The big highlights from this week's Live Patch:

1.) Steam Cloud Save works
2.) New Scout Dashboard is Live
3.) The Academy now unlocks at Guild Tier 2 (was Tier 4)
4.) A new Pop-Pp Alerts toggle menu in Settings
5.) Up to 90% coverage on 10 Claude-translated languages

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BUG FIXES
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Stability

• Fixed a Week-47→48 crash for guilds with per-member auto-renewal flags set but no Receptionist hired. The auto-renewal report now renders correctly with a generic "Receptionist" byline, and the weekly tick completes cleanly.

• Fixed a long-running save crash in the markets/rivals section, which manifested as the weekly report appearing to process while no state advanced.

• Steam Cloud Save now actually writes to the cloud. Every cloud write previously failed silently, so no machine could ever restore from cloud — even though the read/restore path was correct.

Combat & Tower

• Boss elemental weaknesses and strengths have been fixed up.

• Boss weakness/strength intel only lists damage types has been fixed to accurately reflect the boss.

Trade, Treasury & Markets

• All trade-completion paths now feed the Treasury Income breakdown. Five handlers that received gold from trades previously credited the treasury but skipped the categorized Income line.

• Auto-spec now actually drains the pending-specialization queue each week.

• A material excluded from the Guild Trade builder's "You Offer" list now stays visible (with an "Excluded" badge) and can be restored in place. Previously the material vanished entirely; the only way back was a different tab.

Guild, Construction & Buildings

• Building tier-effects now persist across save/load cleanly.

• Construction laborer slots are now abstract paid Hired Hands instead of consuming roster adventurers. Build speed at average roster stats is unchanged; the prior body opportunity-cost is priced in as gold/week. Let me know how you feel about this one -- I received a lot of feedback that this was a feelsbad system originally, so I made this move to reduce that friction.

• The Academy now unlocks the Instructor role (previously only the Training Yard did, so the Academy could allocate an instructor slot it couldn't fill).

• The "Resolve Disputes" certification condition is now gated behind Tier 7, where the Nemesis system actually exists. Earlier promotions can no longer roll a condition pointing at a tab the guild can't open.

NG+

• The "Reborn" perk has been fixed and now carries your kept adventurers' equipped gear into the new game.

• The Reborn perk has been fixed and now rebases wages after the perk applies, so a perked-down adventurer no longer walks into the new game carrying an end-game wage their guild can't afford.

Identity, Names & Portraits

• Custom names and portraits now propagate consistently across the game — Hall of Fame nominee dropdown, dossier, quest board, construction crew, poaching cards, graduation, Correspondence subjects, and Hall of Fame legend tiles.

• Cleaning up custom names and portraits was a big focus this week, so please let me know if I missed anything.

Memorial & Reports

• Nemesis-poach desertions now appear in the end-of-week summary (previously they appeared only in the live feed and movement log).

• Mid-tick free-agent scouting reveal no longer mismatches the live pool when the agent rotates.

• Annual Report renown is now persisted per-year correctly.

• The displayed training cost now reflects the difficulty trainingCostMult, matching the gold actually deducted.

• The dossier's "Injury Cost" / GVA stat now carries a tooltip explaining it's a per-adventurer season ledger, not the weekly Medical bill. The math is unchanged; the two unrelated "injury cost" numbers are no longer ambiguous.

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BALANCE
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• Low morale now meaningfully drives poaching. Rivals' poach-target scoring adds max(0, 50 − morale) × poachMoraleMult. A new Custom Difficulty slider — Poaching Discontent (soft default 0.3; set to 0 to disable) — tunes the effect. A new "Morale Alert" card in Commander's Notes flags adventurers most at risk.

• Career length now depends on role. Backliners (Ranged, Healer) peak and decline later than frontline roles, and their decline is gentler. Frontline cadence is unchanged.

• Free agents arrive more often with prior experience — level/stat boosts that match a "seen some action" profile, instead of every agent rolling in at Level 1 with blank stats.

• The Academy now unlocks at Guild Tier 2 (was Tier 4). Trainee shaping is accessible much earlier.

• Retirement role choices have been expanded from 5 to 10 options.

• Vault capacity is now bigger than active inventory at every Armory tier (base 60 / T1 120 / T2 200 / T3 300, was 5/10/15/25). The protected long-term store finally outsizes the on-character inventory.

