What's new

Stratum Protocol now publishes /world — an open page, no sign-in needed, with the day's world in one place: how many player corporations and businesses are operating, what the exchange is trading, who leads the rankings, and the latest game updates.

Stratum Protocol now publishes /rankings — an open page, no sign-in needed, listing the largest player-run corporations by operating footprint. Standings are compiled once per game day and every figure is a band, never an exact count.

A Distribution Center's Logistics tab used to print every live delivery in one endless list. It now shows 15 at a time, with tabs for in-transit, waiting and delivered orders and filters by resource and depot.

Your companies list now opens with a briefing for the company you were last in: the one thing to do next, what changed, what is due, and who you dealt with. Come back after a few days away and it starts with a summary of the gap.

If your very first project is still in planning, you can now take the whole opening back one time: the project is cancelled, your Business Licence comes back unspent, the builder's deposit is refunded, and a municipal land lease ends with the money you paid to sign it returned.

The last two steps of the guided first business — what to charge and who to hire — now open with a suggested figure and the reasoning behind it, and both stay fully editable.

Once the builders actually start on your guided first business, you get one email with the projected opening time, the game day it lands on, and the single next step — plus a corrected one if the world's speed moves that estimate.

A brand new corporation now opens on a guided First Business path: pick the kind of company you want to run, and the game recommends a city, a starter blueprint, and the leases that are actually listed there right now.

The final review of the build wizard now shows a server-quoted cost of opening the business — priced per currency, with every line stating how firm it is — before the step that consumes a Business License.

Brand Identity and Industrial Design were re-specced to real quality effects, and no technology advertises a brand effect anymore — brand grows only through sales and advertising.

Completed market research reports now include two new estimates: the fair shelf price at which a product starts selling reliably, and the city's total demand for it — both as analyst confidence ranges rather than exact figures.

Production recipes touching the re-weighed consumer goods were rescaled to the new pack units. Every cycle moves the same tonnage as before — the numbers on the recipe card just count packs now.

When a market research study you commissioned finishes, everyone holding a role in the corporation now gets an email pointing straight at the report — no more checking back at the business to see if the analysts are done.

Six food staples and Gasoline had wholesale-era unit weights — a 25 kg pack of Flour, a 40 kg litre of fuel. Each unit now weighs and measures like the pack it represents, so shipping and storing consumer goods is dramatically cheaper.

You now get a notification and an email the moment a production line or service station breaks down completely, and a separate email when one of your buildings stops operating — including the exact reasons why.

The world map now has switchable data layers — GDP, population, corporations, tax revenue, and natural resources — and every country shows its mineral deposits and biomes, so you can find where rare resources exist.

Founding your third corporation, taking a board seat, backing a party with a business you run — the rare ones now make the Newswire, under a new Milestones filter. Login streaks deliberately never do.

Pro members claim a second reward every day: extra licences that run for 30 days, and crest ornaments you keep for good. Capacity and looks only — never an edge in the simulation.

Corporations can now combine all valid owned and rented office space in the HQ city, so several buildings or suites can meet one capacity requirement. The primary office still defines the legal address and payroll jurisdiction, while offices in other cities remain separate.

Claim a reward every day you return. Cash, production boosts, mystery Jokers, and Stratum Pro at day 7, 14 and 60 — with a preview of what keeping the streak buys you.

Corporations can now resell vacant owned parcels through binding player auctions, returning useful land to the market instead of leaving it idle.

Stores, restaurants, and hotels can now run local campaigns, while shelf-product research and staffed Business Analysts—with double Pro concurrency—turn HQ into a real operating advantage.

Each installed production line now adds the blueprint's storage module as well as throughput, so expanded sites have room to support their extra work.

HQ and R&D teams now need real office capacity, while city-priced public supply and player landlords keep expansion practical.

Your repair threshold is finally honoured. A worn line is serviced the moment it falls idle instead of running until it breaks, so repairs cost less and cost you less downtime.

