v1.1.0.0

Changelog

Version 1.1.0.0 is a major feature, interface, multiplayer and code-structure update. It replaces the former ESC-menu page with a dedicated personnel-management interface, expands applicants and long-term employee development, adds detailed statistics and chronicles, introduces player-defined transport priorities and central salary-request management, and strengthens multiplayer security and server-side validation.

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Major interface changes

• Replaced the previous Personnel Management page inside the ESC menu with a dedicated standalone menu.
• Added the default shortcut Left Ctrl + M to open Personnel Management directly.
• Added five separate menu pages:
  • Overview
  • Applicants
  • Employees
  • Training
  • Settings
• Added a consistent tabbed GIANTS-style interface with dedicated navigation icons.
• Reworked page navigation, person selection and action handling for keyboard, mouse and controller use.
• Added clear confirmation dialogs for hiring, dismissal and training.
• Improved input isolation so Enter or other menu actions no longer trigger unrelated actions on another page or after closing a dialog.
• Enlarged employee and applicant portraits.
• Added clearer spacing, headings, tables and scroll handling throughout the menu.
• Added numeric values and dynamic progress bars for experience, reliability, loyalty and training progress.
• Added visible employee ranks directly next to their values:
  • Helper
  • Skilled Worker
  • Professional
• Added a dedicated overview illustration and revised menu visual assets.
• Removed the obsolete applicant-history area from the applicant page.
• Reworked the employee history area into clearly separated visual panels.

Overview page

• Completely redesigned the Overview page.
• Added a current monthly report containing, among other values:
  • number of employees
  • available employees
  • applicants
  • active jobs
  • recorded work time
  • current monthly wage total
  • last payroll amount
• Added a separate lifetime-total section.
• Added farm-wide long-term statistics for:
  • total recorded work time
  • total completed jobs
  • total salaries paid
  • total employees ever hired
  • dismissals
  • resignations
  • retirements
• Improved the presentation of currently working employees and recent personnel changes.
• Added clearer display of employer reputation.

Applicant market

• Increased the applicant-market capacity to a maximum of eight applicants.
• New savegames now begin with three applicants.
• Added employer-reputation-based monthly applicant generation.
• Added up to three monthly applicant-slot rolls.
• Ensured that at least one applicant is generated when the market is empty.
• Added a persistent market-age system for applicants.
• Applicants remain guaranteed during their creation month.
• Added quality-based departure chances:
  • after the first month change: 10–30%
  • after the second month change: 30–50%
  • after the third month change: guaranteed departure
• Added visible information showing how long each applicant has been on the market.
• Added permanent birthdays and continued ageing for applicants.
• Added more believable age ranges and career histories.
• Added career backgrounds such as:
  • family farm
  • dairy farm
  • agricultural contractor
  • arable farm
  • mixed farm
  • logistics company
  • agricultural machinery workshop
  • office profession
• Rebalanced starting experience so a career background does not automatically create unrealistically high agricultural skill.
• Expanded multilingual first-name and surname pools.
• Added dynamic applicant-profile text based on:
  • age
  • career background
  • experience
  • reliability
  • loyalty
  • specialization progress
  • time on the applicant market
• Improved applicant wage requests through reputation, quality and career-related calculations.
• Added a hiring confirmation before the applicant is employed.

Employee profiles and long-term records

• Added permanent birthdays and continued ageing for employees.
• Added dynamic employee biographies that develop from the employee’s actual history.
• Added profile text for:
  • employment duration
  • career background
  • experience level
  • reliability
  • loyalty
  • completed jobs
  • completed training
  • specializations
  • current learning progress
• Corrected profile grammar and career-background sentence construction.
• Added a personal employee chronicle.
• Chronicle events can now include:
  • hiring
  • job start
  • job completion
  • job abort
  • sickness
  • training start
  • training completion
  • acquired specialization
  • salary request
  • accepted salary increase
  • declined salary increase
  • reliability changes
  • loyalty changes
  • transport assignment changes
  • dismissal
  • resignation
  • retirement
  • final employment end
• Added compact employee career statistics for:
  • completed jobs
  • total work time
  • training history
  • transport status
  • sick days
  • salary requests
  • aborted jobs
  • total salary paid to that employee
• Added migration support for employees that existed before personal chronicles were introduced.

