STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator News

Finally, the long-awaited update! I'm sorry for the delay, but I'll be revising the roadmap in a few days, so stay tuned.

[h2]Company Management:[/h2]
- Ability to create your own company;
- A new mode in which the player immediately creates their own small company;
- The ability to view a list of all key employees in the company;
- Ability to build and develop company departments and assign key employees to them;
- Now there are pop-up notifications when replenishing or spending money from the company reserves;
- Significantly reworked the balance of company characteristics and income calculation formulas;
- Ability to send employees on vacation, train them, and much more;
- Ability to hold calming meetings for investors;
- Now, the player can be fired from the position of CEO if they are not performing well and do not have a controlling stake in the company;
- The player can be offered to resign from the position of CEO if they have a controlling stake in the company and are managing it poorly;
- The player's company can now go bankrupt if it has a negative balance for a long time;
- If a player as a CEO does not attend meetings, it negatively affects the outcomes;
- Employees can now request salary increases or vacations;
- Random acquaintances can now ask to work for your company;
- New random events for the company manager.

[h2]Companies:[/h2]

- New companies are now going public (IPO), allowing the player to immediately buy a certain amount of shares at a favorable price (or not, because who knows what will happen to the company);
- Now, the results of shareholders' meetings affect the stock price;
- New events have appeared at shareholder meetings.

[h2]Contacts:[/h2]
- Ability to sort contacts by various indicators (not just by friendship);
- All contacts can now have a penchant for a certain business (useful for managing a company);
- More professions in contacts;
- New phrases for contacts when the player communicates with them as their boss;
- Increased the maximum possible number of shares that can be offered in personal deals;
- Some changes in character generation;
- New characteristics - thoroughness and experience;
- Your company's employees also have energy and job satisfaction indicators;
- Each contact now has brief information about their personality or hobbies (may not be true in old save files);
- Now, improving or worsening relations with a board member or CEO affects the reputation in their company.

[h2]Convenience:[/h2]
- Added the ability to skip the intro (but only after the first viewing, so you'll have to watch it once). For this, hold the Esc key or B on the gamepad;
- Added the ability to speed up horse races;
- The bottom panel is now dimmed when inactive;
- Improved cursor control from the gamepad (it slows down slightly over active objects);
- Added a trillion mark for corresponding large sums.

[h2]Technical:[/h2]
- Traditionally improved Japanese translation;
- Added a 1280x720 resolution setting (want to get the green checkmark for Steam Deck);
- The game on Steam Deck should automatically select the best resolution (hopefully);
- Now, the initial money is not considered in the achievements "Cash Catcher" and "Dragon's Hoard";
- New achievements.

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]
- Characters now keep their noses, instead of changing them every time a save is loaded;
- Fixed a bug where contact images appeared in the wrong messages;
- Fixed the display of friendship level with Emi (to make it neat and even);
- Fixed a bug with incorrect interview results display;
- Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze when exiting;
- Fixed an error where the list of contact professions was limited to a certain list over time;
- Fixed a bug where the day started over after exiting the system menu;
- Fixed several bugs that caused the game to crash;
- Fixed a bug where events of the day replayed when reloading the game;
- Optimization improvements (hopefully).

Hello everyone!

Apologies are in order. It looks like I bit off more than I could chew this time around. Who knew that rest isn’t just a suggestion, but a necessity? Shocking, right?

So here’s the deal: I dropped the ball and patch 0.3 is going to need a bit more TLC before it’s ready to roll out. But don’t worry, I’ll be sharing more screenshots in the next few days – so keep your eyes on Twitter and Discord.

Now, for a quick refresher: this patch is all about breathing life into your entrepreneurial spirit. You’ll get to build your company from the ground up, handpick your team, assign roles, and watch your empire expand. And for those of you who are as impatient as I am, you can jump straight into the action with a ready-to-go company (it’ll be a modest start, but hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day).



I can't thank you enough for your patience and understanding. I’m considering a tweak in the roadmap to ensure I deliver nothing but top-notch updates without the delay. Every promise made will be a promise kept, that’s a guarantee.

Catch you soon!

- Friends can no longer have more than 100 friendship levels;
- More readable rate display in the "2 Courses" menu;
- Reduced the required reputation level for unlocking short trades;
- Allows you to delete save files;
- Fixed a bug that caused the chart to not update on days when a player was working part-time;
- Fixed a bug with the game crashing when investing in Future Tech;
- Fixed a bug that caused mailstones for friends to be counted incorrectly;
- Fixed a bug that could cause the game to crash after certain events;
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from participating in a shareholder meeting in the hospital.

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.