[h2]Final major update to political strategy simulation updates issues and voter enthusiasm to give most accurate model yet [/h2] Stardock Entertainment released the final major update for its political strategy/simulation game, The Political Machine 2024 today. The new version adjusts the top political issues along with voter enthusiasm as of October 2024. “We are seeing a lot of movement on voter enthusiasm,” said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock Entertainment. “The election is solidifying around a handful of key issues such as inflation, abortion and the border.” For the enthusiasm update, Stardock has attempted to simulate the effect early voting is having on turn-out and how it might affect the election. “It’s been challenging to have the game’s underlying model factor in voting that occurs over multiple days,” said Wardell. “But I think we are getting there. We will see how close we are soon enough.” As for the game’s much-celebrated deep-election simulation features, where AI Donald Trump runs against AI Kamala Harris in pure sim mode, the outcome remains too close to call but with a slight edge for Trump. “The model continues to call out North Carolina as a state we should be keeping an eye on. We are still investigating why it thinks North Carolina and not Pennsylvania is the linchpin state,” said Wardell. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/2512090/discussions/0/4703539342753182147/]View the full changelog here.[/url] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44740336/fb4a1a3bca31588e91a0493f13194daffa9b05b0.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44740336/7f2715efaf5e91a8f0cfc534f3ba27abb1cd2c8b.jpg[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44740336/8e5ed980a09ac11d8b65f5e53a5cb004d4ca0637.jpg[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44740336/41b9c733052068d4433b25bda6375b5ca4520be4.jpg[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44740336/7fab4f3db553ed51d9442803cf0311bf966d4a6a.jpg[/img]