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[Jonathan S. Fox]

There's still no way to teach Dodge. Is that intentional? For balance reasons or something?

Dodge is perhaps more appropriately labeled "Dodge Bullets". As such, you can think of it as the sixth sense for combat that comes only with direct experience.

After several turns, the heat in one of the locations grows to 300%, though police don't attack.

That sounds pretty normal; police don't attack deterministically. If you wait two months and still haven't been attacked there, that's more surprising.

Minor UI issue: when your last active squad disappears, the squad roster is replaced with a screen listing the option to review liberals or hit Z to form a new squad. Hitting Z has the same effect as hitting tab rather than going to the form squad screen.

Those are supposed to be instructions for how to form a new squad. First, open the roster page, then press Z. Before those instructions went up people were regularly reporting it as a game-breaking bug that your squad was dissolved when you got arrested, went on vacation, etc...

[corvvs]

It compiles fine on Linux, but when you start it up after running "make install" it says:

Attempting to open filename: sitemaps.txt Failed to load sitemaps.txt! Reverting to old map mode.

I've never played LCS before, just been reading about it, so I don't know - is all the necessary stuff installed or is it looking for user data?

EDIT: also the title page still reports that this is version 3.11.3svn

[Jonathan S. Fox]

It's looking for a support file that I don't know how to install. The game should function okay without it, if only because it has backup hardcoded maps to use in place of the external ones in that event.

[ihateturnips]

It compiles fine on Linux, but when you start it up after running "make install" it says:

Attempting to open filename: sitemaps.txt Failed to load sitemaps.txt! Reverting to old map mode.

Ditto Mac OS X 10.6 (svn version 337) - thanks for the hard work.  The sitemaps.txt thing has been addressed before and, IIRC, was about DOS line endings borking on unix-type things.  Someone posted a different sitemaps.txt which fixed it for me in a previous version.

Yep, linux types run dos2unix to fix it, or use a handy little sed one-liner (also works on OSX) like:
  sed 's/^M$//' sitemaps.txt >sitemaps.txt-new

(Use CTRL-v followed by CTRL-m to get the "^M" token!)
then replace sitemaps.txt with the new version, and make sure it's in the directory you run crimesquad from.

[Edit to clarify DOS2UNIX]

[Funk]

It won't start. It just claims I need a newer version of windows. Was something really changed so win98 isn't an option anymore?

Ever since I started working on LCS, anything I release has been incompatible with Windows 98. I think someone explained why this is to me and how I can change it, but unfortunately I completely forgot what they said. My personal to-the-best-of-my-knowledge explanation would be that Microsoft has a really stupid way of not updating the C libraries in earlier versions of Windows, such that even if your game could otherwise be fully backwards-compatible, if you compile on a later version of Windows, you still need that version of Windows or later to run your game. I code LCS on a Windows XP box, so you probably need XP, Vista, or Windows 7 to run the releases I put out.

On the other hand, if you have Linux, you should be able to get the source code off of the subversion archive and compile it yourself.

4.00.4 works on 2000 NT

[E. Albright]

Those are supposed to be instructions for how to form a new squad. First, open the roster page, then press Z. Before those instructions went up people were regularly reporting it as a game-breaking bug that your squad was dissolved when you got arrested, went on vacation, etc...

D'oh! A bit closer reading would have let me see that. Alas.

On the subject of UI changes, how hard would it be to add a "see election results immediately" config option or per-election button? The drama of seeing an election or legislative session unfold is diminished by e.g. the perfect knowledge that all 8 bills up for consideration are going to pass or fail by a 90% margin, yet again...

[Jonathan S. Fox]

A specific button you'd have to press to skip to the results would be a good thing. I wouldn't want it to be an any key or the same as the wait button, but I agree it would be beneficial to have some sort of skip.

It compiles fine on Linux, but when you start it up after running "make install" it says:

Attempting to open filename: sitemaps.txt Failed to load sitemaps.txt! Reverting to old map mode.

