Changes

• Added option to use solid ground instead of void as world background
  
• Adjusted fog distance based on camera zoom level

Fixes

• Added fail safe to avoid components suddenly not printing
  
• Fixed being able to place furniture inside each other up against walls using scaled grids
  
• Fixed deleting wrong style in style panel if selected object had unsaved style
  
• Fixed couriers giving up completely if trying to fetch boxes from a blocked garage port
  
• Fixed top floor being unreachable in Hardware Inc map

Changes

• Added ability to place and rotate furniture, rooms, doors and windows with no grid by holding Alt
  
• Added red outline to intersecting furniture when placing new furniture

Fixes

• Fixed some list content not being visible at first until interacting with it
  
• Fixed furniture silently becoming unreachable if moved in a specific order under certain conditions
  
• Fixed cost not displaying correctly when dragging conveyor belts or just moving furniture
  
• Fixed server dropdowns not updating instantly when server configuration changes
  
• Fixed specialization panels not updating instantly when new specializations unlock
  
• Fixed game sometimes breaking when deleting a room outside of build mode in the same instant an employee decides to use a furniture in it

Fixes

• Fixed corner and inverse corner carpet boundaries being reversed, making impossible to place properly in room corners
  
• Partly fixed bug where rooms could be marked as inaccessible if the room leading up it is divided into multiple areas using furniture and each area has multiple separate entrances
  
• Fixed not being able to freely place furniture from inventory if you can't afford full price
  
• Fixed corner fence posts missing from outdoor areas in some cases
  
• Made "Rooms inside rooms" error less likely to occur when just free-building up against other rooms
  
• Fixed game suggesting room auto-completion when it would create invalid rooms with very low angles

Changes

• Made it easier to create and save styles on the fly using the style panel
  
• Ability to filter selection directly in style panel
  
• Added RGB PC in 2015 and moved Holo PC to 2030
  
• You can now enable code mods from the Mod window in the main menu
  
• Improved position of computers and computer peripherals

Fixes

• Fixed build mode shortcuts being obscured by style panel
  
• Fixed specialization 2 and 3 project management settings being reset when leader quits or changes to leader with lower specializations
  
• Fixed framework option being reset when starting new project management task
  
• You can no longer drag a column to be completely invisible, never to be seen again
  
• Fixed replacing furniture not resetting color
  
• Fixed bug where very bright lights could end up becoming black holes instead
  
• Added self correcting code to save system ID assignment

Graphics

• New subway model
  
• New helicopter model
  
• New Holo Computer
  
• New RGB Computer
  
• New Mini fridge
  
• New Fridge

Fixes

• Fixed game breaking with modded furniture that inherits from furniture with look points, with none defined
  
• Fixed shortcuts not sticking around when switching between furniture to build
  
• Fixed style panel showing black furniture after replacement
  
• Further save game stability fixes (No fix for corrupted saves from Alpha 11.7.36, sorry)
  
• Fixed issue where non rounded number window sizes and positions would cause Unity to recalculate layouts every frame resulting in low FPS
  
• Optimized performance of lists by disabling elements that are not visible horizontally

Changes

• Added a style panel to quickly pick colors and texture designs for rooms, roofs, paths and furniture, before and after placing them
  
• The fire report now has a button to select offending rooms
  
• Made fire inspector more lenient towards fire alarms in small rooms if there are alarms in adjacent rooms
  
• Updated furniture material (Atlas and Masked) and furniture variable (AltStyles, CustomHeight, etc.) sections on modding wiki

Fixes

• Walls are now accounted for when deciding which room to apply reverb to in build mode
  
• Fixed placement of custom wall height furniture slowly breaking the higher up you are
  
• Fixed unlocking the 800 square meter reward in custom map mode
  
• Main menu no longer loads entire patch note list at once, to avoid lag
  
• Fixed modded lamp furniture not having light range set correctly since shadow update
  
• Fixed cases of furniture not being fixed when broken while state is above zero percent

Alpha 11.7.34 Fixes style panel breaking because Unity puts "(Clone)" in instantiated objects' names

Fixes

• Fixed modded furniture not inheriting from existing furniture and not defining alternative colors breaking style panel
  
• Fixed style panel breaking when trying to load building textures in a save file from mods that haven't been loaded

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Please note that the hardware mechanic will not be available in older Alpha 11 saves, since they require changes to the software types, which are embedded in the save file. However, they will still load.


This update adds conveyor belts, forcing you to plan out your logistics in more detail than just placing down some printers and some pallets. With conveyor belts comes a lot more options for how boxes travel from printer to courier. They can be routed through walls, floors and even out of a building directly to a parking lot.


Hardware manufacturing seems like a natural offshoot from conveyor belts. Hardware manufacturing currently affects how you have to approach console and phone development. You also unlock new hardware contracts with 2 business stars, and you'll receive hardware manufacturing deals whenever a competitor develops a console or phone operating system.


Employees will sadly no longer partake in majestic flights through empty elevator shafts. Elevators now require queueing and load balancing. 2 new larger elevators have been added and each of them has a display showing current floor, load and direction.

The final release of Alpha 11 has been pushed back a couple of times now. It mainly came down to the fact that the convention mechanic hasn't panned out the way I intended, when I brainstormed it. I've decided to make Alpha 11.7 the final update before I release it officially. The convention mechanic has been shelved for now in favor of the new hardware mechanic. The "updates and expansions" update is still planned and I'm still planning on making it a part of Alpha 11.

