Plutocracy News

[h2]New features:[/h2]

• Added a new agent - broker.
  
  
  
  The agent can only be applied to the company.
  If successfully applied, it causes a rise / fall in the share price of any company for a limited period.
  
  
  
  When a company is under the influence of a broker, the corresponding icon is displayed in the company's effects.
  
  
  
  
  
• Added A new “Influence" tab for each character, where you can see the amount of influence received from different sources, as well as its growth.
  Tab contains graphs “Influence” and “Dynamics”.
  
  
  
  The “Influence" graph shows the distribution of influence by categories of its sources.
  The "Dynamics" graph shows the influence curve for the current quarter and 3 previous years.
  
  
  
• Added the “Status” and “Financial Forecast" graphs to the “Assets” tab of the character.
  
  
  
  The “Status" graph shows the distribution of the character's material assets by asset categories.
  The “Financial Forecast" graph shows the income curve for the current quarter and 3 previous years.
  
  
  
• Added a quick transition to the company's shares on the stock exchange from the card of any company. To go, just click on the line "Stock exchange price" in the “Information" card of the desired company.
  
  

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]
[h3]Critical fixes:[/h3]

• Negotiations: The opponent's starting price modifier "Not interested in the deal" has been worked incorrectly. Now, by default, the character does not want to sell shares if he does not have this ambition or the “Alarmist" trait.
  
• The Stock exchange: Fixed a bug where the filter GUI would spontaneously appear when time was speeding up.
  
• Character creation: Fixed missing text on appearance selectors.
  
• Elections: Fixed a bug where more than one economy/diplomacy star could be spent on finding a new solution at a time.
  

[h3]Misc fixes:[/h3]

• Tutorial: Added a missing button to re-call tutorial during elections.
  
• Tutorial: Fixed a graphical bug that occurred while watching training during the election.
  
• Tutorial: Fixed text going out of bounds for some languages.
  
• Companies: The unused filter button has been removed.
  
• Local/Federal Laws: Added missing law type button hints.
  
• Connections: Fixed incorrect display of character loyalty boost when selecting this reward for fulfilling an ambition.
  
• The law of the state:: The displayed characteristics in the Governor's map are reorganized to match other characters.
  
• Mail: The unused tabs “Transactions” and “Persons” of the “Newspapers" section have been removed.
  
• Fixed incorrect confirmation button text when applying officials for some languages.
  
• Character Portrait: Removed unused а favor icons.
  
• Various minor cosmetic changes.
  

[h2]Work in progress:[/h2]

• Holding
  
• Extended module of in-game events
  
• Campaign and scenarios
  

Hello Plutocrats!

New Year's holidays are just around the corner. Thence, on behalf of the Redwood developers, we wish everyone a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

Today's blog will be devoted to how this year went for us, and what events we are preparing in the new 2022.

In 2021, many new features have appeared in Plutocracy - politics, elections, lobbying for laws, stock exchange , updated negotiations, more tutorials and much more.



Of course, you always want to do more, and faster.
But you, dear friends, can be sure - we are working at the limit of our current capabilities, with our small team of enthusiastic developers.

[h3]So what is left for us to take Plutocracy from Early Access to a full release?[/h3]

1. The main thing is a full-fledged story campaign, on which we have already begun work. The story we want to tell will tie all the game processes together and give the maximum understanding of the game and immersion in it.



This story was inspired by the great trilogy of the American writer Theodore Dreiser "The Financier", biographies of the greatest tycoons of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the world's first billionaire John Davis Rockefeller, the king of the conveyor belt Henry Ford, the steel mogul Carnegie, and also films such as “There Will Be Blood” (starring Oscar-winning Daniel Day-Lewis).



The storyline campaign now takes up most of our time, so the introduction of new features is slower than usual, however, work on bugs is still going on non-stop, thanks to your bug reports.

2. Also, we are engaged in introducing various events into the game, which will lead to additional challenges, so that the game is even more unpredictable and gives more immersion in the era.



3. And finally, we would like to introduce the Online Challenges mode into the full version, where all players will be given the same game session settings, and after successfully completing the challenge tasks, the result will be shown relative to other players who completed the same challenge. This will help our community share successes, and develop their economic and other skills in competition with real players, not bots.

This is the main vector that we are working on right now.

Of course, the full release will also include the establishment of holdings, and other types of companies, and 3 new agents that we have not announced yet, and so on, from what is not listed here.

It would be great if you yourself in the comments told us what you expect most and what you would like to see in the game before other functionality. This will help us prioritize correctly.
Also, we remain open to new ideas, although the window for their implementation into the game is getting smaller.

We do not promise that it will be possible to fulfill absolutely all your wishes, because we are not Santa Claus, and not even his assistants, elves ... but just developers from the indie studio. But you can be sure that your voice will be heard!

2022 will be the release year for the full version of Plutocracy.