Ditto Mac OS X 10.6 (svn version 337) - thanks for the hard work.  The sitemaps.txt thing has been addressed before and, IIRC, was about DOS line endings borking on unix-type things.  Someone posted a different sitemaps.txt which fixed it for me in a previous version.

Yep, linux types run dos2unix to fix it, or use a handy little sed one-liner (also works on OSX) like:
  sed 's/^M$//' sitemaps.txt >sitemaps.txt-new

(Use CTRL-v followed by CTRL-m to get the "^M" token!)
then replace sitemaps.txt with the new version, and make sure it's in the directory you run crimesquad from.

[Edit to clarify DOS2UNIX]

Thanks for reminding me and posting instructions. I'll make sure to Unixify sitemaps.txt before uploading the zipped source code for the OSX and Linux download. Could you remind me where sitemaps.txt has to be placed in the directory structure on OSX/Linux?

[Leafsnail]

I have a small suggestion.  Would it be possible to add a liberal calander as something you can look at from the main game screen?

The liberal calander would be sorted by months, and would tell you important events happening at the start of each months (elections, high court decisions, senate revoting, justices stepping down (perhaps they'd announce their resignation a couple of months earlier?) in addition to possibly more personal events, like trials of liberals, release dates of liberals and hospital leaving times of liberals).

[ihateturnips]

Could you remind me where sitemaps.txt has to be placed in the directory structure on OSX/Linux?

Unfortunately not: I always make sure it is in the directory I run crimesquad from - it's not seen in ~/.lcs but perhaps *should* be un /usr/local/share/lcs  (just like the "art" files).

There's an issue here on OSX, though: segfault when trying to load a saved game - again I was sure this was a known thing with a fix for linux but I can't find it on a forum search.  Fairly minimal debug output I'm afraid:

Code: [Select]

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000002a0
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   crimesquad                    0x0000000100034dca mode_base() + 1098 (basemode.cpp:384)
1   crimesquad                    0x00000001000271cf mode_title() + 1935 (titlescreen.cpp:133)
2   crimesquad                    0x000000010000411c main + 1084 (game.cpp:417)
3   crimesquad                    0x0000000100003148 start + 52

Playing without saving seems to work so far (so long as the save file is deleted)

[Karlito]

I just spent $3000 on a business front for the Crackhouse base (the one you can start with) and I have no business front.

[cowofdoom78963]

I think there should be a way to replace teeth...

Teeth damage isent that perminant, as a matter of fact I personaly know quite a few people who have had their teeth replaced.

[Gimmick Account]

I think there should be a way to replace teeth...

Teeth damage isent that perminant, as a matter of fact I personaly know quite a few people who have had their teeth replaced.

I suggested a dentist location a few months ago, but it sort of got ignored. This would work well in conjunction with a health care issue, too.

[Dr. Johbson]

I just starting playing this game. It is totally awesome.

One problem. I have no vehicle, yet my guys still drive around in one, even though it tells me they're on foot. And, when I abandon it on the road and run, it shows up the next time I need it. (Not in the menu, I can drive it while avoiding cops, I mean.) So I'm driving an invisible car that drives it's self.

Pretty awesome. 


-Edited to make sense, I was half asleep at the time. Apparently being more tired helps.-

[Gantolandon]

That sounds pretty normal; police don't attack deterministically. If you wait two months and still haven't been attacked there, that's more surprising.

The problem is not that the police doesn't attack, but the heat rising to enormous amount without any reason to do this (after several minor actions). I have never seen it doing in 4.00.3.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Without having a copy of your save, or otherwise being able to comprehensively examine the circumstances, I can't say if there's something odd about the rate of heat gain or not. How many people are there? Did you kidnap someone who went reported missing, and is being actively searched for? Do you have dead bodies sitting around your base and scaring the neighbors?