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MarginCallNews02/09/2026 - Update Notes
Game update

02/09/2026 - Update Notes

MarginCall · published 2 Sep 2026, 19:55 UTC

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Performance

- Fixed a progressive slowdown that set in after roughly nine in-game months, on both fresh and loaded games.
- Fixed an additional, slower slowdown that crept in over one to two in-game years of continuous play.
- Removed the one to two second freeze that could hit at the end of each in-game month on larger save files.
- The monthly autosave now writes in the background, so the game keeps running smoothly instead of pausing to save.
- Greatly reduced the ongoing cost of corporate bond pricing, credit ratings, and net worth updates on long-running games.
- Account margin is now checked once per tick for the whole portfolio instead of being recomputed for every listed company.
- Saving and backup rotation are faster and no longer re-read the entire save file to verify it.

Economy and Balance

- The combined number of AI companies and hedge funds is now capped at 200 so the market no longer balloons to extreme sizes over a long game.
- Games already above that size are left intact and simply stop adding new companies rather than removing any.

Fixes and Polish

- Corporate bonds are now charted per issuer, matching how they are traded and listed everywhere else in the game.
- Market indices no longer count companies that have been taken private.
- Companies taken private no longer generate options volatility updates or insider-trading rumours.
- Fixed the corporate bond details line on the trading chart header, which could appear blank.
- You can now inject your own cash as capital into companies you control (50%+), funding their treasury instead of just buying more shares, and Take Dividend now pays a real dividend from the company's cash.

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