Plutocracy news & patch notes

Interim Technical Update

Hello everyone!

This is an interim technical update, released while we continue preparing the previously announced large update focused on politics and presidential elections.

The current update introduces changes to the effect of advertising for companies. The amount of advertising purchased now directly affects demand for goods and services for all companies. At the same time, the price of advertising relative to its effectiveness increases non-linearly.

In addition, this update fixes many issues found by the community over the past couple of months and includes performance improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where company shares could sometimes not be purchased

• Fixed a bug where company accident risk became 0%

• Fixed a false message requiring an office or player presence when the office had already been purchased in the state

• Fixed incorrect display of the player’s share count in the ambition to buy company shares

• Fixed incorrect profit values and text in the voting form when changing advertising funding levels

• Fixed missing minimum salary limit in CEO initiative voting to reduce salaries (effectively could reach 0)

• Fixed cases where an empty law window appeared

• Fixed an issue where companies disappeared from Favorites when switching between characters and companies

• Fixed incorrect path arrows in the Statistics section pointing to a gear icon instead of income

• Fixed an issue where displayed company profit exceeded its income

• Fixed an issue with zero kompromat power shown in blackmail text

• Fixed cases where blackmail demanded 0% of company shares

• Fixed negative CEO salary values

• Fixed incorrect changes in workforce numbers during construction accidents

• Fixed various crashes

Balance

• Changed the formula for calculating advertising costs and advertising effectiveness for companies

• Fixed trust mechanics: being the CEO of the owning company is no longer required if the company is not owned directly by the player

• Player-owned companies are now taken into account when calculating ownership percentage for cartel formation

Other Improvements and Fixes

• “Monopoly Fine” moved to the Taxes and Fines category

• Minor visual improvements in the Holding window

• Added more detailed statistics for bank loans in the Finance window

• Fixed income text in the Anti-Monopoly Law describing when a company receives a fine

• Restored the ability to withdraw from registration in Congressional elections

• Added 100% complete translations for French, Spanish, German, and Chinese

• Performance optimizations

What We’re Working On

Right now, we continue working on a large politics update. It will include party primaries, presidential elections, and the addition of new positions such as Vice President, Secretary of State, and Cabinet members.

Each of these positions will be interactive. You will be able to contribute to their appointment and removal, and each of them will affect the economy in the late stage of the game.

This is a significant update and it takes all of our time and effort, but we are trying to deliver it as soon as possible.

Next week, we will try to slightly lift the veil and share which direction we have chosen and what exactly you will see in this update.

Thank you for staying with us and supporting us. Until the next good news!

— Redwood Team

⚜️ 

⚖️ Fixes

• 🕵️ Character table filter issues corrected

• ⚖️ Antitrust Act in the Rockefeller scenario now properly passes the Senate

• 🗳 Election UI now closes after personal participation

• 📊 Fixed wrong data during worker amendment votes

• ✊ Companies now pay employees after strikes

• 💰 Correct dividend display in corporate structure

• 🧾 Initiated laws now load correctly with save files

• 💥 Fixed crashes during company mergers

• 📉 Stable stock prices after loading — no more phantom gains or losses

• 👔 Hiring a new CEO now opens the proper voting screen

• 📰 Newspapers continue to publish after media mergers

• 🏦 Central Bank loans can be taken again under valid conditions

• ✍️ Edited character names without surnames now save properly

• 🗞 Newspaper editing available again under indirect ownership

• 💼 Large-reserve companies can now trade on the stock exchange

• ⚠️ Negotiations can no longer start with a negative stock price

🗳️ Coming Next Update

• 🇺🇸 Presidential Elections

• 🐘 Primaries & Caucuses

• 🖋 Presidential Veto Power

• ⚖️ Impeachment Proceedings

💼 In Development also

• 🤝 Founding new companies in partnership with loyal characters

💬 Message from the Team

Hi everyone! We often receive messages from you asking us to speed up development and release updates more frequently. Now it’s possible: we’ve launched a Patreon page.

