Hey, playing around in the data folder found some intresting stuff. I don't know if people are aware of this or not, but you can change some of the stuff on the "core" canidates by opening "CoreCanidates" as notebook file. For example, I changed Bill Mason to Bob Dole and I touched up Bill Richardson a notch and gave Wes Clark the military experiance he needs. Anyone know why Vilsack is in this game?
With custom characters, you can open those files up too and boost your ratings.
Here's some intresting catagories I found ...
-Under "special traits" there are issues and numbers for certain canidates. For example, George W. has "JOBS 4", "IRAQWAR 10". No idea what these mean. Perhaphs it's how much more powerful an ad would be?
-Kerry has, under "Special Traits" "_KERRYADVANTAGE 5" and there are similar lines to this for other canidates too. Again, no idea what it does. bill Clinton has "_INDIEAPPEAL 5"
-Along with integrity and minority appeal, there is "Party loyalty"
-You can also change how much money your canidate will get if it picks one of these corecanidates as a VP pick
-Under custom canidates, there are other traits. There are seperate traits for republican and democrat loyalty, as well as "BUSHadvantage" and "indieappeal". Along with "Judgement" "Nationalistic" and "World Affairs"
Having done this minor exploring, I think it would be quite fun to start developing the characters we want to see in this. I saw Jenna Jamison somewhere, but we could easilly add anyone and give them the ratings we think they deserve, along with how much they appeal to thier base, what thier strongest/weakest issues are and indieappeal and other things!
give some feedback folks.
