Secret Government
Tutorials update
After we developed the new update, we decided to test it not only within our team but also to attract a small group of players for a beta test. When we did the test, we realized what kind of problems the players face during the tutorial. First of all, it turned out to be too long, so that the players could get too far away from the actual game. Creating and developing your secret society in the game is much more fun than going through long-term tutorials. Taking into account this important detail, we decided to finalize the tutorial.
The team is currently working on the next update. First of all, we revised the duration of the tutorial mode for some chapters and made it shorter. The player now has the opportunity to start a tutorial at any time during the game. It allows you to study particular game mechanics almost without breaking away from the gameplay. We hope that these updates will help new players get into the game better, as well as allow more experienced players to refresh their memory on certain game mechanics.
Now we are also working on various bug fixes and interface improvements.
We are always glad to hear your comments and ideas that you can bring to us on social networks or our discord. See you again in the world of conspiracy theories!
Изменения в грядущих апдейтах
Грядущее обновление игры сильно изменит множество основных механик. Дабы те, кто уже знаком с игрой, не чувствовали себя совсем потеряно, когда запустят обновленную версию, мы решили описать некоторые изменения в этой короткой статье.
Идеология Братства
Теперь Братство и все его сторонники придерживаются идеологии, которую выбирает игрок на старте игры. Эта идеология определяет то, каким Братство хочет видеть мир, к чему стремится и какие методы достижения целей использует. Чем сильнее эта идеология распронанена по миру, тем проще Братству находить сторонников и добывать ресурсы для своей деятельности.
Ресурсы Братства
Система ресурсов упрощается. Остается всего два вида: глобальный ресурс Братства и локальное влияние в конкретной стране.
Локальное влияние требуется неофитам и адептам, чтобы выполнять поручения внутри страны, менять ее законы, притеснять те или иные слои населения и так далее. Они же способны добывать это влияние для Братства, но только в рамках той страны, в которой находятся. Транспортировать локальный ресурс из одной страны в другую не выйдет, влияние в новых краях придется зарабатывать с нуля.
Глобальный ресурс требуется Магистрам для выполнения поручений, связанных с самим Братством. В том числе он расходуется на привлечение в свои ряды новых сторонников. Получить этот ресурс можно с помощью Лож, но только если в стране достаточно распространены идеи Братства.
Величие Братства
У каждого персонажа в игре, будь то член Братства или просто государственный служащий, появился параметр личной влиятельности. У государственных служащих личная влиятельность сильно зависит от могущества и уровня страны и занимаемой должности. У магистров Братства - от уровня опыта и общего величия Братства.
Если уровень личной влиятельности Магистра сильно не дотягивает до уровня влиятельности какого-нибудь министра торговли, то сложно будет даже попасть на прием к этому министру, не то чтобы убедить его прислушаться к идеям Братства.
Чем больше влиятельных стран оказались в паутине интриг, сотканных Братством, тем больший бонус к личному влиянию будет получать каждый его член.
Распространение идей
Распространение идеологии Братства теперь станет куда более интересной и комплексной задачей. Поручение, создающее идеологическое давление более недоступно. Однако все сторонники Братства пассивно распространяют идеологию в месте своего нахождения. Значительное идеологическое давление создают политические силы и сословия. Причем разные слои населения имеют свои предпочтения. Аристократы, например, куда охотнее принимают идеи Феодализма или Абсолютизма, чем Социализма или Либерализма.
Обряд Инициации
Отныне нельзя будет получить нового Магистра, просто перетащив неофита на свободный слот. Потребуется соблюсти ряд условий и провести обряд инициации, проводить который имеет право только Мастер Трона.
Если по каким-то причинам Братство потеряет Мастера Трона, то любой из оставшихся Магистров сможет провести обряд возвышения и занять его место.
Потеря всех шести магистров будет концом для Братства.
Изменения черт
Практически все черты были переработаны и перебалансированы, чтобы иметь более высокую важность и связанность с игровым процессом. Добавлено множество новых черт, которые делают построение определенного билда при прокачке брата более значимым.
