I recently finished a playthrough of 4.12.49. Near the tail-end, I encountered one of the bugs I experienced and reported back in October 2018.
Specifically, half the Elite Liberal's executive branch flipping to Arch-Conservative. Two examples:
After Election Day, the executive branch stays all Elite Liberal for me until I A) cycle the month or B) close and re-open the game. I can thus get the game into a win state by jumping a few hoops. I'm including
three saves from my experience. One is before the election that put Frankie into office. One is right afterward. The third is at series end with the final law having turned Elite Liberal but the game not cycling to
Victory! because, I presume, of the executive branch.
I don't know what in the code would be causing this. One possible fix would be to prevent the game from tracking anything else in the executive branch except the President. After all, the President is the one who makes their cabinet.
On a non-bug related note, I found it jarring to go into stores and not see the greyed out options which used to be there when you didn't have enough money to buy something. When everything simply doesn't display, then you can end up going to a clothing department and seeing... well, nothing at all. Seems rough for newer players who don't even know what they
can buy.
Appreciate the continued development of this fork. Take it easy.