Welcome, Tinkerers and Tycoons,

to the next big step for Good Company! The final version for our new major update v0.10 "Skills & Happiness" is available. Thanks to your engagement during the beta test, we were able to address a bunch of important issues and polish the update to its current form. Kudos for your support!

With the long-awaited Employee System at its core, Good Company v0.10 has a lot of new things to offer, gameplay and content-wise. Sounds good? Ok then, let's give you a tour!



The new core features will change your experience playing Good Company quite a bit, and we're super excited to see what you make of the new possibilities. So? We won't hold you back if you want to dive in right away! :) But we're happy to share more details with you in our update notes below.

If anything is unclear, you have feedback or encounter issues you want us to look into - please don't hesitate to get in touch with us!

Thank you so much for your support and enjoy Good Company v0.10!

All the best,
Chasing Carrots

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Good Company - update notes v0.10

Please note: When starting 0.10, you need to convert your profile and recreate your character!

Employees

General



This update comes with major improvements that help you better organize your staff. The bigger your company grows, the more important efficient management will get.

Employees wear distinctly colored and designed outfits, depending on their tasks

• Production: dark orange
  
• Research: white
  
• Logistics: green
  
• Couriers: yellow

The new fullscreen Employee Panel keeps track of important details about your staff and helps you manage them (Hotkey: F4)

• On the left, the panel lists all employees, as well as their respective work zone, job, skills, and salary
  
  • You can use multi-selection to assign several employees to work zones or courier routes – or even fire them all at once! (which would be sad)
    
  • The employee list can be filtered for work zone, job, skills, and salary
  
  
• On the right, the Employee Panel lists all workplaces in your company:
  
  • You can quick-hire directly from the workplace overview
    
  • Filtering for zone, job, or assigned employees is available
  
  
• In the center, you can focus on a detail view for a selected employee:
  
  • This view shows you the buff effects for that employee
    
  • Also, you can have them learn skills and list them in the detail view
    
  • A tooltip for the employee's happiness gives you an overview of positive and negative effects
    
  • Last but not least, the inventory of a selected employee can be monitored in this view
  
  

Skills



An essential aspect comes to Good Company. With v0.10, employees will become more experienced while they work, and you can decide for each how you want to develop them.

• Each employee can earn up to 1000 Skill Points while they are actively working
  
• From a wide variety of skills, you can select up to 5 skills per employee, affecting abilities like efficiency, speed, or luck:
  
  • Skill effects will usually accumulate with other skill effects and policy effects
    
  • To have an employee learn a skill, you need to spend Skill Points and Success Points
  
  
• Tables now require certain skills to be operated
  
  • Any employee has the required skill if quick-hired directly to a table, but this costs an additional hiring fee
    
  • A new Freeplay session starts with a basic set of skills and more can be unlocked through Business Development
    
  • At a later point of development, Campaign levels will also incorporate the use of skills
    

Happiness



Another introduction for your employees. The best skills are of no use if your staff isn't happy and you can influence this in many ways.

• Each employee 'feels' a certain level of happiness, which can vary from 0% - 100%. By default, this is set to 50%.
  
• A whole range of circumstances can increase or decrease happiness:
  
  • Decoration versus machines within an employee's work zone
    
  • The setup of a work zone in terms of space and exits
    
  • Temporary effects from firing people, completing research, etc.
  
  
• Employees will occasionally show bubbles above their heads, indicating the response to certain changes/events
  
  • The bubble frequency increases, the stronger happiness is changing
  
  
• Happiness does not instantly change – it slowly increases or decreases towards a new level
  
• Based on their happiness, your employees gain modifiers on their work speed
  
  • Production and research employees get additional grand buffs at 80% or more happiness
  
  
• Based on their individual happiness, each of your employees contributes with -1 to +1 points to the company-wide Happiness Score
  
  • For every +5 Happiness Score points, the company gains 1 Success Point per week
    
  • There is no limit for the Happiness Score
    
  • Currently, there are no punishing effects for negative Happiness Score in the game
    

Other Features

New Content



With Good Company v0.10, we will introduce a large variety of new content, much of which is connected with the new Employee system.

• New Freeplay map
  
  • The map Timber Town is now available in a Summer version
  
  
• New tables in Good Company
  
  • Assembly Table II
    
  • Improves the crafting time of higher tier products
    
    • Can be unlocked through Business Development
  
  
• Assembly Station
  
  • Greatly improves the crafting time of higher tier products
    
  • Can be unlocked through Business Development
  
  
• Analysis Desk II
  
  • Can sample modules with a higher tier than Analysis Desk I
    
  • Can be unlocked through Business Development
    
  • The previous Analysis Desk II is now Analysis Station

New policies that directly affect employee happiness

• Bonus Payment raises wages and increases your employees' happiness
  
• Strict Goals boosts your employees' working speed and decreases their happiness
  
  • This policy is unlocked by the Employee Guidance Project (Business Development)

New skills being introduced along with the new employee system

• 12 table-related skills
  
• 28 crafting skills
  
• 11 assembly skills
  
• 12 analysis skills
  
• 11 research skills
  
• 8 logistics skills

New buff effects affecting the work output of your employees!

