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[Ari Rahikkala]

There's nobody who's really putting a lot of time into LCS and changing gameplay significantly, no. A bunch of us working either on the interface or on behind-the-scenes stuff though, yeah. I think it'd be good time for a LCS 4.02 final release...

... except before that, anyone on Windows want to try out compiling the latest revision and seeing if it runs correctly? I just converted sitemaps.txt to Unix line endings, and didn't test the change on Windows...

[Carlos Gustavos]

Yes, it works.

[Downie]

So would somebody please do the new release? There have been lots of cool improvements in the code for ages and I doubt it's any more buggy than 4.01.4. It saddens me to think of people playing the old version with the clumsy interface.

[Toksyuryel]

I think Jonathan S. Fox is the only one who can make releases. I am not certain.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Don't think we're formal like that. Well, we'd need him to put up a release on SourceForge, but the SourceForge release is at 3.19.4 anyway. And to sticky the new thread and unstick the old one, but you could just PM him, Toady and ThreeToe and see which one gets to it first. But mostly you just need someone who's got the project building in MSVC correctly. I tried building the .vcproj with Express but am getting some errors related to MFC (???) that I'd rather not spend my time fixing since I know there are other people that the MSVC project works for, and because I'm not having any problems with the autotooled build system on my end.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I actually can't make a build of the game at the moment, but if someone increments the version number to 4.02 and compiles a new build with the icon Gatleos made, I'll test it and then mirror the zip on my web site for semi-permanent hosting, and we can replace this thread with a new 4.02 one.

Here's a partial changelog for the new post:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LCS 4.02

Partial List of Features and Improvements
- Sweet new LCS icon in Windows
- Improved in-game help options
- Elite Liberal Accounting: All cashflow in and out is guaranteed to go through the squad's ledger now
- Can now reorder the squad on the review screen by pressing 'Z'
- You can now see a full report on what crimes each Liberal is wanted for
- Allowed extremist parties to claim victory in Senate elections, as they already could in House elections
- High Security status is no longer displayed for closed down buildings
- Somewhat improved building layouts
- Added more things for the LCS to say on TV and radio when you take control of media studios
- Spiced up some of the flavor text, including some laws and news stories
- Car names should no longer spill into the skill list on character sheets
- Teaching liberals is now 'T' rather than 'E' on the activities screen
- You can now 'E'quip on the activities screen
- You can now 'L'earn to take classes for $ at the university
- You can now choose an easier victory condition at the start of the game
- Car chases are now slightly more unpredictable
- Fight text is now colored to make it more clear which side is attacking
- Liberal status now specifies between "writing letters" and "writing news" instead of just calling both "writing"
- You can now view a Liberal's income on their character sheet
- Dates will now go better if you go out with people who have a similar skill set
- You can now have multiple dates go wrong in humiliating new ways
- Your slogan will occasionally show up in the newspapers
- You will be prompted to confirm when you try to sell all of your squad's weapons, clothes, or ammo
- You can no longer grind lockpicking by attempting to pick impossible locks
- Sites are more likely to go into high security or close down when you do heavy crime on the location
- You now get a message showing what loot you picked up
- Loot is now sometimes weapons or armor
- Robbing high security apartments can occasionally run you face to face with a cop
- You can no longer smuggle equipment out of besieged buildings using the review and move equipment screen
- Picking up equipment while escaping a besieged safehouse will now save it from being destroyed (the gear you picked up on the way out will show up in the homeless shelter)
- Teachers now teach less effectively if they have too many students
- Less-Liberal prisoners will no longer shout for help if they see you making trouble
- Time-left-in-hospital estimates are now more realistic (even, dare we say, Conservative)
- The happy fun time re-education school that the prison turns into in nightmare mode now happily lives up to its name, slowly turning your naughty Liberals into pleasant and chipper Conservatives
- There are now more flavor text types that the "crack house" can be skinned as
- Lots of things are now stored in .xml files, so the game is now more moddable
- And other miscellaneous interface improvements you never knew you couldn't live without!