Stratum Protocol now speaks German and Brazilian Portuguese. The language is picked from your browser automatically, and you can change it any time from Account → Language or the flags on the landing page.

The carrier picker now lists every feasible route the planner evaluated — with price, ETA, transfer nodes, and carriers — not just the winner of the selected strategy.

Every currency pair on the Forex screen now carries standing treasury bids and asks, so you can always convert between any two currencies at a small spread around the market rate.

A carrier can only take road orders in cities where it operates a Distribution Center or a warehouse. Build warehouses from the new Logistics → Warehouses tab to open new cities; national carriers hold a depot everywhere as the universal-service backstop.

Road hauls take realistic time so flying wins long distances, air and sea shipments are billed only their share of the vehicle's fuel, expected consolidation waits are halved, and quotes no longer propose token flights that drive the continent anyway.

Shipments depart and land the minute they can and update live on screen, bulk provisioning can source any material from your own warehouses, shipping quotes are dramatically faster, and service shops gain the Auto-repair button.

Paused automations now email you with the reason and a direct link, related updates arrive grouped instead of one-by-one, a daily Newswire briefing covers what you follow, and every email type can be muted from Account → Email Notifications or the one-click unsubscribe link.

Every city with a real-life airport now has one in the game, sized to match — over 400 airfields, regional airports and international hubs opened worldwide.

Every airport and seaport charges a daily usage fee per hangar or anchorage unit your fleet occupies — each port defines its own rate, paid to the port's operator.

All 34 upgrade modules now have a producing blueprint — the 21 that could only be bought from finite seeded exchange stock are manufacturable at themed factories.

Local market benchmarks will soon include the real cost of hauling goods from the national exchange, so remote towns pay more — and remote shops can finally compete.

Fair, population-sized business competitions now sit beside a followable feed of public world events.

HQ Financials now compares closed game-day periods, follows the same profit calculation as corporate tax, and gives land, buildings, inventory, and obligations a more reliable book view.

The R&D workspace now presents the operating loop more clearly, while the shared researcher market is replenished from unemployed university graduates.

Produced goods' base cost per unit now also carries a prorated slice of the building's own construction cost, amortized over 360 game days — alongside the existing inputs, payroll, land rent, and production tax.

Topsoil, access, utilities, terrain, and environmental conditions now provide explicit business-specific trade-offs.

Blueprint-specific zoning, usable rental buffers, and economy-aware municipal prices make choosing land more predictable.

Rental listings and purchase auctions now draw from the same finite municipal land stock, with clearer city capacity and predictable releases.

A new Pro automation on every business's Staff tab: flip Auto Hire on and the venue keeps every position's hire target maxed — including seats added later by expansions — without another visit to the tab.

Resource details are available throughout the game, and the Manufacturer Guide's building catalog now has the same search, filtering, and pagination tools as its production-route catalog.

Payroll and corporate taxation now distinguish national and municipal shares, while preserving the existing combined default burden.

Three game days before every national election, players with a corporation in the country get an email and an in-app alert reminding them to cast their party vote.

The new Manufacturer Guide lets players search every production, extraction, harvest, and service recipe by its output, ingredients, facility, and cycle time.

Navigation, markets, corporation workflows, and account tools now adapt cleanly from phones to large desktops while keeping game time, corporation balance, and local currencies visible.

Crop farms and livestock ranches get four upgrades of their own — irrigation, feeders, a combine, and a climate-controlled barn — raising yield per production cycle by up to 18%.

Eleven new building upgrades give hotels, restaurants, construction yards, and mines small and large options that move their key numbers — guest and diner appeal, kitchen throughput, build speed, and ore yield.

Recipe rows now show your real per-order cost (from what your venue actually paid for its ingredients) and the average price other venues in your city charge — while the internal "fair price" oracle is gone.

Build times across 30 blueprints were compressed onto a consistent curve — mid-tier businesses like the Supermarket and Distribution Center finish two to three times faster, and nothing takes longer than 14 game days.

A step-by-step illustrated guide now walks you from founding your first corporation to serving your first customer — every screenshot taken from a real playthrough.

