Coredumping grows

The Software Inc. team has grown by one, as we now welcome Lasse, whose work youve 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, hes improved a bunch of furniture, that sorely needed it, and updated the trees.

New temperature system

You can no longer plop down single units to cool down an entire building, instead youll need outputs for their cool air or hot water to disperse throughout your rooms. Youll be able to automatically place them, and you wont 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 and deals

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 wont get to sell 100% of their digital products. This also means Ive 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.

Yes, I saw the video

The funding + lawsuit exploit has been fixed.

Changelog

Alpha 11.4.2 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

[ 2020-01-12 11:48:18 CET ] [ Original post ]