Gil R. -> RE: Governor action (11/8/2009 1:32:16 AM)
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As I recall -- and I'm in a foreign country, far from the manual -- governors' attitudes are also impacted by how the war is going. So if you have some big victories I think that might raise their attitude. I'm glad people like the governors. Putting them in the game was Eric's (=programmer/lead developer) idea, and he and I both thought it would take me a few days to do the research and create the data files, but then I started to get into it... and took several weeks. (The bios on the Overview screen reflect this.) I ended up reading whatever I could that was on the Web in order to get an idea of their political leanings, and also -- much more difficult -- figured out when they had to run for reelection and who their opponent was (and, if I couldn't learn who opposed them, which prominent politicians might have run). I was shocked to find that back then some states had governors run every year, or every other year. So, I think it can be safely said that FOF is the first wargame with a historically accurate schedule of gubernatorial elections!
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