Hello, fellow CEOs! – Weekly progress report

This week focuses on polish and readability: French is now active on the internal build, Research pacing is smoother, and the End-of-Day (EoD) flow is faster and clearer. Want to help test? Opt into the internal branch (password visionariesBH) under Steam > Properties > Betas.

• Enabled French on the internal branch so French-speaking players can try the game now.

• Sped up the EoD report and removed the brief “negative net profit” flash to reduce confusion.

• Added F11 as a shortcut to open the in-game bug report, so it’s easier to send logs and saves.

• Rebalanced Specialist Research Points to ease early unlocks (details below).

• Included the active language in user reports, improving issue tracing.

• Validated Buy Stand actions for cash on click to prevent accidental purchases without funds.

• Chained consecutive goal completions so popups appear one after another (no overlaps).

• Auto-complete Perfect Recipe goals when the recipe is already discovered; re-evaluate the current goal after reload.

• Displayed RP cost breakdown in Research tooltips; hide extra cost when it’s 0.

• Scaled popups correctly on 4K; fix Research preview inspector sizes across resolutions.

• Refreshed EoD popup states even when skipped; fixed colour themes.

• Swapped certain music cues per event to reduce repetition.

• Updated wording: “sachets” to packets, and softened harsh terms with ****.

• Softened Specialist RP requirements:

  • Customer: 60 to 30 burgers per point.

  • Marketing: 42 to 15 feedback per point.

  • Team & Service: 15 to 10 customers served per point.

• Reduced the goal to sell drinks to Parents (Street Corner) target to 65.

• Reduced Money Tracker upgrade cost from 70 → 50.

• Updated salary market-rate requirement for 0% salary markup checks.

• Spawned AI correctly when it is bought out on the same day it appears.

• Fixed SFX volume for capacity/focused-customer filter voiceovers.

• Reviewed buy-out goal logic to handle criteria met before/after activation and on reload.

• Prevented duplicate employees when upgrading vehicles; added a safe fallback.

• Cleaned up core managers on exit to avoid rare crashes.

• Ensured EoD popup always shows (even if skipped); handle initial/final states outside sequences.

• Override saved research costs on load for consistency.

• Updated the balance sheet when repaying short-term debt.

• Fixed the AI bankruptcy effect, which was incorrectly triggering for the player.

• Clarified goal requirements with in-game tips; reset certain goal progress at day start to avoid stale “No Long Wait” checks.

• Track and display Toy Giveaway goal correctly; clean the Goals tab to avoid missing references.

• Corrected business banking tooltip; fixed Training Level 4 goal text.

• German language implementation

Huge thanks to @Icewater Creek®, @AJ the Rabbi, and @Jeffrey Jets for reports and testing. Your reports and notes helped pinpoint several edge cases. ⭐

Thanks for reading and for all the feedback. Keep screenshots, saves, and logs coming; we’re reading everything on Discord also and prioritising fixes accordingly. 🤗

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Street Grub - Devs

Hello, fellow CEOs! – Weekly progress report

Over the last two weeks, we focused on developing the Competition and Story. The first pass of AI opponents and the revised Research Tree are now ready for wider testing on the beta branch. Want to give it a try? Switch to internal (password: visionariesBH) on Steam > Street Grub > Properties > Betas.

• New AI opponents (Maria, Carla, Hanna, Marco) are available on the beta branch for Sandbox, buy-outs, district presence, and behaviour are also live.

• Career Goals expanded across Startup/Small/Medium/Large for a clearer ladder. We are balancing the pacing at the moment.

• Competition tab: We've introduced a competition tab to view all competitions in the city, and each company includes a buy-out button.

• Environment: With the introduction of competition, we show names/portraits of your competitors on their stands along with a button to cycle through all the stands of a specific competitor.

• Story & tutorial: The story is complete, from being a Startup to a Large enterprise. We still have some pacing adjustments to do, but overall, the flow has been implemented and is ready for testing.

• Localisation: integrated the first passes for French, German and Japanese; we are fixing layout issues where the text length expanded.

• Stop all eliminated competitors from acting, as they were still trying to advertise after they were bought out.

• Restore AI worker training/bonuses; fix the “drinks number” occasionally visible on AI stands; tidy up the Competition tab themes.

• Correct goal edge cases (COGS “less than” checks, Research point VFX not showing, accounting day blockers).

• We replaced the user bug reporting system with a new system, which should allow us to receive more detailed reports.

• Continue balancing the Research Tree (costs, pacing, rewards) and the AI.

• Finalise competition cycling toggles and tooltip polish; broaden localisation coverage.

Thanks for testing and sending saves/screenshots, your reports help us prioritise what matters. Join the community, share feedback, and show us your best day-end numbers. 🤗⭐👉 Follow the journey! Join our community here:

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