Therefore, if you like what we do and you see the potential of this project - support us - write your review about the game on Steam, participate in improving translations into your language by joining our discord server, or just wish us luck! We will definitely need it in the new year…

See you in the next Dev Diary!

• Negotiations. Updated version.
  
• Added tutorial on updated negotiations.
  
• Politicians can now abstain when voting on laws.
  
• Added hover hints for the "Workers" item in the "Statistics" window during a strike.
  
• Added different icons and tips for active and ended strikes and accidents in companies in the “Statistics” window of the company, the list of companies and the company card.
  

• Rebalancing the economy of the game.
  
• Now the required influence for negotiations is also affected by the reputation of the player and the character.
  

[h2]Critical errors:[/h2]

• Fixed crash when loading a quarter if the player was in the "Statistics" window during the bankruptcy of the company.
  

[h2]Other fixes:[/h2]

• Companies automatically repay the borrowed loan upon receipt of net profit.
  
• Fixed a bug leading to too strong influence of phantom production on the price.
  
• Fixed a bug where during the quarter change, when companies are created and bankrupt, the economy was calculated once.
  
• Fixed a bug where production was used instead of demand to calculate phantom demand when a new state was enabled.
  
• Fixed a bug in which the non-partisan governor did not pass or reject laws.
  
• Fixed different valuation of the company on the stock exchange and in assets.
  
• Fixed a bug with incorrect display of the company's market share in the state.
  
• Fixed a bug where elections in Texas did not take place.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused an empty window to appear after the bankruptcy of a company.
  
• Fixed missing GUI text for changing shareholder vote in the company voting window.
  
• Fixed the position of the character selection menu that opens while being in the same state with an opponent.
  
• Fixed display of state in letters to Gwen Spacey about strikes or accidents.
  
• Changed the displayed icons of the preliminary assessment of the votes of parties when declaring an impeachment to a non-partisan governor.
  
• Updated portrayal of Gwen Spacey in training
  

• Updated negotiation for a loan and lobbying the politician.
  
• Extended module of in-game events
  
• Campaign and scenarios
  

• Fixed a bug which caused NaNs to appear after a certain date.
  
  
• Fixed a bug which caused an incorrect window to be shown in case of a company bankruptcy.
  
  
• Fixed a crash after a new state getting included into the USA.
  
  
• The increment value for Dividends in the “Statistics” window is returned to 5%.
  
  
• Fixed a mistake regarding the date of Officials elections being calculated incorrectly.
  
  
• Added more detailed tutorials for Stock exchange, Personal office and Assistants windows, corrected grammatical mistakes.
  
  
• Fixed animation issues when changing the current focus of technological improvement in the “Statistics” window.
  
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the sounds of the Stock exchange to continue playing after opening the Pause menu, saving and loading games.
  
  
• Fixed issues with News not appearing correctly in “Letters” and “Newspapers” sections.
  

P.s.
Thank you for your positive feedback and your bug reports - it helps us make the game better every day!
Special thanks for your understanding that the game is in Early Access and bugs may occur after every major update.

[h2]1. Stock exchange:[/h2]

• Buy and sell shares for market prices.
  
• Sort by company type, stock price and its dynamics.
  
• Set the scale of the graph: by day/month/quarter/year.
  
• Manage your Portfolio and history of transaction
  

[h2]2. New tutorial system [/h2]


[h2]3. Updated main screen bar:[/h2]

• Improved list of indicators.
  
• New style of time-skip buttons.
  
• Added feature of a single day skip.
  
• Pause menu (main menu) button has been added to the bar
  
• Added links to your Assets and Skills from the main bar by clicking on the indicators.
  

[h2]4. Other:[/h2]
Added new filters for Character search (Persons).

[h2]5. Balance[/h2]

Fixed the exploit which allowed for rapid share price increase through Company management: the step of changing for company parameters is now no more than 20% per shareholders meeting.
The starting value of Dividends scales with the difficulty of the game.

[h2]6. Fixes[/h2]

[h3]Critical errors[/h3]
Fixed possible crashes while saving or loading the game.

[h3]Other errors[/h3]

• Many interface changes.
  
• A modified system for the Strike event ending.
  
• A new system of indicators in Character cards. Political potential was changed to Politics for all NPCs.
  
• Corrected an error with the election laws generation.
  
• Fixed mistakes with the Governors (Assistants) re-election.
  
• Denied the possibility to elect the same candidate for different government positions.
  
• Fixed a bug allowing to have an additional round of voting in the Statistics window in case of a negative outcome.
  
• Fixed a visual bug with the slider in the list of Companies of the state.
  
• Corrected mistakes in the News tabs.
  
• Unified the descriptions of the main bar tabs.
  

[h2]7. In work[/h2]

• New and improved negotiation system
  
• Extended module of in-game events
  
• Campaign and scenarios