No update without hiccups. Only then you know something got down. So we are out correcting the first few things before the weekend:
Missing images for policies, decoration categories and Business Development got fixed
In Levels and Challenges that do not use Skill Points, employees no longer need skills for tables
When loading a 0.10 save game it should no longer happen that you see special level 6 Business Development and Market nodes
The missing icon on the reaction bubbles when you place decorations have been fixed
Missing texts for assembly table skills have been added
Also a little extra:
In the employee overview you can now sort by Skill Points and Happiness
You can leave us feedback and bug reports via Steam Forums, Discord or Reddit. Thanks for your support and enjoy your weekend!
Good Company - Update v0.10 "Skills & Happiness"
Welcome, Tinkerers and Tycoons,
to the next big step for Good Company! The final version for our new major update v0.10 "Skills & Happiness" is available. Thanks to your engagement during the beta test, we were able to address a bunch of important issues and polish the update to its current form. Kudos for your support!
With the long-awaited Employee System at its core, Good Company v0.10 has a lot of new things to offer, gameplay and content-wise. Sounds good? Ok then, let's give you a tour!
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The new core features will change your experience playing Good Company quite a bit, and we're super excited to see what you make of the new possibilities. So? We won't hold you back if you want to dive in right away! :) But we're happy to share more details with you in our update notes below.
If anything is unclear, you have feedback or encounter issues you want us to look into - please don't hesitate to get in touch with us!
Thank you so much for your support and enjoy Good Company v0.10!
All the best, Chasing Carrots
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Good Company - update notes v0.10
Please note: When starting 0.10, you need to convert your profile and recreate your character!
Employees
General
This update comes with major improvements that help you better organize your staff. The bigger your company grows, the more important efficient management will get.
Employees wear distinctly colored and designed outfits, depending on their tasks
Production: dark orange
Research: white
Logistics: green
Couriers: yellow
The new fullscreen Employee Panel keeps track of important details about your staff and helps you manage them (Hotkey: F4)
On the left, the panel lists all employees, as well as their respective work zone, job, skills, and salary
You can use multi-selection to assign several employees to work zones or courier routes – or even fire them all at once! (which would be sad)
The employee list can be filtered for work zone, job, skills, and salary
On the right, the Employee Panel lists all workplaces in your company:
You can quick-hire directly from the workplace overview
Filtering for zone, job, or assigned employees is available
In the center, you can focus on a detail view for a selected employee:
This view shows you the buff effects for that employee
Also, you can have them learn skills and list them in the detail view
A tooltip for the employee's happiness gives you an overview of positive and negative effects
Last but not least, the inventory of a selected employee can be monitored in this view
Skills
An essential aspect comes to Good Company. With v0.10, employees will become more experienced while they work, and you can decide for each how you want to develop them.
Each employee can earn up to 1000 Skill Points while they are actively working
From a wide variety of skills, you can select up to 5 skills per employee, affecting abilities like efficiency, speed, or luck:
Skill effects will usually accumulate with other skill effects and policy effects
To have an employee learn a skill, you need to spend Skill Points and Success Points
Tables now require certain skills to be operated
Any employee has the required skill if quick-hired directly to a table, but this costs an additional hiring fee
A new Freeplay session starts with a basic set of skills and more can be unlocked through Business Development
At a later point of development, Campaign levels will also incorporate the use of skills
Happiness
Another introduction for your employees. The best skills are of no use if your staff isn't happy and you can influence this in many ways.
Each employee 'feels' a certain level of happiness, which can vary from 0% - 100%. By default, this is set to 50%.
A whole range of circumstances can increase or decrease happiness:
Decoration versus machines within an employee's work zone
The setup of a work zone in terms of space and exits
Temporary effects from firing people, completing research, etc.
Employees will occasionally show bubbles above their heads, indicating the response to certain changes/events
The bubble frequency increases, the stronger happiness is changing
Happiness does not instantly change – it slowly increases or decreases towards a new level
Based on their happiness, your employees gain modifiers on their work speed
Production and research employees get additional grand buffs at 80% or more happiness
Based on their individual happiness, each of your employees contributes with -1 to +1 points to the company-wide Happiness Score
For every +5 Happiness Score points, the company gains 1 Success Point per week
There is no limit for the Happiness Score
Currently, there are no punishing effects for negative Happiness Score in the game
Other Features
New Content
With Good Company v0.10, we will introduce a large variety of new content, much of which is connected with the new Employee system.
