Developer posts and news about this game.
New Product Research The higher-tech products will now need to be researched before production can start, and most will award a 5-year patent. During these years, the inventor will have exclusive manufacturing rights. Once the patent expires, other corporations can start producti
Various minor bugfixes
Climate Regions are now in specific climate zones that affect crop growing. Each region is either in a temperate, sub-tropical or tropical zone. Most crops will have a different yield in each zone. Wheat yields better in a tropical climate, but Cocoa will hardly yield at all. Not
Corporate bonds You can now issue bonds to borrow money from other corporations or investors. Set the interest rate and months to maturity to make the bond interesting to buyers. If you have spare cash, you can buy bonds to receive a monthly interest payment. Multiplayer Games ca
CEO is now in version 0.4 after a makeover with all new graphics. All new in-world graphics UI finally scales. Will scale based on your monitor's DPI, but can also be changed in Options If the game allows funding new corporations, it is now possible to start a multiplayer or cust
Players can now (re)join an ongoing multiplayer game Players can now liquidate and form new corporations in multiplayer games AI can't increase bonus above 5% When electing Chairman, a corporation will vote for its own chairman (so a person's voting shares becomes his personal sh
Raw Materials Trader unit added to Warehouse New setting (when creating a game) to allow Raw materials trader A player can form a new corporation if he finds himself without one (e.g. after a bankruptcy) New setting (when creating a game) to allow forming new corporations If a pl
Building tooltip now includes annual profits Adjusted local vendor ratings (higher on easy, lower on hard) A purchasing unit with auto-link enabled will now look for a new supplier after 10 days of receiving no cargo Auto-link does a better job at looking at supply/demand when fi
Fixes problem where after updating to 0.3.47, many save-games would render the game unplayable.
Competitors are now less likely to build their own raw materials and intermediate products and more willing to buy from other corporations When looking at building layouts, the unit grid now shows the layout Building Layouts can be made for all buildings except offices It wasn't
More helpful tooltips (and a lot more coming over the next few updates) First version of a "Guide" to help players understand the game. This is very much work-in-progress and will be improved in the next few updates. Fixed multiple natural resource categories in the log settings
CEO wasn't paid, regardless of salary/bonus settings New logging category for discovered natural resources Investors won't sell for less than 10% above current stock price When sending offers to buy shares from other players, the initial offer is 10% above current stock price Bra
Player can no longer manually change price in stores with a store manager Can no longer set unreasonably high prices When merging corporations the highest brand-rating of the two corporations is kept When buying an existing building, the brand was incorrectly changed in some unit
Bottom left of building window now always show an overview of used/available unit space Bankruptcy warning is now more visible and with an audible warning Regional settings changed to English (number formatting, month names) Speed 1 is slowed down by 40% Added a warning symbol wh
Manufacturing, Livestock processing, Mining, Logging show units produced yesterday and capacity Multiplayer games can now include AI competitors Multiplayer games now better check for desyncing and will eject players out-of-sync so the game can continue for others Multiplayer gam
Various minor bugs, primarily related to problems caused by liquidated corporations in multiplayer games
Fixed possible memory leak Various minor bug fixes
Fixed problem switching region when minimap was disabled Fixed problem where the population of a region could suddenly go from millions to billions Fixed occasional problem entering multiplayer password Various minor bugfixes
The new bug reporting feature was incorrectly available in tutorials and caused problems Changing size of a building after rotating it could cause problems Various smaller bug fixes
Could not load save games for scenario World's richest - fixed Prepared for localization/translation Added user reporting Removed ability to change speed using hotkey (0-5, spacebar) when game should remain paused Various minor bugfixes