New Receptionist Dashboard: Patch Notes v2.0.0-beta.1833 (Beta)

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Receptionist Dashboard

• A fancy new Receptionist tab in the Registry surfaces the Receptionist's master renewal controls, enable, budget cap, and priority, without digging into the staff card.

• The Receptionist tab opens onto a Week 48 Renewal Forecast: a Contract Ledger grouped by role that projects every member's wage across the next 10 years, with the Receptionist's live negotiation rate, projected renewal costs, and savings front and center.

• Every contract expiring this year shows its outcome at a glance, Renews, At Risk, Blocked (with the reason), or Expires, using the same logic the Week 48 pass actually runs, so the forecast matches what happens.

• Arm any expiring contract for auto-renewal with one click on its expiry badge, which flips from red "Expires" to green "Renew"; an Auto-Renew All master toggle and a budget cap and priority tuning round out the front office.

Other Stuff

• Save up to 3 custom difficulty presets on the New Game screen, recall, overwrite, or delete a slider set with one click.

• Block a material from import in the Material Trade Policy so rivals never offer it to you, keeping unwanted stock out of your warehouse.

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• The Parley option no longer hides behind a Temple-standing wall; anyone can open the conversation. Only the deeper Accord still requires the standing or knowledge to broker it.

• Unfilled synergy slots now read "NOT RECRUITED" with a neutral empty-slot mark instead of "??? NOT FOUND," so a missing class no longer looks like an error.

• Scout report OVR now carries a hint that it's the recruit's base value from raw stats; once on your roster it rises with guild building bonuses and equipment.

• Youth-prospect scout completions now appear in the Weekly Report under "Prospects Scouted" and in the Hero's Hearth Tavern feed; clicking the feed entry jumps to the Academy Prospects tab.

• Start a headhunt straight from an idle scout's row using the full search-type picker: role, class, staff, crafter, gatherer, plus auto-repeat.

• The Staff recruit tab gains "Headhunted" and dismissed-view filters, and you can restore a dismissed staff, crafter, or gatherer recruit from their detail panel.

• Graduating prospects now show their zodiac sign and element in the graduation ceremony and on the graduation cards.

• Set Completion and Party of Heroes contracts now carry a badge on the quest board naming the required hero or party, so you don't have to open the writ to learn it.

• The mentor picker pushes mentors already assigned to another trainee to the bottom, keeping free mentors and this trainee's own mentor on top.

• A new header button appears whenever heroes are waiting at the Crossroads, showing the count and jumping straight to the Calling decision; use the dossier's arrows to browse the rest. It stays hidden when no one is waiting.

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• In Academy mode, your noble recruit-quality levers finally pay off where you can see them: Noble Court Influence, Heraldic Update, and difficulty quality now nudge the youth scouting pool toward better prospects, and the Noble Heir Referral delivers a guaranteed A-Tier-potential prospect into the Academy instead of an unhirable free agent.

• Faction correspondence, joint-op, and dispatch missions now require a full, valid party like every other deployment, closing an exploit where under-strength parties earned identical rewards.

• Completing a faction contract now grants its party a small XP reward scaled by the contract's duration, so tying a party up no longer feels like a wasted slot.

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• Rival trade counter-offers no longer deadlock. When you've offered everything you own and the rival wants more, it now rolls the shortfall into a gold demand instead of handing back a byte-identical counter forever.

• The Markets "Likely Accept" label now matches the rival's actual accept decision, including the tougher terms a same-division competitor demands, so trades it promises as likely are no longer countered or declined.

• In the trade builder, materials you're offering are now valued at their sell price, matching the figure shown on the counter-offer card.

• Year-end awards in league play no longer claim you're "competing across all guilds" when the only entrants are your own adventurers; they now show guild-scoped framing.

• A manual save or quicksave now confirms the write actually landed on disk before flashing "Saved!"; a failed write reports an error instead of falsely claiming success.

• Loading a different guild now warns you when the shared autosave still holds another guild, so advancing a week can't silently overwrite that game's only safety net.

• Quest milestones now count one per quest completed instead of once per party member, so the "10 Quests Completed" and similar milestones no longer fire far too early.

• The Risk/ROVR quest sort now orders quests even with no party selected, instead of silently falling back to "most recently posted."

• Two adventurers of the same class now always show the same class-rarity color; legacy saves with a drifted rarity value are corrected on load.

• Completing a Crown Contract from the quest board now counts toward the Military "Oath of Arms" obligation.

• Crown Cup combat narration now matches each fighter's class: archers loose arrows, mages cast spells, melee fighters strike with blades, and it names the hero who actually dealt the blow.

• Tower critical hits and killing blows now narrate with the attacker's weapon instead of a generic melee strike, so an archer or mage crit reads correctly.

• Fixed a year-end crash that could trigger for a low-gold guild with a commander when reaching the low-gold advice.

• The Crown Cup All-Tournament Team's ⭐ Best Overall now goes to the genuine top performer of the whole field instead of the best player on a losing guild. I'll be keeping an eye on this one for any funny business.

• A healer winning Best Overall now displays the healing that earned the slot rather than their damage number.

• In multiplayer leagues, scout and staff bids that win now actually join your guild: hires are gated against in-flight bids so you can't over-queue, and affordability is checked against the upfront hiring fee instead of the full contract value, so a cash-tight guild's winning bids no longer silently lapse.