Beta 1.5.1 out on unstable branch

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Patch notes for Beta 1.5.4

Changes

• You can now get an estimate of accountants needed and current estimated report fulfillment for tax reports in the finance window

• Removed tax notification if accountants would cost more than the reporting fee

• The accounting task is no longer assigned to the Core team as a secondary task by default

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

Fixes

• Fixed input dialog

• Fixed bug when undoing ground hole removal from precious metal confiscations

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 1.5.3

Changes

• Added window edges to make them easier to tell apart

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

• Hiring pool boost from bankrupted companies have been capped due to mods with so many companies they bankrupt daily

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

Fixes

• Fixed the merging rooms action not working, because the burglar/confiscation check had been reversed

Patch notes for Beta 1.5.2

Changes

• Added "Black market" action to offshore account

Fixes

• Fixed gold bars being spotted in basement through window that leads "outside"

• Fixed company logos being visible on floors above current

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

Patch notes for Beta 1.5.1

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

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