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There are two more ways: killing somebody in one of your bases, during a siege (as long as it's not a police/national guard/army/navy siege). So CCS, CIA, hicks, etc. Again, violent, but legally violent.

The other way is through sleeper snooping: snooping for secrets is actually not a crime. Your sleepers will not get charged with anything nor be arrested if caught snooping. They can be fired, but that just forces your sleeper to become an active LCS member instead of a sleeper.

Lastly, if somebody gets juice for any reason, xyr contact also gets 20% of the juice gotten. This means that you can juice somebody by having xyr recruits commit crimes without the contact committing any crimes at all. Hacking is extremely good at this; if you recruit five hackers and have them start hacking (in a different safehouse, preferably), then your founder will probably have 200 juice and a clean rap sheet by the time that the cops arrive. Your hackers will do hard time, but they'll have enough juice not to rat out your leader, so xe'll be safe.

Special characters display properly. The GCC compiler doesn't like them, though (it spews out warning messages).

Okay, I think I may finally know what is going on. Please read this and verify if this sounds right!

In Creature.h:
class Creature
{
...
bool is_armed() const { return get_weapon().get_itemtypename()!="WEAPON_NONE"; }
...
}

And in Creature.cpp:

Weapon& Creature::weapon_none()
{
   static Weapon unarmed(*weapontype[getweapontype("WEAPON_NONE")]);
   return unarmed;
}

Weapon& Creature::weapon_magic()
{
   static Weapon magic(*weapontype[getweapontype("WEAPON_MAGIC")]);
   return magic;
}

Weapon& Creature::weapon_powers()
{
   static Weapon powers(*weapontype[getweapontype("WEAPON_POWERS")]);
   return powers;
}

Weapon& Creature::weapon_suit()
{
   static Weapon battlesuit(*weapontype[getweapontype("WEAPON_BATTLESUIT")]);
   return battlesuit;
}

...

Weapon& Creature::get_weapon() const
{
    //Terra Vitae: modified to account for magic
   if (!is_unarmed())
       return *weapon;
   else if (get_skill(SKILL_MAGIC) > 0)
       return weapon_magic();
   else if (get_skill(SKILL_POWERS) > 0)
       return weapon_powers();
   else if (get_armor().get_itemtypename() == "ARMOR_BATTLESUIT")
       return weapon_suit();
   else
      return weapon_none();
}

...

string Creature::get_weapon_string(int subtype) const
{
   string r;
   if(is_armed())
   {
      r = weapon->get_name(subtype);
      if(weapon->uses_ammo())
         r += " (" + tostring(weapon->get_ammoamount()) + "/" + tostring(count_clips()) + ")";
      else if(weapon->is_throwable())
         r += " (1/" + tostring(count_weapons()-1) + ")"; // -1 so not to count weapon in hands.
   }
   else if(len(extra_throwing_weapons))
   {
      r = extra_throwing_weapons[0]->get_name(subtype);
      r += " (0/" + tostring(count_weapons()) + ")";
   }
   else r = "None";
   return r;
}
Finally, in weapon.cpp:
const string& Weapon::get_name(unsigned subtype) const
{return weapontype[getweapontype(itemtypename())]->get_name(subtype);}

When printing a liberal's stats, the game calls get_weapon_string(int subtype). The very first line of this calls is_armed(), which in turn calls get_weapon(). If the liberal is genuinely unarmed, get_weapon() returns weapon_none() which causes is_armed() to return false. As a result, get_weapon_string(int subtype) returns the string "None" without actually fiddling with the character's nonexistent weapon.

However, if the liberal possesses SKILL_MAGIC, get_weapon() returns weapon_magic() to is_armed(), causing the if statement in get_weapon_string() to then call Weapon::get_name(). However, the magic weapon of the creature doesn't actually exist, and since Weapon::get_name() does not know to call weapon_magic() to get the static constant weapon that it needs. As a result, itemtypename() in Weapon::get_name(unsigned subtype) returns an invalid string id.

Hence, segmentation fault.

The solution it seems to me then is to rewrite Creature::get_weapon_string(int subtype) so that it knows to go and get weapon_magic() (or weapon_powers() or weapon_suit()) before proceeding to call Weapon::get_name().

Does this sound right?

Just pointing out: music does not apparently work on the Mac version.

Okay, SVN LCS installs. I gotta run now, and I'll try to install your code (and upload it) later tonight! Thanks again!

Uck - I don't know what is going on. According to the read me:

To get SVN:
  Install XCode via the App Store
  Open XCode, then go to the Downloads tab of the preferences menu
  Click the 'install' button next to "Command Line Tools"
To get autoconf: (in terminal):
  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
  brew install automake
To build LCS:
  svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/lcsgame/code/trunk lcsgame
  cd lcsgame/
  ./bootstrap
  LIBS="/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib" ./configure
  make
To play:
  src/crimesquad

the line 'ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"' gets the error message "curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 Bad Request"...

If the conservatives are alarmed, and the first person in the enemy squad is a cop, then one of your options is surrender/give up.

Although, with 88 counts of treason, there's not much you can do no matter how good your sleeper lawyer is and have a sleeper judge.

Publishing Secret Documents or the Intelligence HQ Data Disk is treason, as is hacking the CIA mainframe.

Version 0.12 is released, courtesy of Liberal Elitist! (updated link on the opening post)

It's the version that Liberal Elitist has been so diligently working on (thank you very much!). I'm going to try to get the new weapon segfault fixed as soon as possible so that I can release version 0.2, but if I can't get that done in a few days, I'll upload version 0.13 which will have the "what if your recruit is married?" that is written but needs to be added to the new code.

Now that it's up on DFFD, we shouldn't have to worry about sendspace.com's 30-day limit.


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I notice that you changed the order of the weapons in the xml file, so I'm guessing that the id numbers in the array will be different.

Unfortunately, I do not have a debugger. I can't install ddd on my new machine for some reason that I cannot understand. All of the debugging that I've been doing so far has been through the use of fprintf statements to stderr. But I will try to find out what the new id numbers are of the different weapons and see if they get loaded correctly. I'll also fiddle with the lengths of the strings and see if that could be a simple solution.


Edit: It occurs to me - Magic, Powers, and Blasters are the only ranged weapons in the game that do not use ammo. Could this be causing it somehow?

Edit to edit: Crap! I can't compile your code! I type 'make' and get the following error message: No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Edit to edit to edit: I notice your download has no makefile. Would the 0.11 makefile work if copied over?