Plutocracy News

[h2]New:[/h2]
[h3]1. Notifications. [/h3]
A new option has been added to the management of the company - setting up notifications. Now you can filter the information that your managers will send you.



This option will be especially convenient if you have a lot of small companies, and you do not want to receive information about various incidents in them, participate in shareholder votes, etc.

Also, you can instruct your secretary not to receive offers to sell shares from interested investors for any your companies if your plans do not include selling them.



Among other things, you will now be able to see the history of all the events that happened with all the companies where you have a stake. You can view it at any convenient time, individually for each company.

[h3]2. Optimization of saves[/h3]
The speed of saving and loading game has been improved, and the size of the final save files has been reduced.

[h3]3. Added Polish localization.[/h3]
Thanks to a member of our Discord community teyot_17 for the full Polish translation.

[h3]4. Minor improvements:[/h3]

• The number of new workplaces in buildings for developers may now vary.
  
• An indication of the number of new workplaces that the new building will provide has been added.
  
• Some changes have been added to the mergers and acquisitions window.
  
• The amount of share repurchase is now limited to the company's net assets and reserves.
  

[h2]Fixed:[/h2]
[h3]1. Critical fixes:[/h3]

• Crash after bank takeover.
  
• Crash after receiving an investigation report and failure when attempting to pay a bribe (accident).
  
• Crash when refusing to sell shares after a character's offer.

[h3]2. Other fixes:[/h3]

• Incorrect display in the stock exchange window with a large number of company statuses.
  
• Incorrect display of the difference in the company's Shares tab on the stock exchange.
  
• Incorrect display of the chance of winning elections for some politicians when sponsoring.
  
• The company went bankrupt after uploading a save file.
  
• Fixed the ability to set a zero salary for workers.
  
• Fixed the ability to use a Broker's agent on companies that are not on the stock exchange.

[h3]3. Balance:[/h3]

• The construction balance has been changed.
  
• Added a time limit for sending a repeated loan application.

We continue to work on fixing the errors that you report to us, as well as on new interesting features. Thank you for your patience and help!

[h2]List of changes:[/h2]

[h3]Critical fixes:[/h3]

• Crash after buying shares by another character.
  
• Crash as a result of M&A of companies, or after bankruptcy.
  

[h3]Other fixes:[/h3]

• A bug with your bank's reserves, which makes it possible to take out a lot of loans.
  
• When returning from the credits table - an empty window.
  
• Displaying negative amounts in Company Reserves during Expansion.
  
• Inability to obtain a loan for your company from a bank whose shares belong to another company of yours.
  
• Corrected the name of the state of South Dakota.
  
• Company finances no longer display the company's global market share.
  
• The Merger of Companies does not correctly take into account the difference in Capitalization and Share Prices of the merged Companies.
  
• Images disappeared when opening the company window.
  
• Incorrect opening of a company from the company table.
  
• The Tutorial button disappears after loading a savegame.
  
• Incorrect Icon in Share Transaction for Bank.
  
• The hair color is named "Gray eyes" instead of "Gray hair" during character creation.
  

[h3]Minor improvements:[/h3]

• Indication of the share of shares of the parent company in a subsidiary bank when taking out a loan.
  

We continue to work to resolve any errors that you periodically report to us. Thank you for your patience and help!

[h2]List of changes:[/h2]
Greetings, Plutocrats!
We have analyzed your feedback, and found it useful to implement the next several changes at once.

[h3]Main Features:[/h3]

• [h3]A new mechanic and visual of the company expansion process.[/h3]
  A new element of building process has been added - construction contractors, whose reputation and fame will now affect the completion of construction on time. By contacting unreliable contractors, you can save a lot of money on building new jobs, but you will get the risk of delays in deadlines, and sometimes even inability to fulfill what the contractor promised.
  
  
  
  Contractor offers will be constantly updated - and you will be able to regularly find the best opportunities to expand your companies. Or, as before, transfer everything to the CEO, and deal with other issues.
  
  
• [h3]The banking system has received an update.[/h3]
  The banks' rates have been reduced to more realistic ones, and now you can offer the bank to reduce the rate up to the level of the Federal Bank's rate, however, be prepared to reduce the chance of the bank's consent. But, if successful, you will receive profitable bets that even competitors will envy!
  
  
  
  Having your own bank, as before, will open up opportunities for you to finance your own companies at meager rates without seeking the approval of third-party banks. But, importantly, now you can finance your companies even outside of your bank's state.

[h3]Additional improvements:[/h3]

• [h3]Changing the frequency of voting and the mechanics of interaction.[/h3]
  Now it is not necessary to react to every vote on any trifles in each of your companies - you can ignore them without viewing notifications.
  
