Event signs - a drought, a trade fair or a rail strike carries its own sign in the events list, in the colour that says whether it helps you or hurts you

Tree pictures - every node in the research tree carries its own picture, so you find a branch by its shape instead of reading every name

More from priowerk - Brass Ring and Sandbox Mechanics join the games shown under the leaderboard

Vehicle pictures - lorries, trains, barges and loading points are drawn in the same style as the goods standing next to them

More rivals - the world now holds up to 100 AI firms instead of 40, so more cities get local competition

Fair play during events - AI firms no longer run extra deliveries into a city just because an event pushed its prices up

Ranking lines - each one carries the company crest now instead of a plain colour dot

Rival card - the card beside the ranking shows the player's Steam picture and a small net worth graph of the last days

Profile from anywhere - the owner of a building, a sender in your inbox, a bidder on a lot and a shareholder in your company all open the same profile

Fitting pictures - each item in the fittings catalog and in a business's fittings list now has its own picture, so you find the one you want without reading every line

Cycle bar - the progress of a running business moves smoothly instead of jumping once a second, and a business that finishes a cycle faster than every two seconds simply says running

Computer buyers - they keep a stock of their own and pay by how full it is, so keep flooding one good and its price sinks, leave one alone and it climbs again

City population - a well supplied city draws people in and its demand grows with it, a neglected one slowly loses inhabitants

Time of day - food and consumer goods sell a little better in the evening, building materials during the day, about 15 per cent either way

Events ahead - a drought, a trade fair, roadworks or a rail strike is announced with a countdown and only takes effect when it runs out, so you can still act on it. Flooding is the one that still hits without warning

Events more often - twice as many of them now. One an hour for the whole world meant most of you never saw one, and they are worth seeing now that they come with a warning

Rival prices - they price against the exchange now instead of always against the base price, so forty firms stop flattening every move in the market

Buyer stock - open a good in the Exchange and you can see what the computer buyers pay and how full their store is, so you know whether their price is on the way up or down

Market chapters - Buy and sell goods and Cash, loans and markets explain sectors, city taste, city growth and how the computer buyers' stock works

Profit column - hotels and shops now show an estimated profit instead of a dash

Building management - the Properties window shows for every building whether it is looked after, self-managed or neglected, with a Management card per city, and the buy panel tells you before you buy

Map cache - the map around the places you visit is kept between sessions, so the area around your businesses loads from disk instead of downloading again

- The map around the places you visit is kept between sessions, so the area around your businesses loads from disk instead of downloading again

- The office sidebar is sorted into Manage, Trade and World instead of one long list. City is now called City market, Find is called Search

- Buttons say what they do. Sell property, Delete route, Send shipment, Stand for election, and a second click asks Confirm sale instead of sure?

- Net per minute is called Cash flow now, in the office and in the company window, and it says that buying something counts against it

- Switching a tab or a window starts at the top instead of keeping the scroll position of the view you came from

- The long explanations in the panels are gone. The same thing is in the handbook, one Help click away

- Windows hold up on a small screen: the sidebar, the layer list and the wide toolbars scroll or wrap instead of running out of the frame

- AI firms answer a direct offer or a proposed standing deal within seconds. Until now the letter sat there until that firm's next turn came round, which could take minutes

- AI firms follow through on what they start: after buying a unit they let it out or found a business in it, and a new business starts trading its goods, instead of buying yet another unit

- The AI firms now work to a time budget in every server tick, so a world full of busy firms does not hold up everyone else

- The Output column in Businesses shows what a business actually makes per minute instead of the amount per run. A bakery running fifty times a minute said 3 Bread; now it says how much bread really comes out, and sorting by Output sorts by throughput

- The lobby chat in the main menu is its own channel now. It no longer mixes with the chat in the world: people waiting in the menu talk to each other, players out in the world keep their world and nearby chat to themselves

- The main menu start page is rebuilt around what you came for: your company in one block, one big Enter the world button with the state of the world below it, and the places you visit most as single rows

- Text across the menu is bigger and no longer shouted in capitals, and quiet text is brighter and easier to read

- The leaderboard shows the top three plus your own company, the rest is one click away under View leaderboard

- Changelog entries fold up. The newest one is open, older ones open on a click

- The company and market pages use the full width instead of squeezing a third column in: quick links moved to the left, the market details sit below the cards, and gainers and losers stand side by side

