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27 September 2026

Areas

23 changes in this update

Buildings

Business planning before purchase - inspect suitable uses, founding costs, licences and blockers before buying rooms
Fishery - explicitly convert a harbour to a crewed fleet; fishing boats and cutters use limited berths, with landing stations and boat workshops as fittings
Conversations - below a message you see the rest of your mail with the same player, click one to unfold it, so a negotiation reads in one place
Reply side by side - when you reply, the message you are answering stays on the left while you write
Town full - a restaurant with more staff than its town eats for is marked in Businesses and Workforce, and Fit staff cuts it down to the workers that are enough

Logistics

Shipping line - goods between continents and islands now travel by ship with the national shipping line, at the national railway's rate

Buildings

Building workspace - Overview, Business, Fittings and Units; compact details or expanded side-by-side planning
Grouped fittings - search, function filters, pagination and bulk quantities with a server-calculated review before purchase or removal
Fishing guidance - fleet, landing and stock rates, crew priority, operating costs, pause controls and Advisor help; existing harbour production stays until explicit conversion

Logistics

Own hubs - shipping between two of your own stations or harbours is no longer free. The stretch between them now costs about what your own train would, so distance counts on your own network too
No rail across the sea - trucks, trains and forwarders stay on their own continent or island, only ships cross the sea. A route that sent a truck or train across the sea stops and says why

Office

Reading messages - paragraphs, headings and lines like "Price: 900,000" are laid out on their own, so a written deal or a longer letter is easy to follow. The message window is also taller
Writing messages - the text box scrolls along with your cursor instead of running off the bottom of the window, and a counter shows how much room is left

Economy

Restaurants - a town only eats so many meals, 2 per 10,000 people a minute, shared by every restaurant there. Before, a kitchen sold every meal at full price no matter how many
Mayor elections - to stand for mayor you now need a business of your own in the city. Owning property there still lets you vote

Server

Rent settlement - identical units are calculated together, keeping the same per-unit rounding and payouts while reducing work for large property portfolios

Logistics

Selling with goods inside - selling a building to the bank or leaving a rented unit now needs the goods stored there moved out first. Before, they landed in your depot at once, however far away
Deliveries a city does not buy - sending a city goods it does not buy is refused right away. Before, they quietly dropped into your depot on arrival

Office

Long messages - anything past 1,000 characters was cut off without a word, so the other player got half a contract. Messages now hold up to 4,000 characters, and a longer one is refused instead of shortened

Economy

Fitting ownership - another owner leaving a shared building no longer removes your equipment or receives its refund
Fitting capacity - equipment that no longer fits after losing rooms pauses instead of keeping its bonuses; rented rooms count for the tenant
Fitting refunds - new equipment keeps its purchase cost for refunds, so later catalogue price changes cannot create a resale profit

Server

Read workers - replacement workers no longer attempt fleet migrations on read-only connections, and failed or stalled starts are retried automatically

27.09.2026