🔧 Where the funds will go

🙏 Thank you for your support

Hello everyone! 👋 We’ve released an update with a number of fixes you reported earlier, and we’re continuing to work on the remaining issues. At the same time, we’re preparing the next major update — it will introduce presidential elections along with other changes to the political system.

Thank you for your activity and support!

Patch Notes

🛠️ Fixes

• Fixed music playback issue on macOS.

• Automatic expansion in old saves now works correctly.

• Resolved crash caused by cross-ownership during company takeovers.

• Puppet politicians now correctly appear in the controlled politicians counter in parliament chambers.

• Fixed bug with the Broker agent that occurred after restarting the game.

• Fixed layout issues with long company names on the stock exchange.

• Resolved hover sticking on the first row in the shareholders table.

• Required balance value now correctly displayed in the profit tooltip on the main panel.

• Added message when a bank loan cannot be issued.

• Fixed incorrect display of the first Capitol elections in Montana and New Mexico.

• Corrected purchase percentage display for holding companies.

• Fixed linking arrows from Advertising in the Banks Statistics window.

• Various crash fixes.

🎨 UI Improvements

• Improved number input fields on the stock exchange and in share issuance windows.

🚧 Work in Progress

• Presidential elections.

• Political system updates.

• Ability to create a new company in partnership with loyal characters.

Improvements and balance:

• The company's expansion has become more gradual and more costly. Also, each type of contractor is now more balanced and matches its profile. A reliable contractor builds more expensively, and sometimes longer, but without risk, an unknown contractor builds faster, cheaper, but with greater risk.

• Added 45% machine translation to French (87% translated)

Fixed:

• Various kinds of crashes

• Error in quarter transition between Q4 1958 and Q1 1959

• There was no way to filter people by those who wanted to buy weapons and cars

• The cartel did not take into account the market share and did not accrue a price bonus when adding the cartel to the Holding as a supplier

• "My transport companies are not taken into account under any circumstances after merger and joining to trust and cartel. Their weight in city and country is zero." Corrected, same as cartel.

• The payroll fund was not updated immediately after the company's expansion

• The relationship from Production Volume to Demand was not displayed in the Company Economy window

• Media company icon missing from ambition

• Missing text in tooltip for some agents when blocking

• Some types of companies were not displayed as suppliers in the Holding

• Sandbox Settings | Endless Mode setting added to game end date

• Sandbox Settings | Media Company added to Starter Company selection

• "You cannot take loans from loyal individuals, even if you have positive net worth or net worth and cash flow that make it eligible" - added a hint that reputation must be above 0 to take out a loan.

The rest of the bugs that you report, we will continue to fix, and they will be included in the next patches.

Thank you for your activity and involvement!

Hello everyone!

Work on the game continues. In the near future we will release several hotfix updates, and begin work on the next update. And here is what awaits you in this update:

Improvements:

• New type of company - Media (mass media)

• The economic model has been changed - Research in companies has been replaced by Advertising

• Added "endless play" option after 1947

• Added history of voting on laws in parliament

• Added filter to stop time by desired event

• Added a filter to hide reorganized companies on the stock exchange

• Optimization of loading windows and saving

Critical errors:

• Crash when closing the game during loading

• Some other crashes

Other errors:

• No image of new prosecutor immediately after election

• After the strike ends, production volumes do not recover

• The Player's influence from puppet characters is not updated after they are dismissed

• Bugs in company bankruptcy

• Incorrect calculation of the company's market share in finance

• Same company names when trust is dissolved

• Agents' dossier corrected

• Corrected the date of US Senator elections when new states join

• "Election window has a spelling error. Loser is incorrectly spelled Looser."

• "The Market cap and Cashflow views in companies finances doesn't show actual data for those categories about company, it just keeps showing balance no matter what is selected." 

• "Letter sent has wrong grammar when opponent reached $1 million."

Announcement

The next update in line will be dedicated to the political part of the game - presidential elections. Currently, the game has a parliament, laws, key state officials, but there is no president who can veto any federal law and form the executive power in the country. Without him, the US political system looks incomplete.

Join the discussion about what the president should do in the game and how he should influence the gameplay.

