Software Inc.

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This update has a lot of big balancing changes that are likely to cause some issues. Feel free to use the in-game reporting tool to report any issues you have, particularly with project management, publishers, IT and maintenance balancing, and employee effectiveness.

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.4

• Replaced project management point system with a mistake system
  

• You can now add previous products to a project management task to automate existing tasks
  

• You can now let project manager handle ordering copies or setting print job maximum every day
  

• The amount of projects that have active tasks for project management now increases stress for leader

Publishers

• You can now pick between different publishing deals
  

• Successful publishing deals now increases relationship with a publisher which makes them give better deals
  

• Game now adds reputation from publisher in sales and marketing calculations, but publisher takes 75% of fans from product
  

• Publishers now have a recoup target before lowering their royalty cut
  

• Publisher funding is now increased if marketing or printing is disabled
  

• You can now get a publisher after a product has released or publisher has closed down
  

• Added detailed publisher info in product detail window

Other changes

• There's a new IT-support staff related furniture that can be unlocked by owning a subsidiary
  

• Founders can now get stressed
  

• Employees no longer wait their turn when they are queued for something if they are closer, thereby heavily increasing food and toilet throughput
  

• Employees will now wait outside bathroom if it is occupied, instead of just not using the toilet at all
  

• Added a minimum 6 month grace period before spawning a company in an under served market, to give the player some reaction time
  

• You can now procure more gold, silver and copper at a time, and the size of the current gold object has been heavily reduced as a result
  

• How many bugs an employee can fix is no longer based on the most skilled person on the same team, but the most skilled person in any team assigned to the task
  

• Prints per month column in manufacturing window now accounts for contracts and deals being completed
  

• Improved manufacturing stats
  

• Burglar and police drone warnings are now more prominent and you can auto-follow the action
  

• The contract window has been split into available and completed tabs for less visual clutter
  

• The game now officially supports objects that can both be snapped to something or placed on the floor directly
  

• You can now find locked furniture when searching for it specifically, to avoid confusion as to why some furniture is missing

Fixes

• Fixed furniture search algorithm not properly taking verticality into account, making employees sometimes choose furniture far away on other floors
  

• Fixed bug where employees would sit sideways in their chair after having gone to an empty vending machine
  

• Fixed solar panel and leather couch not working in any data overlay
  

• Fix for elevators becoming stuck because they think somebody hasn't properly entered them yet
  

• Made it so the BetterSoftwareDevelopment mod can't cancel digital distribution platform support
  

• Fixed not being able to search for logos with special characters
  

• Fixed Walk Instead trait not actually applying properly
  

• Fixed long standing bug that made IT and maintenance repair tasks take zero seconds, they now take between 1 and 20 in-game minutes, depending on object complexity
  

• Fixed original price of precious metals not loading properly

Changes

• A bunch of character animations have been overhauled
  

• Doubled access points for food dispensers to reduce queue time
  

• You can now view add-ons developed by other companies from the company detail window
  

• Best, then secondary HR role choice now includes skills that are within 25% of the main, instead of 50%
  

• Tasks now show contract deadlines when collapsed
  

• Employee name generation is now a bit more random
  

• Added prompt when exiting new game menu
  

• The main menu zoom into the monitor effect now only happens the first time you open the game
  

• Added ability to jump back in tutorial
  

• Game will no longer allow saving a building if you have to go through a rentable room to reach another rentable room
  

• Applicant appeal is now lowered after being caught comitting tax fraud

Fixes

• Game now considers room rent status when checking accessibility to show player if a room is off limits causing other rooms to become off limits
  

• Fixed handling of precious metals when burglars are caught with it
  

• Fixed police sometimes forgetting to return stolen items after arresting burglar
  

• Fixed not being able to replace snappable objects on upper floors
  

• The conveyor belt simulation will now choose performance over precision, if assembly lines are so complex that the CPU can't keep up
  

• Fixed deals not expiring for clients in multiplayer if host haven't been offered them
  

• Fixed bug that could cause time to become unsynced in multiplayer if host was trying to skip more days at a time than clients
  

• Fixed not being able to build road over cross sections when you own plots all around it
  

• Fixed not having any contracts available and founders arriving immediately when starting new company in same save
  

• Loans are now considered for the large growth newspaper article

With 64-bit numbers, you should see less errors when handling large sums of money. Compatibility with 32-bit systems won't change. Older saves will be converted automatically and will no longer work in older versions of Software Inc.

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This update also introduces a way to centralize kitchens using conveyor belts!

Patch notes

• Moved from 32-bit to 64-bit decimal numbers for most money and simulation calculations to improve precision and stability
  

• Added food input and output for conveyor belts so kitchens can be centralized (Unlocked by completing the canteen task)
  

• Expanded random name generation for more product categories and companies
  

• Reduced the effect on colleagues when their friends retire amicably
  

• Luxury food can now only be delivered by cooks
  

• Employees now get a mood buff when eating cooked food
  

• Added prompt when prematurely ending network deal or hiring employee that is less than 3 years from retirement
  

• Furniture placed on an exterior wall can now be placed up against the edge of the wall
  

• Food that is thrown out due to expiring has been added to the bills breakdown of the finance window as food waste
  

• When trading lead designer owned IP, their actual cut is now listed in the prompt
  

• Menu cats are now pettable

Fixes

• Fixed subscription income not scaling with days per month
  

• Fixed incorrectly receiving platinum awards
  

• Fixed house shader
  

• Fixed PC addons being in the wrong location after moving and rotating table
  

• Fixed Unity causing imperceptible incorrect implicit conversion from float to byte colors
  

• Fixed old well maintained computers giving employees a big boost
  

• Fixed bug where the same issue notification could pop up multiple times if it was raised and fixed multiple times in the same frame
  

• Fixed staff arriving multiple times on the same day if they are set to leave when finished
  

• Multiplayer stability fix for getting stuck at midnight
  

• Fixed moods fading too quickly when employees are home