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So I guess the best way to level up Dodge as well as Music would be to go to the Factory with a Guitar and play music at the Non-Union Workers, then. My strategy of the Vegan Co-op doesn't work QUITE as well... it still works, but you have to watch out for the occasional enemy with a gun, and most of the Conservatives you encounter run away. But it's pretty safe to do at the Vegan Co-op, since you rarely encounter more than one Conservative at a time, and if someone DOES have a gun, it's pretty easy to run away from them. Or you can risk it and level up your Dodge skill against them (usually I think it's a .38 Revolver)... it levels up fairly fast with them shooting at you, and if you're good at dodging, they might not hit you at all and run out of bullets without you getting shot even once. But if they DO shoot you, you can get permanent damage such as losing an eye or spleen or something... not a very good turn of events.

In defense of the Corporate CEOs, they DO know quite a bit about how to run a business, and have the high Business skill to do it. As for security, that's not their specialty. And every business cuts corners to increase its profit margins. The only way they could GET that wealthy is by cutting corners and doing things on the cheap. If they spent loads of money on security, CEOs would have much less money for drunken cocaine-fueled orgies with prostitutes. And the Elite Security types they employ are like Blackwater... privately owned armies, basically, with military training that was funded by taxpayer dollars, prior to their early retirement from the military.

Anyway, look at it like this. A bunch of Roman emperors all got assassinated in ancient Rome. So what did the next guy who became emperor after that do to protect himself? Well, whatever it was, it didn't work, since he got assassinated TOO. And that just happened again and again and again, and it took forever for the Roman Empire to develop proper security, since it was almost impossible to get all the security guards to actually be loyal to whoever the current emperor was, and not be susceptible to bribes and such from ambitious people seeking to become the next emperor. (I am traveling overseas and I'm in Rome, Italy right now.) And in modern times, we've had, what, like 4 U.S. Presidents who got assassinated throughout American history? Even though they have better security than anyone else in the country. Corporate CEOs don't have security remotely as good as U.S. Presidents, in the real world. The REAL thing that keeps Corporate CEOs relatively safe is that there are so many CEOs of major corporations that killing just 1 of them wouldn't have much of an impact on the corporate system, and they basically have strength in numbers. That is something the U.S. President doesn't have, since there is only 1 U.S. President at a time, making whoever has that job a much bigger target than any run-of-the-mill CEO. I mean, I have seen Stephen Colbert and billionaire CEO Richard Branson physically fight each other by throwing water in each other's faces on TV. I doubt Richard Branson has any real security with him when he's on the Colbert Report... if Stephen Colbert wanted to, he could probably have any guest on his show that he doesn't like EXECUTED... even famous and wealthy guests. Luckily for the rich and famous, most talk show hosts are not assassins. Except for Conan. He's a barbarian... before becoming a talk show host, he went around raping and pillaging. You can tell he's a Viking because he has the red hair, which strikes fear into the hearts of the Vikings' enemies.

Well, this means each LCS safehouse that gets commandeered by the CCS needs to have a CCS Lieutenant stationed there, obviously. That would be the best fix for this bug. Of course, CCS Lieutenants on the CCS maps are spawned at specific map locations specified in the maps. So fixing this would mean editing the maps so that ALL safehouses have CCS Lieutenant spawning locations... and the CCS Lieutenant spawning grounds would only be active if the CCS controls the site. When a site is under LCS control or gang control or not rented out to anyone, there would be no evidence of any CCS Lieutenant spawning grounds anywhere.

Interestingly, I haven't encountered this problem... for some reason the CCS never raids me, even though I raid their hideouts and kill plenty of their guys. So I've never had the CCS take over any of my hideouts, or even try...

Added bonus: Even one skilled hacker will generate material for the Liberal Guardian faster than you could ever hope to publish it.  In fact it will make you wish that you could publish multiple articles at a time every month.  (That was a hint for the devs)

Feature request noted.

Oh, and I think the number of major articles you can publish a month ought to equal the number of hideouts with Printing Presses the LCS controls at that moment in time. So, if you have 1 hideout with a Printing Press, you'd still only get to publish 1 big article a month. 6 hideouts with Printing Presses would mean 6 articles a month. That way, having multiple Printing Presses would actually be useful, and there'd still be a reasonable limit on how many major articles you can publish in a month (namely the number of Printing Presses you have).

Oh, and another thing. The newsworthy items you can publish are not stackable. They take up too much space in the inventory. (Often I have like 10 pages worth of newsworthy items in my inventory list!) I have been thinking about whether or not they should be stackable. Personally I would make ALL items stackable but that's just my personal preference, given my experience with ridiculously long inventory lists.

Bug: I have snuck in unnoticed into the Oval Office and the message says that the President is in there, but there are only two Secret Service agents present, which, after being eliminated stealthily, still leave the President nowhere to be seen.

That's not a bug, what's actually going on is that the President IS there (like the message says) but he's even MORE stealthy than you are, and is hiding in the shadows, quietly observing the Liberal Crime Squad, which is why you can't find him anywhere. This is because the President has an incredibly high Stealth skill and has switched from wearing an Expensive Suit to running around in a Ninja Costume.

Just kidding. You found a bug.

And at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it would be the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear.

Technically Glenn Beck is no longer on TV (lost his job at Fox News) but still has a big nationwide radio show with lots of listeners, so currently he'd be best classified as a Radio Personality. Yes, he does have his own TV network, but he copied that idea from Al Gore who did it before Glenn Beck did, and nobody watches Glenn Beck's TV network anyway. Al Gore ended up selling his TV network to the Qatar-government-owned satellite TV network Al Jazeera. Judging by that pattern, I would guess Glenn Beck will probably sell his TV network to the Russian-government-owned cable news network RT America. But only after Glenn Beck gets more cable companies to include his network in their packages, so that RT America views it as a worthwhile purchase. It is very hard for foreign-owned news networks to get included in cable packages, for some reason, so they have to buy struggling American-owned news networks like Al Gore's Current TV in order to actually get on television. And the Russians would probably give Glenn Beck a very generous offer to buy his TV network, and he seems like the type who'd do anything for money. Just like most politicians and pundits likewise seem like the type who'd do anything for money, with the sole exception of the President of Uruguay, José Mujica, who has absolutely no interest in money whatsoever. Good guy, that José Mujica fella. I'd vote for him... if I lived in Uruguay, that is.

Good job, now see if you can beat the game in an earlier year than 2019. It's perfectly doable to beat the game in the in-game year of 2013 (after electing an Elite Liberal President in 2012). It's even possible to beat the game in 2012, but much harder. See if you can get a 2012 or 2013 win, beating the game in that short of a timespan is quite epic. If you can't do it that quickly, at least try and beat the game in 2016 or 2017. 2019 is kinda late.

Or do the opposite and drag out the game past the year 2100. Cool things happen if the game gets past the year 2100! All the weapons get new names, futuristic names. See how long you can drag out the game and still end up winning. You'll probably need to go through several leaders (which means juicing up a younger-aged person to be the successor to your founder, and it has to be someone you recruited through talking about the issues rather than someone you interrogated and brainwashed, and while someone you seduced MIGHT work, it's best not to risk it, better to stick with someone you recruited through talking about the issues to train to be your next leader once the original founder dies). If you want the game to last THAT long, you can't let the country get too Liberal OR too Conservative, but keep it in a somewhat moderate state for almost 100 years before you finally Liberalize it. That's a fun challenge to try out.