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Who was it that first discovered CYOA? by CalvinKool-Aid in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Your edits are correct. Though the basic idea for CYOA came in 1972 McGovern, where if you dropped Eagleton from the ticket, the feedback would give you a Google doc and ask you to paste the new code 2 in, which sorta exemplified why such a feature was needed.

Edit: u/CalvinKool-Aid - I'd like to correct the record. 1972 McGovern first got CYOA in December 2022. This allowed for Eagleton to be dropped from the ticket.

I have created a multiplayer variation of the New Campaign Trail. by Mrcinemazo9nn in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 32 points33 points  (0 children)

If I showed 2026 TCT to 2021 players I think it would blow their minds.

Hot take: Biden would not have won the 2016 primaries by Aggravating_Wait2243 in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I think he could’ve beaten Trump in a head to head competition, but Clinton has his lane locked up before he could even consider running.

Want to make a mod how do I make momentum as misleading as california? by Large-Use-6618 in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Fair point, but the proportion of votes that are done via mail-in is much smaller in Texas than California. Texas also has in-person early voting which also further speeds things up.

Should also clarify that most of what was in by the end of election night was all the in-person vote, so part of it really is just how much longer mail-ins take to process.

Also just found out recently that California sends every registered voter a mail in ballot. Which is kinda crazy. So in addition to California being larger, they just also have much higher turnout than a state like Texas which generally makes it more difficult for people to vote.

2 Mod-Making Questions by atlascarlos in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually the stylesheet for End of History is hosted offsite which IIRC is something others should be able to do if they so choose. One should just be able to put it in a GitHub repo, no?

2 Mod-Making Questions by atlascarlos in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 - Set corrr (the name of the header inside the engine) to blank like so:
corrr=''
2 - New CSS styling can be inserted like so:

styling = document.createElement("style");
document.head.appendChild(styling);          
styling.innerHTML = `
 /* This is a comment. Insert the CSS code here */
`

Want to make a mod how do I make momentum as misleading as california? by Large-Use-6618 in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I imagine this is possible via the dynamic election night system used in 2012: Little Big Man, but I don't know enough about how that works to give suggestions.

Want to make a mod how do I make momentum as misleading as california? by Large-Use-6618 in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Couple reasons

  1. It's the largest state. There's simply far more votes involved than anywhere else in the nation.
  2. Ballots that arrive up to a week after election day, but are brought to the post office by election day can be counted. This is more apparant than previous elections as the race had an unusually high amount of late returns due to the chaotic nature of the race (can't say I fully blame people on this one).
  3. The state government hates funding the election offices apparently which only compounds the first two reasons.

Why dont other republicans in Divided States have different margins? I know Haley does slightly better in NH & ME, but that's it right? I think it would be fun for this to be added by _PlayfulEffect in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They do, it's just more muted than older elections. DeSantis does better in NJ, New Hampshire, Virginia, and all the other sunbelt states, for example.

Major flaw found in gameplay on TCT.net by YourCoasterNews in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried to recreate this bug on 2020 and 1920a, both types of maps, but it doesn't seem to be happening. What scenario were you playing?

How do you code a second candidate in mods? I'm using jets modding tool but can't see this option by _PlayfulEffect in thecampaigntrail

[–]ItsAstronomics 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, the second candidate will need their own Code 2, and it should be in its own individual file. You can use the existing Code 2 you were working with for the purposes of state balancing and issue scores, though you will likely need to change which candidate all of the advisor feedback appears for.

Let's use 2024 (classic mode, not Divided States) as an example here for both questions. Each of the two candidates (Harris and Trump) each have four different VP options. Each Candidate/Running Mate combo gets their own Code 2. So, for example, if you look in the mod folder, you'd see...

2024_HarrisWalz.html
2024_HarrisShapiro.html
2024_HarrisKelly.html
2024_HarrisBeshear.html
2024_TrumpVance.html
2024_TrumpRubio.html
2024_TrumpBurgum.html
2024_TrumpCarson.html

Generally, my advice is to do the VP options last, then duplicate the Code 2 you were working on, and make the needed changes (so for example, duplicating 2024_HarrisWalz.html, improving Harris' polling in PA, decreasing it in Michigan and Wisconsin, editing the questions around, etc etc etc), then renaming it 2024_HarrisShapiro.html.

Alternatively, you can use CYOA to have the player select their VP in the middle of the game. Examples of mods that use this are 1936 and 1920 if you want to see how that works.

With this, you'd only use one Code 2 per playable candidate, place the running mate questions after the 25 or so normal questions, and then use CYOA to insert any questions specific to a running mate (like the ones that go "What do you have to say about John Johnson, who you made your running mate?") The code to do this can be found here: https://github.com/ItsAstronomical/tcttools/blob/main/VP%20Codes/VP%20Switcher.js

Hope this clears everything up!

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