Fixes

• Fixed employees getting stuck eating after loading a save from before alpha 11.7.31, if they were already eating at a table
  
• Fixed game breaking due to employee missing food while in eating state when loading old save game
  
• Fixed not being able to rotate a group of furniture if center furniture can't rotate on its own
  
• Fixed parking spot prioritization for security staff
  
• Fixed acoustic foam sticking through roof
  
• Fixed custom height furniture not being placed exactly where mouse is

Changes

• Added eating animation and a "fork"
  
• Added ability for employees to eat in couches, by their PC or just standing around
  
• Vending machines and mini fridges now output food objects that employees have to eat before their hunger is satiated
  
• Improved look of conveyor belts at 90 degree angles
  
• Employees will now pick subway over bus, if it's closer

Fixes

• Fixed modded furniture sometimes combusting on load
  
• Fixed already broken furniture sometimes causing fire on load
  
• Fixed noise overlay sometimes not updating in real-time

Changes

• Limited which UI sound effects are affected by reverb in a room
  
• Added new reward

Fixes

• Fixed chance of employee getting stuck when trying to flee outside while already outside
  
• Fixed game showing error dialog when a code mod fails to compile
  
• Fixed issues with injection of error handling code into code mods when methods contain yield and control statements

Changes

• Added proper code mod error handling
  
• Added ability to place some wall hung furniture at custom heights
  
• Added room acoustics with reverb sound effect, which affects noise propagation, and effectiveness of meetings and social interactions
  
• Added new reward for releasing software

Fixes

• Helicopter now subtracts money instead of adding
  
• Fixed headphones loading in at the wrong position if worn by an employee
  
• Fixed having to pay for a subsidiary's patents and frameworks

Changes

• Game now caches shadows from in-world lights, making it possible to play with "More shadows" on non-super computers, but moving objects no longer cast shadows inside rooms
  
• Upgraded the manufacturing panel with scrolling conveyor belt graphic and printer/assembly color indications
  
• Increased price of helicopters to $6500 per pickup
  
• Quadrupled market recognition gain
  
• Component printers can now be limited to specific print jobs
  
• Project info window now lists active publishing tasks
  
• Added warning when manufacturing process doesn't end with recycler
  
• Added 12 month cooldown on the fan loss warning
  
• Replaced Phone and Console tech lag with hard unlocks, to avoid making it seem like hardware research didn't work

Fixes

• Fixed console history not actually being saved
  
• Fixed possible save corruption from moving company with furniture in inventory
  
• Fixed context menu going behind UI in Linux with UI anti-aliasing off
  
• Fixed toilet censor rendering no matter which floor is being viewed

Changes

• Added helipad for transporting boxes quickly
  
• Added helipad to Hardware Inc starting map
  
• Added subway to city maps (Requires moving company to spawn one in old saves)
  
• Added matted windows for toilet privacy
  
• Ability to select objects from the floor above if they span 2 floors
  
• Doubled market recognition gain
  
• Added HDR dithering to remove banding
  
• Project management will now fast track projects whenever a phase finishes before time, to avoid long beta phases
  
• Changed how project management prototypes are selected to allow for removing prototypes
  
• Optimization work on employee position updates and furniture LODing

Fixes

• Product storage count was wrong after undoing destroying pallets
  
• Fixed post-tasks sticking around in project management panel after selling IP
  
• Fixed HR not taking role assignment into account when picking specializations for education and new hires
  
• Fixed wall generation breaking when windows or doors are overlapping
  
• Cooks will wait for a bit after their shift has begun to start complaining about the availability of stoves
  
• Employees will no longer walk across the map for toilets, coffee, food, loitering, etc.

Changes

• Added panel to view current project management handled support and marketing tasks

Fixes

• Fixed employees not being able to reach computers in some cases

Changes

• Updated pallet drop point tutorial animation to show a more optimal setup
  
• Added automation log to keep track of HR and project management
  
• Random optimizations

Fixes

• Replacing furniture will now use inventory
  
• Fixed cases of furniture overlapping after replacement
  
• Game now correctly considers inventory when calculating price of placing furniture
  
• Fixed not getting inventory back, and windows and doors sometimes being doubled when undoing placing blueprint
  
• Fixed floating point precision error in room binary space partitioning causing interaction points to be offset incorrectly sometimes

Fixes

• Fixed modded furniture not being reachable when placed up against wall in certain cases
  
• Fixed cases of furniture not being reachable due to floating point precision errors in the nav mesh
  
• Fixed error when burglar was caught by police without any stolen goods
  
• Fixed every active print job acting as a multiplier for each product printer's cost and degradation
  
• Fixed employees' feet clipping through sidewalk
  
• Fixed being able to place medium printer through ceiling mounted conveyor belts

Changes

• Added furniture inventory
  
• Police will return 75% of stolen furniture to player's inventory when arresting burglar
  
• Contents insurance now covers half of building damage
  
• Secondary roles are now included in consideration of whether a team has adequate specializations for a job
  
• Merry happy!

