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Author Topic: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release  (Read 24163 times)

Kay12

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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #300 on: February 05, 2010, 03:29:24 am »

There appears to be a rather nasty bug that causes the game to crash ('Vector subscript out of range') when disbanding the squad.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #301 on: February 06, 2010, 09:20:04 pm »

Question, what text font type does LCS use?
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #302 on: February 07, 2010, 12:08:15 am »

There appears to be a rather nasty bug that causes the game to crash ('Vector subscript out of range') when disbanding the squad.

Is this consistently reproducible, or just for that playthrough?

Question, what text font type does LCS use?

LCS doesn't have its own font, it just uses whatever your default console font is.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #303 on: February 08, 2010, 09:22:09 pm »

Just wondering; how is progress to the next version coming?
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #304 on: February 09, 2010, 12:17:50 am »

Right now there are two high profile changes that are completed and unreleased -- a list of all crimes accessible from the character screen, and the ability to survive car crashes. The crime list can be seen on SVN, but the crashes cannot. I have quite a few changes that I haven't released to SVN because they are not completed, and progress on them is slow because I have many things going on, including classes, a part time job, and learning Adobe Flash. So the status report is that there will, eventually, be another release, and it will have some cool things in it.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #305 on: February 09, 2010, 01:39:07 am »

All crimes as in ever comitted or is currently wanted for or both?
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #306 on: February 09, 2010, 04:53:06 am »

Just currently wanted for at the moment.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #307 on: February 11, 2010, 11:40:41 am »

On the crime screen - If there is a lawyer or a person with a highish law skill, could maybe implement how long they reckon a potential jail term is?

If the law skill is low, just display a really random guess from 1-10 months a higher skill might narrow it down a bit more as an example?
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« Reply #308 on: February 11, 2010, 12:54:56 pm »

That's doable. I thought you were working on this screen, actually; have I lost track of who is doing what on the game? That would be pretty embarrassing.  :-[
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #309 on: February 11, 2010, 02:02:32 pm »

Not that it counts for much (anything?), but I've been poking around a bit with the source code myself. Not the official code, of course, just the one I've downloaded onto my computer. I did, however, find a way to make the "Select a Liberal Vehicle" screen less cluttered/easier on the eyes. So if that's of any use to anyone, let me know.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #310 on: February 11, 2010, 02:27:29 pm »

Haha, yeah I think I implemented it around Christmas. I'm free this weekend, so I'll tighten up the screen and make it a little more useful. Not 100% sure what I'll do after that but I do have several ideas.

Is there a list of requests or ideas bouncing around somewhere?
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #311 on: February 12, 2010, 12:12:07 am »

Ah, okay, I thought I was mistaken for a moment.  :D

Here is THE LIST OF EVERYTHING LCS RELATED. It's been gathering dust for awhile. I also have a massive changelog listing almost every bug fix and feature from dozens of releases, but it's even longer than this.

