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Hmm... Thanks for the advice.  It's difficult for me to defend my Founder because inevitably, I send him out to "FIGHT EVIL" and he dies on site.  Only once have I had a raid on my turf, and that was in the game with the hackers.  Fortunately, I had moved them to another building, but they were not defended so they all died.  I guess what I'd really like help with is, how on earth can you defend yourself?  My founder always dies before getting a weapon skill up to any appreciable level...

Remember that it's better to be arrested then dead.  A dead liberal is gone forever.  If your arrested you might get off (especially if your working the system, sleeper judge and attorney is great, sleeper judge and ace attorney are awesome) and even if your sentenced to death or many years, you can break them out of prison.  I regularly let my actively criminal liberals get arrest so they have a clean slate and I can avoid cop sieges. 
Merc and CIA sieges have to be fought off however, so make sure you have a lot of liberals on site (they all get to shoot during a siege, not just six) and lots of good guns.  Smg's and shotguns are good for liberals without much skill.  Traps are excellent.  Hide deep in your fortress until there's a bunch of bad guys who've stumbled into traps and you can tear them to pieces when they can barely defend themselves.
Body armor is good for the six that get shot at.  If you have lots of cash (which is easy if you're spending lots of time laying low in between elections by just fundraising) you can have a turned vigilante or merc (non conservative mercs can also be recruited IIRC) train all the liberals at a sight but make sure you have lots of cash because this is very expensive.  This isn't necessary but can help.

There's a thread saying LCS 1.16.00 released.  Look in there.

Two small things with the interrogation.

1) use props is bolded when off and shaded when on, which is counter-intuitive.
2) if you starve a conservative and deny water, the "made to hunger and thirst" appears over the second line of "locked in a dark room" which is a little annoying.

I'm still trying to win the pre latest patch version and noticed some funny numbers in the senate.  There are fewer then 100 senators because sometimes the game counted fewer winners then losers in senate results.  This might be linked to all those damn error messages whenever I look at the house or senate.

I'm down to 279 members of the house.  Even though there's only 13 non L+, the house still shows as being L.  This game might be unwinable...

Yeah, it's a little easy.  It'll probably change eventually.

I don't bother with prison escapes myself unless they're actually sentenced to jail time.  It's much easier to just beat the system with a good lawyer and a sleeper judge then rack up a big rap sheet and have them really come after you.  Clean your slate after any big crime sprees and they can't touch you.

Edit: While it's possible to replace Liberals with Elites, I still can't win the damn game!  62 L+ Senate, majority L+ court, L+ laws and it won't give me the freaking victory!  Argh!

Also, an error message pops up every time I check the agenda (it doesn't like the house script and doesn't like the senate script).  This also pops up everytime something changes in the disband resolution screen.  It's pretty cool to have when disbanding because that gives me enough time to actually read what's on the screen.  Maybe a anykey delay should be put into that screen,

Okay, the second page of the new sleepers page wasn't showing, but now it is.  I have enough liberals for a third page however and can't look at them.

Unrelated but this pertains to the as yet unreleased release.

Do converted agents disappear without a trial if they get arrested?  Cause I think that happened in my game.  If they don't they probably should.  Although, it might be nice to be able to free them from a special lockup at the CIA headquarters.  In fact, maybe all really dangerous liberals should disappear to there if law enforcement isn't regulated enough.

Edit: also, I can't scroll through the new sleepers menu.