Fixes

• Fixed top of walls rendering through doors and windows when walls are lowered

Alpha 11.7.22 (2020-12-18) Fixes modded furniture not being reachable

Changes

• Rooms can now be selected by clicking on their walls
  
• Greatly lowered fans needed for higher market recognition

Fixes

• Fixed total shares for a company overflowing uint32 by rebalancing shares when they get below $25
  
• Fixed assemblers breaking too fast
  
• Fixed cases of hardware components not being counted correctly, causing print jobs to not finish
  
• Added FIX_COMPONENT_COUNT console command to fix previous saves with stalled hardware print jobs (Shouldn't be necessary for jobs started after this version)
  
• Fixed security staff ignoring room assignment when looking for desks
  
• The game will now try to move interaction points around a tiny bit to avoid some cases of unreachable furniture
  
• Fixed warning message position when UI is scaled
  
• Fixed entire map being counted as an unreachable room with an error message at the map origin

Changes

• HR specialization filter now lists all specializations, to avoid having to remove them as new ones become available

Fixes

• Fixed employees not being able to pathfind outside, causing them to get stuck in elevated parking garages
  
• Fixed another bug in team assignment algorithm causing it to never terminate

Changes

• Added yearly fire inspections with fines and insurance validation
  
• Lowered fans needed for more market recognition
  
• Added flammability data overlay
  
• Improved detection of inaccessible rooms based on obstacles and elevated error message

Fixes

• Fixed bug in elevator load balancing

Changes

• Increased fan gain chance per sale
  
• Capped how long a room can be on fire for and increase rate of spread to reduce overall time
  
• Sprinklers now protect furniture below them from being destroyed during a fire, but will break electronics that are on
  
• Improved dot, indexing and negation parsing in SIPL

Fixes

• Fixed game breaking on extremely underpowered graphics cards, instead of just being slow
  
• Fixed bug in team assignment algorithm causing it to never terminate and create stuttering during thread locks
  
• Various other fixes

Alpha 11.7.17 (2020-11-28) Fixes game breaking when running some feature scripts after loading game

Changes

• Added shortcut to filter employees by next class column, to only show employees with education available
  
• Added type checking to SIPL to avoid loading mods with obvious script errors, instead of them failing mid game
  
• Added support for indexing into non-variables in SIPL

Fixes

• Fixed team assignment algorithm not correctly allowing teams in rooms that are available due to room pass through

Changes

• Changed how fans are summed in UI so it no longer looks stuck
  
• Improved market recognition dropdown
  
• Increased traffic density based on environment type and time of day
  
• Added talent pool, plot, utilities and ISP cost modifiers to environment type
  
• Enabling "pass through" on a room now allows any traffic and is disabled by default
  
• Removed green team labels for when game inferred team assignment from surrounding rooms
  
• Reduced debuff from incompatible co-workers a tiny bit

Fixes

• Fixed some instances of game incorrectly complaining about rooms in or around other rooms while building

Alpha 11.7.14 (2020-11-23) Fixes not being able to load saves with printers or assemblers

Changes

• Improved chart highlighting

Fixes

• Auto-complete room has been mapped to a button, to avoid clash with pillar creation
  
• Fixed inconsequential bugs from room team assignment algorithm
  
• Undoing destroying printers or assemblers didn't refresh their output sticker

Changes

• Overhauled market recognition to be more consistent
  
• Added back simulation of fan loss over time
  
• Made it easier to gain market recognition intially, depending on profitability of software
  
• Put keyboard shortcuts on screen when building
  
• The game will now infer actual room assigment and warn player if there are issues, leading to less lag from pathfinding
  
• Added meeting status to team window
  
• Added ability to create pillars by holding Ctrl. Basically rooms without interiors
  
• Added option to change medium speed multiplier
  
• Added Teams data overlay to visualize which teams are allowed where
  
• Added LOAD_FROM_LOCALIZOR console command to download unfinished translations from Localizor.com
  
• Improved grass and cloud shaders
  
• The "More shadows" graphics option is now disabled by default in all quality settings

Changes

• Component assemblers will now stop accepting input when they are outputting finished assemblies, to clear out after a conveyor back up
  
• Server electricity use now depends on actual usage
  
• Adjusted server wattage to balance out watt per MB between servers
  
• Added ability to bind key to move furniture, default M
  
• Improved table group prioritization for meetings
  
• Improved data overlay

Fixes

• Fixed employee data overlays not working when zoomed out
  
• Fixed game breaking when undoing replacing furniture with furniture that had multiple layers of snapped furniture
  
• Fixed bottom most tasks sometimes not updating if task panel was full
  
• Fixed roof dissapearing when room had stairs and wasn't fully covered by room above

Changes

• Improved data overlay
  
• Disabled publisher printing deals for hardware products

Fixes

• Fixed deadlock that had chance to crash game when a print job finished
  
• Fixed conveyor splitters not updating routing when changing assembler output
  
• Fixed couriers not prioritizing garage ports in rooms player actually owns or has rented
  
• Fixed invisible room floors when using garage ports and opaque windows

Changes

• Conveyor Splitters will now auto-route components to the right assemblers
  
• Added conveyor belt flow visualization when placing conveyor objects
  
• Updated Unity version

Fixes

• Fixed game crashing when loading a game with texture resolution set to low using DirectX
  
• Fixed floating point bug in sub-market comparison that could tank market recognition, among other issues
  
• Fixed hardware component icons not showing up on boxes after last patch
  
• Fixed issue where product boxes would get stuck at garage port because they were empty
  
• Various other fixes

Changes

• Added randomization to staff parking prioritization so they don't always park at the same building
  
• Made couriers prefer garage ports over pallets when choosing parking spots
  
• Made manufacturing limits work like product printing limits, by not taking current stock into account
  
