I tried the revision out with an old save and the CEO/President thing was still broken, but that was probably why. When I finish this game, I'll switch versions.
And yes. I was being sarcastic about the feature/bug thing.
Ah, it doesn't really work that well with old saves. You should start a new game. It's best to play games that were started in the same version as the version you are playing. So here's some advice on when to upgrade the version of the game you have: right after winning or losing a game, before you start a new game, or you could just delete your saved game if you aren't that attached to it (the save.dat file) and then upgrade to a newer version of the game. If you use a save game from one version in a different version you'll have problems. Which is exactly what happened. If you are playing a game of Liberal Crime Squad on an older version and you're REALLY into it, then finish the game on that same version BEFORE you upgrade to a newer version of Liberal Crime Squad.
And yes, I could tell you were probably being sarcastic. But hard to be sure on the Internet, since there isn't any body language, tone of voice, or other nonverbal cues that make sarcasm much more obvious when people are talking in person.
Appreciate the suggestions, I had a lot of trouble laying out cities logically and appreciate a degree of local awareness (my only first-hand experience is with Seattle, which ironically is the city that the game is based on normally). As for Long Island, I'm not that ignorant of the geography. 
As a subheader under NYC, I was talking about Brooklyn and Queens, and not trying to depict "the City of Long Island" or something like that. I agree that it's too vague though, and I think I did change the name to be more specific when coding it.
Well Brooklyn and Queens make up the western end of Long Island, and all of Long Island (including Nassau and Suffolk counties) is part of the NYC metro area, just like some northeastern parts of New Jersey, counties slightly north of NYC in New York State such as Westchester County and Rockland County, and if you really want to be inclusive, even southeastern parts of Connecticut can be included in the NYC metro area.
I personally live in upstate New York (WAY upstate, nowhere near NYC, takes 2 hours to get there under ideal circumstances, if the weather and traffic are both good, and if the circumstances aren't ideal, more like 3 hours). I've been down to The City a couple times but not that often. In my part of upstate, we refer to New York City as "The City", even though technically the place I live is ALSO a city. But one with a much lower population, so, not a REAL city. I can also take about a 2 hour drive to get to Buffalo, and if I add on a third hour of driving, Toronto up in Canada. Personally I like Toronto better than NYC. Canada is just more... civilized. Here in the U.S., so many people act like uncivilized barbarians.
So yeah, back to the game, I was thinking... how about cross-border incursions into Canada and Mexico (as well as excursions by boat from Miami to Cuba)? The idea here is, the LCS is a rebel group against the U.S. government, basically. Lots of times rebel groups against the government of one country have safe havens in neighboring countries (for instance, Columbian rebels known as the FARC in Venezuela, Ugandan rebels known as Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo, Afghan rebels known as the Taliban in Pakistan, Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras in El Salvador).
Certain places in Canada and Mexico are very close to the U.S. border. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Montreal, Canada are 2 examples. Plus Cuba is very close to Miami by boat, so Havana could also be a safe haven for the LCS. So I'm proposing adding those as places the LCS can visit in multiple-city mode. Now, assume for the moment that the U.S. land border crossings that you can cross by car are fairly secure and it's much easier to get across if you have wanted criminals and stolen goods if you take a boat. So for Montreal you take a speedboat from the sparsely populated northern part of New York State to Montreal along the St. Lawrence River, for Ciudad Juarez you take a speedboat from El Paso, Texas across the Rio Grande, and for Havana you take a speedboat from Miami through the Caribbean. The U.S. government has no authority in any of those neighboring countries, although the governments of those countries might take an interest in the LCS. Cuba is very hostile to the U.S. government and would welcome any left-wing group trying to undermine it, such as the LCS, especially if you can explain yourselves to them in Spanish. Mexicans have many grievances against the U.S. regarding the War on Drugs and the way the U.S. government does border enforcement and treats illegal aliens poorly, and Ciudad Juarez is a lawless city of rival drug gangs where the Mexican government has no power and the murder rate is sky-high, a perfect safe haven for the LCS if you know Spanish. Montreal is the capital of French-speaking Quebec, an area of Canada that is very very very liberal and where the locals hate the English language and want to talk in French very much, and have a very negative opinion of the United States, another perfect safe haven for the LCS as long as you can learn French. So obviously French and Spanish would need to be added as skills to the game to operate in these 3 safe haven cities in neighboring countries. There would also be dangers. In Cuba, you might get suspected of being American spies and locked up, if your Spanish and Persuasion skills aren't good enough to convince them that you really are a left-wing rebel group from the U.S., and the Cuban regime would always be monitoring you carefully and have government minders at all of your bases in Havana; if you initially succeeded in persuading them you are on your side, they'd be a good safe haven, unless you committed crimes inside Cuba and the watchful regime found out that you weren't being gracious guests. In Ciudad Juarez, violent drug gangs fight each other for territory, and the only way to succeed there is through violence and having the LCS take over the city by force. The Mexican military and U.S. forces don't dare step foot in Ciudad Juarez. But the violent drug gangs in Ciudad Juarez operate internationally, control vast amounts of Mexican territory, and are not to be taken lightly, and some of them have infiltrated the Mexican government at the highest levels (as well as lower levels too). In Montreal, you have to be very sympathetic to the people of Quebec, talk to them in French, and champion their cause to win their loyalty, although that should be very easy if you know French; however, they are still a part of Canada, which, as a whole, is a nation allied with the United States, and Canadians from other parts of Canada are suspicious of the French-speaking people of Quebec and don't trust them. But Quebeckers don't trust English-speakers, so as long as you speak French there, the locals will be on your side. However, Canada's national government is based in Ottawa, not that far away, so the Canadian national government is the main threat in Montreal. The people of Quebec tend to be rather pacifist so too much violence inside Quebec could alienate them, unless of course it's against the Canadian national government, which they want independence from. If the LCS is extremely successful in Montreal it could result in Quebec becoming an independent nation from Canada and even more of a safe haven for the LCS; however, at this point, the U.S. military would most likely become openly hostile to the nation of Quebec and probably mount a full-scale invasion relatively soon, since the U.S. government would know that the LCS is the reason Quebec is independent, that the LCS's main goal is regime change in the United States itself, and that the newly independent nation of Quebec provides safe haven to the LCS and refuses to back down. Another consideration is that too much activity or time spent in safe havens in neighboring countries could hurt the public image of the LCS inside the United States, given the fact that many Americans are xenophobic and hardly anyone wants foreigners interfering in our politics.
So, to summarize, I'd add Montreal, Canada, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Havana, Cuba to the game as cities, and French and Spanish as new skills based on Intelligence, and each of those 3 cities would have unique characteristics as a safe haven for the LCS outside the United States but very close to it. This wouldn't all be implemented at once, it could be implemented more gradually. And yes, the game itself is in English, that would not change, we'd get around this by saying "So-and so says in Spanish, ..." and then having text in English in the game itself. If your French or Spanish skill is really bad, it would have the "So-and so says in Spanish, ..." text and then you'd have some really stupid-sounding stuff in English with bad grammar, which would often be quite humorous, and then people would react very negatively to it.
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