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[Jonathan S. Fox]

Question!

Is there any way to remove Supreme Court justices without getting the Amendment or whatever to have them all deported or waiting for each one to step down?

No. But if they're stopping you from winning, you should get the Amendment to boot them out.

Yeah, I was just wondering, I've never had them stop me from winning I don't think. Just something I was wondering. I thought I read somewhere that there was another way to kick them out or something lol

There have been a number of suggestions about assassinating or otherwise forcing one to resign, but nothing actually implemented.

[Pesi]

More questions for the Fox:

What makes publishing Corporate files so special that it has the potential to give more likability to the LCS than any of the other publishable things?

Why the two different ways of giving armor to a creature?
Armor a=Armor( and armor=new Armor(

[Jonathan S. Fox]

What makes publishing Corporate files so special that it has the potential to give more likability to the LCS than any of the other publishable things?

I don't know.

Why the two different ways of giving armor to a creature?
Armor a=Armor( and armor=new Armor(

I can explain the syntax, but more than that I'll need context.

Armor a=Armor(
Copies an existing object, casts it as an Armor object, and stores the copy in a newly created temporary variable named "a".

armor=new Armor(
Creates a new Armor object in dynamic memory and stores a pointer to that Armor object in an existing variable named "armor".

[BoxOfAids]

got another one!

Is there anywhere that we can find the breakdowns of what the starting choices do for stats besides testing all the combinations? the first choice seems particularly vague about what kind of stats you get from it.

Also, how do you access the crack house as a safehouse, it defaults to not being a safehouse but ended up as one in one of my runs.

[Tarran]

http://lcs.wikidot.com/questions

Not sure if it's outdated or anything, but it seems at least fairly correct.



As for the crack house, you have to shoot it up quite a bit--literally--before it becomes a safehouse.

[Pesi]

The context is just that I was reading through creaturetypes.cpp and noticed that inside the switch(type) there were these two ways of giving a creature armor. To my knowledge, neither way has the creature in question walk around in casual clothing when they shouldn't. Armor* armor and Armor a had both already been defined beforehand and the only difference seems to be that Armor a=Armor( is used where there's an if-clause between the case the the armor-giving and armor=new Armor( when not. I wondered if there was something about the ifs that necessitated it, though I wouldn't know what that could possibly be; and was thinking that a single way would be better. It also struck me as odd that a would get re-defined every time it was used.

The first question was about the fact that publishing stuff other than corporate files does this:

      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUAD,10);
      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUADPOS,10);

...and publishing corporate files does this:

      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUAD,newspaper*10);
      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUADPOS,newspaper*10);

where "newspaper" is the number of locations that contain a printing press.
It seems to have been like this from the very beginning.
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@BoxOfAids:
Right here:

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1. The day I was born in 1984…
A - the Polish priest Popieluszko was kidnapped by government agents. (+2 AGI)
B - was the 3rd anniversary of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. (+2 STR)
C - the Macintosh was introduced. (+2 INT)
D - the Nobel Peace Prize went to Desmond Tutu for opposition to apartheid. (+2 HRT)
E - the Sandanista Front won the elections in Nicaragua. (+2 CHA)

2. When I was bad…
A - my parents grounded me and hid my toys, but I knew where they put them. (+1 AGI, +1 Security)
B - my father beat me. I learned to take a punch earlier than most. (+1 HTH, +1 Martial Arts)
C - I was sent to my room, where I studied quietly by myself, alone. (+1 INT, +1 Writing)
D - my parents argued with each other about me, but I was never punished. (+1 HRT, +1 Persuasion)
E - my father lectured me endlessly, trying to make me think like him. (+1 CHA, +1 Psychology)

3. In elementary school…
A - I was mischevious, and always up to something. (+1 AGI, +1 Disguise)
B - I had a lot of repressed anger. I hurt animals. (+1 STR, +1 AGI, -1 HRT, +1 Psychology)
C - I was at the head of the class, and I worked very hard. (+1 INT, +1 Writing)
D - I was unruly and often fought with the other children. (+1 STR, +1 Martial Arts)
E - I was the class clown. I even had some friends. (+1 CHA, +1 Persuasion)

4. When I turned 10…
A - my parents divorced. Whenever I talked, they argued, so I stayed quiet. (+1 Stealth)
B - my parents divorced. Violently. (+1 Martial Arts)
C - my parents divorced. Acrimoniously. I once tripped over the paperwork! (+1 Law)
D - my parents divorced. Mom slept with the divorce lawyer. (+1 Seduction)
E - my parents divorced. It still hurts to read my old diary. (+1 Writing)