• Added extra check to assembler to make sure old manufacturing jobs didn't get locked up by new jobs
  
• Made assemblers clear out any lingering components from cancelled jobs

Fixes

• Fixed bug where manufacturing process could get stuck because components were assembled in an order where they wouldn't fit together
  
• Fixed bug where headphones worn by founder would stick around after quitting game and starting a new one
  
• Fixed freezing bug from potential deadlock in component machine code when turning on and off

Changes

• Sped up conveyor belts by 25%, and improved assembler logic and effectiveness calculation
  
• Increased fridge capacity and added warning when all are empty
  
• Made it so conveyor belts don't have to line up exactly to connect

Fixes

• Possible fix for some DirectX + GeForce related crashes
  
• Fixed not being able to do alpha reviews for hardware products
  
• Fixed marketing and price warnings being disabled at some point in the past

Changes

• Manufacturing contracts now pay out on delivery rather than at end of day
  
• Halved penalty on manufacturing contracts
  
• Improved component assembler logic for a tiny speed boost
  
• Capped complaint demands to 25% of current salary

Fixes

• Fixed employees complaining about having to pee while going to meetings
  
• Put software category tech lag in tooltips, so Console and Phone won't have wrong unlock year for 3D and Network in UI
  
• Various other fixes

Changes

• Added effectiveness stat to printers and assemblers, which is reflected in the manufacturing overlay

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to change screen resolution on some computers
  
• Fixed game breaking when starting press release without any selected teams with employees
  
• Fixed reward count being stuck with unclaimed rewards and permanent unlocks enabled

Changes

• Made specialization panel in new game screen scale with screen width
  
• Added progress bars to press releases and warning for missing specialization levels
  
• Added manufacturing contract warning
  
• You can now cancel manufacturing contracts with no penalties if you haven't started printing yet
  
• Removed screen refresh rate options, as they aren't used in windowed fullscreen mode
  
• The penalty from raising the price of a product now slowly decays over a year

Fixes

• Fixed couriers not prioritizing garage ports correctly
  
• Fixed box elevator not being valid in basement
  
• Fixed employees getting stuck in other teams' bathrooms and complaining about a lack of seating after the sink was added
  
• Fixed bugged human color mapping, causing all-blue staff members
  
• Fixed publishing deal not resetting when changing software type or category
  
• Fixed Employees tutorial
  
• Fixed employees getting stuck in parking structures after panicking over burglars
  
• Various other fixes

Fixed boxes and printers not being simulated when skipping time

Fixes

• Fixed contracts not refreshing on pre-alpha 11.7 saves
  
• Fixed game breaking when trying to pick component outputs on pre-alpha 11.7 saves
  
• Fixed game breaking due to AI changes in couriers being incompatble with pre-alpha 11.7 saves
  
• Fixed instances of boxes getting stuck

Changes

• Added hardware toggle for software categories, making them physical distribution only and altering their sales simulation
  
• Added hardware manufacturing, allowing players to print products from components using a series of printers and assemblers
  
• Added hardware contracts and made contract generation algorithm pick more varied contracts
  
• Boxes now have to be transported using conveyor belts
  
• Elevators are now simulated with limited capacity and load balancing
  
• Added security desk to micro manage security staff locations
  
• Employees' work timer no longer starts until they have walked into the office, and they offset their arrival time by how long their commute takes
  
• Default room style has changed to drywall and concrete floors to encourage player customization
  
• Overhauled look of UI
  
• Heavily increased payout from bigger contracts
  
• Updated default rent buildings and added a new building for hardware manufacturing
  
• Added TOGGLE_SPEC_CAP console command

Fixes

• Fixed bug causing software with categories overriden in mods to always be priced at 0, making the AI bankrupt constantly
  
• Fixed not being able to override name generator when modding existing software with no categories
  
• Fixed bug where bus could get stuck waiting all day for employee that didn't plan on using it
  
• Fixed bug in path calculation causing employees to lose several meters every day when playing at max speed
  
• Fixed snapped furniture not always getting corrected to avoid wall clipping, causing PCs to not line up with chairs
  
• Fixed being able to pick software features unsupported by any OS, as long as OSs had already been selected
  
• Fixed subsidiary price adding player stock worth twice, making it almost twice as expensive as intended
  
• Various other fixes

Graphics

• Old Computer
  
• 90s Computer
  
• Laptop
  
• Modern Computer
  
• Elevators
  
• Product printers

Software Inc. is now available to translate on https://www.localizor.com/game/63/translations. So if you want to help me localize the game, join up over there and start earning points.


This update adds a task system, that rewards you with new furniture, when you complete certain tasks. The reward system is meant to guide you through the game's features, so they are not hard to get and the new furniture isn't gating any important mechanics.

I've also fixed the incessant complaint spam that would happen when your employees were being annoying and demanding the most basic of office facilities.

