U.S. Democracy Server Patch Notes

[NickKish]

Friend of mine sent this to me: U.S. Democracy Server Patch (http://www.chromecow.com/2009/01/20/us-democracy-server-patch-day/).

I thought it was pretty funny and thought I'd share with you all! :laugh:

[TPMdm]

you done crashed the site with your linky

[WatcherZero]

Repost of official patch notes:

US Democracy Server: Patch Day
Version 44.0


President

Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.
Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed loot to be transferred from the treasury to anyone on the President’s friends list, or in the President’s party. We are investigating.
Messages to and from the President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
Messages originating from the President were being misclassified as originating from The American People.
A rendering error that frequently caused the President to appear wrapped in the American Flag texture has been addressed.

Vice President

The Vice President has been correctly reclassified as a pet.
No longer immune to damage from the Legislative and Judicial classes.
The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.
Reveal Identity: this debuff will no longer be able to target Covert Operatives.
Messages to and from the Vice President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
A rendering bug was affecting the Vice President’s visibility, making him virtually invisible to the rest of the server. This has been addressed.

Cabinet

There was a bug in the last release that prevented the Cabinet from disagreeing with the President, which was the cause of a number of serious balance issues. This bug has been addressed, and we will continue to monitor the situation.

Judiciary

Many concerns have been raised regarding balance issues in the Supreme Court. This system is maintained on a different patch schedule, and will require longer to address.
A large number of NPCs in the Judiciary were incorrectly flagged "ideological." We are trying to identify these cases and rectify this situation.

Homeland Security

Homeland Security Advisory System: We have identified a bug in this system that prevents the threat level from dropping below Elevated (Yellow). The code for Guarded (Blue) and Low (Green) has been commented out. We are testing the fix and hope to have it in by the next patch.
Torture: This debuff is being removed after a record number of complaints.
Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the issue.
Asking questions about Homeland Security was incorrectly triggering the Chain-Jingoism debuff.

Economy

Serious on-going issues with server economy are still being addressed. We expect further roll-backs, and appreciate your help identifying and fixing bugs. We can’t make these fixes without your help.
Bug reporting engine has been fixed on this feature. Previous version issued false error messages stating "Fundamentals are sound" and "You are a whiner." Said messages have been removed.

PVP

Reputation with various factions are being rebalanced. The gradated reputation scale was erroneously being overwritten by the binary For Us/ Against Us flag.

Quests

The” Desert Storm” quest chain was displaying an erroneous "Mission Accomplished" message near the beginning of the chain.
The quest chain that begins with “There’s no Cake like Yellow Cake” and terminates with “W-M-Denied” has been identified as uncompletable, and has been removed.

Reagents

Many recipes that currently call for Crude Oil can now be made with Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Ethanol reagents. We hope to roll out even more sweeping changes in the next patch.

Events

The “Axis of Evil” event is drawing to a close. Look forward to the “Rebuilding Bridges” event starting in January.
Miscellaneous

NPC pets "Conservative Hosts" have been readjusted. Verbal attack has been reduced. Aggro strength and range have been reduced.
NPC pets "Liberal Hosts" have been readjusted. Previous patch commented out feature. This has been fixed and set to be similar to "Conservative Host" pets.
Contrary to rumors, there are no plans for a "Fairness Patch".

[Telic]

Full of gems, but...


The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.


...really made me laugh out loud ;)

[TPMdm]

A few made me smile, personally wish there was a little balance in it. Perhaps there will be a followup of "undocumented" patch features?

Off the top of my head:

All Players receiving the buff "Hope" will soon have it removed it was applied prematurely.

President Class failed to initialize properly, this was hot patched however the president briefly caught aggro from the media class for this stealth fix.

The Zone Guantanamo will be removed....soon.....and we don't know how.

The Talent "Aggressive questioning" will be removed it is being replaced with "Lost Opportunity". We're not sure what it does but we know neither talent was very effective.

There is a display issue with the threat indicator. Most users are seeing it as lower than it actually is primarily due to the Hope buff.

[surodat]

/giggles at Hope Buff