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Democracy 3

Donating developers revenue to War Child
Watch this video:
https://youtu.be/GZnBgWd_R2g

Starting Today, and running for twelve days, Positech is donating all its steam revenue from the Democracy 3 franchise to a charity called war child. Thats the full price of each game, minus steams cut. Hopefully we will raise about $20k. As gamers, we spend a lot of time (me included) shooting guns in virtual wars. Lets spare some time to consider the impact of real; life wars that are happening right now on children around the world.

1.286 uploaded. Fixes voter approval bug
Hi, we updated the game today to version 1.286. the only difference is a fix for voter approval weirdness where approval can suddenly go nuts and the focus group values stop making sense for certain voters.
This will be rolled into mac,linux and other language builds soon.

1.285 electioneering fix (windows)
Hi, thanks to some great help from community members we have finally tracked down and (we strongly suspect) fixed a seemingly random crash in the electioneering DLC.
We have patched the windows version 1.285 which includes this fix, and OSX and the Africa version will get their fixes tomorrow. Sorry for all the hassle!

Small update for OSX
We had some bugs reported with electioneering on OSX (and other DLC) when certain scripts were run, such as firing a minister. This has (As far as we can tell) been tracked down and fixed now with this latest tiny update. Sorry about that, and hopefully its fixed now! (this was OSX only)

Minor balance update to 1.282
Version 1.282
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1. Fix for electioneering spin events bug.
2. Increased chance of Telecoms Meltdown event.
3. Increased chance of School Shooting event.
4. Increased chance of Church Attacked event.
5. Increased chance of Disastrous Crop event.
6. Increased inputs to Aerospace Contract Won event.
7. Increased inputs to Tech Firm Closure event.
8. Increased chance of Overseas Famine event.
9. Added input to Celebrity Kidnapped event.
10. Adjusted inputs to Market Meltdown event.
11. Reduced inputs to Superhero event.

Minor Balance tweak
Version 1.281
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1. Balance changes to the following events: Mad Cow Disease, Car Company Shuts Plant,Highway Collapses, Spy Scandal, Telecom's Meltdown, Train Crash, Disease Cured, School Shooting, Church Attacked, Prison Riot, Pension Fund Scandal, Natural Disaster, Flagship Company Leaves, Disastrous Crop, Age Concern protest, Aerospace Boom, Oil Tanker Sunk, Tech Firm Closure, Credit Crunch, Overseas Famine, Poverty Report, Celebrity Kidnapped.

Version 1.28 minor patch
Here are the changes:

Version 1.28
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1. Added impacts from Black Market situation on tax revenue.
2. Strengthened effects of Corporate Exodus situation.
3. Reduced impact of University Grants and Technology Colleges on education.
4. Poverty now boosts Drug Addiction, and Drug Addiction is harder to beat once triggered.
5. Fixed bug regarding labor survey event.
6. Adjusted triggering of Nobel Prize event.
7. Fixed display issue for some income effects on policies.
8. Consolidated duplicate entries for effects of tobacco consumption on cost of state health service.

Version 1.27 balance tweaks
Version 1.27
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1. Added impact of homelessness on Street Gangs.
2. Increased effect olf unemployment on Street Gangs,
3. Reduced impact of Police Force on Street Gangs.
4. Added inertia to effect of Police Force on Street Gangs.
5. Added inertia to impact of Armed Police on Street Gangs.
6. Increased impact of Poverty rate on Street Gangs
7. Adjusted curve of unemployments effect on Doctors Strike.
8. Reduced impact of unemployment benefit on Black Market.
9. Reduced trigger threshold for Black Market.
10. Reduced impact of Armed Police on Race Riots.
11. Increased impact of Unemployment on Race Riots.
12. Added impact of pollution on Contagious Disease.
13. Increased effect of Income Tax on Brain Drain.
14. Increased effect of Traffic Congestion on Gridlock.
15. Doctors Strike & Hospital overcrowding now both feed into Contagious Disease.
16. Increased impact of Public & Private Health care on Doctors Strike.

Update to the PC_Beta balance build (still version 1.26)
We added some more changes to the balance test build you can opt into, under 'betas' (no password).

Ok, we updated this build with some more changes today:


21. Increased inertia of effect of science funding on technology.
22. Increased inertia of effects from tech grants and tech colleges on technology.
23. Reduced effect and increased inertia of intel services on crime rate.
24. Reduced effect and increased inertia of phone tapping on crime rate.
25. Added inertia to effect from prisoner tagging to crime rate.
26. Reduced impact of youth club subsidies on crime rate.
27. Increased impact of poverty on crime rate.
28. Increased chance of armed robbery when handgun laws are low.
29. Increased chance of armed robbery when equality is low.
30. Pollution now slightly reduces tourism.
31. Increased cost of telecommuting initiative.
32. Reduced the impact of technology colleges on education.
33. Clean fuel subsidies now take longer to improve the environment.
34. Hyrbid car policy now takes longer to improve the environment.
35. Slowed down impact of hybrid car policy on car usage.
36. Hybrid car policy now boosts the income of the wealthy.
37. Lowered the triggering threshold for gridlock situation.

Once you have opted in and played some games, we really appreciate feedback on the changes. Thanks

1.26 beta balance patch, feel free to opt-in
There are more details here:

http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2016/05/19/new-beta-balance-patch-for-democracy-3/

But basically we are trying a new 'beta balance patch' for the game that introduces a whole bunch of changes to the simulation which we think makes the game better balanced, more accurate and more fun. Here are the changes:

Version 1.26
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1. Unemployment now contributes towards obesity
2. Increased impact of car usage on traffic congestion
3. Increased base likelihood of a teacher shortage.
4. Unemployment now reduces the chance of a teacher shortage.
5. University Grants now increase the chance of a teacher shortage.
6. Reduced impact of CCTV on Armed Robbery.
7. Added impact of low inequality on Armed Robbery.
8. Changed equation for GDP impact on Alcohol Consumption to be non-linear.
9. Added impact on doctors and teachers strikes from trade union membership
10. Adjusted impact of state school funding on teachers strikes.
11. Added effect of wages on Teachers & Doctors Strikes.
12. Added effects of science funding and the environment to contagious disease.
13. Arts subsidies, Bus subsidies and community policing now reduce unemployment.
14. Adjustments to triggers for various events.
15. Increased impact of refugee crisis event.
16. Effects of corporate exodus event worsened.
17. Increased impact of Unemployment on CrimeRate.
18. Impact of religion on antisocial behaviour now linked to membership, not frequency.
19. Unemployment now linked to antisocial behaviour
20. Trade union and Socialist group memberships now contribute towards general strike.

You need to opt-in to the beta (right click the games name on steam no password...) right now to see the changes.



Please note this is currently windows english version only. Let us know what you think...
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