Economy Update is Live in the Demo!

Hi Everyone,

We've been hard at work building & testing the new economy system, and we're ready to show it off in the demo. The update should be live now. Major changes with the economy system:

• Lobby button is gone as is expand industry button; replaced with income that scales with tension

• Politics screen allows the player to split income between 4 priorities

• Can more easily create long-term production programs and pay for arms deals over time

Here's a list of the updates up to the current version:

• V0.9.0

  • New Economy System

    • Income split between 4 priorities

    • Lobby button removed

    • Added option to pay over time to enable larger purchases

    • Can increase diplomatic funding for more envoys

  • Removed expiry timer from envoys

  • Increase concurrent arms deal limit from 3 to 6

• V0.9.1

  • Continued balance fixes

  • Created a hard break with saves from old versions to avoid errors

  • Fixed a bug with arms deals delivering too early

  • Fixed a bug with negative income displaying as positive

  • Prevented the player from signing new arms deals if treasury is negative

  • Many backend stability fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing vehicle-to-vehicle combat to be less lethal than it should be

• V0.9.2

  • Updated errors in Israeli IFV data

  • Rebalanced tank hard attack & armor to better match real world counterparts

  • Made low readiness less punishing. Still matters, but won't completely disable a unit

  • Added a display that shows missing equipment on the stats screen

  • Shrank installer size for convenience

  • Made less-capable aircraft more likely to be shot down than advanced aircraft

  • Fixed a bug related to CAS aircraft being too powerful against fighters in certain cases

  • Increased penalties for fully losing a sector

The plan is to keep refining this system ahead of full release, and get everything else polished and ready. Enjoy!