0.7.5

Governance · published · build 25590228

Another day, another set of wonderful additions and improvements! And if you haven't yet, please do check out some of the new fantastic mods on the Workshop!

New features!

  • New: Social Media Posts as an Action

  • New: Quick actions in the pre-game Polity Editor

  • New: Manifestos can pledge to build or scrap civic projects

  • New: Manifestos are now costed and judged by the public and the press

  • New: A flow view in Statistics showing what drives each figure

  • New: Languages and state religion, with speaker statistics for each language, language policies and a state church whose clergy can sit in the upper house

  • New: Gambling policies for casinos, betting shops, online gambling and loot boxes, from an open market to a ban

Improvements to gameplay

  • Divisions now come on a weekly sitting day

  • Customisable Parliamentary Business setting of quiet, normal or busy

  • Coalitions now carry strain from rivalry, distance and discontent that can bring them down, and parties chasing the same voters make uneasy partners

  • Civic projects now wait for planning consent and can face objectors

  • Everyday prices added to Statistics: a litre of petrol and diesel, average prices of pints and coffees; house prices, flat prices and private rents added to Statistics

  • Marriage and civil partnership law updated

  • Polity Editor review now lists by name the wards each boundary change moves

Fixes:

  • Improvements to the main menu

  • Fixed "Tax not devolved here" appearing on some mini budgets

  • Fixed backbenchers and shadow ministers being handed the government's decisions, ministers' scandals and other houses' bills

  • Fixed MPs losing the whip over Lords-stage votes they never cast

  • Fixed prices in pounds and pence losing their pence

0.7.5 · Governance patch notes · SteamPeaks