Another round of fixes, again built from your reports. One of them was serious enough that I want to put it first.
Important: Save Fix
Lost Money And Loans: A few of you had your balance disappear and your loans vanish from the list. The game could save your progress before it had finished loading it, and that half loaded state overwrote your real save. This is fixed. It cannot happen again.
Bug Fixes
Auto Save: Turning auto save off now actually turns it off, and it no longer shows a notification every single time it runs.
Late Loan Payments: Paying your bills late took the money for your loan installment without ever reducing the loan. You could pay forever and never finish it. Late payments and the automatic collection now count properly.
Loan Charges: Fixed cases where you could be charged the same installment twice, or charged more than the bill showed after taking a new loan mid cycle.
Margin Limit Price: Leaving the limit price empty in Margin no longer opens your position at market price without warning.
Empty Margin Wallet: Pressing Long or Short with nothing in your margin wallet now tells you that your money is in the Spot wallet, and gives you a shortcut to move it.
Food And Drinks: Every food item filled the same amount of hunger no matter what it cost. Each item now restores its own value, and the same goes for drinks.
Balance
Market Cycles: Bull seasons were far too generous. A single cycle could multiply a volatile coin several times over, which made risk management pointless. Every phase of the cycle is retuned. The rallies are calmer, the downturns carry more weight, and swings matter more than direction. Trading is still profitable, it just asks more of you.
New Features
Pause & Trade Freeze: The game now truly pauses. Opening the menu with ESC stops the clock, the market, the order book, and the news. Nothing moves behind your back while you are away from the desk. Additionally, you will find a dedicated Pause Button right next to the time speed control on the trading page. This allows you to freeze price updates so you can analyze charts and plan your strategies in peace. Note that time will automatically resume whenever you switch to another page, execute an order, or step away from your computer.
Daily Contracts: Short contracts now arrive as you play, each with its own target and reward, replacing the old fixed quest chain. They unlock at level 2 and refresh every morning.
Insider Rumours: Some accounts on social media now leak a vague hint before certain news breaks. Not all of them are worth trusting.
The thing I hear most is that the game asks you to stare at charts for long stretches. That is fair, and it is what I most want to change. What I am working on next is making the world around the desk matter as much as the screen on it.
Keep the reports coming. They are shaping this game more than anything else right now.
Thank you.