I’ve pushed the President Infinity best-guess release dates from December 5th to December 15th 20th 30th first sneak peek already released, another sneak peek any day now. The good news is that I’m really happy with how the Favorability system is shaping up, and I’ll have another post soon with more screenshots.

Best-guesses are just that – my best guess about how long a (set of) feature may take. Thanks for your patience everyone.

The Favorability feature for President Infinity is coming along. Here you can see how Romney’s Favorability scores in 2012 for Utah vs. Washington, D.C. are distributed vs. % of eligible voter.

These numbers were generated from the existing 2012 campaign, using only the percentages data available. Although the algorithm for doing this is still in early stages, they still look generally reasonable at this point. You can also see the overall Favorability rating in the top right.

The electorate is now modeled with ‘persons’ who in turn represent 1/10,000th of the eligible voters. This means the electorate is modeled to 0.01 of a % (1/100th of 1%). This is a huge change from the previous game engine, which only had basically 4 numbers for each candidate (% committed, % leaning, % undecided, and % alienated), and involved simply adding or subtracting numbers from those categories based on momentum.

Each of these ‘persons’ in the new game engine has Favorability ratings for each candidate, and the %s are then generated by adding up each ‘person’s’ first place candidate. Favorability in the game is a bit different from how the word is usually defined in real life. In the game, it means just how much a person prefers a given candidate. So, whichever candidate has a higher Favorability score gets that person’s vote, unless it falls below a certain threshold, in which case they become alienated.

The strength of this approach is in more realistically modeling electoral dynamics, such as sudden collapses or meteoric rises, independents choosing between parties based on the eventual nominees, and so on. It also brings the game engine a big step closer to allowing electoral blocs.

Feedback welcome!

Congress Infinity v. 2.9.2 for Windows and Mac has been released!

This update fixes a scandals bug, and adds a temporary file when saving.

(Note: for goals for this release cycle, Autumn 2018, see here.)

If you are a Congress Infinity owner on subscription (or if you purchased Congress Infinity within the last year), you are eligible for this upgrade.

This is a comprehensive update.

You can download this release by requesting a download e-mail at the link below.

To update:

http://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/

Version information:

https://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/congress-infinity-version-information/

What’s new in this upgrade

• fixed scandals bug which caused computer players to release unfinished scandals
• for save (including autosave), a temporary save file is created first, so if there is an error for some reason, any existing save file is not overwritten

President Infinity v. 2.9.1 sneak-peek for Windows has been released! (Mac coming soon.)

This sneak-peek adds the 0-10 attributes system, map info when move mouse, and more.

v. 2.9.1 also fixes a scandals bug from v. 2.9.0.

(Note: for goals for this release cycle, Autumn 2018, see here.)

Note that the above image is to display the 0-10 attributes system – 2020 is not included yet in President Infinity.

If you are a President Infinity owner on subscription (or if you purchased President Infinity within the last year), you are eligible for this upgrade.

This is a comprehensive update.

You can download this release by requesting a download e-mail at the link below. From the e-mail, click the link to the web page. On the web-page, there will be a ‘Sneak-peek’ link.

To update:

http://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/

Version information:

https://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/president-infinity-version-information/

What’s new in this upgrade from the previous sneak-peek.

• 1-5 -> 0-10 attributes system
• if move mouse across map, will show info for region mouse on
• allows for increasing the size of windows (for high-resolution or high-DPI displays)
• Editor > Regions > fundamental regions > added exemptions for shifts, for regions where you want to specify %s without the shifts
• Editor > Basics > More > can set tied color
• if move window, windows opened from it will center within it
• Electoral Vote Info Screen (Constituency Screen) > if hover over Create Target, Org. Strength, Footsoldiers, Polling button, info
• Create Polling > 1 CP total -> 0.5 CPs per day
• Create Org. Strength > 2 CPs total -> 0.5 CPs per day
• Sim Screen > fixed bug where win wasn’t counted if won seats but not popular vote
• Editor > Surrogate > if has images, can set to default
• v. 2.9.1 fixes a scandals bug