Transformation Tycoon news & patch notes

New game features: - Added ability to train employees to help them grow skills, particularly at lower levels. -- This should make it easy to train employees up to operate a transform-o-bile without having to change their schedule. -- Training has an up-front cost based on the duration of training and the skill or skills being trained. -- Training can last 1 to 5 days. When 3 days or fewer, the employee will then take a day off at the completion of their training, or 2 days if they trained for more. -- Training can be either for a specific skill, or generalist training which teaches all skills at once. -- Employees with higher morale learn faster in training, and employees with low morale learn more slowly. -- The higher level an employee is in a skill they are training, the less effective training will be. Above level 6, it may be better simply have the employee work as normal. -- Each day spent in training drops that employee's morale by .1 . - Added an end of day transition scene that shows the clinic name, address, and artwork. Balancing/Tweaks: - Employee skill gain rate is now clamped between .25 and 2.0 the normal rate, meaning an employee with maxed out morale of 5 now only gains 2x instead of 5x. - Client application rate bonuses and penalties are now totaled together first, then multiplied against the base generation rate. Previously the bonus from employees and advertisement were added, then multiplied by the passive effect bonus, leading to confusing numbers on the client application panel. -- In practical concerns, this means passive effects have less influence over client application rate when bonuses from employees and advertisements are also present. New Random/generated clients: - Wife's arm removal and breast enlargement for a party by Naya Nyxx https://twitter.com/nayanyxx - Girl into beach ball summer seasonal client - Married couple into pigeons summer seasonal client - Woman into anthro clownfish person summer seasonal client New story clients: - The Undercroft of Desire - VII: a pair of male debtors into ponygirls to serve as living furniture - Lady V - VI: a purse-snatcher transformed into a womens' handbag as replacement Updated random clients: - Alternate request for boutique owner into mannequin now requires and generates infamy. New research subjects: - Jason Miller and Remi Fulton transforming into a two-headed oni. Fulfills Growth, Corruption and Merging research. New transform-o-bile missions: - Billionaire who wants all of his servants transformed into busty female French maids New artwork: - Chubby otter woman artwork for Heraclitus' Parable story parts I-III. Artwork drawn by AcuteGabby. - Bugged Out - I hornet-woman hybrid. Artwork drawn by LadyCleopatra. - Added Winter seasonal variants for the clinic location artwork for 5 of 6 locations. Artwork drawn by Iridius ( https://www.deviantart.com/iridiusthestygian ). Bugfixes: - Fix for the story client A Taste of Femininity III being a complete duplicate of A Taste of Femininity III - Fixed exploit of being able to spam-click the Lock X and Lock Y buttons in the transformation minigame when Lock On Key Down is toggled on. - Minor bugfix for random event notification initially displaying when starting or loading a game even when the event count was 0 and should have been hidden. - Bugfix for random/generated employee-related clients not being processed by employee delegation when enabled - Bugfix for game becoming unpaused when closing escape menu despite the fact it should stay paused, such as when a client application is being read - Description of passive effects corrected to read "client application rate" instead of "mission application rate" - Description of passive effects corrected to read "client payment rate" instead of "mission payment rate" Other/Misc: - "Transformation Chamber has been fixed" changed to "Transformation Chamber is available" as there are various reasons why it may be unavailable, ie being used in the doomsayer random event - Transformation duration passive effect should now display as red instead of green as taking more time to transform is generally an undesirable effect. - Manage Employee now disables the Transform! button at the bottom while the employee is operating a transform-o-bile. - Multiple spelling corrections pointed out by Discord member Stitch-Nose - The predicted client payment now factors in passive effects that influence the payment amount, ie ten percent off coupons - Added a text notice on the inventory side panel that indicates how many crystals have been ordered but not yet delivered.

