Lawgivers II News

FEATURES
- added main theme to start of game
- new statements to accuse people or parties of corruption
- vibration for mobile platforms on events, protest and scandals
- Ai can add new parties during game, or add at the date they are founded

IMPROVEMENTS
- more tax rate options for corporate tax
- audio management and mixers
- huge performance gain when building parliaments
- huge performance gain in network data
- world icons positions and they are now enabled by default
- redesigned a few ingame icons

FIXES
- end turn synchronization with animation
- governors elections AI and bundesrat delegations in Germany
- seats majority requirements was sometimes not correct
- many troubles related to server and client connections
- percentage for lawarticle was sometimes not selectable
- lawmaker title was not removed from new canchellor/prime minister
- some people had wrong city location assigned
- fixed a random freeze on Android

FEATURES
- new law "Police regulation" with 2 articles
- new law "Space agency" with 2 articles
- added kickstarter edition (needs to be activated with key on PC)
- income brackets are now editable

IMPROVEMENTS
- no longer need to select candidates if election is based on state delegation
- added buildings filter
- display warning no lawmaker in committee
- effects improvements for many laws

FIXES
- sometimes government was not formed in the US when changing constitutional laws
- bug with electors number when changing constitutional laws
- fixed to constituency editing tools
- AI law was presented somtimes two times
- some issues with world map
- bug with speaker power

We have the date for public early access:

[h3]18th August 2023[/h3]

Alpha 8 is out, bringing many new features to the game, among these, the upper house/senate which was as well a stretch goal during the Kickstarter campaign. I am now at work to the exclusive kickstarter edition that all backers will receive soon. Development is of course set to go on for many months which will bring the United Kingdom, multiplayer support as well as much more content!

Milestone news: Thanks to your precious support, I am thrilled to announce that I have commissioned the main theme for Lawgivers II 🎶

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FEATURES
- upper house/senate and switch to bicameral/unicameral legislation
- two events "Subprime crisis" and "Great recession"
- game rule to choose between unicameral or bicameral parliaments
- game rule to choose between realistic timed events or random timed
- organizations system has been completely redesigned
- world and institution filters/lenses are reimplemented again
- resources, buildings, events and battles can now be displayed on world map
- if nation is unhappy, citizen's protests may occur
- new law "Working regulation" with 2 articles
- low stability may now lead to protests
- added kickstarter politicians
- new parameter "Democratic representation"
- scandal is breaking out if using too much black money
- new gameplay and knowledge tips

IMPROVEMENTS
- regional stability system
- gdp system and growth
- display legislature and constituency representing on lawmaker
- several improvements to text and descriptions
- serious improvements to general AI system
- improvements to voters distribution AI
- link to open law that regulates election
- custom scenarios can now have attached localizations files
- significantly increased end turn performance
- more information for nations at start of game
- switched to vulkan for android with great performance improvements

FIXES
- memory leak in AI system
- fixed buying lawmaker vote
- fixes to party creation at start of game
- bug with calendar indexing, could made it impossible to progress sometimes
- bug in voters distribution
- netcode bug on scheduling some events on calendar that afflicted all games
- freeze caused by wrong multithreading system
- support for ultrawide screens
- rethinked many functions to ensure a more bug-free experience

FEATURES
- new parameter "Marine pollution"
- new law "Fishing regulation" with 2 articles

IMPROVEMENTS
- additional improvements to UI and descriptions

FIXES
- bugs afflicting coalitions
- issues with median home ownership
- when lawmaker dies, another one takes it's place and can not be a candidate anymore
- possible softlock when playing over 100 years
- game could lock on vote for president

FEATURES
- graph to record electoral results
- AI voters take account of unipolarism, bipolarism or multipolarism
- coalition proposal may now be declined

IMPROVEMENTS
- game points/victory system
- some interface and navigation improvements
- leader of party is now secretary
- record on calendar when other parties change leader
- tooltips for media coverage

FIXES
- now can't build anymore two times the same building in a region
- vice president candidates can now as well candidate again
- statements outreach population based now on media coverage
- two issues that made it impossible to start a new game