Update 2026.08.23 — Dynasty & Quality-of-Life Overhaul

Hello, investors!

Since the August 17 patch, we’ve completed a major pass across controller support, Steam Cloud saves, business balance, hedge funds, multigenerational play, localization, and responsive presentation.

Here is the complete changelog.

Steam Cloud & Save Reliability

• “Keep This Device” can now resolve a save conflict while Steam Cloud is disabled or offline.

  • The local decision is stored durably, preventing autosaves, load screens, and save-slot cards from reopening the same conflict every month.

• Added defensive migration and repair for malformed settings, Hall records, relationship data, property records, and other legacy save structures.

Companies, Markets & Accounting

• A product starting at 10% visibility now reaches 50% in roughly 26 months at minimum budget, or about 18 months at twice the minimum.

  • The existing 5% monthly visibility cap remains unchanged.

  • The first-year demand penalty now fades smoothly from 50% to 100% over twelve months instead of ending at a sudden cliff.

• Live sales and dashboard forecasts now use the same marketing curves.

• The advertising row now forecasts time to 50% or 90% visibility and warns when visibility will fade, stall, or hold.

• Restored manual CEO strategy tabs for:

  • Film studios: Content Spend and Licensing Strategy

  • Telecoms: Service Investment and Subscriber Strategy

  • Consumer goods and retail: Supply Chain and Pricing Strategy

  • Fossil and renewable energy: Capital Expenditure and Dividend Policy

• Monthly income and expense history is now finalized after property, lifestyle, dividend, hedge-fund, and other late-month transactions have settled.

• History rows now include net cash flow and detailed income and expense breakdowns.

Hedge Funds

• Institutional funds that outperform beyond the $20B capacity ceiling no longer lose their LP population permanently.

• Closed funds now begin waitlist backfill from 50% of the previous month’s institutional redemptions. Performance, reputation, and appetite modifiers can increase this up to 100% of the capital that left.

• Anchor-exit and SEC-heat restrictions still prevent inflows where appropriate.

• Capacity is now shown clearly as “CLOSED TO NEW CAPITAL · CAPACITY” in the header, health line, and investor registry.

• The investor registry now includes every LP with live units instead of hiding holdings below 0.01% of AUM.

• GP contribution choices now include dynamic Half of Cash and All Cash options.

• The $1M minimum and once-per-month contribution limit remain in place.

Dynasty, Death & Succession

Inheritance

Heirs now correctly retain:

• Game mode, North Star goal, achieved tier, and permanent North Star bonus.

• Tutorial and starter-home choices.

• GDP, inflation, custom yacht and jet names, and permanently sold companies.

• Owned or rented residence state, purchased tiers, and penthouse decor/night selection.

• Nascent VC access, active investments, and batch calendar.

• Foundation name, completed research, active research, and banked Research Points.

• Rocket-company ownership and hibernation state.

• Sports-franchise ownership, roster, schedule, purchase history, and hired general manager.

Additional succession corrections:

• Taken-private CEO companies become sellable Private Holdings instead of hidden orphaned tickers.

• Personal CEO roles do not transfer to the heir.

• Player-managed rocket companies restore their 80-hour commitment; hired CEOs keep those hours free.

• Player-managed franchises restore their 160-hour commitment; hired GMs keep those hours free.

• Personal short positions close against the estate at the live liability exactly once.

• Temporary happiness effects, workplace injuries, and attendance-warning streaks reset with the deceased character.

• Residence downgrade proceeds are offered only for a genuinely owned home. Renters retain no phantom equity.

• Heir education is derived from the child’s real history: completed four-year degree, partial enrolled credit, two years for Community College, or no invented degree for children who went directly to work.

• A valid completed degree seeds grades and unlocks Office Manager and applicable graduate-school progression.

• Heir eligibility now uses the exact eighteenth birthday instead of only the birth year.

• Legacy children without a birth month retain the previous year-based behavior.

• Heir portraits advance at ages 30 and 60 across every race and sex.

• Native characters and heirs now share the same forced-retirement age of 76.

Estate tax and liquidation

• Estate liquidation estimates now match the cash actually received:

  • Large stock positions include whale-sale price impact.

  • Wineries and properties include mortgages and rounded 2% closing costs.

  • Low-density properties use the correct holding-period and market formula.

  • Private player companies subtract corporate debt.

  • Legacy sports franchises use the correct live fallback value.

  • Hedge-fund closures include liquidity, spreads, market impact, crystallized performance fees, and partner fee rights.

• Inherited Nascent VC stakes can be sold at cost through the early-exit path.

• Hedge-fund GP stakes receive an exact, side-effect-free orderly-close quote when immediate closure is possible.

New Multigenerational Relationships

• The founder retains the original 13-person dating cast.

• Generation 2 and later receive a new 16-person cohort with dedicated portraits:

  Noor, Rosa, Priya, Mei, Amara, Elena, Camille, Valentina, Theo, Dimitri, Kwame, Mateo, Elias, Andre, Finn, and Arjun.

• The new cohort is evenly split between eight women and eight men.

• Partners, ex-spouses, blacklisted candidates, and co-parents encountered by earlier generations are saved as dynasty exclusions.

• Descendants can no longer date age-reset versions of their parents or ancestors.

• Love Interests now includes an in-game dating-preference editor. Changes validate and autosave without ending an active relationship.

• Legacy “Disable Dating” choices remain respected, while affected heirs can opt back in.

• Modern Job Board employment now contributes the intended dating-event chance.

• Later-generation children inherit the heir’s correct lineage.

Quality-of-Life Pass

• The cash HUD turns red when the balance is negative.

• Navigation hotspots show a pointer cursor.

• All 95 job titles are translated at every render location.

• Character Creation’s tier preview changes correctly between Arcade and Margin Call.

• Options-chain buttons display the full order debit—premium × 100 × quantity—rather than the per-share premium.

• Hovering an option shows the exact cost.

• Successful fills and rejected orders now use distinct green and red status feedback on both trading screens.

Responsive Layout & Presentation

• Phones, computers, Jobs access, trophies, plaques, coat hangers, PA controls, wine bottles, and the VC book move clear of persistent HUD panels when necessary.

• Time Management artwork once again matches the exact 700×600 panel instead of expanding to 1100×900 around an unchanged menu.

• Company Creation now survives live desktop-to-handheld docking changes without losing its buttons, scroll state, or HUD restoration.

Thanks to everyone who reported controller, Cloud, company, hedge-fund, succession, and layout issues. Those reports directly shaped this update. Keep them coming—and good luck building the next generation of your empire.

• Dev Brothers