Changes

• Adjusted lower payout from work deals a tiny bit
  
• Added specialization requirements to design and development deal detail panel
  
• Added tooltip hints for complaints where solution isn't obvious
  
• AC Unit can now be built towards outdoor areas
  
• You can now input salary directly for a single employee in wage negotiation window

Fixes

• Severance pay and team debuff is no longer applied if employee quit by themselves
  
• Failing a hosting deal no longer affects market recognition for player in product category
  
• Fixed longstanding bug causing extreme fan loss when server fails to handle load
  
• Fixed employees creating paths in grass and snow when walking on elevated roads

Alpha 11.6.10 fixes a small bug in the specialization system (2020-07-17)

Changes

• 2m and 3m round tables have been deprecated in favor of corner tables, they will still load but can't be placed
  
• Computers now auto snap towards chairs when placing them and will allow non angle aligned rotation if it aligns with a chair
  
• Improved colorblindness support for toggles, task system, button counters and education dots

Fixes

• Fixed cleaners sometimes staying past their shift
  
• Fixed camera dragging sometimes sticking
  
• Fixed tasks with monetary goals not having correct currency
  
• Fixed not getting error message when trying to place roof objects in rooms with slanted roofs
  
• Fixed not being able to add new specializations in mods if they weren't supported by an OS
  
• Fixed INSTA_DEVELOP_DESIGN command not working for modded software

Graphics

• Table
  
• Corner Table
  
• Glass Table

Alpha 11.6.8 Fixes product printers not working after loading game (2020-07-09)

Changes

• Made medium difficulty easier, renamed old Medium to Hard and Hard to Realistic

Fixes

• Fixed server and distribution tutorials being active while game is loading
  
• Fixed being able to place solar panels on roads
  
• Fixed not being able to start marketing product after publisher goes bankrupt

Graphics

• Fire alarm
  
• Sprinkler
  
• Inbox
  
• Tower Server
  
• Server Rack
  
• Big Server Rack
  
• Bench
  
• Reception Desk
  
• Bookshelf
  
• Cheap Chair
  
• Executive Chair
  
• Office Chair
  
• Waiting Chairs
  
• Couch
  
• Industrial Ventilation
  
• Vending machine
  
• Pallet

Changes

• The education button counter will no longer count education in roles employees aren't assigned to
  
• Button counters now go to 99 and made complaint button flash

Fixes

• Fixed employee salaries not being scaled by days per month when calculating development costs
  
• Fixed button counters not being hidden in build mode
  
• Fixed headphones being too small to fit heads

Changes

• Improved education dot position
  
• Added actual shipping capacity in distribution window as it is now affected by warehouse logistics
  
• Added a bunch of new EventHandlers for code modding, check the modding wiki for more information

Fixes

• Made it so bugs in data mod scripts don't break the game completely
  
• Various other fixes

• Fixed various issues with new furniture
  
• Various other fixes

• Fixed out of order programmer and design education dots in employee window
  
• Various other fixes

• Fixed couriers getting stuck with more days per month than 1
  
• Various other fixes

Changes

• Added new task system with furniture rewards
  
• Added a bunch of new furniture and new minor mechanics to go along with them
  
• Couriers now carry actual rendered boxes to the van, 9 boxes at a time (represented as 3), instead of all at once
  
• All complaints are now listed in a single window, no longer requiring immediate action and the mechanic has been rebalanced
  
• Room boost calculation have been overhauled and added to room info panel
  
• RoleBuffs have been renamed to UseEffects for furniture modding, however it is automatically converted for existing mods
  
• Chairs now have an ergonomic score (Chair.MiscPotential) that affects sick leave, effectiveness and mood
  
• DLL mods now have to be placed in their own folder, rather than straight in the DLLMods folder
  
• Employees ready for education now have a green dot in the employee overview
  
• Company financial overview no longer counts hidden transactions in the final sum, e.g. intercompany transactions
  
• Updated UI for transferring IP, to allow for transferring multiple IPs to a subsidiary at once

Fixes

• Fixed cases of HR not picking specializations correctly when educating and hiring
  
• Fixed bug causing modded furniture not loading in normal and extra maps correctly
  
• Moving into buildings created after Alpha 11.6 that are from an earlier year than the current game, will no longer break furniture as if they've been sitting around for all those years
  
• Fixed all employee complaints being counted towards chance of lawsuit, despite not being listed in the final reasons
  
• Burglars now instantly despawn if they get stuck somehow, to avoid locking the player out
  
• Added safeguard if AI gets stuck in a "Dummy" node loop
  
• Employees will no longer go for empty vending machines
  
• Courier van color was never initialized

Graphics

• Phone
  
• Drawing Tablet
  
• Calculator
  
• CCTV

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I actually sat down and read about how the stock market works and overhauled the stock system, based on what I learned. In hindsight, just making stuff up and patching exploits with weird hacks probably wasn't the best approach.

You now trade in actual shares instead of having 5 "stock slots". Furthermore, other companies can now start a hostile takeover of your company, if they own more than 50% of your shares.

Don't be afraid to report the numerous exploits this new system probably adds to the game.

The "savings account" mechanic has been split into stocks and bonds, where the previous system has been aptly named "bonds investments", as that was what I had inadvertently made, apparently. Stocks allow you to be more risky with your money, hopefully earning a couple extra percent off your savings every year.

This update has been rushed out to fix the fire on load bug, so it does not include all changes made since the last update.

