December 17 2017 - version 9
Because many of the changes in this update involve the procgen, this version has drastically different starting conditions and the saves of previous versions will no longer function. I'll be keeping around v8 for download for anyone who misses TK.
- Player is now appraised of trust changes post-election.
- Rush the Vote box color now represents who will win the vote.
- Rushing a losing bill to a vote will now clear all threats/promises you made that bill.
- Refined avatar generation to better represent the demographics of the State.
- Added new flavortext for Bill results (Republican Whip now comments on your wins too).
- Refined button texts to ease assessment of actions and prevent text overflow.
- Refined button colors to ease assessment of actions.
- Added new Bills that do cool things...
- A one chance (Bill 11) Puerto Rico statehood bill which changes the states in congress.
- Anti/Pro-Lobbyist bills which decreases/increases lobby influence after enactment.
- Electoral Fairness/Security bills which produces more/less reps who's views align with their state.
- Can no longer force the vote on budget bills.
- Budget Riders (on passed budgets) now effect election funding, where the differential between D and R riders is how much funding must be given away from the party with more Riders.
- Added Riders highlight buttons for Reps that are drafting riders and reps that created riders.
- Refined Republican Whip AI to abuse Pork when able and other useful moves while ahead in the count rather than doing nothing.
- Fixed bug where force vote button would stick around after use.
- Fixed bug where riders would cause opinion percentages to go outside of bounds.
- Fixed misgendered pronouns in text.
- Fixed bug where pork and concessions could not be used on the same rep over multiple bills.