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Update 0.4.2: macOS version, company management improvements and golf

Finally, the game has a native version for macOS! It should work on Apple devices with Apple Silicon and Intel processors, the minimum OS version is macOS High Sierra 10.13.

New in the patch:
- MacOS version;
- Updates of the company management interface;
- Unemployed workers now work on "projects" in the company that bring additional reserves, research points, and increase the experience and characteristics of employees;
- New mini-game - golf;
- New achievements in the game;
- Changes in the speech mini-game: lines are highlighted in different colors, a missed shot is no longer considered a mistake, only one shot at a time;
- The replenishment indicator and expenses from the company's balance now have text animation;
- A bunch of small fixes in the Ukrainian translation;

- Fixed a bug that caused financial reputation to be deducted more often than necessary;
- Fixed a bug with incorrect display of the cost of the Advanced Marketing Campaign;
- Fixed a bug where the monthly salary of a player as a director or board member was not taken into account in the "Total" column;
- Fixed a bunch of other minor bugs;

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.