Is there a way to "predict" the order of presidents?

**Macdaddy02** · April 13, 2009, 04:19 PM

Hey guys,
I know that GeorgiaPeanuts made the Royal Family Tree work, but is there a way to determine which president will come next for the united states?

I have been going through the ESF editor to change the current president to the one I want, but I have to wait for the game to generate them before I can edit them.

**Toshiba** · April 13, 2009, 04:48 PM

If ya know your History, yes!

**Macdaddy02** · April 13, 2009, 04:54 PM

Aye, of course I know my History and which order the presidents occured, but my question was is there a way to put that order into the game?

It seems that it's random so to say, unless there is a file that I could change / modify to the united states faction and only have the names of the "real" presidents in order...

**Toshiba** · April 13, 2009, 05:45 PM

Depends on how much History is changed. No way to predict really.

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · April 13, 2009, 08:21 PM

What does history have to do with any of this? After turn 1, history goes by the wayside.

Internally, it looks like the game just randomly generates new ministerial characters when needed. There's no way of predicting who the next president will be because he simply does not exist before the election is over. The only reason we can see the people on the family tree is because the esfs/save games contain a specific section for family members, but that only keeps track of age, marital status/children, name, portraits, and gender--you'll notice there are no traits viewable on the family tree. That's because those characters don't actually exist yet either.

**harshman_chris** · April 13, 2009, 10:10 PM

Predicting Elections would in this case mean the election would have to be fixed.

Besides that if your goverments popularity is high like 70 and higher you will pretty much always win back, if you watch enough of them there is not complex process.

**Macdaddy02** · April 14, 2009, 08:48 AM

Aye, thats why I didn't even bother to reply after Toshiba, I didn't know if he/she didn't understand my question or didn't speak english..

Thanks guys, I just figured maybe I could edit the file that the game generates the minister names from;instead of having to wait for them to generate one and then modify it through my saved game in the ESF editor.

I add all the "real" presidents of the U.S.A. with their pictures, age, name, etc. once they're generated