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STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator News

Update with Korean localization and Random Mode

If you're tired of getting the economic crisis of the early 90s every time in the game (which corresponds to real events), you can now choose a random event mode when creating a new game - the Japanese economy will experience both ups and downs in random order. Have time to react to market fluctuations in time!


New:
- Korean translation has been added to the game;
- The ability to choose a historical or random set of events when creating a new game;
- A new collection of toy dogs;
- Contacts will pick up the phone a little more often;
- The stock exchange now has an icon next to company names that shows the type of activity of the company;
- The city now changes depending on the time of year;
- The main screen now has a special inscription if the player is on vacation;
- The algorithm for calculating monthly financial reputation charges has been changed;
- The upward arrow will now mark the Profile and Advisor tabs when there are important events related to Amy;
- Yoshiro's services have become more expensive;
- Prices for various random events related to the player's company have been reduced;
- A bit of additional code to make it easier for you to collect toy collections;
- Many new milestones in the game;

Company management:
- In the list of employees, department heads will be marked with a different color;
- Employees of your company will now have the correct position information in their profile;
- Viewing candidates is no longer available if all resumes have already been viewed;
- When employees ask for a salary increase, their current salary and the desired salary will be visible;


Bugs:
- Fixed a bug with getting the Asset Ascension achievement;
- Fixed an erroneous message from Amy at the beginning of the new game "Now you can trade on the stock exchange again!";
- Fixed several other minor bugs;

A small hotfix

- Now you can switch between contacts from the company page (view director to board of directors);
- Fixed a bug where the last company on the second page of the stock exchange was not displayed;
- Fixed a bug where the game crashed due to a message from a yakuza;

Quality of Life Update - 0.4.0.2

A small update with quality of life features!

- The possibility to easily switch to the next and previous contact is now available;
- Now when you hover over a contact's profile picture, you will get additional information about them;
- You can also now learn more about a contact by hovering over it in a dialog box;
- Contacts' knack are now visible in the department menu;
- Improvements to Japanese localization;
- Faces of chibi portraits now match the full portrait;
- You can no longer leave your own company in CEO mode (only if you are kicked out);
- After resigning as CEO, you are subject to a one-year restriction period during which you cannot create a new company;
- Large messages are now typed faster;
- Yakuza will now be more often offering to pay off;
- The bank will no longer be so quick and aggressive in taking away your property;
- Fixed calculations for the size of your own company (in money amount);
- Fixed a bug with lifetime blocking of trading on the stock exchange;
- Fixed a game crash if a player has a nickname with certain characters;

Hotfix after 0.4 updater


- Fixed the issue with the game crash "Variable Index [1] out of range [1] - -1.mycar"
- Fixed incorrect display of tooltips in Japanese

Work of fan localizations has been improved:
- Now the game does not crash if there are blank lines in the translation, but displays English lines.
- Font in fan translations doesn't break every time you launch it.

STONKS-9800: 0.4 Update - The Beginning of Entertainment

This update is just the beginning of a series of updates with fun and more!

[h2]New features:[/h2]

- At the end of each year, the financial publication will create a selection of the best companies of the year and the top most influential people of the year, which the player can get to: both wealth and reputation are taken into account;
- New opportunity to go to the arcade and play a Shoot'em'up game and collect gachapon toys (more games will be added later);
- A few new events in the bar;
- Your friends can invite you to go for a walk in the city, and then you can choose where you want to go;
- A map with possible places for entertainment (will be greatly expanded);
- The ability to go to the temple and park with friends;
- New very rare real estate offers with discounts with new events;
- A player can be expelled from the company's board of directors if his reputation in the company is very low;
- New possible event for the company director;
- Yakuza now require regular payments for their services;
- Yakuza now provide more services;
- Some employees with a yakuza connection can provide "special services" if the player also has a yakuza connection;
- You can now become an enemy of the Yakuza and they will make your life miserable;
- If a player is in a high position in a company, their actions in the market regarding this company become more influential and can cause new events and news;
- More different news;
- Companies will now issue new shares, and the player, if he owns a large stake, will give his consent to this. Without issuing new shares, companies will hit a ceiling at some point;
- New achievements.

[h2]Amenities:[/h2]

- Improved Japanese translation;
- The game now has partial support for Steam Input, which means the buttons are displayed correctly for different gamepads (Xbox, Dualshock, Dualsense, Pro Controller). However, the correct display of buttons is not guaranteed when changing configurations in Steam settings;
- Gamepad controls: the ability to exit various menus by pressing the button, as well as to scroll through various lists using the D-pad, for example, in the list of real estate, cars, jobs, etc.
- The portfolio menu can now be found on the stock exchange, and you can now see the dividend yield of companies there;
- The portfolio now has a guide to "?", as well as an explanation of each column;
- The speech mini-game has been slightly redesigned to make it easier to understand what you need to do;
- The sound of the phone ringing is now quieter;
- Pop-up notifications can now appear several at a time to make it easier to deal with them;

[h2]Balance:[/h2]

- Selling and buying large portions of your company's shares instantly affects your company's reputation and makes news;
- Penalties for market manipulation are now more severe;
- The daily growth of R&D points in a company has been reduced under certain conditions;
- Donations no longer give as much public reputation growth;

[h2]Bug fixes:[/h2]

- Fixed a bug with calculating the efficiency of the main department in your own company;
- Now you will not see the connections of a potential employee with the Yakuza if you do not have any connections with them;
- Fixed a bug that prevented the field of activity chosen by the player from being taken into account when creating a company;
- Fixed a bug that prevented clicking on company names on the second page of the portfolio;
- Fixed a bug with an incorrect message for the player as the head of the company;
- Receiving insider information now lowers ethics instead of raising it;
- Fixed a bug that sometimes miscalculated the player's wealth in terms of houses and cars.
- The game no longer crashes if you exclude all companies on the chart;
- Fixed a bug that prevented special achievements for CEO mode from being credited if the game was loaded (unfortunately, it will only work in new games);
- Fixed a bunch of other minor bugs.