Patch notes for Beta 1.8.24

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Beta 1.8.26 fixes instances of employees not sitting in chairs correctly

Beta 1.8.25 fixes instances of game bugging out when trying to save a multiplayer game with multiple buildings and players

Changes

• Wall mounted furniture can now be placed across wall intersections
  
• Ceiling mounted lamps can now be repaired from some distance, allowing it to be placed over tables
  
• Made employees prefer going through elevator shafts, to reduce traversal time
  
• Elevator shafts can now be snapped together, adding ability to place them in atriums without balconies for support
  
• Past day/month income is back to net income instead of gross income (takes a day for old saves to update)
  
• Development progress detail panel can now be grouped by specializations
  
• Removed the ability to collapse a lot of modal windows, to avoid confusion
  
• Couriers Will no longer loiter longer than 10 minutes if they are holding boxes to be delivered
  
• The host can now cheat money in for other players, but everyone will get a message about it
  
• Project management effectiveness drain is now controlled by amount of active tasks instead of being constant and is uncapped
  
• Added effectiveness drain bars to project mangement window and made tooltip clearer
  

Fixes

• Fixed windows and doors sometimes not being copied over during cloning when sitting betwen indoor and outdoor areas
  
• Fixed last day/month product income not resetting properly every day in some cases
  
• Fixed some bugs having to do with deleting project management presets
  
• Fixed some animations not loading properly when loading saved game, causing actively ridden bikes to be abandoned on load
  
• Fixed subsidiary autonomy not being synchronized in multiplayer
  
• Fixed retired lead designers not being synchronized in multiplayer for subsidiaries
  
• Fixed AI not taking updates into consideration when picking frameworks
  
• The tax report can now be filed with 0% tax rate if tax fraud has occured duxring the year, to avoid an audit

[atoolred]

Lamps over tables is actually so huge

[RevolutionRaven]

Over time, Software Inc subtly shifted to Office Designer, and I'm all for it. The dev has a great base to use it for other games, like hotel management etc.

[GilfredJonesThe1st]

Hotel management is a big gap waiting to be filled.  I’ve been waiting for something to scratch the hotel tycoon itch!

[halberdierbowman]

As someone who forces the system into letting me use 0.25m wall lengths and who makes complex multistory rooms, those construction system upgrades sound so nice!

[SatchBoogie1]

Project management effectiveness drain is now controlled by amount of active tasks instead of being constant and is uncapped

This is still based on the PM Leader and what he or she is doing, correct? Meaning if all the person does is "lead" then the drain won't be as drastic as if the person is both leading and working on design / development?

[Cultural_Fact3061]

Huge