Founder Life - Release 1

This update adds Founder Life a whole new corner of the game for when you’re done running the business for the week. It’s where your personal cash lives: what you earn from dividends, what you spend on nights out, collections, and property. Company money stays company money. Empire businesses (racing, football, the gym chain, and the rest) still live under Empire, they’re how you fund the good life, not where you go to blow off steam.

What is Founder Life?

Once you’ve built enough wealth to unlock your Mogul Profile, you get a new sidebar section:

Sidebar → LIFE → Founder Life

That opens your Founder Life hub — a dashboard showing:

• How much personal cash you have

• Your weekly lifestyle income and burn (rent from properties, upkeep on collections, and so on)

• Quick links to everything you can do off the clock

• A panel to move money from your company into your personal wallet (dividends if you’re private; if you’re public, it sends you to the Stock Market dividend flow)

Think of it as the “I made it” layer of ConsoleMe.

High Roller; casino & sportsbook (new)

The headline addition is High Roller: a full casino floor and sportsbook, paid for only with personal cash.

How to get there

1. Sidebar → LIFE → Founder Life (hub)

2. Click the High Roller activity card — or go straight to Sidebar → LIFE → Founder Life → High Roller

How to unlock

• Reach Tycoon rank (~$5M net worth)

• Hold at least $100,000 personal cash

• Fund your wallet from the hub’s withdraw panel, or from Empire → Mogul Profile once you’re paying yourself dividends

Casino floor — seven tables

Open High Roller → Casino Floor, pick a game, and play at the table:

Hands and bets save if you switch tabs or reload, you won’t lose a mid-game hand because you checked the news.

VIP lounge

The more you wager over time, the higher your tier:

• Silver — after $500k lifetime wager

• Gold — after $5M (unlocks Sic Bo & Craps, higher limits)

• Platinum — after $25M wager and Mogul rank (top table limits, up to $5M per bet)

Check High Roller → Lobby for your tier progress, table limits, and what unlocks next.

Sportsbook

High Roller → Sportsbook

• Bet on football, racing, and wrestling when you own those empire ventures — results come from your actual sim, not random fluff

• Even without a club, marquee events show up every week so there’s always something on the board

• Open slips settle when the event week passes; the lobby shows what’s at risk and what you could win

Lobby, history & consequences

• Lobby — weekly P/L, settling bets, scandal pressure, empire sports shortcuts

• History — filter wins/losses, casino vs sports, biggest swings

• Lay Low — if the tabloids are circling, cool off for four weeks from the lobby

• Big wins and heavy gambling nudge your mogul persona (Shark, Eccentric, and the rest)

• Public-company gambling can hit company reputation if you go too hard — the scandal meter is real

In-game help: Guide button on the hub or High Roller screens, or Player Guide → High Roller / Founder Life.

Wine Cellar, Yacht Collection & Real Estate

These existing lifestyle passion projects now live under Founder Life, not mixed in with empire businesses.

How to start

1. Sidebar → Grow → Empire → Mogul Profile

2. Scroll to Passion Projects and start Wine Cellar, Yacht Collection, or Real Estate (rank and cash gates apply)

3. Once active, open the matching tab: Sidebar → LIFE → Founder Life → Wine Cellar (or Yacht / Real Estate)

What you do

• Wine Cellar — buy bottles young, age them, sell when they peak

• Yacht Collection — supercars, yachts, jets, prestige properties; networking events

• Real Estate — personal portfolio: buy, rent, renovate, weekly upkeep and tax

All of this runs on personal cash. The hub shows your combined lifestyle income and burn each week.

Empire vs Founder Life — quick rule of thumb

Saves

Older saves should load fine. If anything looks odd after updating, save once in a new slot and shout if it persists.

What’s next for Founder Life

Planned in rough order, not in this patch, but teased on the hub as Coming soon:

Next up (Tier 1)

• Philanthropy & Galas — donate to causes, host charity events, offset bad press with good works

• Jet Set Travel — fly to industry cities and events (GDC vibes, race weekends, Monaco-style trips); buffs, contacts, paparazzi risk

• Tailor & Wardrobe — suits, watches, and style that shapes how the world sees your mogul

• Private Clubs — memberships with weekly fees and random “you met someone at the club” moments

Later (Tier 2)

• Art & Auctions — seasonal bidding, collect pieces, sell for prestige

• Nightlife & Restaurants — lighter than the casino; dinners, industry nights, scandal whispers

• VIP Boxes — hospitality at your football/racing/wrestling events (hosting, not betting)

• Property Parties — host launch nights at your penthouse or portfolio properties

Further out (Tier 3)

• Luxury districts on the world map — shopping and lifestyle tied to travel

• Rival mogul lifestyle leaderboard — who’s living largest among the AI founders

• Paparazzi & documentary story arcs — multi-week tabloid chains that can spill into crises

We’ll ship these into the same Life → Founder Life hub as they land. Feedback on what you want first is welcome (or any other suggestions!)