New game features: - Some random events now scale requirements and outcomes to employee count (all hired employees, including those off-shift) and your clinic's location tier. - Some random events can be now be postponed. -- Postponed events go back into the front of the event queue, allowing the player to finish up transformations and open up a transformation chamber, take out a loan for more money, and more. This should allow for more flexibility when dealing with random events. -- Events that can be postponed can be postponed between 1-4 hours, or 8 hours. Not all events can be postponed, and events vary on how long they can be postponed for. -- If an event is postponed, no new events will enter the event queue until that event is completed. -- Players can now start the next day if there is only 1 event in the event queue and that event is postponed. -- Postponed events will automatically launch once the chosen number of hours since postponement have elapsed. If the player is performing research or otherwise unavailable, the event will launch the first chance it can get. -- When an event is postponed, the event notice display on the HUD turns yellow-tinted in color. Clicking on it will immediately relaunch that same event again. -- Events cannot be postponed multiple times, regardless of how many hours it was postponed for, or if the event was manually launched again before the original postponement time has elapsed. - Transform-o-biles! These are essentially transformation chambers mounted on a truck that are dispatched to far-away client sites for bulk transformations. These require employees to operate. -- Transform-o-bile Missions are similar to client applications. Missions require an available transform-o-bile and an available employee and will last up to several days. -- Transform-o-bile missions refresh on Sundays. The number of available missions increases based on clinic game and employees' skill in Public Relations. -- Transform-o-bile missions have three stages: driving to, working, and driving from. -- Transform-o-bile missions have an upfront cost to begin, paying for fuel and the operator's housing and meals. -- Transform-o-bile missions consume large numbers of transformation crystals, but also have a high profit margin, as well as large increases in fame. -- When a transform-o-bile returns from a mission, you will see a report detailing how many transformations were performed and at what quality. Qualities are Failure, Disappointing, Good, and Superb, and the number of each factors into final payment. -- Some missions will also generate short news articles covering the event upon completion. These are indicated by missions with a small newspaper icon. -- Employees must be well rounded and be at least level 3 or greater in Research and Technology, Accounting, and Public Relations to operate a transform-o-bile. -- Employees operating a transform-o-bile do not gain XP while on a mission, but will gain a large amount of XP in all three relevant fields when the mission completes and they return to the clinic. -- Employees operating a transform-o-bile take several days off work when returning from a mission to rest up. -- Employees operating a transform-o-bile are always working while on a mission and are paid for their regular 9-5 work hours. This temporarily overrides their normal work schedule. -- You do not gain employees' perks while they are on a transform-o-bile mission as they are physically out of office and busy with their own work. -- Transform-o-biles can be upgraded to reduce travel time and work time. -- Transform-o-bile operators' skill in Research And Technology result in better transformations, as well as take less work time. -- Transform-o-bile operators' skill in Public Relations increases payment. -- Added some new statistics and rank requirements using transform-o-bile-related data. Balancing/Tweaks: - Product customer generation has a new formula that boosts sales at lower fame and introduces a dropoff at higher fame levels. This should help reduce all products from immediately flying off the shelves lategame when clinic fame is high. New Random/generated clients: - petite woman into Amazonian by Crypt - jockey into racehorse by Thriller54321 (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321). Requires fame level 3 with a high infamy alternate request. - two fading reality television stars into life-sized soda bottles to film a soda commercial. Requires fame level 3. New story clients: - A New Man chapters 1-4, by Trashy Trishy (https://cohost.org/TrashyTrishy) - A Love from Afar chapters 1-3, two lovers from overseas who delight in kinky submissive forms for one another. Updated random events: - Influencer, Influencing now only triggers after 10 ingame days and the amount demanded scales to the clinic's location tier - Employee Appreciation event now scales to employee count - Creative Bookkeeping money requirements / outcomes now scales with clinic location tier - Skill Seminar cost scales to employee count. The seminar costs $500 per employee. - Am I Being Followed? cost per parking permit is now $400 and scales with employee count - Noise Ordinance Violation now scales to clinic tier at a cost of $1,000 per tier level. - Historical Preservation Society now scales to clinic tier New products: - Happy Harpy Fruit Crisps. Transforms consumers into harpies. Product icon will be added in a future update. - Sleepytime Plushie Toothpaste. Transforms users into plushie bears. Product icon will be added in a future update. New artwork: - Gaia Terra spring seasonal artwork added. By Balile - Shipgirl artwork for Operation RP Go by LadyCleopatra - Anime warrior catgirl artwork for Janice Payne, Corporate Spy - V - Happy Harpy Fruit Crisps product lineart by LadyCleopatra with shading by Iridius - Sleepytime Plushie Toothpaste product lineart by LadyCleopatra with shading by Iridius Bugfixes: - Obese fitness instructor now uses 1 year crystal instead of 1 permanent stabilizer as described in the client request - slimegirl art for Janice Payne, Corporate Spy - IV should now show correctly in stage 4 instead of 5. Other/Misc: - A Business Partnership - III fixed to use Demasculinization crystal instead of Masculinization - A Business "Partnership" IV now also uses a personality crystal to match the text - Major refactoring, moving the game out into different scenes and adding a loading screen between the title and gampelay scenes. This may improve game performance. - Added new theme tag, Limb Loss / Removal. This is meant to be used only when a transformation results in the removal of limbs that would normally have them, so a transformation into something like a Naga would not have this tag, but a limbless pillow girl might. The new story client A Love from Afar uses this tag.

