Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.55

Changes

• Research now provides a 10% development speed boost to applicable features

• Added custom tooltip to features in design document detailing market targeting and speed modifiers

• Added submarket analysis window to visualize saturation of markets over time

• Licenses are now paid per employee per project instead of per company

• Added overview of tool licensing to product detail window

• If map seed starts with "NOLAKES", no lakes will be generated

• Rebalanced employee weighting of waiting to use furniture vs walking longer for it

• Added diagonal interior highlights to selected rooms

• Better handling of errors in level 3 feature scripts from mods

• Increased starting capital of hardware based companies to reduce chances of bankrupting early

Fixes

• Fixed instances of assembly lines not being updated correctly after undo or putting in inventory

• Fixed bug causing all rooms to become inaccessible to a team after renaming it, if no room on the map was assigned to any teams

• Fixed converting room to pillar deleting valid items on the other side of walls

• Meeting rooms no longer need to be assigned to a team

• Fixed not being able to manage parking spots above pre-built roads in city and town maps

• Employees will now discard reservation of computers as soon as they go to leave, to avoid making them unavailable for employees just arriving

• Furniture will now discard employee reservations immediately if they are unable to approach them

• Fixed snow on top of pillars in basement

• Added shadows to road elements when "More shadows" is enabled

• Garage ports can no longer be placed facing fenced areas, as it would break pathfinding

Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.56

Changes

• Added option to disable diagonal room highlights

• Halved license costs for player on easy difficulty

Fixes

• Fixed saves breaking if they already had garageports facing fenced areas before 11.7.55

• Fixed burglars sometimes being able to skip past guards at full game speed

• Fixed assemblers not correctly assesing recycler access in particularly snakey assembly lines

• Fixed cleaning staff refusing to clean the room they are currently idling in, if it gets dirty after they finished cleaning it

Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.57

Fixes

• Fixed case of burglars getting stuck

• Various other fixes

Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.58

Fixed bug causing performance to degrade slowly every time an object had been highlighted