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Reply to Kudos to the Devs in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I just want you to know that I love you.

Reply to Refund in TPM Support PolMach Forums

[quote]Patches usually fix minor bugs in games. This game needs a patch just to work properly. That isn't a problem most games have.[/quote] I'm not sure how long you've been a PC gamer but this is certainly not the case. Our patches not only fix minor bugs but also any major bugs that we encounter. Our patches also have a [I]tendency[/I] to introduce enormous amounts of new features. I guess I could see how that's a bad thing; people [I]hate[/I] more mileage out of their money. And

Reply to Issue positions bug in The Political Machine 2004 PolMach Forums

This is an issue that has been discussed here: https://forums.politicalmachine.com/315301 It's fixed in the upcoming patch which should be due out relatively soon.

Reply to Hardware Mouse Cursor Option Save Issue in The Political Machine 2004 PolMach Forums

The reason that the orange cursor is contained within the window is that it is a software cursor; switching to a hardware cursor will eliminate that issue (and it's what I use all the time). The problem with the setting not between remembered between gaming sessions has been fixed and will be working as intended again in a forthcoming patch (due out very soon). In the mean time you can go into your Prefs.ini file (in My Documents\My Games\PolMachine2008) and change the "HardwareMouseCur

Reply to Grid in Console Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="pndrev" comment="7"]I don't have anything against arcade racers, they are fun. I just wish there'd be more sim racers out there. [/quote] I agree completely, but I'm not holding out hope for any good sim titles until Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue was a nice treat to whet my appetite while I wait for the full game but, now, I want the full game. Now. No, like, now .

Reply to Grid in Console Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="pndrev" comment="5"]I'm always a bit disappointed with console racers - 24 minutes for a race is hardly worthy being called endurance, you have a minimal starter field, different physics applied to gamer and AI racers, rubberbanding, AI that drives 'on rails' no matter what's happening in front, AI drivers that never overtake each other...[/quote] Normally, I would agree, but Grid isn't a sim racer. An actual twenty-four hour race in the kind of game that Grid is would feel

Reply to George Washington a Republican? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

The way the game is structured enforces a pretty rigid two-party system for games. For the campaign we had to keep in mind that both campaigns had to be relatively balanced and paced the same way and, second, that we definitely wanted to get some of the (much) older presidents in. But, yeah, the real point is that we couldn't have George Washington assigned to the "I'm not a party kind of guy" party (which, semantically, is still [I]kind of[/I] a party).

Reply to Refund in TPM Support PolMach Forums

[quote]I do not want to wait for a patch. I would like a refund ASAP.[/quote] The game is clearly working, even if not ideally so, and you can get into a game, play a number of turns, and get out of it without so much as a crash; getting a full refund isn't a means of [I]renting[/I] the game. As BoogieBac pointed out: one of the terms of the full refund is that a fair attempt to get the game working should be made. Is a little patience too much to ask for?

Reply to Grid in Console Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="TouchMyBox" comment="3"]What platform have you been playing it on?[/quote] Xbox 360. I played the demo on the PS3. I haven't tried the PC version at all (and probably won't).

Reply to Poll: Do we want a map editor in political machine? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]And umn...Go Lions?(I am a Bostonian, but I have a soft spot for the lions.)[/quote] Then you understand our deeply-rooted sense of pain and longing very well.

Reply to Battlefield: Bad Company is here! in Gaming PolMach Forums

Yes, and it's absolutely fantastic.

Reply to Refund in TPM Support PolMach Forums

[quote]The multiplayer won't work because I don't know (and can't get) the username and password to except ports from my router.[/quote] Should try admin/password. [quote]What has that got to do with anything?[/quote] It's generally helpful to find out what kind of machines people are having difficulties running the game with. If it's a system that definitely surpasses the requirements we'd like to know what's wrong whether you want and get your refund or not.

Reply to Where is FDR? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]No that's Theodore Roosevelt a republican. FDR was a democrat.[/quote] Yeah. I know who FDR is. FDR was in the old game's campaign ladder but got cut out of 2008's line-up when we changed the size of the campaign. I forgot about that. Or I'm just completely stupid. I'm sure it's one of the two.

