Offworld Trading Company Beta 10 is now available. This update includes a variety of improvements and fixes including new custom maps, new building auctions, optimized multiplayer, and more. See all the updates in the changelog: [Gameplay]

• New custom maps are available!
• Buying out a player costs less the more shares of them you own.
• Stock value now takes into account whether you are Expansive or Scavenger when valuing your buildings.
• Adjusted stock delay after buyouts.
• Pleasure Dome now gets +10% per adjacent housing module (instead of +16%).
• Boosted base wind power from 0.9 to 1.0
• Bond rating thresholds now scale from 2 to 8 players.
• Water and carbon is no longer guaranteed on maps with ice and dry ice, respectively.
• More carbon on maps.
• Added Building auctions.
• Better game event warnings
• Power Surges, etc. no longer have "bad bounces"
• Added Core Sample probability help
• Better Hologram logic.
• Added Pause Selection mode where the game pauses in single player while you are founding, claiming, building, etc.
• AI is better at founding with Reveal Map on.
• Reveal map timer is a little slower.
• Better & faster AI.

• New Scavenger HQ art and animation!
• New Art for Colony Hub!
• New Art for Colony Office Module
• New Art for Colony Lab Module
• New Patent Lab construction animation
• Sparks added to construction animations
• Fixed terrain shaders for ambient lighting.
• Placeholder Solar Flare effect is back, baby!
• Animation polish for elemental quarry, engineering lab, and scientific electrolysis reactor.
• Nighttime animation for solar panels.

• Reduced network traffic by half!
• Add code to display the number of people waiting for a ranked match while waiting for a match so people playing 4 Player FFA quick match can see that other people have joined the wait and how many.
• Multiplayer screen now shows the leaderboards
• Changed it so the player's handicap is the default handicap instead of none which speeds up the process of joining a lobby.

• Colony now has a name visual and HQs now have a player name visual.
• Clamping terrain mouse over to minimum playable height
• Improved patent/tech messaging.
• Added a warning popup if you try to found too early with Reveal Map on.
• 7 Sols end game screen added.
• Blocking input while the game is loading. Preventing hotkeys and mouse input from firing.
• Multiplayer observers are automatically ready and the ready button is disabled.
• In-game campaign results screen improved.
• Adding a gameplay tip while the game is loading.
• Displaying resource icon in region text.
• Build panel is always up. Until it's not when you close it. But if you open it again it is sticky.
• Resource ordering: moved silicon next to carbon as Dorian requested.
• Now showing building connection lines to constructions as well as buildings.
• Showing potential dividend in buy stock button for subsidiaries.
• Enabling MapSeed field in Skirmish & Multiplayer settings screen.
• The map seed can be found in the main game's escape menu.
• Resource rates now show buildings that are short of resource input.
• Reworked cursor and selection logic.
• Moved tile tooltips below mouse cursor
• Added Random options for resource presence and minimums.
• Clicking on a player's name will now select their HQ.
• Added mouseover help for sabotage if tile is invalid.

• Fixing depth of field effect to work on D3D10 video cards

• Added 6th song to the game.
• New win & lose end game music.
• New HQ founding/upgrade sounds.
• “Quickmatch thrill ride” sound effect added back in.
• Added delay ability to sounds and made the found & upgrade slightly delayed so they don't smash on top of the music fanfares.
• When you set the music to zero volume in the options window, the volume changes appropriately.

• Tutorial 2 is now ready to play!
• Added “Show Total Cost” player option.
• Added “Hide Build Menu” player option.
• Added “reset” to skirmish and campaign games.
• Moved replay files into a "Replays" sub-folder.
• Add the file picker for selecting a replay file to playback from the main menu.  Also added a popup to show if you selected a file that it can't play back and what version of the game it was created with.
• Separated skirmish and campaign games saves into their own folders
• Added file picker for saving and loading skirmishes.
• Daily Challenge replays now work!

• Fixed bug where you could resign, go back in as observer, and then resign again in Skirmish mode.
• Fixed bug where you could resign, go back in as observer, and then couldn't exit the game in multiplayer mode.
• Fix for trying to resume a ranked match when the game is over.
• Fix so that exiting a non-ranked lobby game takes you back to the find lobby screen.
• Fixed orders not updating when game is paused
• Fixed where "Exit and Save" option was available when playing back a replay.
• Fixed being able to existing and saving a game from a replay and exiting and saving a game after the play has conceded.
• Fixed save games to have the correct game pause state.
• Fixed HQ hotkeys not working.
• Fixed a bug with where the "save and exit" option takes you from a campaign.