STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator News

Chances are that, unless you happened to read my personal GOTY pick from 2023 or just have generally excellent taste in videogames, you're not too familiar with Stonks-9800 (which you can find on Steam). That's a shame, because the early access stock-trading sim set in the salad days of '80s Japan is an absolute banger—oozing style and with a delicious platter of gameplay loops that will keep your eyes fixed on its line graphs for days, weeks, months at a time...
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- In poker, players who have discarded their cards are now faded out.
- Fixed calculation of the number of free shares on the exchange
- Fixed a bug where players could buy more than 100% of a company's shares at the bar.
- Some corrections to the calculation of pair combinations in poker.
- Some fixes for possible game crashes.

Sorry

Every day I try to make a few patches and fix the game, but this time it's the biggest fix, so I'm posting it here.
- You can now buy more commodities per day.
- The "Gambler" biography now grants instant access to secret poker at the start.
- Fixed FPS drop in the resume menu.
- Fixed potential poker bugs after removing players from the table.
- Fixed a bug where phantom companies could appear on the stock exchange.
- Fixed a crash when selecting the "Corporate friend" biography.

- A new difficulty parameter called "Luck" has been added — if things feel too easy, try again on realistic difficulty and forget about lotteries, expensive gifts from friends, and other freebies.
- Investment projects can now be improved using your contacts — up to three of them will offer suggestions on how to make the project better.
- Investment projects can now come from companies listed on the stock market — the outcome will affect their share price and income.
- Investment projects are now tied to a specific business sector — their results may influence the entire sector.
- Company sectors have been revised — there are now 8 instead of 11 (some were merged).
- If you have an old save file (before version 6.1), you can now optionally create your profile and choose a name, appearance, birthday, and biography elements (though not all perks will be available).
- Companies can now perform stock splits — if the share price becomes too low or too high, they may multiply or divide all shares. The value of one share changes, but the total value does not.
- There’s now a 33% chance that instead of going bankrupt, a company will do a stock split to stay listed longer.
- The average share purchase price is now calculated more accurately (using the moving average method).
- When selling stocks, you’ll now pay tax only on the profit — the difference between your average purchase price and the selling price.
- Car accidents now happen slightly less often.
- Fires will also occur a bit less frequently.
- The Financial Services Agency now does its job a little better.
- The "Fortune Teller" biography now has a slightly lower chance of predicting a bad future.
- Some buttons now support hotkeys.
- Updated Chinese translation by Stevezxc.
- Fixed a bug that miscalculated the income required for the "Successful Leader" milestone.
- Fixed a bunch of minor bugs.