Plutocracy News

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash when the bot goes bankrupt
  

Vulnerabilities and balancing:

• Economy rebalancing
  
• Agents rebalancing
  
• Maximum interest on loans has been reduced
  
• The frequency of shareholders voting and offers to buy shares has been reduced
  
• Courtesan agent now nullifies characters “Influence”, “Diplomacy” and “Economics” for the next negotiations
  
• Bandit agent now plunder characters or companies, giving you some of the loot
  

Errors / requests:

• Assistants can no longer bring a bill to a vote if such a bill is not supported by their party
  
• Political achievements have been reworked
  
• Now, if an error occurs during saving due to insufficient disk space, an error message is displayed. This save can no longer be used
  
• Fixed a bug that caused receiving “Technoboom” achievement without a controlling stake in the company
  
• When lobbying, money is correctly transferred to the politician now
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the loyalty lost during negotiations was displayed incorrectly
  
• Fixed a bug where the enemy could come to the player with an offer to buy shares
  
• Fixed a bug where the wrong step for loyalty and reputation of characters was set in the filters for characters
  
• Fixed display of development in companies' technologies
  
• Corrections of texts in the English version of the game
  

[h2]New[/h2]

• Shareholders voting has been reworked
  
• Workplaces construction in companies has been reworked
  
• Now players can put questions from company statistics to a vote without having a controlling stake
  

[h2]Being worked on:[/h2]

• Rebalancing of auction items
  
• Election of officials
  
• Automatic elections
  
• New laws
  
• AI companies
  
• New player resource bar
  
• Stock exchange
  

Reminder on how to download the beta version of the game:

1) Find Plutocracy in the list of your games, right-click and select "Properties".



2) Go to the Betas tab and select an available beta from the drop-down list.


Steam will then start downloading the new update.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Vulnerabilities and balancing:

• The probability of loan default has been changed.
  
• Players now pay with “Influence” for any meeting held, not just for a successful one.
  

Errors / requests:

• The research system for companies / characters has been disabled.
  
• The game ends on January 1st, 1949.
  
• Switching to the character window by clicking on an unpaid loan is again possible.
  
• When returning from the lobbying window, players are now correctly moved to the law screen of the chamber from which the lobbying window was opened.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to lobby for the governor.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to take a loan from characters in separate windows after a save load.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the characters Fame storyboard to be reset during a save load.
  
• Fixed bug. as a result of which the “Assets” tab of friends / puppets / assistants was not unlocked after increasing loyalty before updating the window.
  
• Corrections of texts in the English version of the game.
  
• Some adjustments to the stamps in the loan window.
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

• Rework of construction for jobs
  
• Rebalancing of auction items
  
• Rebalancing and reworking of some agents
  
• Shareholders' voting rework
  
• Election of officials
  
• New laws
  
• AI companies
  
• New player resource bar
  
• Stock exchange
  

Reminder on how to download the beta version of the game:

1) Find Plutocracy in the list of your games, right-click and select "Properties"



2) Go to the Betas tab and select an available beta from the drop-down list.


Steam will then start downloading the new update.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash during mergers/acquisitions on MacOS.
  
• Fixed crash related to ambitions (in some cases) when loading a save
  

Vulnerabilities and balancing :

• Skill "Grants” now gives a 10/20/30% bonus to the product price
  
• Skill "Trade" now gives a bonus of 1/3/5% of the negotiation price
  
• Bonuses / penalties to the price or the probability of negotiations from the difference in skills have been significantly reduced
  
• The risk of non-repayment of the loan has been returned to the game (will take effect only at the start of a new game)
  

Minor bugs / requests / improvements:

• Now the player cannot fulfill ambitions / ask to use loans / use agents or use incriminating evidence against characters whose state is different from the player's state (if there are no assistants in such state)
  
• It is now impossible to fulfill the ambitions of your enemies
  
• Fixed a bug due to which some items did not appear at the auction
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the purchase price of an item at the auction could become negative
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the double icon of the federal law when saving and loading
  
• Fixed a bug with incorrect counting of votes in the chamber, if the composition of the chamber changed during the consideration of the law
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the company's market share in financial statistics was displayed incorrectly
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the law filter on the map was not reset when starting a new game
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the sound of the metronome in negotiations did not turn off when the sound was turned off in the settings
  
