Capitalism Lab Release version 6.1.03 full version installer

[David]

Capitalism Lab Release version 6.1.03 full version installer is now available.

To install it, download it from https://caplab.b-cdn.net/Capitalism_Lab_Installer.exe and run the installer.

Please note that save games older than v6.1.03 are not compatible with this new version.

Major game performance improvements

We have worked extensively on further optimization on the game engine. You will experience noticeable game performance improvements, especially in late-stages games where there are a huge number of firms.

New Game Setting

• On the New Game Settings menu, a new option has been added for setting the aggressiveness of AI pricing strategy. It determines how far the AI companies will go in lowering prices of their products in order to grab market share from competitors. When this is set to low, you can expect most products to enjoy healthy profit margins and companies will be in general more profitable.

The original Competitor Aggressiveness option has been renamed as “AI Expansion Aggressiveness”, which determines how aggressive AI companies are in pursuing business expansions.

• A new button has been added on the stock market for resetting the history of stock trading gains or losses. There are times when you want to put your past stock trading performance behind and just focus on recent trading outcomes, this function will come in handy.

Interface Improvements
• As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the user interface of Capitalism Lab, the product sales graph has been updated with a set of new icons representing the types of data displayed (profit, revenue or the quantity sold).

• While the mouse cursor is within a list, you may press the [HOME] key to go to the top of the list, and [BOTTOM] to go to the bottom of the list.

• On the information screen of an Internet company, context sensitive help has been added for the technology section

AI Improvements
• AI has become more intelligent in entering new markets with notable opportunities and low competition.

• Improved AI’s ability in setting product prices more intelligently to maximize profits.

• When the Digital Age DLC is enabled, there is an increased tendency for AI to expand to other software categories, other than the one it is most familiar with. This will heat up the competition in the software industry in general.

• The AI has become more capable in expanding into new markets when using a user-created mod with a large number of product types.


Gameplay Balance Improvements

• Changed the Brand Concern value of egg, frozen chicken, frozen pork, frozen beef, and frozen lamb to 20 so that AI’s advertisement program will cover these products. (AI in generally does not advertise products whose Brand Concern value is equal to or less than 10.)

• Increased the demand for cars and motorcycle, smart phones, mobile phones and camera phones.

• Reduced the effect the Necessity Index on product demand so that product demand will fluctuate at a narrower range throughout an economic cycle. This change made businesses that are heavily dependent on the economy, such as car production, more manageable during an economic downturn.

• Increased the profitability of Internet companies under the normal inflation mode.

• Increased the effect of the economy (in terms of the GDP growth rate) on demand for software products for better gameplay balance.

• Users will upgrade to new software versions at a lower rate when the tech advancement of a new version compared to the previous version does not justify a full upgrade. The growth in software sales are driven primarily by the growth in the number of computer users and releases of new versions prompting existing users to upgrade. With this change, in means that the growth of software revenue will be slowed down as revenue to be generated from releases of new versions will be lower. If you think the impact of the change is too much, you may counter it by increasing the “Software Revenue Index” in the New Game Settings menu.

• The formula for determining the standard technology acquisition costs now takes into consider the market size of the product to which the tech applies, instead of solely based on the R&D costs. The implication is that the tech of a product with a small market size will be unable to demand a high acquisition cost.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where an AI competitor focused on Operating System software may not emerge in a game when using a mod that links CEO persons with predefined companies.

• Fixed a bug that caused manufacturing units producing physical software products to stop working.

[alpha117]

David

The above installer link is for V5.9.05 and NOT 6.1.03

Thanks

Clive

[David]

Hi Clive, the issue has been fixed. Please try again.

[alpha117]

Morning All,

Confirmed 'fixed'

Thanks

[matrlx]

Hei!

Do I need to install said update manually or will the launcher not do so itself ?

Also, David, do you play Capitalism Lab yourself, knowing all its secrets and algorithms ?

From a fanatical player who just launched his 3rd city

[David]

Hi matrlx, you could just download the installer and run it to install the new version. The download will just take 1-2 minutes normally. And you don't need to uninstall or delete any files prior to running the installer. The process is very straightforward.

[oblade]

How can I send a bug report ? I was playing again tutorials and the game (released version) just crashed and back again do Windows.

There is a log with crash details??

[David]

How can I send a bug report ? I was playing again tutorials and the game (released version) just crashed and back again do Windows.

There is a log with crash details??

A few quick questions:
1) Are you using user-translation text in your game or just using the original English version?
2) Is the crash repeatable?
3) Which tutorial and which step in the tutorial did the crash happen?