- The whole interface has a new look. Panels and windows are glass over the world now, with rounded corners and a shadow, so it is easier to see what sits on top of what

- Colour means one thing at a time. Amber is money and the one main action, blue is what you picked or can click. Before, a single colour did all of it at once

- Headings and labels are no longer set in spaced-out capitals, anywhere in the game

- Status words like Occupied, Running and Outbid are written normally instead of shouted

- The bold and condensed number fonts actually load now. Company names, headings and figures were all falling back to the same plain weight

- Pages in the main menu sit in the middle of a wide screen instead of clinging to the left edge

- Changelog lines no longer carry a stray dash in front of the text

- Buttons with a price say what they do: Buy for $16,619,040 instead of Buy followed by a dot and the number. Same for renting, adding a floor, upgrading, research and standing for election

- Counters on filter buttons are in brackets now, like the tabs next to them: Attention (3), Needs answer (5)

- Every good has its own picture now. Wheat showed an ear of corn, hops showed a leek, wool showed a pillow, and cloth and clothing shared the same bedroll, so you could not tell them apart in a list

- Businesses show what kind of business they are instead of the same factory symbol for all of them. A bakery, a mill and a sawmill no longer look alike in the list

- The map shows what each site actually is. Every business had the same factory pin, shipments had a lorry symbol, and every field looked the same. Now a bakery looks like a bakery, a shipment carries its vehicle, and a field shows the crop growing on it

- Buildings show their kind in the property panel and in your holdings list: houses, shops, halls, churches, schools, clinics, stations and harbours instead of the same symbol for most of them

- Route lines on the map are ranked instead of all shouting at once. The route you picked stays bright and keeps its arrows, routes with a problem stay visible, and everything else drops back to a thin quiet line. With ninety routes running the city underneath is readable again

- Route lines flow. A brightening runs along each line from start to destination, so you see direction and whether anything is moving at a glance. A paused route stands still, and that is the message

- Rent for units you have not let out arrives in blocks now instead of a trickle every minute. Over time you get the same money, just in fewer and larger payments: every minute for a normal portfolio, every five minutes once you are past a thousand units, and once an hour while you are offline. Condition and occupancy are worked out from the clock the moment you look at them, so the inspector always shows the current figure

- Occupancy is exact now. A unit used to get stuck up to 1.7 points short of its target because the value was rounded every minute, which paid slightly too much rent on some units and slightly too little on others. Across a whole portfolio this shifts rent by well under a percent

- The server tick is about twice as fast on large portfolios, so buying, selling and renting stay responsive when a lot is going on

- Events now run through a news ticker along the bottom of the screen instead of stacking up in the corner and disappearing after nine seconds. Every line carries the time it actually happened, the last five minutes keep scrolling past, and holding the mouse over the ticker stops it so you can read. The News button on its left opens the full list

- When more than two alerts are waiting, the line under them now names them one after another instead of only counting how many there are

- The alert cards in the top left take up about a fifth less room. An alert with a single action now carries its button next to the reason instead of on a line of its own

- Contract slots keep growing with your company level, and the research Contract desk and Board of trade add four more between them. There is a ceiling of sixteen so the list stays readable

- The credit line grows more slowly above level 5, by less than a quarter per step instead of a quarter, so borrowing does not become the cheapest money in the late game

- The route limit starts at 25 and grows by 50 per company level, instead of 6 and 6. It counts every route, and almost all routes run through the freight network rather than your own lorries: at 6 plus 6 the three biggest hauliers had no free route left the moment the limit arrived. Nobody lost a route, the limit only bit on the next one

- The ground is rebuilt from scratch. Every land use has its own surface now: ploughed furrows on a field, standing rows on a crop, mown stripes on a lawn, vine rows in a vineyard, leaf litter on a forest floor, ripples in sand, cracked stone on bare rock, puddles in marshland, gravel yards, paving and asphalt in town. Before that, all of it was the same grass texture in a different colour

- Hills are actually lit now. The terrain always had height, but every patch of ground was lit as if it were flat, which made whole landscapes look like painted paper

- Farmland is a patchwork instead of one colour: each field is ploughed or standing on its own, and the mix follows the season, more standing in spring, more bare after harvest

