New patch available (1.23)

[Alexander87]

Thanks a lot, if only big companies like EA would be so helpfull :)

[wolfdaddy2002]

Alexander87, oh we WISH they were as helpful, or as willing to listen to suggestions to their games. My fiance has me addicted to Fable. Come to find out that Microsoft hasn't released a patch for the game, just a god awful long list of FAQ and "problems encountered". Then it lists workarounds. God forbid their programmers actually DO something about them. That being said, EA is one of the better big companies when it comes to updates. Though i hate the fact that their updates (at least for Command & Conquer 3) kill your saves.

[cliffski]

heh. I worked at lionhead when we did Fable. I didn't work on it, but I did play it a bit in the test room. I thought it was great when you were a kid stealing stuff and running around being told off by adults. they should have made the whole game like that :D.

[Pawel]

Hi,

I bought and downloaded the game yesterday. First of all, thanks a lot for it!

And now - for something completely different: I have to report two and a half bugs, all with the (new) UK mod...

1. At some moment, my party membership dropped to zero and did not rise again (despite approval rates of over 90%).
2. After a very successful election, the "Voting intentions" indicator dropped to zero, and stayed there (accordingly, bringing me 0 votes in the next election).
3. I also had problems with the rail strike. I had all problems long eliminated, a large budget surplus and reserves, but I couldn't do anything to the strikes. It seemes to me that the only way to end it is to significantly raise the overall wages, which is (at least for me) as impossible as unrealistic.

PS. To join the current discussion - I've worked as a tester for EA for a while. "We don't do patches - just updates" ;-]

[TomPhil]

Hi,

The first and third issue you report are known issues, and do not just affect the UK mod. Not sure about why the second happened, but I doubt that it is mod related.

The first is related to voter cynicism, see viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1320 for more information.

The third has been reported by me here: viewtopic.php?p=6980#p6980 and Cliff has asked for comments on it but not rectified the issue yet to the best of my knowledge. If you want to tweak it, you can edit the values in the C:\Program Files\Democracy2\data\simulation\Situations.csv file. Open it in Excel or notepad, and, if you want to use Cliff's new suggested values, find the Rail Strikes line, replace LabourLaws,0+(0.3*x) with LabourLaws,-0.3+(0.3*x) and RailSubsidies,0-(0.5*x) with RailSubsidies,0-(1.0*x).

Hope this helps.

[Pawel]

Hi,

thanks - that explains it, at least. I'll go and be annoying in those topics 8-)

(hard to find the needed topics in a forum when you just joined - sorry for the double-reporting...)

[cliffski]

Ok, here we go, I've fixed that pesky assassin thing, and also the reported exploit where escape key quits a failed election
latest version is now 1.08

1.08
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Fixed bug relating to assasinations with no text
Fixed bug where escape key let you keep playing after election defeat when hit on the detailed results screen

here is a patch for people with version 1.07

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch108.exe

Cheers,

[cliffski]

Latest tweaks:

1.09
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Made small business grants gradually reduce number of socialists
Support added for scrolling for modded-in achievements
Fixed bug where fireworks did not show any more on the achievement screen.
Tweaked various policies to effect the number of capitalists and socialists.
Better effects for speed camera policy and carbon tax
New effects to prevent contradictory situation showing up

patch for users of 1.08:

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch109.exe

Cheers

[Spider_hip]

woww you're great very hardworking.

I wish I'd be hardworking as much as you :roll: :mrgreen:

[Glinka]

woww you're great very hardworking.

I wish I'd be hardworking as much as you :roll: :mrgreen:

He's this way on every game. Puts it out, watches for bugs and suggestions, and turns out plenty of fixes. Makes you wish others did the same, doesn't it?

[cliffski]

Ok only a minor fix this time, and stupidly I forgot to update the readme.txt :(
basically 1.10 is 1.09 but with a fix where certain effects of some situations were not loading in correctly. I doubt anyone noticed :D

here is a patch for people with 1.09:

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch110.exe

Cheers

[cliffski]

Some more tweaks today:

1.11
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Fixed some formatting and input issues with the mod tools (ctrl+shift S and D and E).
Adjusted the effectiveness of free eye tests and free school meals to reduce effects on poverty and the poor.
Recycling now improves air quality slightly.
Reduced effects of pensions and free bus passes on happiness of retired people.
Added support for modded (new) simulation values, and changed formatting of csv file so they can have inputs defined as well.
Added Internet Crime Situation.
Adjusted community policing so it represents a lesser, and slower-acting policy.
Raising speed limits now slightly increases carbon emmissions.
Clarified some order page text and only allow player to enter numbers and dashes, not letters.
Minor graphical tweak to policy selection list.

Patch from 110:

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch111.exe

Enjoy :D

[cliffski]

A very minor patch, to address a bug with the timeline:

1.12
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Change title.bmp to a jpg and changed compression on some files to reduce filesize.
Fixed bug where the timeline progress bar didnt work on a loaded game with a long term length, and other problems relating to that. Sadly this b0rks savegames.

patch from 1.11:

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch112.exe

Cheers.

[cliffski]

that last patch didn't work on some intel cards, so reverted as 1.13

1.13
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Reverted jpg back to a bmp for intel cards

Patch from 1.12

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch113.exe

[cliffski]

Ok, there was a crash bug sometimes seen when viewing a voter group. basically what happened is you started a game that didnt use the normal names, but used the Spanish or Russian ones, then saved it, and loaded it back in and tried to access voter groups.
often this would crash. And if it didn't, everyones names had changed :(

It's fixed in 1.14:

1.14
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Fixed crash bug regarding loading a saved game that used non standard voter names, and then accessing voter group details. Sadly this also renders older saves unloadable.

Patch from 1.13:

http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/De ... tch114.exe