0.2.0 Released

Balances

• Balanced AI aggressiveness on Easy and Very Easy difficulties
  
• There is now a grace period in the first 10 years of the game (from 1971 to 1981), where the AI is less aggressive than it would normally be
• Increased credit limit growth a bit
  
• Significantly reduced inflation in the mid to late game 
  
• Reduced construction time
  
• There's now an additional power consumption increase when exceeding 3 GHz
  
• 12nm and beyond:
  • Added a multicore yield penalty reduction. This effectively makes multicore CPUs even cheaper to make over time
  • Reduced power consumption reduction by about 20%
    
  • Reduced cache cost reduction a bit

Production

• Added the ability to outsource production capacity
  
• You can now sell your entire manufacturing division to become a fabless company
  
• You can now license process nodes (through the outsourcing system)
• When using a licensed node, 25% of the CPU development cost goes to the manufacturer as outsourcing income
• The node's Yield Rate (good vs bad dies) is now implemented. The more lines you allocate to a CPU of a given node, the faster that node's yield will grow
  
• Wafer Yield is now called Final Yield
  
• Unit Cost is now based on material cost, maintenance cost, yield rate, final yield, royalties and markup
  
• Wafer Cost is no longer a bunch of hardcoded values, nor does it affect manufacturing costs. It is now based on material cost (currently static), maintenance cost and yield rate

AI & Companies

• Added Cyrux, IVA Technologies, Digital Devices, SolarFoundries and TCMS
• Added logos for all companies
• Added Company Types:
  • CPU
  • CPU, Fabless
  • Foundry
• Inlet now offers foundry services, but only if there's no other foundry option available
• Texas Increments now offers foundry services
• Pilog is now a fabless company
• There is now an event about EMD, where they spin off their manufacturing division when near bankruptcy, founding SolarFoundries in the process
• Companies can now share Node technologies with each other, although this only happens when a company goes fabless AND the selected manufacturer has less advanced nodes than the company that selected them
• Inlet and EMD now follow their historical core counts after 2010, although EMD is a bit more flexible before 2017
  
• The AI is now much more willing to build new fabs
  
• The AI can now adjust prices dynamically
• Several improvements regarding financial decisions

Modifiers

• Added modifiers based on the company type
• CPU companies:
  • +5% Research Speed
• CPU, Fabless companies:
  • -33% Development Cost
• Foundry companies:
  • -50% Maintenance Cost
  • -20% Construction Cost
• TCMS has government subsidies, giving them:
  • -10% Construction Cost (stacks with the foundry modifier)
    
  • -33% Taxes
    
  • -75% Interest
    
• Both Cyrux and IVA Technologies have a +500% Research Cost modifier to simulate their historical struggles (patent issues, etc)

Contracts

• Added contracts between companies (only foundry services, for now)
  
• Added text showing the probability of a CPU being accepted in a contract
  
• Contracts may now require a specific package type
• Companies now pay royalties when using licensed technologies

QoL

• Added money cheats
• Added a Production tab in the Analysis window
  
• Added a toggle to highlight the player in the Products tab
  
• You can now select which company to inspect in the Finance and Production tabs
  
• You can now navigate between input fields by pressing Tab
  
• Lines graph improvements

Notes

• For balance reasons, EMD is scripted to sign contracts only with SolarFoundries
• This version is not fully compatible with old saves. Starting a new game is highly recommended

The next update will focus on adding QoL features, with the main one being a dark mode.

A huge thanks to everyone who made donations, as well as everyone who is participating in the beta on Discord!