Game Breaking bugs:

- Crash when M&A / Fixed
- Crash when changing quarter / Fixed
- Crash when double clicking exit in negotiations / Fixed

Exploits and balancing:

- Now you can not lose more than $10M in the events "Train Delay", "Bandit Attack"
- Dividends of companies at the start of the game now depend on the selected difficulty level

Serious errors:

- Incorrect calculation of income from loans / Fixed
- Selling items of other characters / Fixed
- An error with the movement of the character, which led to the inability to continue the game / Fixed
- Incorrect work of ambitions to sell items / Fixed

Minor bugs / complaints:

- Loyalty for fulfilling the "Campaign Financing" ambition was not calculated correctly / Fixed
- Some errors in layout / Fixed
- Display errors with a large number of shareholders in companies / Fixed
- Cars did not appear after 1900 / Fixed
- The menu in the game does not close according to ESC if the player has entered one of the submenus / Fixed


- Political system
- Characters being able to support or oppose the player
- Negotiations with CEO
- Rework of votes
- Negotiation redesign
- New types of companies

Game Breaking bugs:

- Various rare crashes / Fixed

Exploits and balancing:

- Economy rebalancing
- Influence rebalancing
- Mergers can now only be held in the same state

Serious errors:

- During a merger, company loans were debited from the accounts / Fixed
- Error with prices when selling items through ambition / Fixed
- Error with items price on auction / Fixed

Minor bugs / complaints:

- Errors in map filters / Fixed
- Other minor bugs / Fixed
- Menu buttons are now locked until the menu is fully loaded
- Character finance window improvements


- Patronage system
- Macro indicators of state economics
- Reworked technologies in companies
- Two new states - Ohio and Pennsylvania
- Game performance optimizations
- Influence can now only be earned by collecting items, financing election campaigns and patronage
- New filters in Character rating
- The "Rating" window has moved, now it is in the "Characters" tab (the former "Agents" tab)
- Finance window in company statistics
- The skill "Trade" has been reworked
- The company statistics tab now displays the demand for the goods that the company produces (replacing the Experience card)
- Minor rework of voting, new votings in companies
- Added Chinese localization (partially, readiness ~ 80%)



- Political system
- Characters being able to support or oppose the player
- Negotiations with CEO
- Rework of votes
- Negotiation redesign
- New types of companies

Hello everyone!

It’s been a while since the last diary, sorry about that, we just wanted to wait until we had something new and interesting to share with you, which we finally do! Here’s what we’ve worked on in the last month and what’s in the next update, which is not far off.

We’ve seen frequent requests to optimize the game ever since launch and we’ve spent a lot of time doing so. Now it’s faster and more stable than ever before. This will allow us to add more content without fear that at some point the game will become overloaded. Although all this work on optimization has sacrificed time for new content we feel that it was more important as a strong foundation for the future.



There’s a new window that will be added to the company screen, “Finances”, which has been a very requested feature for a long time. It’s a detailed financial summary of the company, where you can study your income and expenses and will help you understand what could be improved upon to reduce production costs and increase the profitability of your company. This window will also let you see information about your competitors, their market share and the inner workings of their company.


We thought that simply increasing the level of technology all the time was too boring so we have substantially redesigned the research system in the game. Now the shareholders themselves will choose what technology the CEO will develop. Each quarter a vote will be held to decide which tech to develop further.
Industry leaders in any tech will receive bonuses while those lagging behind will have to constantly try to catch up with them or carry out mergers in order to achieve success.



We’ve finished working on most of the macroeconomics as well, it will become much more interesting to play with. The macroeconomic policies of the state will directly affect your company. Of course, you will be able to manipulate this, both in future updates, by passing laws and in the coming update, when a new feature will be added to the game: Patronage.

Patronage is a form of charity, but who said that charity had to be selfless? You can build buildings to increase your influence, and with it the macroeconomic policies of the state.

We have prepared several artworks so you can appreciate these beautiful buildings :)





Of course, this is an incomplete list of buildings that will be present in the game.

I’d also like to mention that we heard the prayers for better AI and while we’re not working on it now we can promise you it’s something we’ll do in the future.

Perhaps the most awaited feature is the introduction of the political system into the game. Unfortunately, we don't have time to finish it before the release this coming update, but we have done quite a lot of work on it and we can say that the politics is almost ready for release in the coming months.

As for the next update, we hope that we can release it in the first half of May. We’ve got a few important things to fix before that though however.

Anyway that’s all for now, thanks for sticking with us and we’ll see you soon!

Game Breaking bugs:

- Some more rare crashes / Fixed

Exploits and balancing:

- Too large penalties for accidents / Fixed
- Reduced the likelihood of an accident
- Company profitability adjustments

Serious bugs:

- Loyalty of other owners was not reset when selling the company / Fixed
- Movement of workforce between companies / Fixed

Minor bugs / complaints:

- Many minor bugs / Fixed
- Some issues with technologies / Fixed


- MacOS 13+ support

- Mergers & Acquisitions

With the introduction of mergers and acquisitions, you will be able to buy your competitors and combine their companies with yours, truly establishing a monopoly in the markets and increasing your technological and production potential!
Of course, the shareholders of both companies will have to approve this decision by a majority vote, and will also receive proportional shares in the new company (in the event of a merger). Or you can try to take over the company, and then other shareholders will not receive a share in the new company.

