Lawgivers News

As promised, update 1.5 is live on steam beta branch for testing purpose. More content and improvements will be added as the beta goes on.

1.5 will be the last major update for Lawgivers before exiting early access, so I'm taking a bit more time to polish the game. If you find a bug or have more suggestions you are welcome to post it on our discord server: https://discordapp.com/invite/kE7juYR

Sweden wins the twitter poll for the next country to add with 280 votes against 164 of South Africa. Thanks for participating!! Update 1.5 is on way and in a few days it will be available on steam beta branch for testing.

Here a small preview of the upcoming changes:

- Sweden as playable nation
- more seats in parliament
- revolution event to overthrow parliament
- president power for taking laws out of charge for some turns
- president power for trying to supress protests and revolutions
- members ordering function for elections
- custom number of parties at start of game

Over 100 public updates to the game have been made since it's first appearence on Android in 2016. I've always tried to add more features and expand gameplay according to comunity's feedback but we are now definitely hitting the limit of the "old" game design. Thanks to the amazing community I was able to gather a lot of experience, that will allow me to compete eye to eye in the industry with the next projects. So, after the upcoming major update is out we will slowly move away from early access. No worries, if you like politics (like me), there's something amazing ahead :D

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Finally the name changing process is almost complete and development of Lawgivers can go on faster again :) Meanwhile I've made more silent updates to the game, here the latest changes:

- new Law "Stamp duty"
- player now gets less irrelevant messages
- fixes to korean and french localizations
- various improvements to UI
- option to send savegame in order to faster catch and solve bugs
- several uncommon crashes and bugs

Approximately 1% of users are still experiencing rare bugs that makes it sometimes impossible to continue. Unfortunately I can't reproduce them on my machine :( so I've added an option to anonymously send me the savegame file. I will for sure do my best to fix all reported bugs as fast as possible!

Furthermore I've collected many improvements and suggestions that the community wrote in our forums and Discord. Thank you so much guys!! Soon there will be another poll on Twitter to choose the next country to add with major update 1.5.

More to come!

In the past days some updates went online to fix many reported bugs and unbalances. Here a short list about the latest changes:

- new amendments to set election frequency every 45, 50 or 55 turns
- improved party AI on law votes
- Japan citizens have now correctly japanese names
- sometimes money was removed without any reason
- change party size at start is now working
- buy vote wasn't possible sometimes

I've also an important announcement to do:

As you may probably know, Laws of Civilization was originally intended as a fast played mobile minigame. However thanks to all players, we made it to steam, and the results are incredible so far! What a journey!!

Sadly back then I didn't bothered at all about legal stuff, though today in order to continue development and for potential future sequels there's the need to register a trademark.

It has been a very difficult decision to take and for sure not a wise marketing move, but in order to avoid 100% legal issues there's the need for a new name. Therefore I've spent many days looking for the best one available for registering and after some headaches the final choice has been LAWGIVERS. Short, synonym of lawmakers, easy to stand out on search engines...

Thank you all for the trust and support!! After the new name goes online there will be (of course) another major update to Lawgivers :)

After nearly 2 weeks of testing and bugs reports, 1.4.0 is finally out for everyone! Sometime it's quite difficult to keep track of all supported languages, but all I can say is that the workflow is improving day by day :)

Here the most important changes:

- Japan as playable country
- 3 new constitutional laws "Parliamentary immunity", "Presidential term limits" and "Media censorship"
- 8 new laws like "One child policy" or "Travel visa"
- new events "Wildfire" and "Sporting victory"
- new colors for parties "Dark Blue" and "Turquoise"
- new poll to find out world ideology trend
- players can promise to raise democracy on interviews
- president can adress message to nation on interviews
- users can now edit more elements of custom or default parties
- sometimes media have more followers of a specific ideology
- custom parties are now divided and attached to nations
- a member may steal money from their party on certain conditions
- party AI is now sending it's lawmakers on missions
- desktop edition is now showing active events on top and active missions on bottom
- on desktop edition is now possible to progress turns while holding the end turn button
- benchmark results are now more stable and useful
- improved citizen AI on presidential election
- general improvements to user interface
- fixed when a party was exacly at 0.00% it wasn't shown on elections
- fixed more localization mistakes
- fixed many minor reported bugs


I'm aware that balancing needs some tweaks. That's why I'm looking forward to 1.4.1 which will further improve realism and behaviours according to feedback. Soon testable on the beta branch!!