Plutocracy News

[h2]⚜️ [/h2][p]Fellow plutocrats,
we continue refining the intricate machinery of power and capital.
This update brings stability to politics, economy, and corporate management.[/p][hr][/hr][h3]⚖️ Fixes[/h3]

• [p]🕵️ Character table filter issues corrected[/p]
• [p]⚖️ Antitrust Act in the Rockefeller scenario now properly passes the Senate[/p]
• [p]🗳 Election UI now closes after personal participation[/p]
• [p]📊 Fixed wrong data during worker amendment votes[/p]
• [p]✊ Companies now pay employees after strikes[/p]
• [p]💰 Correct dividend display in corporate structure[/p]
• [p]🧾 Initiated laws now load correctly with save files[/p]
• [p]💥 Fixed crashes during company mergers[/p]
• [p]📉 Stable stock prices after loading — no more phantom gains or losses[/p]
• [p]👔 Hiring a new CEO now opens the proper voting screen[/p]
• [p]📰 Newspapers continue to publish after media mergers[/p]
• [p]🏦 Central Bank loans can be taken again under valid conditions[/p]
• [p]✍️ Edited character names without surnames now save properly[/p]
• [p]🗞 Newspaper editing available again under indirect ownership[/p]
• [p]💼 Large-reserve companies can now trade on the stock exchange[/p]
• [p]⚠️ Negotiations can no longer start with a negative stock price[/p]

[hr][/hr][h3]🗳️ Coming Next Update[/h3]

• [p]🇺🇸 Presidential Elections[/p]
• [p]🐘 Primaries & Caucuses[/p]
• [p]🖋 Presidential Veto Power[/p]
• [p]⚖️ Impeachment Proceedings[/p]

[hr][/hr][h3]💼 In Development also[/h3]

• [p]🤝 Founding new companies in partnership with loyal characters[/p]

[hr][/hr][h3]💬 Message from the Team[/h3][p]The next update will introduce new features, and I’ll share more details soon.
Thank you all for your bug reports and continued support — they truly help us make Plutocracy better with every patch.[/p][p]🖋 See you in the next update![/p]

[p]Hi everyone!
We often receive messages from you asking us to speed up development and release updates more frequently. Now it’s possible: we’ve launched a Patreon page.[/p][h3][/h3][p]🔧 Where the funds will go[/p][p]All contributions will be used to hire an additional programmer. This will allow us to speed up development and deliver updates more often.[/p][h3][/h3][p]🙏 Thank you for your support[/p][p]Thank you for staying with us and helping the project grow. If you’d like to support the development and help us release updates faster — join us on Patreon: [/p][p]👉 https://www.patreon.com/redwoodstudio [/p]

[p]Hello everyone! 👋
We’ve released an update with a number of fixes you reported earlier, and we’re continuing to work on the remaining issues. At the same time, we’re preparing the next major update — it will introduce presidential elections along with other changes to the political system.[/p][p]Thank you for your activity and support![/p][p][/p][h2]Patch Notes[/h2][h3]🛠️ Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed music playback issue on macOS.[/p]
• [p]Automatic expansion in old saves now works correctly.[/p]
• [p]Resolved crash caused by cross-ownership during company takeovers.[/p]
• [p]Puppet politicians now correctly appear in the controlled politicians counter in parliament chambers.[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug with the Broker agent that occurred after restarting the game.[/p]
• [p]Fixed layout issues with long company names on the stock exchange.[/p]
• [p]Resolved hover sticking on the first row in the shareholders table.[/p]
• [p]Required balance value now correctly displayed in the profit tooltip on the main panel.[/p]
• [p]Added message when a bank loan cannot be issued.[/p]
• [p]Fixed incorrect display of the first Capitol elections in Montana and New Mexico.[/p]
• [p]Corrected purchase percentage display for holding companies.[/p]
• [p]Fixed linking arrows from Advertising in the Banks Statistics window.[/p]
• [p]Various crash fixes.[/p]

[h3]🎨 UI Improvements[/h3]

• [p]Improved number input fields on the stock exchange and in share issuance windows.[/p]

[h3]🚧 Work in Progress[/h3]

• [p]Presidential elections.[/p]
• [p]Political system updates.[/p]
• [p]Ability to create a new company in partnership with loyal characters.[/p]

