Mad Television Tycoon news & patch notes

__ EA2026-07-08A ________________________________________

■ Pirated copies now have a condition. The more often you send them, the worse their condition becomes.

■ You can now set an infinite amount of money in “Custom Game.”

■ The opening hours for the rooms are now displayed as tooltips in the elevator menu. ■ People now watch TV for longer periods of time on the weekend. As a result, viewership ratings are significantly higher late at night on the weekend.

■ Added a new random event. (Solar Storm)

■ The day is now displayed in the broadcast schedule.

■ (Movie tooltip) The rarity descriptions are now easier to read.

■ The hotkey is now displayed in the tooltips for game speed.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Shop items did not work on clients.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Animation speeds for walking animations were not transmitted correctly to clients.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The “Add All Items” button in the Waste Disposal section did not work for clients.

__ EA2026-06-03A / 18A ___________________________

■ You can now enter the store. Three items are already available for purchase.

■ (Marketing) A viewer poll can now be launched to find out what the next trend will be.

■ (Mod) The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have been added as film production countries.

■ To be eligible for an award for your own films, shows and series, the programme must now have been broadcast at least once.

■ (Broadcast schedule): You can now hide movies, TV series, and shows that are already in the schedule and rental films.

■ You can now filter films and TV series in the programme schedule by “all” age ratings.

■ (Film tooltip) You can now see the purchase price for live events, rental films, shows, pirated copies and production costs for in-house programmes.

■ (Advertisement tooltip) The required audience share, expressed as a percentage, is now calculated using the coverage area of the transmission masts and ‘satellites’.

■ Bug: (In-house production) If you selected a screenshot that was in the ‘USER’ folder, the ‘No Signal Screenshot’ was displayed.

■ Bug: If you had the rating menu for your own productions open and the day ended, the mouse controls stopped working.

■ Bug: The AI has only broadcast one episode of a multi-episode live event series.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The office update to reduce transmission tower costs did not work for clients.

■ Bug: If you wanted to hire a satellite but cancelled the action whilst it was still being prepared, the timer would still be displayed.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Waste disposal did not work for clients.

__ EA2026-05-21A/ 28A _____________________________________

■ The TV station’s special genre is now calculated only once at the start of each day. In addition, a message box appears when a new special genre is selected.

■ (Random events): Pirated video tapes may now contain a different movie than the one you purchased.

■ You can now hide pirated copies in the broadcast schedule.

■ If a show is outdated, it now displays 10% actuality instead of 100%.

■ Mod: If a screenshot of a movie cannot be loaded, a “No Signal” screenshot will appear on the TV.

■ Bug: In the custom game, you could mistakenly set the broadcast time to 25:00.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) In multiplayer, not all players left the room after two hours or when the room was closed.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) When a player left a room, it generated an unnecessary amount of network traffic.

■ Bug: If you chose a new destination while exiting the elevator, your character would be teleported.

■ Bug: News items could be sorted by the unused ‘Rating’ value.

■ Bug: The live event penalty icon was not shown transparently when no live event was airing.

__ EA2026-05-15 & 16A ________________________________________

■ Your TV station now has a thematic focus. For example, if you often air science fiction content, your station will be classified as a ‘Science Fiction Channel.’ You then receive a 10% audience bonus when broadcasting science fiction movies or series.

■ Penalties that are not currently active are now displayed transparently (right side of the screen).

■ You can now view the country’s preferred genres and current bonuses in the transmission tower menu and the location tooltip.

■ If you enabled automatic repeat for marketing campaigns, you will now receive a message about the costs on the left side of the screen.

■ Added 4 new random events.

■ Bug: If the elevator menu was open, you could no longer leave rooms with a right-click.

■ Bug: For some random events, no message box would appear, and they were also not sent to clients in multiplayer.

__ EA2026-05-12 & 13A ___________________________________

■ You can now choose screenshots from all other genres in the Film Studio. Note: In older save games, the wrong screenshot may sometimes be displayed.

■ (Mod) You can now add your own screenshots to the ‘USER’ folder for use in the Film Studio.

■ The AI now replaces low-recency series much more quickly.

■ Translation: (Spanish and French) Movie and series titles are now once again displayed in their original English.

■ Bug: The detective and the man with the bouquet should no longer enter rooms that are under renovation.

■ Bug: Sometimes, the AI was unable to buy new movies and series from the film market if the blue player’s archive was full.

■ Bug: Fixed several errors in the film database.

