Plutocracy News

Friends, since the release of the political update to the beta branch we have been constantly improving the game, fixing bugs and working on the balance. At the moment, we are happy to announce that we are ready to release a political update to the main branch. We will add even more various laws, elections of officials, and other attributes of the political part of the game soon.

We still look forward to your feedback and welcome your feedback on Steam, as well as on the game's Discord server: https://discord.gg/PdGQQq5

Together we can make Plutocracy better!


For those who did not participate in beta testing, we attach a list of changes regarding version 193.0:

[h2]New[/h2]

• Added all US states
  
• Assistants
  
• Labor exchange
  
• Parliamentary elections
  
• Election results
  
• Primary laws (taxes, labor, antitrust)
  
• Lobbying laws
  
• New agent - Lobbyist
  
• New shareholders voting
  
• Construction of jobs in companies has been reworked
  
• Players can now vote on questions without having a controlling stake
  
• New character features - Renown and Political Potential
  
• Added "Autosave frequency" to the settings menu
  
• Mail rework
  

[h2]Vulnerabilities and balancing[/h2]

• Rebalancing loyalty
  
• Rebalancing influence
  
• Rebalancing the economy
  
• Rebalancing agents
  
• Skills “Lobbying”, “Finance” have been reworked
  
• Skill “Investments” has been removed
  
• Skill “Personnel” has been added.
  
• Skills "Bookkeeping", "Grants", "Etiquette", "Evaluation", "Trade" have been rebalanced.
  
• The frequency of voting by shareholders and proposals to buy shares has been reduced
  
• "Courtesan" now resets "Influence", "Diplomacy" and "Economy" characters for the next negotiations
  
• "Bandit" now robs characters or companies, giving you part of the loot
  
• Rebalancing the "Maintenance" for the player
  
• Interest on loans in ambition has been reduced.
  
• Penalties / bonuses for skill differences have been reduced.
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

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

[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.