Hello, fellow CEOs! – Weekly progress report
Over the last two weeks, we focused on developing the Competition and Story. The first pass of AI opponents and the revised Research Tree are now ready for wider testing on the beta branch. Want to give it a try? Switch to internal (password: visionariesBH) on Steam > Street Grub > Properties > Betas.
Highlights
New AI opponents (Maria, Carla, Hanna, Marco) are available on the beta branch for Sandbox, buy-outs, district presence, and behaviour are also live.
Career Goals expanded across Startup/Small/Medium/Large for a clearer ladder. We are balancing the pacing at the moment.
New features & improvements
Competition tab: We've introduced a competition tab to view all competitions in the city, and each company includes a buy-out button.
Environment: With the introduction of competition, we show names/portraits of your competitors on their stands along with a button to cycle through all the stands of a specific competitor.
Story & tutorial: The story is complete, from being a Startup to a Large enterprise. We still have some pacing adjustments to do, but overall, the flow has been implemented and is ready for testing.
Localisation: integrated the first passes for French, German and Japanese; we are fixing layout issues where the text length expanded.
Fixes
Stop all eliminated competitors from acting, as they were still trying to advertise after they were bought out.
Restore AI worker training/bonuses; fix the “drinks number” occasionally visible on AI stands; tidy up the Competition tab themes.
Correct goal edge cases (COGS “less than” checks, Research point VFX not showing, accounting day blockers).
We replaced the user bug reporting system with a new system, which should allow us to receive more detailed reports.
In development
Continue balancing the Research Tree (costs, pacing, rewards) and the AI.
Finalise competition cycling toggles and tooltip polish; broaden localisation coverage.
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