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[h2]Improvements and balance:[/h2]

• [p]The company's expansion has become more gradual and more costly. Also, each type of contractor is now more balanced and matches its profile. A reliable contractor builds more expensively, and sometimes longer, but without risk, an unknown contractor builds faster, cheaper, but with greater risk.[/p]
• [p]Added 45% machine translation to French (87% translated)[/p]

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[/p][h2]Fixed:[/h2]

• [p]Various kinds of crashes[/p]
• [p]Error in quarter transition between Q4 1958 and Q1 1959[/p]
• [p]There was no way to filter people by those who wanted to buy weapons and cars[/p]
• [p]The cartel did not take into account the market share and did not accrue a price bonus when adding the cartel to the Holding as a supplier[/p]
• [p]"My transport companies are not taken into account under any circumstances after merger and joining to trust and cartel. Their weight in city and country is zero." Corrected, same as cartel.[/p]
• [p]The payroll fund was not updated immediately after the company's expansion[/p]
• [p]The relationship from Production Volume to Demand was not displayed in the Company Economy window[/p]
• [p]Media company icon missing from ambition[/p]
• [p]Missing text in tooltip for some agents when blocking[/p]
• [p]Some types of companies were not displayed as suppliers in the Holding[/p]
• [p]Sandbox Settings | Endless Mode setting added to game end date[/p]
• [p]Sandbox Settings | Media Company added to Starter Company selection[/p]
• [p]"You cannot take loans from loyal individuals, even if you have positive net worth or net worth and cash flow that make it eligible" - added a hint that reputation must be above 0 to take out a loan.[/p]

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[/p][p]The rest of the bugs that you report, we will continue to fix, and they will be included in the next patches.[/p][p]Thank you for your activity and involvement![/p][p]
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[p]Hello everyone! [/p][p]Work on the game continues. In the near future we will release several hotfix updates, and begin work on the next update. And here is what awaits you in this update:[/p][p][/p][h2]Improvements:[/h2]

• [p]New type of company - Media (mass media)[/p]
• [p]The economic model has been changed - Research in companies has been replaced by Advertising[/p]
• [p]Added "endless play" option after 1947[/p]
• [p]Added history of voting on laws in parliament[/p]
• [p]Added filter to stop time by desired event[/p]
• [p]Added a filter to hide reorganized companies on the stock exchange[/p]
• [p]Optimization of loading windows and saving[/p]

[p] [/p][h2]Critical errors:[/h2]

• [p]Crash when closing the game during loading[/p]
• [p]Some other crashes[/p]

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[/p][h2]Other errors:[/h2]

• [p]No image of new prosecutor immediately after election[/p]
• [p]After the strike ends, production volumes do not recover[/p]
• [p]The Player's influence from puppet characters is not updated after they are dismissed[/p]
• [p]Bugs in company bankruptcy[/p]
• [p]Incorrect calculation of the company's market share in finance[/p]
• [p]Same company names when trust is dissolved[/p]
• [p]Agents' dossier corrected[/p]
• [p]Corrected the date of US Senator elections when new states join[/p]
• [p]"Election window has a spelling error. Loser is incorrectly spelled Looser."[/p]
• [p]"The Market cap and Cashflow views in companies finances doesn't show actual data for those categories about company, it just keeps showing balance no matter what is selected." [/p]
• [p]"Letter sent has wrong grammar when opponent reached $1 million."[/p]

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[/p][h2]Announcement[/h2][p]The next update in line will be dedicated to the political part of the game - presidential elections. Currently, the game has a parliament, laws, key state officials, but there is no president who can veto any federal law and form the executive power in the country. Without him, the US political system looks incomplete.[/p][p]Join the discussion about what the president should do in the game and how he should influence the gameplay.[/p][p]It will be interesting to read your vision and expectations from the next update, as well as to learn your opinion on the new type of companies - media. What could be improved or added?[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you all for your support! [/p][p]Adding new updates to the greatly expanded functionality of the game often becomes an unpredictable task with many variables. Changes in one place entail refactoring in many other related parts. And sometimes it forces us to roll back and start literally from scratch... [/p][p]Thank you for the greatest patience and understanding![/p][p][/p][p]We continue our journey towards the full release of Plutocracy together with you![/p][p]Your support, as always, is our guiding light![/p][p]Until next time![/p]