Full patch notes
Changes
- Player can now pick subsidiary product specialization and subsidiaries will no longer count towards AI company limit in the market
- Project management can now handle porting tasks
- Added ability to pick cooldown between projects for project management
- Increased Phone and Console prices
- Rebalanced AI research strategy, modified by difficulty, where the highest difficulty will have almost everything patented
- Rebalanced AI company expenses to even out bankruptcies between company types
- A lot of columns have an added totals row in the list panels, which can be switched between sum, mean, median, min, max and range, depending on its value
- You can now choose to disable pause or force max time speed when day time limit is up in multiplayer
- The game will now try to auto-resolve a bankruptcy, if possible, when the player has neglected the bankruptcy warning
- All future save files will now include a company logo in the thumbnail for easier identification
- Added warning when a printer is blocked because of other boxes on the conveyor belt
- All lights now become greyscale when activating a data overlay
- Surveillance station can now be repaired while in use by security staff
- Added a send home button to the team window, useful if you've changed a team's schedule and don't want them to finish their current shift
- You can now place company logos on walls in basements
- To increase save stability, the Tools and OSs variables of the SoftwareProduct class have been deprecated in favor of various getter and setter methods, so some code mods might break. Look for the Add, Get, Remove, Has and Count methods, if your mod breaks
Fixes
- Fixed cooks putting their arms inside their heads when zooming out...
- Fixed bug that could make AI and project management order a huge amount of copies of an archived product
- Fixed mismatched tooltips in product detail window
- Fixed police drone permanently breaking rented buildings
- Fixed game not updating alpha phase team assignments in design phase when renaming a team
- Some optimization fixes for large saves that have a lot of lamps and many friendships per employee across teams
- Fixed overlapping text on some tasks in grouped task mode
- Fixed event timeline in product detail window not being consistent between tabs when units, income and reputation graphs end at different times
- Fixed labels not being aligned in role management window when UI size is not 100%, 150% or 200%
- Fixed project management porting tasks sticking around in project management window
- Mentors and social leaders no longer add to the noise level of their target's environment (but adds more to everyone else's)
- Fixed text in lists bleeding into neighbour columns
Patch notes for Beta 1.8.12
Changes
- Player can now pick subsidiary product specialization and subsidiaries will no longer count towards AI company limit in the market
- Increased Phone and Console prices
- Rebalanced AI company expenses to even out bankruptcies between company types
- You can now place company logos on walls in basements
Fixes
- Fixed labels not being aligned in role management window when UI size is not 100%, 150% or 200%
- Fixed project management porting tasks sticking around in project management window
- Mentors and social leaders no longer add to the noise level of their target's environment (but adds more to everyone else's)
- Fixed text in lists bleeding into neighbour columns