  
• [h3]Improved the selection of the starting state.[/h3]
  It has become possible to select a state directly on the widget map.
  
  

[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• The voting frequency was balanced according to the wishes of the community and became lower.
  
• The interest rate for banks has been reduced to a more realistic one.
  
• The balance of companies' costs for workers has been corrected - now workers' costs will be a significant item, and wages will have a stronger impact on the company's net profit.
  
• The number of characters in the game has been optimized - there are more political shareholders in companies.
  

[h3]Fixed:[/h3]

• Character naming failure in German Localization
  
• A Bug with 0% Ownership of a Company in a Merger
  
• The loss of Shares owned by the Company during the Merger
  
• Successful debt collection from a reluctant debtor repeated every quarter
  
• Fixed blocking of the vote change on the bill
  
• Gain Experience and Skills when all achievements are unlocked
  
• A bug when returning a loan in the bank's statistics
  
• Incorrect processing of application dates and unavailability of agents in the future
  
• Incorrect output in hints in Company Statistics for cooldown after voting
  

[h3]What are we preparing in the next updates?[/h3]
We continue to work on Vertical Holdings feature - the next potentially major update. We are also developing a storyline campaign, which will tell the story of a shadow tycoon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In addition, we will add many fixes and improvements, considering the wishes and concerns of the community. For example, filter notifications and news from companies for convenience and filtering out unnecessary information.
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Once again, we express our gratitude to the active and caring members of our community on Steam and Discord, who report bugs and exploits found, as well as express their ideas and thoughts on development - we read and track everything, and always take constructive thoughts into account!

Of course, not all of your ideas will be implemented, because we are still working as a small team, but your feedback helps us better understand how to develop the Plutocracy further.

Special thanks to all those who seek to participate in translations into different languages, and also recommends Plutocracy in the reviews on the Steam page. This gives us the strength to develop the project further, until its full release!

[h2]List of changes:[/h2]

[h3]Minor features:[/h3]

• Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank or for a bank in the Central Bank can no longer be greater than the net assets of the borrower (now the amount of all existing loans is also taken into account).
  
• Credits | The loan amount for a company in a bank cannot exceed the current reserves of the lender bank.
  
• Credits | The automatic receipt of a loan from the Central Bank to a bank has been removed when other companies take out a loan from this bank.
  In return, the loan is now issued from the bank's reserves and all loan repayment payments also belong to the bank.
  
• Credits | If the bank refuses the loan to the company, this bank is excluded from the list of available banks for 100 days for this company. After the expiration of the moratorium, the bank returns back to the list of possible creditors of the company.
  
• Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy of characters and companies can now occur only after a quarter change, when payments on bills occur. Bankruptcies in the middle or end of the quarter should no longer happen.
  

[h3]Critical fixes:[/h3]

• Pianist | Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when using the agent.
  

[h3]Other fixes:[/h3]

• Influence | Fixed an error in the influence dynamics graph, which caused incorrect influence dynamics to be shown for a period of more than 3 previous quarters.
  
• Minor cosmetic changes.
  

[h2]List of changes:[/h2]

[h3]Main feature:[/h3]

• Plutocratopedia is an in-game encyclopedia on the world and mechanics of Plutocracy.
  

[h3]Minor features:[/h3]

• Added a clink of coins when confirming a share buyback.
  
• Minor English localization update.
  

[h3]Critical fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed a crash that occurred periodically when viewing the company's finances after the takeover.
  
• Fixed a crash that periodically occurred when saving game after the bankruptcy of completely loyal characters.
  
• Fixed a crash that periodically occurred when registering candidates for elections.
  

[h3]Other fixes:[/h3]

• General | Fixed looping playback of only the first music track in the game.
  
• General | Fixed a bug that caused the icon of temporary blocking of negotiations to not be displayed on the investor's portrait after fulfilling the ambition to “Buy shares” of the character
  
• Achievements | "Plutocrat" | Fixed a bug tracking the status of a character in the progress of an achievement.
  
• Ambitions | "Get a loan" | Fixed an error checking for the feasibility of an ambition when changing quarters.
  
• Elections | Fixed a bug that caused background wind noise to be heard during the election campaign.
  
• Issue and repurchase of shares | Fixed a bug that caused the order to remain available after the failure of the shareholder vote.
  
• Laws | Fixed a bug where the rule of precedence of federal laws over local laws from the "Constitutional" section did not work for new states that joined after the adoption of these laws.
  
• Other minor cosmetic changes.