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Dev diary. Update announcement v. 0.225

Greetings, Plutocrats!

It's time to talk about how we are improving the game and what you will see in the upcoming update.
We focused on the following vectors for the new update - these are banks, increasing the CEO’s role in the game world and new agents as well

So let's get started.


[h2]1. Banks and the new credit system.[/h2]



As it was announced earlier, banks will appear in game, and in the upcoming update they will enrich the gaming capabilities. It’s rather difficult to imagine a financial empire without the participation of banks.

The main difficulty in developing a banking system for us was to preserve the continuity of the economic model of companies development, but at the same time, to distinguish the bank from the general background of manufacturing companies, because it is a rather unique structure and is very different from factories and resource companies.

[h3]What is the purpose of a bank?[/h3]
First of all, for lending to your manufacturing companies that require cash investments to expand and quickly capture the market. Having your own bank, you will be able to credit companies easily, without worrying about the defaults and the interest rate - it will be significantly lower than in other banks!



As you know, cheap and “long money” is a huge boost for development.
And now, instead of ephemeral loans “out of nowhere”, loans will need to be taken from banks in the state where the borrower company is located.

[h3]The structure of the banking system.[/h3]
The banking system itself in the Plutocracy is built in a following way:
The Central Bank lends to all private banks at a rate influenced by the economy, and they already possess these money, giving it to the population and companies at a higher rate, which is influenced by the level of development of a particular bank.
Also, banks attract money from the population in the form of deposits.
The number of bank employees and their productivity affect the amount of funds raised.



The higher the bank's goodwill and the quality of services, the higher the rate at which it can lend and earn more. Certain technologies can reduce the loan rate from the population. Therefore, if you follow the key parameters, including the productivity of bank clerks, your bank will be able to attract more money from the population and give more loans, turning the bank into a stable profit stream.


[h2]2. Increasing the role of CEOs in companies.[/h2]



We have fundamentally revamped the role of company managers in Plutocracy.
First of all, we have given more freedom to hired managers. Taking into account your feedback and wishes, microcontrol in the field of decision-making during strikes and accidents has been reduced.

[h3]More independence means less microcontrol.[/h3]
Now CEOs will independently deal with the emergency in the managed company, without distracting the members of the board of directors to resolve these issues. The chance of a successful solution depends on the CEO's Economics skill.

Thus, if a strike starts in the company, the director will try to stop it, but he will have to increase the workers wages.
If an accident occurs, he will try to hide the incident so that the company avoids a fine for violating safety regulations.



Thanks to greater independence of hired CEOs, the owners of companies will be able to be less distracted by emergencies. When the owner himself is the CEO of a company, the decisions will be needed, and it won’t be possible to shift responsibility to managers. Events in the managed company have been reworked and improved, so there are more ways to resolve the problem and probable consequences.

[h3]Specialization.[/h3]

An important addition will be the fact that each CEO will receive his specialization by default, which will make it possible to improve the relevant technologies twice faster than others. After all, there are no managers who are equally well versed in all areas of the company. In the upcoming update, we have settled this injustice.


[h2]3. New agents - new opportunities.[/h2]


[h3]Recruiting managers with the help of Headhunter.[/h3]
Previously, it was possible to hire only an unemployed CEO.
But by strengthening the role of managers, we also added such an agent as the Headhunter.
With his help, you can lure away any experienced CEO of any company, thereby killing two birds with one stone: weaken a competitor, and strengthen your corporation.

Despite his gift of persuasion, the Headhunter won’t be able to lure away a CEO that is hostile to you. After all, loyalty has not been canceled.


[h3]Provocation of strikes.[/h3]
Another tool against competitors in the upcoming update will be an agent that is called Provoker who can organize a strike and ignite the righteous anger of all workers against their employers, no matter how good a company they work in is. After all, there is always something that irritates ordinary hard workers - for example, low wages or awful working conditions.

Of course, the use of agents, in case of failure, as before, will entail unpleasant consequences. Therefore, whether to use them or not is always at your discretion.


[h2]4. The vector of development.[/h2]
After the release of the upcoming update, we want to focus on improving the mechanics of agents, and also add such an important thing as selling shares to other characters using negotiations, which we have been asked about more than once in our active community.
We will tell you more about this in the next diary.

In addition to that, in the next diary, we will publish a roadmap for the development of the project before its full release, which, we hope, is not far off. This will help to better understand where we are going and what to expect from the Plutocracy.