New Freeplay map
The map Timber Town is now available in a Summer version
New tables in Good Company
Assembly Table II
Improves the crafting time of higher tier products
Can be unlocked through Business Development
Assembly Station
Greatly improves the crafting time of higher tier products
Can be unlocked through Business Development
Analysis Desk II
Can sample modules with a higher tier than Analysis Desk I
Can be unlocked through Business Development
The previous Analysis Desk II is now Analysis Station
<*> New policies that directly affect employee happiness
Bonus Payment raises wages and increases your employees' happiness
Strict Goals boosts your employees' working speed and decreases their happiness
This policy is unlocked by the Employee Guidance Project (Business Development)
<*> New skills being introduced along with the new employee system
12 table-related skills
28 crafting skills
11 assembly skills
12 analysis skills
11 research skills
8 logistics skills
<*> New buff effects affecting the work output of your employees!
Luck buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis, and research
It has a chance of n% for the work output to be doubled
Spare Parts buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis
This has a chance of n% for an input material to be saved during the crafting process
<*> New decorations for your Good Companies
Corporate Flag with your company logo on it
Corporate Poster with your company logo on it
4 Slim Room Dividers
2 Bamboo Room Dividers
A lovely Big Plant
General Updates
The Business Development now has color codes for specific types of projects
The item order displayed on shelves or other inventories now corresponds with the respective UI slot order
All buildable equipment in the Construction Menu now has an improved order
Freeplay Settings
The difficulty presets for Good Company have been restructured in two directions
The Management Presets contain the standard Good Company balancing with easy/medium/hard settings
The Production Presets lean towards more leisurely play with Running Costs removed but are compensated elsewhere
Please note: [Experimental] or [Cheat] options won’t be affected by any preset
[Experimental] options will be further tested and might be changed or removed if they don't feel useful
[Cheat] options make the Good Company significantly easier and avoid the general balancing of the game
Of course, you can also still use custom settings to adjust the game to your playstyle
The general options have been changed and expanded on
Starting Funds: how much money you start a Freeplay session with
Initial Cost Factor: hiring fees and equipment costs
Running Cost Factor: wages and upkeep for machines
[New] Material Costs: buying price for materials
[Changed] Demands: demands for products and now also for modules
[Updated] Market Difficulty
This includes how many product features are expected, feature minima and maxima, that is
The option also includes selling price adjustments for markets
Since these factors are dependent on each other, we decided to set them in one option
[Experimental] Market Phase Amount: adjusts the number of total market phases
[Experimental] Market Pacing: adjusts the required sales until a market phase can be progressed or progresses automatically
[Experimental] Automatic Market Progression: markets can progress automatically again
[Experimental] Additional Market Growth: adds additional market phases for products beyond their default range
[Cheat] Disable Game Over: removes fail conditions in your Freeplay game
[Cheat] All Buildings Unlocked: gives you free access to all available facilities
Balancing
With Good Company v0.10, we are introducing new types of research data
There are 4 different types of Research Data to be analyzed and used for research
To yield more advanced data (type II to IV), you need to analyze higher-tiered modules
Advanced Analysis Desks are required to process higher tier modules
There has been a general overhaul of the research costs for technologies and Business Development
Module technologies and Business Development can require different data types to be unlocked
Research progress has been slowed down a bit, but it's now easier to scale up your research capacities
With the update, there is a restructured Business Development tree
All nodes in the tree have been arranged into a new layout, where sections are color-coded for an improved overview
Employee skills are now available for unlocking in the tree
There have been slight adjustments to the current Business Development progression
There are now additional nodes for more specialized unlocks and new tables
Module crafting times and recipes have been rebalanced
The basic crafting times have been decreased
The fastest crafting times have been increased
Material variety has been reduced in recipes, especially for the early game
Recipe balancing considers required table skills and additional employee wages
Machine upkeep is now also considered in the balancing
Assembly balancing
Assembly times now strongly depend on the type of Assembly Tables and are never shorter than an in-game day
Higher-level products require advanced Assembly Tables in order to reduce the base crafting times
The additional assembly time per module has been reduced from 1s per slot to 0.5s + 0.5s per slot