Специализация Магистров
Магистры получают специализацию. Отныне создавать новые Ложи сможет только Мастер Трона. Совершать покушения и допрашивать пленников - Привратник. Оратор же сможет повышать лояльность у сторонников и подрывать таковую у всех остальных. Также Магистры будут обладать рядом уникальных свойств, зависящих от их титула.
Upcoming changes in the updates
The upcoming game update will greatly change many of the core mechanics. We decided to describe some of the changes in this short article so that our current players won’t feel completely lost when we launch the update.
Brotherhood Ideology
Now the Brotherhood and all its supporters follow the ideology that the player chooses at the start of the game. This ideology determines how the Brothers want to see the world, their goals and methods to achieve them. The more this ideology is shared around the world, the easier it is for the Brotherhood to find supporters and gain resources for the operational activities.
Brotherhood Resources
The resource system is getting really simple. Now it consists of only two types: the global resource of the Brotherhood and the local influence in a particular country.
The local influence is required for neophytes and adepts to run errands within the country, change its laws, oppress certain population groups, and so on. They can also gain this influence for the Brotherhood, but only in the country in which they are located. You can’t transfer a local resource from one country to another, you will have to gain influence in new lands from scratch.
The global resource is required for Masters to run errands of the Brotherhood per se. For example, it is spent on attracting new supporters. You can get this resource by using Lodges in case the ideas of the Brotherhood are widespread enough in the country.
Brotherhood Greatness
Whether it’s a member of the Brotherhood or just a civil servant, everyone has a personal influence parameter. For civil servants, personal influence strongly depends on the power and level of the country as well as the position held by the servant. For the Masters of the Brotherhood, it depends on their experience and the general greatness of the Brotherhood.
If the level of the Master's personal influence is far below the level of the influence of a minister of trade, it’ll be difficult even to get an appointment with this minister, let alone convince him of the ideas of the Brotherhood.
The more influential countries find themselves in the webs of intrigue woven by the Brotherhood, the greater the personal influence bonus each of its members will receive.
Spreading Ideas
Spreading the ideology of the Brotherhood will now become a much more interesting and complex task. The ideological pressure errand is no longer available, yet all supporters of the Brotherhood passively spread the ideology at their location. Political forces and estates create the heaviest political pressure while different segments of the population have their own preferences. Aristocrats, for example, are much more willing to accept the ideas of Feudalism or Absolutism than Socialism or Liberalism.
Rite of Passage
From now on, you can’t get a new Master by simply dragging a neophyte to an empty slot. Several conditions need to be met before the Worshipful Master can conduct an initiation ceremony. He is the only Master who has the right to do it.
If for some reason the Brotherhood loses the Worshipful Master, then any of the remaining Masters can perform the rite of initiation and take his place.
The loss of all six masters means the end of the Brotherhood.
Changing Traits
Almost all of the traits have been redesigned and rebalanced to have higher importance and coherence with the gameplay. There are a lot of new traits that make a character build more meaningful when leveling up a brother.
Master’s Specialty
Masters will have their specialty. From now on, only the Worshipful Master will be able to create new Lodges. Tyler will make assassination attempts and interrogate prisoners. Orator will be able to increase the loyalty of supporters and undermine that of everyone else. Also, Masters will have a number of unique features, depending on their title.
Ideology and its influence
Ideology is the idea that people have about how society and the world around them function. If you change the ideological pattern in people’s heads, they themselves will change the world according to the new pattern. The dominant ideology in the region determines which estates are desirable and which are unacceptable; what powers and rights certain segments of society have. The ideology shared by a political force determines what forms of government will be available if this force takes power. The form of government, in turn, determines the legal restrictions that can be established on the territory of the country.
The population’s demand for the particular ruling political force also depends on the adopted ideology. In addition to the basic needs of livelihood, people want specific needs to be met as well. Nationalists want people of the same nationality to live next to them, Liberalists want strict compliance with the laws by all segments of society, Egalitarians want universal equality in rights. The support for the ruling political force by the population depends on whether these needs are met or not.
As a result, the entire image of society in a certain territory is determined by the ideology in the minds of representatives of this very society.
