US Democracy Server, President patch V44.0; Issues Addressed By This Upgrade

[zehnkatzen]

(NB1: Seen elsewhere, passed along to me. I'm forwarding this: don't break the chain!
NB2: MMORPG-based humor. A "debuff" is any action that negatively affects another character.)

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.

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.

[LearnedHand]

1. Patched just in time. The old system was immenently in danger of crashing. eom

[RoyGBiv]

2. Nice ...

Consider this stolen. :)

[zehnkatzen]

3. Why not? I stole it from an email forward. Let the LOLZ begin! n/t