CapLab version 1.994 patch is now available

[David]

CapLab version 1.994 patch is now available. We are releasing it as a manual patch initially. Here is the direct download link:

http://www.capitalismlab.com/capserver/ ... 941994.zip

To apply the patch, simply unpack it to your Capitalism Lab program folder.

Your Capitalism Lab is located in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Capitalism Lab Beta, unless you changed the installation folder on the installer.

(Saved games of the previous versions are not compatible with this new version.)


Bug Fixes and New features

Fixed a crash bug with technology acquisition. (http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... 4913#p4913)

Fixed the bug with decimal place display after currency revaluation
(http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... =10&t=1105)

New options to influence COO's management strategy ( http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... =14&t=1099 ):

You can decide whether COO is allowed to sell products below costs in all of your firms of any types.

You can tell COO whether to set your price to the factory's cost when you are at internal sale.

New feature "Allow you to assign your COO to run all of your firms of a specific type.




Release Candidate
This version is a release candidate. (you will see “1.990 RC” on the top-right of the main menu. RC stands for Release Candidate.) If we do not any further bug reports about it after testing it for a certain period of time, we will move on with the official release of Capitalism Lab.


Testimonials
As you know, Capitalism Lab is getting very close to release and we are going to add a “testimonials” web page to the official Capitalism Lab web site (http://www.capitalismlab.com). Its purpose is to let people who are new to the game to read recommendations from CapLab existing players.

If you like Capitalism Lab and would like to help us to spread the word, please check out this post for details: http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... =15&t=1021

[Esoteric Rogue]

I swear, every time I start to feel bored, we have another patch

[Ryan]

Thanks for new features.

I love new one. ~

[ezzeqiel]

Why do you make polls if you end up implementing the features you like that are not the most "popular" ??

In both polls, you implemented features that weren't the most voted ones, more COO options had only 10 votes, against 18 votes both for customizable cities and multiple companies..

[oblade]

you're right ezzeqiel

Votes will not be respected ?

[Esoteric Rogue]

Why do you make polls if you end up implementing the features you like that are not the most "popular" ??

Voting's a bad way to choose features any how. Maybe it's more for the checking if the ideas are popular just to be candidates, not guarantees, to be implemented.

Anyway I think they're trying to release it sometime (in late November), which they can't do by adding 'major' feature like multiple company management would be (which is an option I asked to be explained, but no one has. Again, it makes zero sense to me.)

In the other poll one of the implemented features (added new resolution) might be one line of code, whereas writing a script parser is a huge matter. Maybe the they are working on that, but it's simply going to take more time.

If it's going to take more than a day to implement, maybe they won't do it before release, otherwise we'll never have a release because we have to test every new thing. I'm happy we're getting any new features before release.

[David]

Why do you make polls if you end up implementing the features you like that are not the most "popular" ??

Voting's a bad way to choose features any how. Maybe it's more for the checking if the ideas are popular just to be candidates, not guarantees, to be implemented.

Anyway I think they're trying to release it sometime (in late November), which they can't do by adding 'major' feature like multiple company management would be (which is an option I asked to be explained, but no one has. Again, it makes zero sense to me.)

In the other poll one of the implemented features (added new resolution) might be one line of code, whereas writing a script parser is a huge matter. Maybe the they are working on that, but it's simply going to take more time.

If it's going to take more than a day to implement, maybe they won't do it before release, otherwise we'll never have a release because we have to test every new thing. I'm happy we're getting any new features before release.

You're right.

For whoever is interested about new features or improvement, here are links to the original posts:

http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... f=14&t=848

Whether we could successfully receive the resources we need to implement the new features depends on your help to promote the game - may see the Marketing Suggestions forum for more details on this viewtopic.php?f=15&t=823.

http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... f=14&t=849

Apart from the major new features after release (see this post: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=848), we may implement minor improvements and new features after release with a lower to much lower milestone target (depending on how much resources it takes for the implementation).

[David]

Version 1.994 RC appears to be stable and we have thus released it as an auto patch.

Version 1.994 will become the official release version 2.0 if we do not receive any new bug reports.