Experience, ranks and work effects

• Rebalanced experience progression to make high values a long-term achievement.
• Reduced the frequency of unrealistically high starting experience values.
• Added more detailed experience bands and learning-time requirements.
• Added monthly experience limits based on:
  • current experience
  • days-per-month setting
• Preserved unused learning minutes instead of discarding progress.
• Limited experience gain per individual job.
• Improved calculation of effective experience.
• Main and secondary specializations now improve effective experience in the matching work category.
• Retained configurable effects on:
  • AI work speed
  • additional wear
  • fuel consumption
  • seed consumption
  • fertilizer consumption
  • herbicide consumption
  • slurry, digestate and manure consumption
• Improved display of exact values alongside progress bars.

Reliability, sickness and job aborts

• Expanded reliability-related monthly development.
• Added clearer positive and negative monthly reliability conditions.
• Retained reliability-based sickness checks and monthly sickness limits.
• Added a one-time job-abort check for employees with reliability below 50.
• Added graduated abort chances:
  • below 20 reliability: 20%
  • below 30: 15%
  • below 40: 10%
  • below 50: 5%
  • 50 or higher: 0%
• A reliability-related abort no longer counts as a successfully completed assignment.
• Added chronicle entries for aborted jobs.
• Added varied, gender-aware player messages explaining why an unreliable employee stopped working.

Loyalty and employer reputation

• Expanded the interaction between employee loyalty and employer reputation.
• Added gradual loyalty movement toward the farm’s reputation.
• Expanded loyalty effects from:
  • successful payroll
  • negative farm balance
  • long employment duration
  • night work
  • accepted salary requests
  • declined salary requests
  • unresolved salary requests
• Expanded employer-reputation effects from:
  • hiring
  • payroll
  • negative balance
  • long service
  • accepted salary requests
  • dismissals
  • resignations
• Employer reputation now has a stronger visible influence on:
  • number of new applicants
  • applicant quality
  • requested wages
  • long-term employee loyalty
• Added clearer reputation tiers and overview display.

Salaries and salary requests

• Added an editable Standard monthly wage to the Settings page.
• The standard wage is used when individual wages are disabled.
• Added direct numeric entry with validation, rounding and clear minimum/maximum limits.
• Prevented Enter in the wage-entry field from triggering unrelated personnel actions.
• Preserved permanent salary increases instead of allowing them to be overwritten by later monthly calculations.
• Expanded total salary tracking per employee and per farm.
• Added a dedicated Manage salary requests button to the Employee page.
• Added the default shortcut G to open salary-request management.
• Added a dedicated salary-request window listing every employee with an open request.
• The window displays:
  • employee name
  • current monthly salary
  • requested monthly salary
• Salary requests can now be granted or declined from this central window.
• Removed the previous direct profile shortcuts that immediately granted or declined the selected employee’s request.
• Removed the former direct G / N / X decision workflow.
• Retained all existing consequences for accepted, declined and unresolved salary requests.
• Retained server-side validation of salary decisions in multiplayer.

Specializations

• Expanded practical learning across eight categories:
  • soil cultivation
  • sowing
  • fertilizing
  • crop protection
  • harvesting
  • transport
  • machine care
  • economical working
• Learning progress is stored separately for each category.
• Multiple learning categories can progress in parallel.
• Added clearer display of the strongest current learning progress.
• Limited employees to a maximum of two acquired specializations.
• Added separate requirements for the first and second specialization.
• Added primary and secondary specialization effects.
• Improved assignment classification and practical-learning distribution.
• Added specialization events to the personal chronicle.

Training

• Added a dedicated Training page.
• Added a table showing:
  • training category
  • progress toward the next specialization
  • cost
  • monthly discount or extra cost
• Added monthly training availability per category.
• Each category can be unavailable because no places are offered that month.
• Added monthly price variation from 20% cheaper to 20% more expensive.
• Retained the rule of one training course per employee per agricultural year from March through February.
• Retained first-day-of-the-month restrictions.
• Retained the noon deadline when playing with one day per month.
• Employees remain unavailable until the end of the training month.
• Training progress is now credited only after successful completion at the month change.
• Added clear information dialogs when training is unavailable or already used for the current agricultural year.
• Prevented training when the employee is working, sick or already has two specializations.
• Added training confirmation dialogs.
• Added training start and completion to the personal chronicle.

