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Steam News27 April 20262mo ago

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Summary of improvements Market Mechanics: "YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.

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Full SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim update

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  • Fixes
  • Performance
addedSummary of improvementsMarket Mechanics: "YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.
fixedSummary of improvementsFinancial Safeguards: Improved how the game handles "no-headroom" payment scenarios and fixed a bug where mortgage paydowns were incorrectly triggering missed-payment flags.
fixedSummary of improvementsHard Mode Adjustments: Resolved a "tax popup trap" that was likely ending runs prematurely and improved the visual contrast on sector reports. This has been persistent and we have not been able to recreate it on our end. However, we added some more defensive code
changedSummary of improvementsData Integrity: Implemented "crash protection" to prevent save-file loss
changedSummary of improvementsCode Hardening: The "hotel arrays" are now better protected against null entries, and various "error-laden areas" have been refactored for smoother performance. We have tried to recreate the bugs on our end for this aswell and have not been able to do it.
changedSummary of improvementsUI Restoration: Reinstated the "favourite-ticker" controls that went missing after the last upgrade, and ensured negative cash is properly displayed following a margin call. One solution to help us recreate the two bugs mentioned above is to send us a save file right before the bug occurs (like an autosave after the crash should load right before it), then we can compare and have more data to figure out what is going on. Our email address is: billmeadegamingllc@gmail.com It's been a busy time for us, our other game 'Federal Reserve Sim' will be featured on the Marketplace podcast and we had to focus on that game for awhile. Thank you for supporting us and we hope this improves everyone's experience with the game!

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim changes

addedMarket Mechanics: "YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.
fixedFinancial Safeguards: Improved how the game handles "no-headroom" payment scenarios and fixed a bug where mortgage paydowns were incorrectly triggering missed-payment flags.
fixedHard Mode Adjustments: Resolved a "tax popup trap" that was likely ending runs prematurely and improved the visual contrast on sector reports. This has been persistent and we have not been able to recreate it on our end. However, we added some more defensive code
changedData Integrity: Implemented "crash protection" to prevent save-file loss
changedCode Hardening: The "hotel arrays" are now better protected against null entries, and various "error-laden areas" have been refactored for smoother performance. We have tried to recreate the bugs on our end for this aswell and have not been able to do it.

Summary of improvements

  • Market Mechanics:"YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.

  • Financial SafeguardsImproved how the game handles "no-headroom" payment scenarios and fixed a bug where mortgage paydowns were incorrectly triggering missed-payment flags.
  • Hard Mode AdjustmentsResolved a "tax popup trap" that was likely ending runs prematurely and improved the visual contrast on sector reports. This has been persistent and we have not been able to recreate it on our end. However, we added some more defensive code
  • Data Integrity: Implemented "crash protection" to prevent save-file loss

  • Code Hardening: The "hotel arrays" are now better protected against null entries, and various "error-laden areas" have been refactored for smoother performance. We have tried to recreate the bugs on our end for this aswell and have not been able to do it.

  • UI Restoration

    Reinstated the "favourite-ticker" controls that went missing after the last upgrade, and ensured negative cash is properly displayed following a margin call. One solution to help us recreate the two bugs mentioned above is to send us a save file right before the bug occurs (like an autosave after the crash should load right before it), then we can compare and have more data to figure out what is going on.

    Our email address is

    billmeadegamingllc@gmail.com It's been a busy time for us, our other game 'Federal Reserve Sim' will be featured on the Marketplace podcast and we had to focus on that game for awhile. Thank you for supporting us and we hope this improves everyone's experience with the game!

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Steam News / 27 April 2026

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