Changes

• Added dynamic path generation on grass
  
• Added ability to disable clouds
  
• Overhauled snow aggregation on grass and roofs and added optional snow toggle for furniture shader

Fixes

• Fixed furniture breaking on load potentially causing fires
  
• Fixed game breaking after saving new workshop content after having had Mod window open
  
• Fixed bug where HR wouldn't educate employees in roles they had no previous education for

Changes

• Added mod window to main menu
  
• Made fire starting predictable, to avoid different outcomes when saving and loading
  
• Added extra fire warning message to tell player which furniture started it
  
• Added support for horizontal scroll wheel in lists
  
• Localizations can now add custom employee names

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to translate points left and hire window
  
• Fixed infinite loop crash when all servers in an internal server fallback loop are broken

Changes

• Added "Glitchy" to contract quality assesment, to clarify when reputation goes down for seemingly no reason

Fixes

• Fixed grass not refreshing properly after moving company to an empty plot
  
• Fixed being able to keep shares in subsidiary company
  
• Fixed bug in SIPL causing it to fail when calling two overloaded versions of the same method

Alpha 11.5.7: Fixed bug corrupting saves and added code to fix saves corrupted by this issue (2020-03-22)

Alpha 11.5.6: Migrated to .Net 4.6 (2020-03-22)

Changes

• Cross holding has been disallowed to avoid stock trading exploit
  
• Grass system will now prioritize refreshing grass where the player is looking
  
• Added more detail to save game loading screen
  
• Put Interest in finance window in paranthesis to emphasise that interest is not deposited in bank account

Fixes

• Attempt at fixing cases of UI jittering. If it is happening to you, please report screen resolution, UI scale and which UI element is jittering
  
• Fixed position of some UI elements when UI scale is above 100%
  
• Fixed some save game load bugs

Alpha 11.5.3 (2020-03-15) Salvages saves that were corrupted from investments, but investments will be set to wrong stock.

Alpha 11.5.2 (2020-03-15) fixes saves being corrupted if any savings were invested in stocks (This is why we use the testing branch)

Changes

• Overhauled software company stock system
  
• Split savings account into stocks and bonds investments
  
• Added range slider to chart window to improve timeline scrubbing when viewing company balance
  
• Added ability to make popups from feature scripts and added popup when sued for spying

Fixes

• Fixed hired stat counting potential hires in the hire window instead of actual hires
  
• Fixed employee animation not being applied on load
  
• Fixed bug in SIPL causing it to fail finding methods when calling a function in a function parameter
  
• Fixed bug in SIPL making it unable to parse variable names that begin with a keyword
  
• Corrupted saves failing on team deserialization will now be able to load again

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I finally updated the documentation needed to make mods for alpha 11. The wiki has been rewritten, meaning you can no longer find modding info on it for Alpha 10 and earlier versions of the game. You can find the wiki here.

I'm adding a task/reward system for the next update. It's no secret that Software Inc. does not hold your hand at any point. You are expected to figure out what you want to do yourself, using the various systems the game has to offer. A lot of players, myself included, need some guidance, to help figure out what is possible. I hope to address this with a task system, that rewards you with furniture unlocks. I will not be gating any of the current furniture behind this feature, and most of the unlocks will be cosmetic or gimmicky, without throwing the game's balancing off, of course.

When the reward system is done, I will focus on polishing Alpha 11, so I can release it officially.

I will then start working on convention and update mechanics, which will probably go in separate releases. However, I expect to avoid breaking save compatibility, so these features will still be part of Alpha 11.

When the convention and update mechanics are ready and released, I will move out of alpha and into beta. This does not mean I won't add any more features or that early access will be ending any time soon. Beta just means I won't be overhauling any of the main features, in a way that would completely break save compatibility, as I've done with each major update during the alpha phase. I'm still planning on working more on the deal system, project management and stocks, but the focus will be on bugs, polish and content. How the game plays at this point will be pretty close to the final version, though.


Lasse updated 14 furniture models for this patch.

Alpha 11.4.12 fixes bug in SIPL causing game to break randomly when generating review article

Alpha 11.4.11 fixes save not loading properly if a furniture mod was missing

Changes

• Furniture now has a LocalizedName variable to seperate their identification name from their UI name (Check the mod wiki)
  
• Added save file loading screen
  
• Added splash screen while the game loads to avoid looking like a failed launch
  
• Fixed stat window sick day localization
  
• Extended SIPL with xor, break statement, Min and Max enumerable functions and ability to use Enums when assigning or comparing

Fixes

• Fixed game mistakenly warning player that a project was missing qualified workers, because a feature no longer required work
  
• Fixed TyD export not escaping backslashes in strings

Optimizations

• Improved batching of transparent materials like glass
  
• Improved wall furniture culling
  
• Optimized LOD of all computer add-ons
  
• Furniture visibility calculation has been time sliced
  
• Optimized SIPL memory management and enumerable functions

Alpha 11.4.9 (2020-03-04) fixed benefit window being broken

Changes

• Added company statistics to company sheet window
  
• Overhauled skyscraper generation (Still using placeholder art)
  
• A lot of detail windows can now be closed by clicking the same button that opened them
  
• Added ability to change default company car color
  
• Subsidiary project queue now shows unscheduled releases
  
• Specialization panel now shows how many specialization points are left for each role

Fixes

• Renaming a team would reset its color
  
• TyD parser did not ignore semicolons between tables and lists
  
• LOD meshes weren't cleared by default for furniture mods
  
• Game will now try to force placement of wall furniture when loading fails, to avoid "First wallEdge was null" error
  
• Various other fixes

Optimizations

• Improved furniture search performance

Changes

• Teams are now sorted in selection window based on when they were last chosen for a type of task
  
• Added ability to assign a color to teams

Fixes

• Fixed being able to make products that had no OS support for fundamental features
  
• Fixed research button not notifying player of new research unless it had been clicked once
  
• Tons of other fixes

Optimizations

• Improved performance of pathfinding system
  
• Added LODs for vertex heavy furniture

Graphics

• Lamp
  
• Floor lamp
  
• Florescent lamp
  
• Outdoor lamp
  
• Desk lamp
  
• Coffee machine
  
• Espresso machine
  
• Toilet
  
• Sink
  
• Water cooler
  
• Big plant
  
• Floor plant
  
• Table plant
  
• Table cactus
  
• Briefcase
  
• Broom
  
• Coffee cup
  
• Food plate
  
• Hammer
  
• Pot
  
• Water cup

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The Software Inc. team has grown by one, as we now welcome Lasse, whose work you’ve already seen on the character models and cars, in the game. Lasse will be working part-time on making the game look a lot better, while he studies. For this update, he’s improved a bunch of furniture, that sorely needed it, and updated the trees.