Thank you for reading and believing in us!
You will find out the info about the upcoming update with the announced changes in the news in the coming days.
You can also receive information and share your thoughts on our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/tsy8juk .

Until next time, friends!


Patch 0.223.6 is available in main branch now!

List of changes:
  • Fixed a critical error during the election when one of the candidates was not found.
  • Fixed a critical error during loading when the controlling shareholder is not found.
  • Fixed a critical bug due to missing relationships between characters related to the use of old saves where relationships were broken.
  • Fixed a critical error that occurred during an attempt to display a hint for the "Get Sponsored" ambition when, for some reason, the opponent of the character with the ambition was not found.
  • Fixed a critical error that occurred while viewing the list of politicians of any chamber.
  • Fixed a critical bug that occurred while receiving a reward for sponsoring a politician.

Patch 0.223.5 is available in main branch now!

List of changes:
  • Fixed a common crash when CEO of certain companies went bankrupt.
  • A new save system has been improved to support old saves made on earlier versions of the game.
  • Now the market share occupied by the company is counted in the progress of the task during the challenge mode only if you own >50% of the shares of this company.

See you next year, Plutocrats!

Patch 0.223.4 is available in main branch now!

List of changes:

  • Fixed a common crash when trying to save, if the heir of a politician who ran for a higher post went bankrupt.
  • Fixed a common crash related to the generation of an invalid relationships of the heir of a bankrupt politician.
  • Fixed a bug where politicians tried to run for higher post much less often than they should.
  • Fixed missing state names and flags when selecting the starting state at the beginning of the game.
  • The stock exchange purchase price of shares in the list of shareholders of companies should now be updated automatically in accordance with the price change on the stock exchange.
  • Added previously missing sound of coins when buying or selling shares on the stock exchange from the portfolio of the headed company.
  • Fixed the highlighted areas in the tutorial of the personal account.
  • The texts of effects of some events are unified to a more standart format for easier perception.


We remind you that the outdated saves may doesn't work correctly or doesn't work at all, if they was made before the introduction of the new, more compact savesystem in 0.223.1. We advise you to stop using them completely.

Have a great Christmas weekends and a Happy New Year!

Update 0.223 is available now!

[h2]Major features:[/h2]

    [h3]
  1. Publicity of companies.[/h3]

    From now on, the stock exchange will have a limited number of shares circulating.
    To obtain a 100% share of the company, you must buy all the company's shares on the stock exchange and from all significant shareholders, entering into direct negotiations with them.
    In addition to that, all issued shares are now placed on the stock exchange, if they were not repurchased by the current shareholders at the time of issue of shares.

    [h3]
  2. Buyback of the company's shares.[/h3]

    In order to increase the shares of current shareholders, you can now initiate the “buy back shares” from the stock exchange.
    During the buy back the company will buy back shares from the stock exchange at the market price with a margin. The margin depends on the amount of the company's shares currently circulating on the stock exchange. The shares are bought with funds from the company's reserves, then after the repurchasing the shares they are canceled and destroyed.
    The majority of shareholders consent is required for the repurchase of shares, as well as for the issue of shares.
    In addition to that, it is impossible to issue shares and immediately repurchase, or vice versa, to repurchase and immediately issue new shares. Both procedures have a shared cooldown.


[h3]Minor features:[/h3]
  • Added 4 new events.
  • Some loading screen arts have been updated.
  • Added a button to exit from taking a loan/credit.


[h2]Bug fixes:[/h2]
[h3]Critical fixes:[/h3]
  • Optimization | The size of game saves has been reduced by 3 times.
  • Optimization | Performance of the game is increased by optimizing internal processes.
  • Saves | Fixed a random periodic crash when loading a save.
  • Shareholders | Fixed random periodic crash when sorting by "Price".


[h3]Other fixes:[/h3]
  • Shareholders | Now the “Price” column directly displays the starting price of the shareholder instead of a conditional display of the value of its margin to the exchange purchase price.
  • Agents | Now the Agents button, which opens the agent selection menu to apply to the character/company/law, will be unavailable if there is no suitable agent to apply to the target.
  • Character Assets | The “Balance” column has been removed from the table, the remaining columns of the table have been reorganized.
  • Voting in companies | Fixed incorrect sorting of shareholders during voting.
  • Challenge mode | Fixed a bug, when achievements from the ownership of the company and of the starting money at the beginning of the challenge were automatically completed.
  • Challenge Mode | Fixed a bug where John Stonefaller was counted as female by game.
  • Minor cosmetic fixes.