This is a small patch to add the Hall of Fame board for the "Launch Legends" opening week event. Thank you to everyone who pushed to hit the top score, some even passing my own. You can find the list of winners in the Hall of Fame in game. I have not reset the boards we will let them run until July, where we will begin the next months season.
This patch also contains some fixes for issues found by my amazing community of players. The retention of players has been incredible, I am so grateful to have you guys working with me to improve the game with feedback, suggestions, and on the rare occasion bug reports ^^.
Fixed List
- If you had fan friendly manager perk the topic on_hover that shows number of games played was missing.
-Added a money cap to the game of $2.1 Trillion dollars cause some people are insane. Looking at you here BigWolfChris.
-Reduced RP gains from research, and crit gains from games made. Everyone loves the new earn skills while doing stuff feature, myself included. However, they are a little OP in some areas particularly research and crit. The uncapped crit increases is now caped based on game size, an RP was reduced across the board for diff research types.
-With the right series of clicks you could trigger un ending contract work. I believe this can not happen anymore.
-Pressing BACK during character creation would bug out color customization.
-Addressed slider rounding it will now never give you a bad result unless you are full 1% over. Ie. a VL can be 20.1 - 20.9 it will be ok as long as it doesn't cross into 21%. The same is true for Low - 30 high 20 Vh - 30 you dont need to add an extra percent to be safe anymore these will not fail you.
-Removed the slight quality boost from 40% or > in a Very High slider. There has been additional ways to increase the games quality such as the new topic boost. We no longer need this quality boost and letting you go to 30 gives more player freedom when it comes to hitting the perfect balance.
-AAA game creation now adds the appropriate subsidiary expenses to the games cost. There goes $120m profit boys. :)
-Closing a subsidiary marked the correct milestone, but did not lock you out from getting that mile stone over and over. This could be abused to increase Mile Stone scores.
-Reformatted a few HUD elements to avoid overlapping on a few different resolutions. With customizable window sizes this is hard to test, but let me know in the discord if anyone has issues.
-Extended the life of each console generation to 5 years. The first console was dropping to soon for newer players just hanging in there. This is a temporary addition as consoles will see major changes during EA, but for now this will at least spread the generations out better.
-Game Creation Time Reductions. I have significantly reduced the time to complete large and AAA games. As well as reduced the effect of large amounts of added features increasing the stage times. This also has a cap to it so that it never lets game design get to long.
That is it for now. There are 1 or 2 small known issues, but this patch is pretty stable and clean now. I will be moving on to a few more substantial changes for the next patch. I would estimate the patch to drop next week. Please come to the GDM discord to engage in the development, or learn whats coming in next patch. https://discord.gg/WfbXE4cDVA