Grosshaus said:It might not be wise to include all the parties you brought up because of a problem with ruling parties not being dissolved when they historically did. For instance it might be better for gameplay purposes to have just one socialist party, provided the policies didn't change significantly at some point. 3rd party status has no influence if a country has multi-party system, perhaps including Freisinnige and Freikonservative parties gives pretty odd voting results?
I did a test run for the party system last night and it worked good with a two party system and 3rd party status. The outcome of the elections is mostly determined by the suffrage status then: With landed suffrage it will be a full victory of the Welfen, with census suffrage it will be a race between Welfen and liberals, and with full suffrage even the Socialist parties have a fair chance later in the game. I had to change the ideology of the Welfen to conservative, though. They should be the ruling party most of the time, but as a reactionary party the would not have any chance ...