5. In junior high school…
A - I was into chemistry. I wanted to know what made the world tick. (+2 INT, +2 Science)
B - I played guitar in a grunge band. We sucked, but so did life. (+2 CHA, +2 Music)
C - I drew things, a lot. I was drawing a world better than this. (+2 HRT, +2 Art)
D - I played violent video games at home. I was a total outcast. (+2 AGI, +2 Computers)
E - I was obsessed with swords, and started lifting weights. (+2 STR, +2 Sword)

6. Things were getting really bad…
A - when I stole my first car. I got a few blocks before I totalled it. (+1 Driving, +1 Security)
B - and I went to live with my dad. He had been in Nam and he still drank. (+1 Shotgun, +1 Rifle, +1 Psychology)
C - and I went completely goth. I had no friends and made costumes by myself. (+2 Tailoring)
D - when I was sent to religious counseling, just stressing me out more. (+1 Religion, +1 Psychology)
E - and I tried being a teacher's assistant. It just made me a target. (+2 Teaching)

7. Well, I knew it had reached a crescendo when…
A - I stole a cop car when I was only 14. I went to juvie for 6 months. (+1 INT, +1 Driving, +1 Security)
B - my stepmom shot her ex-husband, my dad, with a shotgun. She got off. (+1 AGI, +2 Shotgun)
C - I tried wrestling for a quarter, desperate to fit in. (+1 STR, +2 Martial Arts)
D - I got caught making out, and now I needed to be 'cured' of homosexuality. (+1 HRT, +1 Seduction, +1 Religion)
E - I was resorting to controlling people. Had my own clique of outcasts. (+1 CHA, +2 Persuasion)

8. I was only 15 when I ran away, and…
A - I started robbing houses: rich people only. I was fed up with their crap. (+1 AGI, +1 Security, +1 Stealth)
B - I hung out with thugs and beat the shit out of people. (+1 STR, +2 Martial Arts)
C - I got a horrible job working fast food, smiling as people fed the man. (+1 CHA, +2 Business)
D - I let people pay me for sex. I needed the money to survive. (+1 CHA, +2 Seduction)
E - I volunteered for a left-wing candidate. It wasn't *real*, though, you know? (+1 INT, +1 Law, +1 Persuasion)

9. Life went on. On my 18th birthday…
A - I got my hands on an old Beetle. It's still in great shape. (Start with a Beetle)
B - I bought myself an assault rifle. (Start equipped with an AK-47 and 9 clips)
C - I celebrated. I'd saved a thousand bucks! (Start with $1000)
D - I went to party and met a cool law student. We've been dating ever since. (Start with a Lawyer recruited as a sleeper love slave.)
E - I managed to acquire secret maps of several major buildings downtown. (Start with several downtown sites fully explored)

(The Lawyer will be the same gender as the founder if the homosexuality option is chosen two questions previous.)

10. For the past few years, I've been…
A - stealing from Corporations. I know they're still keeping more secrets. (+2 INT, +2 AGI, +2 Security, +2 Stealth, $500, Downtown Apartments Safe House)
B - a violent criminal. Nothing can change me, or stand in my way. (+2 AGI, +2 HTH, +2 Rifle, +2 Pistol, 4 Armed Gang Members, 10 days of Rations, Crack House Safe House)
C - taking college courses. I can see how much the country needs help. (+4 INT, +2 Computers, +2 Science, +2 Teaching, +2 Writing, +1 Business, +1 Law, $200, University District Apartment Safe House)
D - surviving alone, just like anyone. But we can't go on like this. (+1 HRT, +2 INT, +3 HTH, +2 AGI, +1 STR, +1 CHA, +2 First Aid, +2 Street Sense, Homeless Shelter Safe House)
E - writing my manifesto and refining my image. I'm ready to lead. (+2 CHA, +2 INT, +1 Writing, +1 Law, +2 Persuasion, +50 Juice, $50, Industrial Tenement Safe House)

[BoxOfAids]

Thanks for the answers!

[Servant Corps]

What makes publishing Corporate files so special that it has the potential to give more likability to the LCS than any of the other publishable things?

I don't know.

This is perhaps the most ridiculous answer to a question that I have ever seen. Huh. Should it be marked down as a bug that should be fixed, or be treated as a little 'surprise' mechanic?