It will be interesting to read your vision and expectations from the next update, as well as to learn your opinion on the new type of companies - media. What could be improved or added?

Thank you all for your support!

Adding new updates to the greatly expanded functionality of the game often becomes an unpredictable task with many variables. Changes in one place entail refactoring in many other related parts. And sometimes it forces us to roll back and start literally from scratch...

Thank you for the greatest patience and understanding!

We continue our journey towards the full release of Plutocracy together with you!

Your support, as always, is our guiding light!

Until next time!

Endless Game Mode

Media

Advertising as a New Lever

Integration with Holdings

Changes:

Improvements:

• Optimization and general improvement of game performance
• In the settings, it is possible to disable animation in the game, for greater performance on computers with a low-power configuration
• Changes have been made to the logic of managing subsidiaries to simplify their management.
• Now, in order to influence anything in any subsidiary company, you do not necessarily need to be the CEO of this company, and even be the CEO of the parent company.

Critical errors:

• Crash associated with negative production
• Crash after an attempt to create a trust in the coal industry
• Crash when closing an application from a gaming session
• Other crashes
• Fixed a bug where the number of characters grew over time, which led to significant game slowdowns

Other errors:

• Error reducing the new share of the owner of the company after the takeover of another company (new shares were issued on the stock exchange during the takeover)
• The share release button is blocked after cooldown
• The icon for using the pianist agent does not appear or disappear on time
• Cannot provoke a strike again after the agent cooldown
• Incorrect figures when paying interest on a loan
• Inability to borrow from loyal characters due to lack of money of their own
• NaN in loans, and stock exchange line in the list of shareholders
• The history of repayment of issued loans disappeared from the company’s finances during bank bankruptcy
• Minor edits to layout and texts
• “Characters who were issued loans and went bankrupt are stuck in the notebook; they cannot be deleted, but “???” is shown instead. “

Announcement

Changelog:

Critical fixes:

• Fixed a crash due to an error that occurred when North Dakota and South Dakota joined the United States in 1889.

Other fixes:

• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the purchase of shares for a company if personal funds were not enough for at least 1 such share.
• Fixed a bug where the time start button could be blocked for no reason.

Changelog:

Critical fixes:

• Fixed a crash during loading a save due to data inconsistencies in the character search filter.
• Fixed a crash during loading a save due to the mistaken removal of a player character from the database.
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain saves from being loaded from the main menu.

Changelog:

Critical fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred during a merger/acquisition of companies if negotiations were held shortly before to purchase shares of one or both of the merged companies.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching to Statistics after mergers/acquisitions of companies (mostly banks).
• Fixed a bug at the end of negotiations that caused the number of shares in the final agreement to change to the one that was selected at the beginning.

Other fixes:

• A missed hint has been added to the Characters tab when it is blocked.
• Long company names no longer crawl under/on the other contents of their cards.
• The "Add to Favorites" button in the Character strings menu is now working correctly.
• Has been removed the mistakenly added cancel button, which in fact did not perform any functions.
• A few minor cosmetic fixes and improvements.

Release notes:

Main Features:

• Favorite companies and characters

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/49bfdbdaef882c7d1547add849f1ea8931426d57.jpg Now companies and characters can be added to favorites. This will make it possible to quickly return to them without having to search for them by state. The favorites menu appears when you hover over a new shortcut on the left side of the screen. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/0b7366d65bd32d54d404ffcfb22a8f0d63f61b40.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/1a13394d848721c4bffb9211eea45ea24a0b2da2.jpg You can interact with characters and companies using the menu, as in other windows. You can also quickly go to the information about the character or to the company window by clicking on the desired line. Now you will not lose the very shareholder who was recently ready to sell a huge stake in a promising company for a song, but you did not have enough funds.

• List of player's companies

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/8009146f6950644ae3beb177e53bd8858b4bc95a.jpg Buttons have been added to the company window that allow you to switch between all your companies. A list of all your companies has also been added to quickly navigate to the one you need. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/f7dfd0684e87e119df6b24bb63a4bb3016574501.jpg This list, as well as the structure of companies, will simplify navigation through your financial empire.