You can no longer plop down single units to cool down an entire building, instead you’ll need outputs for their cool air or hot water to disperse throughout your rooms. You’ll be able to automatically place them, and you won’t need to worry about temperature at all if you are just renting rooms. This change comes with a cool overlay visualizing how pipes and vents snake through your building. It also adds roof mounted ACs, which is the first item in Software Inc. to poke through the roof of a building.


Digital distribution no longer works on a per company level and is no longer exclusive. Companies will automatically sign up for your platform if the price is right, but you won’t get to sell 100% of their digital products. This also means I’ve been able to heavily reduce ISP costs.
The amount of deals you receive is no longer based on your business reputation, instead your business reputation controls how much money you will be offered. This means you should be seeing a lot more deals.

The funding + lawsuit exploit has been fixed.

Changes

• Added "Pass through" toggle when assigning teams to rooms, to completely avoid employees passing through other teams' rooms
  
• Added compatibility list in employee detail window
  
• Added lines from selected employee showing social effect of nearby employees
  
• Various UX improvements

Fixes

• Fixed bug stopping company types from being loaded from mods
  
• Various other fixes

Changes

• Added "Office dangers" tutorial, which prevents one burglary or fire in a single savegame, if tutorials are enabled
  
• Increased publisher mandated release date window
  
• Increased lower bound for printing deal payouts a tiny bit
  
• Increased dev speed a tiny bit in easy mode
  
• Made room light level less severe for guest satisfaction

Fixes

• Fixed bug which deleted guests if time was skipped between deal being generated and their arrival, causing player to lose deals
  
• Fixed group of burglars sometimes spawning on separate days, especially with more days per month
  
• Fixed keyboard inputs getting disabled when force closing out of a window with an active input field, e.g. pressing ESC with save game window open
  
• Fixed bug making it possible to clone a room and place it on top of itself in some cases
  
• Fixed long standing bug causing player to never receive deals regarding IP takeover
  
• Auto-placing radiators and vents now takes in-room collisions into account

Fixes

• Fixed game grinding to a halt during a fire if there were a lot of outdoor areas with furniture present
  
• Fixed bug when merging wall with an active radiator or ventilation unit
  
• Fixed scaling issues when placing furniture along walls, e.g. cubicle walls getting chunky
  
• Reverted change from point to spot lights as it seemed to spike GPU usage and cause heating issues, without affecting FPS much
  
• License price is now fixed to stop license fee exploit
  
• Ability to set release date for legacy publishing deals

Fixed bug when cloning or deleting rooms adjacent to walls that are smoothed

Changes

• Completely overhauled temperature system and furniture
  
• Digital disitribution is no longer exclusive or requires the player to make individual deals
  
• Heavily reduced ISP costs
  
• Player now receives all deals, but the payout depends on their business reputation
  
• Guests with deals will now lose their patience if the reception waiting room is too cold, dark, dirty and ugly
  
• Added smooth shading to curved walls
  
• Publisher now handles pre-release marketing automatically
  
• Companies will no longer offer publishing deals if they've sued the player
  
• Publisher funding is now based on company reputation
  
• Release schedule control for publishing deals is no longer optional
  
• Market recognition will no longer decline, if player hasn't released anything for a while
  
• Reduced how much employee skill impacts quality
  
• Rebalanced business reputation gain from support and marketing deals
  
• Employee requirements now scale with the amount of work left on a task, to avoid the last features in design or alpha taking a too long
  
• Satisfaction and effectiveness data overlays now work for employees + added germs, social and stress overlay
  
• Sidewalks are now generated dynamically on roads + added lip to suspended roads
  
• Improved furniture snapping (Especially helpful for Emonadeo's modular shelves mod)
  
• Burglars now prioritize the cost of furniture higher when deciding which room to steal from first
  
• The team selection window now shows minimum team compatibility instead of average
  
• Police now show up quicker
  
• Software reviews no longer conclude by only considering whether the price is good
  
• Added online poll to main menu
  
• Removed leading zero when using AM/PM time

Fixes

• Fixed big lag spike when deleting furniture
  
• Fixed employees sometimes getting stuck forever after a fire, if a path leads up to the entrance of the building
  
• Fixed wrong license price calculation after changing price on a product
  
• Fixed AI using tools and supporting operating systems that the player had put ridiculously high prices on
  
• Fixed AI porting to both released and unreleased version of an OS, if player ever supported it in unreleased form
  
• Fixed employees pretending to work in design phase even though their specialization levels were too low
  
• Fixed getting "transfer to subsidiary" message when trading IP nobody is interested in
  
• Fixed locked furniture not getting removed when buying an office building "from the future" and refunding the cost
  
• Fixed contents insurance price not taking days per month into account
  
• Out of range errors caused by the Start Options mod no longer make the game unplayable
  
• Fixed not being able to build anywhere due to malformed paths
  
• Various other fixes

Graphics

• Tree models
  
• Instant coffee
  
• Wall lamp
  
• Stove
  
• Medium + Small Server
  
• All Product printers
  
• AC unit
  
• Roof AC
  
• Electric radiator
  
• Ventilation
  
• Radiator
  
• Small heater
  
• Ceiling fan
  
• Central heating

Perishables like coffee, snacks and food must now be refilled every day at a monthly cost (Done automatically). This also means there's a limit to how many employees one fridge, vending machine or coffee machine can satisfy. A small mini-fridge has been added as a free alternative to the vending machine.

