Alpha 10.3.2 changes

• Updated vending machine, central heating, fridge and 90s PC models
  

• Fixed auto graphic settings option not working due to target framerate being 60 fps by default
  
• Submeshes in imported furniture is now merged so they have selection outlines
  
• Added missing error handling to hour input fields
  
• Fixed employees getting their classes and vacation cut short by relocating
  
• Furniture animation speed always 1 (fridge)
  
• Various other fixes
  

This release features a completely overhauled temperature system:

• Room temperatures now instantly reflect temperature changes, instead of simulating temperatures in realtime
  
• Water and electricity costs now depend on how much your heating and cooling elements are actually needed, e.g. a radiator will not use water or degrade in quality during warm summer days
  
• Tundra and desert temperatures have been re-balanced
  
• Each heating/cooling element now have much clearer area and power stats that control how much they can heat/cool.
  
• Rooms have an insulation stat controlled by adjacent rooms and windows (can be viewed from the data overlay).
  

• Overhauled temperature mechanics
  
• Ability to set individual employee benefits
  
• Ability to set minimum specialization skill on a team before an employee is allowed to work with it in code and art
  
• The role column in the employee window now uses sprites instead of text to show assigned roles
  
• Seasoned devs will now have more specialized education rather than none at all
  
• Added christmas bonus benefit
  
• Ability to control HR specializations for new hires
  
• Added target framerate option for non Vsync mode
  
• Added thermometer to UI indicating outside temperature
  
• Cleaned up team window
  
• Rooms should always show area, and multiple selected rooms should show aggregated area
  

• Fixed HR preferred age label not updating
  
• Lowered hype effect on sales to avoid sudden hype causing random sales drops
  
• Select furniture types in rooms would keep some previously selected objects
  
• Buildings from workshop not loading on systems with case sensitive paths
  
• Removed printing alerts for traded products to avoid spam after company takeover
  
• Fix plot near bus stop in leased mode, so employees don't walk into a building from the bus (this fix is not retroactive)
  
• Rooms over a road cause unsupported message when placing blueprints or cloning rooms
  
• Retroactively fixed some furniture mods breaking saves
  
• Game would bug when pressing enter after searching in multi selection window like furniture assignment
  
• Improved car pathing logic and cornering speeds
  
• Developed a tool to batch spell check XML files and spell checked all XML files
  

• Added character LOD and added a unified low poly shadow caster. This will most likely only impact very low spec systems. If you're having performance issues on a newer system and your GPU is stressed, disable "More shadows"
  

• Auto graphic settings option no longer works, due to the new framerate target option. You can get around it by temporarily disabling VSync and setting the framerate target to -1 before running the tests. Will be fixed in next patch.
  

• Peer reviews now affect bug count and quality
  
• Bigger plot option for rural map, more expensive but simpler expand progression
  
• Show average team skill and spec against selected employee in hiring window
  
• Change HR and time settings for multiple teams in a row
  
• Ability to save and load character defaults in new game screen
  
• Ability to delete room styles
  
• Ability to localize key names for key bindings if name is longer than one character by writing KeyCode + KeyName as written in UI, e.g. KeyCodeDelete
  

• Leasable black material had gotten selectable as floor in-game
  
• Raised lower compatibility chance of employees hired by competent HR
  
• Slightly decreased effect of disliking a team member
  
• Difficulty setting was not saved after starting a new game in a building
  
• Further decreased skill effect on support ticket response rate
  
• Fixed newspaper writing article before game had calculated feature score
  
• Fixed plot window for multi monitor setups
  

• Preferred age label in HR not updating
  
• Renting multiple building units at once will cause loud cash register SFX
  

Software modding

Furniture modding

Material modding

Alpha 10.1.7 fixes

• Support ticket handling speed should be less dependant on employee skill
  
• Added minimum skill cap to marketers and leaders as hiring low level employees in these roles did not have any benefits
  
• Info in bottom left corner didn't refresh due to bug introduced in last update
  
• Updated LEASING18 and LEASING19 of the leasing tutorial to include actually selecting a room and pointing out the lease button
  
• Instead of rendering black fill in leasable rooms, hide furniture and color interior and floors black
  
