Taxes and accounting officially out

You are now required to pay taxes, and as a big IT company, it would be unusual not to try and get out of it...

Full Beta 1.5 patch notes

(Beta 1.5.5 patch notes at the bottom) Changes

• Added taxes that have to be paid yearly and requires the production of a tax report

• Added ability to dodge taxes, store money in an offshore account and use it for various purposes

• Changed the cost of loans and added bank loans

• Added applicant appeal score to punish player for firing a lot of people or having a lot of unhappy employees

• Whenever a company closes there'll be a temporary increase in job applicants

• Seniority now lowers salary expections, instead of the other way around, as switching jobs usually increases pay + it makes hiring younger more appealing

• Added "Idle" amount to company balance sheet to show how much is being wasted in paying idle employees

• You can now see whether a team will prioritize a task as secondary before assigning it

• You can now somewhat overlap cubicle walls again

• You can now manually set the default priority from the options menu

• Changed how room boosts are calculated to avoid placing a hundred clocks being the optimal choice

• Server downtime now affects refunds

• Wall mounted furniture marked as being valid outside can now be placed directly outside, which currently includes wall lamps, security cameras and company logos

• Changed sink notification from tip to issue so people can't ignore them (Some sinks from the workshop are not marked as such and do not work properly)

• Added ability to view specializations of terminated employees for 1 year after they were terminated

• Moved shortcut panel into build panel

• Upgraded puddle shader

• Added window edges to make them easier to tell apart

• Added ability to view add-on info from parent product info window during development

• Saving a founder now also saves their skills, specializations, personality and traits

• Added the born leader trait icon above employees working slower because of it

• Added ability to change whether a product has out of stock notifications

• Added warning if no employees with support specialization is assigned to an active support task

• Snapping furniture is no longer limited to being placed on the current floor, but instead limited by the room height, including atriums

Fixes

• Fixed extra valuation on plots never actually being deducted from player account

• Fixed bug with blue channel of building material textures

• Fixed team compatibility calculation when loading game not taking friendships into account

• Fixed characters not being escaped properly from Localizor resulting in new lines and tabs being replaced with n's and t's

• Fixed being able to place furniture outside in rented maps

• Fixed being able to assign teams to a task that has already completed while assigning

• Fixed product printers not maxing out printing capacity in some cases with finished and low priority jobs left

• Fixed being able to use wall drag tool to create unsupported rooms

• Fixed cases of getting an angle error when trying to build wall against existing wall

• Fixed HR not hiring anyone because friendships raised the lower compatibility bar too much

• Fixed employees not using mini fridge if it was actively being used when they arrived

• Fixed edge aliasing issue when making thumbnails for furniture mods

• Fixed boxes getting bunched up on conveyor ramps with tier 3 conveyors at max game speed

• Fixed bugs when using wall drag tool on atriums

Optimizations

• Newspaper articles older than 5 years and archived public domain products older than 20 years are removed to increase save speed and reduce file size

• The compression and IO part of file saving has been offloaded to a background thread to reduce lag during auto-saves (Probably about 10% faster depending on hard drive speed)

Patch notes for Beta 1.5.5

Changes

• Added exception for fire inspector when reporting precious metals, as it would be impossible to avoid otherwise

• Added ability to change whether a product has out of stock notifications

• Added warning if no employees with support specialization is assigned to an active support task

• Snapping furniture is no longer limited to being placed on the current floor, but instead limited by the room height, including atriums

Fixes

• Fixed bugs when using wall drag tool on atriums

• Fixed saved founder specializations not loading properly