Tech levels are no longer limited by which operating systems you choose to support. This change might seem somewhat unrealistic, but removing it will speed up tech adoption rate in the market, improve the benefits of researching and patents and finally, it will enable the ability to create updates for your software (this mechanic won't be out for quite a while, though).

The first page of the design document has been completely overhauled to resemble the old design document more. This allows players who don't won't dive into the complexity of the new software system to still play the game as normal. The design document tutorial has been split up into 3 different tutorials to account for this change.

Stocks are now valuated based on a running average of the income from a company's primary services and products. This should eliminate any exploits using loans, funding, etc. However, I'm not convinced this is the best solution.

Plus a ton of bug fixes and optimizations.

• Fixed grass being placed on top of basement stairs
  
• Fixed wall z-fighting visible in the garage by insetting door frame a tiny bit
  
• Fixed bug when sorting tools by tech level and then going to pick operating systems
  
• Various other fixes

Changes

• Made medium and easy mode a bit easier by increasing base sales rate
  
• Tech levels of a new AI company's first release have been limited
  
• Changed networking unlock date from 1990 to 1985 to allow for quicker adoption rate and more hosting deals

Fixes

• Fixed AI being able to pick features not supported by operating systems
  
• Various other fixes

Alpha 11.3.6 (2019-11-25): Moved console away from OnGUI to try and fix crash bug

Alpha 11.3.5 Fixes(2019-11-24)

• Fixed issues with design document sometimes not enforcing tech level limits
  
• Fixed bug where tools dependencies would get disabled if the software had network features
  
• Fixed not being able to see buttons in design document properly with active subsidiary
  
• Fixed "Accept all and close" in wage negotation window showing hourly salary change
  
• Fixed UI antialiasing fix for Linux breaking tons of UI collision checks

Alpha 11.3.4 Fixes (2019-11-23)

• Disabled UI antialiasing by default in Linux to fix bug where the screen would glitch in-game
  
• Fixed game breaking when project management couldn't find a applicable tool

Alpha 11.3.3 fixes bug occurring when project management tried to launch alpha review.

Alpha 11.3.2 fixes bugs when splitting room and loading trees.

Changes

• Overhauled how stocks are valuated, mostly eliminating exploits
  
• Tech levels are no longer limited by operating system support
  
• Patent royalty and expiration have been reduced to account for income boost
  
• Perishables like coffee, snacks and food are now simulated, giving coffee machines, fridges, etc. a capacity and a monthly refill cost
  
• Added a small capacity mini fridge as a free alternative to the vending machine
  
• First page of design document has been simplified and tutorials split into simple, advanced and full
  
• Increased burglar cooldown further
  
• Doubled speed of fires and effectiveness of sprinklers, and heavily increased fire speed if nothing is present to burn
  
• Fires will no longer spread to a room that has already been put out
  
• Contents insurance is now paid out daily rather than monthly after a fire or burglary
  
• Added contents insurance payout notification
  
• Added repair and restore all button to build mode
  
• Added leader multitasking specialization and increased max leader specializations to 9
  
• Leaders now gain a little leader skill when doing any task
  
• The end quality of a product now affects how much it speeds up development of a sequel
  
• Added speed boost info to design document window
  
• Improved pathfinding when fleeing from fire
  
• Bug verification speed no longer depends on average team programming skill
  
• Made energy debuff kick in faster and improved coffee energy boost to combat it
  
• Company assets are now distributed equally among share owners when they bankrupt, otherwise it is sold off randomly
  
• Improved research UI feedback
  
• Changed tree shader to vary colors between trees

Fixes

• Framework and publishing royalties are now actually added to owner's account...
  
• Fixed employees taking 2 vacations in a row if their vacation started in January
  
• Fixed game getting stuck in fire mode because a basement spread its fire to the outside
  
• Fixed game getting stuck if burglar was caught on a road ramp, making police unable to get to them
  
• Security staff will now scare off burglars while walking between entrances as well
  
• Fixed art skill increasing in alpha phase with no art work left
  
• Fixed employees working at half speed in alpha phase if working as artist and programmer with only art or code work left
  
• Fixed design promotion warning having wrong info and appearing when promoting early in any iteration after the 1st
  
• Removed small chance of still selling copies with outrageous prices
  
• Fixed review count being wrong in the review start window in some cases
  
• Fixed undo not working for curve tool if colinear wall points were optimized out in the meantime
  
• Fixed issues loading software localizations in XML format. Please use the CONVERT_LOCALIZATION_TYD command to convert your localizations to the new format
  
• Various other fixes

Optimizations

• Heavily optimized saving and loading times
  
• Optimized employee pathfinding by pooling path lists
  
• Optimized grass system