So I'm working on this mod, you see (The "Howard Zinn Mod")...
Anyway, while I'm playtesting it I look at the save file and note each nation has a 'double_voting_parties' entry. And then I wondered why the 'American Party' (a USA third party) keeps ending up in the double_voting_parties entry. I even manually slept the American Party and set the Democrat Party and Republican Party as the double voting parties. So far so good, I run the game for awhile and the Democrat Party and Republican Party are the only real contenders. Then I go back and unsleep the American Party manually - but leave the Democrat Party and Republican Party in the double_voting_parties entry (Republican Party in power in the game at the time). About three days into the game, the American Party is again polling at 75% of the population. I look at the save file, and low and behold, the American Party and Populist Party (both marked as third parties in USA_parties.csv) have somehow migrated into the double_voting_parties entry and displaced the Democrat Party and Republican Party.
Does anyone know how the game determines which parties need to be in the double_voting_parties entry at any given time?
Anyway, while I'm playtesting it I look at the save file and note each nation has a 'double_voting_parties' entry. And then I wondered why the 'American Party' (a USA third party) keeps ending up in the double_voting_parties entry. I even manually slept the American Party and set the Democrat Party and Republican Party as the double voting parties. So far so good, I run the game for awhile and the Democrat Party and Republican Party are the only real contenders. Then I go back and unsleep the American Party manually - but leave the Democrat Party and Republican Party in the double_voting_parties entry (Republican Party in power in the game at the time). About three days into the game, the American Party is again polling at 75% of the population. I look at the save file, and low and behold, the American Party and Populist Party (both marked as third parties in USA_parties.csv) have somehow migrated into the double_voting_parties entry and displaced the Democrat Party and Republican Party.
Does anyone know how the game determines which parties need to be in the double_voting_parties entry at any given time?