We made buffs stronger in general
Buffs from Company Goals have been doubled
Buffs from Policies increased by ~100%-200%
Company Goals have been rebalanced
The Success Point output of general Company Goals has been reduced
Success Point rewards from product-related Company Goals have been strongly increased
Passive Success Point rewards from product-related Company Goals have been rebalanced
Company Goals that required Research Data I to be generated now evaluate the net worth of the generated points
Company Goals incorporating specific market phases now have other additional requirements
This change was necessary to enable a flexible number of market phases
Markets in Freeplay mode
The balancing of markets has been changed to enable a more dynamic development
Many market aspects can now be modified through the Freeplay settings
The demands have been cut back for some products
Discovery Points are now earned more easily by advancing through market phases
The total amount of discovery points required for unlocking markets has been increased
The total amount of earned Discovery Points has also been increased, with a shift in the relative Discovery Points yield of the sources
The Freeplay mode now starts with 2 unlocked markets, with all required modules available
Challenge balancing
Challenges general:
The most recent adjustments are affected by the new crafting time balancing in Good Company v0.10
Challenge-specific changes have been made on recipes/modules to adjust
Challenge 'Smart as a Cup':
Picking speed is increased by 200%
Walking speed is decreased by 40%
Challenge 'Welfare Survival':
New features unlocked for the challenge
Business Development costs reduced by 66%
Research & Analysis speed increased by 200%
Double yield from all analysis processes
Additional Success Points granted as a start bonus
Challenge-specific employees spawn with additional skill points (100+days*2)
Market phases give 150% more Discovery Points and require a lot fewer sales
Challenge 'Pocket Conquest':
Challenge Requirements for trophies changed (more days)
Starting funds increased from 10.000 to 25.000 G
Happiness has been enabled for this challenge
Research is increased by 200%
Analysis speed is decreased by 50%
Double yield from all analysis processes
Challenge 'Money Rush':
Required money has been increased
Starting funds have been increased
Loan amounts have been increased
Each employee start with 1000 Skill Points
Your company starts with 2000 Success Points
All modules are researched
Good Company - Update v0.10 *Beta Test*
Greetings, Tinkerers and Tycoons!
Once again, it is time to reach out to our community, especially to the dedicated feature testers and bug hunters among you. The beta test for Good Company v0.10 is now open for everyone!
Be the first to get your hands on the long-awaited Employee Organization/Skills & Happiness feature + lots of new content + balancing!
As usual, this is an exciting phase. Beta tests with our community so far have helped us immensely in shaping the final form of a major update. Does an interaction feel off? Are there any odd quirks popping up? And, most of all, how does the v0.10 update improve your experience of playing Good Company?
Below, you can find a long list of what is hot and new. Take your time, enjoy the beta test, and be sure to share your findings with us. We are super excited to hear from you!
All the best & happy testing, Your Carrots
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Update v0.10 - Beta Notes
Important: When starting 0.10 you need to convert your profile and recreating your character. During the early phase of the beta, you won’t be able to convert your profile back into a 0.9 profile. We will add this functionality to v0.9 in an update next week.
Employees
General
This update comes with major improvements that help you better organize your staff. The bigger your company grows, the more important efficient management will get.
Employees wear distinctly colored and designed outfits, depending on their tasks
Production: dark orange
Research: white
Logistics: green
Couriers: yellow
The new fullscreen Employee Panel keeps track of important details about your staff and helps you manage them (Hotkey: F4)
On the left, the panel lists all employees, as well as their respective work zone, job, skills, and salary
You can use multi-selection to assign several employees to work zones or courier routes – or even fire them all at once! (which would be sad)
The employee list can be filtered for work zone, job, skills, and salary
On the right, the Employee Panel lists all workplaces in your company:
You can quick-hire directly from the workplace overview
Filtering for zone, job, or assigned employees is available
In the center, you can focus on a detail view for a selected employee:
This view shows you the buff effects for that employee
Also, you can have them learn skills and list them in the detail view
A tooltip for the employee's happiness gives you an overview of positive and negative effects
Last but not least, the inventory of a selected employee can be monitored in this view
Skills
An essential aspect comes to Good Company. With v0.10, employees will become more experienced while they work, and you can decide for each how you want to develop them.