- Neighbouring parcels of the same kind now differ slightly in shade, so a stretch of fields no longer reads as one carpet

- Ground colour follows the season more carefully, and less so near the equator, where there is no autumn to speak of

- Trees come in two shapes, broadleaf and conifer, in colours that vary tree by tree and follow the season. A forest used to be one spiky green mass

- Fewer draw calls on the ground: eight meshes per chunk became two

- Land no longer ends with a knife cut. Fields, meadows, woods and every other kind of ground now fade out over their last few metres into the open land around them, with a noise in it so the boundary is ragged instead of dead straight. Turn it off with Edge blend if you liked the hard edges

- Tiny leftover scraps of land are not drawn any more. Between houses, paths and rail yards the map data is full of slivers a metre wide and patches of a few square metres, and drawing them turned town ground into broken glass. Land you can actually buy always stays drawn, only the trimmings go

- Parcel borders are readable again. They used to be a strip of ground tinted yellow, which faded into the ground once the ground itself had texture, and went dark at night. They now sit a little higher, are a bit wider, and light themselves like the ownership frames do

- Research opens at company level 2 instead of 3. Depth 3 and 4 need level 3, keystones level 4

- One research runs at a time; the Research lab keystone gives a second slot. The four old lanes ran all at once

- Research you had already bought is carried over into the tree: Automation became Work planning, Shift system and Mass production, Agronomy became Soil analysis, Crop rotation and Irrigation, Logistics became Route planning, Fleet maintenance, Long tours and Bulk haulage, Trade became Sales training, Brokerage and Wholesale. Where a pair rules each other out, your side is the one that matches what you had

- Production speed from fittings, research and morale together is capped (rate_cap). Nobody is near the cap today, it is a guard against stacking

- Balance pass over every business: at base prices each one now pays back its founding in 56 to 148 hours. Before, the mill, sawmill, joinery, textile mill, jam kitchen, print shop and tool factory took 220 to 670 hours

- Recipes changed for that: the mill makes 3 flour from 3 wheat (was 2), the sawmill 3 planks from 3 timber (was 2), the joinery needs 2 planks per furniture (was 3), the textile mill makes 3 cloth from 3 wool (was 2), the jam kitchen 3 jam from 3 fruit (was 2), the print shop 2 books from 3 paper (was 1 from 2), the steelworks 3 steel per cycle (was 2)

- Base prices up for three finished goods: clothing €28 (was €22), tools €38 (was €30), windows €30 (was €24)

- Upgrading a business costs 35 % of what it did, and every level now adds 75 % more output at full staff instead of 50 %. Level 5 pays back about as fast as a new founding; before it took four times longer. Businesses you already upgraded keep the price you paid as their value in the rankings

- Land costs 300 per m² instead of 500 (before the crop factor), and every parcel yields 25 % more. A field now pays back in 200 to 330 hours instead of 420 to 870. Land you already own keeps its value

- Truck upkeep is €1 per minute instead of €3. Before, an own truck cost two and a half times the freight network per unit hauled and never paid off; now it is cheaper on any distance as long as it drives

- Hotels earn 400 per 10,000 people instead of 300, and a town under 30,000 counts as 30,000. A hotel in a small town used to need 500 hours to pay back, now 200

- Supermarkets sell 25 % above the city price. Before they sold at the city price and earned nothing without fittings

- Traffic is no longer plain grey boxes. Cars, vans, lorries, buses, trains and ships have windows, wheels, doors, bumpers, lights and ribbed cargo bodies, and the paint colour now stays off the glass and tyres

- Bridges carry the same road or rail surface as the way leading onto them, with stone sides down to the ground. They used to be bare grey bands with no markings and no rails

- Small towns have their own city market now. Until now only places above 5000 inhabitants counted, so in a small town you were trading with a city 20 km away while your own town name was on the map

- A city stays in the simulation while somebody owns property there, is delivering to it, or it has a mayor or money in its treasury. Before, driving around could push such a city out and take its prices and treasury with it

- The Inbox button used to drop you into Properties or the Exchange and left you looking for the offer. It goes to the Inbox now

