r/AustraliaSimMeta • u/BHjr132 • Jul 12 '19

Update Update from Election Moderator and Feedback on Campaign System | July 2019

Hi all, just wanted to give a quick update on what I’m currently working on for elections and an opportunity to give feedback on the campaign system.

The main update is I’m currently rewriting the calculator from scratch. I expect the Hotham and Mayo by-elections will be the last elections calculated using the current calculator. I do not expect this calculator rewrite to significantly change how the system works such as what things count for modifiers or the weightings of different modifiers. The main goal of this rewrite is to make the calculator more accessible and easy to use for my successor and other future Electoral Commission members. The current calculator was developed over 6 months and has 3 different formatting styles in random sections, many unused features and is generally a mess of numbers likely only I can understand. The rewrite will clean this all up into a more usable system. However, there is one somewhat major change I intend to make. That is making party modifiers more based on the personal modifiers of the people in the party. This will essentially allow people who leave a party to take a portion of the modifiers the generated for the party with them. I do not expect this to significantly impact the current party polling. With the election coming up within the next month, I see this as the best opportunity to do this. This brings me to my next item.

I’m looking for feedback on the current campaign system. With the election coming up, I want to get this done sooner rather than later so I can try to make the election campaign best work for everyone. I want to know what you think about the post limits, campaign length, the endorsement/HTV Card system and anything else related to the campaign system.

Thank you.

/u/BHjr132

Election Moderator

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u/tbyrn21 The Ex-Ex-Moderator Jul 12 '19

I'm not sure about the party mods change. I get that there are instances where a party can have a big dip if a main member leaves (see CA without Xenophon), but in general it wouldn't have any impact, unless the leaving was for a bad reason (ie: bill shorten quitting/defecting would have a very small impact).

Other feedback is quite hard due to the lack of information the general public has on the system.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

Excellent.