- More random political things to do on various sites
- News story mentions taking over the studio and doing a broadcast; get political points for doing so.
- A pet store, for buying guard dogs (which could help in raids and such)
- More types of cars to buy.
- A penthouse apartment or two.
- A blindness effect, for when someone gets old, or 1 or more eyes shot out. Specifically, combat messages about "shooting blindly" and totally random targets. Also, prohibit computer-based activities, like hacking.
- The ability to pickpocket. Put it under the talk menu.
- The option to bribe factions, reducing chances of raids, etc.
- Firing range, for training gun skills. Turns into a nature preserve at L+. (Note: Early SLA activity was stockpiling and training with guns, so this is pretty in-theme.)
- Martial arts school. Teaches sword skills and martial arts. Sells daisho (Oubliette does not).
- Revisit recruit cap system. Implement LCS-wide experience level and recruit caps. Split sleepers and standard recruits into separate caps. Include brainwashed and seduced in the recruit caps, leaving only the seduced independent cap.
- Allow recapture of lost LCS safehouses. Maybe only a problem with crack houses.
- Something is causing liberals to regrow legs.
- Animals already charged with treason??
- Animals should be permitted to make seduction attempts.
- Police officer turning liberal in a foot chase should abandon the chase.
- Don't charge for murder when attacked by non-government forces. Too covert.
- Replace selling brownies with selling contraceptives when gay rights and abortion are both C+. Mostly cosmetic, but the income formula should be disconnected from drug laws (with income fixed at the level it would be at C+ drug laws). A new crime would need to be added, maybe something generic like "crimes against social decency", so it can be reused in multiple places.
- Change Liberal status to Confused when stunned
- Sleepers not getting out of hospital?
- Michigan labeled MC instead of MI (may be already fixed)
- Massive negative numbers for news story pages -- check forum for better description, page 3 of 3.18.0 thread
- News articles have weird ass spacing
- Disbanding and coming back rescues founder from death row
- Corporate "mercinaries" should be mercenaries (may be already fixed)
- Debate stuns should be cleared at the end of the day
- Debate stuns should not stack infinitely
- Losing a squad to conversion and stealing cars with another character that day will create a "You're spotted by people and blah blah" message and enter you into combat against the arch-conservative and the just-converted character. One attack message goes through, and then the carstealer magically gets away.
- CCS should hold people they catch in chases hostage and interrogate them
- Crack heads no longer have terrible Intelligence and Health
- Recruiting after being crushed into a cube in a police chase
- You should not be able to assign child workers to prostitution
- Life cycle for animals is not correct
- Police Negotiators should not be alienated if you punch other cops when they're looking
- Add loot to Bar & Grill and other CCS safehouses
- Bar & Grill: like the cigar bar downstairs, open front and varied generally conservative and fairly low-class patrons, with locked door on the side of the bar with guards posted by it.
- Bomb shelter: hallway, then locked door with stairs behind. Posted guards at the top.
- Animals that get arrested are put down (or adopted in L+)
- Mimes with special mime attacks
- Add secondary weapons
- Add combat knife, throwing knife, current knife is switchblade
- Martial artists disarming enemies
- Expand guitar: Roll on possible music effects, like allow a liberal to attack twice, force a morale check on enemies, convert enemies, reduce enemy juice, stun enemies for a turn
- Make fire damage clothing
- Add grenades: flashbang, tear gas, frag
- Gas masks
- Creatures catch fire
- Tasers
- Replace multi-hit martial arts text with just the special hits, keeping underlying mechanics the same; eg, instead of "hits three times with a flying kick", flying kick will just mean you hit three times
- Make burnt by a site fire cause burns on your body
- Televangelists, as Religion-based debaters (require low heart and wisdom to work)
- Priests, as Religion-based debaters
- Liberal musicians start with guitars (guitars are too dangerous to give them to conservatives, they'll turn musicians into near-archconservatives and that's bad)
- Allow lawyer sleepers to be elected to public office
- Longer presidential elections, ability to affect them
- Presidential primaries
- Political party headquarters to raid, causing negative public opinion, with documents that create political scandal
- News stories on presidential campaign events
- Public opinion graph
- Add conversion center -- turns into "Homo Rehab Center" when C+
- Add Drag Queen
- In Arch-Conservative society, you get a free AK-47 when you open a bank account
- New district: Suburbs? Business district? Inner city?
