- 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