Democrats vanish in USA

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I was playing Vicky R. I have the patch. Democrats where running the country, then the election of 1924 comes, and they just barely lose. The next day the party vanishes, never to be seen again.

Jeez if I didn't know better I would swear it was so cabal of Diebold, G.W. Bush and the Supreme Court at work there. Republicans go from having about 43.2% of support. Dems until the lost election had 43.5%. Now Republicans have 78% to 80% of popular support.

 

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Democrats represent the early democratic party of the 1840's. They are later replaced, If history is followed, by a party I think is called "Democratic Party" or something, with altered party expectations (no more slavery for instance).

Is this a situation where those old parties already retired, and the Democrats are the new party? I made my own party so long ago, I never get those real parties anymore.

 

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Democrats represent the early democratic party of the 1840's. They are later replaced, If history is followed, by a party I think is called "Democratic Party" or something, with altered party expectations (no more slavery for instance).

Is this a situation where those old parties already retired, and the Democrats are the new party? I made my own party so long ago, I never get those real parties anymore.

No, the new parties which come in by event (reconstruction IIRC) are still called Democratic Party and Republican Party to show the post-Civil war differentiation.

 

[OHgamer]

I was playing Vicky R. I have the patch. Democrats where running the country, then the election of 1924 comes, and they just barely lose. The next day the party vanishes, never to be seen again.

Jeez if I didn't know better I would swear it was so cabal of Diebold, G.W. Bush and the Supreme Court at work there. Republicans go from having about 43.2% of support. Dems until the lost election had 43.5%. Now Republicans have 78% to 80% of popular support.

Odd, they shouldnt since the deathdate for the party is 2000, IE end of the scenario.

 

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But I thought that they are slept by the reconstruction events. Wouldn't that make them disappear if they ever lose an election? I had that happen to be me, in Vic 1.04.

There are 2 sets of Democratic and republican parties in the USA_party.csv files. One for pre-Civil War and one for post-Civil War

With the Reconstruction event, the pre-Civil War ones are slept and disappear from the screen, and the post-civil war ones are made active. So the pre-Civil War parties should not be appearing in elections if you have the reconstruction event and make the choice that causes the old parties to be replaced by the new ones.

At least, that is how it should work in theory. There should be no reason why either the Democratic or Republican party should "disappear" unless one becomes a one-party state, which is not what has apparently happened. Perhaps if someone has a savegame from just before such an occurrence happens, we can trace what exactly is happeing and determine if this is a bug, WAD or just a glitch.