- The Offers card under the Properties list is gone, offers live in the Inbox

- Alerts about an offer or a proposed deal open that exact item in the Inbox

- Declining or withdrawing an offer asks once more before it is gone

- Route lines on the map are now a chain of arrows instead of a dashed band, in full, solid colours. Reads faster at a glance which way goods are moving. Paused routes shift towards grey but stay just as solid

- Every route gets its own colour from the palette automatically until you pick one, so twenty routes are no longer one yellow carpet

- Route arrows carry a black outline and grow and spread out as you zoom out. Before, the chain merged into a thick stripe from above and vanished on bright roofs

- Town and city names on the map are bigger and have an outline and a shadow, so they stay readable over bright fields, snow and water

- Building signs sit higher above the roof, are bigger and have a real outline instead of a doubled shadow copy, so they stop vanishing between roofs and markers

- The owner's name under a building sign is now written in that company's colour on a dark outline, and it is bigger. Before, the colour was the outline, and a pale company colour disappeared on a pale roof

- Main menu start page rearranged: the server status sits over the globe, the world panel on the right shows who is online with wealth and buildings, the top companies and the market pulse, and What's new plus the lobby chat share the strip under the globe

- Updates tab and What's new show how many changelog entries and news posts are new since your last visit

- Lobby chat shows the time of each message

- Building signs sit close above their own roof again and the two lines stay together. They used to float about five storeys up, with the owner's name so far below the shop name that it looked like a second sign lying on the roof. The distance now follows the text size, so it looks the same close up and far away

- Land labels, player names and the country and city names on the world map have an outline and a shadow now, like the building signs already had. The owner's name on a plot also used to be written in exactly the colour that plot is shaded in, so it was invisible on your own land

- Lobby chat puts the time in front of the name and the message right after it, instead of the name in a wide column with the time far off on the right

- Chat in the world and lobby chat are laid out the same now: time, name with a colon, message, all on one line, same colours for your own name and everyone else's. The chat in the world shows the time of each message too

- Text that is too long for its column scrolls past when you point at the row, instead of just ending in three dots. Works in the lists (contracts, auctions, rivals, licences, elections, levels, shares, research), in the inspector rows on the right, in the watchlist, in titles and dropdowns

- Loan interest is still charged every minute, but your books now show one line per loan and hour instead of one per minute

- Office with a big portfolio loads faster, and the game no longer reloads your whole portfolio after every single sale

- Server answers menus, map ownership and the exchange on several threads now, so the world stays smooth with hundreds of players online

- While you are away, rent, wear and occupancy of your units are settled every ten minutes instead of every minute. Same amounts to the cent, one rent line in your books instead of ten; while you are online nothing changes

- Twice as many building styles: 32 instead of 16, from timber framing to seventies concrete, plus arcades and bay windows

- Every house now has its own colour, and the colour fits the material, so brick looks like brick and plaster like plaster

- Smaller houses got pitched roofs instead of flat slabs

- Roofs now have their own colours: tile red, slate, anthracite, gravel, the odd green roof

- Flat roofs got vents, stairwells and other clutter, so cities look alive from above

- Not every house has its windows in the same rhythm any more

- Everything got real surface relief: brick joints, window reveals, sills, roof tiles, rails

- Roof textures are four times sharper than before

- Small fields are worth buying now: every plot counts a base area on top of its size, so a tiny parcel yields more and costs less. Big fields are unchanged

- The balance pass from August 29 finally arrives on the live world: wages 15 times cheaper, production cycles twice as fast, land yields doubled, transport cheaper, contract rewards higher. It had only ever applied to brand new worlds

- Land is priced by what it grows now: a vineyard costs about twice an acre of grassland, heath and scrub are cheap

- Hotels, supermarkets and restaurants need staff: half the crew means half the takings, and they only earn while you are around, same as rent

- Supermarkets sell at the city price instead of 25 percent above it, and move 3 units a minute per good instead of 6

- Restaurant meals are worth twice as much. A restaurant used to sell its dishes for less than the bread, cheese and wine that went into them

- Quarries dig up two thirds more ore, so steel, tools and windows are actually reachable

- The wage slider makes sense now: normal pay gives normal output, generous pay adds up to a tenth, above that you just pay more

- Repairs cost three times as much, and loans carry more interest. Borrowing to buy flats is no longer free money

- Restaurants need a town in reach. Out in the middle of nowhere the kitchen stays cold instead of quietly serving meals to nobody, and a small village carries less trade than a city

