This update will be on the unstable branch for a couple of days, since it makes changes to the save system.

Click here to see how to join the Unstable branch.

Changes

• Project management can now handle porting tasks
  
• Added ability to pick cooldown between projects for project management
  
• Rebalanced AI research strategy, modified by difficulty, where the highest difficulty will have almost everything patented
  
• A lot of columns have an added totals row in the list panels, which can be switched between sum, mean, median, min, max and range, depending on its value
  
• You can now choose to disable pause or force max time speed when day time limit is up in multiplayer
  
• The game will now try to auto-resolve a bankruptcy, if possible, when the player has neglected the bankruptcy warning
  
• All future save files will now include a company logo in the thumbnail for easier identification
  
• Added warning when a printer is blocked because of other boxes on the conveyor belt
  
• All lights now become greyscale when activating a data overlay
  
• Surveillance station can now be repaired while in use by security staff
  
• Added a send home button to the team window, useful if you've changed a team's schedule and don't want them to finish their current shift
  
• To increase save stability, the Tools and OSs variables of the SoftwareProduct class have been deprecated in favor of various getter and setter methods, so some code mods might break. Look for the Add, Get, Remove, Has and Count methods, if your mod breaks

Fixes

• Fixed cooks putting their arms inside their heads when zooming out...
  
• Fixed bug that could make AI and project management order a huge amount of copies of an archived product
  
• Fixed mismatched tooltips in product detail window
  
• Fixed police drone permanently breaking rented buildings
  
• Fixed game not updating alpha phase team assignments in design phase when renaming a team
  
• Some optimization fixes for large saves that have a lot of lamps and many friendships per employee across teams
  
• Fixed overlapping text on some tasks in grouped task mode
  
• Fixed event timeline in product detail window not being consistent between tabs when units, income and reputation graphs end at different times

Click here to see how to join the Unstable branch.
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.

Changes

• The rent overlay can now toggle the player owned color to show only grouping, to reduce confusion about the rent room accessibility error

Fixes

• Fixed error when skipping to next day with a project mangement task with no leader assigned
  
• Fixed tasks sometimes not being properly removed from project management
  
• Reduced founder stress by 25%, since they don't take food or toilet breaks to calm down
  
• Fixed getting publishing deals requiring release before current date
  
• Fixed being able to get publishing deals even if disabled in difficulty options
  
• Fixed handling of add-on printing for project management
  
• Fixed bug that would incorrectly report on physical sales for subscription-based products and add-ons causing over-ordering by AI

Project management

• 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

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.

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

Changes

• 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