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Steam
Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Lawgivers II

Alpha 7.13

IMPROVEMENTS
- improvements to party AI and nation AI
- added conditions system to see what's going on. For example: General election
- added much more useful information like borrower of a loan
- more information to people's history
- improvements to party membership distribution
- if player leaves multiplayer game, and AI continues
- increased language support

FIXES
- many general fixes to broken game window navigation
- can't give holidays anymore to person that takes already holidays
- can't anymore adjust salary every week
- can't anymore modify candidates before and after elections
- many fixes to AI system
- calendar search function bugs
- memory leak with loans not repaied

Alpha 7.12

Thanks to the amazing community, the first mods have been uploaded on the Steam Workshop!

IMPROVEMENTS
- added custom scenarios information
- person display medals now for winning votes
- added more savegame information
- slightly improved performance for parliaments

FIXES
- bug that was messing up constituencies for future elections
- government is now correctly dissolved in parliamentary systems
- law history shows now correct icon when laws are rejected
- statements were hanging up sometimes
- default constituency map is now duplicable

Alpha 7.11

FEATURES
- Steam Cloud support
- Steam Workshop support
- germany has now presidential election
- option to set presidential election frequency to 5 o 6 years
- more customization options for politicians and random looks
- statements can now be made about gdp, inflation, migration and public debt

IMPROVEMENTS
- minister AI will take loans if budget is critical
- improvements to election map colors gradient
- improved party AI laws presentation
- party AI can now remove laws as well
- national budget takes now tax evasion in consideration
- inflation is now increasing all prices in country
- interface improvements when selecting parameters or other targets
- more improvements to resarch system
- small improvements to tutorial and explanation
- tooltips support in lists
- many performance optimizations

FIXES
- sometimes AI parties wanted to do coalition even if there was no need
- broken scenarios can't be loaded anymore
- sometimes mission failed every year
- committees no longer assigned agains, when goverment survives a motion of confidence
- tooltip was displayed something without text
- fixes to chat console on mobile

Alpha 7.10

FEATURES
- new law "Public transport" with 2 articles
- new article for "Food regulation" law
- more options to personalize your politician
- people display now wealth and tax heaven funds
- function to propose another lawmaker to vote the same way
- function to modify salary of politician
- new ideologies: social democracy, neoliberism, nationalism and regionalism
- new much improved mission and reward system
- function to dismantle buildings

IMPROVEMENTS
- improved party AI on votes with coalition
- huge general laws and budget rebalance
- parliament display now most left party on left, and most right on right
- measure can't be modified right after approval anymore
- fire person function back ingame
- much better descriptions, informations and tooltips
- improved performance on game load, end turn and people filters
- new shortcut (.) to autofill
- scenario is now saved as .json file
- updates to research system to display not researched stuff
- increased zoom on worldmap

FIXES
- some bugs related to nation parameters
- nation salary was not correctly displayed
- advanced elections if regional/state governors or mayors leave politics
- some bugs related to mobile navigation and display
- bugs related to person appearance change window
- sometimes white party color was wrong displayed

Alpha 7.9

FEATURES
- new law "Tax collection agency" with 4 articles
- new parameter "Gini Index" to measure income inequality
- autofill laws articles on creation option
- autofill coalition option
- added 3, 5 and 7 seats option for committees

IMPROVEMENTS
- party AI is now more likely to vote in favour of "common sense" bills
- improved committees distribution appearance
- new desktop shortcuts to enter buildings, committees (c + number) and departments (g + number)
- if the speaker is absent, the vice speaker take it's functions
- improvements to list filters and navigation
- improved some descriptions and increased support for localizations
- many balance changes regarding voters gain and coalitions
- end turn performance optimizations

FIXES
- freeze made it sometimes impossible to progress on votes with regional parties
- sometimes it was impossible to propose coalition
- death members are not counting more as active members
- since last update, elections where saving a wrong law to regulate them
- bug that could lock progression on calendar in rare cases
- some events and votes where not removed when dissolving parliament
- bug on government manual minister selection
- serveral bugs when generating laws for AI
- memory leak when entering structures
- some mistakes when charts display for parameters
- new parties had always centrism as default during game
- on statements it could prefill with a person from another party
- few bugs related to speaker powers

Alpha 7.8

FEATURES
- speaker of the house can now reschedule votes on calendar
- new law "Banking system" with 2 articles
- new law "Property Tax" with 2 articles
- new law "Natural parks" with 3 articles
- new article concerning party funding distribution
- 3 new articles for "Firearms regulation" law
- new parameter "Air pollution"
- new window to customize person appearance and name
- new party AI can now present constitutional laws
- new difficulties settings

IMPROVEMENTS
- party AI won't present same laws anymore
- overall performance improvements when entering buildings
- many interface and tooltips adjustments
- very loyal people can't be "bought" anymore
- budget and money rebalance

FIXES
- few issues with laws proposed by party AI
- some interface errors on mobile platforms
- memory leak with people appearance change
- coalition was sometimes not reset
- freeze related to organisations
- more various freeze and bugs

Alpha 7.7

FEATURES
- Abstain vote article to parliament to change it's behaviour
- added more statistics to game

FIXES
- media coverage in Germany
- more issues with coalitions

Alpha 7.6

FEATURES
- new law "Family planning policies" with 3 articles
- new law "Military service" with 1 article

IMPROVEMENTS
- AI parties try now a different coalition when it fails
- improvements to date display
- more language support

FIXES
- AI parties where proposing laws sometimes with more same articles
- some bugs related to motion of confidence
- some values related to germany, like committee seat numbers and parliament seat change
- some fonts where displayed wrong
- selection bug related to statements
- more ui mistakes on law creation

Alpha 7.5

FEATURES
- 4 new articles "Helicopter rescue", "Homeless shelters", "High tech farming" and "GMO Ban"
- support for custom content/scenarios, see tutorial on discord mods

IMPROVEMENTS
- several performance enhancements
- all windows can now be closed by pressing exit button for a second
- increased languages support

FIXES
- massive fixes regarding law creation and approval
- bug that would break savegames

Alpha 7.4

FEATURES
- parties can now take loans
- 2 new articles "First aid course" for secundary education law and "Non-urgent care fees" for public health
- parliaments can have now election every 3, 4 or 5 years
- governor and mayor laws to regulate elections in states/regions and cities

IMPROVEMENTS
- redesigned market and world economy system
- further increased language support
- many balance changes to laws
- various performance optimizations
- improvements to low quality setting

FIXES
- AI government won't remove their own measures anymore
- government measure where not correctly removed
- color was sometimes not selectable on party creation
- additional small improvements and corrections
- bug afflicting windows, particularly on law creation
- softlock on motion of confidence
- more bugs concerning laws removal/approvement
- if party has no lawmakers on votes, vote automatically abstain
- possibility to changes seat
- a softlock that occoured sometimes when playing with custom party

More bug fixes and rebalance on way :)