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I'll reorganize SVN and see if I can't figure out how to get a release set up.

Edit: My SVN client is badly behaved, I'll get things straightened out once I have it replaced (soon).

[ June 15, 2007: Message edited by: Jonathan S. Fox ]

I ended the 3.10aX naming system in honor of the new release, and called the latest version 3.11. It remains compatible with saves from 3.10a5. The newspaper was going to be substantially overhauled, and it mostly has been, but I lost half of the changes due to a visual studio crash and so the end of the month newspaper update changes aren't there and the news stories may be broadly working Not As Intended.

All this organization! Whew. Let me know if if there's anything going horribly wrong (in the game or otherwise). Also, there are bug and feature request databases on the sourceforge page!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/

SVN:

https://lcsgame.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lcsgame

I am a bit exhausted.  

I've used SVN before on a class project, and I was pleased with it. Being able to merge on the fly and check out without worrying about what anyone else is doing is blissful. I'm open to alternatives, but that's my only experience.

jonathansfox.com is a pretty cheapass website, I'm paying pennies for it essentially, and I don't remember how much bandwidth/space I have. It's enough to host downloads, I have a couple dozen mp3s on there as well as LCS, but it would die if it came to high traffic.

I will look more into this toward the weekend. Though I'm a college student and it's the summer, I'm taking a full course load on an accelerated timetable, so I'm pretty busy during the week.

The current build now has a pause before all encounters, except siege-type encounters, but you're not going to miss those. It doesn't bother me as much I thought it might, but it's still easy to miss if you're going too fast. Just have to be careful to be stead.

I think the LCS is probably the type of organization that is too under the radar to be paying taxes.   Else they'll just claim to be a non-profit political group and be automatically tax-exempt.

I was thinking more along the lines of having noticeably more poor people in the streets, and have the homeless shelter be crammed when it's Arch-Conservative, or having few if any rich people when it's Elite Liberal.

As far as gay rights is concerned... I think that's a good idea. For where to display gender (or any other information that it is fit to add), we could do it on the screen where you confirm what to say to them. Yeah, I think that's the best way of involving gay rights in a real way. If it's elite liberal, nobody looks twice, if it's Arch-Conservative, it causes alarm if there are other Conservatives present! Also impacts the chance of success. I'll have to think about adding that later.

That's about what I think would be the ideal for the Liberal Guardian, to have a newspaper pop-up system like the one that currently exists. It wouldn't be all the articles, but just major news stories. The problem is that I don't know how the images for LCS work, so I can't make a custom LCS newspaper like the Globe.

The way you described is about the way Tax Law is presented in the game now -- at Elite Conservative, it's worse than a "flat tax", and at Elite Liberal there is a much flatter income distribution due to how steep taxation is at the top. But none of this actually has much of an effect on gameplay. It doesn't impact the LCS in any meaningful way one way or another. If you let both Nuclear Power and Pollution go Arch-Conservative, for example, you can start to see certain effects if you look in the right places... if labor standards are changed, you'll see shifts in the types of people walking around factories. On the other hand, issues like taxation and gay rights have no real effect at all.