Hello everyone, It's been a very busy two weeks so let's jump right into it!

Investment Projects

If we look at the world today, most successful entrepreneurs are investing in massive projects which move the world forward. Elon Musk with SpaceX and Tesla. Jeff Bezos going to space with Blue Origin and Mark Zuckerberg is aiming to provide access to the internet to everyone with internet.org. In Startup Company Beta 27 you'll be able to do the same. Each investment project will give you access to special abilities. Investment Projects are accessed via the city map. The projects are incredibly expensive therefore, it's only for well-established companies. Today I'm announcing the first project of 3: Space-based Solar Power.
This project gives your company access to hiring new superstar employees.

Superstar Employees

Have you ever worked with someone that was incredibly fast? In Beta 27 you'll now be able to hire those superstar employees. The superstar employees are very rare and can only be found using expert-level Recruiters. They require a very high salary, but can also reach base speeds of up to 900%.

Career Mode: CEO Aging & Retirement

Beta 27 will introduce a brand new Career Mode, which will also be the primary game mode. When you start a new game, your CEO will be 18 years old. As the game progresses your CEO will now age with your employees. At the age of 67, you will retire and the game is over. As you're playing, your main objective is to move money from the company account to your retirement fund. You'll have to think this through as your investors will need to receive an equal cut (unless you have bought them out). You'll also have to consider taxes. Paying out everything in the same year will hit you with a huge tax charge. Below is a very early screenshot not containing investor cut or "retirement fund goals". The screenshot also shows the new topbar with a progress bar for both the current day and the CEO's retirement (purple).
All the notes that are listed above are simply a preview of what's coming up in Startup Company. These new changes and items are not yet available in the public build of the game.

That's all for this week

I hope these changes bring excitement to you all. Beta 27 is shaping up to be one of the biggest updates. I'm continuously uploading new strings for translation to Localizor. So if you want to help translate the game, this is the place to go: https://app.localizor.io/game/1/translations Thank you for reading and see you in next devlog schappy All the best, Jonas [url=https://discord.gg/hovgaardgames]

[ 2019-09-08 10:20:14 CET ] [ Original post ]