• Earned-only traits no longer leak into the random pool. Family Legacy, Proven, Scarred Survivor, Weekly Champion, and Academy Graduate are now only obtainable via gameplay; recruits and headhunts can no longer roll them.

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FEATURES
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Scouting Dashboard

• Today marks the launch of the Scouting Dashboard. There are a lot of new little features tied into this, so please hit me with your feedback as I am still tinkering with it in hopes of making it supremely useful. Also, please let me know if you hit any bugs or weird interactions.

• The new Dashboard is the default sub-tab on the Recruit screen. Manage every scout in one place: stats bar with idle counts, filter chips, sortable rows with current target / progress / portrait, inline watch-mode priority editor, and a Recently Scouted log.

• Scout potential and likelihood are now shown on scout rows (matching the rest of the staff UI) instead of a tier word.

• Headhunt rows have an Auto-repeat toggle inline. The empty-state has a Read Scouting Guide shortcut to Sage's Wisdom.

• Idle scouts can be activated directly from their row: Scout a Favorite, Start Watching, or Headhunt.

• A Scout/Target toggle on the scout detail panel flips between the scout's dossier and the dossier of whatever they're currently scouting, without leaving the screen.

• Recently Scouted rows show source badges (Free Agent / Rival / Academy / Trading Block) and link to the right sub-tab where the target lives.

Templates

• Named scout priority templates. Build a watch priority once, attach it to many scouts at once, and edit the template later to re-apply the new priority to every attached scout in one move.

UI

• A 🌐 language switcher in the header opens a quick locale-pick menu, mirrored inside Sage's Wisdom (?) so you can switch language mid-tutorial. This is a short-term update that I'll remove after languages get to a good spot (a couple months).

• The Gear screen's adventurer-select cards now show a 👑 captain badge with a tooltip naming the captain's party.

• A browsable "Retirements" section appears on the Guild → Memorial sub-tab alongside the fallen, derived from your movement log.

• The Roster advanced filter gains a Transfer status chip: Any / Available / On the Block / Untouchable.

• A "Dismiss All (filtered)" one-click button in Recruit panels.

• The Academy → Graduation tab persists across navigation.

• A filter to show only inventory items that still have a free improvement slot.

• An unseen-gear indicator (small ! badge) marks newly acquired loot and crafts in the inventory list; clicking the item dismisses it.

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QUALITY OF LIFE
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• Spacebar dismisses the weekly report — and the per-quest/raid report screens that come before it — no more alternating Space→Enter→Space rhythm.

• Pop-up Alerts (Settings → Gameplay): toggle off routine readout modals you find spammy — Contract Expiration, Clause Danger, Auto-Renewal Report, Rival-Poach Digest, Bankruptcy Warning. Cinematics, narrative beats, and blocking-decision modals are deliberately not toggleable. If there are any alerts you'd like to see in this menu, please let me know.

• Crafting "Materials Required" now reflects the selected technique's material multiplier — Experimental and other costlier techniques no longer show "enough" while the Craft button stays blocked.

• Recruitment headers' Name column is now click-to-sort (A→Z first click) on Adventurers and Academy Prospects.

• Idle scouts auto-Watch by default. New opt-out toggle on the Scouting Dashboard.

• Typed quantity input alongside the slider on Guild Trading "You Request" material rows.

• MAX button added to "You Request" material rows (mirrors "You Offer").

• Pinned materials sort first in market panels.

• The Templates toggle on the Scouting Dashboard now lives in the stats bar, immediately left of Hire Scout.

• Language selection persists across launches in Steam.

• The Gear screen header gains a clearer "💡 Hover any item to compare stats" hint, and Ops construction visibility is improved.

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LOCALIZATION
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• German, French, Polish, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese are now at about 90% coverage across every gameplay namespace and more are on the way. Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) is full-locale as well. This is an evolving thing and I'm pretty sure these translations are far from perfect, but Claude has done his best. I don't think I will advertise that there are other languages available for some time as I think these translations will take time to get to "good enough".

• German, French, Polish, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese are now at about 90% coverage across every gameplay namespace and more are on the way. Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) is full-locale as well. This is an evolving thing and I'm pretty sure these translations are far from perfect, but Claude has done his best. I don't think I will advertise that there are other languages available for some time as I think these translations will take time to get to "good enough".