Each employee can earn up to 1000 Skill Points while they are actively working
From a wide variety of skills, you can select up to 5 skills per employee, affecting abilities like efficiency, speed, or luck:
Skill effects usually accumulate with other skills effects and policy effects
To have an employee learn a skill, you need to spend Skill Points and Success Points
Tables now require certain skills to be operated
Any employee has the required skill if quick-hired directly to a table, but this costs an additional hiring fee
A new Freeplay session starts with a basic set of skills, more can be unlocked through Business Development
At a later point of development, Campaign levels will also incorporate the use of skills
Happiness
Another introduction for your employees. The best skills are of no use if your staff isn't happy. And you can influence this in many ways.
Each employee 'feels' a certain level of happiness, which can vary from 0% - 100%, and is by default set to 50%.
A whole range of circumstances can increase or decrease happiness:
Decoration versus machines within an employee's work zone
The setup of a work zone in terms of space and exits
Temporary effects from firing people, completing research, etc.
Employees occasionally show bubbles above their heads, indicating the response to certain changes/events
The bubble frequency increases, the stronger happiness is changing
Happiness does not instantly change, it slowly increases or decreases towards a new level
Based on their happiness, your employees gain modifiers on their work speed
Production and research employees get additional grand buffs at 80% or more happiness
Based on their individual happiness, each of your employees contributes with -1 to +1 points to the company-wide Happiness Score
For every +5 Happiness Score points, the company gains 1 Success Point per week
There is no limit for the Happiness Score
Currently, there are no punishing effects for negative Happiness Score in the game
Other Features
New Content
With Good Company v0.10, we will introduce a great variety of new content which is in many parts connected with the new Employee system.
New Freeplay map
Now the map Timber Town is available in a Summer version
New tables in Good Company
Assembly Table II
Improves the crafting time of higher tier products
Can be unlocked through Business Development
Assembly Station
Greatly improves the crafting time of higher tier products
Can be unlocked through Business Development
Analysis Desk II
Can sample modules with a higher tier than Analysis Desk I
Can be unlocked through Business Development
The previous Analysis Desk II is now Analysis Station
New policies that directly affect employee happiness
Bonus Payment raises wages and increases your employees' happiness
Strict Goals boosts your employees' working speed and decreases their happiness
This policy is unlocked by the Employee Guidance Project (Business Development)
New skills being introduced along with the new employee system
12 table-related skills
28 crafting skills
11 assembly skills
12 analysis skills
11 research skills
8 logistics skills
New buff effects affecting the work output of your employees!
Luck buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis, and research
It has a chance of n% for the work output to be doubled
Spare Parts buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis
This has a chance of n% for an input material to be saved during the crafting process
New decorations for your Good Companies
Corporate Flag with your company logo on it
Corporate Poster with your company logo on it
4 Slim Room Dividers
2 Bamboo Room Dividers
A lovely Big Plant
General Updates
The Business Development now has color codes for specific types of projects
The item order displayed on shelves or other inventories now corresponds with the respective UI slot order
All buildable equipment in the Construction Menu now has an improved order
Freeplay Settings
The difficulty presets for Good Company have been restructured in two directions
The Management Presets contain the standard Good Company balancing with easy/medium/hard settings
The Production Presets lean towards more leisurely play with Running Costs removed, but are compensated elsewhere
Please note: [Experimental] or [Cheat] options won’t be affected by any preset
[Experimental] options will be further tested and might be changed or removed if they don't feel useful
[Cheat] options make the Good Company significantly easier and avoids the general balancing of the game
Of course, you can also still use custom settings to adjust the game to your playstyle
The general options have been changed and expanded on
Starting Funds: how much money you start a Freeplay session with
Initial Cost Factor: hiring fees and equipment costs
Running Cost Factor: wages and upkeep for machines
[New] Material Costs: buying price for materials
[Changed] Demands: demands for products and now also for modules
[Updated] Market Difficulty
This includes how many product features are expected, feature minima and maxima, that is
The option also includes selling price adjustments for markets
Since these factors are dependent on each other, we decided to set them in one option
[Experimental] Market Phase Amount: adjusts the number of total market phases
[Experimental] Market Pacing: adjusts the required sales until a market phase can be progressed or progresses automatically
