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Mad Television Tycoon — patch notes and updates

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Update: EA2026-09-12A2026-09-12__ EA2026-09-07A/12A ________________________________________■ It is now possible to set the workday so that it doesn't end until 6 a.m. the next morning. This allows you, for example, to set workdays from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.■ Your TV schedule now calculates combinations. For example, if you air movies with the same IP, the same genre, or the same lead actor one after another, you'll receive a viewer bonus.■ The TV tooltip now also displays the TV channel's level.■ Items in your inventory are now color-coded based on their rarity.■ A new item is available in the store.■ AI can now produce its own movies, TV series, and shows.■ New movies have be
Update: EA2026-07-24A / 09-03A2026-09-03__ EA2026-07-24A / 09-03A ____________________■ You can now produce sequels to movies and new seasons of TV series and shows in the film studio.■ An icon will now appear on the right side of the screen to indicate whether the current TV show is trending or unpopular.■ Film Studio: The subgenre is now factored into the film ratings.■ Film Studio: The actors genre is now included in the film ratings.■ Film Studio: If you select the “Cartoon” genre, some film crews will be disabled, and you can then select the animation studio.■ Film Tooltips: For cartoons, “Voice Actor” is now displayed instead of “Cast Member.”■ Game Options: You can now set t
Update: EA2026-07-10A / 22A2026-07-22__ EA2026-07-10A / 22A ______________________■ Three new genres added (cartoon, erotic and historical film)■ The programme overview tooltip now also displays the number of blocks and highlights the current time in colour.■ (Custom game) The feature where new TV stations are randomly created when a TV station goes out of business now works.■ The game's start menu now includes buttons to set a random name and logo for the TV channels.■ (Custom Game): You can now set the film studio’s production speed.■ (Custom Game): The daily licence fees are no longer linked to the difficulty level, but can be set by the user.■ When you hover the mouse pointe
Update: EA2026-06-19B & 07-08A2026-07-08__ EA2026-07-08A ________________________________________■ Pirated copies now have a condition. The more often you send them, the worse their condition becomes.■ You can now set an infinite amount of money in “Custom Game.”■ The opening hours for the rooms are now displayed as tooltips in the elevator menu. ■ People now watch TV for longer periods of time on the weekend. As a result, viewership ratings are significantly higher late at night on the weekend.■ Added a new random event. (Solar Storm)■ The day is now displayed in the broadcast schedule.■ (Movie tooltip) The rarity descriptions are now easier to read.■ The hotkey is now displayed i
Update: EA2026-06-03A / 18A2026-06-18__ EA2026-06-03A / 18A ___________________________■ You can now enter the store. Three items are already available for purchase.■ (Marketing) A viewer poll can now be launched to find out what the next trend will be.■ (Mod) The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have been added as film production countries.■ To be eligible for an award for your own films, shows and series, the programme must now have been broadcast at least once.■ (Broadcast schedule): You can now hide movies, TV series, and shows that are already in the schedule and rental films.■ You can now filter films and TV series in the programme schedule by “all” age ratings.■ (Film tooltip)
Update: EA2026-05-21A / 28A2026-05-28__ EA2026-05-21A/ 28A _____________________________________■ The TV station’s special genre is now calculated only once at the start of each day. In addition, a message box appears when a new special genre is selected.■ (Random events): Pirated video tapes may now contain a different movie than the one you purchased.■ You can now hide pirated copies in the broadcast schedule.■ If a show is outdated, it now displays 10% actuality instead of 100%.■ Mod: If a screenshot of a movie cannot be loaded, a “No Signal” screenshot will appear on the TV.■ Bug: In the custom game, you could mistakenly set the broadcast time to 25:00.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) I
Update: EA2026-05-15 & 16A2026-05-16__ EA2026-05-15 & 16A ________________________________________■ Your TV station now has a thematic focus. For example, if you often air science fiction content, your station will be classified as a ‘Science Fiction Channel.’ You then receive a 10% audience bonus when broadcasting science fiction movies or series.■ Penalties that are not currently active are now displayed transparently (right side of the screen).■ You can now view the country’s preferred genres and current bonuses in the transmission tower menu and the location tooltip.■ If you enabled automatic repeat for marketing campaigns, you will now receive a message about the costs on