■ Bug: In the default game, reputation gain/loss was set to 0.0%.

■ Bug: (Translation) Some text in the News Office and Film Studio was always shown in English.

■ Bug: Even after purchasing the upgrade that reduces daily transmission tower costs, the Transmission Tower Office still showed the full price.

__ EA2026-05-11A ________________________________________

■ (Custom Game): Settings are now saved and automatically loaded when you start a new game.

■ Added 4 more ad spots for the endgame that require live events.

■ If teleshopping causes an audience penalty, the viewer count no longer drops to 0, but only to 500–1000.

■ Bug: If a player waited in front of a closed door and then entered the room, the door animation would not play.

■ Bug: If you paused and resumed the game at the start of the day using the Space key, the game speed would be set incorrectly.

■ Bug: (Broadcast schedule) If you added movies or commercials to the schedule, you had to right-click twice to close the menu.

■ Bug: The ‘No Teleshopping’ requirement for ad spots was not working.

■ Bug: In the standard game, recency regeneration was set to slow instead of normal.

__ EA2026-05-07A ________________________________________

■ (Film Studio) You can now choose a subgenre for movies and series.

■ If another TV station airs a pirated copy of a film whose original you own, the original’s actuality is now reduced as well.

■ Custom Game: When setting the number of transmission towers available at the start, small broadcasting stations are now unlocked first, and only then the large transmission towers.

■ News Office: If your archive is full and you try to place a news item into a news slot, a message box will now appear.

■ Mods: Movies and series can now be assigned a subgenre ("Subgenre": 0).

Notice: In older save games, movies you already own are shown with the subgenre ‘Action'.

■ Balance: Increased the chance of the detective appearing.

■ Bug: (News Office) If there was no space left in the archive, you could not move news items from the archive into a news slot.

__ EA2026-05-05A ________________________________________

■ Added ‘Very Hard’ as a new difficulty level.

■ Each country now has 5 favorite genres, and those 5 genres are shown in the game start menu.

■ Bug: Sometimes, the NPC would sell series that were still scheduled to air. As a result, they could end up getting very high ratings when those series were broadcast.

■ Bug: Review texts for self-produced movies and series were sometimes shown outside the UI.

__ EA2026-05-04A ________________________________________

■ Viewers reached by transmission towers now have different preferences.

■ The messages overview on the left side of the screen has been made slightly smaller so it no longer covers the random event icons.”

■ Bug: The elevator menu now closes automatically when you enter a room. This should prevent bugs such as teleporting characters or rooms being marked as occupied.

■ Bug: Sometimes, the timers for marketing, satellites, and film shoots would get stuck.

■ Bug: If the marketing office was under renovation, automatic marketing would not pause.

■ Bug: (News Office) Right-clicking a slot would remove the news item.

__ EA2026-04-30A ________________________________________

■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now hide movies, series, and shows that are not 100% actuality or have an age rating of 16 or 18.

■ If one TV station goes bankrupt, your ratings now increase by 20%. If two TV stations go bankrupt, your ratings increase by 50%.

■ When the detective enters the building, the piracy room is closed.

■ (Custom Game): You can now choose how many transmission towers are already purchased when starting the game.

■ (Custom Game): You can now disable the age restriction.

■ (Database/Mods): The cast database now includes a tag for disabling actors, directors, and presenters.

■ Bug: The bonus for cult movies was removed when the day changed.

■ Bug: You could place news items into the news slots even when there was no space left in the archive.

■ Bug: (Custom Game) Clicking ‘Default Settings’ set the reputation gain value to 0.

__ EA2026-04-26A ________________________________________

■ “Right-clicking the elevator now opens the elevator menu.

■ You can now right-click news items to automatically place them into a slot.

■ (Office->Statistics) You can now see the broadcast statistics of rival TV stations.

■ You can now adjust the reputation gain/loss value again in the in-game options, since this value was set to 0 in older save games.

■ You can now disable the pause animation in the options.

■ Balance: (Series) Rerun ratings increased.

■ Bug: “If you repeated the last episode of a series, the episode numbering in the schedule was displayed incorrectly.

■ Bug: If you reran the second-to-last episode of a series, its actuality was incorrectly reduced to 10%.

■ Bug: The review menu for in-house productions always displayed an overall rating of just 1.5 stars.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) If renovations were disabled in the game options, the porter would still tell the client which room was being renovated.

■ Bug: Several bugs in the film database have been fixed.

__ EA2026-04-24A ________________________________________

■ You can now buy up to 10 small broadcasting stations in addition to transmission towers, allowing you to expand your reach more quickly.