Brotherhood Support
Ideas are the Brotherhood's main weapon for transforming the world. After choosing a particular ideology as an example of a perfect world to live in, the Brotherhood shares it with every neophyte. The members of the Brotherhood consider it their duty to spread bright ideas wherever possible. Each Brother creates ideological pressure in his country, which slowly puts the necessary ideas in the minds of ordinary people.
The chosen ideology sets a certain range of criteria. They determine how close the society is to the condition that the Brotherhood wants. The closer the society is to the desired condition, the easier it is for the Brotherhood to find support among the population and gain resources to achieve their goals.
To get a reliable Brotherhood outpost in any country, it’s necessary to recruit at least 30% of government employees into the Brotherhood and complete at least a part of the ideological criteria. You’ll also need to establish a lodge with the help of which the Brotherhood will collect resources for its further expansion.
The Spread of Ideology
Ideology spreads due to ideological pressure created in a number of ways. The stronger the pressure, the more people will share this ideology.
The sources of the ideological pressure can be:
Members of the Brotherhood: neophytes, adepts, and masters. Please note that the strength of the pressure created by an adept depends on the importance of the post he holds in the government, and the strength of a master depends on his level.
Political forces that regularly canvass the population. Surely, the public force has more opportunities for agitation than the secret one.
Some estates themselves spread the ideology that they share. A clear example is the Intellectuals.
By trading with a neighboring region, the population can pick up new trends or make sure that the neighbors share the same views.
People, however, are not ready to accept any ideology so easily. For example, the Aristocrats are much more impressed by the ideas of Feudalism than Socialism, otherwise, they lose their privileged status. So different estates prefer some ideologies and reject others, which affects the way the ideological pressure can be effective.
Secret Government version 1.0.3.65 is now live!
Greetings Brethren!
Today we are very happy to release our biggest update for Secret Government since the game left Early Access. This update brings a huge amount of changes, additions and fixes, with the redesigned interface being one of the most important ones. As some of you may already know, we've been working hard on this update for quite a long time, gathering all the feedback and implementing changes to the game based on the players' suggestions that we received since Secret Government exited Early Access, so now, after extensive testing by both us and our loyal community, we are confident to publish the patch for everyone.
If you'll come over any kind of bugs or issues, please report it using the CTRL+F11 bug reporting function or head over to our Steam Forums and let us know there.
As always, here is a huge THANK YOU to all members of our brotherhood who help us improve the game, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums and helped us with testing the latest patch - Thank you!❤️
You can read the full changelog HERE
New and significant changes and bugfixes:
- Redesigned interface
- New illustrations
- New icons
- New tooltips
- New filters:
○ Filter Map - subfilters Political Map, Public errand and Confrontation
○ Filter Economy - subfilters Trade, Industry, Estates, Natural Resources
○ Filter Society - subfilters of Ideology, Support of Political Forces, Estates, Religions, Nationalities - New country panels with information on filter with quick access to relevant government officials
- All windows and tooltips that appear in the game can be moved and docked on the screen
- Changed the logic of displaying icons on the map, improved the map UI
- Implemented the ability to change several, incl. different laws, directly from the Laws window
- Opened laws were saved when closing the Laws window
- Visual display of trade routes on the map
- Visual display of migration paths of estates on the map
- Improved UX and UI of errands, new window for errands
- Errands without parameters were launched by RMC
- Highlighted errand requirements when an errand was unavailable
- Errands with multiple parameters
- Added new errands, improved and reworked previously used ones
- Reworked counteraction with another brotherhood
- Management of personnel in the government was introduced
- The treasury and the authority of the ruling political force are spent on errands issued by countries optimization of the game speed
- Fixed a number of game crashes (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
- Fixed automatic scrolling up of the map
- Extended graphics settings
- Added message about successful submission of the error report after the submission was complete
- the brother assigned to the title appears on the map immediately, no play button was required
- Fix quests in missions and tutorials
- Fixed issues related to game economy
- Fixed UI bugs
- Fixed issues with game freezing
- Updated maps
- Added tooltips for local resources
- Added localization for these tooltips
- Tasks in first tutorial are now available for completion in any country
Secret Government playtest no. 2 is now live!
