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writing the new ui may be done in such way that it'll be easy to port it to anything: like graphical ui or any other interface, or strictly stick to the ascii and don't plan anything in this area. I like ascii graphics in roguelikes and of course I'd start with it, but I'd like to code it in such way that would be easily portable.

One of the problems is that, on Windows, the console is limited strictly to a single codepage. This means that one can't use the rest of Unicode, as is with Linux and Mac OS consoles nowadays. Right now, there is a huge hack used specifically for Windows console support.

It would be a nice idea if an graphical (but still text-based) UI was available for Windows users.

As per "more and less radical liberals", maybe there should be something like this:

After Congress passes enough liberal laws...

Ashley Doe thinks the LCS has done enough and decides to leave the squad.

A - Persuade him/her to stay in the squad.
B - Persuade him/her to postpone leaving for a few more months. (more likely to succeed, would give time for the leaving member to teach others his/her skills.)
C - Give him/her a thankful farewell. (Decreases possibility that the member would leak anything to law enforcement.)
D - Kill him/her for betraying the Liberal values. (Decreases the squad's Juice greatly, but eliminates possibility of a leak.)

Probably add the possibility of this member returning to the squad later (if the country becomes Conservative once again) or taking a skill-appropriate job and becoming a sleeper.

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SEATTLE, WA -- A raid has gone horribly wrong today at the Hopkins Abortion Clinic. Six men, all armed with M16s, have entered the clinic this morning. As one of them pulled out a gun and pointed it at one of the clinic's employees, the clinic's security team was called in. The ensuing fight resulted in two of the attackers being shot and wounded, the other four escaping. No employees or clients were hurt in the process. The police later identified the attackers as members of the Conservative Crime Squad. (cont. on p. 7)

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For some reason, I keep getting this error when compiling the latest SVN revisions:

██████@usr-laptop:~/Software/lcsgame$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/██████/Software/lcsgame'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/██████/Software/lcsgame/src'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `daily/news.cpp', needed by `crimesquad-news.o'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/██████/Software/lcsgame/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/██████/Software/lcsgame'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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My fault. I modified the configuration files a while before (to fix Makefiles, IIRC) and forgot that.

Feature proposal: when the LCS becomes successful (and commits enough violence), important conservative targets (such as the President and CEOs) and locations start protecting themselves harder.

After all, there's no reason for a CEO to use bodyguards and armor all the time, but when there's a powerful force that doesn't hesitate to remove Conservatives by direct means, it'd have sense to do so.

For example: the LCS commits enough violent crimes. All important buildings in the area (banks, police stations/court houses, media, power plants, intel offices, corp buildings, CEO houses, army bases, prisons...) become a bit better secured (somewhere between 0 and High Security), even those which weren't raided. The CEO hires some body guards, the rooms with important data/objects become constantly guarded, probably some buildings temporarily gaining a metal detector* -- stuff like that.

*I understand that this may be quite difficult to implement in code.

For a real life example: In Russia, gun control is taken quite seriously. Even cold weapons are quite tightly controlled (certain types of knives are illegal to produce), while owning even non-lethal weapons requires a permit.

I kinda think the abilities currently presented with the shops could be expanded.

For example, say, a heavily armed squad (probably with weapons taken from the army base) enters a pawn/gun shop, causes trouble, thus making a point about gun control. As a drawback, the shop will close for a long time, and the squad will lose the ability to buy weapons AND pawn their loot. (Of course, the place would be full of conservatives, probably CCS members, too, and most of them will also be armed).