UPDATE: Team Mode

A. NEW FEATURES

1. Team Mode: a new game mode for custom single-player and multiplayer sessions allowing players to play in teams of 2 or 3 players (2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, 2 vs 2 vs 2). While playing in teams, any player can choose any other player as the target of any game action, with one exception: only a member of one of the opposing teams can choose a Misfortune for the player who stops at the Misfortune spot. The winning team is the team that has a player with the highest score at the end of the session (score points are counted separately for each player).
2. Teammate's hand: while playing in team mode, you are now able to look at the hand of your teammate(s).

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*Please note that AI bots are not yet fully experienced with the Team mode and may take certain unreasonable actions. We will fine-tune this with one of the following updates.

B. CHANGES

1. "Political shopping" now in addition to all the previous rules allows to play an additional Plant card in the same turn.
2. "Properly placed bribe" now costs $50 and teleports you to any Bribe spot.
3. "Justice is served" now costs ːvotesː1. Updated rules: "An opponent of your choice pays you ːscoreː1. If that player has the highest ːmaliceː, they are arrested".
4. "Investigation" now also gives you + ːmaliceː1.
5. "A Confiscation" now costs ːvotesː2.
6. AI bots (in single-player and multiplayer sessions) will now initiate Player Conflicts less often, preferring to mind their own business/build their own fortune instead.
7. AI bots (in single-player and multiplayer sessions) will now search/investigate arrested players less often, preferring to choose more dangerous opponents.

D. FIXES

1. FIXED: a number of changes in the server and client code that increase stability of sessions.
2. FIXED: when starting a session with only you and AI bots through the multiplayer lobby, the game will bug out.
3. FIXED: in certain languages, the description of "Diablerie" has been incorrect; it is now fixed.
4. FIXED: sometimes during the Elections the information in the Election window did not refresh fast enough based on the last event that affected the votes of the players, which leads to the vote numbers shown on avatars and in Election window being different from each other (the data from player avatars is the one thats's correct).

F. KNOWN ISSUES

1. Permanent indicators next to player avatars sometimes remain blinking despite corresponding events being over.
2. The permanent card "The Astral Elevator" might still work in the next round even after being destroyed.
3. If the Astral Plane window is open, you cannot switch between Chaos Cards and the cards on your hand.
4. If you disconnected and an AI won the game instead of you, the game will get stuck on re-connecting.
5. The dice-roller animation will be visually bugged when rolling two or more times in a row.
6. Sometimes when loading single-player session, certain indicators will not appear on the playing field/will appear incorrectly.
7. When activating "An Automated Bureaucrat", values of bribes next to player avatars may not refresh for a few turns.
8. A Misfortune "Kidnapping" was rebalanced, leading to $100 shown in its description but still $80 displayed in its illustration. We will update the illustration soon enough!
9. The stats for the most recently added single-player challenge – A Secret Assignment – do not count the score points that the AI bot already had at the beginning to the session.

Currently unable to reproduce at the studio:

1. In very rare cases, selection of random spots or locations will not work.
2. Sometimes, when having a jail rank that allows you to select from 3 jail events, the UI will only show two, but the third will still be clickable.
3. In some rare cases, activated card "The Astral Elevator" still does not allow you to get to the Astral Plane through the Bank.
4. Sometimes the "skip turn" icon will not show when working in The Plant.
5. Single-player sessions will not save when, during that session, you agree to join a ranked session.
6. Using the card "Secret Knowledge" sometimes might not work properly and will give random cards instead of the chosen ones.
7. When playing the game on Ubuntu 14.04 x64, some Chinese characters will disappear in the Chinese version of the game.
8. The visual representation of resources will sometime lose its background.

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