Partial List of Bug Fixes
- Fixed multiple crash bugs, including some of the rare ones that seem to happen at random and normally never get fixed because nobody can figure out why they happen
- Fixed bug that could get you sentenced to many counts of nothing when you burned flags when it was illegal, then changed the laws to make flag burning legal
- Fixed bug that prevented you from getting juice from defending yourself in court
- Fixed bug that caused police to allow you to bring ammo into the jail cell with you (but no weapon to use it with)
- Fixed bug that caused your safehouses to be more suspicious if you failed to fly a flag when flag burning laws were L+ (this is now true for C+ laws instead)
- Fixed bug that allowed you to buy "Error" guns from gang members
- Fixed bug that caused business fronts to charge the wrong price
- Fixed bug that caused liberals to keep trying to bury their dead after they got killed or arrested
- Fixed bug where sleepers would move into to the homeless shelter when they regained contact with the LCS
- Fixed bug where freed Liberals could be wearing damaged and bloody prison clothing
- Fixed bug where liberals would get stronger, faster, and prettier instead of getting weaker, slower, and uglier when they were moderately wounded
- Fixed bug that could cause lost limbs to regenerate
- Fixed bug where extremely high heat safehouses would be safe from the police, since they would never get done planning their imminent and no doubt truly terrifying raid
- And even more minor bug fixes that you probably won't notice because they're now fixed!

If I can get a copy of the game built for Windows with the version number at 4.02, I'll whip up a new stickied post.

[Janus]

Here is 4.02 for Windows from r481; I set the version number as "4.02.0", hopefully that's OK. I also updated lowestloadversion as well since 4.01.4 saves don't appear to be compatible. Old score files seem to be fine, though, so I left lowestloadscoreversion alone.
http://wimbli.com/lcs/lcs_win32_4.02.0.zip

It's compiled with MSVC++ 2008 Express, so people may need to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package if the game crashes for them when first run.

For the changelog, you might add:
- The numbers of scheduled meetings and dates for each member are shown in their profiles

[G-Flex]

- Fixed bug that caused your safehouses to be more suspicious if you failed to fly a flag when flag burning laws were L+ (this is now true for C+ laws instead)

This reminds me: Is there any reason NOT to fly a flag at a safehouse?


[edit]
Also, I'm normally one to punch people for making random feature requests in threads like these, but: Will there be a method in the near future by which to prevent some squadmates from attacking in combat, or to separate guitar usage from "attacks"? I ask because it would be nice to have a squad of mixed guitar and weapon users who can actually play guitars at people without also trying to simultaneously shoot them in the head. The fact that you can't do this is honestly kind of a sticking point with me, because it means you either need to have a fully-guitar squad, or be okay with committing murder while serenading people, which is weird.

[nenjin]

Zomg it's like....it's like....some sort of non-denominational seasonal celebration, or something!

[Kay12]

This reminds me: Is there any reason NOT to fly a flag at a safehouse?

Those things are bloody expensive, you know.

[Innominate]

This reminds me: Is there any reason NOT to fly a flag at a safehouse?

Because you might accidentally press the "burn flag in protest" button and all hell will break loose and you'll lose your founder who was already crippled in a death squad raid on your burnt-down homeless shelter?

Yeah it's a rare case, but it counts.

Also, I'm normally one to punch people for making random feature requests in threads like these, but: Will there be a method in the near future by which to prevent some squadmates from attacking in combat, or to separate guitar usage from "attacks"? I ask because it would be nice to have a squad of mixed guitar and weapon users who can actually play guitars at people without also trying to simultaneously shoot them in the head. The fact that you can't do this is honestly kind of a sticking point with me, because it means you either need to have a fully-guitar squad, or be okay with committing murder while serenading people, which is weird.

Explanation 1: Guitarists don't associate with non-guitarists.
Explanation 2: Bad guitar drives people to punch conservatives to death.
Explanation 3: Mercy killings.

But yeah, would be a nice feature.