Update: EA2026-05-12 & 13A2026-05-13__ EA2026-05-12 & 13A ___________________________________■ You can now choose screenshots from all other genres in the Film Studio. Note: In older save games, the wrong screenshot may sometimes be displayed.■ (Mod) You can now add your own screenshots to the ‘USER’ folder for use in the Film Studio.■ The AI now replaces low-recency series much more quickly.■ Translation: (Spanish and French) Movie and series titles are now once again displayed in their original English.■ Bug: The detective and the man with the bouquet should no longer enter rooms that are under renovation.■ Bug: Sometimes, the AI was unable to buy new movies and series from t
Update: EA2026-05-11A2026-05-11__ EA2026-05-11A ________________________________________■ (Custom Game): Settings are now saved and automatically loaded when you start a new game.■ Added 4 more ad spots for the endgame that require live events.■ If teleshopping causes an audience penalty, the viewer count no longer drops to 0, but only to 500–1000.■ Bug: If a player waited in front of a closed door and then entered the room, the door animation would not play.■ Bug: If you paused and resumed the game at the start of the day using the Space key, the game speed would be set incorrectly.■ Bug: (Broadcast schedule) If you added movies or commercials to the schedule, you had to
Update: EA2026-05-07A2026-05-07__ EA2026-05-07A ________________________________________■ (Film Studio) You can now choose a subgenre for movies and series.■ If another TV station airs a pirated copy of a film whose original you own, the original’s actuality is now reduced as well.■ Custom Game: When setting the number of transmission towers available at the start, small broadcasting stations are now unlocked first, and only then the large transmission towers.■ News Office: If your archive is full and you try to place a news item into a news slot, a message box will now appear.■ Mods: Movies and series can now be assigned a subgenre ("Subgenre": 0).Notice: In older save ga
Update: EA2026-05-05A2026-05-05__ EA2026-05-05A ________________________________________■ Added ‘Very Hard’ as a new difficulty level.■ Each country now has 5 favorite genres, and those 5 genres are shown in the game start menu.■ Bug: Sometimes, the NPC would sell series that were still scheduled to air. As a result, they could end up getting very high ratings when those series were broadcast.■ Bug: Review texts for self-produced movies and series were sometimes shown outside the UI.
Update: EA2026-05-04A2026-05-04__ EA2026-05-04A ________________________________________■ Viewers reached by transmission towers now have different preferences.■ The messages overview on the left side of the screen has been made slightly smaller so it no longer covers the random event icons.”■ Bug: The elevator menu now closes automatically when you enter a room. This should prevent bugs such as teleporting characters or rooms being marked as occupied.■ Bug: Sometimes, the timers for marketing, satellites, and film shoots would get stuck.■ Bug: If the marketing office was under renovation, automatic marketing would not pause.■ Bug: (News Office) Right-clicking a slot would
Update: EA2026-04-30A2026-04-30__ EA2026-04-30A ________________________________________■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now hide movies, series, and shows that are not 100% actuality or have an age rating of 16 or 18.■ If one TV station goes bankrupt, your ratings now increase by 20%. If two TV stations go bankrupt, your ratings increase by 50%.■ When the detective enters the building, the piracy room is closed.■ (Custom Game): You can now choose how many transmission towers are already purchased when starting the game.■ (Custom Game): You can now disable the age restriction.■ (Database/Mods): The cast database now includes a tag for disabling actors, directors, and present
Update: EA2026-04-26A/24A2026-04-26__ EA2026-04-26A ________________________________________■ “Right-clicking the elevator now opens the elevator menu.■ You can now right-click news items to automatically place them into a slot.■ (Office->Statistics) You can now see the broadcast statistics of rival TV stations.■ You can now adjust the reputation gain/loss value again in the in-game options, since this value was set to 0 in older save games.■ You can now disable the pause animation in the options.■ Balance: (Series) Rerun ratings increased.■ Bug: “If you repeated the last episode of a series, the episode numbering in the schedule was displayed incorrectly.■ Bug: If you reran t
Update: EA2026-04-23A2026-04-23__ EA2026-04-23A ________________________________________■ An episode of a series can now be repeated.■ The audience bonus for news and live events now decreases every minute. The rate at which it declines depends on the film’s potential and actuality.■ The streaming license can no longer be purchased until the feature has been implemented in the game.■ Bug: The detective walked into the locked rooms of TV stations that were already bankrupt.