Balancing/Tweaks: - Employees who have requested transformations and have not yet received them now take a 50% experience gain penalty instead of gaining no new experience at all. - Instead of quitting instantly when the clinic's money falls below -$1,000, employees will now only quit if the clinic starts the day in debt more than three days in a row. New employees: - Gaia Terra, a man into a female elemental. New Random/generated clients: - Man into pregnant-looking bunny woman by community contributer Harry Black (https://twitter.com/HT_Black) - Woman into giant spider by community contributers thriller54321 and PedanticCheesecake. Autumn seasonal client. - Woman into smelly rat goblin by Harry Black - Two women into shark plushies by Harry Black - Two boyfriends and a girlfriends in a polycule merged into one combined person by Trashy Trishy (https://cohost.org/TrashyTrishy) - Astronaught husband and wife into androids. Fame 4 client with high infamy alternate outcome - Girl into thorny rose queen for Valentine's Day winter seasonal client - Two girlfriends into chocolate versions of themselves for Valentine's Day winter seasonal client - Man into cupid for Valentine's Day winter seasonal client - Girl shrunken to fit inside a box of chocolates for Valentine's Day winter seasonal client New products: - Living Lingerie Licorice. Turns whoever eats it into sexy lingerie. - Devil Kiss Red Wine. Turn whoever eats it into a red-skinned devil person. New story clients: - A Business "Partnership" parts 1-5 by community contributor Pirate - Heraclitus' Parable parts 1-3 by Harry Black - The Last Hurrah parts 1-5 by Harry Black New random events - Fridge on the Fritz. Triggers when the clinic has a lot of products in stock. Updated random events: - Seminar Smarts now only gives XP in the employee's currently assigned role, not all of them. This should help keep employees from "overleveling" and requesting transformation unusually early. The xp given has been raised for each outcome. New artwork: - Gaia Terra employee artwork by Balile. (Note that spring seasonal variant is still being worked on and not part of this release.) - Colleen O'Hare as flower nymph by Lady Cleopatra - Victor and Amelia as living lovedolls by Lady Cleopatra - Janice Payne as a slime girl by Lady Cleopatra - Kukiko as a werewolf by Lady Cleopatra - Living Lingerie Licorice product artwork by Luxianne - Devil Kiss Red Wine product artwork by AcuteGabby Bugfixes: - Bugfix for buttons being disabled when quitting to main menu after having called in a client or starting research without completing it. Other/Misc: - Various spelling corrections - The Advisor popup now has an option to disable it. Checking this and closing the window will suppress any future advisor popups for the remainder of that game. - Added small / 10 text beside product review scores to indicate it is on a scale of 10, not 5. - Client Writer tool has a new, cleaner way of setting crystal requirements similar to how crystals are ordered ingame. - Client Writer tool has a new button, Text Similarity, which compares how similar the Superb / Good / Disappointing texts are. A high difference is generally good, meaning the texts are fairly different. Clients below 20% difference may be rejected in the future to deter overuse of copy-pasting between these segments. - Write button is disabled in the Client Writer tool until after the Lore Guide and Contribution Agreement has been read. - Minor updates to Lore Guide and Contribution Agreement - Credits page is updated to include buttons and profile images. Clicking on buttons will take your browser to the relevant URL (Deviant Art, Fur Affinity, or Twitter) Cheat/debug changes: - The "endgame" command now diversifies employees' roles to assign at least one employee to Product Development and Reputation Management roles.

New employees: - Corey Goldings to Courtney Goldhoarder, a young man into a jewel-hoardering anthro dragoness. - Andy Rothwell to Alyna Rosewell, a man into a sexy B-movie alien woman New products: - Centaur Salad Mix - Lusty Leopardess Lipstick - Gooey Gummies New Random/generated clients: - 2 random clients relating to new employee Courtney Goldhoarder - 2 random clients relating to new employee Alyna Rosewell - Man and wife into an erotic glass statue. Requires fame level 3. - Woman into living lovedoll for her anniversary - Man into MILF Hippo by community contributor Harry Black - Man into MILF bat by community contributor Harry Black - Man and wife into male corgis by community contributor Harry Black - Man and his girlfriend into a werewolf and houndmistress. Autumn seasonal client - Man into robotic spider with a doll head. Autumn seasonal client - Author into signed copy of her own book, written by community contributor Hananafell. Requires fame level 2. New story clients: - 3 story clients relating to Courtney Goldhoarder - 3 story clients relating to new employee Alyna Rosewell - 5th chapter to Lady V story, transforming a pool boy into a beach dress New artwork: - Courtney Goldhoarder employee artwork by Balile - Alyna Rosewell employee artwork by Balile - Centaur salad mix artwork by Mizuho - Lusty Leopardess lipstick artwork by Mizuho - Lexi the gamer girl artwork by Mizuho - Latex drones artwork by AcuteGabby - Gooey Gummy product artwork by foxy-child - Magical Ninja Girls story client artwork by foxy-child - Tentacle Tea Leaf balm product artwork by AnthroMage Other/Misc: - Added Min and Max button on Loan Details panel - Added a few more reviews to conjoinment cotton candy product for conjoinment style transformations (as opposed to absorption or fusion) - Updated Lore Guide and Contribution Agreement to clarify some rules and guidelines around infamy clients.

