Changes
- Research now provides a 10% development speed boost to applicable features
- Added custom tooltip to features in design document detailing market targeting and speed modifiers
- Added submarket analysis window to visualize saturation of markets over time
- Licenses are now paid per employee per project instead of per company
- Added overview of tool licensing to product detail window
- If map seed starts with "NOLAKES", no lakes will be generated
- Rebalanced employee weighting of waiting to use furniture vs walking longer for it
- Added diagonal interior highlights to selected rooms
- Better handling of errors in level 3 feature scripts from mods
- Increased starting capital of hardware based companies to reduce chances of bankrupting early
Fixes
- Fixed instances of assembly lines not being updated correctly after undo or putting in inventory
- Fixed bug causing all rooms to become inaccessible to a team after renaming it, if no room on the map was assigned to any teams
- Fixed converting room to pillar deleting valid items on the other side of walls
- Meeting rooms no longer need to be assigned to a team
- Fixed not being able to manage parking spots above pre-built roads in city and town maps
- Employees will now discard reservation of computers as soon as they go to leave, to avoid making them unavailable for employees just arriving
- Furniture will now discard employee reservations immediately if they are unable to approach them
- Fixed snow on top of pillars in basement
- Added shadows to road elements when "More shadows" is enabled
- Garage ports can no longer be placed facing fenced areas, as it would break pathfinding
Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.56
Changes
- Added option to disable diagonal room highlights
- Halved license costs for player on easy difficulty
Fixes
- Fixed saves breaking if they already had garageports facing fenced areas before 11.7.55
- Fixed burglars sometimes being able to skip past guards at full game speed
- Fixed assemblers not correctly assesing recycler access in particularly snakey assembly lines
- Fixed cleaning staff refusing to clean the room they are currently idling in, if it gets dirty after they finished cleaning it
Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.57
Fixes
- Fixed case of burglars getting stuck
- Various other fixes
Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.58
Fixed bug causing performance to degrade slowly every time an object had been highlighted