We have the date for public early access:
18th August 2023
Alpha 8 is out, bringing many new features to the game, among these, the upper house/senate which was as well a stretch goal during the Kickstarter campaign. I am now at work to the exclusive kickstarter edition that all backers will receive soon. Development is of course set to go on for many months which will bring the United Kingdom, multiplayer support as well as much more content!
Milestone news: Thanks to your precious support, I am thrilled to announce that I have commissioned the main theme for Lawgivers II 🎶
FEATURES
- upper house/senate and switch to bicameral/unicameral legislation
- two events "Subprime crisis" and "Great recession"
- game rule to choose between unicameral or bicameral parliaments
- game rule to choose between realistic timed events or random timed
- organizations system has been completely redesigned
- world and institution filters/lenses are reimplemented again
- resources, buildings, events and battles can now be displayed on world map
- if nation is unhappy, citizen's protests may occur
- new law "Working regulation" with 2 articles
- low stability may now lead to protests
- added kickstarter politicians
- new parameter "Democratic representation"
- scandal is breaking out if using too much black money
- new gameplay and knowledge tips
IMPROVEMENTS
- regional stability system
- gdp system and growth
- display legislature and constituency representing on lawmaker
- several improvements to text and descriptions
- serious improvements to general AI system
- improvements to voters distribution AI
- link to open law that regulates election
- custom scenarios can now have attached localizations files
- significantly increased end turn performance
- more information for nations at start of game
- switched to vulkan for android with great performance improvements
FIXES
- memory leak in AI system
- fixed buying lawmaker vote
- fixes to party creation at start of game
- bug with calendar indexing, could made it impossible to progress sometimes
- bug in voters distribution
- netcode bug on scheduling some events on calendar that afflicted all games
- freeze caused by wrong multithreading system
- support for ultrawide screens
- rethinked many functions to ensure a more bug-free experience