New game features: - Added new Employee Delegation option, "Don't process if client related to an employee". By default, this value is off, allowing employee-related random clients to now be processed by Employee delegation. - Employee delegation now has a chance to result in a Superb transformation. The chance of this depends on the total levels of your employees in the Research and Technology role working that day, as well as by the client main outcome difficulty. -- Note: This should make rising the Transformation Tycoon ranks much easier when using client delegations as higher ranks require some number of Superb client transformations. -- Note: Disappointing and Failure transformation results still never happen during employee delegation. New employees: - New employee, Drake Tenman to Sylvia Tenman. This employee desires to be transformed into living clothes! New Random/generated clients: - 2 clients relating to Sylvia Tenman - Husband and wife art students into erotic glass statue New story clients: - 3 clients relating to Sylvia Tenman - Chapters 5 and 6 for Janice Payne, Corporate Spy - Chapter 4 for Lady V New artwork: - Drake Tenman to Sylvia Tenman employee artwork by Balile Bugfixes: - Transformation chambers loaded with clients who were employee-delegated upon game save should now retain employee-delegated status when loading the game. Other/Misc: - Adding ability to rotate through employees on the active employee bar at the bottom of the main game page when more than 13 employees have been hired. - Random farmhand to cowgirl now has infamy - Applied to theme tags for employee-related clients - Various spelling and grammar fixes provided by SoylentOrange

New game features: - Added the ability to disable theme tags. -- Disabling theme tags will prevent clients that have that tags from entering the application pool. -- When an alternate client request has a theme tag that is disabled, the alternate request will be suppressed. -- NOTE: Not all clients have received tags at this time. If you'd like to suggest existing or new tags for certain clients, please let us know on our Discord server! - Added new transformation chamber upgrade, Crystal Reconstitutor, available in Marks 1 through 5. -- Crystal Reconstitutor provide a small chance to reconstitute and re-use the older transformation crystal INSTEAD of using up a new one when attempting to retry calibration. -- This applies both in the transformation minigame and in the autocalibration. Balancing/Tweaks: - Repeat random event cooldown raised to 14 days from 12 days. New Random/generated clients: - Video/gaming star and his girlfriend into a magical girl and tentacle monster. Requires fame level 4. - Orchard owner to peach tree. Requires fame level 2. - Broadway actor into literal cat burglar. Requires fame level 3. - Diva into cardboard cutout of herself. Requires fame level 3. New story clients: - Bugged Out 3-part story, an entomologist, into an anthro hornet. By Pirate. - Private Eyes, Always Watching You - VI New random events - Sharing In Your Success, a mid-game event where employees ask for a raise - Heavy Rain, a negative event that can lower customers and clients - Street Festival, a positive event that provides a large customer and client boost - Historical Preservation Society, an opportunity to fund a local cause and prevent construction noise - Spontaneous Research Opportunity, an early game event that can help advance research at the cost of infamy - Modern Armor, an event where inanimation crystals can be sold for money at the cost of infamy - Averting Attention, a high-priority punishing event requiring the highest level of suspicion New products: - Back to Nature Granola - Tentacle Tea-Leaf Balm (no artwork yet) New artwork: - Bimbo Margharita Mix product artwork by Balile - Himbo Mojito Mix product artwork by Balile - Kitsune Crackers product artwork by Mizuho - Miniaturizing Mints product artwork by Mizuho - Back to Nature Granola product artwork by AcuteGabby Bugfixes: - Bugfix for certain cases where the sidebars could be clicked while interacting with a client and "disappearing" them before having the chance to transform them - Bugfix for day ending not working when autosave interval is disabled - Bugfix for buzzing sfx re-enabling despite the sfx being toggled off after starting a calibration retry Other/Misc: - Product reviews can now contain emojis - Added a menu bottom to the top-left of the main game page that opens the pause menu, the same as pressing the Escape key.

