Capitalism Lab Post-Release Beta version 11.0.44 patch is now available

[Stylesjl]

Hi in 11.0.22 I have a "bug" like the media companies upgrade monthly budget can go wild when managed by COO or another CEO
they can reach 30-40 M$ instead of the usual 3-4M$ and make the company lose huge amount of money

trying to reproduce in 11.0.23 patch but so far it does not happen though i dont see it in bug fixes.

Another issue but that have been there forever I think is that companies advertise in the cheapest media with the best rating even though they own another media with close but more expensive rating/price combination. Basically they do not take ownership into the equation, Got the same issue when I order a CMO to "prefer to advertise in own+parent media"

e.g Aldi advertises on this tv station
Screenshot 2025-01-05 120947.png

whereas they own in the same city this one
Screenshot 2025-01-05 121118.png

Can you provide a save game for this?

[beuher2000]

for which case?
i might have one for patch 11.0.22 here https://file.io/BjISdgc2hw51
(you can buy a TV station and see past profit going to -50M per month!)


I didnt see it yet in 11.0.23

last case for advertising is easily reproducible I believe

[beuher2000]

for example I just bought this TV station and you can see the pnl graph going crazy to -50M per month though the slider is back to normal up to 6M budget (game saved with 11.0.22 but I play with 11.0.23 so might be gone)

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[David]

for example I just bought this TV station and you can see the pnl graph going crazy to -50M per month though the slider is back to normal up to 6M budget (game saved with 11.0.22 but I play with 11.0.23 so might be gone)

If you encounter the bug again in 11.0.23, please let me know. Otherwise, we can assume that it is fixed in v11.0.23.

[David]

the AI logistics got by a capacity of 1.740.000 a whopping 582.772 fixed route costs

The latest version v11.0.24 has various improvements to the logistics company. Please test it and let me know if the gameplay with the AI is okay now.

[alpha117]

Does this fix the adding new natural resources error hat I reported?


Thanks

[David]

Another issue but that have been there forever I think is that companies advertise in the cheapest media with the best rating even though they own another media with close but more expensive rating/price combination. Basically they do not take ownership into the equation, Got the same issue when I order a CMO to "prefer to advertise in own+parent media"

This has been improved in the latest version 11.0.24. Now own and parent media firms are more likely to be selected, but it still consider the basic rating points / costs as part of the overall evaluation of all available media firms.

[alpha117]

Nope, still does no play the .mp3 file for speech in a MOD scenario, if the .mp3 file is removed from the base game scenario\speech folder

[anjali]

so far 11.0.25 seems stable, but one issue remains inside malls....
once you got more then 11 stores in a single mall, you start to click like made to find the store you want because 1st line shows 10 stores and 2nd line stops after 1 store and leaves the remaining 9 spaces white and in the mall itself you only see the type of the shop not its name
so all i can do is ... open any store of that type you want ... back remember which one you clicked ... click next and so on til you find the store you want especially when there are 10+ stores of each type this gets really difficult to manage
or the 2nd way which i usually go through it by product Details ... click any shop then take 1st or last product in that shop depends which way i want to move on ...double click on that product to open product details then in that view next or previous product to get into the next shop ... open the shop by double click in the product details on it ... then again 1st or last product of that store and do same shit again and again and again until i reach the shop you need, this can take quite some time especially by convenience stores which you usually have tons of it.
but if you launch new products ... thats impossible then the big search inside malls starts.

theres just no simple way of accessing a particular store directly unless you got damn lucky and won the lottery by clicking the right one, this is a nightmare by up to 30 shops in a mall

[David]

so far 11.0.25 seems stable, but one issue remains inside malls....
once you got more then 11 stores in a single mall, you start to click like made to find the store you want because 1st line shows 10 stores and 2nd line stops after 1 store and leaves the remaining 9 spaces white and in the mall itself you only see the type of the shop not its name
so all i can do is ... open any store of that type you want ... back remember which one you clicked ... click next and so on til you find the store you want especially when there are 10+ stores of each type this gets really difficult to manage
or the 2nd way which i usually go through it by product Details ... click any shop then take 1st or last product in that shop depends which way i want to move on ...double click on that product to open product details then in that view next or previous product to get into the next shop ... open the shop by double click in the product details on it ... then again 1st or last product of that store and do same shit again and again and again until i reach the shop you need, this can take quite some time especially by convenience stores which you usually have tons of it.
but if you launch new products ... thats impossible then the big search inside malls starts.

theres just no simple way of accessing a particular store directly unless you got damn lucky and won the lottery by clicking the right one, this is a nightmare by up to 30 shops in a mall

Please try the latest version 11.0.26 which significantly improves this UI. Please let me know if you still find any issues or inconvenience with the updated UI.