System buyers and Auto Supply now refuse asks priced far above the market's recent trading average — gouging the forced buyers no longer works.

Dining venues now draw a population-scaled stream of walk-in diners — no longer dependent on shelf-product demand for visitors.

Construction-for-hire now pays service tax on delivered labour, and yard transaction feeds show every delivered contract.

Build contracts now draw fuel and tools from stock at your Construction Yard itself — not from your whole corporation's inventory.

Raise individual employees or the whole team from the staff pages — and payroll now bills the salaries your people actually earn.

Delivery vans now have real capacity — small orders pay only their share of a van trip, and orders heading the same way ride together.

Your first corporation now starts with 100,000 in founding capital, and new businesses hire their full staff automatically.

New founders get a live checklist on the Corporations page that tracks the road from incorporation to first revenue, with a shortcut to the next step.

Corporate tax now covers every income stream — freight, build contracts, tuition, B2B sales, and rents — and establishment pages show the full transaction history.

Six new Distribution Center upgrades cut fuel burn, speed up hauls, and add delivery capacity — and carrier auto-selection now weighs delivery time, not just price.

Every shipment now bills a fuel surcharge for the litres it actually burns, at the market gasoline price — carrier rate cards are pure freight margin.

A new Shut down action on the establishment page winds a business down properly: staff dismissed with severance, inventory shipped or sold, and the lease rescinded or kept for your next venture.

A hired build only enters the yard's active queue once the customer's materials are on site — and jobs that are ready jump ahead of ones that aren't.

Order size now consumes real delivery capacity, big orders can split across multiple carriers, and every supply screen shows a live delivery estimate.

Every supply and transfer flow now lets you pick the shipping company — and national carriers bill 2× everywhere, so player-owned logistics undercut them.

Owners can now invite players as corporation officers with role-based permissions — and destructive corporate actions are owner-only.

Party founders can now invite other players to co-manage their party — co-founders get full control of the party and any government it wins.

Logistics moved into the Distribution Center building, and depots now need a Delivery Van fleet — a shortage cuts delivery capacity.

Every transaction on your corporation's HQ page now says what it was for — payroll, rent, maintenance, shipping, taxes and more — with a plain-language description, a category filter, and a cash-flow-by-category breakdown.

Two new email alerts so you don't have to keep checking: when a government changes a tax that affects you, and when permits you're watching open for auction.

A government can now commission a Distribution Center — built through the normal construction lifecycle — to add a depot to the public carrier it runs.

Auto-repair now covers hotel rooms and delivery depots, not just factory lines and service stations — and worn depots can finally be repaired at all.

Every NPC logistics carrier is now owned by a public entity — city operators by their municipal government, national flagships by the national treasury — and the government can run them.

A sitting government can now hold, scale, or re-price the weekly extraction-permit auctions in the regions it governs.

A sitting government can issue municipal or national bonds at an interest rate it sets, raising money from the open market — funded only by willing buyers, never auto-purchased by banks.

Governments now build education and housing as well as civic works, managed right inside the Government page with the same construction lifecycle as your own companies.

Loan quotes now surface only the best grade you qualify for at the requested amount, with rates priced to the loan size. A default follows you across every company you own — it raises your rates and can lock you out of a bank for a cooldown — so you can't shed a bad record with a fresh corporation.

Managed parties and each government you control now have a Treasury view, a paginated Transactions ledger, and a current-day spend figure, so you can track every flow of public money.

Governments commission civic buildings — parks, libraries, hospitals, museums, stadiums, monuments — funded by the treasury. Each builds through the normal construction lifecycle (supply materials, hire a crew) and, once complete, raises the prosperity and consumer demand of its host city; national works lift the whole country.

A governing party sets tax rates for the country or city it controls (capped at 60%) for the duration of its term. The ruling party is now shown on the country and city economy screens.

Found a political party, recruit functionaries, run campaign projects, and contest 30-day elections. Win the national or a municipal vote and your party takes office.