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Steam News16 July 202626d ago

Third Small July Update

Keyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained.

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Full SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim update

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  • Security
  • Performance
changedKeyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained. Now the focus is contained to a popup, preventing an infinite window situation.
changedTwo non-paying issues: Deferring year-end taxes to April skipped April's whole paycheck (early-return before the pay code). Moved the tax check to run after the paycheck. Workplace-injury recovery left you silently unpaid — recovery cleared the flag but never restored your work hours. Now it does.
changedSpouse vacation never showed its $10k/25hr cost, didn't gate the button, and said "wonderful vacation!" even when it silently failed. Now shows the cost, disables when unaffordable, and only celebrates on success.
addedIn the books. the [c]income_earned[/c] handler is the single accumulator, but six sources also manually added the same amount. Removed the redundant adds (+ a tips double-count and a short-selling-fee row). (4/4 test: $1,660 counted once, not $3,320.)
changedAn exploit: price floors ([c]update_gmi[/c], market events, whale mechanic) re-inflated your own company's split-collapsed price to $1 while the share count stayed multiplied; and the once-per-year split cooldown was, previously, dead code, this is fixed to disallow this exploit.
changedConverted the 8 highest-risk popups (MediaCompanyManager ×5, EstateTax, EndGame ×2) from transient [c]Window[/c]s to [c]Control[/c] overlays — the proven cause of the recurring engine use-after-free crash.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim changes

changedKeyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained. Now the focus is contained to a popup, preventing an infinite window situation.
changedTwo non-paying issues: Deferring year-end taxes to April skipped April's whole paycheck (early-return before the pay code). Moved the tax check to run after the paycheck. Workplace-injury recovery left you silently unpaid — recovery cleared the flag but never restored your work hours. Now it does.
changedSpouse vacation never showed its $10k/25hr cost, didn't gate the button, and said "wonderful vacation!" even when it silently failed. Now shows the cost, disables when unaffordable, and only celebrates on success.
addedIn the books. the [c]income_earned[/c] handler is the single accumulator, but six sources also manually added the same amount. Removed the redundant adds (+ a tips double-count and a short-selling-fee row). (4/4 test: $1,660 counted once, not $3,320.)
changedAn exploit: price floors ([c]update_gmi[/c], market events, whale mechanic) re-inflated your own company's split-collapsed price to $1 while the share count stayed multiplied; and the once-per-year split cooldown was, previously, dead code, this is fixed to disallow this exploit.

  1. Keyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained. Now the focus is contained to a popup, preventing an infinite window situation.

  2. Two non-paying issues: Deferring year-end taxes to April skipped April's whole paycheck (early-return before the pay code). Moved the tax check to run after the paycheck. Workplace-injury recovery left you silently unpaid — recovery cleared the flag but never restored your work hours. Now it does.

  3. Spouse vacation never showed its $10k/25hr cost, didn't gate the button, and said "wonderful vacation!" even when it silently failed. Now shows the cost, disables when unaffordable, and only celebrates on success.

  4. In the books. the [c]income_earned[/c] handler is the single accumulator, but six sources also manually added the same amount. Removed the redundant adds (+ a tips double-count and a short-selling-fee row). (4/4 test: $1,660 counted once, not $3,320.)

  5. An exploitprice floors ([c]update_gmi[/c], market events, whale mechanic) re-inflated your own company's split-collapsed price to $1 while the share count stayed multiplied; and the once-per-year split cooldown was, previously, dead code, this is fixed to disallow this exploit.

  6. Converted the 8 highest-risk popups (MediaCompanyManager ×5, EstateTax, EndGame ×2) from transient [c]Window[/c]s to [c]Control[/c] overlays — the proven cause of the recurring engine use-after-free crash.

  7. Re-opened hotel buying with a "may still be unstable on some GPUs" notice (7 languages), and re-enabled Aurora Ledgers (the real-estate tax-shelter elite service) by removing its UI lockout. These were locked out during the summer sale and are still unstable. We think the crash can sometimes be linked to integrated GPUs, but plan to still look into future crash reports.

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Steam News / 16 July 2026

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