• Ability to set a maximum stock goal for player printing jobs
  
• Increased speed of in-house training and education
  
• Shifted quality labels
  
• AI companies should reject player offer to purchase IP, if it is their only original IP
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Difficulty setting chosen in the new game screen is not updated in the options window in-game
  

Alpha 10.1.6 fixes

• Plot window bug
  
• Contract bug for non standard contract categories
  
• Starting a new game on an empty map after using the map editor will put the new game in map edit mode
  
• Online products are left on player servers after being traded away
  
• Could avoid providing product hosting by trading products back and fourth
  
• Select furniture types in rooms only selected furniture on current floor
  
• Print storage wasn't reset when moving company
  
• Decreased fast learner effect on education speed
  
• You can lose reputation from just finishing a work deal
  
• Difficulty setting should affect starting funds in character creation menu
  
• Lower founder starting skill points based on difficulty setting
  
• Add relocation button to build mode
  

Alpha 10.1.5 fixes

• Increased difficulty of gaining followers and difficulty of getting sales on medium and hard
  
• Research work didn't work properly with new multi role system
  
• Bug in support work made ticket handling instant if all bugs had been verified
  
• The debug console is now always enabled, but not assigned to a key by default and all previous bindings have been reset
  
• Tutorial system could make the game not able to unpause after releasing a product
  
• Optimized wall segment exterior calculation and disabled internal segment rendering in opaque glass mode
  
• Made it more clear if the loading screen is done and when/if it wants you to press a key
  
• Fixed bug when placing houses on edge of map CAUSED BY BUGGY MONO COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS
  
• Fixed skyscraper editor and added removal tooltip for environment objects
  
• Stopped game from focusing on different windows when a dropdown is open
  
• Benefit window scrollbar doesn't work
  
• Fine tuned right click dragging
  
• Fixed printer repair point priority
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 10.1.4 fixes

• Only draw build grid in leased rooms in rent mode
  
• Undoing a furniture move would bug game
  
• Houses were visible from underground
  
• Added steam sticker for blueprints and materials
  
• Added lease termination tip about sold furniture
  
• Room grouping button in room group window did not work
  
• Furniture value wasn't added back to player when relocating from a rent map
  
• Map editor furniture was time locked
  
• Deleting a building would only delete file, not containing folder and thumbnail
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 10.1.3 fixes

• Limiting a room to a role kept all employees from entering it
  
• Simulation randomly breaking when changing month due to bad subsidiary check
  
• Shouldn't count plot worth in money dropdown panel in rent mode
  

Alpha 10.1.2 fixes

• Can place environment objects outside map area
  
• Days per month setting didn't work
  
• Plots counted towards worth in rent mode
  
• Couldn't make IP trades
  
• Auto graphic settings didn't work
  
• Random bug during alpha phase due to out of bounds competency check
  
• Various fixes
  

Major changes

Going forward

Full changelog

• Ability to relocate company
  
• New plot system
  
• Ability to lease rooms
  
• Balanced construction and building costs
  
• Rebalanced employee costs and skills, and overhauled hiring mechanic
  
• Ability to control subsidiary releases and assign tasks (More to come)
  
• Overhaul employee satisfaction mechanic
  
• New employee benefit system
  
• New spring and build track from Chris Sinnott
  
• Overhauled business reputation to be more predictable
  
• Overhauled HR mechanic
  
• Added Rural, Town, City and Cold, Temperate, Warm map types
  
• Overhauled room rendering and added ability to mod room material textures
  
• Add ability to use colorable textures for the standard furniture material, instead of forcing the default UV map
  
• Ability to sum financial sheet or cashflow chart by month, quarter or year
  
• Add proper data overlay window
  
• Added key (F) to align furniture to nearest wall when placing
  
• Better control of door direction when building
  
• Doors should not open when employees are just passing by
  
• Remove insurance account (now savings account) interest cap, but lock interest for years after depositing depending on amount
  
• Software sales are now calculated per OS market, so software released for different OSs are no longer in direct competition
  
• Added loading screen and fixed long loading times caused by music decompression
  
• AI company salaries should be higher than bills
  
• Ideal product price should be determined statically in SoftwareType or SoftwareCategory tag
  
