Plutocracy News

[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.
  

Greetings, Plutocrats!

Right now we are working on a new pack of events that adds and expands the lore of the game. We have a lot of cool ideas that will make the game’s world greater. And also, we would like to take into account the ideas of the Plutocracy community.

We have made a special form that will allow you to suggest events. Events that will be possible to implement now, will be adapted and added to the game. If we add the proposed event to the game, then your name will be mentioned in the credits.

Now you have the ability to directly participate in the development of the world of Plutocracy. Just use the form, and we will take into account all your ideas in the development!

https://forms.gle/QjxejcxVHxH7dxKb7

List of changes:

• Shareholders | Fixed crash when repeatedly quickly changing the way shareholders are sorted by price.
  
• General | Fixed a bug that occurs when starting the game in Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.
  
• Events | Fixed a bug that caused money to be added to the "Enhanced Security" event in variants 1 and 2, and not taken away as they should.
  
• Journal | Fixed incorrect log display when loading a save after exiting the game.
  
• Personal account | Added light from the fireplace.
  
• Journal | Changed the appearance of the timeline bar.
  

We thank you for detailed messages about the bugs found. At least one small bug-fixing update will be released soon.

[h2]Major features: [/h2]

[h3]New game mode “Challenge”.[/h3]



First challenge “Chasing the Rockfeller”

You are going to have to repeat the success of a genius entrepreneur John Rockefeller, who retired with the biggest net worth in the world by the end of the 19th century and who owned 95% of the oil industry in the USA, merging all of them into a single trust.


[h3]New agent added “The Pianist”.[/h3]


Agent can be applied only to a company.

If he succeeds, he will stop the ongoing strike in a company and temporarily decrease the chance of another strike.The decreased chance of the strike will be restored to the regular value during 4 quarters.

Though, if he fails, he will increase the chance of the possible strike twice.
The increased chance of the strike will be restored to the regular value during 4 quarters.


[h3]In-game events were improved and updated.[/h3]


Now you will experience many more different events that will occur in-game.


[h3]Negotiations redesign.[/h3]

• Shareholders now indicate their upside which they want to receive during negotiations
  
• In case of successful negotiations you can now buy shares at a lower amount then at the Stock Market. The maximum amount of discount that you might get, depends on the selected difficulty level of the game.
  
• Now “Diplomacy” skill affect the amount of opponent’s irritation, when selecting “Insist on my terms”
  
• If you irritate the opponent, who won’t leave negotiation, but will suggest to buy shares by his first offer.
  
• Loyalty fine, when leaving negotiations will vary from time to time during different negotiations.
  
• Now the amount of purchased shares will be determined by the price
  of agreement from the beginning of negotiations. The price that was offered will be fully spent, if that is possible.
  
• The better price is by the end of negotiations, the bigger amount of shares will be bought.
  

[h2]Minor features:[/h2]

• Character context menu | Now the cost of using a particular agent will be displayed on a hint while hovering over the “Influence” option.
  
• Candidate sponsorship | Added the display of increasing chance of candidate’s victory from sponsorship.
  
• Candidate sponsorship | Added the display of loyalty level on portrait of sponsored candidate and his opponent
  
• Company voting | Added to the header the name of the company and its location.
  
• Bank credits / Character loans | Fixed several bugs in the mechanics of the work.
  
• Updated agent images.
  
• Updated images of luxury items: horses, cars and parts of houses.
  
• The interior of the personal cabinet has been updated.
  

[h2]Balance:[/h2]

• Technologies | Now the “Diplomacy” skill of the CEO doesn’t affect the technological upgrades, but the “Economics” skill affects the technological upgrade twice then the regular value.
  
• Influence | The received influence from different sources is balanced, as well as the costs of influence on various actions.
  
• Companies | The distribution of the number and types of companies across different states has changed for all sizes of the world.
  

[h2]Critical errors:[/h2]

• Fixed a crash, that was caused while saving the game after active politic is bankrupt
  
• Bankruptcy | Added extra terms for bankruptcy of characters and companies.
  
  1. All outstanding debts are bigger than all assets owned
     
  2. Cash/reserves are less then quarterly debt payouts
     

[h2]Other fixes:[/h2]

• Influence | Fixed influence loss, that is caused by puppet-politic going bankrupt
  
• Ambition “Own company shares” | Fixed an error when the character wanted to buy more shares than he can afford. When completing such ambition shares weren’t transferred to the new owner.
  
• Companies | Fixed errors in graphs “Income”, “Market share” and etc.
  
