Prime Minister Infinity – U.K. v. Amundsen – 1.8.9 for Windows and Mac has been released!
If you are a Prime Minister Infinity – U.K. pre-orderer, you are eligible for this release.
You can download this release by requesting a download e-mail at the link below.
Notes:
- This is probably the last release that will be considered ‘early release’ by 270soft.
- A new update for local candidates will be done for the next release.
- Background graphics will be updated for the next release.
- Speed for clicking various things on the Main Screen will be made quicker with the next release.
- Ads probably will be modified.
- Election night will be modified.
Looking for feedback on these things in particular:
- Issues. Are there any we’re missing? Some that should be removed? Issue position descriptions that should be changed? Issue profiles that should be modified?
All feedback welcome!
Important: when you receive the e-mail, you will want to download the file from the “win pmi united kingdom” or “mac pmi united kingdom” link.
If for some reason there is no “win pmi united kingdom” or “mac pmi united kingdom” link in your e-mail and you are a Prime Minister Infinity- U.K. pre-orderer who ordered before Jan. 30th, please notify us and we will fix that for you.
To download:
http://270soft.com/updates-redownloads/
Changes in this version:
- Strategy Screen > can now select to view constituencies by region
- Strategy Screen > Ads > when select region to advertise in, rectangle takes party color
- Endorsers > Regional > added The Evening Standard (London), The Herald (Scotland), The Western Mail (Wales), The Irish News (N.I.), The Belfast Telegraph (N.I.)
- Endorsers > The Times Center -> Center-Right, Daily Mail Right -> Center-Right, Express Center -> Center-Right, Daily Star Center-Right -> Right
- Endorsers > Added The Telegraph, Center-Right, leans Conservative
- Endorsers > Added The Economist, Center-Right
- Campaign Editor > Regions > can now edit national, regional, or constituency levels
- Issue position centers set for regions
- Updated program icon
Hi Anthony,
Just letting you know, I have downloaded the Mac version – game still shows version 1.8.8, not 1.8.9, but all changes noted above seem to be in place.
Just posting this here in case any others are similarly confused as I was!
Adam
Hi Anthony,
In my view the following issues ought to be included (in order of salience):
Very High:
Immigration
NHS
Economy/Budget Deficit
High:
Minimum wage/Living Wage
Unemployment/Poverty
Housing
Energy/Fuel Prices
Medium:
Privacy/Liberty
Defense/Foreign intervention
Common Market
Inflation/Prices
Taxation/Tax Evasion
Public Transport/Public Service in General
Low:
Pensions
Drugs
Devolution and constitutional reform/Government
Best;
Jonathan
@Adam,
Thanks for this! That’s a mistake – the latest game engine is numbered 1.8.8, even though it should be 1.8.9. The way to verify one has the latest version is to check to see if the features listed above are implemented in the version that has been installed, as you did.
@Jonathan,
Thank you for these – noted.
Election night obviously needs working on. For some reason some Northern Ireland seats report early, but more seriously there is a line which says that polls close at 8pm (should be 10pm).
Also – even though polls do close at 10 – we do not get any results until at least 11.30, and most do not come in until well past 2am. Northern Ireland reports very late, in fact – the following day!
Hard to see why seats totals should be 200+ so early in a night – and also why they go up and down.
Finally very annoying that you cannot see any particular constituency declarations.
Minor point, Anthony, but. . .
On the Mac version of Prime Minister Infinity UK for the MAC, the icon for the program shows an American flag as per President Infinity and Congress Infinity. Should this icon be a Union Jack instead?
Hi Keith,
Yes, it should be. Did you have a previous version installed before this latest one? If so, try deleting the current version, and redownloading and installing. Please let me know if this fixes the problem.
@John,
Thanks for this feedback. Election night is one of the main features to be worked on for the next release.
Hi Anthony,
Just to second Keith’s point, I too have the US flag as the application icon. I had deleted the application and the application support folder prior to installing the latest version – would there be any files elsewhere in the Mac architecture that could be affecting this?
(Intriguingly, I can see the Union Flag icon in the package contents, within the ‘resources’ folder – so quite bizarre!)
Ok, the OS must be caching a copy of the icon and not refreshing it for some reason – that’s my best guess at this point. I’ll look into how to change this.
I’ve just been playing as UKIP, and there are a number of flaws in their policy positions. The suggestions I make are on their current manifesto, not the 2010 one.
Budget & Deficit: right –> centre-right
Education: right –> centre-right
Environment: centre-right –> right
NHS: centre-right –> centre-left
Pensions: right –> centre
Post Offices: centre-right –> centre
Tax: right –> centre-right
Unemployment: right –> centre-right
These are their stated policies. It is not up to me to say whether it’s what they truly believe in, but this should be reflected in the game.
If it helps to investigate, I’m using OS X Yosemite. All latest OS updates installed.
Also I’m on the latest edition of Mac OS and I’m still getting the Star Spangled Banner.
@Michael,
Thanks for this feedback re UKIP – noted.
@Adam and Michael,
When you open up the DMG (install) file, is the icon in the window that pops up a U.S. flag (before moving it to Applications)?
Yes it is.
I’m having some problems with Debate Prep as Nigel Farage. Every time I click the icon it come sup with a little info screen. I press OK but nothing happens. This is seriously damaging my ability to campaign effectively.
@Michael,
You have to click the Debate Prep button on the Debate Prep Screen. I’ll add contextual help to make this more clear – thanks for this.
Re icon, renaming the program seems to fix this. The next version will have a modified name, so it should show the Union Jack if you had a previous version with the U.S. flag installed.
Sorry for the late reply Anthony, and although I think you’ve now cracked it, just in case you still needed to know, I too had the U.S flag on the DMG file.
Can we expect the next release this Sat?
@Ben,
That’s the targeted next version release date. That’s Sat. PST.
Are the New Statesman and the Spectator included as potential endorsers? I can’t remember seeing them.
If not then they tend to lean centre-left and centre-right respectively.
@Michael,
Not yet, but they will probably be added with the next release.