Update 0.260723: New Blackmail System — Developer Diary
Hi everyone! Thank you for your patience while waiting for the update! We’ve decided to release one more smaller update before the major politics update we’re currently working on. The changes to the political system forced us to rethink many of the connections and interactions between characters. Since blackmail is an inseparable part of politics, we decided to expand this side of the game as…
⚜️ Fellow plutocrats, we continue refining the intricate machinery of power and capital . This update brings stability to politics, economy, and corporate management. ⚖️ Fixes · 🕵️ Character table filter issues corrected · ⚖️ Antitrust Act in the Rockefeller scenario now properly passes the Senate · 🗳 Election UI now closes after personal participation · 📊 Fixed wrong data during worker amen…
Hi everyone! We often receive messages from you asking us to speed up development and release updates more frequently. Now it’s possible: we’ve launched a Patreon page . 🔧 Where the funds will go All contributions will be used to hire an additional programmer. This will allow us to speed up development and deliver updates more often. 🙏 Thank you for your support Thank you for staying with us…
Hello everyone! 👋 We’ve released an update with a number of fixes you reported earlier, and we’re continuing to work on the remaining issues. At the same time, we’re preparing the next major update — it will introduce presidential elections along with other changes to the political system. Thank you for your activity and support! Patch Notes 🛠️ Fixes · Fixed music playback issue on macOS . ·…
Improvements and balance: · The company's expansion has become more gradual and more costly. Also, each type of contractor is now more balanced and matches its profile. A reliable contractor builds more expensively, and sometimes longer, but without risk, an unknown contractor builds faster, cheaper, but with greater risk. · Added 45% machine translation to French (87% translated) Fixed: · Vari…
Hello everyone! Work on the game continues. In the near future we will release several hotfix updates, and begin work on the next update. And here is what awaits you in this update: Improvements: · New type of company - Media (mass media) · The economic model has been changed - Research in companies has been replaced by Advertising · Added "endless play" option after 1947 · Added history of vot…
Hello, seasoned and aspiring plutocrats! After a long pause, I'm ready—just as promised—to share the details of the upcoming update. We're now in the final stage before delivering it to you, and just a few days after we finish internal testing, you'll be able to download it. So, what awaits us in the new update: Endless Game Mode First, some good news for those who asked us to extend the game b…
Changes: Improvements: · Optimization and general improvement of game performance · In the settings, it is possible to disable animation in the game, for greater performance on computers with a low-power configuration · Changes have been made to the logic of managing subsidiaries to simplify their management. · Now, in order to influence anything in any subsidiary company, you do not necessaril…
Hello all plutocrats! We have added vertical integration to the game. I'll tell you what it is. A holding in the game is a supply-related company in which the owner has a controlling stake. Very often in your wishes I came across ideas about greater automation of various processes in the game, be it economics or politics. Therefore, it was decided to ease the role of the company owner and focus…
Changelog: Critical fixes: · Fixed a crash due to an error that occurred when North Dakota and South Dakota joined the United States in 1889. Other fixes: · Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the purchase of shares for a company if personal funds were not enough for at least 1 such share. · Fixed a bug where the time start button could be blocked for no reason. Stay tuned, Redwood Team.