■ Bug: If the AI went bankrupt, all of its movies remained in the archive and therefore did not reappear on the film market.

__ EA2026-04-23A ________________________________________

■ An episode of a series can now be repeated.

■ The audience bonus for news and live events now decreases every minute. The rate at which it declines depends on the film’s potential and actuality.

■ The streaming license can no longer be purchased until the feature has been implemented in the game.

■ Bug: The detective walked into the locked rooms of TV stations that were already bankrupt.

__ EA2026-04-22A ________________________________________

■ The detective no longer arrives at the beginning of the day, but rather during the course of the day.

■ (Custom game) You can now adjust the game speed.

■ (Custom game) You can now set it so that there is no reputation gain.

■ (Languages) Polish have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.

■ Live events can now be sorted by "Required Level".

■ Advertisements can now be sorted by "Prestige".

■ Bug: Sometimes the characters would walk backwards when the game speed was set to maximum.

■ Bug: The client was able to change the "Gamespeed (Multiplayer)" setting in the lobby.

■ Bug: The game settings overview displayed an incorrect value for reputation gain.

__ EA2026-04-21A ________________________________________

■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now lock all programs in tomorrow’s schedule to automatically carry them over to the following day.

■ (Commercials) You now also lose prestige with advertising partners if you go too long without airing a commercial or let a contract expire unsuccessfully.

■ (Custom game) The actual end broadcast time is now displayed.

■ (Marketing) When automatic repetition is enabled for marketing, there is no longer a delay.

■ Bug: If you deleted or added your own production to your inventory immediately after it aired, the broadcast schedule has been changed.

■ Bug: If you have enabled automatic repetition for marketing, a new marketing campaign will start, during which the marketing office will be renovated.

■ Bug: If the detective left a room, it was marked as "unoccupied" even if a player was still in the room.

■ Bug: Heart icons were also displayed for short programs.

__ EA2026-04-19A ________________________________________

■ You can now earn prestige with advertising partners. Each level increases your compensation by 5%.

■ (Waste Disposal) There is now a button to move all items from your inventory to waste disposal.

■ (Languages) Traditional Chinese have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.

■ Bug: The same premium movies should no longer keep appearing all the time.

■ Bug: (News Market) News items were not correctly sorted by actuality.

■ Bug: The genre filters did not display the ‘Music Show’ and ‘Talent Show’ options.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) If the host loaded a save game, the TV channel names were not shown in the player selection menu.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Sometimes, the player selection menu incorrectly showed that the selected player was already assigned.

__ EA2026-04-18A ________________________________________

■ News items are now automatically moved to the archive when you add them to your news feed.

■ You can now move the news directly from the archive into the news slots.

■ Your character now waits in front of closed rooms and automatically enters them once they open.

■ Your character now automatically leaves a room when it closes.

■ Satellites now take different amounts of time to become active.

■ Bug: Short-term ads had several days to be completed successfully.

■ Bug: The news penalty for the NPC was calculated incorrectly, so they always got better ratings with news in the late-night slot than the player.

■ Bug: You could buy news items twice if you had already added them to your news feed.

■ Bug: Once you left the film studio by right-clicking, mouse inputs were no longer processed.

■ Bug: If you had a very large amount of money, the full amount wasn't displayed in the UI.

■ Bug: You couldn't close the submenus in the film studio by right-clicking.

__ EA2026-04-17A ________________________________________

■ Marketing campaigns now take varying lengths of time to become active.

■ After 2 hours, the player character automatically leaves the room.

■ The AI should now behave more intelligently when dealing with news programs.

■ Bug: Short-term advertising contracts only came up when the advertising agency was undergoing renovations.

■ Bug: When you enter the name of your news program, you can still pause the game by pressing the space bar.

■ Bug: If you entered text in the text fields, you could no longer press the space bar to pause the game.

■ Bug: Once you opened the lift menu, you could no longer pause the game using the space bar.

__ EA2026-04-16A ________________________________________

■ Series, shows and news programmes broadcast at the same time as the previous day now attract 10% more viewers.

■ Series now offer a 10% bonus at the start and end of the series. In the schedule, this is indicated by a star next to the name.

■ News items now have varying levels of actuality and prices. When the day changes, they are no longer automatically set to 50% actuality.

■ You can now move your character by holding down the left mouse button.

■ (Languages) Turkish and Portuguese (Brazil) have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.