• Luck buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis, and research
  
  • It has a chance of n% for the work output to be doubled
  
  
• Spare Parts buff is available for crafting, assembly, analysis
  
  • This has a chance of n% for an input material to be saved during the crafting process

New decorations for your Good Companies

• Corporate Flag with your company logo on it
  
• Corporate Poster with your company logo on it
  
• 4 Slim Room Dividers
  
• 2 Bamboo Room Dividers
  
• A lovely Big Plant
  

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General Updates

• The Business Development now has color codes for specific types of projects
  
• The item order displayed on shelves or other inventories now corresponds with the respective UI slot order
  
• All buildable equipment in the Construction Menu now has an improved order
  

Freeplay Settings

• The difficulty presets for Good Company have been restructured in two directions
  
  • The Management Presets contain the standard Good Company balancing with easy/medium/hard settings
    
  • The Production Presets lean towards more leisurely play with Running Costs removed but are compensated elsewhere
    
  • Please note: [Experimental] or [Cheat] options won’t be affected by any preset
    
    • [Experimental] options will be further tested and might be changed or removed if they don't feel useful
      
    • [Cheat] options make the Good Company significantly easier and avoid the general balancing of the game
    
    
    • Of course, you can also still use custom settings to adjust the game to your playstyle
  
  
• The general options have been changed and expanded on
  
  • Starting Funds: how much money you start a Freeplay session with
    
  • Initial Cost Factor: hiring fees and equipment costs
    
  • Running Cost Factor: wages and upkeep for machines
    
  • [New] Material Costs: buying price for materials
    
  • [Changed] Demands: demands for products and now also for modules
    
  • [Updated] Market Difficulty
    
    • This includes how many product features are expected, feature minima and maxima, that is
      
    • The option also includes selling price adjustments for markets
      
    • Since these factors are dependent on each other, we decided to set them in one option
    
    
  • [Experimental] Market Phase Amount: adjusts the number of total market phases
    
  • [Experimental] Market Pacing: adjusts the required sales until a market phase can be progressed or progresses automatically
    
  • [Experimental] Automatic Market Progression: markets can progress automatically again
    
  • [Experimental] Additional Market Growth: adds additional market phases for products beyond their default range
    
  • [Cheat] Disable Game Over: removes fail conditions in your Freeplay game
    
  • [Cheat] All Buildings Unlocked: gives you free access to all available facilities
  
  

Balancing

• With Good Company v0.10, we are introducing new types of research data
  
  • There are 4 different types of Research Data to be analyzed and used for research
    
  • To yield more advanced data (type II to IV), you need to analyze higher-tiered modules
    
  • Advanced Analysis Desks are required to process higher tier modules
  
  
• There has been a general overhaul of the research costs for technologies and Business Development
  
  • Module technologies and Business Development can require different data types to be unlocked
    
  • Research progress has been slowed down a bit, but it's now easier to scale up your research capacities
  
  
• With the update, there is a restructured Business Development tree
  
  • All nodes in the tree have been arranged into a new layout, where sections are color-coded for an improved overview
    
  • Employee skills are now available for unlocking in the tree
    
  • There have been slight adjustments to the current Business Development progression
    
  • There are now additional nodes for more specialized unlocks and new tables
  
  
• Module crafting times and recipes have been rebalanced
  
  • The basic crafting times have been decreased
    
  • The fastest crafting times have been increased
    
  • Material variety has been reduced in recipes, especially for the early game
    
  • Recipe balancing considers required table skills and additional employee wages
    
  • Machine upkeep is now also considered in the balancing
  
  
• Assembly balancing
  
  • Assembly times now strongly depend on the type of Assembly Tables and are never shorter than an in-game day
    
  • Higher-level products require advanced Assembly Tables in order to reduce the base crafting times
    
  • The additional assembly time per module has been reduced from 1s per slot to 0.5s + 0.5s per slot
  
  
• We made buffs stronger in general
  
  • Buffs from Company Goals have been doubled
    
  • Buffs from Policies increased by ~100%-200%
  
  
• Company Goals have been rebalanced
  
  • The Success Point output of general Company Goals has been reduced
    
  • Success Point rewards from product-related Company Goals have been strongly increased
    
  • Passive Success Point rewards from product-related Company Goals have been rebalanced
    
  • Company Goals that required Research Data I to be generated now evaluate the net worth of the generated points
    
  • Company Goals incorporating specific market phases now have other additional requirements
    
  • This change was necessary to enable a flexible number of market phases
  
  
• Markets in Freeplay mode
  
  • The balancing of markets has been changed to enable a more dynamic development
    
  • Many market aspects can now be modified through the Freeplay settings
    
  • The demands have been cut back for some products
    
  • Discovery Points are now earned more easily by advancing through market phases
    
  • The total amount of discovery points required for unlocking markets has been increased
    
    • The total amount of earned Discovery Points has also been increased, with a shift in the relative Discovery Points yield of the sources
    
    
  • The Freeplay mode now starts with 2 unlocked markets, with all required modules available
    

Challenge balancing

• Challenges general:
  
  • The most recent adjustments are affected by the new crafting time balancing in Good Company v0.10
    
  • Challenge-specific changes have been made on recipes/modules to adjust
  
  
• Challenge 'Smart as a Cup':
  
  • Picking speed is increased by 200%
    
  • Walking speed is decreased by 40%
  
  
• Challenge 'Welfare Survival':
  
  • New features unlocked for the challenge
    
  • Business Development costs reduced by 66%
    
  • Research & Analysis speed increased by 200%
    
  • Double yield from all analysis processes
    
  • Additional Success Points granted as a start bonus
    
  • Challenge-specific employees spawn with additional skill points (100+days*2)
    
  • Market phases give 150% more Discovery Points and require a lot fewer sales
  
  
• Challenge 'Pocket Conquest':
  
  • Challenge Requirements for trophies changed (more days)
    
  • Starting funds increased from 10.000 to 25.000 G
    
  • Happiness has been enabled for this challenge
    
  • Research is increased by 200%
    
  • Analysis speed is decreased by 50%
    
  • Double yield from all analysis processes
  
  
• Challenge 'Money Rush':
  
  • Required money has been increased
    
  • Starting funds have been increased
    
  • Loan amounts have been increased
    
  • Each employee start with 1000 Skill Points
    
  • Your company starts with 2000 Success Points
    
  • All modules are researched