[Experimental] Automatic Market Progression: markets can progress automatically again
[Experimental] Additional Market Growth: adds additional market phases for products beyond their default range
[Cheat] Disable Game Over: removes fail conditions in your Freeplay game
[Cheat] All Buildings Unlocked: gives you free access to all available facilities
Balancing
With Good Company v0.10, we are introducing new types of research data
There are 4 different types of Research Data to be analyzed and used for research
To yield more advanced data (type II to IV), you need to analyze higher-tiered modules
Advanced Analysis Desks are required to process higher tier modules
There has been a general overhaul of the research costs for technologies and Business Development
Module technologies and Business Development can require different data types to be unlocked
Research progress has been slowed down a bit, but it's now easier to scale up your research capacities
With the update, there is a restructured Business Development tree
All nodes in the tree have been arranged into a new layout, where sections are color-coded for an improved overview
Employee skills are now available for unlocking in the tree
There have been slight adjustments to the current Business Development progression
There are now additional nodes for more specialized unlocks and new tables
Module crafting times and recipes have been rebalanced
The basic crafting times have been decreased
The fastest crafting times have been increased
Material variety has been reduced in recipes, especially for the early game
Recipe balancing considers required table skills and additional employee wages
Machine upkeep is now also considered in the balancing
Assembly balancing
Assembly times now strongly depend on the type of Assembly Tables and are never shorter than an in-game day
Higher-level products require advanced Assembly Tables in order to reduce the base crafting times
The additional assembly time per module got reduced from 1s per slot to 0.5s + 0.5s per slot
We made buffs stronger in general
Buffs from Company Goals have been doubled
Buffs from Policies increased by ~100%-200%
Company Goals have been rebalanced
The Success Point output of general Company Goals has been reduced
Success Points rewards from product-related Company Goals have been strongly increased
Passive Success Point rewards from product-related Company Goals have been rebalanced
Company Goals that required basic Research Data to be generated now evaluate the net worth of the generated points
Company Goals incorporating specific market phases now have other additional requirements
This change was necessary to enable a flexible number of market phases
Markets in Freeplay mode
The balancing of markets have been changed to enable a more dynamic development
Many market aspects can be modified through the Freeplay settings
The demands have been cut back for a few products
Discovery Points are now earned easier by advancing through market phases
The total amount of discovery points required for unlocking markets has been increased
The total amount of earned Discovery Points has been increased, too, with a shift in the relative Discovery Points yield of the sources
The Freeplay mode now starts with 2 unlocked markets with all required modules available
Bug Fix
Research data won't overflow at 65536 points, it will now overflow at 4294967296
Good Company - Roadmap Update & Codecks Insights
Greetings, Tinkerers & Tycoons,
Early Access is an exciting experience! And for us and Good Company, the past 12+ months have doubtlessly been an inspiring, intense, and also intricate journey.
The further Good Company developed, the more it also changed its path on some levels. You can have a firm vision for your project as a team, but if you truly take your community into account, plans will need to shift in order to shape your game for the better.
Updated Roadmap
Following this productive exchange with you, we have realigned some development priorities for Good Company and want to present to you an adjusted roadmap for the coming months.
As you can see, we have divided our roadmap into three big chunks, each with a main point of focus. In addition to each major release, you can expect lots of extra updates and improvements to roll out periodically along the way to our full launch! As always, we will analyze community feedback and incorporate useful findings from extensive beta testing.
We feel that the new roadmap plans contain key features that are imperative for Good Company's final release and hope that you'll continue to understand and support the need for this prioritization. After Good Company is fully released into the wild, we're happy to dive back in and re-evaluate with the community what kind of additional content we'll be working on and when it can be released (such as modding, production contracts, and bigger products).
Public Codecks Decks
Since today's post is about keeping you all tightly in the loop regarding the future development of Good Company, there's more news we'd like to share with you!
To organize tasks, ideas, and issues, we use a very cool and powerful tool called Codecks. Those of you who are active on our Good Company Discord have been able to send their input - suggestions and bug reports - to be included in the respective categories (or decks, as it's called in Codecks). Community input from other sources is added manually to those lists by our team.