• Company structure

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/e002b25c38f9c80df1293a73928f0a880e94032b.png A new button on the main panel leads to a new window that allows you to view all the connections of the companies that you own. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/23e593b745fac4ed21b2f45920507e3e1fc8cd5a.png Here you can also visually see the financial flows between your companies and quickly switch to one of them if desired. This interface is just the basis for vertical holdings, which will be released later this year, and so far it no longer has any functionality.

• In-game feedback form

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/59cc64cd73bfba76f75d7cbd10484417f41d48c1.png The form will allow you to report an error at any time without leaving the game and attach a screenshot of the current screen and/or save the game to it, according to your choice. Or just send a suggestion to improve the game, why not? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/9ca84742f54910b924afbc9d352a506c9bea5983.png Please note that submitting the form requires an Internet connection, and the time to send the save strongly depends on the speed of your connection and consumes some traffic.

Minor Features:

• Dynamic loading screens

  Added a change of background images for long downloads. Also, the images are now animated.

Balance and polishing:

• Subsidiaries purchased by the company headed by the player are now accounted for in the controlled market share, and therefore in the goals of the scenario and achievements.
• The calculation of the package price and margin of available shares in the portfolio on the stock exchange has been changed. Now they are determined only for existing shares, and not for the entire history of purchases of shares of the same company, which caused confusion.
• Improved smooth appearance and hiding of all windows.
• Slight performance improvement due to optimization of calculating the totals of each day
• The limit of bank loans is no longer limited to the amount of $2.2 billion.
• The possibility to enter the number of shares in negotiations has been returned. The number of shares before negotiations can now be selected manually again. We have returned this feature at your request.

Critical fixes:

• Fixed the possible disappearance of companies after the merger in any way.
• Fixed a bug where learned skills were saved when loading a previous save made before they were actually learned.
• Fixed a random crash that occurred when you were in the state window.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when stopping a strike with the help of a Pianist.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred during the merger of companies.

Other fixes:

• Unexplained layoffs of workers have been fixed.
• Fixed erroneous occurrence of the “Accident” and “Strike” events if the player's share was less than the controlling stake or the player was the CEO of the company.
• Fixed the error of the appearance of a negative transaction amount and the number of shares before negotiations.
• Fixed the possibility of the current influence falling below 0.
• Fixed accidental appearance of confirmation/cancellation buttons for changing the number of workers in Company Statistics.
• Fixed the ability to apply a Lobbyist without the necessary amount of influence.
• Fixed accidental restores of hostile characters' loyalty after loading a save.
• Fixed a bug due to which the Central Bank guaranteed to refuse loans to banks after downloading the save.
• Fixed resetting Stock Exchange filters and searching for characters after loading the save. Various cosmetic fixes.
• Fixed overflow of integers when calculating the maximum bet in a racetrack event.
• If the save is loaded unsuccessfully, the main menu buttons will no longer become non-clickable.
• Fixed phantom loans that are mistakenly counted in the Statistics of the borrower companies after the bankruptcy of the lender company.
• Fixed an error in the voting history in which the previous value of the company parameter discussed at the vote was not displayed.
• The repeated payment of severance pay upon the CEO's dismissal without confirmation is excluded.
• Slightly improved compatibility of “old” saves with a newer version of the game.
• Fixed the operation of the F1-F8 (hotkeys for the buttons of the main panel).
• Fixed character display errors in some emails.
• Fixed a bug that blocks the use of compromising material on a character.
• The progress in the “Buy Shares” ambition is now being updated correctly.
• The history of transactions on the stock exchange is now displayed correctly for bankrupt companies.
• Various minor cosmetic changes and fixes

Adding to favorites.

The structure of companies.

Plans for future updates for 2024.

• Holdings.

  And the first of them is, of course, the Holding module, part of which has already been implemented in the form of an interface of the Company Structure, is now being tested, and will enter the game in the next update, as mentioned above. We plan to make an update with the Holdings approximately in late September-early October to expand the possibilities in the late game.