Update: EA2026-04-22A2026-04-22__ EA2026-04-22A ________________________________________■ The detective no longer arrives at the beginning of the day, but rather during the course of the day.■ (Custom game) You can now adjust the game speed.■ (Custom game) You can now set it so that there is no reputation gain.■ (Languages) Polish have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Live events can now be sorted by "Required Level".■ Advertisements can now be sorted by "Prestige".■ Bug: Sometimes the characters would walk backwards when the game speed was set to maximum.■ Bug: The client was able to change the "Gamespeed (Multiplayer)" set
Update: EA2026-04-21A2026-04-21__ EA2026-04-21A ________________________________________■ (Broadcast schedule) You can now lock all programs in tomorrow’s schedule to automatically carry them over to the following day.■ (Commercials) You now also lose prestige with advertising partners if you go too long without airing a commercial or let a contract expire unsuccessfully.■ (Custom game) The actual end broadcast time is now displayed.■ (Marketing) When automatic repetition is enabled for marketing, there is no longer a delay.■ Bug: If you deleted or added your own production to your inventory immediately after it aired, the broadcast schedule has been changed.■ Bug: If you
Update: EA2026-04-19A2026-04-19__ EA2026-04-19A ________________________________________■ You can now earn prestige with advertising partners. Each level increases your compensation by 5%.■ (Waste Disposal) There is now a button to move all items from your inventory to waste disposal.■ (Languages) Traditional Chinese have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Bug: The same premium movies should no longer keep appearing all the time.■ Bug: (News Market) News items were not correctly sorted by actuality.■ Bug: The genre filters did not display the ‘Music Show’ and ‘Talent Show’ options.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) If the host loaded a save
Update: EA2026-04-18A2026-04-18__ EA2026-04-18A ________________________________________■ News items are now automatically moved to the archive when you add them to your news feed.■ You can now move the news directly from the archive into the news slots.■ Your character now waits in front of closed rooms and automatically enters them once they open.■ Your character now automatically leaves a room when it closes.■ Satellites now take different amounts of time to become active.■ Bug: Short-term ads had several days to be completed successfully.■ Bug: The news penalty for the NPC was calculated incorrectly, so they always got better ratings with news in the late-night slot th
Update: EA2026-04-17A2026-04-17__ EA2026-04-17A ________________________________________■ Marketing campaigns now take varying lengths of time to become active.■ After 2 hours, the player character automatically leaves the room.■ The AI should now behave more intelligently when dealing with news programs.■ Bug: Short-term advertising contracts only came up when the advertising agency was undergoing renovations.■ Bug: When you enter the name of your news program, you can still pause the game by pressing the space bar.■ Bug: If you entered text in the text fields, you could no longer press the space bar to pause the game.■ Bug: Once you opened the lift menu, you could no lon
Update: EA2026-04-16A2026-04-16__ EA2026-04-16A ________________________________________■ Series, shows and news programmes broadcast at the same time as the previous day now attract 10% more viewers.■ Series now offer a 10% bonus at the start and end of the series. In the schedule, this is indicated by a star next to the name.■ News items now have varying levels of actuality and prices. When the day changes, they are no longer automatically set to 50% actuality.■ You can now move your character by holding down the left mouse button.■ (Languages) Turkish and Portuguese (Brazil) have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Bug: If y