Greetings brethren!
The stars have once again aligned correctly for a public Steam playtest of Secret Government to start today. If you want to become a part of our brotherhood, and see what it takes to rule the world, sign-up for the playtest right away by clicking the "Request Access" button on the Secret Government store page.
We would like to ask you, to fill out a short questionnaire that we have prepared for this occasion. It takes just a few minutes and it helps us better understand, how we can improve the game: https://forms.gle/RVecynatzgUJiy1z6
For any additional feedback you might have, please visit our Steam Forums. We value your responses immensely as it helps us make the game better for everyone! Additionally, if you would come across any bugs or in-game issues, you can report them via CTRL + F11. Thank you!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/946990/Secret_Government/
Secret Government update 1.0.3.55 now available on beta branch!
Greetings Brethren!
After more time spent meditating and decrypting the ancient texts, we have prepared another update for Secret Government - just as was foretold. This patch brings in so many different changes, fixes and additions that we'd like to spend some more time testing it, but we are already satisfied enough with the current state of it, that we'd like to allow you to access it as well.
Here are the instructions on how to switch to the latest version:
- Go into your library, right-click Secret Government and select the "Properties" option.
- In here, choose the "Betas" option
- You should be able to choose a "beta - Secret Government open beta" beta from the drop-down menu above.
- In your Steam library the Secret Government should now have [beta] tag behind it, which means that you are playing the beta branch.
If you'll come over any kind of bugs or issues, please report it using the CTRL+F11 bug reporting function or head over to our Steam Forums and let us know there.
As always, here is a huge THANK YOU to all members of our brotherhood who help us improve the game, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums - Thank you!❤️
You can read the full changelog HERE
New and significant changes and bugfixes:
- Redesigned interface
- New illustrations
- New icons
- New tooltips
- New filters:
○ Filter Map - subfilters Political Map, Public errand and Confrontation
○ Filter Economy - subfilters Trade, Industry, Estates, Natural Resources
○ Filter Society - subfilters of Ideology, Support of Political Forces, Estates, Religions, Nationalities - New country panels with information on filter with quick access to relevant government officials
- All windows and tooltips that appear in the game can be moved and docked on the screen
- Changed the logic of displaying icons on the map, improved the map UI
- Implemented the ability to change several, incl. different laws, directly from the Laws window
- Opened laws were saved when closing the Laws window
- Visual display of trade routes on the map
- Visual display of migration paths of estates on the map
- Improved UX and UI of errands, new window for errands
- Errands without parameters were launched by RMC
- Highlighted errand requirements when an errand was unavailable
- Errands with multiple parameters
- Added new errands, improved and reworked previously used ones
- Reworked counteraction with another brotherhood
- Management of personnel in the government was introduced
- The treasury and the authority of the ruling political force are spent on errands issued by countries optimization of the game speed
- Fixed a number of game crashes (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
- Fixed automatic scrolling up of the map
- Extended graphics settings
- Added message about successful submission of the error report after the submission was complete
- the brother assigned to the title appears on the map immediately, no play button was required
- Fix quests in missions and tutorials
- Fixed issues related to game economy
- Fixed UI bugs
- Fixed issues with game freezing
- Updated maps
Secret Government Beta version is now available!
Brothers! Secret Government has recently left Early Access and our journey is just beginning! We are searching for devoted beta-testers who volunteer to help us test upcoming game updates. You will be able to see new content prior to its public release and influence the direction of the game development.
Secret Government knowledge is a must as we are looking for people who would like to delve deeper into the game mechanics and help us develop the game to its maximum potential.
Here's how you can join:
- Join the official Secret Government Discord: https://discord.com/invite/eCqAK8a
- Once you log in, mention @zazazza in your post to be added to the dedicated beta testers channel.
Together we can create a game that will delight you for years to come.
Below you can find the history of changes:
completely redesigned interface:
- numerous windows are removed
- basic information about the country has been moved to sidebars
- detailed information on provinces is displayed on the map
- added the possibility to change the parameters of laws directly in the Laws window
- added the possibility to assign an errand with several parameters at once
- redesigned errands
- reworked country filters
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