• Presidential elections.

  An equally interesting update, which we would like to make before the end of 2024, will be the update of the political part of the game. We will add the presidential race to the game! At the moment, you can participate in the elections of governors, congressmen, members of state Legislatures, etc. in the game, but not the president of the United States! Bribery of voters, manipulation in the media, murder of candidates… Or a fair fight? Issues relevant to 19th century America! Or not only the 19th century?... Each player will have to decide for himself who and how to bring to the Presidency, using his influence and money. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/b02b863e2ed6a91790a6e107229a5810013b8474.jpg At the moment, I can only share what has been precisely decided to be implemented - a system for nominating candidates from parties, a mechanism for pre-election candidates, as well as a modern voting system based on indirect elections of the President of the United States through the electoral college will be introduced. In addition to the elections themselves, the system of removing the president before the end of his term - impeachment - will also be worked out. The question still remains for us, what should we as players receive as a bonus for winning the presidential race? Just the ability to veto the laws of the US Congress? Or something else? Share your ideas and suggestions on our Discord channel https://discord.gg/NHRUQ8Eg or Steam Discussions, we will definitely take this into account during development.

• Enhancing lobbying and the role of politicians.

  In addition to developing a presidential campaign, we would like to improve the political part of the game and make it more dependent on the actions of Plutocrats. Therefore, we also have plans to improve the laws. You can also take part in the development and suggest your ideas on the development and improvement of the political system (and not only).

New:

1. Notifications.

2. Optimization of saves

3. Added Polish localization.

4. Minor improvements:

• The number of new workplaces in buildings for developers may now vary.
• An indication of the number of new workplaces that the new building will provide has been added.
• Some changes have been added to the mergers and acquisitions window.
• The amount of share repurchase is now limited to the company's net assets and reserves.

Fixed:

1. Critical fixes:

• Crash after bank takeover.
• Crash after receiving an investigation report and failure when attempting to pay a bribe (accident).
• Crash when refusing to sell shares after a character's offer.

2. Other fixes:

• Incorrect display in the stock exchange window with a large number of company statuses.
• Incorrect display of the difference in the company's Shares tab on the stock exchange.
• Incorrect display of the chance of winning elections for some politicians when sponsoring.
• The company went bankrupt after uploading a save file.
• Fixed the ability to set a zero salary for workers.
• Fixed the ability to use a Broker's agent on companies that are not on the stock exchange.

3. Balance:

• The construction balance has been changed.
• Added a time limit for sending a repeated loan application.

List of changes:

Critical fixes:

• Crash after buying shares by another character.
• Crash as a result of M&A of companies, or after bankruptcy.

Other fixes:

• A bug with your bank's reserves, which makes it possible to take out a lot of loans.
• When returning from the credits table - an empty window.
• Displaying negative amounts in Company Reserves during Expansion.
• Inability to obtain a loan for your company from a bank whose shares belong to another company of yours.
• Corrected the name of the state of South Dakota.
• Company finances no longer display the company's global market share.
• The Merger of Companies does not correctly take into account the difference in Capitalization and Share Prices of the merged Companies.
• Images disappeared when opening the company window.
• Incorrect opening of a company from the company table.
• The Tutorial button disappears after loading a savegame.
• Incorrect Icon in Share Transaction for Bank.
• The hair color is named "Gray eyes" instead of "Gray hair" during character creation.

Minor improvements:

• Indication of the share of shares of the parent company in a subsidiary bank when taking out a loan.

List of changes:

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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/086a932df3ce24c4b51d8c5fe992f235490c25ff.png 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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/501864a0b4e2f8887f5a0d2d3cf2af75c95eae30.png 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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31510884/20c9fe4821f368c566e584774e6471f48cb7920a.png

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?