■ Bug: If you removed a film from the archive before the advert had finished playing, the advert was counted as a failure.

■ Bug: The tooltip for the elevator entrance in the basement was always displayed in English.

■ Bug: For news items published during the course of the day, the actuality has been calculated incorrectly.

■ Bug: If you added a film to the broadcast schedule by right-clicking, the space bar would no longer work to pause the game.

■ Bug: (Schedule menu) Fixed some display errors in the help menu.

■ Bug: If you chose a random name for your own shows, there was a space at the start of the name.

__ EA2026-04-15A ________________________________________

■ Performance has been significantly improved.

■ (Languages) French, Spanish and Russian have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.

■ Marketing and satellites are activated at the start of the hour, not in the middle of the hour.

■ In ‘Custom Game’, you can now enable the ‘Dynamic Ad Deals’ option. This makes the rewards from the ad deals more random.

■ The player character's walking speed has been increased.

■ All news slots are now unlocked at the start of the game.

■ Films that have been sold (and are less than 100% actuality) should no longer appear in the film market the following day.

__ EA2026-04-14A ________________________________________

■ There is now a “Continue” button in the main menu to load the latest save game.

■ If a room is occupied, your character will wait until it becomes available again and then automatically enter the room.

■ The bonus for news and live events is now tied to the difficulty level.

■ (Options) Buttons have been added to instantly set all graphics settings to a specific quality level.

■ Bug: NPCs were able to level up even though they had already been eliminated.

■ Bug: If you disabled an NPC at the start of the game, two crosses were displayed next to their TV name.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Random events were not terminated on the client.

__ EA2026-04-13A ________________________________________

■ Cloud Save Games are now available.

■ (Broadcast schedule) Small star icons are now displayed to indicate the suitability of broadcast types and genres.

■ In the options (Gameplay), you can now disable notifications for unavailable rooms.

■ Bug: It should no longer happen that movies, advertisements, etc., refer to another item in the archive.

■ Bug: Fixed some errors in the reputation calculation.

■ Bug: Sometimes a room update that you purchased was reset.

■ Bug: Sometimes the license for premium movies was unlocked without actually purchasing them. As a result, it was no longer possible to unlock the movie studio.

■ Bug: (Film studio) The icons for male and female were incorrect.

■ Bug: (TV tooltip) If news programs from another TV station were displayed, the actuality of the player's news program was shown.

■ Bug: (TV Family) Sometimes the teenager and the child sat in the same spot.

■ Bug: (Database) The movie “2002: A Galaxy Odyssey” was listed twice in the database.

__ EA2026-04-12A ________________________________________

■ In “Custom Game,” you can now set the amount of money to 5 or 10 million.

■ Mods: The “DATABASE” and ‘GMPL’ folders now contain a “MODS” subfolder for storing modified files.

■ An icon will now appear above the TV if you don't have enough viewers to successfully complete the ad.

■ Balance: On the pirated market, there are now only movies with a maximum rating of 8.0.

■ Bug: (Movies, Cast) Fixed some errors in the database.

■ Bug: (NPCs) Purchasing licenses did not work properly.

■ Bug: (State Media Authority) The game always displayed the blue player's level instead of the player's own.

__ EA2026-04-11A ________________________________________

■ You can now use the WASD keys to look around a bit.

■ Depending on the difficulty level, your starting credit is now 0, 100,000, or 200,000.

■ You can now disable the detective in “Custom Game.”

■ When you load a multiplayer save file, a menu will now appear where you can select your player.

■ Balance: The number of viewers for the “Easy” difficulty level is now slightly higher.

■ Bug: Once the awards appeared and you closed the menu, you could no longer adjust the game speed using the keyboard.

■ Bug: (Movies) Fixed some errors in the database.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The number of commercials aired was not correctly reflected in the broadcast schedule.

Hotfix: EA2026-04-10A

■ A message box no longer appears when you want to delete all messages.

■ Bug: The random events that influence license fees (State Media Authority) have not worked.

■ Bug: The elevator should no longer teleport when you pause the game.

■ Bug: You were able to obtain several pirated copies of a movie.

■ Bug: No images were shown on TV during live events.

■ Bug: The input should no longer freeze when you try to delete all messages.

■ Bug: (Advertising agency) Some text in the Help menu was displayed only in German.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The daily license costs were not displayed in the Finance tooltip for clients.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) You couldn't send money to clients.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) You couldn't produce your own movies and shows in multiplayer.

■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Clients were unable to purchase licenses from the State Media Authority.