- Pirate radio
- Dojo
- Community College courses
- Factories have lists of toxic chemicals, reports of unsafe working conditions, cooked environmental reports, union busting efforts
- Sweatshops have legal status of employees, 'we don't have to pay overtime' notes, permission for security guards to strike employees
- CEO House has records of tax evasion, firing gays and african americans
- Corporate HQ has records of discriminatory policies, other stuff
- Even more stuff to publish beyond the above
- Pirate gear
- Differentiate clothes into styles, just like masks; allow profiling by police, clothes type influences respectability in recruiting
- Thrift store to get clothes at
- Add sentencing to ADX Florence (now you do lose contact)
- Scale of rehabilitation: L+ Society rehabilitates everyone (over time in prison), L rehabilitates low juice and brainwashed, m/C rehabilitate brainwashed, C+ "re-educates" low juice (add messages about how this is changing over time)
- Add Phoenix Wright-like dialogue for ace attorney arch-rival
- More long-term criminal record
- Improved crime tracking and prosecution
- Risk to sleeper lawyer (assassinated)
- Have people on site become witnesses in the trial, they can be specific about what they witnessed by recording the combat actions and injuries they saw, the victims can cry about how they got their faces mutilated etc
- Divide crimes between Liberals on site actions
- Can go to newspaper HQ to leak them a story, grant an interview
- Add criminal justice issue/prison conditions issue (prison)
- DEA Local Office for drug policy issue
- Make immigration issue affect juice level of sweatshop workers, legal status, whether they will be prosecuted, deported, or executed.
- Add INS offices for immigration issue.
- Add a really seedy strip joint for you to shoot up for women's rights. Totally hypocritical what with prostitution being part of LCS's portfolio, but what the heck. Clarify the status of the gentlemen's club as a high class men-only establishment, not a euphemism for a strip club.
- Socialized medicine is slow: "Bee arrives at the University Hospital." "Bee is now waiting in the waiting room." "Bee is now filling out paperwork." "Bee is filling out forms in order to release his medical records." "Bee is waiting, pending approval for a preliminary check." "Bee is refilling paperwork because the approval was denied." "The hospital has ran out of papers, Bee must wait for new forms to be delivered." "Bee finally gives up and takes the Nurse hostage." "Bee is told that for the Nurse to authorize 'medical assistance fast-track due to patient taking hostage a Nurse', the Nurse to fill out Form #596A and wait 6 business days."
- Message log
- Allow moving hostages
- End of month Intelligence Report: key sleepers, ongoing investigations, CCS activity level, other analysis (this is already partially implemented, but is kind of ugly and commented out; search one of the monthly source files for "intelligence report")
- Improved buying interface everywhere stuff is sold, refractor the horrible hardcoding that makes it extremely difficult to change most stores
- Shorten car name lengths
- Birthdates during dates and discussion sessions
- LCS can set standing orders to "fight to incapacitate" instead of fighting to kill
- Can ignore certain news stories (used with message log)
- Menu-based interface, with highlighted options and arrows + enter to navigate
- Hostage guard duty (interrogators already do this, should it be separate?)
- CCS can kidnap LCS members who are on the street doing activation things to find your safehouses
- Add wizard mode
- Easter egg: Codename "Dwarf" doesn't notice being on fire
- Have hostages dragged by the last (first?) people in line during sieges (so you're hauling your hostages when fighting your way out, instead of just abandoning them somewhere)
- Have blind people have special text, modifiers for various situations
- No tongue people struggle to communicate, or maybe they use sign language
- Is disguise skill gain fixed to risk properly?
- More fire flavor text
- Looting enemies at end of chases
- Your guys who drop their gear drop it on the floor
- Bombs to destroy chunks of buildings
- Gang Unit, death squads do Rampart-ass stuff
- Banks to rob that do absolutely no good to the LCS reputation but do rake in cash
- LCS labeled as a terrorist organization
- Flashbangs, frag grenades usable by siege units
- Make violence sway for or against gun control depending on the weapons the LCS uses (using illegal guns especially undermines the LCS position and supports the Conservative "only criminals will have guns" theory)
- Sleeper judges appointed to Supreme Court
- Donate money to charitable causes, political campaigns
- Pay taxes
- Impeachment against President, Supreme Court
- Foreign policy
- Cabinet members matter
- CCS Sleepers show up during CCS site raids
- CCS Sleepers warn of upcoming CCS actions, allow you to intercept their cars and fight it out
- CCS Boss Sleepers cripple the organization