• Fixed incorrect tooltip when hovering over the cost of completing a task by an agent in an agent window
  
• Fixed some translation errors in the English version of the game
  
• Fixed incorrect text in some letters
  
• Fixed seals in the window for taking out a loan for correct ones
  

[h2]Being worked on:[/h2]

• Construction of new workplaces rework
  
• Rebalancing the auction items
  
• Rebalancing and reworking of some agents
  
• Shareholders voting rework
  
• Officials elections
  
• New laws
  
• AI companies
  
• The new player resource bar
  
• Stock exchange
  

Reminder on how to download the beta version of the game:

1) Find Plutocracy in the list of your games, right-click and select "Properties"



2) Go to the Betas tab and select an available beta from the drop-down list.


Steam will then start downloading the new update.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash after completion of negotiations in some cases
  
• Fixed crash during elections in some cases
  
• Fixed crash when applying "Saboteur" to a company that disappeared due to a merger/acquisition
  
• Fixed two more crashes of the game
  
• Acceleration of loading saves compared to version 194.2
  

Errors / requests:

• "Renown" stat has been added to the character tooltip
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented initiating some bills in Nebraska
  
• Fixed error in the tooltip when trying to conclude a deal with insufficient money.
  
• Fixed a bug with incorrect displaying of votes when lobbying politicians
  
• Fixed a bug when the skill "Evaluation" was not applied to the Detective and Lobbyist.
  
• Fixed a bug with a negative number in company credits when trying to take too big credit
  
• Fixed a bug when an incorrect tooltip was displayed when hovering over the Lobbyist icon.
  
• Fixed a bug when after fulfilling an ambition its description did not change
  
• Fixed a visual error when researching all companies/characters in a row.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the photos were displayed incorrectly during the voting of shareholders
  
• The start date of the next registration of candidates for the chambers of parliament is now displayed correctly
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gender changes for previously created characters
  
• Removed unused education from the character generator
  
• Fixed some translation errors in the English version of the game
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

• Officials elections
  
• More laws
  
• Voting rework
  
• Unlocking management cards in statistics at < 50% + 1 share
  
• Stock market
  
• Companies AI
  
• New status bar
  

Reminder on how to launch the game in the beta branch:


1) Find Plutocracy in the list of your games, right-click and select Properties.



2) Click the Betas tab and select an available beta from the drop-down list.

Steam will start downloading the new update.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash of the game when using the agent "Cardinal" in some cases
  
• Fixed crash in the elections
  
• Fixed crash when choosing ambition cards
  
• Fixed crash when using a Saboteur against a bankrupt company.
  
• Fixed crash of the game when clicking on "Connections" if the player generated the age of 75 years.
  
• Fixed crash when loading a save with a lobbyist applied to Congress.
  
• Fixed crash of the game if the player was at the table of lobbying politicians and the law was moved to another chamber for consideration
  
• Fixed crash when the influence check at the Senate level was unsuccessful.
  
• Acceleration of loading saves compared to version 194.0
  

Vulnerabilities and balancing:

• Skills "Etiquette", "Evaluation" have been rebalanced.
  
• Interest on loan ambitions has been reduced.
  
• Reduced penalties / bonuses for the difference in skills.
  
• Reduced the profitability of transport companies.
  
• The step of increasing the cost of researching companies / characters has been reduced.
  

Errors / requests:

• When exploring a company, you no longer move to the company screen.
  
• Now the button for taking a loan is correctly blocked if the character is in another state.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused players to go bankrupt when trying to buy shares with money received in the form of a loan.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the required "Influence" for researching a character / company decreased when saving and loading.
  
• Fixed some translation errors in the English version of the game.
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

• Officials elections
  
• More laws
  
• Voting rework
  
• Unlocking management cards in statistics at < 50% + 1 share
  
• Stock market
  
• Companies AI
  
• New status bar
  

Reminder on how to launch the game in the beta branch:

1) Find Plutocracy in the list of your games, right-click and select Properties.



2) Click the Betas tab and select an available beta from the drop-down list.