List of changes:

Minor features:

• Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank or for a bank in the Central Bank can no longer be greater than the net assets of the borrower (now the amount of all existing loans is also taken into account).
• Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank cannot exceed the current reserves of the lender bank.
• Credits | The automatic receipt of a loan from the Central Bank to a bank has been removed when other companies take out a loan from this bank. In return, the loan is now issued from the bank's reserves and all loan repayment payments also belong to the bank.
• Credits | If the bank refuses the loan to the company, this bank is excluded from the list of available banks for 100 days for this company. After the expiration of the moratorium, the bank returns back to the list of possible creditors of the company.
• Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy of characters and companies can now occur only after a quarter change, when payments on bills occur. Bankruptcies in the middle or end of the quarter should no longer happen.

Critical fixes:

• Pianist | Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when using the agent.

Other fixes:

• Influence | Fixed an error in the influence dynamics graph, which caused incorrect influence dynamics to be shown for a period of more than 3 previous quarters.
• Minor cosmetic changes.

List of changes:

Main feature:

• Plutocratopedia is an in-game encyclopedia on the world and mechanics of Plutocracy.

Minor features:

• Added a clink of coins when confirming a share buyback.
• Minor English localization update.

Critical fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred periodically when viewing the company's finances after the takeover.
• Fixed a crash that periodically occurred when saving game after the bankruptcy of completely loyal characters.
• Fixed a crash that periodically occurred when registering candidates for elections.

Other fixes:

• General | Fixed looping playback of only the first music track in the game.
• General | Fixed a bug that caused the icon of temporary blocking of negotiations to not be displayed on the investor's portrait after fulfilling the ambition to “Buy shares” of the character
• Achievements | "Plutocrat" | Fixed a bug tracking the status of a character in the progress of an achievement.
• Ambitions | "Get a loan" | Fixed an error checking for the feasibility of an ambition when changing quarters.
• Elections | Fixed a bug that caused background wind noise to be heard during the election campaign.
• Issue and repurchase of shares | Fixed a bug that caused the order to remain available after the failure of the shareholder vote.
• Laws | Fixed a bug where the rule of precedence of federal laws over local laws from the "Constitutional" section did not work for new states that joined after the adoption of these laws.
• Other minor cosmetic changes.

• Merger | Removed the mistaken "empty" vote sometimes blocking mergers or acquisitions of companies.
• Stock exchange | Fixed errors in sorting the stock exchange portfolio when holding shares of companies from 3+ states at the same time.
• Elections | Fixed a bug where opponents of current politicians in elections receive negative renown during generation.
• Auction | Removed the mistaken hint that appears when switching to an auction from the stock exchange.

Starting settings have been redesigned.

Added a game difficulty indicator.

Director's orders.

Other innovations introduced after feedback from our community of Plutocrats:

• Companies | Added dependence of the number of new workplaces and the cost of construction during expansion on the current number of workplaces in the company. The more places there are in the company now, the more places a new building will add, but the more expensive it will cost to build it.
• Mail | Added notifications about the threat of bankruptcy of the player, controlled companies and loyal characters.
• Achievements | Added a new achievement "Speculator"
• Journal | Added notifications about completing tasks of the current game session
• Credits | The formula for the maximum loan amount from the character has been reworked. Now the amount depends not only on the lender's cash, but also on the borrower's solvency, as well as the reputation of the borrower or the CEO of the company taking the loan.

Polishing:

• The "Get a loan" ambition | Added the income of the borrower character to the ambition and a hint on the ambition icon.
• Gameplay | Event "Approve the initiative" | Hover hints have been added for the current developed and new proposed technologies.
• Personal office | When you click on the card in the account, companies of the current location will now be opened
• Stock exchange | Cosmetic portfolio changes. - The columns “Cost” and “Difference" have been swapped for greater convenience. - The name of the “Balance” block has been changed to “Purchased”
• Parliamentary chambers | Schemes of chambers | The algorithm of the arrangement of colored dots of the composition of chambers has been improved.
• Updated some of the loading screens, added a few new ones.

Balance:

• Companies | By popular demand, the number of shareholders in companies has been reduced by an average of 40%. Overall game performance slightly improved.

