[1.28]
- Removed duplicate impact on security from mandatory microchip implants (2 appearances on security screen)
- Reduced Technology impact of driverless car laws by 50%.
- Doubled the cost of Stem Cell policy.
- Reduced Technology impact of Technology Colleges by 25%
- Boosted Technology impact of Rare Earth Refinement by 100%.
- Reduced Technology impact of Technology Grants by 25%.
- Illegal immigration situation is now slightly harder to trigger, easier to solve.
- The Private Space Program,Armed Religious Communities and Doctors Strike situations are now harder to trigger.
- Egalitarian society situation no longer influenced by Education, but needs Gender Equality and low Generational Wealth Gap.
- Reduced link between Rare Earth Refinement and Productivity.
- Reduced impact of Alcohol Consumption on Productivity.
- Reduced default level of Productivity.
- Slowed most inputs to the Corporate Exodus situation by 50%.
- Slightly easier now to trigger the Teachers Strike.
- Plastics Tax and Packaging Tax are now also inputs to the Black Market situation.
- Homelessness,Antibiotics-ResitantBacteria,Class War and Food Banks situations now trigger more easily.
- Dilemmas rebalanced so some are more frequent, others less frequent.
- Bug fix for theoretically fixed situations like EU monetary policy stopping or starting.
- Media Monopoly situation now reduces Democracy.
- Fixed bug where some values on the ‘disposable income’ screen were inaccurate, or garbled (esp for South Korea).
- Car Emissions limit’s impact on motorists income is now scaled by inverse of EV transition.
- Cost of body cameras now scaled to numbers of police,community police & armed police.
- Fake news now increases chance/effect of Contagious disease situation and boosts racial tension.
- Fixed links for minister icons on main screen to correctly show inputs and outputs from them and their sympathy groups.
- Education now takes time (2 years) to feed through into a change in Productivity.
- Air travel now slower to respond to GDP, but boosts pollution more.
- Worker productivity impact on GDP now a gentler curve.
- GDP impact on unemployment now a gentler curve.
- GDP has a steeper impact on pollution, homelessness and car usage now.
- Corruption and average minister effectiveness now shown at the bottom of finance screen. Corruption affects policy costs/income now.
- Corruption and minister effectiveness now shown at bottom of finance history for each policy, mouseover shows cost impact of each.
- Corruption slightly boosts tax evasion now.
- Rebalanced many inputs from state services to state employee membership and unemployment to make them more accurate.
- Voter turnout is now generally higher in all situations.