From now on, the tasks + suggestions and bug decks are public, so everyone interested in viewing the collected feedback can check it out for themselves.
Please note: To keep the decks well organized, we will browse through the contributions from time to time and sort out double postings and adjust prioritizations. We hope this new option for insights is useful for you to keep track of development.
If you have any questions regarding the updated roadmap or the Codecks decks (or something else), don't hesitate to get in touch with us!
All the best, Your Chasing Carrots
Hotfix 19th May 2021 - Campaign Level 3
Hello Tycoons,
We quickly fixed the issue that locked the progression in Level 3. Sorry for the inconvinience and thanks for the quick reports on the matter.
- Chasing Carrots
Good Company - Update v0.9.3
Greetings, Tinkerers & Tycoons!
Thank you everybody for participating in the Good Company v0.9.3 beta test! As always your feedback helped us tremendously to iron out overseen issues and to polish the edges. This new update is now out of the beta phase and available for everyone to play. Please find below the full notes about what has been improved and what has been fixed. We hope you enjoy the new version of Good Company. If anything comes up, get in touch with us!
All the best, Your Chasing Carrots
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Patch Notes v0.9.3
Logistics:
We have implemented a better scoring system for logistics workers to prioritize and serve inventory connections. This affects manual and automatic logistics.
Shelves with low/no stock will be handled with increased priority
Clearing items from belts has now a higher priority
Employees will prefer taking materials to crafters and research stations before putting them on pallets
Employees will more frequently ensure that products will be taken to pallets for selling
Bug Fixes:
Fixed that the achievement “Avoiding the Reds” in campaign level 3 didn't properly trigger.
If you load a save game that fulfills the requirements (completed the first trophy without ever going below 0 G), the achievement gets unlocked
Fixed: the first analysis table in level 4 got locked for tutorial purposes but didn't get unlocked again after the research tutorial was over
Fixed that the game input could become unresponsive after interacting with text input fields (e.g. in the retriever segment panel)
Fixed obsolete but non-deletable pallet reservations (e.g. by a crafting table with override settings)
Fixed an issue with the end of the conveyor belt failing to push items into a correctly placed receiver (other conveyor belt, automatic storage, etc.) after the conveyor belt had been initially built in the opposite direction than the one indicated by the construction hologram. If this problem occurs in your save game, please try to rebuild the end of the conveyor belt.
Fixed some policies requiring specific module types didn't properly detect those modules (mostly cases) to apply their buff.
Fixed an issue where two new, not yet implemented conveyor segments would show up in certain challenges and levels
Balancing:
In Level 5 Couriers are now available right after the Conveyor Belt introduction
Possible profit for each product in level 5 has been at least doubled and product demands have been increased
Starting funds for level 5 have been increased
Good Company - Update v0.9.3 / beta test
Greetings, Tinkerers & Tycoons!
Today we're happy to share the next patch for Good Company with you. Not only happy, but relieved! Because it contains fixes for some bugs that not only have had unpleasant consequences, they also were quite hard to reproduce. Thanks to the detailed reports from the community these issues are now history, and you can look forward to playing more smoothly again. Should you still note any irregularities – or spot new ones – don't hesitate to let us know!
All the best
Your Chasing Carrots
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(Don't forget to switch to the beta branch in your Steam game options!)
We have added a better scoring system for logistics workers to decide the order connections will be handled. This affects manual and automatic logistics.
It is more important to serve input slots than output slots (*2)
This means: the maximum score is 3 for a connection without further modifiers (empty target = 2, full source = 1)
If a target inventory is (almost) empty it gets a high priority, starting from item stock below 30% (up to +1)
Conveyor end segments will be prioritized more often – empty target inventories are often higher ranked (+1.5)
Conveyor start segments will get a lower score than other target inventories (*0.55)
Pallets as the target will get a lower score on average than shelves (*0.3)
In case a pallet is the only target (eg. selling products) the score is increased (*2.15)
General note on connection scoring: This system checks the difference between source and target inventories for each possible connection and gives them a score. Logistic employees choose tasks first that have a higher score. Up until now, the system rated all inventories the same, except for Conveyor start segments. The scoring checks for relative item amounts in inventories, not absolute amounts. So if you reserve more space for certain items in shelves the initial scoring might be strongly influenced. When you have a higher throughput for certain item types, reserving more space for it is advantageous for the scoring system.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed that the achievement “Avoiding the Reds” in campaign level 3 didn't properly trigger.
