- The People Smuggling dilemma options now also impact future immigration levels.
- Faster game start.
- Some previously hidden effects are now visible: The policy outputs that affect a policy cost or income.
- The sort order for potential ministers, voter groups and inputs/outputs to sim values and situations are all now saved.
- Illegal Immigration amnesty dilemma now has effects on future immigration.
- Rebalance of some events to happen more or less often.
- Rebalance of all dilemmas to make trigger frequencies more sensible
- Customizable party colors.
- Editable minister names (just click on them).
- Fixed issue where older modded policies caused errors when loading.
- Some performance increases for low-spec video cards.
Democracy 4
Updated to build 1.15
Updated to 1.14 Retirement Age, Balance & Performance Improvements
[1.14]
- Added new policy: Retirement Age.
- Donors will now quit if you implement a policy suggestion of theirs but later cancel it.
- Food Banks, Homelessness and Cyclones are now more easily triggered.
- Lots of adjustments to events to make rare events happen more often, and prevent the same ones happening too often.
- Cancelling a policy you pledged to cut now counts as a pledge honored, and vice versa.
- The political compass on main menu now has an option to show you this months average election victory locations for each country.
- Fixed Anything Goes achievement bug where the gambling requirement was inverted.
- Reduced the impact on minister loyalty of seeing a fellow minister fired from -10% to -6%.
- Germany: ID cards are now biometric from the start.
- Germany: Starts with higher technology colleges.
- Germany: Reduced strength of CCTV policy.
- Germany: Added Game hunting restrictions and right to privacy (GDPR).
- Germany: Added cultural boost to productivity.
- Germany: Boosted Labour laws strength.
- Added negative impact on corporate exodus when worker productivity is high.
- Germany: Added geographical reduction to traffic congestion.
- Germany: Added Bus Subsidies.
- Ctrl+f is now a shortcut to opening the main UI search UI or new policy search UI.
- Re-write of party loyalty and membership system to allow parties to adjust towards your position to win support.
- Policies can now be mutually exclusive, cancelling others when implemented, such as income tax and flat tax.
- UK: Now has Hybrid Car Initiative.
Added Australia! plus numerous improvements
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- Added new country: Australia!
- Faith School Subsidies now reduce teacher shortages situation.
- Speech animation now affected by UI animation speed slider.
- Hospital overcrowding slightly harder to trigger.
- Fixed bug where initial donors and ministers only had sympathy to the same 4 groups.
- Fixed glitch on assassination screen where icon backgrounds could be corrupted.
- Fixed bug where reshuffling a minister back into a different job could occasionally leave their icon offscreen.
- Average temperature (climate change effectively) now increases immigration when it gets really high.
- Slightly reduced impact on Liberals of internet censorship.
- Executive Term Length changes now have no implementation delay.
- Political capital screen now shows a tooltip to explain the political honeymoon.
- Oil drilling subsidies now reduce the number of environmentalists.
- Pollution has slightly less impact on growth of environmentalism.
- Reduced impact of executive term length on Liberals.
- Reduced impact of Private Prisons on Trade Unionists.
- Political honeymoon option now also starts the player with a short-term post-election happiness boost for all voters.
- Added tooltips to focus group perceptions/ministers etc to show exact values.
- Adjustments to the impacts of legalizing sex work and narcotics policies on organized crime.
- Media events that have been triggered now become available again 36 turns later.
- Third party now slightly less likely to get votes in a three party system.
- The Space Program policy now boosts internet speed at a high level due to satellite tech.
- Cyclones are now slightly more likely.
- Various Achievements made easier.
Don't forget to vote in-game on your priorities! Also if you are enjoying the game, leaving a review is much appreciated :D
Updated to build 1.130
[1.130]
- Fixed bug where the campaigning ability indicator was missing on the minister details screen.
- Added new search bar for icons on the main screen triggered from new button at the top.
- Fixed anomaly where the back button did not launch the political capital spending confirmation on the policy screen.
- Added totally new voter analysis screen at the end of an election.
- Changed the way voters pick parties which should fix coalitions being so rare.
- Fixed crash bug when hitting the escape key while a drop down list was opened.
- Fixed very annoying bug where opposition party memberships/colors may have been swapped between turns!
- Fixed modding issue where names for ministers/voters did not load in correctly.
- Fixed crash on compass or load game screen where a save game existed from a modded country that has been uninstalled.
- Fixed offscreen input to average temperature.
- Fixed Speeches so that state employees and self employed can come up more often as a conflicting choice.
- Fixed crash bug when political capital is disabled and you reshuffle cabinet often.
- Fixed bug where reshuffling a minister, then reassigning them could result in a temporarily missing icon.
- Fixed some missing sound effects.
- Improved bottom section of election results screen so that you can see individual data for every party in 3 party elections.
- Fixed bug in the voting intentions chart which over-estimated the chances of people voting for the player in 3 party elections.
Updated to build 1.129
[1.129]
- Altered mod support so that entire languages can be added as a mod.
- Achievements rebalanced and some bugs fixed that prevented triggering.
- Hyperinflation situation now has worse effect on Trade, plus upsets the wealthy and self employed.
- Added Italian translations for France,Germany and Canada missions.
- Fixed bug where changes to term length and limit may not be saved.
- Added option to disable political capital system entirely.
- Fixed issue where the new turn report did not remove a minister demand that had already been met that turn.
- Income from graduate tax now mostly dependent on education levels. Also high graduate taxes now reduce education.
- Improved the algorithm controlling global CO2 emissions over time.
- Banning Divorce, Legalizing sex work, and abortion policies now all also affect Gender Equality.
Updated to build 1.128
[1.128]
1) Fixed bug where sometimes clicking on buttons or other elements on the electioneering perceptions tab would fail.
2) Bicycle subsidies and cycling campaigns reduce car and rail usage less in Canada, due to geography / temperature.
3) Fixed tooltips slowly shrinking or being the wrong size in some circumstances.
4) Steam friends average positions now show up on the compass at the main menu correctly.
5) Fixed incorrect sizing of icons if you remove every policy in a policy area and also fire a minister.
6) Fixed loading of translations for missions from a mod folder
7) Added small Married Tax Allowance by default for Canada.
8) Added information on voter sympathy groups to the policy screen minister tooltips.
9) Election results now tints colors of absent voters to show who they leaned towards supporting.
10) Fixed bug where some events would happen too often and some not at all.
11) Added Italian Translation
Updated to version 1.127
- Fixed incorrect count of party members in next turn screen when its very low.
- Steam now supports detailed status text when in game.
- Fixed broken in-game modding website link.
- Fixed support for loading in translation data for modded situations, sim values, events and dilemmas.
- Hopefully fixed a rogue red icon in the top left of the screen in some circumstances.
- Auto-switch to most powerful graphcis card if an nvidia or AMD card is rpesent
- Changed how labour laws are seen to affect strikes to prevent confusion.
- Respiratory disease now increases healthcare demand.
- Reforestation effect on the environment is now much slower to take effect
- A whole bunch of balance changes to make the debt crisis have a stronger effect at high levels.
- GDP has a more skewed impact on wages at a high level now.
- Slightly reduced the debt-immunity granted to the US due to being the worlds reserve currency.