The following is an overview of the changes. This update is for free for all players.
New Features
- Stock Market Stock Market: Join the Stock Market to compete against the Big Five for shares, influence and industrial dominance.
- Shares and Auctions Each corporation has a certain amount of shares, which can be bought by auction. Holding shares increases the budget of a corporation and the productivity of its facilities.
- Espionage Hire insiders to infiltrate the Big Five! Your insiders will gather information on your rivals’ finances and can sabotage them through inside jobs. But be careful not to get caught!
- Industry Dominance Produce goods and buy shares to establish your monopoly in the five industry branches. Achieving industry dominance over the Big Five will grant unlimited permits to build branded modules.
- Trading Floor Unlocked by joining the Stock Market, this building will grant additional promotion rights when surrounded by residences.
- Optional Challenge I Your corporation can join the Stock Market from Level 10 onwards. A backup save will be created on activating the feature.
- Sector Traits A sector’s geographical features permanently change the productivity of certain facilities.
- Calamities Temporary natural disasters or other catastrophic occurrences can affect entire sectors. They can be waited out or countered by following specific assignments.
- Optional Challenge II Calamities are optional features that can be configured during corporation creation. Existing save games can be updated.
- New Ornaments A Trials Fusion Arcade along with small and big nature preserves can now diversify your cities.
- Achievements 10 new Achievements have been added to the game.
Interface Changes
- Shares Market: All shares and their owners are listed here
- Espionage: Hire insiders to gather information on the Big Five
- Industry Dominance: Includes statistics to show your progress
Other Changes
- Stock Market, Sector Traits and Calamities are listed in the advanced difficulty settings
- Auctions and assignments belonging to Calamities appear on the Assignment List
- Implemented a button to enter the Stock Market on the infobar
- Icons for Calamities appear next to the sector names
- Added a filter option to display Sector Traits in the Strategic Map
- New categories and infotips in the Buildings Quick View
- Buttons to toggle between selected buildings on the minimap are now available
- Newly gained achievements are now highlighted in the Achievements overview
- Price changes due to Council voting are now displayed in the Global Market
Improvements & Fixes
- Added missing explanation texts in Corporation Update menu
- Move icons now appear in the right-click menu when the relocate option "pay credits" is active
- Fixed a bug that sometimes showed Fruits instead of Vitamin Drinks in the warning section
- Already built Drainage Pumps now stay visible when the option "Show Building Sites" was disabled
- The Buildings Quick View now shows the correct text when no buildings are available
- Effectivity radii don't stay visible anymore when trying to drag a building when the move mode was disabled
- Scrolling in the Buildings Quick View does not zoom the camera anymore
- Fixed several localization issues