Balancing/Tweaks: - The base client payment for some of the stabilizer crystals have been altered. -- When factored into the base client payment for a completed transformation, regular transformation crystals and week stabilizer crystals continue to have a profit margin of 2x (ie, if you pay $100 for the crystal, the client pays $200). -- Permanent Stabilizer crystals now have a profit margin of 1.4x instead of 2.0x -- Year Stabilizer crystals now have a profit margin of 1.6x instead of 2.0x -- Month Stabilizer crystals now have a profit margin of 1.8x instead of 2.0x New Random/generated clients: - Husband and wife podcaster body swap prestige level 3 client - Man to butterfly girl spring seasonal client - Trio of women into hummingbirds spring seasonal, prestige level 2 client - Woman into surfboard summer, prestige level 3 seasonal client - Fast food works into corporate mascots prestige level 2 client - Boyfriend and girlfriend into sex-swapped sheep and wolf by Thriller54321 (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) - Man into large-chested woman for mardi gra by Thriller54321 New artwork: - Stone Brew Decaf Coffee product artwork by AnthroMage - Conjoinment Cotton Candy product artwork by Anthromage - Mermaid Lotion product artwork by Anthromage - Cat Ear Brunch product artwork by Anthromage - Balloon Bites product artwork by Anthromage - Fairy trio for Sweet Colleen and Her Fairies story client by AcuteGabby Bugfixes: - Fix for autosave incorrectly initializing to off instead of the expected default of every 3 days Other/Misc: - Employee portraits at the bottom of the page now show zoomed-in headshot images for employees rather than their full body pictures - Changing the SFX volume slider plays a UI boop sound whenever the slider is moved.

New game features: - Product Development! Products are foods, lotions, and other one-time-use items that are sold to customers for short-term, at-home transformations. -- Product Development becomes available to clinics location tier 2 or greater. -- Product Development requires a new employee role, Product Development & Sales. This role is not listed during employee scheduling until the location requirement is met. -- Products must first be researched by employees in Product Development & Sales role. --- There are multiple levels of research; higher research allows for more quality products to be synthesized. --- Product quality levels are bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond. Higher quality levels usually leads to higher customer satisfaction and more product sales. --- Product research requires certain transformation types to have been researched and available to clients. --- Product research requires some initial startup money and consumes transformation crystals. The precise amount scales with level. - After being researched to at least bronze quality level, products can be synthesized. -- Synthesizing products consumes transformation crystals. The quality of the product batches created is determined by the product research level as well as employee skill. -- Synthesizing products takes multiple days. The time it takes to synthesize them can be reduced by skilled employees. -- Once synthesized, products will be sold to customers hourly as long as at least one employee remains in the Product Development & Sales role. -- Products can have their prices set by the player between a minimum and maximum range. Cheaper prices allow products to be sold more quickly while higher prices have a higher profit margin. -- Unsold products expire after a base period of 14 days. This can be extended by having skilled employees. -- Products can be discarded at will to ensure customers are purchasing higher quality products. -- Customers who purchase a product may leave a product review with a 1 to 10 star review and sometimes a short description of their transformation experience. -- 1 and 2 star product reviews very slightly lower clinic fame while 9 and 10 star reviews increase clinic fame. -- The number of products that can be synthesized and kept in stock is limited based on the current clinic location. Higher tier locations allow for more space. -- Products can be synthesized in bulk for all products that meet the player-specified criteria, so long as no products of that type are already being synthesized. -- Products can have auto-synthesis enabled, automatically synthesizing products back to certain player-specified levels. Auto synthesis is performed immediately after product sales. - The employee context panel (the box showing employee effects that appears on the bottom-left of certain panels) now only shows one effect at a time but rotates through them automatically. Clicking on the effect text automatically rotates to the next one. - The auto restock level of a transformation crystal on the advanced restock panel can now be typed in addition to using the -5/-1/+1/+5 buttons. Balancing/Tweaks: - Researching a transformation crystal now requires completing 4 test subjects that fulfill that research type instead of only 3. -- Already-completed research from older save files will automatically gain another research point so as to remain completed. - The second location, 7275 E. 9th Ave, is now in Tier 2 instead of Tier 1, allowing for product development to begin earlier. Every other location aside from the starting location has its tier set 1 higher. New employees: - Roxanne into Roxy Matthews, girl into doe-woman New Random/generated clients: - Woman into cartoony t-rex mascot by PedanticCheesecake (https://www.deviantart.com/pedanticcheesecake) New story clients: - Twinkle Sprinkle IV, V, and VI by Thriller54321 (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321). Each has two possible versions depending on the choice made in Twinkle Sprinkle III. - Amber The Dragon I, II, and III by Thriller54321 and PedanticCheesecake. - Gerda The Griffon I, II, and III by Thriller54321. - Private Eyes, Always Watching You, Parts I through V. Requires infamy to trigger. New research subjects - Emily Green, woman into sheepgirl shepard. Satisfies Feralization, Purification, and Month Stabilizer research. - Eleanor Keller, woman into Folk Hero Woodcutter Giant. Satisfies Masculinization, Defeminization, Growth, and Personality research. - Braylan Terell, man into sylph, a female wind elemental. Satisfies Demasculinization, Feminization, Fantasticalization, and Personality research. - Horace Harker, Hestia Harker, twins merged into a double-souled dark circus master. Fulfills Corruption, Merging, and Permanent Stabilizer research. - Sir Harold Wantachest IV, a man into a windup tin soldier automaton. Fulfills Inanimation, Shrinking, and Month Stabilizer research. Updated research subjects: - Casey Canopli (tf into tree) now also fulfills Week Stabilizer research - Marnie Underhill (tf into kangaroo) now also fulfills Year Stabilizer research New artwork: - Roxy Matthews employee artwork by Balile - TG Cola Venus product before and after graphics by AnthroMage - TG Cola Mars product before and after graphics by AnthroMage - Mermaid trio artwork for the Under the Sea - III and up story client by Mizuho

