SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim

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• Patch Notes·30 Aug 2026Official

  Update 2026.08.29 — Dynasty & Quality-of-Life Overhaul

  Hello, investors!This update round is driven almost entirely by your posts on the discussion boards — special thanks to Doomi, whose detailed feedback and hedge fund threads shaped most of this update, and to everyone else who took the time to write up what they hit. On top of that, an internal audit pass closed out every remaining high-severity finding from our full-game review. Hedge Funds — Your Questions, AnsweredNot running a fund yet? The beta is opt-in: right-click the game in your library → Properties → Betas, enter the code EnableHedgeFund, and select the hedgefund branch. New Fund Reports screen. Browsable month-by-month and yearly reports, from both the Full Desk and the Compact view. No more relying on the recap popup as your only history — page through past months, or flip the yearly toggle for January-to-December changes. Fees now land where you can see them. Management and performance fees settle in December and appear on December's statement. This also kills the doubled December recap some of you saw in January. Manager Credential screen. Open Manager Credential / Desk Mastery from the Full Desk (Capital + Progression group). It shows your rolling 36-month annualized personal return beside the solo and partner requirements for every larger fund — so you can see exactly what an institutional launch takes before your current fund closes. Until 36 months of data exist, it shows months collected instead of a misleading 0%. Contribute Capital, where you expected it. The button now lives in the Full Desk. The cash shortcuts are 50% and 95% — the 95% option deliberately leaves a reserve for taxes and ordinary bills, exactly as suggested on the boards. Leverage expectations are fair now. An institutional LP that joins while your fund is visibly running a higher leverage stance records that stance as its baseline. Investors no longer complain about risk they knowingly signed up for — though raising leverage further can still breach them. Your fund survives yo...
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• Patch Notes·24 Aug 2026Official

  Update 2026.08.23 — Dynasty & Quality-of-Life Overhaul

  Hello, investors!Since the August 17 patch, we’ve completed a major pass across controller support, Steam Cloud saves, business balance, hedge funds, multigenerational play, localization, and responsive presentation.Here is the complete changelog.Steam Cloud & Save Reliability“Keep This Device” can now resolve a save conflict while Steam Cloud is disabled or offline.The local decision is stored durably, preventing autosaves, load screens, and save-slot cards from reopening the same conflict every month.Added defensive migration and repair for malformed settings, Hall records, relationship data, property records, and other legacy save structures.Companies, Markets & AccountingA product starting at 10% visibility now reaches 50% in roughly 26 months at minimum budget, or about 18 months at twice the minimum.The existing 5% monthly visibility cap remains unchanged.The first-year demand penalty now fades smoothly from 50% to 100% over twelve months instead of ending at a sudden cliff.Live sales and dashboard forecasts now use the same marketing curves.The advertising row now forecasts time to 50% or 90% visibility and warns when visibility will fade, stall, or hold.Restored manual CEO strategy tabs for:Film studios: Content Spend and Licensing StrategyTelecoms: Service Investment and Subscriber StrategyConsumer goods and retail: Supply Chain and Pricing StrategyFossil and renewable energy: Capital Expenditure and Dividend PolicyMonthly income and expense history is now finalized after property, lifestyle, dividend, hedge-fund, and other late-month transactions have settled.History rows now include net cash flow and detailed income and expense breakdowns.Hedge FundsInstitutional funds that outperform beyond the $20B capacity ceiling no longer lose their LP population permanently.Closed funds now begin waitlist backfill from 50% of the previous month’s institutional redemptions. Performance, reputation, and appetite modifiers can increase this up to 100% of the capital th...
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• Patch Notes·16 Aug 2026Official

  Steam Deck and Game Controller Support + Gameplay Enhancements

  Steam Deck: full controller supportUntil now, SELF MADE on Deck was a mouse game with an on-screen keyboard. Version 1.815 makes the whole game playable from the controller:Left stick moves a cursor (or steps focus item-to-item on menus), A clicks, right stick scrolls, B backs out of screens.A hint bar shows the controls, in all 7 languages, and disappears the moment you touch the mouse.The on-screen keyboard now reliably reappears when you re-select a text field.No more "hold Shift/Ctrl" tooltips on a device with no Shift or Ctrl.Scrolling with the right stick no longer silently edits sliders it passes over — that one affected about 40 sliders, including budget allocations and bet sizes.This is Deck-only on purpose. On desktop the game should plays as it always has.Steam Deck: readable and un-croppedThe Deck now renders the full native 1280×800 canvas at 100% scale. Company creation and investment properties were literally cropped off-screen before; text was below Valve's legibility minimum. Both fixed.The finances overlay no longer sits on top of buttons. The worst case: the Start Company button was up to 100% covered. Real Estate, the Newspaper, and the computer desktop icons all got the same treatment.The news ticker's invisible click zone used to eat the bottom 40px of the screen after it faded. Fixed everywhere, desktop included.Docking and undocking mid-screen now re-lays-out live instead of sticking with the wrong layout.The game caps at 60 FPS on Deck (the sim doesn't need 90 — your battery does) and the download got smaller for everyone.Still on the list: a couple of dialogs graze the bottom hint bar at 720p external resolutions. Known, measured, being fixed. Also, some buttons in the apartment (i.e. diploma in the cheapest apartment) have to be repositioned to avoid colliding with the HUD, I'm still outlining a plan to make this look prettier.Your saves: much harder to loseThe save system got its biggest rework since launch, aimed at every way Steam Cloud...
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• Announcements·6 Aug 2026Official

  Stability Improves and Hedge Fund Beta

  Introducing Hedge Fund Mode — a New Endgame Career (Opt-In Beta)You've beaten the market with your own money. Hedge Fund mode asks a harder question: can you do it with someone else's?This is the new endgame career we've been building: launch a fund, raise outside capital, build a research team, run long and short books, collect fees, keep your investors from bolting — and, if you've got the stomach for it, drag a company's board into a fight it didn't ask for. It's live now as an opt-in beta on the hedgefund branch.OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEYAt minimum: you put up $2 million of your own; the Mara Voss Family Office seeds you with $8 million more. Mara is not a passive line item — she has a mandate, a leverage ceiling, and a loyalty meter, and if you disappoint her she takes most of your fund home. You get paid the classic "2 and 20," with a real high-water mark: after a losing stretch, investors don't pay you again for climbing back to where they already were.NOT A TRADING CLICKERYou don't micromanage every share. Research companies (reports are noisy estimates, not foreknowledge), assign conviction to the ideas you believe in, and the desk trades toward your targets each month through real liquidity — big orders slip and partial-fill. A manual order ticket exists when you want to move now, but conviction decides where the book ends up.Your fund levels up through five tiers of Desk Mastery, and the unlocks are the career: you start long-only at 1.0x leverage and earn your way to shorts, quants, fee strategy, and eventually prime brokerage at 3.0x. Your researchers are people with names, specialties, and ethics — and payroll is a real constraint.WAYS TO LOSEDrawdowns trigger redemptions; redemptions force selling; a shrinking fund can't carry its staff. That death spiral is fully modeled: hit zero NAV and you're insolvent, or bleed below the viability floor and get wound down. Use leverage you can survive.Insider tips and planted rumors work, too. They also build Scrutiny,...
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• Patch Notes·16 Jul 2026Official

  Third Small July Update

  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 income_earned 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 exploit: price floors (update_gmi, 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 Windows to Control 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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