If you load a save game that fulfills the requirements (completed the first trophy without ever going below 0 G), the achievement gets unlocked
Fixed: the first analysis table in level 4 got locked for tutorial purposes but didn't get unlocked again after the research tutorial was over
Fixed that the game input could become unresponsive after interacting with text input fields (e.g. in the retriever segment panel)
Fixed obsolete but non-deletable pallet reservations (e.g. by a crafting table with override settings)
Fixed an issue with the end of the conveyor belt failing to push items into a correctly placed receiver (other conveyor belt, automatic storage, etc.) after the conveyor belt had been initially built in the opposite direction than the one indicated by the construction hologram. If this problem occurs in your save game, please try to rebuild the end of the conveyor belt.
Fixed some policies requiring specific module types didn't properly detect those modules (mostly cases) to apply their buff.
We're devs in Good Company
Greetings, Tinkerers & Tycoons!
Looking back on Good Company's first year of Early Access, a cornerstone of the development has always been our community. Honest, involved, friendly... and most importantly: very helpful. We are really happy to have such a supportive player base!
That's why we'd like to dedicate today's post to you all and introduce a few people who were especially invested, in one way or another. Consider them representatives of the awesome Good Company family!
Early encounters of the playful kind
When we were showcasing Good Company at gamescom 2018 for the very first time, we not only won a neat award for our booth. More importantly, we met a bunch of very enthusiastic and nice people who then joined our first regular Twitchstreams and were amongst the first to populate our Discord server.
Those supportive folks were the foundation of our community that has not stopped growing since then. Yes, SweetGwendoline, SeppahBaws, GV-97, pumpCurry, iLavVex, don_joe, and LaVolpina, we're talking about you. Thank you for being on board right from the start!
!found [company]
Our official Discord server was a great place to talk about the game before it was available to play. As the community grew, we've had an increasingly productive exchange, sharing news about Good Company and discussing ideas.
But we wanted to offer a special way of engagement for the community, so we created a Discord version of Good Company. Using a bot and specific commands, people would found or join companies in order to set up production and compete with each other. The mechanics within this purely texted setting are very basic but still reflect the core principle of the original game. It was great to see teams competing for a season's top rank and having a lot of fun.
However, the biggest step for us and for the community was the day Good Company entered Early Access. People could finally experience the game hands-on, share their opinions with us, and enter an inspiring dialog to help us develop the game further.
"I can make wooden calculators! Recommended."
Reviews like this one made us smile, as any positive feedback has until the present day. But the negative ones are even more important – or as Bill Gates puts it: "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning". However, Steam is so much more than a review hub to us!
It's an important place of exchange about Good Company, be it with news, feedback, or bug reports. But what's really essential: We are so happy to have a player base that communicates in such a friendly and supportive way! That's never to be taken for granted, you know? We try to honor this by keeping in touch, listening, responding - and, of course, by incorporating valuable suggestions or ideas, even if that means we need to change our original vision for Good Company.
Banana for scale
We have always hoped for a diverse range of players for Good Company, so we wanted to offer as many distinct lines of communication early on. Reddit is one of them and it's a place that hosts particularly innovative Tycoons.
Speaking of player-generated content, another great medium of community creation is Let's Plays, obviously. Did you happen to watch Jackmas' or Blarla's fantastic Good Company sessions? We were enjoying the first few episodes a lot, but when we noticed the two were going to record a full-blown series about their business adventures, we were super impressed!
These are just two examples of many, which provided deep insights for our team, while also helping other players get an overview of what's possible in Good Company and how its complex systems work. Albeit from a different angle, this also goes for this hilarious pearl, which demonstrates how to treat your employees, well, quite badly and how much fun it can be to break the game.
What about a wiki?
After all this talk about community efforts, you might ask yourself such a question. Well, maybe you missed it, but we do have an official wiki! There's already some helpful content, thanks to some initial work of some community members. And as the wiki will evolve as Good Company does, we always eager for your support in this department. If that sounds interesting, don't hesitate and check out how to participate!
