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Democracy 4

Support for new Country Pack Expansion, Queen is now King for UK & more...

[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.

Memory leak fix, some balance changes and crash bug fix.

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.

Added new political compass history feature, balance changes and policy updates.

[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.

Voting systems DLC bug fixes

Fixed bug in the campaign focus on unemployment (voting systems DLC).
Increased the political capital costs for some policies in the Voting Systems DLC.
Phone and internet voting now discourages turnout among the retired. (Voting Systems DLC).
Fixed anomaly where voterid law could be very slightly beneficial to ethnic minorities at a minimum setting.

Translation bug fix and typo fix.

[1.55]
1) Fixed typo in blasphemy dilemma description.
2) Fixed bug where on first run, if non-english, some text might not seem to be translated.

Fixed text bug in gambling policy slider (English only)

Fixed text bug in gambling policy slider (English only)

Balance changes, Updated abortion policy slider for US, plus some Brexit changes

1) Reduced the impact that the membership of the environmentalist group has on the chances of the Environmental Protest situation developing.
2) Reduced the alarming frequency with which your national team can exit the world cup.
3) Slight reduction in chances of the Drought event.
4) Quantum Computing breakthrough event is now slightly easier to obtain.
5) Gig Economy event is now slightly more likely.
6) Minor reduction in the vulnerability of Japan to a debt crisis.
7) Added missing setting for Border Controls policy to France.
8) Increased Border Controls in UK to 0.5 to reflect Brexit.
9) Moved abortion slider lower for US to reflect June 2022 supreme court ruling.
10) Game will now attempt to guess the correct language on first run so user no longer has to select it.
11) France has a slightly higher initial slider now for Labor Day holiday policy.
12) Fixes to some Portuguese text.

Fix for max voting age policy effect being wrong for retired turnout.

Fix for max voting age policy effect being wrong for retired turnout.

Bug fixes, and a new economic slider chart

[1.53]
1) Fixed bug where food shortages had a zero impact on Everyone.
2) A bunch of changes to the impacts of the global economy, which were using incorrect equations.
3) Added new economic cycle chart to the customise mission screen to explain it better.
4) Fixed a bug that would cause random bits of Russian text to be displayed in English.

Scrolling text bug fix, Balance changes to Poverty Rate, Climate Change & more

[1.52]
1) Social Care policy now has a positive impact on Mental Health.
2) Police Drones policy is now popular with conservatives.
3) Finally fixed super-rare but annoying bug where some mouse clicks made some chunks of text scroll upwards.
4) Default Poverty Rate raised by 1%, but Can now be reduced by State Health Care, as it already is by other state-owned industries.
5) Climate Change Adaption policy now recues the chances of a severe Drought event.