After a fiasco of a launch, we have worked hard these past weeks to make the game what it should have been on day one. Plenty has happened. Among other things, the back end should now be much more resilient against errors.

If you have been active, you have certainly noticed. But here are some of the changes so far:

• Added an option to settle with leaving investors cash-first

• Nicer domain address for web links

• Added log messages for investment targets

• Fixed and implemented some new top lists (more to come)

• Added buttons to change order sizes

• Added clear indicators when buttons are inoperable

• Added clear indicator when orders are locked

• More useful information is visible in order creation windows

• Enforced clear limits on duplicate or disallowed orders

• Allowed some common special characters in fund names (' $)

• Clearer language in many places

• Clarified and updated the detailed trading rules

• Current holdings are now ordered alphabetically

• Increased the default limit price to +/- 20%

• Normalized sound effect volume

• Fixed a clock drift issue on some machines

• And numerous other polishes, bug fixes, and back-end changes

And one of the major changes, that old players certainly noticed, is the names. Using fictional names for the securities was an idea as old as the game. We thought it would "gamify" the experience, and that the names would be clear enough not to hinder play. In practice, it was a hassle, and not a good choice. It held back the experience. This became clear very quickly. The option still exists, but from now on, we'll just use the standard names.

There is still plenty to be done, and work is in full swing. Now, however, the game is finally starting to feel the way it should have from the beginning. It should offer a smooth management experience. Over the next few weeks, we will make progress on the back end to ensure the smooth operation of complicated market features such as performance fees, dividends, and stock splits. This will be accompanied by front-end polish. Then, we plan to offer more options for how your hedge fund appears online, including a custom free-form description and a customizable number of visible top holdings.

We've had persistent problems with updating some stock prices. That has been a problem with the API we use for data, and it never seems to work perfectly. We're moving to a completely new system soon, to hopefully finally have reliable updates.

Wishing you fun and success on your continued investing journey!

As some of you have noticed, we have still experienced some technical difficulties and missed some trading events. The upcoming larger update will make the system much more resilient.

Ideally, these errors would never occur, or at most once per year. This has been unacceptable, and we know it.

Once the game leaves early access, it must be rock solid. However, we should reach that point much sooner and we will do everything we can to make it happen.

While the next update will focus primarily on the user interface and reliability, some new features are also coming soon.

• The option to pay leaving investors "cash first" is coming in the next update.

• You can soon write a short, free-form text to your fund that will be visible on the web card and in-game.

• You will be able to customize the number of top holdings shown on the web card, so you can showcase as much of your fund as you like.