Changelog

A concise release history for Architects of Wealth. See What's New for full patch notes.

1. v1.16.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Settings Command Center

   Settings now opens with a clear configuration overview for presentation, simulation, audio, Nebula Radio, and avatar choices, plus a privacy-safe support summary.

   • A new Settings Command Center summarizes the active theme, simulation mode, audio channels, radio station, shuffle, and avatar presentation.
   • Fast simulation modes now clearly explain when routine notifications are batched or summarized.
   • A copyable privacy-safe settings summary helps QA and support without including account, save, financial, or personal data.

2. v1.15.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Collection Command Center

   The Asset Collection now tracks completion, cosmetic value, rarity coverage, recent claims, and locked artifacts while making every collectible easier to find.

   • A new Collection Command Center summarizes claimed and locked artifacts, completion, cosmetic value, rarity coverage, latest claim, and the next locked collectible.
   • Search collectibles by name, description, flavor text, rarity, version, release date, or collection number.
   • Rarity filters now work alongside the existing claimed, locked, and sort controls on both the public collection page and in-game collection tab.

3. v1.14.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Rivals Command Center

   Rivals now turns the living AI economy into actionable competitive intelligence, with stronger company discovery, acquisition pressure, and market-wire search.

   • A new Rivals Command Center summarizes operating companies, combined rival value, strongest competitor, sector reach, concentration, and pending acquisition pressure.
   • Search rival companies by company, CEO, country, sector, or status and combine it with dedicated status filters and existing sort controls.
   • The market wire is now searchable by headline, detail, or event type, with clearer no-result recovery.

4. v1.13.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Shop Command Center

   The Shop now makes beta purchase safety, account ownership, catalog availability, and checkout readiness clear before any transaction can begin.

   • A new Shop Command Center summarizes the visible catalog, owned entitlements, limited editions, and products currently eligible for checkout.
   • Closed-beta mode now explains in multiple places that browsing cannot open checkout or charge the player.
   • Account, ownership, empty-catalog, refresh, and checkout-in-progress states are clearer and recoverable.

5. v1.12.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Ranks, Leagues & Rival Ladders

   Ranks is now a complete competitive progression hub with real global placement, promotion leagues, podiums, nearby rivals, and clearer ways to climb each leaderboard.

   • Your actual global rank now remains visible even when your score falls outside the loaded top-100 leaderboard.
   • Six competitive leagues—from Rising Founder through Architect Prime—turn leaderboard position into a visible promotion journey.
   • A live podium, personal rival ladder, promotion progress, score-gap guidance, player search, and category-specific strategy make Ranks easier to understand and pursue.

6. v1.11.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Empire Archive Command Center

   Timeline now opens with a clearer history overview and a searchable archive that can find old milestones, rivals, companies, and political events.

   • A new Empire Archive Command Center summarizes recorded years, eras, reports, headlines, awards, milestones, and financial peaks.
   • Archive search now covers event titles, details, remembered rival names, company names, and roles.
   • Search and kind filters include clear result counts and one-click recovery when nothing matches.

7. v1.10.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Political Command Center

   Politics now clearly connects political capital, reputation, licenses, active legislation, and the lobbying odds players are actually buying.

   • A new Political Command Center summarizes lobbying readiness, license progress, reputation, and active legislation.
   • The political-capital slider now controls the real lobbying attempt instead of only changing the displayed odds.
   • Disabled license and lobbying actions now explain the missing cash, cooldown time, or political capital.

8. v1.9.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Property Command Center

   Real Estate now provides a clearer portfolio view, smarter upgrade guidance, and a permanent-sale review before any property leaves your empire.

   • A new Property Command Center summarizes resale value, income, upkeep, levels, and portfolio balance.
   • Upgrade opportunities identify what is affordable and which improvement produces the strongest daily-income gain per dollar.
   • Property sales now require a review showing proceeds and the exact daily-income impact.