Com-you-nity
We hope what we have shared here gave you a good impression of how awesome and important it is for us to have you all participating in Good Company's way through Early Access. And with 'you' we mean each and everyone out there who has joined the journey.
No matter if you are in constant contact with us or just post a screenshot of a company you have built and that you are proud of. Actually, there is no 'just'. Any constructive and honest engagement is helping us to ultimately shape Good Company into a game that as many fans of the genre as possible can enjoy. So, however you would like to stick by, contribute and continue to support us: Thank you so much, Tycoons! It means a lot!
All the best, Your Chasing Carrots
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Good Company - Some figures behind the pixels
Hey Tinkerers & Tycoons,
As we announced on our Early Access anniversary, we'd like to share even more interesting insights about the development of Good Company. One perspective on the game we think is intriguing: stats!
You can imagine that there's a lot going on under the hood of Good Company to orchestrate gameplay systems together with audio-visual content. But what happens if you break down these topics and reveal some figures behind the technology - and the team who is setting it all up?
Today, we bring you a snapshot (let's call it 'development x-ray’), highlighting data ranging from coffee beans consumed to bug counts that we squashed. And we are so transparent about our processes, that we've even chosen to capture who has broken how many PCs during the past 12 or so months (way to go, Johanna)!
We hope the following infographic is as entertaining as it might be useful for you. And if it doesn't answer a question you always wanted to ask us, get in touch with us!
All the best,
Your Chasing Carrots
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Good Company - 1 Year of Early Access
"@all, only two hours to go! are the latest fixes in?" "Is someone currently using the VPN heavily? My Steam up/download is crawling..." "Wow, that strange crash again..." "Ipdated the roadmap link in the main menu and pushed this in the early access branch" "Don't worry, once the game is live those icons will show up on the store page." "We should start the final builds sooner or later. I'd prefer sooner :D" "Whooo, we're on the front page!" "Is it only for me that the speech bubble is off on the microsite...?"
–Excerpts from the Chasing Carrots team Discord on Tuesday, 31st March 2020
Dear Tinkerers and Tycoons!
Exactly one year ago, our team Discord was on fire. We were launching Good Company into Early Access only a short while after we had switched to working from home due to the pandemic. An extraordinary situation, as you can imagine.
That day, the team was going through a wild ride of emotions, ranging from exhaustion over excitement to relief. And, well, the feeling after pressing the launch button and joining our friends at The Irregular Corporation for a Zoom party was nothing short of overwhelming. Speaking of TIC: thank you so much for a great partnership and your support!
It feels like yesterday, but also like it's been ages. So much has happened during the past year.
From day 1 in Early Access development, we have been more than eager to follow through with the plan summed up in our roadmap. However, we appreciated the frequent, friendly, and constructive community feedback a lot. Even if that meant we had to stray from the path and revisit many features along the way.
As we have discussed in an article for Making Games, to kill your darlings isn't always an easy thing to do. But the fresh perspective shared by many players more often than not convinced us it was worth the effort. For the following months, we would evaluate suggestions and implement improvements, while regularly providing updates and patches. In alignment with our roadmap, we have added new systems with each milestone, and every time Good Company's version number incremented noticeably, the game shaped up in terms of fun and depth.
This was only possible thanks to the awesome support we have been receiving from our community! So, besides working on the game, our most important task was and will be to listen to your feedback. Because that's how a good Early Access is supposed to be!
The most recent example might be Good Company v0.9 "Improving Foundations". With this big update, we introduced a totally overhauled tutorial, essential improvements for the Courier System, and many other details that we derived from players' input. The next big step is already in the making: employee skills and happiness, which will further improve the gameplay of Good Company.
During the coming weeks, we will take this anniversary as an opportunity to share with you even more insights about the past and future development. Stay tuned!
Last but not least, for anyone waiting for a good reason to finally start their exciting career as a high-tech entrepreneur, Good Company will be 25% off on Steam on April 2nd and all week in the Spring Sale on GOG! There hasn't been a better time to join the ranks of your fellow tycoons!
All the best, stay safe & healthy!
Your Chasing Carrots
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