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 unreliable contractors, you can save a lot of money on building new jobs, but you will get the risk of delays in deadlines, and sometimes even inability to fulfill what the contractor promised.
Contractor offers will be constantly updated - and you will be able to regularly find the best opportunities to expand your companies. Or, as before, transfer everything to the CEO, and deal with other issues.The banking system has received an update.
The banks' rates have been reduced to more realistic ones, and now you can offer the bank to reduce the rate up to the level of the Federal Bank's rate, however, be prepared to reduce the chance of the bank's consent. But, if successful, you will receive profitable bets that even competitors will envy!
Having your own bank, as before, will open up opportunities for you to finance your own companies at meager rates without seeking the approval of third-party banks. But, importantly, now you can finance your companies even outside of your bank's state.
Additional improvements:
Changing the frequency of voting and the mechanics of interaction.
Now it is not necessary to react to every vote on any trifles in each of your companies - you can ignore them without viewing notifications.Improved the selection of the starting state.
It has become possible to select a state directly on the widget map.
Balance:
- The voting frequency was balanced according to the wishes of the community and became lower.
- The interest rate for banks has been reduced to a more realistic one.
- The balance of companies' costs for workers has been corrected - now workers' costs will be a significant item, and wages will have a stronger impact on the company's net profit.
- The number of characters in the game has been optimized - there are more political shareholders in companies.
Fixed:
- Character naming failure in German Localization
- A Bug with 0% Ownership of a Company in a Merger
- The loss of Shares owned by the Company during the Merger
- Successful debt collection from a reluctant debtor repeated every quarter
- Fixed blocking of the vote change on the bill
- Gain Experience and Skills when all achievements are unlocked
- A bug when returning a loan in the bank's statistics
- Incorrect processing of application dates and unavailability of agents in the future
- Incorrect output in hints in Company Statistics for cooldown after voting
What are we preparing in the next updates?
We continue to work on Vertical Holdings feature - the next potentially major update. We are also developing a storyline campaign, which will tell the story of a shadow tycoon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In addition, we will add many fixes and improvements, considering the wishes and concerns of the community. For example, filter notifications and news from companies for convenience and filtering out unnecessary information.
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Once again, we express our gratitude to the active and caring members of our community on Steam and Discord, who report bugs and exploits found, as well as express their ideas and thoughts on development - we read and track everything, and always take constructive thoughts into account!
Of course, not all of your ideas will be implemented, because we are still working as a small team, but your feedback helps us better understand how to develop the Plutocracy further.
Special thanks to all those who seek to participate in translations into different languages, and also recommends Plutocracy in the reviews on the Steam page. This gives us the strength to develop the project further, until its full release!