Really old (Toady One-era) development ideas follow. I've edited a few of them but most are direct from like, 2004. Some of the best and most ambitious ideas are here:

- Love slaves blow cover when lover becomes involved with the system, not by ratting you out, but by doing stupid lovestruck shit
- Change location names and do more with business fronts
- Add some more clubs, add bouncers
- Make dating more interesting (choice of venue, how fast to go, what to talk about)
- Allow you to give up to non-police, risk of being tortured depending on location
- People with negative juice should sometimes eat brownies instead of dealing them, and then do more stupid shit at random
- Add a day counter on hot cars, ways for skilled criminals to deal with hot cars, make people in them get pulled over, then you can have police beatings administered directly to pulled over lcs members instead of just being on the news
- Hospital condition and procedures described in much greater detail
- Need more things to publish, and more groups to offend (he he he, that's vague isn't it...)
- Ability to make lcs official uniform and symbol
- Ability to drag already-taken hostages along to sites for various reasons
- Make conversation with a gun to a hostage's head more interesting
- Ability to pistol-whip hostages (and have associated reasons for that)
- Wearing lcs associated attire could be illegal, and it doesn't just have to be your official uniform but stuff that's been used repeatedly in lcs operations, make wearing police uniform a crime
- Mental illnesses from the more fucked up indoctrinations and also as an effect of CIA interrogation/sieges
- Protests and riots
- Police lockers with riot gear, gas masks, gas during sieges, if times are really fucked up and conservative they could use mustard gas during sieges
- Opera houses, universities, construction sites, hotels (with associated valet lcs actions/uniforms), stadiums, fucked up basements in conservative houses, varied building sizes, elevators, hidden doors in places where it would make sense
- Sentencing to reeducation camp during fucked up times, ability to visit and rescue squad members and others from the camps
- Being about to post bail to get squad people (and random people) out of jail, jumping bail, having court dates that you can go to or not, various associated media stuff surrounding trials that can make it profitable to leave members in custody until the bitter end, but a downside would be having fucked up things happen in jail
- Keep track of surveys and do graphs
- Conventions, protests of these (WTO etc.), turnout can be based on public opinion in part
- Lots of evil constitutional amendments and an ability to view the current state of the constitution, conservatives can clarify portions of the bill of rights
- Legalization of human testing and then have human test subjects appear in the labs (criminals at first, etc.)
- Ability to file law suits, possibly have law suits filed against you
- Sleeper cops giving more information about raids, get updates on investigations from them, investigations relating specifically to your front business
- Effects of being caught with bloody/damaged clothes
- Make getwheelchair() more exciting
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #312 on: February 12, 2010, 02:20:44 am »

Jonathan, disallowing computer-based activities for blind liberals isn't realistic, because blind people can and do use computers.  Technology nowadays allows the computer to speak to the person, and much of it is becoming more and more standard on computers.

Example: Adobe Documents come with a "read to me" option.

Because the Liberals are big on disability rights, I'd suggest just not implementing that feature, or at most say "Liberal McLiberal has to steal the nessesary listening components".

Oh, and shouldn't the liberals be raiding and freeing dogs from the pet store, instead of legitimizing the enslavement of our four-legged brothers and sisters?  Personally, I'd like to see poodles that can be freed from the penthouse like the servants, and dalmations that can be freed from the firestation, like sweatshop workers.

Please don't remove multi-attacks, they're just too cool.

I'd like to see interogation more automated, so I don't have to select how to interrogate, then see results of interogation every day for that Arch-Conservative that takes like two months to convert.  Granted, some hostages will probably die due to neglect, and the interrogators will be permanently scared due to the deaths, but there is always more meat for the LCS grinders!  ;D

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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #313 on: February 12, 2010, 02:30:07 am »

Also, you should be able to buy an operating table and such for bases so that you can operate quickly and efficiently, pumping First Aid skill, in the comfort of your own fortress.
And the tank traps and such are not that useful; I suggest that they should be improved.
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Re: LCS 4.01.4 Download - It's The Latest Release
« Reply #314 on: February 12, 2010, 03:12:23 am »

Yeah, a lot of the stuff is preliminary thoughts, or requests just thrown into the list. Before I actually implement anything I have to think again about whether I actually agree with it or not. Often times stuff shows up on the list and gets culled a few months later. It's good to get feedback and suggestions even so.

For what it's worth, tank traps should prevent car bombs.
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