Changelog: Critical fixes: · Fixed a crash during loading a save due to data inconsistencies in the character search filter. · Fixed a crash during loading a save due to the mistaken removal of a player character from the database. · Fixed a bug that prevented certain saves from being loaded from the main menu. We managed to fix most of the crashes related to loading saves. Now, in most cases,…
Changelog: Critical fixes: · Fixed a crash that occurred during a merger/acquisition of companies if negotiations were held shortly before to purchase shares of one or both of the merged companies. · Fixed a crash that occurred when switching to Statistics after mergers/acquisitions of companies (mostly banks). · Fixed a bug at the end of negotiations that caused the number of shares in the fin…
Greetings, Plutocrats! We have released an update for our much-loved game and want to briefly introduce you to its contents. Release notes: Main Features: · Favorite companies and characters Now companies and characters can be added to favorites. This will make it possible to quickly return to them without having to search for them by state. The favorites menu appears when you hover over a new…
Hello, Plutocrats! We haven't published diaries for a long time, so we decided to tell you what we're working on right now and share our plans for this autumn. So, first of all, we have completed work on several new interfaces, and have greatly simplified interaction with companies and characters. The next update of the game can be called focused on improving the navigation of the game. Adding…
New: 1. Notifications. A new option has been added to the management of the company - setting up notifications. Now you can filter the information that your managers will send you. This option will be especially convenient if you have a lot of small companies, and you do not want to receive information about various incidents in them, participate in shareholder votes, etc. Also, you can instruc…
List of changes: Critical fixes: · Crash after buying shares by another character. · Crash as a result of M&A of companies, or after bankruptcy. Other fixes: · A bug with your bank's reserves, which makes it possible to take out a lot of loans. · When returning from the credits table - an empty window. · Displaying negative amounts in Company Reserves during Expansion. · Inability to obtain a l…
List of changes: Greetings, Plutocrats! We have analyzed your feedback, and found it useful to implement the next several changes at once. Main Features: · A new mechanic and visual of the company expansion process. A new element of building process has been added - construction contractors, whose reputation and fame will now affect the completion of construction on time. By contacting unreliab…
List of changes: Minor features: · Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank or for a bank in the Central Bank can no longer be greater than the net assets of the borrower (now the amount of all existing loans is also taken into account). · Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank cannot exceed the current reserves of the lender bank. · Credits | The automatic receipt of a loan…
List of changes: Main feature: · Plutocratopedia is an in-game encyclopedia on the world and mechanics of Plutocracy. Minor features: · Added a clink of coins when confirming a share buyback. · Minor English localization update. Critical fixes: · Fixed a crash that occurred periodically when viewing the company's finances after the takeover. · Fixed a crash that periodically occurred when savin…
List of changes: · Merger | Removed the mistaken "empty" vote sometimes blocking mergers or acquisitions of companies. · Stock exchange | Fixed errors in sorting the stock exchange portfolio when holding shares of companies from 3+ states at the same time. · Elections | Fixed a bug where opponents of current politicians in elections receive negative renown during generation. · Auction | Removed…
Greetings, Plutocrats! We are in a hurry to please everyone with the long-awaited update! Not all of what we wanted will be included in it. Some features require more time for testing and debugging. Therefore, we will try in November and December to please you with a few more updates with features that we are testing right now. So, what has already been included in this update? · Starting setti…
List of changes: · System | Fixed a critical error that caused the game to not work on Mac systems. · Stock Exchange | Portfolio interface has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and now contains more useful information on transactions. · Finances | Fixed a bug due to which the expenses and income of the company from the buying and selling of shares of other companies were not displayed. ·…
List of changes: · System | Fixed a critical error that occurred periodically when loading a save during the game. · Character Menu | Added a comparison of the reputation of your character and opponent to the hint if it is impossible to start negotiations with a "Selective" character due to low reputation. · Information | Fixed a character menu bug when a list of possible deals with a character…
Main features: · Changing the developing technology. You can now change the technology another CEO is developing by using influence. The cost of influence depends on your Economy skill, the CEO's Economy skill, your share in the company and the CEO's loyalty. Ofcourse, the CEO must not be hostile in order to be influenced. · Updated context menu. The context menu of characters and companies has…
List of changes: · System | Fixed crash when running the game on Linux OC. · Finances | Fixed crash when opening the Finances tab after the takeover of companies, which occurred in some cases. · Banks | Fixed a bug when after a merger/takeover between two banks, the deposits of the new bank became equal to 0. · Scenario | Fixed a bug when banking companies were not generated in the scenario. ·…
Main features: · Added banking companies. · The credit system has been redesigned to bring banking companies into the game: - Companies will now take loans from banks, banks - from the Central Bank. - The payment per quarter now decreases over time according to the decrease in the balance of the loan. - Early repayment of part of the loan reduces further payments on it. · Added a new agent: Pro…
Greetings, Plutocrats! It's time to talk about how we are improving the game and what you will see in the upcoming update. We focused on the following vectors for the new update - these are banks, increasing the CEO’s role in the game world and new agents as well So let's get started. 1. Banks and the new credit system. As it was announced earlier, banks will appear in game, and in the upcoming…
List of changes: · Fixed a critical error during the election when one of the candidates was not found. · Fixed a critical error during loading when the controlling shareholder is not found. · Fixed a critical bug due to missing relationships between characters related to the use of old saves where relationships were broken. · Fixed a critical error that occurred during an attempt to display a…
List of changes: · Fixed a common crash when CEO of certain companies went bankrupt. · A new save system has been improved to support old saves made on earlier versions of the game. · Now the market share occupied by the company is counted in the progress of the task during the challenge mode only if you own >50% of the shares of this company. See you next year, Plutocrats!
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