New game features: - Added minimum slider speed controls on the transformation calibration minigame that can be used to manually adjust the slider speed back higher again. This allows for the minigame to be completed more quickly if desired, suffering less extra transformation time penalty. Balancing/Tweaks: - Transformation calibration minigame slider speed can never go lower than .25x of the normal speed. New artwork: - Joanie Starstruck story client (The Magician's Apprentice) artwork by Mizuho - Joan Joan Bun Bun story client artwork by Mizuho Bugfixes: - Fix for the transformation minigame calibration slider speed being able to go to 0 with enough upgrades and employee skills, making the slider stuck in the bottom-left.

New game features: - Clients requesting transformation crystals that have just been researched to completion will not be eligible to spawn until the following morning, allowing the player to have received the new transformation crystals of that type, if ordered. - Select story clients now can have artwork. - For a client transformation result that is not a failure, the post-transformation graphic is displayed against the backdrop of your current clinic. - Story client artwork closes itself after 5 seconds or can be dismissed manually by clicking on it. - The image can be viewed again by clicking on a new "Image" button on the bottom-right of the panel. - Currently the only client with illustrated artwork is in Miss Phoenix Sunscorch story client artwork for Magician's Apprentice - V. More will come as art is completedl. - Added advanced crystal restocking. - Advanced crystal restocking allows the player to select specific desired maximum restock amount on a per-crystal basis instead of one number for all crystal types. - Advanced Crystal Restocking is accessible from the Auto Restock panel, as well as directly from the Order Supplies panel. - Crystals in the inventory panel on the right now automatically sort by type at the start of the day - Added an ability to turn off the buzzing sfx during the transformation slider minigame Balancing/Tweaks: - Minimum crystal prices are now set at 25% of their base cost instead of always being $10 regardless of crystal type New Random/generated clients: - Girl into male swamp monster (autumn seasonal client) - Girl into eastern dragon (winter seasonal client) - Husband and wife into their younger selves by Thriller54321 (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) New story clients: - The Utahraptor four part story client of a male paleontologist into a utahraptor by Thriller54321 (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) - Monsterlijk! three part story client of a girl into horror movie characters by Pirate - Operation RP GO, three part story client of tabletop gamers into ship-girls by Pirate New artwork: - Miss Phoenix Sunscorch story client artwork for Magician's Apprentice - V by Mizuho Other/Misc: - When loading an older saved game from a previous version of Transformation Tycoon, each successful migration up to the current version is displayed as a notification. - Various spelling and grammar corrections provided by Phi 1.61803 - Added small images on the Lock X and Lock Y buttons to visually remind which axis they control

Bugfixes: - Bugfix for client payment of transformed clients not rewarding money for stabilizer crystals beyond the first stabilizer of the same type. - Under the Sea - IV should now use three year stabilizers as described in the walk-in text instead of month stabilizers. - Fixed Cadon/Callie O'Neill / Shimmerheart base and midway graphics being reversed

