Woah, sweeeet, my sweatshop worker got killed trying to steal a car and her name changed to a heart symbol, a weird line, and a closing brace, and she was marked as deceased. Well, the bug is fixed now. As a side effect, this also fixed an unreported sister bug related to arrests during car chases... :p
As far as gun control being a Liberal motive, you will need to get it to Elite Liberal to win the game, but that doesn't mean it won't make your life more difficult if it gets there early. Just a means to an end...
I can understand wanting tax law to remain an issue. Here's the problem which led me to replacing tax law rather than just adding gun control to the list: There isn't enough room on the [L]iberal Agenda screen for any more laws. It's a silly visual problem, but if we increase the total number of laws, it becomes a problem. Now, that doesn't mean it's insurmountable, but we have a few options.
First option is that we can remove something else other than tax law.
Second option is to change the [L]iberal Agenda screen to support more laws.
Options for the second option include adding a paging system for the laws, so that you press a key to go on to the next page (kind of icky, it's nice having one page), and reorganizing the screen as it is to support more laws. I can't add more lines to screen, but maybe shrinking the text and adding a second column? I'm open to thoughts on how to best support additional laws. There are certainly more issues which could be added, if we want to expand the number of laws (foreign policy, campaign finance, etc...)
I definitely think that there's room for improvement on the Liberal Guardian. News articles in particular are currently completely superficial; they do absolutely nothing. I want them to work like you describe, writing about LCS actions, current events, even responses to major news stories. I also agree that it would be much cooler if you could see more specific information about what you're writing about when the Guardian is released at the end of the month.
I don't think there's a way to page through major news articles.
I'll check out the squad setting up screen, because you're right about that, I may be able to re-use that code, which would make life very easy.
Edit: I don't *think* you need to have the files in the same location as the printing press, but you will need to have both somewhere. Beware that hackers, upon getting the files, will not put them in the squad's inventory, but in the safehouse's. If the safehouse is raided later, even if unoccupied, the files will then be confiscated.
[ June 09, 2007: Message edited by: Jonathan S. Fox ]