E.C Exchange

Many changes to advance the push towards realism. These changes help introduce realism and better simulation of the actual market economy.

• Reformed Market Mechanics

  • Replaced basic price formulas with a realistic "Price Discovery" model.
  • City actiivty no longer shows which citizen bought how many shares of which stock.
  • Large orders now face non-linear slippage and market noise to prevent bulk-buy exploits.
  • Trade Cooldowns: Added a 15–30 minute cooldown after buying a stock before it can be sold again.

• News Articles

  • Introduced more dynamic articles based on actual marke performance and mining contracts
  • CEOS have limited range of branching when giving opinions on their company's performance

• My Portfolio

  • Now shows historical information of transactions within each symbol's panel.

• UI Improvements:

  • Added persistent searc bar to Exchange nav
  • Improved company search bar, now auto-suggests potential company names

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed missing company data in edge cases

• Skill-Gated Data: Players with the Financial Analyst skill now see full OHLC candles and volatility metrics; others see a basic daily line chart.

• Market Sentiment Update: Sentiment is now weighted toward real trade volume, along with news. Updates in near-real time with current conditions.

• GCC* Integration: Game-controlled citizens now engage in trading actively.

* GCC = Game Controlled Citizens / Estin City Controlled Citizens. Citizens that operate and behave autononously within the city with varying degrees of *approaches*.

Mining

• Added Storage Explorer
• Fixed Contract Bugs:
  • ATIOS: Several bugs across various contracts preventing completion and progress
• Fixed bug that calculated sold ore incorrectly
• Improved UI of the Mining Operation
• Improved Automation Module stability and consistency

Factions

• Wars now send uh... invites? and notifications correctly to Faction leadership
• Wars now enable Battles between players, only affects Faction reputation.
  • Does not opt in citizens to Battle Arena system
• Fixed expiration notifications of Faction Wars

City

• Added live social hub to city
• Added customizable map UI
• Corrected images for Public Market
• Corrected location categories
• New Maglev Raillines added:
  • Deep Kitchen now connected
  • The Agency now connected
• Added Inventory access
• Adjusted Sector access menu

My Pod

• Fixed broken Medical Bay in the Prime Pod

Inventory

• Inventory now accessible most places in the city and UI
• Redesigned inventory to be more intuitive and easier to use
• Fixed bug that allowed careful players to equip other player's loadouts

Bank

• Fixed bug with loan system being disabled after selecting predefined amount or custom amount
• Fixed rounding error with totals in bank
• Savings total now more secure (mouse over Savings Balance to see total)

University

• Fixed bug that broke the UI when expanding unvirsity courses.
• Improved UI and UIX
• Added course filtering to Entry and Career Path locations

My Sector

• Fixed bug preventing Factions from showing up correctly in the Factions tab
  • New Factions now reported in the Activity tab

The Agency

• Added The Agency; Creative advertising for those with creative ideas!
  • Adds ability for players to buy ad space for: Factions, Mining Operations, Trading, General Player

Friends

• Added ability to add friends
  • Can now send items, trade requests to friends

UI

• When a citizen has less than 25% HP, UI now indicates low health better
• Improved readability (font size increases and UI feedback messages) across many areas
• Improved visibility of the global UI nav and notification bar

Skills

• Awareness:
  • Better detectection of lesser visible areas of the game
  • Better highlights lesser known information in the Maglev Racetrack

Company CEOS

• CEOS now have limited branching personalities types:
  • Allows them to dictact certain news responses and market events.
  • Allows them to drive contract constraints.