New game features: - Added a primary and secondary sort to the client applications list. - Applications are automatically sorted according to the last chosen sort values when the client application panel is launched and can be re-sorted by clicking Apply. - New client applications that are added while the window is open will continue to be added to the bottom of the list. - Added Export/Import seen clients to global file on the Employee Delegation. - Exporting takes the list of already-processed random/generated client in a game and writes them all to a separate file separate from the game file. - Importing takes the list of already-processed clients from the global file and adds them into your current game. - If a client result is in both the local save file and the global one, the better transformation result is kept and the worse result discarded. Balancing/Tweaks: - Random events should trigger a little less randomly averaging about a day and a half with at least a half day between them. The trigger rate is also smoothened so a short time betwen random events will later be followed by a longer time. New random/generated clients: - Infamy client of a boyfriend into his girlfriend's lingerie - Infamy client of a brother and sister into a vampire-hunter and vampire - Guy into pink bimbo wolf spring seasonal client by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) - Daughter into "good girl" random/generated client by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Mother into younger male soccer player random/generated client by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Guy into female black widow spidertaur by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Woman into male silverback gorilla by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Girl into male anthro dragon by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Mother into burly father figure by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Football player into cheerleader by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Father into living teddy bear by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Woman into magical girl by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Man into shapeshifting metallic being by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Woman into "Kirbo" video game character by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Girl into an animatronic crocodile man by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Man into anaconda by Thriller - Man into painting by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake - Man into automaton by Pirate New story clients: - Twinkle Sprinkle: 3 part story client of a guy into a magical unicorn by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) - Larry the Gamer Girl: 3 part story client of jock into a gamer girl by Thriller and PedanticCheesecake (https://www.deviantart.com/thriller54321) Updated random events: - Some random events will now no longer spawn until a certain number of days have elapsed. This should help new players / new games have more time to establish themselves before the more punishing random events can trigger. Other/Misc: - Non-employee story clients now have titles with roman numerals

New game features: - Loans have been reworked. Loans now have a minimum daily payment that, unlike previously, actually DO decrease the total amount owed after interest is applied. - Added Loan Detail panel that allows for a more detailed view of a loan. Taking out a loan or repaying it happens on this panel instead of the Loan list panel. - Loans can now be partially repayed past the daily minimum amount after 3 days have passed since taking out the loan. The Loan Detail panel has an input that lets you specify how much extra to put towards paying back the loan. - Added button on Loan panel to instantly pay all loan minimum daily balances earlier than the end of the day. - Loans whose minimum payments are not met are now penalized by accuring penalty interest that grows proportionally to the base loan interest rate. Successfully making minimum payments reduces this penalty interest again at half the rate that it can grow. Balances / Tweaks: - Higher amount loans have lowered interest rates so that keeping up with the base minimum daily payment should pay them off in under 60 days. "Uncle Joe" loans are the one exception as they require no daily payments but have very high interest rates. Bugfixes: - Transformation crystals should never cost below $10 regardless of employee effects or passive effects to prevent the price going into negatives. - Accept Charity transformation type dropdown should read "Inanimate, Growth" instead of "Inanimate, Shrinking" to reflec the actual client's crystal needs. - Employees that quit or are fired could incorrectly sometimes be working the same day they were re-hired. Now they should have to wait for the following day for their schedule to take effect.

New game features: - Added an 'Advisor' into the game to assist with new players understanding game mechanics. - The Advisor can be launched from a blue question mark (?) button at the top-right of some panels, right beside the close button. - The Advisor, upon opening, provides a short explanation of the game mechanics and concepts that revolve around the currently open panel. It also suggests other related topics to read. - Added a Autolaunch Help / Advisor on new panels? (Recommended for new players) toggle on the new game creation screen. If activated, the first time the player opens certain panels, the Advisor automatically open to the relevant topic. - The various navigation buttons on the advisor are initial blue. Once that topic has been read in that game, buttons linking to it turn pink to allow you know what you've read and what you have not. - Added a Glossary which has a link of lists for all concepts mentioned in the Advisor. The glossary can be opened from the Advisor window. Clicking on an entry in the glossary opens the Advisor window to that subject. - Passive effects can now give a boost or penalty to employee experience gain. New employees: - April McCloud to April Duhad, a writer who wishes to be transformed into a goblin girl. - Shalin Dixit to Acchindra Dixit, a person into an intersex angelic being - Alejandro Guerrero to Astarial Lord of the Flex, a guy into a handsome, burly devil man New research subjects: - Wioleta Zanetai and Nessa Moreen, two girls merged into a giant humantaur. Fulfills Growth, Merging, and Month Stabilizer research types. - Adele Ofelia, a woman into a winged flying Cupid. Fulfills Defeminization, Masculinization, and Fantasticalization research types. - Daria Knox, a girl into a badass hellhound bitch. Fulfills Corruption, Feralization, and Year Stabilizer research types. New random events: - Secondhand Celebrity Endorsement - Am I Being Followed? - Shake, Rattle, Roll! - Now Where Did I Put That Box, Again? - Letting the Fame Get to Their Heads - Small Business Initiatve - A Curious Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Just Your Friendly Neighborhood Doomsayer - Noise Ordinance Violation - Lost And Found Misc/Balancing: - Random events now have a 12 day cooldown instead of 7 days so they should repeat less often. Bugfixes: - Tooltip for the suspicion icon should now read "suspicion" - Added daily suspicion percent reduction line in employee effects panel and removed duplicate daily infamy reduction line - Description for starting location 150 Old Mill Avenue now correctly states the location supports one transformation chamber instead of two. - Infamy random boyfriend into lovedoll has application summary fixed to not repeat the girlfriend's name - Added font asset with larger hex range. This should make certain characters in randomized names render better. - Researching test subject now occupies the first available transformation chamber, preventing employee delegation from using it when it should not be. - Employees in the Accounting role now actually make transformation chamber upgrading less expensive. - Bugfix for clients being unable for employee delegation when not all transformation crystals are researched. - Launching the autocalibrate window should now prevent clicking away until the results are accepted and the chamber loaded. New debug/Patreon backer features: - Added an ability to preroll numbers for random events. Submitting a number in this box should guarantee a specific outcome of a choice. Experiment with numbers between 0 and 5 for best results. - Added debug command to check whether an event is currently eligible to be spawned. New artwork: - April Duhad employee graphics by Balile - Acchindra Dixit employee graphics by Balile - Astarial Lord of the Flex graphics by Balile - New artwork for the 7275 E. 9th Avenue tier 1 location by Iridius

