New features:
Vote prediction view is much more accurate and realistic to how they actually vote. It was previously mostly a placeholder.
Re-added political party popularity line charts for city, state, and nation.
Party popularity is now calculated differently to work with the full integration of coalitions for more realistic elections based on actual party popularity across the nation, city, and region.
STV elections are more realistic and have proper ranked choice ballots.
News now truly does effect party popularity and coalitions completely. The news impact UI has been updated to show the actual results.
U.S Senator, and Governor races are now updated to use the proper calculations so the maps are realistic.
New scenario editor.
The Wiki has been updated to the latest version of the game.
Vote alert now doesn't show for all votes. There is a setting to allow for all vote alerts but by default only the player sees vote alerts for their own chamber.
Political capital has been modified to update monthly properly and also give bonuses and be more generous with how it generates political capital.
added Party political capital to the dashboard UI.
New campaign staffing system in terms of scouting.
Proper calculation for the bill authoring when it comes to policies and laws.
Relationships for politicians and political parties has been fully integrated and the actions should work correctly along with endorsements and their effects on campaigns.
Upgrades to how rallies work and staff when a campaign ends or starts.
Upgrades to advertisements and polling in the campaign system.
Upgraded the government offices tab UI wise somewhat.
Election history for politicians and in general election history. Which is also saved and loaded correctly.
Campaign staff deduct from campaign funds.
Technical Changes:
Refactors to how elections are identified and used. To streamline the process and avoid bugs.
Refactor to how policy data is referenced and saved as a huge means to lower memory usage and save file sizes. Reduced the memory of this system by 96% thanks to the optimizations without any data loss at all.
Refactored save and load for scenarios and for campaigns. Reduced file sizes by 80+%.
Removed legacy politician updates as it was causing lots of bugs with updating values for the player and referencing the correct values.
Bug Fixes:
All office seat select for all countries for the player should now be working. When you choose to select a starting office / seat.
Great Britain now generates MP elections.
Japan's House of Councilors now get their government offices generated at the start.
Re-election modal pops up for all offices now.
Committee votes for Japan not working because no committees were assigned members on the State level.
Removed the ability to pass bills for the wrong level. Adding a state level policy to a city bill for example.
Updated the changes in the policy and laws to show how they will impact accurately the city, state, or nation.
Germany national legislature now passes bills using the new system.
Coalition formation just generates a new candidate each time for now as a fallback until a proper system is implemented.
Updating the UI properly for political capital.
Fixed all bugs related to managing parties in the parties management stage and panel.
Fixed issues with the party creator.
Fixed issues with personal treasury not being updated when you had a job.
Fixed issues with the scouting system not showing the interview modal, no quiz, so no way to reveal the attributes of a candidate.
Fixed bugs related to committees not being populated correctly and issues with government offices not being generated.
Brought back the negotiation of a salary for a campaign candidate.
Bills can now trigger judicial case reviews properly.
Endorsements for campaigns is now working correctly.
Laws and policies are filtered by what level of government you are on.
Lobbyist names are not always focused on the United States.
Current office saying none for a office holder.
Election history not showing properly in different places.
Deficit news not showing a body for the article.
Issues with the election simulator in terms of population fetching.
Fixed another 7+ bugs or so.
Known Bugs:
Canada does not have tooltips in election night live.
Tooltips can go off the screen.
Mock election in main menu tooltip contains incorrect data.
Some minor UI bits that need to be fixed / changed.