Reply to Mike Huckabee in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]It would be cool if extra candidates were added in an update so that we could still get some of our favorites that didn't make the retail cut.[/quote] I think you'll be pleased in the future.

Reply to Refund in TPM Support PolMach Forums

Would you mind posting your system specifications?

Reply to White Screen in TPM Support PolMach Forums

If you're having a white screen that is almost certainly an issue with the graphics card not supporting Shader Model 2.0 which the game absolutely requires. If a card does not support Shader Model 2.0 then it cannot be patched in by any sort of software, it's simply a limitation of the hardware. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-50572.html If that is the computer you're talking about then the graphics card does, in no way, meet the requirements for the game (espec

Reply to no graphics, screen white in TPM Support PolMach Forums

A white screen is indicative of a video card not supporting Shader Model 2.0 (which is required for the game); this is something that required the hardware to support the feature in order to run it and cannot be patched in by software. The GeForce 4x00 series also has no hardware support for Shader Model 2, so that's most likely your problem.

Reply to Where is FDR? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

FDR is in the game; he's one of the unlockable candidates who is unlocked once you beat him in the campaign.

Reply to Some issues in TPM Support PolMach Forums

[quote]ok, but what the use of having a windowed format if the curser will not allow me to reach the borders to even just physically move it? -edit-I'm just venting my frustration of the whole setup, i don't want to play any of the other games, i just want that one game, and get it to work. for a ~200 mb game i don't expect the programming or software to be that heavy in it. nothing like Bioshock, or Assassin's Creed.[/quote] Turn on the hardware mouse cursor which is [I]also[/I], coincident

Reply to Making your own map ect? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]Well aren't you intelligent[/quote] I made most of that up (based on what little I know about how pirate groups make No-CD patches for games).

Reply to Some issues in TPM Support PolMach Forums

[quote]You were not here in the office when we were all pulling overtime for months trying to finish this game, so please DO NOT make assumptions about our jobs and how easy they are.[/quote] Of course he can make assumptions, Charles! They'd just be, you know, [I]incorrect[/I]. [quote]I cannot shrink the window size, the mouse curser will not allow me to minimize, maximize or even close the window. Nor can i even adjust the size of the window. Doesn't all this sort of defeat the pu

Reply to Making your own map ect? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]The map editor is not hooked up. So even though you might have seen the graphics pack for the screen, there is no way currently to access it.[/quote] He might be able to reverse engineer it, dive into the asm, hack some of the registers that we used to disable access for the gold release candidate, and then manually re-compile the source to build a new EXE with which he could use the map editor. I'm just saying; it might not be [I]completely[/I] impossible to access. <br

Reply to Grid in Console Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Phazon88" comment="1"] I like it alot too. Its a fun racer that puts the Need for Speed series to shame. My only complaint is the "rubber-band / catch-up AI" and the different physics given to the AI (you can't knock them around as well as they can knock you). This leads to unfair races and later on some of the races are unneccesarily hard only because of this. [/quote] Yeah, the AI is annoying but, for the most part, it still manages to be better than mo

Cubegasm's First Dev Journal Entry in Game Developers Stardock Forums

In lieu of actually doing any development tonight I, instead, chose to write a gaming article (still no Metal Gear Story; I'm still thinking about that) and then a particularly-lengthy GameDev.net Daily . Now, since I've given up hope of getting work done tonight and have accepted the idea that Battlefield: Bad Company will dominate my nights for the next few da

Reply to Does anyone know all the issues for Political Machine ? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]Please note that the # should be in the range of -10 to 10.[/quote] Actually, [B]Position[/B] should be in the range of [-10,10]. [B]Importance[/B] should never be a negative number; keep it in the range of [0,10]. An issue's Political Score is its importance multiplied by its position, so if you're against an issue you have a negative position and if you're for it then it's a positive number. Furthermore if you're "sort of" against a very important issue you would have a pos