Bugfixes: - Fixed bug for the error tooltip over the accept charity applicants perpetually growing - Fixed bug for "lower infamy" toggle not staying applied

New game features: - Added Suspicion mechanic. Suspicion is gained at the start of every new day and is proportional to how much infamy your clinic has gained. High suspicion has a chance of kicking off negative random events instead of infamy, allowing players to reach high levels of infamy for unique clients while managing suspicion separately. - Suspicion level can be viewed by mousing over the infamy section at the top of the page. - Charity applications now reduce suspicion, not infamy. - Added new employee role, Reputation Management. Employees in this role decrease suspicion gain in the mornings, provide a daily fame boost, and lower infamy (when enabled.) - Added new reputation management panel where the player can enable or disable infamy reduction. - Employees in the reputation management role generate charity applications the player can accept at a time of their own choosing, up to a certain cap. The generation amount per day and cap are both determined by employee skill in the Reputation Management role - Added Schedule button on Manage Employee panel that brings the player immediately to the schedule manager with that employee at the top. - The Passive Effects button now gives the number of currently active passive effects. Game balances/tweaks: - Clients that require infamy now generally pay better than before. - Work Party! passive effect now alters application rate, not completed transformation payments. New random events: - Shady Bailout. This high-priority event triggers if the clinic is a thousand dollars in debt or more. Updated random events: - Various events have infamy requirements replaced with suspicion requirements. New clients: - Fifth part to the Ariel and Venus marine biologist to mermaids story arc New artwork: - Callie Shimmerheart spring, autumn, and winter seasonal outfit variants Bugfixes: - Fixed issue with Callie Shimmerheart using an incorrect frame from another employee during the blink cycle - Fixed issue with employees not having "OFF DUTY" add or removed at the start of the day - Minor fix for incorrect tooltip text on the order crystals page

New game features: - Added new type of transformation chamber status, broken/unavailable. Similar to upgrading/constructing/relocating, this simple makes the chamber unavailable for new clients to enter. Currently these only trigger through random events. - Location tier is displayed on the location carousel. Tier is simply one higher than the currently supported prestige level, so the starting clinic is tier 1 and the last clinic is tier 5. - Pressing the F5 key now performs a quicksave. Quicksaves are unavailable during certain pages such as the calibration minigame, mid-research, and during random events, similar to when the player can normally perform saves. New random events: - Wiretapped! - Unscheduled Delivery - Bricked! - Supply Chain Problems Updated random events: - Charity Case has another choice to accept a feralization-based charity applicant. New employees: - Caden O’Neill to Callie Shimerheart, male to female fairy New clients: - 2 generated and 3 story clients for new employee Callie Shimmerheart - 1 new charity client involving transforming a policewoman into a German Shepard New artwork: - Andrea Washingtron spring and autumn seasonal outfit variants by Balile - Zaina Naim spring and autumn seasonal outfit variants by Balile - Kat McCready spring and autumn seasonal outfit variants by Balile - Callon Bouras spring and autumn seasonal outfit variants by Balile - Atilla Rosenbaum spring and autumn seasonal outfit variants by Balile - Missy spring and autumn seasonal variant by Balile - Caden O'Neill to Callie Shimmerheart base, intermediate, and summer outfit by Balile

Transformation Tycoon is now released on Steam with early access version V0.2.7. (Apologies for missing the store's Dec 16 release date, we were unable to actually complete the release on that day due to some delays in having the Valve team approve the game and have the store page be live for at least two weeks). If anyone has questions or bugs, I'd highly recommend joining our Discord server as that will be the fastest way for us and fix bugs.