Steam
Genre: Simulator, Strategy, IndieLawgivers II
Alpha 8.4
- added sounds effects talking and wind
FIXES
- people color filters when entering new institutions
- few bugs related to law creation
- fixes to constituencies distribution
- election is remove when dissolving parliament on snap election
Tomorrow start the first round to select the new country to add beside the United Kingdom! More information on our Discord in #polls-countries
Alpha 8.3
- added main theme to start of game
- new statements to accuse people or parties of corruption
- vibration for mobile platforms on events, protest and scandals
- Ai can add new parties during game, or add at the date they are founded
IMPROVEMENTS
- more tax rate options for corporate tax
- audio management and mixers
- huge performance gain when building parliaments
- huge performance gain in network data
- world icons positions and they are now enabled by default
- redesigned a few ingame icons
FIXES
- end turn synchronization with animation
- governors elections AI and bundesrat delegations in Germany
- seats majority requirements was sometimes not correct
- many troubles related to server and client connections
- percentage for lawarticle was sometimes not selectable
- lawmaker title was not removed from new canchellor/prime minister
- some people had wrong city location assigned
- fixed a random freeze on Android
Alpha 8.2
- new law "Police regulation" with 2 articles
- new law "Space agency" with 2 articles
- added kickstarter edition (needs to be activated with key on PC)
- income brackets are now editable
IMPROVEMENTS
- no longer need to select candidates if election is based on state delegation
- added buildings filter
- display warning no lawmaker in committee
- effects improvements for many laws
FIXES
- sometimes government was not formed in the US when changing constitutional laws
- bug with electors number when changing constitutional laws
- fixed to constituency editing tools
- AI law was presented somtimes two times
- some issues with world map
- bug with speaker power
Alpha 8
18th August 2023
Alpha 8 is out, bringing many new features to the game, among these, the upper house/senate which was as well a stretch goal during the Kickstarter campaign. I am now at work to the exclusive kickstarter edition that all backers will receive soon. Development is of course set to go on for many months which will bring the United Kingdom, multiplayer support as well as much more content!
Milestone news: Thanks to your precious support, I am thrilled to announce that I have commissioned the main theme for Lawgivers II 🎶
FEATURES
- upper house/senate and switch to bicameral/unicameral legislation
- two events "Subprime crisis" and "Great recession"
- game rule to choose between unicameral or bicameral parliaments
- game rule to choose between realistic timed events or random timed
- organizations system has been completely redesigned
- world and institution filters/lenses are reimplemented again
- resources, buildings, events and battles can now be displayed on world map
- if nation is unhappy, citizen's protests may occur
- new law "Working regulation" with 2 articles
- low stability may now lead to protests
- added kickstarter politicians
- new parameter "Democratic representation"
- scandal is breaking out if using too much black money
- new gameplay and knowledge tips
IMPROVEMENTS
- regional stability system
- gdp system and growth
- display legislature and constituency representing on lawmaker
- several improvements to text and descriptions
- serious improvements to general AI system
- improvements to voters distribution AI
- link to open law that regulates election
- custom scenarios can now have attached localizations files
- significantly increased end turn performance
- more information for nations at start of game
- switched to vulkan for android with great performance improvements
FIXES
- memory leak in AI system
- fixed buying lawmaker vote
- fixes to party creation at start of game
- bug with calendar indexing, could made it impossible to progress sometimes
- bug in voters distribution
- netcode bug on scheduling some events on calendar that afflicted all games
- freeze caused by wrong multithreading system
- support for ultrawide screens
- rethinked many functions to ensure a more bug-free experience
Alpha 7.19
- new parameter "Marine pollution"
- new law "Fishing regulation" with 2 articles
IMPROVEMENTS
- additional improvements to UI and descriptions
FIXES
- bugs afflicting coalitions
- issues with median home ownership
- when lawmaker dies, another one takes it's place and can not be a candidate anymore
- possible softlock when playing over 100 years
- game could lock on vote for president
Alpha 7.18
- graph to record electoral results
- AI voters take account of unipolarism, bipolarism or multipolarism
- coalition proposal may now be declined
IMPROVEMENTS
- game points/victory system
- some interface and navigation improvements
- leader of party is now secretary
- record on calendar when other parties change leader
- tooltips for media coverage
FIXES
- now can't build anymore two times the same building in a region
- vice president candidates can now as well candidate again
- statements outreach population based now on media coverage
- two issues that made it impossible to start a new game
Alpha 7.17
- more information and tooltips
FIXES
- candidates for presidency and speaker may now candidate again
- many changes and fixes to UI scaling
- fixes to text and some translations
- fixes to victory points distribution
- regressions from last update
Alpha 7.16
- new law "Animal rights" with 2 articles
- new law "Tertiary education" with 2 articles
IMPROVEMENTS
- AI person which proposed a vote will now always vote to approve it
- world starting menues have been totally redesigned
- more infos and tooltips to many elements ingame
FIXES
- windows bug when creating new event on calendar
- it was impossible to create laws with some maps
- rarely game was stuck on player selection
- duplicate constituencymap was not working sometimes
- dispute was not closed when peace agreement
- rarely game was stuck on voting a law
- rarely game was stuck on election
Alpha 7.15
- description of ideologies
IMPROVEMENTS
- all ideologies react now different from each other
FIXES
- winner of election is now the party with more seats
- promise can be made again after completition or failing
- fixed poll to show party priorities
- some UI troubles and displaying issues
Alpha 7.14
- parties may now choose to repay debts earlier to save money
- totally redesigned calendar and calendar navigation
- laws can be put again to vote after rejecting and waiting some turns
- people can get victory points by reaching new positions in country
- elections display now tooltips for every constituency and district
IMPROVEMENTS
- each player can now organize just one event per week
- it's possible now to plan an event ahead, before timeout is over
- more party loans are available each year
- election tooltips display voters gain from past election
- display money/budget changes instantly and not just at end turn
- happiness is now influencing region's stability
- cities are hidden when displaying elections
- party funding can give now unhappiness
- when person dies, points are carried over to successor
- elections turnout is now changing during game
- party money at start rebalanced
FIXES
- few ingame statistics were not registered correctly
- potential freeze on general elections
- players could advance without assign all candidates on elections
- correct holidays are now assigned
- crash on long term loans repaid in other countries