STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator News

Finally, the first major update. It is dedicated to more convenient trading and communication with contacts.


- Added income and expense book;
- Added the ability to conveniently view your own portfolio, where you can easily track the most profitable companies for you;
- You can now call, communicate, and invite your contacts to a bar on weekends;
- You can now see the picture of the contact communicating with you;
- 4 new music tracks in the game;
- Your contacts with a good friendship level can now offer exclusive deals at the bar;
- New random events;
- Two modes of time passing speed;
- The possibility to go on a vacation on your own once every three months;
- In vacation, Amy now talks about vacation, not work;
- New achievements;
- Some more secret stuff.



- In the stock exchange, when you hover over "+" or "-", you can now see the price of the stock at which you last bought it;
- Restrictions on trading on the stock exchange have been introduced: you won't be able to buy 100% of the shares of all companies as easily as you want, because not all of their owners want to sell them;
- Now your purchase of shares has a more active impact on their price and the market as a whole;
- Two new difficulty settings: the speed of time on the stock exchange and the presence of the FSA (State Financial Regulator)
- FSA: If you quickly sell and buy shares on the stock exchange, shaking up the market, the FSA may issue you a warning or sue you.

Note: some of these changes will not be visible in old saves. Start a new game on Normal or higher.


- Improved ability to create fan localizations (read more here);
- Ability to make a lower game speed;
- Shareholder meetings are now held no more than once a week;
- Removed decimal numbers from money amounts;
- A small rebalancing;
- It is now impossible to click Options during some events and while dialogs are present;
- The boss now automatically gets behind the wheel of a newly bought car if there was no car before;
- The speed of increasing or decreasing the bet on horse racing has been increased;
- The chance of an investment offer from Future Tech has been increased;
- You can now produce much more pachinko balls at a time;
- The speech mini-game now works on the G H J buttons, as a unified solution for different keyboards. (Z X C will also continue to work);
- Friendship level changes are now visible in the notification;
- Japanese localization has been improved (but it may not be the best in the new timeline, this is temporary);


- There are new bugs;


- Fixed a bug where predictions in the bar could appear only once in the entire game;
- Fixed a bug that could cause companies that have already been liquidated to appear in events;
- Fixed a bug that caused the shares of all companies to drop dramatically for no reason;
- A bunch of other minor bugs have been fixed.

Another small update for the game. Next I will be working on version 0.2 with improved trading, so it will take longer.

- Added a few events related to the presence or absence of a car;
- Amy can now invite you to go for a walk on weekends;
- The chart is no longer updated on weekends;
- On the stock exchange, the share purchase multiplier no longer changes the displayed share price;
- Fixed a bug with identical names of different companies;
- Yakuza will no longer offer you a partnership after the second refusal;
- Small rebalancing of company indicators.

Improvements:
- Improvements for chart: you can hover over the company name to highlight its series of metrics, and you can hide the metrics of certain companies;

- Added new professions for people (only works in the new game);


Fixes:
- Companies that have been liquidated will no longer leave an empty space on the stock exchange and will no longer appear as NaN in the graph;
- A bunch of fixes to the behavior of people moving to different companies;
- People will no longer work for liquidated companies;
- In pachinko, you can now control the direction of the ball on the A and D keys;
- Fixing bugs related to an illegal company and its exit from the market;
- Fixed a game crash on Steam Deck;
- Fixed Amy's incorrect phrase when the player is in jail;
- Fixed a bunch of errors in the chart;
- Fixed incorrect strings in the name of professions (only works in the new game)
- The player is now displayed correctly in the board of directors of companies;
- Fixes various other minor bugs and issues;
- Correction of typos in the text, improvement of Japanese localization.

New features:
- A borderless full-screen mode has been added;
- In the stock exchange, shares are now bought and sold faster by holding the left mouse button longer;
- New contacts in the list are now marked as "New" until you hover over them;
- You can now leave the CEO position or add your own funds to the company's reserves;
- More different professions have been added to contacts (will work in the new game);

Bugs:
- Fixed overlapping notifications in the bar or on a walk;
- Fixed a bug with the company menu overlay on entertainment screens;
- Fixed the sprite of your house on the main screen;
- Fixed excessive notification after a birthday in the bar;
- First and last names have been swapped to match Japanese spelling;
- Fixed a bug where owning shares in the same company can deduct ethics points;
- Fixed a bug when the research was freezing forever;
- Fixed a bug when the status of a research was not saved;
- A little work on the CRT filter to make its last levels more comfortable for reading;
- Fixed a bug where the player became a director of several (often random) companies;
- Fixed a bug that caused a random person to become a director of a company instead of a member of the board of directors;
- Fixing various other minor bugs;
- Correction of errors in the text, partial improvement of Japanese localization.

I am good at this. All my investments—fruitfully diversified across construction, telecoms, finance—are trending upwards. My contacts are a rarefied mix of the Japanese business world, a medley of glad-handing CEOs, shareholders and other people who seem to have a lot of money despite doing very little at all. The world is kind, my future is bright. I am living. I am thriving. I am going to prison for insider trading. Wait. What?..
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