7.4.26 DevLog Update

Core

• Added a user-friendly game calendar. It displays everything going on around the game by default, but can be filtered for just music, sports, etc.
• Implemented a character relationship matrix system where your actions will automatically influence how other characters view you. This is useful for negotiations, surrogate campaigning, business deals, and many more examples. It will all happen in the background to provide more realistic gameplay without you having to worry about it much.
• We are now using xAI (Grok) for most AI-generated talking heads social media posts and also made numerous minor changes to the prompts. We're getting better results, but this likely will remain a work in progress.

Business

• Added the ability for business owners to take their business public. On the "My Company" page you will find the IPO action. This will start a 30 day timer and will put 20% equity in your company (done proportionally so you can still do the action even if you own less than 20% already) available for stock purchase. While your initial valuation is determined by the value of your assets, you can spend the next 30 days completing the Investor Roadshow action (costs 25 energy) to increase your valuation.

Government

• Added Discord posts as helpful reminders when new bills go up for debate or vote.

Music

• Updated the formulas for daily song revenue. Available total revenues per genre will now fluctuate automatically based on player/NPC activitiy instead of relying on manual GM updates. There are boundaries and guardrails in place to keep everything realistic.

Sports

• Added mechanic where when your coaches may have a skill improvement happen when your team performs well on the field. If the team wins, the HC may get +1 to an important skill to the position. If your offense gains more yards than the opponent's offense does, your OC and DC may get a +1 to one of their important skills.
• Added the ability to negotiate with your coaches for them to change positions (promoting a coordinator to head coach, for example).
• DFL team owners can now rank players in a private draft queue and optionally enable auto-pick. When your team is on the clock, auto-pick waits 15 minutes before selecting your highest available player, while you still retain the full 24-hour window to make a manual pick if you prefer. This should help keep the draft moving along nicely.
• Relaxed permissions for future DFL team owners so they can scout and hire players/coaches even before the season begins. The contracts will begin automatically when the new season begins.
• Added mechanic that will have all team's depth charts roll over to the new season automatically. You should still manually make changes as you bring in new players and player ratings change, but this feature will at least give you a head start.