• Improved AI printing strategy
  
• Market simulation now uses release dates for hype calculation, no release date gives no hype
  
• Deprecated scenarios and changed how starting funds are chosen
  
• Add select all button to wage negotiation window
  
• Add specialization pie chart to contract window
  
• Add wall skirting
  
• Chairs now degrade in comfort over time
  
• Drag camera now uses momentum, can be mapped to already mapped keys and will default to right click
  
• Ability to generate the same map twice using a text string
  
• Open chart window and products window from company window
  
• Open company window from stock list
  
• Output different symbols from employees depending on work being done
  
• Tutorials can use dynamic values
  

• Holes in a blueprint floor plan were counted as rooms, which would make it so you couldn't duplicate a floor on top of itself unless the floor plan consisted of separate whole areas
  
• Cap active users to OS users
  
• Could not make games for in-dev OSs
  
• Count loans due in stock worth
  
• Employees will now move to the furniture they are assigned if they are currently using the same type of furniture, which they do not own
  
• Failing to deliver on a print deal will now account for time left on the deal to discount the penalty
  
• Difficulty option and PC upgrades weren't being applied to alpha dev speed
  
• Fixed long standing bug causing windows to become invisible if they were the same height or width as the screen on last launch
  
• Physical copies weren't returned to stock after having been refunded
  
• Reset search when changing build category
  
• Right hand holdables not aligned properly
  

• Group furniture by type to increase query speeds
  
• Optimize market simulation
  
• Ability to turn windows opaque and don't render any room content below current floor in gfx options
  

• Can't update material mod in steam workshop after initial upload
  

New plot system and map layouts

Renting buildings and moving your company

Roadmap

• Group right click buttons
  
• Added music
  
• Instead of having a default room style, you should be able save and apply custom styles
  
• Ability to group rooms and blanket assign them styles and staff
  
• Dialog confirmations can now be ignored on an individual basis
  
• Improved cook serving tray priority logic
  
• Amount of people who can take food from a serving tray at a time is no longer limited by space around the tray
  
• Mark roles in green which comprise the most skill when selecting teams
  
• Added ctrl+z to undo in build mode
  

• Undoing deleting rooms would not recover all their settings
  
• Various other fixes
  
• Product detail window header was off
  

• Random optimizations to employee simulation
  

• Group right click buttons
  
• Added music
  
• Instead of having a default room style, you should be able save and apply custom styles
  
• Ability to group rooms and blanket assign them styles and staff
  
• Dialog confirmations can now be ignored on an individual basis
  
• Improved cook serving tray priority logic
  
• Amount of people who can take food from a serving tray at a time is no longer limited by space around the tray
  

• Undoing deleting rooms would not recover all their settings
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Random optimizations to employee simulation
  

Alpha 9.10.16 changes

• Made product loss by employee salaries more accurate by calculating salary per minute used (refreshed in UI once per day)
  

• Fixed uint overflow causing unlimited sales for products when there are no more supported OS users left to sell to
  
• AI companies not releasing anything after buying out all their IP (won't fix active AI companies from previous saves)
  
• Product loss from player printing and OS ports were not calculated
  
• Fixed adding fans instead of removing them when delivering subpar product to followers
  
• Various other fixes
  

New major changes include:

• Software development has been completely overhauled to focus more on risk management and marketing planning than watching progress bars fill up
  
• Software quality evaluation is now more complex, amount of work done and the quality of that work is calculated seperately
  
• The amount of bugs in a product are no longer known up front making support tasks and bug fixes theoretically endless and instead hinging on good player planning
  
• Project management has been completely overhauled
  
• There is now a clear divide between digital and physical distribution, and the market changes as the years go on
  
• The player has to pay for physical copies of their products upfront to be sold or produce and deliver copies themselves using printers and couriers
  
• The player can make other companies subsidiaries when taking them over to keep them in the game and control their funding
  
• Undo button in build mode
  
• Noise levels are now calculated realistically instead of across entire rooms
  
• UI sound effects
  
• A bunch of UX improvements
  

Current plans for alpha 10 include:

• Completely overhauled software feature system, to get rid of the "Select all" mechanic and add endless research
  
• Being able to move your company to a different plot
  
• Being able to rent rooms in a larger building
  
• New plot system, that includes plot "chunks" with individual characteristics
  
• Rebalanced costs, to balance out late game
  
• Rebalanced hiring and education system
  

Finally, a word on the long development time of alpha 9.