- Every route now says in plain words what it is doing or what it is waiting for

- A route that stops by itself now says why. Selling a site or a vehicle used to leave its routes looking simply paused

- Logistics is a command center now: Routes, Network and Fleet as three tabs instead of one long list

- Routes are one line each, with a status, search, sorting and filters for active, attention and paused

- Click a route and the panel on the right shows where it goes, what it waits for and what the last trip cost, with pause, edit and delete right there

- Businesses is now a table: one line per business with its town, status, output and estimated profit per minute, sortable and searchable

- Picking a business opens it in a detail column on the right instead of listing every business in full, so a hundred plants still fit on one screen

- Businesses split into three tabs: Businesses, Sites (your stock) and Contracts

- Wage level and morale now sit in the Businesses panel too, next to the total wage bill, so you can react where you see the losses

- Finance split into Overview and Ledger. The ledger has a search, filters by area and by income or expense, a 30 day period, and pages instead of the last 40 bookings

- Sites now opens with what you actually own: one line per good with the total, how many sites hold it and what it is worth, and you can unfold it to see where it lies

- The site list groups by town, folds away, and hides sites that store nothing, so thirty empty meadows no longer bury the two that matter

- Properties is a proper list now: one line per property, with a status, search, sorting and filters for occupied, vacant, business and low condition

- Click a property and the panel on the right shows the details, opens the business inside it, repairs it or sells it, without hunting for the building on the map

- Company name and colour moved from Properties to the Company tab, where they belong

- The rivals list goes 50 places deep instead of 20, and accounts that never played are out of it, so smaller firms finally show up

- You always find yourself in the rivals list, no matter which place you are on

- Sitting in the map or on the globe now counts as being in the game, so others can see you there

- Rivals list, inbox and standing deals now show the firm, with the owner as the smaller line

- Pick lists are sorted by what you probably want: sites that already hold the good come first, and goods you have none of sit greyed out at the bottom

- The pick-up list now leads with goods that have no route leaving yet, then what is already on a route, then what you are out of

- A destination this route already serves with this good drops to the bottom of the list, so you spot it before building the same route twice

- Destination lists are grouped into your sites, depot, city market and contracts instead of one run of names

- Long pick lists stop after sixty rows and say how many more there are, so opening one no longer stalls for a moment

- AI firms react to what you do next door within the minute instead of waiting out their turn

- Company level now counts what you built: businesses, vehicles and stored goods add to your worth instead of vanishing when you invest

- Company levels are closer: Group at €3,500,000, Corporation at €9,000,000, Conglomerate at €25,000,000, Company at €1,600,000

- Standing deliveries now pay dividends to your shareholders, like every other sale your company makes

- Borrow and repay take any amount now, with quick picks for 25 %, 50 %, 100k and max

- Thirty equal loans are one line now instead of thirty. Open the line to see each loan, click one for the details

- Repay everything asks once before it empties your cash, and tells you what would be left

- Village names are drawn smaller and dimmer than city names, so the map stays readable

- Long lists in the office now come in pages of 50: properties, businesses, stock, routes, fleet and loans stay readable when the company grows

- Contracts got a proper table: search, filters for what expires soon or lacks goods, sortable columns and one contract in detail on the right

- Auctions got the same table: search, filters for foreclosures, licences and your own bids, and one lot in detail with the bidding on the right

- The share market has search, filters for your own holdings, shares on sale and companies under someone else control, plus sortable columns

- Quarterly reports come newest first and in pages, so the list stays short after a long game

- Side panels no longer repeat whole lists: they show the first few and link to the tab that owns them

- Declining a contract offer now asks once before it is gone

- Removing a fixture, ending a standing deal and handing back a licence seat now ask once before they happen

- Times are written the same everywhere now: anything over an hour reads "1 h 30 min" instead of "90 min"

- Shipments no longer fill the watchlist on their own: pin one in an In transit list and it stays in view, same as businesses, contracts, goods and properties

- Contracts now grow with your company: the amount asked for follows what you actually produce, so a factory gets factory-sized orders instead of one truckload

- Big contracts pay a slightly lower rate per unit than small ones, the way bulk freight works

- More contract slots and a wider reach the further your company level climbs