Hi everyone,
It's been a pretty efficient week, lots of progress and testing!
3x speed
Finally! Many of you requested one more play speed and I can happily say that it will be included in Beta 23.
Time Machine: Version 2
Some time ago I received a review on Steam where the time machine was described as: "It feels like one of those annoying popup ads" I never really received any other complaints about the time machine but I completely understood what was meant by it. After some investigating, I've found a way to simultaneously allow the time machine to run and still allow you to work on your company! The updated time machine will also be shipped in Beta 23.
Switching tabs while the time machine is running.
Achievements, achievements, achievements
Achievements in Startup Company have always been extremely popular. Therefore Beta 23 will include 8 brand new achievements:
| Support | Resolve 1000 support tickets |
| Reseacher | Research everything available |
| The Collector | Collect 100,000 research points |
| Not So Creative | Use a name from the real world for a website |
| Bankrupt | Go bankrupt |
| Super Speed | Get 1 or more employees with a base speed of more than 480% |
| World Domination | Become Top #1 of all website types |
| Small But Efficient | Reach 1,000,000 users while staying in the small office building |
New components and modules
Beta 23 will also have a few new components and modules. I've been focusing on 3 things:
- Designers: Will now be even more relevant, especially late game. The designer is now able to merge designer components into brand new designer modules. There are now components for Beginners, Intermediate and Experts.
- SysAdmins: The SysAdmin is now able to merge SysAdmin components into new SysAdmin modules. There are now also components for Beginners, Intermediate and Experts just like the Designer. Configuring servers will require different components/modules depending on the type/throughput.
- Website features: Rebalanced current feature upgrade requirements to better fit the progress of the game. High level features will now require high level modules.
Changes concering the office building floors
With the introduction of the new headquarters building a lot of players have complained about two things:
- The new HQ isn't large enough compared to the skyscraper.
- Losing the office layout (furniture and workstations) of floors 3, 4 and 5 if you upgrade from the skyscraper is unacceptable.
Because of the feedback I've ordered an update for the HQ to add one more floor. The designer is still immensely busy with the creation of a new city map, so I don't have an ETA on this update. The amount of floors the skyscraper has will be reduced to 3 floors to fix the issue where you lose the floor layout when upgrading. This change will only affect new savegames. If you already use a 5 floor skyscraper nothing will change.
New investor milestones
Beta 23 will introduce new late-game milestones making the journey to Top #1 more smoothly.
State of Beta 23
Beta 23 went into public testing last week on our Discord server. The community found some ugly bugs that I'll be fixing next week. I still don't have a release date for Beta 23, but it will be soon and definably before the end of April.
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.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.
That's it for this week!
Best,
Jonas & Robert