9. v1.8.0

   Feature2026-07-31

   Nebula Radio Takes the Air

   A living intergalactic radio network now follows your climb with a full music catalogue, era-aware programming, and reactive broadcasts.

   • Nebula Radio now plays a full in-game catalogue with persistent playback controls.
   • Broadcast programming can react to acquisitions and major events in your empire.
   • Radio controls, program selection, volume, and transcripts are available from the game experience.

10. v1.7.0

    Feature2026-07-31

    Portfolio Command Center

    Investments now opens with a clearer command view of portfolio value, returns, income, daily movement, allocation, and concentration risk.

    • A new Portfolio Command Center summarizes the health of your holdings at a glance.
    • See cost basis, total return including dividends, and projected annual dividend income.
    • Track daily movement, best and weakest performers, sector allocation, and diversification.

11. v1.6.0

    Feature2026-07-31

    Bazaar Trading Floor Refinement

    The Bazaar is clearer, safer, and easier to use across desktop and mobile, especially when offers, listings, and server actions get complicated.

    • Clear confirmation steps for accepting offers, cancelling listings, and withdrawing bids.
    • Stronger loading, retry, empty, and disabled states across every Bazaar tab.
    • Safer money formatting and mobile action wrapping throughout the trading floor.

12. v1.5.0

    Feature2026-07-31

    Colonies Charter & Roadmap Refinement

    Colony planning now has clearer comparison tools, safer sale decisions, better filtering, and a more useful expansion roadmap.

    • Keyboard-friendly colony sorting and visible Details actions.
    • A review-and-confirm step now explains the full impact before selling a colony.
    • Improved filters, roadmap progress, mobile actions, and no-results recovery.

13. v1.4.0

    Feature2026-07-31

    Business & Employees Command Pass

    Business ownership, staffing, and merger readiness now communicate requirements and next actions more consistently.

    • Cleaner business actions, disabled reasons, number safety, and mobile card behavior.
    • A stronger Employees hub with clearer roles, filters, readiness signals, and quick hiring tools.
    • Merger staffing and readiness now connect more directly to the employee roster.

14. v1.3.0

    Feature2026-07-25

    Early-Game Climb, Sharper Navigation & Beta Polish

    A clearer path from your first Work Hustle to your first Venture, easier navigation on every screen, and steadier long-run play.

    • A clearer path from Work Hustles to your first Venture.
    • Desktop navigation now includes visible scroll arrows and edge hints.
    • Stability, quality, and backend improvements across the closed beta.

15. v1.2.0

    Feature2026-07-10

    Native Cosmic UI, Cleaner Shell & Audio Refresh

    The game has a new native cosmic interface, cleaner navigation, stronger music, and better beta-ready polish.

    • Native Cosmic UI — unified dark/cosmic visual system with theme-aware panels and cleaner category accents.
    • Cleaner landing page with a transparent cosmic planet brand mark.
    • Shop, Rivals, and Collection now render smoothly inside the game shell as tabs.
    • Three clearer music moods: Cozy Cockpit, Coffeehouse, and Nature Grove.

16. v1.1.0

    Feature2026-06-29

    Living Economy & AI Competitors

    The world no longer waits for you. ~80 AI CEOs now build, trade, lobby, and try to buy you out.

    • Living AI economy with ~80 autonomous CEOs across 12 strategic personalities.
    • Rivals page (🏛) — top companies, market wire, and pending acquisition offers.
    • Government page (⚖) — buy expansion permits and fund legislation.
    • AI rivals can now make cash offers to buy your businesses.
    • Notification inbox + queue so popups never spam during fast-forward.
    • Permanent What's New button in the Main Menu with full update archive.

17. v1.0.0

    Launch2026-06-27

    Public Launch

    Architects of Wealth is live at architectsofwealth.io.

    • 50+ businesses across multiple sectors.
    • Live 60-ticker stock market with sector pulse.
    • Branching quests, colonies, tournaments, and the Bazaar.
    • Cloud saves and cross-device sync.