..why with 40% ecological party support I got an Industrial representative in this system? The representative is a Sophon. Official support went to ecologists.

Kinda ruined the game for me. My strategy with sophons relies heavily on pushing ecologists turn 20 and I usually get there without much struggle. I needed that 1 vote from Yersh to achieve my goals and I was pretty sure I'd get it, but nope.. I hate save scumming in those kinda games as well, so I guess I'll end the run here. I think smth is wrong with calculations for elections in this game, sometimes results are weird like in my example.

Frogsquadron wrote:

This is the politics graph of the Sophons. Pacifist support gives an equal support to the Scientist party, whose votes go to the Industrialists.

Wait, why do scientist votes go to the industrialists rather than industrialists going to the scientists?

Right. My only guess is that there's a fair bit of swing in the polls to the actual results, so the scientists had a bad run, the industrialists had a much better one, and the scientists teamed up with the industrialists to beat the ecologists, so the representative is industrial. 

In the final tally for the leading parties in the senate, it looks tied between those three. I guess pacifist would team with either scientist or ecologist to put either one in charge. Given your dissapointment, I assume you ended up with a scientist leading the senate OP?

This is the politics graph of the Sophons. Pacifist support gives an equal support to the Scientist party, whose votes go to the Industrialists. If you add up 40% ecologists and 13% pacifists, you're still under the total of 13% industrialists + 33% scientists + 13% pacifists, so I think this is working as intended?

Oh, I think I get what you are talking about - so the votes of adjacent parties pass checks in both directions and then the successor is chosen? But in that case shouldn't I get a scientist rather than industrialist in Yersh?

Dragar wrote:

Right. My only guess is that there's a fair bit of swing in the polls to the actual results, so the scientists had a bad run, the industrialists had a much better one, and the scientists teamed up with the industrialists to beat the ecologists, so the representative is industrial. In the final tally for the leading parties, it looks tied between those three. I guess pacifist could go either scientist or ecologist to put either one in charge. I assume you ended up with a scientist leading the senate OP?

It is even more conspiratorial, industrialists and pacifists teamed up to beat ecologists! Those bastards!
And yeah, scientists became my leading party, I think it has something to do with political leaning of the sophons, becasue you can see in the second picture that vote distribution is equal between those 3 parties in the end.

mamarider wrote:

This is the politics graph of the Sophons. Pacifist support gives an equal support to the Scientist party, whose votes go to the Industrialists. If you add up 40% ecologists and 13% pacifists, you're still under the total of 13% industrialists + 33% scientists + 13% pacifists, so I think this is working as intended?

Oh, I think I get what you are talking about - so the votes of adjacent parties pass checks in both directions and then the successor is chosen? But in that case shouldn't I get a scientist rather than industrialist in Yersh?

Dragar wrote:

Right. My only guess is that there's a fair bit of swing in the polls to the actual results, so the scientists had a bad run, the industrialists had a much better one, and the scientists teamed up with the industrialists to beat the ecologists, so the representative is industrial. In the final tally for the leading parties, it looks tied between those three. I guess pacifist could go either scientist or ecologist to put either one in charge. I assume you ended up with a scientist leading the senate OP?

It is even more conspiratorial, industrialists and pacifists teamed up to beat ecologists! Those bastards!
And yeah, scientists became my leading party, I think it has something to do with political leaning of the sophons, becasue you can see in the second picture that vote distribution is equal between those 3 parties in the end.

Yeah, I'm not sure at all how the ties are broken. But industrialists will vote for scientists, but never ecologists, so maybe that factored into it. 

To sum this up, can we tell that boosting adjacent parties a little bit is important for boosting the party you need? I guess so.. Because otherwise they will team up against you and push some randoms into your senate..
Anyway, this micromanagement is only important first 40 turns. Later you can neither keep up with your people's opinions nor control them.. xD

Fun fact, according to this screenshot Pacifists devided their votes between both parties, but in fact they only boosted scientists turning them into the main party?

Can you hover over the pacifist symbol? It might say how many votes were allocated. 

ItsAHoax wrote:

MonAmiral wrote:

Then, for each vote, it will randomly pick a politics to vote for, based on the support of the politics.

In Yersh's case, at the end of the turn Ecologists have 60% support, and Industrialists and Scientists have 20% each.

So what you are saying is that a system break down of
50% Military
10% Scientist
20% Ecologist

20% Industrialist

Population of (10)

Has a 50% chance of randomly picking Military as a representative first?

Why doesn't this system Guarantee that the majority support is Picked at a rate that properly represents the percentages? 

Because: 

a) It's got some elements of chance involved (i.e. the computer is rolling some dice).

b) "If there are several votes to cast at once, the ones that aren't randomly selected become slightly more likely to be selected next, so that there are more chances of getting a balanced system. " So after picking a militarist, the next representative being picked will have less than 50% chance of being picked. This ensures one system doesn't return (easily, commonly) tons of the same political representative, and keeps politics a bit more lively.