Changelist

Democracy 4 General Discussion
61

[1.56]

  1. Added new feature to political compass. After a few turns have passed you can scroll through a timeline at the bottom of the graph.
  2. Fixed bug in the campaign focus on unemployment (voting systems DLC).
  3. Increased the political capital costs for some policies in the Voting Systems DLC.
  4. Phone and internet voting now discourages turnout among the retired. (Voting Systems DLC).
  5. Fixed anomaly where voterid law could be very slightly beneficial to ethnic minorities at a minimum setting.
  6. Corrected default setting for South Korean national service duration (it was too low in the game).
  7. Cut income boost to union members from Government Subsidies for Unions by 50%.
  8. EU subsidies from membership now decrease more sharply when you have a booming economy.
  9. Reduced impact of compulsory language lessons on capitalists.
  10. Workers on boards now discourages foreign investment.
  11. Labor day holiday now reduces working week.
  12. Fixed bug where the right click effects details graph would stay on screen if using the ‘go back’ shortcut key.
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62

[1.57]

  1. Fake News now reduces Democracy.
  2. Fixed missing title text for policy income or cost history.
  3. Fixed rare crash bug when viewing some policy income or cost history.
  4. Fixed anomaly where voters in debt could donate negative amounts to a political party.
  5. Fix for big memory leak. Ooops.
3 Likes
63

[1.58]

  1. High Speed Rail policy now directly affects Rail Usage.
  2. Support for new DLC: Country Pack.
  3. Mission text for almost all languages for the UK now says ‘King’ instead of Queen.
  4. Updated old shader code to use mix instead of lerp to prevent bugs with new opengl drivers.
  5. Increased severity of corporate exodus at a high level.
4 Likes
64

[1.59]

  1. Social Media Ban policy now reduces chances of Cyber Bullying situation.
  2. Ataturk no longer a valid name in Turkish.
  3. Increased the level of state housing in Turkey.
  4. Added Winter fuel subsidy to Turkey.
  5. Added Import Tariffs to Turkey.
  6. Added Speed Cameras to Turkey.
  7. Added Car Tax to Turkey.
  8. Added Adult Education Subsidies to Turkey.
  9. Fixed bug where clicking on a search result for a policy on the new policies screen sometimes changed category instead.
  10. Some performance improvements.
  11. Added ‘prerequisites’ named for each country in the game and expansion pack to make modders lives a bit easier.
  12. Changed UK national anthem to ‘God save the King’.
4 Likes
65

[1.60]

  1. Changed impact of Crime and Violent Crime so that they actually convey a positive impact when very low.
  2. Union subsidies are now incompatible with bans on unions, and vice versa.
  3. Added new ‘inertia boost’ slider on options screen for people who want to experiment with slower-changing opinions.
  4. New game and mission options screens are now modal to prevent accidental misclicks.
  5. Fixed bug on steam deck where touchscreen tap locations used the cursor position, not the touch position.
  6. Rearranged options screen to work better on steam deck.
  7. Enlarged checkbox hitboxes for steamdeck to help with tap to select.
  8. Some fixes to Portuguese translation.
5 Likes
66

[1.61]

  1. Fixed bug where the impact of corruption on the security (which affects terrorism) was sometimes inverted!
  2. Appropriate music is now chosen when you load a game, instead of waiting a turn.
  3. Fixed bug where you could right click an effect during the tutorial and hang the game.
  4. Right clicking on the top strip of buttons or the voter strips no longer launches the new policy screen.
  5. Fixed bug where Labour laws had multiple impacts on Working Week, and Labour Day Holidays had none.
  6. Fixed display bug for city farms policy in Portuguese.
  7. Fixed bug where a corrupted failed save game would cause a crash when trying to save other games.
  8. Fixed bug where state funding money was not emptied at election time resulting in corrupted graphs after an election win.
  9. Added the media spin event image to the results dialog if screen is wide enough.
2 Likes
67

[1.62]

  1. Post-election breakdown by voter type now sorts the groups by order of who supported you the most
  2. Reduced the likelihood of the sexual assault event.
  3. Reduced likelihood of the Falkland Islands event repeating for the UK.
  4. You can now click anywhere on the compass timeline to jump to that point, and the cursor now highlights to show this.
  5. Fixed bug where an existing manifesto pledge would not have its target date changed when Term Length policy changed.
  6. Fixed bug where timeline at top of main screen did not update immediately on a Term Length change.
  7. Fixed bug where the ESC key could skip the election if hit on the pre-election campaign screen.
  8. Fixed bug where certain manifesto pledges could result in inverted impacts when broken, or positive impacts for some groups.
  9. Fixed bug where manifesto pledges remained available throughout the second term.
  10. Huge speedup to the drawing of the polls (voter types) screen. Increasing FPS on 10yr old laptop from 59 to 228 fps.
  11. Adjusted retirement age in France and the level of corporation tax in the UK to keep up with recent changes in the real world.
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68

[1.63]

  1. Plane crash event now only triggers when there is a state airline policy enabled.
  2. Fixed minor cosmetic issue with the rendering of some policy icons after just being cancelled on the intel screen.
  3. Major update focusing on optimisation for rendering the game on low spec intel graphics cards, for much better framerate.
  4. Update to starting game conditions for the USA to include the more up to date value for government debt (big change!).
  5. Changed the settings for Poland to fix disproportionate number of wealthy citizens at start.
2 Likes
69

[1.64]

  1. Fixed bug on low resolutions where the change indicators on new policy expected effects might overlap.
  2. Fixed bug where occasionally you would see a one pixel line across the top or bottom of a window
  3. Fixed bug where text could disappear from the estimated effects on the new policy screen.
70

[1.65]

  1. Fixed bug where text overlapped on the policy screen for some screen resolutions and policies.