Alpha 9.10.9 changes

• The development info window now uses fractions when counting programmers and artists to correctly show employees working in any role
  
• Add team to wage negotiation window and make window scalable
  

• Wrong amount of copies set to print when using percentage in project management options
  
• Game could break when updating print job list
  

Alpha 9.10.7 changes

• Added colors back to print deal labels
  

• Print job buttons were applied to all jobs
  
• Hire score column was in currency rather than percentage
  
• Loan total amount column was incorrect
  

Alpha 9.10.5 changes

• Employees will have even less of a negative impact on quality when working on features they are not good with, depending on their overall specialization level
  
• Refactor and extend listview functionality to allow for columns with custom objects and easier future maintenance
  
• Turn printing job card list into listview
  
• Remove team dev speed penalty and keep better track of employees working on software at any given time
  
• Show what action is being undo'ed when hovering over the undo button
  
• The printing limit feature should cancel print jobs, not suspend them
  
• Ability to auto start print jobs for project management
  
• Ability to skip OS port
  
• Writing % in project management copy automation should order using percentage of followers
  
• Rename project mangement
  
• Completely disabled loading old saves, as people would mistakenly think they were playable when the game attempted to load them
  

• Subsidiary column not refreshing in Company window
  
• Game would break when filtering the wage negotiation list by employee request
  
• Sending an employee off to education while they were in a vehicle on the way to work would insta-educate them
  
• Removed possible chance to trigger spawn code when despawning
  
• SCM not being applied for art only contracts
  
• Short circuited logic in room propagation code would cause disconnects for central heating and AC in rare circumstances for very complex buildings
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.10.4 changes

• Ability to accept multiple deals
  
• OS port warning will no longer show up if there are no valid OSs to port to and will only ever show up once for each product
  

• Splitting rooms had small chance to break game or just not work due to floating point error introduced in last patch
  
• Fix sales presentation with more days per month
  
• The game would not mark design work as finished if it had any 100% art specializations, which could halt project management work
  
• Late employee state updates could cause game to warn player about irrelevant employee issues
  
• Elevator highlight beam would turn green no matter what furniture was below or above it
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Optimized pre-simulation procedure
  

Alpha 9.10.2 changes

• Increase market recognition dropdown height and put on top
  
• Differentiate between beta and alpha for project management
  
• Est. units in project info panel
  
• Improve contract result presentation
  
• Employees will move away from furniture when it is assigned to someone else
  
• Selecting furniture which is assigned to someone will highlight those employees
  

• Couriers would sometimes take too many boxes with more days per month
  
• Room segments on upper floors did not have shadows when viewing lower floors causing holes in building shadow
  
• Press releases would get released for cancelled design documents
  
• Navmesh triangles are sometimes overlapped causing zigzag paths
  
• Wrong height for door nodes in pathfinding system when loading save could make pathing unstable for upper floors
  
• Fixed marketing deals with more days per month
  
• Can build quarter turn stairs so close to wall that they break floor mesh
  
• Room segments were not being validated on clone allowing for things like cased opening to the outside and eventually breaking game
  
• Workitem scrollbar wasn't toggling correctly
  
• Vacation range was not carried over when renaming team
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Optimization work for employee logic and noise calculations
  

• Added left and right, half and quarter turned staircases
  
• Added option to auto-configure graphics settings
  
• Updated performance impact label for SSAA and More shadows to be clearer
  
• Added default graphics settings
  
• Info for active deals in deal window
  

• Server wiring could cause endless loop crash in rare cases
  
• Bus was not being filled optimally
  
• More workshop upload error handling
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.9.13 changes(accidentally released 9.9.12 with a missing change)

• Remove low skill warning when result is negligible
  

• Removed deprecated Unity particle code to try and fix crash issues
  
• Ground level navmesh generation could cause entrances to be shut off without warning in rare cases
  
