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Bug Fixes:

[fix]Fixed incorrect coordinate calculations (Lat/Lon) for values near the 180° limit.
[fix]Fixed a bug where police would disappear in Hamburg above latitude 57.104.
[fix]Corrected a visual bug where merchant ships would leave a "black dot" on the map after loading a sea save if ...

Technical & Optimization

[add]Massive Load Speed Increase: Faster game startup and loading times by skipping redundant IFF_PERMANENT reloading if the game was already running.
[add]Chip RAM Optimisation: Significant memory management improvements.
[add]Optimised File Verification: Faster CRC ...

Gameplay

General

[add]Licence "Transporter".
[add]New "Passengers" tab on the lower panel.
[add]Increased resource deposits by 10% relative to contract requirements (previously too tight).
[add]Expanded police patrols/checks within cities.
[add]Police inspections now check for ...

The upcoming big update to version 0.99.00 will bring the following:

Main Features

New city location: Terminal .

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(The Terminal background currently features an original preliminary sketch; the final pixel art version is being finished and will replace it in the ...

0.98.74 [22.11.2025]
[fix]Fixed the black upper part of the screen after coming back from in-game options.
[fix]Contract plate in the market is no longer partially cleared by the "Local prod." label.
[fix]Contract tonnage adjustment in the market. The new mouse handling caused longer button presses ...

0.98.72— 0.98.73 [20.11.2025]
[fix]Opening the lower panel during an ongoing chat with an NPC would disable the mouse click zones and prevent selecting an answer (key shortcuts remained unaffected).
[fix]Pressing the escape key in the PIP window would crash the game.
[add]Added an extra check for ...

Very impressive analysis! It's incredible how thorough this information is. There are some small discrepancies, but mostly it's a compendium of very useful knowledge. That's ironic, but you reminded me of a much broader use of PERCEPTION. For that reason, I modified my previous post.

Update: This isn't the only area, but I just stumbled upon the pirate fight code and noticed that PERCEPTION is used alongside NAVIGATION to avoid harpoon hits. Of course, a comprehensive list will be created, but in the meantime, this will have to do.

It wasn't easy to decide at which point the attribute level should stop. It took a lot of time to test different facets of the gameplay to see the impact of each attribute, but eventually, it was balanced along the way. 11th level may not seem too high, but scaling it up would bring imbalance to the ...

That's correct, 11th level is the upper limit of an attribute the player can invest.
Skill effects are vast and it won't be an easy tasks to list but we'll do it at some point.