- More customization for character and his characteristics

Now you can choose in which state your character lives, the most suitable personality traits and choose a more suitable appearance in more detail using the new advanced character creator.


- Political system
- Characters being able to support or oppose the player
- More difficulty options
- New votings, changes in voting
- Board of Directors

Attention! This update does not support previous saves!


Game Breaking bugs:

- Rare crash when loading saves / Fixed
- Rare crash on the list of companies / Fixed
- Rare crash when using Hitman / Fixed
- Rare crash in the “Rating” window / Fixed
- Not being able to start a new game / Fixed

Exploits and balancing:

-Transport companies being too overpowered / Fixed

Serious bugs:

- Age and race in the character generator does not work / Fixed
- Map error after loading a save / Fixed
- Killing people you owe money makes the debt stay forever / Fixed
- Unable to fully repay a loan / Fixed

Minor bugs / complaints:

- Unprofitable companies were shown as profitable / Fixed
- Translation errors for the English version / Fixed
- English version had no text for the Hitman / Fixed
- Russian version had no text for some states / Fixed
- CEO skill point UI being confusing / Fixed
- Some other UI errors / Fixed
- Voting starts before issuing shares or expanding / Fixed
- Your company still has to vote even if you own a majority / Fixed
- Many small bugs / Fixed
- English and Russian versions had no text for Cardinal / Fixed

:
- Ubuntu and SteamOS support
- Windowed mode
- Experimental support for 21:9 monitors
- Technologies
- Unemployment statistics and its impact on wages
- New ambition "Take loan"
- New agent "the Collector"
- New sliders “Salary level”, “Daily production rate”, “Research funding” in company statistics
- New artwork
- Difficulty settings
- Added skill levels in the character tooltip

:
- Political system
- Support for Mac
- The system of opposition and support to the player (from enemies and friends)
- More difficulty options
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Character customization
- New voting popups in companies
And much more…

Thank you all for the continued support of Plutocracy, whether through buying the game, leaving reviews or helping us find bugs we appreciate it all!

Hello everyone!

Two weeks went by fast and now it's time to tell you about the new things we’ve worked on for you during this time.

You will soon be able to upgrade technologies. All technologies now have their own level. Every time a company develops or introduces a higher level of technology than the other companies in that state has the penalty for having a lower level of technology increases. To counter this you can spend company funds on developing better technology.



We’re also introducing a new technology “Innovation” which will replace the “Social Program” tech from the past versions. Better innovation will allow you to develop technologies cheaper.

After future updates with the formation of a trust or a merger the companies will share technologies with each other. Whichever company has the highest level technology will give that to the other companies.

The new option of “Research level” will boost the speed of research while costing more, it might even have some other associated costs such as having to improve “Accident Security” because of experiments going wrong or similar stuff.

There is a new “Staff turnover” statistic. The lower the turnover the more workers keep their jobs, it makes the production process more stable and increases the production over time. You can change the turnover with the new options “Wage level” and “Work-plan”. Happy workers, happy customers.



The “Financial Shark'' difficulty has also gotten some changes. Good deals are not as easy to come by as before and the usual ways of doing business that you are accompanied to will not work as well as before.

As always we would like your feedback on how to further improve balancing and difficulty, we really value your feedback a lot.

Of course we’ve also worked on the stability of the game and we were able to get rid of several crashes and fix some bugs that could cause you inconvenience.

The release of the update is already very close, and in the coming days we will work on testing it to save you from possible surprises like a bugs and crashes.

After 2 weeks we will come back to you with a new diary. Bye and see you soon!

Hello fellow Plutocrats!

Recently we’ve been thinking about how we could improve our own interaction with you guys. We think dev diaries would be a good start.

So, what have we done lately and what will we do in the future?

Mainly we will work on introducing the political system into the game.
One of the key aspects of Plutocracy is influence, what’s more influential than having a powerful grip on politics? We want to add an entirely new dimension to the game with politics.

In any case, that’s a topic for another day, we will tell you more about the political system later.

We’ve also got some good news for Linux users! The game will support both SteamOS and Ubuntu in the next update. And of course Mac support is also coming, however, that will be later this year.

There’s also a lot of small, but important stuff. We’ve looked at your suggestions and taken it into account. Mostly we’ve worked on the balancing. Transport companies are less overpowered, we’ve made changes to the expenses and income as it was very unrealistic.

You can also give loans now. A character who wants to get a loan may ask you for money and if you accept you will receive a quarterly income based on the amount of debt. If they don’t pay, you can use the new agent, the Collector. Doesn't he look friendly?



