Plutocracy News

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed a critical error that occurred when leveling the "Personnel" skill
  
• Fixed several critical bugs when changing a quarter
  

Bugs / complains:

• Party support for laws affecting the political rights of certain social groups has been changed
  
• The collector repaid the loan even in the event of a “failure”. Fixed
  
• The player, not having the shares of the company, could initiate the exit from the trust. Fixed
  
• Giving a loan by a player with their outstanding loans sometimes led to bankruptcy. Fixed
  
• Fixed errors in the texts of the English version of the game
  
• Minor cosmetic fixes
  

[h2]In work[/h2]

• More new laws
  
• Automatic elections
  
• Election of officials
  
• Rework of negotiation mechanics
  
• Stock exchange
  

[h2]New[/h2]

• 8 new laws have been added to deepen the historical simulation: now, at the start of the game, some characters belonging to certain social groups of the population are limited in political rights, such as "the right to vote" and "the right to run"
  
• Assistants not hired are now updated every two quarters
  
• Added error message when loading incorrect saves
  

[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where the number of jobs and hired workers did not decrease after accidents until the moment the flow of time is activated in the game
  
• Fixed incorrect visual display of ribbons indicating functionality under development
  

[h2]In work[/h2]

• More new laws
  
• Automatic elections
  
• Election of officials
  
• Rework of negotiation mechanics
  
• Stock exchange
  

[h2]New[/h2]

• Trusts
  

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash with assistants in some cases
  
• Fixed crash when lobbying a governor
  

Vulnerabilities and balancing:

• Auction items have been rebalanced
  
• Courtesan and Cardinal costs have been reduced
  
• Now, to carry out a merger / acquisition, you need to get at least 75% of the votes “FOR”.
  

Bugs / complains:

• Workplaces are now destroyed in accidents.
  
• After fulfilling the ambition of a friend, 3 agent cards are given to choose from now
  
• The status bars in the M&A window have been fixed
  
• Fixed a bug when skill points were not awarded after meeting the conditions for some political achievements
  
• Fixed a bug when characters with “Selective” trait were not allowed to meet with insufficient player reputation, even if they were puppets
  
• Fixed a bug when calculating the Detective's chance of success didn't work right
  
• Fixed a bug when the Journalist agent did not take away the entire reputation of compromised characters
  
• Fixed a bug when the buttons in elections were not blocked properly
  
• Fixed a bug when cards in elections were not unlocked properly in some cases
  
• Fixed a bug with overcapping Popularity and Number of supporters in elections.
  
• Fixed several bugs with the Lobbyist agent
  
• Fixed a bug when money from the Goon agent didn’t transferred to the player's account
  
• Fixed a bug with the work-plan modifier in company statistics.
  
• Fixed a bug when some ambitions didn't work correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which not all assistants were displayed in the finances window
  
• Fixed a bug when clicking on an item in the finance window
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

• Elections of officials
  
• Automatic elections
  
• New laws
  
• AI companies
  
• New player resource panel
  
• Stock exchange
  

[h2]New[/h2]

• Trusts
  

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Critical errors:

• Fixed crash with assistants in some cases
  
• Fixed crash when lobbying a governor
  

Vulnerabilities and balancing:

• Auction items have been rebalanced
  
• Courtesan and Cardinal costs have been reduced
  

Bugs / complains:

• After fulfilling the ambition of a friend, 3 agent cards are given to choose from now
  
• The status bars in the M&A window have been fixed
  
• Fixed a bug when skill points were not awarded after meeting the conditions for some political achievements
  
• Fixed a bug when characters with “Selective” trait were not allowed to meet with insufficient player reputation, even if they were puppets
  
• Fixed a bug when calculating the Detective's chance of success didn't work right
  
• Fixed a bug when the Journalist agent did not take away the entire reputation of compromised characters
  
• Fixed a bug when the buttons in elections were not blocked properly
  
• Fixed a bug when cards in elections were not unlocked properly in some cases
  
• Fixed a bug with overcapping Popularity and Number of supporters in elections.
  
• Fixed several bugs with the Lobbyist agent
  
• Fixed a bug when money from the Goon agent didn’t transferred to the player's account
  
• Fixed a bug with the work-plan modifier in company statistics.
  
• Fixed a bug when some ambitions didn't work correctly.
  

[h2]Being worked on[/h2]

• Elections of officials
  
• Automatic elections
  
• New laws
  
• AI companies
  
• New player resource panel
  
• Stock exchange
  

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.

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