Hello Tycoons,
Here is a new update (0.9.4.4) to solve lots of issues you've reported and a few changes to make the game better.
- You were able to update a computer without making a copy of it fist, which led to corrupted data. From now on you can't do that.
- On given resolutions players were not able to use the sliders correctly on the settings screen. Also, the mouse sensitivity label changed to its value. Fixed.
- The different kinds of bearings (cooling techs) had wrong and inconsistent effects on hardware compared to their descriptions. Also, the values were reconsidered.
- A very ugly bug was that research was actually cheaper in poorer countries instead of being more expensive. Fixed.
- Modular Computer Design (a required tech for PC-s) was not appearing in the research queue. It was only visible on the research tree.
- From now on you can use ISA and other "general buses" for video cards as video interfaces. Until now even tho they appeared on the screen as video interfaces, they were not accepted when clicking on create (only buses from the AGP line and above specifically designed originally for video cards and nothing else).
- For most cases because of multiple details, selling hardware was not really possible (they had extremely low or zero sales). Fixed.
- The country survey screen was showing incorrect data about hardware. Fixed!
- The hardware pricing screen did not update the profit per unit values after the discounts were edited - only after closing and reopening the screen. Fixed.
- Sometimes HC computers and PC computers messed up/copied their data such as name, price, and discounts. Often this was reported as a list issue, but it was actually a deeper and bigger problem. Fixed.
- When you checked the computers of AI players, there was a gray 0 in the background of their price. Fixed.
- You were not able to copy hardware elements. Fixed.
- After saving hardware elements exclusively for the PC, after reloading it become HC compatible, too. Fixed.
- On a few old-school resolutions such as 1248x1024, some screens were not handled correctly cousing issues. Such as you were not able to close the wall of gratitude. Fixed.
- Small fans had a 300 quality boost. Now it is only 15 - which is obviously more rational compared to the other fans and parts.
- I've lowered the "average budgets" for hardware because the possible profit margin was extreme.
Honestly, I'm ashamed that we had that many problems - I didn't expect this. So please accept my sincere apology!
You just provided a huge help yet again (special thanks for the saved games!), and I'm very thankful for it. I hope this update will sort out all the biggest problems, even tho a few of the reported things were not clearly reproducible, I think they should have been part of other issues which are now solved. If something is still not working, please report it again, because as far as I know the bug report lists/forums are nearly empty now with that update.
A player has reported last time that research is too cheap at the moment. Most likely I will make it a bit more expensive again, but I wanted to hear your opinion about it first. What do you think... if the prices in the first few eras will get a 2x or a 1.5x boost, will it be still acceptable? I'd be more than happy to read your insights.
With the next update, I hopefully will be really able to release the site and the country lists, to make expansion easier and less tedious. I just didn't want to keep back this update because of the weight of the bugs.
So you on Discord and on the Steam forums! Also, if you enjoy the game, please leave a review as well - it would mean a lot! I really appreciate all kinds of critique and feedback!
Your Friend,
Andris