Update: EA2026-04-15A2026-04-15__ EA2026-04-15A ________________________________________■ Performance has been significantly improved.■ (Languages) French, Spanish and Russian have been added. Some of these languages are still incomplete and a work in progress.■ Marketing and satellites are activated at the start of the hour, not in the middle of the hour.■ In ‘Custom Game’, you can now enable the ‘Dynamic Ad Deals’ option. This makes the rewards from the ad deals more random.■ The player character's walking speed has been increased.■ All news slots are now unlocked at the start of the game.■ Films that have been sold (and are less than 100% actuality) should no longer app
Update: EA2026-04-14A2026-04-14__ EA2026-04-14A ________________________________________■ There is now a “Continue” button in the main menu to load the latest save game.■ If a room is occupied, your character will wait until it becomes available again and then automatically enter the room.■ The bonus for news and live events is now tied to the difficulty level.■ (Options) Buttons have been added to instantly set all graphics settings to a specific quality level.■ Bug: NPCs were able to level up even though they had already been eliminated.■ Bug: If you disabled an NPC at the start of the game, two crosses were displayed next to their TV name.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Random eve
Update: EA2026-04-13A2026-04-13__ EA2026-04-13A ________________________________________■ Cloud Save Games are now available.■ (Broadcast schedule) Small star icons are now displayed to indicate the suitability of broadcast types and genres.■ In the options (Gameplay), you can now disable notifications for unavailable rooms.■ Bug: It should no longer happen that movies, advertisements, etc., refer to another item in the archive.■ Bug: Fixed some errors in the reputation calculation.■ Bug: Sometimes a room update that you purchased was reset.■ Bug: Sometimes the license for premium movies was unlocked without actually purchasing them. As a result, it was no longer possible
Update: EA2026-04-12A2026-04-12__ EA2026-04-12A ________________________________________■ In “Custom Game,” you can now set the amount of money to 5 or 10 million.■ Mods: The “DATABASE” and ‘GMPL’ folders now contain a “MODS” subfolder for storing modified files.■ An icon will now appear above the TV if you don't have enough viewers to successfully complete the ad.■ Balance: On the pirated market, there are now only movies with a maximum rating of 8.0.■ Bug: (Movies, Cast) Fixed some errors in the database.■ Bug: (NPCs) Purchasing licenses did not work properly.■ Bug: (State Media Authority) The game always displayed the blue player's level instead of the player's own.
Update: EA2026-04-11A2026-04-11__ EA2026-04-11A ________________________________________■ You can now use the WASD keys to look around a bit.■ Depending on the difficulty level, your starting credit is now 0, 100,000, or 200,000.■ You can now disable the detective in “Custom Game.”■ When you load a multiplayer save file, a menu will now appear where you can select your player.■ Balance: The number of viewers for the “Easy” difficulty level is now slightly higher.■ Bug: Once the awards appeared and you closed the menu, you could no longer adjust the game speed using the keyboard.■ Bug: (Movies) Fixed some errors in the database.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The number of commercials
Hotfix: EA2026-04-10A2026-04-10Hotfix: EA2026-04-10A■ A message box no longer appears when you want to delete all messages.■ Bug: The random events that influence license fees (State Media Authority) have not worked.■ Bug: The elevator should no longer teleport when you pause the game.■ Bug: You were able to obtain several pirated copies of a movie.■ Bug: No images were shown on TV during live events.■ Bug: The input should no longer freeze when you try to delete all messages.■ Bug: (Advertising agency) Some text in the Help menu was displayed only in German.■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The daily license costs were not displayed in the Finance tooltip for clients.■ Bug: (Multiplay