Another important thing is the unemployment rate and its relation to the average salary. When hiring workers, you now lower the unemployment and the average salary increases. Unemployment also grows with time as the population grows which makes the average salary lower.

This should also fix the issue of unlimited workers because your expenses will grow too much after a more ridiculous amount of workers.

And of course we continue to fix the seemingly endless amount of bugs, both big and small.

Very soon we’ll release an update with most of what we’ve talked about here, we also plan to release dev diaries every two weeks or so to keep you updated on our work. See you all then!

Game Breaking bugs:

- Crash when starting a new game / fixed
- Crash at the end of a loading screen / fixed
- Rare crash when opening a window / fixed

Exploits and balancing:

- You can blackmail over and over until you succeed / fixed

Serious bugs:

- An opponent does not appear after the start of a new game, if the old one was played without opponents / fixed

Minor bugs / complaints:

- Many missing variables and UI elements / fixed
- Achievement bugs / fixed
- Characters have ambition to buy companies that no longer exist / fixed
- Population ratio goes to minus after expanding the company / fixed
- Incorrect description of the achievement “Techno-Boom” / fixed
- Bugs with the company window / fixed
- Chief of police’s dirt replaces detective’s dirt / fixed
- Some bugs with subsidies and contracts / fixed
- AI returns to their starting location after loading / fixed
- Some UI issues with ambitions / fixed
- Bug with assistant / fixed


- New companies are now be generated when another one goes bankrupt
- New agent, the Hitman
- Events now have the relevant company’s name in them
- Dirt now gets deleted after use
- State flags that change during the game


- Political system
- Map bug after loading a save
- Misspellings and grammar
- Improving the german translation
- French translation
And much more…

Thank you all for the continued support of Plutocracy, whether through buying the game, leaving reviews or helping us find bugs we appreciate it all!

Game Breaking bugs:
-Players not arriving to another state on time
-Crash when going back to the main menu and loading a save

Exploits and balancing:
-The company's reserves are not reduced at a loss

Serious bugs:
-Timer after selling shares is extremely long, sometimes several years
-The player’s money gets taken instead of the company when the company gets fined

Minor bugs / complaints:
-Variables missing in text
-Same company names generated

-Spanish translation
-Product price trends
-Voting is now delayable
-Added links to the relevant company and the initiating shareholder when voting
-New events with unhappy citizens
-Crash reports can now be sent in-game
-Interact with your opponent more
-No more unnecessary messages
-Only get news from relevant companies
-Go to a characters page by clicking on their name
-Ctrl+shift to add 1000
-Skill confirmation button
-New art for the loading screen

Being worked on:
-Map bug after loading a save
-Misspellings and grammar
-Improving the german translation
-French translation
And much more…

As you know the most voted feature was "Politics" and we will therefore focus on that from now on. In the "Politics" update we’ll introduce a system of lobbying laws through politicians.

Economic features will also continue to be worked on. We will certainly develop all that we planned to do in the end, this is only the beginning.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the vote, your ideas and suggestions help us understand what is more important to you all going forward.

We also sincerely apologize for the continued delays on this update, we hope it was worth it!

Thank you all for the continued support of Plutocracy, whether through buying the game, leaving reviews or helping us find bugs we appreciate it all!

__**Fixed:**__
**Game Breaking bugs:**
-Deals sometimes softlock the game / fixed
-Crash often when finishing a deal / fixed

**Exploits and balancing**
-Player being able to buy back shares directly after selling / fixed
-Transport, Oil and Refining company balance issues / fixed

**Serious bugs:**
-Company voting for negative dividends / fixed
-Wrong logistics costs / fixed
-Bug with company CEO’s salary / fixed
-"Fabricate evidence" being blocked with a friendly police chief / fixed

**Minor bugs / complaints:**
-Several bugs with different ambitions / fixed
-The game doesn’t pause during a deal among others / fixed
-Saves always say “Medium difficulty” / fixed
-The agent “Bishop” should be named “Bandit” / fixed
-Bug with character who wants to sell but has no luxury / fixed
-Agent result window disappearing / fixed
-The exit button in deals sometimes doesn’t work / fixed
-Several text bugs in letters / fixed

__**New:**__
-Auto-save now only occurs once a year to speed up the loading times
-Look at selling price of an item during an auction
-Auction AI now bids faster

__**Being worked on:**__
-Map bug after loading a save
-Crash sometimes when loading an autosave
-No unnecessary messages
-Misspellings and grammar
-Improving the german localization
-Spanish localization
-French localization
And much more…



**You can now vote on what you want us to focus on for the bigger content update coming later this year here:**

https://forms.gle/ysQx6emvD5Tw2KxC6

**Please follow the instructions closely and explain your suggestions as much as you can so we can use it in future development.**

**The vote will last for a week from now, get your voice heard, vote!**

Thank you all for the continued support of Plutocracy, whether through buying the game, leaving reviews or helping us find bugs we appreciate it all!