Fixed:

• Context menu | The unused "Compromise" button in the player's and opponent's character menu has been removed.
• Map | The opponent's companies are not displayed when selected in the filter.
• Statistics | Basic parameters are sometimes not recalculated when the technology being developed changes during the quarter.
• Gameplay | Event "Threats from the ultra-right" | Fixed the difference between the result and the description in the negative outcome of the 4 variants of the event.
• General | Fixed missing music when playing on Mac.
• The "Buy shares" ambition | Fixed a bug that could generate an ambition to buy shares of a non-existent company after the election.
• Company votings | Disabled CEO's offer to increase dividends.
• Companies | Player ceases to be considered a shareholder when trying to receive subsidies or conclude a state contract after loading the savegame.
• Elections | Fixed a vulnerability that made it possible for the player to become governor.
• Loyalty | Fixed a bug that caused characters with full loyalty to periodically lose loyalty for no reason.
• Laws | Fixed incorrect change in the popularity of laws after consideration of any bill.
• Navigation | Fixed a bug that caused the "Select a new Director" window to be ignored when returning to the previous window.
• Loans | Fixed an error due to which, when trying to repay a loan in a company with negative reserves, it was possible to set a negative payment amount.
• Starting conditions | Fixed error, when a player got 4 free skill points when starting with own company.
• Merger | Fixed a bug where the merger of companies was unavailable if the total reserves of both companies were < 0.

A brief roadmap for upcoming updates.

Upgrade of the building module.

Plutocratopedia

Vertical holding

• System | Fixed a critical error that caused the game to not work on Mac systems.
• Stock Exchange | Portfolio interface has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and now contains more useful information on transactions.
• Finances | Fixed a bug due to which the expenses and income of the company from the buying and selling of shares of other companies were not displayed.
• Agents | Fixed a bug that prevented the Headhunter from being applied to CEOs of other companies.
• Starting conditions | Fixed a bug that sometimes generated an additional shareholder in the launch campaign when starting a new game.
• State Law | Fixed a bug that caused the "Lobby" button to be displayed incorrectly in the governor's menu.
• State Law | Fixed a bug that caused the "Sign" and "Veto" buttons to be blocked for the governor, even if the governor is completely loyal to your character.

• System | Fixed a critical error that occurred periodically when loading a save during the game.
• Character Menu | Added a comparison of the reputation of your character and opponent to the hint if it is impossible to start negotiations with a "Selective" character due to low reputation.
• Information | Fixed a character menu bug when a list of possible deals with a character who had shares of 3+ companies was incorrectly displayed.
• Search for characters | Fixed a filter bug when the "Buy/sell shares of a banking company" ambition belonged to the “Sponsorship” category.
• Some minor cosmetic changes.

Main features:

• System | Fixed crash when running the game on Linux OC.
• Finances | Fixed crash when opening the Finances tab after the takeover of companies, which occurred in some cases.
• Banks | Fixed a bug when after a merger/takeover between two banks, the deposits of the new bank became equal to 0.
• Scenario | Fixed a bug when banking companies were not generated in the scenario.
• Events | Events will now be repeated less frequently.
• Events | The amount of money spent in case of choosing the first option for some events has been reduced.

Main features:

1. Banks and the new credit system.

What is the purpose of a bank?

The structure of the banking system.

2. Increasing the role of CEOs in companies.

More independence means less microcontrol.

Specialization.

3. New agents - new opportunities.

Recruiting managers with the help of Headhunter.

Provocation of strikes.

4. The vector of development.

• Fixed a critical error during the election when one of the candidates was not found.
• Fixed a critical error during loading when the controlling shareholder is not found.
• Fixed a critical bug due to missing relationships between characters related to the use of old saves where relationships were broken.
• Fixed a critical error that occurred during an attempt to display a hint for the "Get Sponsored" ambition when, for some reason, the opponent of the character with the ambition was not found.
• Fixed a critical error that occurred while viewing the list of politicians of any chamber.
• Fixed a critical bug that occurred while receiving a reward for sponsoring a politician.

• Fixed a common crash when CEO of certain companies went bankrupt.
• A new save system has been improved to support old saves made on earlier versions of the game.
• Now the market share occupied by the company is counted in the progress of the task during the challenge mode only if you own >50% of the shares of this company.