Code Tycoon - Update 1.29.0

New Features

• Variable time pace: as your studio moves into bigger offices, in-game time compresses - a garage crawls day by day, an HQ races through weeks - so the late game never drags. The top bar shows the current pace.

• Persistent dev teams: form named teams, pick a team manager, and assign a whole team to a project at once.

• Office-tier scaling across the board: contracts grow with your office and tiny jobs phase out, your own products scale up to AAA at an HQ, and maintenance and server management deepen at each tier.

• QA testing is now gated by office tier, and a project manager speeds up their team.

• Domain specializations let employees learn the current era's tech stack faster.

• Era goals now reward mastering each era's technology instead of raw project counts.

• AddedIn-game changeloga What's New popup on launch and a full Patch Notes screen from the menu.

• Project detail popup, reachable directly from rush-event mail.

• Client company and contact names are now localized per language.

• Motivation and health bars now explain themselves with hover tooltips.

• Development view now organizes your work into Contracts, Maintenance and Products tabs, each with its own list and priority order.

Improvements

• Progression rebalanced so your company's growth no longer outruns the decade timeline. Reputation is now a long game - each gain counts for less as your reputation climbs, so reaching the cap takes a real track record instead of a handful of perfect projects.

• The top office tiers cost more and are now tied to their era - an open-plan office opens up in the 1990s and a headquarters in the 2000s - so your facilities grow with the decades instead of maxing out in the first in-game year.

• Currency symbols now match the era and locale instead of always showing a dollar sign.

• QA and project-manager roles are universal - they no longer show a programming language or need language training.

Bug Fixes

• Accepting a project no longer silently fails when a day ticks over mid-click, and forced pauses (like coding events) can no longer be bypassed with the speed buttons.

• Rush-job events now actually create the market offer they promise.

• Fixed the team dropdown and buttons overlapping in the team panel.

• Firing an employee now cleans up their team, and team IDs are always unique.

• A project manager now correctly reads as assigned rather than idle.