Happy belated US Democracy Server Patch Day!

Stumbled across a site with these patch notes…  They’re funny enough that I’m reposting them below.

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.

I can’t wait to see what Obama has in store for the technical side of things.  Too bad he has to start out with technology in the White House that has been compared to the Dark Ages…