New patch available (1.23)

[Pawel]

Hi,

thanks - that explains it, at least. I’ll go and be annoying in those topics

[size=85](hard to find the needed topics in a forum when you just joined - sorry for the double-reporting…)[/size]

[cliffski]

Ok, here we go, I’ve fixed that pesky assassin thing, and also the reported exploit where escape key quits a failed election
latest version is now 1.08

1.08

Fixed bug relating to assasinations with no text
Fixed bug where escape key let you keep playing after election defeat when hit on the detailed results screen

here is a patch for people with version 1.07

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch108.exe

Cheers,

[cliffski]

Latest tweaks:

1.09

Made small business grants gradually reduce number of socialists
Support added for scrolling for modded-in achievements
Fixed bug where fireworks did not show any more on the achievement screen.
Tweaked various policies to effect the number of capitalists and socialists.
Better effects for speed camera policy and carbon tax
New effects to prevent contradictory situation showing up

patch for users of 1.08:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch109.exe

Cheers

[Spider_hip]

woww you’re great very hardworking.

I wish I’d be hardworking as much as you :mrgreen:

[Glinka]

@Spider_hip

woww you’re great very hardworking.

I wish I’d be hardworking as much as you :mrgreen:

He’s this way on every game. Puts it out, watches for bugs and suggestions, and turns out plenty of fixes. Makes you wish others did the same, doesn’t it?

[cliffski]

Ok only a minor fix this time, and stupidly I forgot to update the readme.txt
basically 1.10 is 1.09 but with a fix where certain effects of some situations were not loading in correctly. I doubt anyone noticed

here is a patch for people with 1.09:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch110.exe

Cheers

[cliffski]

Some more tweaks today:

1.11

Fixed some formatting and input issues with the mod tools (ctrl+shift S and D and E).
Adjusted the effectiveness of free eye tests and free school meals to reduce effects on poverty and the poor.
Recycling now improves air quality slightly.
Reduced effects of pensions and free bus passes on happiness of retired people.
Added support for modded (new) simulation values, and changed formatting of csv file so they can have inputs defined as well.
Added Internet Crime Situation.
Adjusted community policing so it represents a lesser, and slower-acting policy.
Raising speed limits now slightly increases carbon emmissions.
Clarified some order page text and only allow player to enter numbers and dashes, not letters.
Minor graphical tweak to policy selection list.

Patch from 110:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch111.exe

Enjoy

[cliffski]

A very minor patch, to address a bug with the timeline:

1.12

Change title.bmp to a jpg and changed compression on some files to reduce filesize.
Fixed bug where the timeline progress bar didnt work on a loaded game with a long term length, and other problems relating to that. Sadly this b0rks savegames.

patch from 1.11:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch112.exe

Cheers.

[cliffski]

that last patch didn’t work on some intel cards, so reverted as 1.13

1.13

Reverted jpg back to a bmp for intel cards

Patch from 1.12

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch113.exe

[cliffski]

Ok, there was a crash bug sometimes seen when viewing a voter group. basically what happened is you started a game that didnt use the normal names, but used the Spanish or Russian ones, then saved it, and loaded it back in and tried to access voter groups.
often this would crash. And if it didn’t, everyones names had changed

It’s fixed in 1.14:

1.14

Fixed crash bug regarding loading a saved game that used non standard voter names, and then accessing voter group details. Sadly this also renders older saves unloadable.

Patch from 1.13:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch114.exe

[cliffski]

and fixed the graphics thing on intel cards now

1.15

Fixed some code that caused graphics corruption on some intel video cards

Patch from 114:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch115.exe

[cliffski]

Ok, I.16 adds in the political honeymoon tweak (optional), and fixes 2 crashes:

1.16

Added new optional system for decreasing political capital 'honeymoon' period so as to make the game easier at the start and harder as you stay in office.
Fixed a rare crash bug where there are modded bitmaps and the player has a long windows username (and thus mydocuments path).
Fixed crash bug relating to laoding save games and viewing voters, and where multiple games started after each other screwed up the names voters had.

Patch from 1.15:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch116.exe

Enjoy.

[shaper]

Haven’t played this for a while, have changed machines in the interim. Still have my original download from BMT email.
Will this download to the current version or if not, what is the patching process? Upgrade to 1.1, then to 1.2, etc or what?

Thanks. Great game, really looking forward to seeing what the effects of the new changes are.

[cliffski]

If you redownload it, you get the very latest pre-patched copy automatically.
Cheers

[Ender]

It looks like I’m a few patches behind - do I need to do them all sequentially? Or should I redownload the game (if so, how do I do that?). Or can I just download the latest patch?

[TomPhil]

Either do them all sequentially (I did that for about six or seven patches and it doesn’t take that long) or just redownload the game using the link in the E-mail that you were sent when you bought the game. if you have lost the link, you will need to E-mail your details to Cliff and he can resend it.

[cliffski]

1.17 out today, some mod support, and the USA is added, ported from D1.

1.17

Added in support for modding entirely new voter types using text files!
Added in converted D1 USA mission

Patch from 1.16:

positech.co.uk/democracy2/De … tch117.exe

[Delirium]

Thanks cliffski, the support for this game is excellent.

One suggestion for future patches (not sure if it’s feasible at all): When you get voted out or you have run through your maximum number of terms in the game, it just ends without any kind of victory screen. I think it’d be really nice if you could have a screen which shows all of the various social statistics (such as GDP, unemployment, poverty rate, Crime, etc.) before you assumed office, and compares them with how they look when you leave.

[cliffski]

Hey that’s quite an interesting idea, and definitely doable.
Cheers

[evelinbinder]

Thanks a lot cliffsky for that you advance “democracy 2”.

Will there be a “Democracy 3” in the future , with some features implemented that were discussed in this forum ?

Regards
Evelin