This update focuses primarily on performance optimization, staff behavior, shadow quality, building improvements, and general polish.

New Features

• Added a Feedback Form to the Main Menu, making it easier to report issues and share suggestions directly from the game.
• Added a new Shadow Quality setting to provide additional control over visual quality and performance.

Graphics & Lighting

• Improved and optimized several shadow rendering settings.
• Further optimized shadow quality and performance across different graphics configurations.
• Adjusted internal wall positioning slightly to prevent z-fighting/flickering after walls are painted.

Performance & Optimization

• Significantly optimized grid accessibility checks by caching accessibility data instead of recalculating it repeatedly.
• Accessibility data is now refreshed only when relevant changes occur.
• Optimized staff task searching and navigation calculations.
• Staff members now reuse navigation path data instead of repeatedly allocating new paths.
• Cleaning, cashier, and shelving task candidates are filtered by priority before performing more expensive pathfinding calculations.
• Storage-to-shelf route checks have also been optimized to reuse navigation data.
• Roaming staff now use staggered task-search intervals, reducing unnecessary simultaneous calculations while maintaining immediate task searching for newly hired staff.

Staff & AI

• Fixed an issue affecting idle staff movement.
• Improved roaming staff task-search behavior and overall background AI efficiency.

UI & Expansion Mode

• The HUD is now automatically hidden where appropriate while purchasing store expansions.
• Relevant UI elements are forced into a semi-transparent state during expansion purchasing for improved visibility.

Building & Placement

• Placement animations now use real-time timing, preventing them from being affected by changes to game time or simulation speed.
• Flags can now be placed indoors.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Best Customer Category shown in the end-of-day report.
• Fixed visual flickering between painted wall surfaces.
• Various smaller shadow, staff, navigation, and placement-related improvements.