Hi everyone!
This week I've continued the work on improving usability and adding "Quality of Life" features. Together with below, I've also been putting some time into preparing the game for Japanese. Today I can confirm that Beta 22 will officially add official support for Japanese!
Updated employee demands
- "Fire Employee" is now more rare and will only occur for existing employees, and not new candidates.
- Employees demands are now more realistic, especially with desks, including demanding the correct Programmer/Executive desk at Expert level.
- Differ the amount of new demands generated on employee upgrade based on level.
New loans
Beta 22 brings two new loans allowing you to loan 1 and 2 million. Loans will only be available if you meet the minimum company valuation (valuation of all websites combined). Fever Inc (the 600k loan) has also been limited to companies with a valuation of minimum 1.2 million.
Last chance before bankruptcy
I've added an additional mechanic which gives the player a last chance before the company is declared bankrupt. The offer only comes if the player owns more than 15% of his website, hasn't bought out the investor and no loan options are available in the banks.
Improved hosting stats
The stats in the bottom of the hosting center has been improved to support large numbers. A "bottleneck alert" has also been added to make it easier to understand what to increase in order to increase produced CU.
Furniture/desk inventory
When removing furniture and desks from your office they will now be added to your "purchase inventory", allowing you to save items for later use.
Minor changes
- Fixed bug causing events to be launched too early (at game start)
- Fixed bug causing hosting building temperature not to update correctly.
- Fixed bug causing employee name changes not to update on overlays.
- Added support for panning using arrow keys.
- Added PageUp/PageDown keyboard shortcut for changing floor.
- Added Q/E keyboard shortcut for toggle between employees (switcher).
- Improved sliders when buying/selling competitor stocks.
- Added time limitation to investment offers.
- Limit feature efficiency from maximum 104% to 100% (only affects new savegames, not existing ones).
- Changed overlay label to "At home" when not at the office.
All the notes that are listed above are simply a preview of what's coming up in Startup Company. These new changes and items are not yet available in the public build of the game.
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That's it for this week!
Best,
Jonas & Robert
