Patch notes for Beta 1.7.28

Patch notes for Beta 1.7.29

Changes

• Adjusted founder dividends so they match highest tax rate

• Added percent and wage difference label to wage negotiation window

• Insurance costs are now based on sell price, divided between fire and theft, and awards and precious metals can no longer be insured

• Added ability to not insure furniture, wind turbines in rural plot are no longer insured by default

• Right click menu actions that toggle a state now has a checkmark

Fixes

• Fixed wage negotation salary input field not working correctly

Patch notes for Beta 1.7.28

Changes

• Added ability to start a new company in the same save when you go bankrupt or are bought out in singleplayer (You can rejoin a multiplayer game to achieve the same effect)

• When your founder retires you will now be able to select a CEO among your employees to take over

• Extra founder dividends is now a difficulty option starting at the current 20% going up to 100% on impossible

• Improved wage negotiation window with reject button and current salary arrow

• Changed how AI companies determine whether bankruptcy is imminent incl. considering upcoming tax bills

• AI companies will now try to sell IP when going bankrupt

• Set a hard monthly cap on stock spending for AI companies

• Added double click actions to most lists

• Added work-around for allowing player to join game even if their save isn't fully compatible with host

• All IP from unlisted bankrupt companies is now transferred directly to the public domain

• Reviews during alpha phase are now adjusted to account for current progress by default

• Added list of active tasks in employee window when an employee is selected

• The effect an award has in a room is now stated directly in the award screen

• Added ability to "soft" archive products, hiding them by default and disabling some notifications

• When grouping tasks by project, tasks that don't have a project will get a type-based label to make sure they are not hidden

• Made it clearer that the fire inspection overlay depends on the fire inspector to finish their report

• Added Detail button to post marketing task to quickly view details about product being marketed

• You can longer disable the prompt whether to fire several employees at once

• Adjusted decibel scale in UI a bit to make it more realistic

• Small usability update for server window

• Added tip to notification about visitors leaving due to bad conditions

• Reordered skill sliders in new game screen to match specialization panel

• The filter button in the deal window will now be red when all deals are being filtered out

Fixes

• Fixed regression in how navigation mesh is generated causing suboptimal pathing in some cases

• Reduced conveyor belt simulation maximum time step from 30 minutes to 3 minutes to reduce discrepancy in throughput between normal speed, max speed and time skipping

• Fixed AI companies not releasing their lead designer when they go bankrupt or are bought out

• Fixed police and burglar getting stuck if police can't find a path to burglar

• Fixed removing balcony and undoing causing error from trying to recreate furniture in the wrong order

• Fixed dragging pillar over another room and undoing causing error from trying to recreate furniture in the wrong order

• Fixed public domain IP costing money and charging royalties

• Added fix for employees being in biking state but not entering animation

• Fixed AI companies with the least amount of money being the most aggressive in the stock market

• Stability fixes for curve tool and undoing curves

• Fixed monthly and total cost of loan in new game screen being wrong

• Fixed toggling elevator exit not immediately updating room connection states