• Company statistics | In the technology development card, only the portrait of the CEO is shown.
  Shareholder’s portraits who support other technologies are hidden to avoid confusion.
  
• Finances | Shares of other companies are now listed as assets of the parenting company.
  
• Chamber list | The chart is reorganized and contains only politics related info.
  
• Agents | Fixed infinite usage of “Debt Collector” to the debtor.
  
• Mail | Fixed the amount of unread news and mails by sections.
  
• Loans | Fixed an error when quarterly payouts are twice bigger than intended.
  
• Minor cosmetic changes.
  

Warning! Saves made in previous versions of the game may not work correctly or may not work at all. We recommend starting a new game.

[h2]Major features: [/h2]

[h3]Start settings [/h3]



Now, before starting the game, you can configure various game settings.

1. World size - the choice determines the number of companies of different types and the number of politicians in the legislatures and the US Congress:
   
   
   • A small world - 100 companies of each type, 25% of the real number of politicians in the legislatures and the US Congress.
     
   • The average world - 125 companies of each type, 50% of the real number of politicians in the legislatures and the US Congress.
     
   • The big world - 150 companies of each type, 75% of the real number of politicians in the legislatures and the US Congress.
     
   • A realistic world - 200 companies of each type, the real number of politicians in the legislatures and the US Congress.
     
2. Industry - the choice determines the types of companies represented in the game:
   
   
   • “All industries” - coal mining, transport, oil production, oil refining, ore mining, metallurgical companies.
     
   • "Oil" - coal mining, transportation, oil production, oil refining companies.
     
   • “Metallurgical" - coal mining, transport, ore mining, metallurgical companies.
     
   
   Warning! Settings above significantly affects the loading time of the new quarter, the saving time and the weight of the saved files, as well as the overall performance of the game.
   
   
3. Starting conditions - the choice determines the initial capital at the start of the game:
   
   
   • “From the bottom” - $ 100 in cash. The only previously available option.
     
   • “Experienced investor” - $ 100 in cash and shares of a random company in the starting state in the amount of $ 1 Million.
     
   • “Company owner” - $ 1M in cash and his own small company with a staff of 10 people.
     The type of company is determined randomly, but can be changed manually to the desired type available in the starting state. If you cannot choose the desired type of company, try changing the starting state.
     The name of your own company is randomly selected for the selected type of company, but can be changed manually by clicking on the feather to the right of the company name.
     

[h3]Assignment of officials by a puppet governor[/h3]



If the current legislation of the state makes the assignment to the post of an official by the governor, and the governor is your puppet, then you can assign one of your puppets to this post (the puppet should not occupy another post of a politician or official).



This will allow you to significantly reduce the amount of influence needed to obtain subsidies, conceal accidents or disperse strikes with the help of an official.


[h2]Minor features:[/h2]

• General | The performance of the game should be higher on weak machines.
  
• Luxury items | now add fame to their owner instead of influence.
  
• Lobbying | If your character holds a position in the chamber, then he will always be displayed at the top of the list of politicians during lobbying.
  

[h2]Balance:[/h2]

• The sales prices of products of different types of companies are balanced.
  
• Changed the requirements for completing achievements:
  
  
  • “Plutocrat”
    Level 1 - a fortune of $ 10,000,000
    Level 2 - a fortune of $ 100,000,000
    Level 3 - a fortune of $ 500,000,000
    
    
  • “Cashflow Generator”
    Level 1 - income of $ 500,000
    Level 2 - income of $ 5,000,000
    Level 3 - income of $ 25,000,000
    

[h2]Critical errors:[/h2]

• Fixed critical errors related to the ongoing elections in 1889, 1890 and 1910.
  
• Fixed a critical error related to the selection of opponents of current politicians during the elections.
  
• Fixed critical errors related to bankruptcy/dismissal of politicians and officials.
  
• Fixed a critical error related to the bankruptcy of a fixed company during a move to another state.
  
• Fixed a critical error that occurred when calculating the company's profit at the end of the quarter.
  
• Fixed a critical bug that led to the collapse of the game's economy.
  

[h2]Other fixes:[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where reputation was taken away when re-running for an already held post.
  
• Fixed a bug where the votes of US congressional politicians disappeared during the voting.
  
• Fixed a bug where companies in the list of state companies could be displayed incorrectly.
  
• Fixed errors related to the repurchase of shares by a shareholder-company during the issue of shares.
  
• Fixed a bug where company icons disappeared during the agent application.
  
• Minor cosmetic changes.