Election Bug

[A-54]

I was playing on a custom map i made today (that doesn't crash to desktop! whee!) and was using the exacto money cheat, so I had plenty of well trained soldiers and cops.

At the first election:

1)I order an assassination edict on my opponent, and many of his supporters. After he's assassinated, someone else takes over for him (regardless of how dangerous it obviously is).  

2)Repeat (1) until end of election. When the latest opponent is assassinated immediately AFTER I have won the election is where the problem starts.

The game continues to announce new election opponents with "Elections will continue as planned <name> will run against you" going from person to person, despite that none of these people have been assassinated AND no election is in progress.

I guess thats the price I pay for murdering all those people  .  

I had been practicing a technique of controlling threats, by checking the leadership ratings of my citizens (including immigrants as they step off the boat, and children). Anyone with an 'Exceptional' leadership rating got an instant assassination edict. The best time to kill someone is when they step off the immigration ship, since then they have no family.

I have a suspicion that ordering assassinations increases your soldiers' respect for you, but I'm not certain of it yet.

[Kendahlj]

Interesting....

I don't know know if assassinations increase a soldiers respect for you, but I think it may increase their job happiness.  I had three bankers who all hated their jobs, so I started bribing a ton of people and their ratings all went up....

[Feliz_Navidad]

A-54, you continue to crack me up.
You are playing this game as a first person shooter

More power to ya, I will have to give your method a try.  Let loose  the hounds of war!

[Mercator]

A-54.  I had the same bug when I killed off 3 of my opponents in a row.  It seems the game doesn't really think you killed them, at least not in terms of the election.  So it'll keep running the elctions for each candidate, even though the election is already over.  I killed three opponents, and it ran three elections in a row.  Only the first one really counted though, thank the heavens!

[A-54]

i'm not sure if i waited long enough to see if the 'extra' elections actually ran or not--it appeared there was no election in progress, since it no longer showed the electoral polls, and the 'opponents' didn't have the "I'm going to beat el'presidente in the election!" in their stats.


I tried playing nice with my citizens for all of 3 days. but they are unsatisfiable and are ingrates.  I really lost it after a single rebel destroyed my lumber camp and a tobacco farm.  So I took off the thread-bare velvet gloves, to reveal the iron fist.  

I play with:
*Generalissimo (obviously)
*Installed by KGB (uneducated soldiers are a huge bonus with my strat, and you can deny elections almost as easily if you had a military coup)
*Hardworking
*Financial Genius (need factory cashflow in this game survive at all, really)
*Alcoholic (makes the commies love you)
*Paranoid (Extra militarist respect)

I have been trying out the map editor, so that i can have a basic iland economy and military force right off the bat, so i can have more fun actually being dictator.  Unfortunately, only 1 of 4 maps I've created have worked without crashing the game.

[solypsist]

Hmmm...do lots of people play with the money cheat? Seems I'm tempted to use it every 20 years when my finances nosedive...
Anyway, great little signature-icon-GIF you have there A-54, LMFAO

[Senorita]

I've yet to play the evil dictator type who assassinatees all my opponents, I've been sticking with the democratic kind of play at least thus far. Anyway, I experienced that bug as well even without killing them off myself. I think what happened was I had an unlucky string of very elderly opponents who died on me during the year and it continued on even after I won the election. Strange.

[ElPresidente482]

A-54, you mentioned a map editor.  What were you talking about???

[Senorita]

The map editor comes with the last patch, you can get it on the same site where you download the patch.

[ElPresidente482]

Thx

[Coconut Kid]

...  I had three bankers who all hated their jobs, so I started bribing a ton of people and their ratings all went up.

I think that demonstrates that there is a link between experience (the job gage on the 'Skills' panel) and job satisfaction.

When the latest opponent is assassinated immediately AFTER I have won the election is where the problem starts. The game continues to announce new election opponents with "Elections will continue as planned <name> will run against you" going from person to person, despite that none of these people have been assassinated AND no election is in progress.

There have been no further reports of this. I suspect the problem was connected with the problem of dead bodies never disappearing. That was fixed in a patch.