• Could build road while in basement
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Cache printing job to product binding to avoid lag when a lot of print jobs are active with hard limits
  

Alpha 9.9.11 changes

• Synchronize chair and computer assignments, assignment should follow computer when moving
  
• Offline OSX version now puts all data in "user/Library/Application Support/unity.Coredumping.Software Inc" to avoid permission issues, make sure to move all previous data there when you update
  
• Don't warn about no OS support if there are no viable OSs left to port to or porting is underway
  

• Changing team names bugs dev team in project management and doesn't refresh work assignments
  
• In-game reporting window wouldn't attach latest autosave if available
  
• Room segments not at correct height when cloning rooms above ground level
  
• Cubicles would get negative scale when placed at odd angles against walls possibly causing crashes down the line
  
• Employees would take vacation one month early, depending on when they were off
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.9.10 changes (Accidentally skipped 9.9.9)

• Updated Unity to 5.5.4p1 for crash fix
  
• Limitation of time skipping when bankrupt has been cut down to 3 hours before deadline
  

• Clicking cancel when updating a workshop item would decouple files from workshop item disabling updates permanently
  
• Undoing after splitting a room which caused a staircase to be destroyed would bug game
  
• Serializable vector would generate random hashcodes causing save game issues in rare cases
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.9.8 changes

• Changed how the topbar barchart represents cashflow
  
• Difficulty should change how much timing impacts pre-marketing
  
• Added percentage to product unit barchart tooltip
  

• Review score aggregate would tend to cap at 9.5
  
• Bug when placing room up against room causing wall objects to be deleted and then undoing
  
• Deleting room up against room with a window or door, added extra doors or windows when undoing, which could break game
  
• Objects deleted from changing fence style couldn't be recovered from undo (not applicable in vanilla game)
  
• Wall objects deleted due to no longer being on a valid wall (exterior or interior, outdoor or indoor) couldn't be recovered from undo
  
• Game wouldn't allow transactions with a negative bank balance even if the amount was zero
  
• Bug when having the wall delete tool open on a wall and clicking undo
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.9.5 changes

• Quality degrade warning should take into account that the most skilled employees might not be adding to quality right this second
  
• Change contract progress label from x - y to x out of y
  

• Undoing deletion of wall objects, windows or doors after merging and splitting rooms had chance to break game
  
• Next print countdown when selecting printer was wrong
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Simplified new employee hitbox, as it were causing huge slowdowns from physics updates with more than a few employees/staff in game (Should see huge FPS increases across all platforms)
  
• Disabled hitbox when employee is not visible
  
• Employee arrival times are now only updated at most once per in-game minute
  

Alpha 9.9.4 changes

• Ability to replace wall furniture
  

• Undoing room deletion was carried out top-down making the game not create them due to lack of support
  
• Undoing a merge made on a different floor than the current one would place new room on current floor
  
• Undoing moving wall furniture didn't work properly
  
• Print priority sliders weren't refreshed when loading save
  
• Various other fixes
  

Alpha 9.9.3 changes

• Made employee window scalable
  
• Undo furniture replacements
  
• Moved undo button
  
• Undo resets at end of day to minimize abuse
  
• Cooks will now walk to unassigned canteens to serve food if necessary
  
• Added personality localizations and fixed "Please wait" panels
  

• Fixed undoing staircase deletion
  
• Selling furniture and undoing could bug game due to furniture being placed back in wrong order
  
• Deleting server farm would not add all its processes to the unsupported list
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Replace dot bar used for personalities with manual Graphics rendering
  
• Fixed legacy plot expansion code
  

• Bug when deleting chair and PC at the same time
  
• Potential fix for end of day crash on computers with specific graphics card drivers
  
• There were no cap on initial funding for subsidiaries
  
• Various other fixes
  

• Ability to undo in build mode
  
• Delete walls between rooms as alternative to right click and merge
  
• Added names to staff list and ability to assign rooms to staff using a list
  
• Updated Steamworks SDK
  
• Updated to Unity 5.5.4f1
  

• Fixed bugs relating to cooks
  
• Company filter gets stuck for all releases list
  
• Various other fixes