Comments on: Democracy Released: Democracy Fails!

By: weirwood

weirwood — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:33:16 +0000

Sometime, ou really should take a look at Hidden Agenda.

By: Robyrt

Robyrt — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:20:56 +0000

I really liked Democracy 1, so I’m excited to see what improvements he’s made. Hopefully the game isn’t so easy (basically any country could be beaten by ramping up grants and tariffs, then cutting military spending, for a massive GDP surge that let you buy 50% of the vote).

By: Democracy 2, New Demo And Stuff | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Democracy 2, New Demo And Stuff | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:02 +0000

[...] too. And they’re not so visible. Anyway, Kieron discusses the game in a bit more detail here. The new demo is here, and there’s a patch out for those of you who already own the thing. [...]

By: Shawny D

Shawny D — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:14:19 +0000

I can tell you all, in case it’s been said already, Brad Wardell, while I like him on his pro-consumer stance, is a righty from reading his personal blog. It just so happens that “The Political Machine 2008″ is much easier to win on the right, then the left..just something I realized after playing with a it a bit.

Mostly, the beginning stats of who favors what is stacked in favor of the right. For instance, the game has the Indie’s favoring conservative republican issues, which for the most part just isn’t the case this year, especially in this election here in the States. In fact, the game seems to go overboard to favor the right, straight from the beginning.

IMO, we’re right of center compared to Western Europe in many cases, but definitely left of center compared to the rest of the world, by far. I know this is a different game, but I figured I would throw that out…

By: Alex Hopkinson

Alex Hopkinson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:27:58 +0000

I got the boot for extreme levels of national debt as well, but not until I’d won a second term by a landslide and turned Freedonia into a one party state. This time around it’s money first, politics second… which is causing my approval rating to drift below 50%. Maybe it’s time for Import Tarriffs to fund better schools & hospitals.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:13:18 +0000

Janek:

Was there no opportunity to do what Politicians do these days and deny all responsibility, sack some poor sap of a subordinate and then blame it all on the previous administration. Shame.

By: Janek

Janek — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:57:30 +0000

Yeah I caved as well.

I was doing pretty well on my first game, winning the first election, up until the global economy went into recession, causing debt to start piling up again. Then a major employer went bust and due to the recession I couldn’t afford to bail them out, leading to a surge of unemployment, which made the debt even worse. It just spiralled out of control until I got the boot.

By: Alex Hopkinson

Alex Hopkinson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:34:56 +0000

Bought it last night. On the train this morning the global economy went into recession at the same time as my chancellor resigning and said recession has caused a sudden outbreak of binge drinking and lost me 4 points on my approval rating! Goddamn voters.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:44:04 +0000

Although I think the demo should be longer, I really am likely to buy it based on the play I had. My God is this fun. I don’t even know why, it just is.

I was really proud of myself too. I got the deficit from 15bil to 3.5bil, raised the GDP significantly, made sure the Church would assassinate me, put a dent in crime, lowered the jobless rate, removed the drinking age…

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:09:13 +0000

Also, it doesn’t crash after 20 mins. It ran perfectly stable after that early snag.

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:07:32 +0000

No, I’m running XP SP2.

Although the problem also disappeared after the tip window stopped showing.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:27:09 +0000

Pidesco says:

It crashes when I try to start a new game…

I had the same problem. It stopped after it stopped showing the “tip” in the new game screen, however now it crashes further into the game (around 15-20 min). Are you running Vista X64? I’m guessing that that’s the culprit for me.