[BoxOfAids]

Last one, I promise!

For jury-tampering (when you infiltrate the courthouse), what determines whether or not it's successful? Is it Law, Persuasion, stat-based, or... what?

Oh and a rhetorical question: I know that sleeper effectiveness varying is a "feature", but why is it that it's always that ALL of them seem go down at the same time, leaving me with 3 sleepers under 20% effectiveness after 2-3 months 

[Pesi]

Being able to say "I don't know" is how you become a scientist. And not one of those conservative eminent scientists, either. a PROPER scientist.

@BoxOfAids: You must succeed on a law skill check AND a persuasion skill check. The law skill check is harder.

[BoxOfAids]

Being able to say "I don't know" is how you become a scientist. And not one of those conservative eminent scientists, either. a PROPER scientist.

@BoxOfAids: You must succeed on a law skill check AND a persuasion skill check. The law skill check is harder.

Oho, so I was DOUBLE-RIGHT. Better start training up that law skill...

[Jonathan S. Fox]

The context is just that I was reading through creaturetypes.cpp and noticed that inside the switch(type) there were these two ways of giving a creature armor. To my knowledge, neither way has the creature in question walk around in casual clothing when they shouldn't. Armor* armor and Armor a had both already been defined beforehand and the only difference seems to be that Armor a=Armor( is used where there's an if-clause between the case the the armor-giving and armor=new Armor( when not. I wondered if there was something about the ifs that necessitated it, though I wouldn't know what that could possibly be; and was thinking that a single way would be better. It also struck me as odd that a would get re-defined every time it was used.

I'm too tired to be certain, it's a ridiculously long function, and I didn't double check how the rest of those calls work exactly, but from what I can tell from the file they're equivalent in the end, with one exception: Given that the armor variable has to be dereferenced when passing it to the character, I suspect armor=new Armor( causes a memory leak unless armor is deleted at the end of the function.

The first question was about the fact that publishing stuff other than corporate files does this:

      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUAD,10);
      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUADPOS,10);

...and publishing corporate files does this:

      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUAD,newspaper*10);
      change_public_opinion(VIEW_LIBERALCRIMESQUADPOS,newspaper*10);

where "newspaper" is the number of locations that contain a printing press.
It seems to have been like this from the very beginning.

Yeah, it should probably be consistent.

What makes publishing Corporate files so special that it has the potential to give more likability to the LCS than any of the other publishable things?

I don't know.

This is perhaps the most ridiculous answer to a question that I have ever seen. Huh. Should it be marked down as a bug that should be fixed, or be treated as a little 'surprise' mechanic?

Knowing the exact difference, it's safe to say that it's a bug. But it's also sufficiently subtle that it'll probably never be noticed in the game, and as such is the type of thing that AAA studios would not bother to fix. (They care, but not enough to assign devs to it over all other possible tasks.)

The problem is a symptom of a bad coding practice, probably on my part; the different special editions should share enough code that this isn't possible.

[BoxOfAids]

Being able to say "I don't know" is how you become a scientist. And not one of those conservative eminent scientists, either. a PROPER scientist.

@BoxOfAids: You must succeed on a law skill check AND a persuasion skill check. The law skill check is harder.

I didn't think it would be THAT hard, I threw a guy with 13 persuasion and 7 law at it and failed 

[EuchreJack]

Considering the randomness of the whole thing, 7 is a pretty low number for some checks.

What makes publishing Corporate files so special that it has the potential to give more likability to the LCS than any of the other publishable things?

I don't know.

This is perhaps the most ridiculous answer to a question that I have ever seen. Huh. Should it be marked down as a bug that should be fixed, or be treated as a little 'surprise' mechanic?

Knowing the exact difference, it's safe to say that it's a bug. But it's also sufficiently subtle that it'll probably never be noticed in the game, and as such is the type of thing that AAA studios would not bother to fix. (They care, but not enough to assign devs to it over all other possible tasks.)

The problem is a symptom of a bad coding practice, probably on my part; the different special editions should share enough code that this isn't possible.

Has any considered that perhaps the American public just really hates Corporations?

Oh, and it really doesn't take much violence to take over any location in LCS.  If you fight off two encounters in-site, you'll probably get the location.  Even if your squad is wiped out.

[Pesi]

About the house/senate elections:
How did the current election-simulation come to be? Toady's original version behaved the way post-termlimit-amendment behaves currently, and the first sourceforge version already contains the "simulate incumbency"-part.