Dismissal, resignation and retirement

• Added clearer dismissal deadlines based on the days-per-month setting.
• Added confirmation before dismissing an employee.
• Dismissed employees remain employed and generally available until the effective month end.
• Retained payroll before the employee leaves.
• Expanded loyalty, reliability and employer-reputation consequences of dismissal.
• Improved dismissal-history tracking.
• Expanded employee-initiated resignation handling for very low loyalty.
• Added clearer resignation notices and chronicle entries.
• Added a retirement system.
• Employees may announce retirement from age 55 onward.
• Retirement probability rises with age and becomes guaranteed at age 70.
• Employees remain available until the announced retirement at month end.
• Added retirement status, notices, statistics and chronicle entries.

AI helper selection and FollowMe

• Reworked the employee-selection overlay shown before normal AI helper work.
• Improved visual consistency with the dedicated personnel menu.
• Improved employee names, status display and selection handling.
• Prevented unavailable, sick, training or already assigned employees from being selected.
• Improved input handling to avoid accidental confirmation from unrelated keys.
• FollowMe continues to use named employee selection.
• FollowMe work is recorded as transport work for experience and specialization development.
• Improved handling of several simultaneous employee jobs.

Transport management and priorities

• Replaced the former per-employee transport toggle with a dedicated transport-management window.
• Added the default shortcut T to open transport management from the Employee page.
• Added a list of all employed workers.
• Employees can be enabled or disabled for transport work.
• Added a player-defined transport priority order.
• Active transport employees are displayed with numbered positions.
• Employees can be moved up or down in the order.
• Changes are first edited locally and applied only when confirmed.
• For every new transport job, the mod now checks the saved order from top to bottom.
• The first currently available employee is selected.
• If the highest-priority employee is unavailable, the next available employee is used.
• Added savegame persistence for transport priority.
• Added deterministic migration of old transport assignments into the new priority system.
• Added multiplayer synchronization and server-side validation of the complete ordered employee list.
• Removed the obsolete additional manual transport input-registration path.
• Removed repeated warnings about failing to register the old transport input action.
• Removed the previous direct T-based toggle of the currently selected employee.
• Fixed the transport window so the underlying employee page is no longer drawn through it.
• Made the transport window fully opaque.
• Removed the unwanted outer frame around the transport window.
• Fixed Enter so applying transport changes no longer opens the dismissal confirmation afterward.

Settings

• Moved personnel settings into the dedicated Settings page.
• Divided settings into clearer groups:
  • Work performance
  • Personnel development
  • Economy and wages
• Added per-savegame information and multiplayer permission notices.
• Retained host/server authority over multiplayer settings.
• Added the editable standard monthly wage.
• Improved button and numeric-entry handling.
• Fixed cross-page Enter handling that could trigger actions belonging to another page.

Multiplayer and network security

• Strengthened farm-specific multiplayer synchronization.
• Added stricter server-side validation for personnel decisions.
• Personnel actions now fail closed if the client’s actual farm cannot be resolved (special thanks @KeilerHirsch)
• The requested farm must match the client connection’s farm.
• Vehicle ownership must match the authorized farm where applicable.
• The player must be positively identified as a farm manager.
• Unknown or ambiguous permission states are no longer treated as authorized.
• Consolidated farm and farm-manager authorization into the canonical server path.
• Removed a later authorization wrapper that could obscure which implementation was active.
• Added upper bounds for all relevant network array counts.
• Protected farm, employee, applicant, assignment, history and personal-chronicle arrays against maliciously large client-supplied lengths (special thanks @KeilerHirsch)
• Added a total network-read budget for a complete synchronized state.
• Invalid, negative or excessive network counts now discard the state instead of entering a potentially blocking loop.
• Increased the internal network-state version to 18 for transport-priority data.
• Retained compatibility reading for older version-17 states.
• Existing savegames remain usable.

Savegame and migration

• Expanded persistent employee and applicant data with:
  • birthday and age information
  • career background
  • applicant market duration
  • personal chronicle
  • long-term statistics
  • total salary paid
  • retirement state
  • transport priority
• Applicant markets continue to be stored per farm and are not regenerated simply because the savegame is reloaded.
• Added migration and fallback handling for older employees without the new history fields.
• Added deterministic migration for previously assigned transport employees.
• Preserved existing employee, applicant, assignment, wage and configuration data.
• Historical values that did not exist in older saves cannot always be reconstructed for employees who had already left the farm.

Localization, documentation and assets

• Expanded localization from 207 to 487 keys per language file.
• Updated all visible text in all 21 supported language files.
• Added complete localization for the new menu pages, profiles, chronicles, statistics, transport priorities, salary requests, training offers, confirmations and status messages.
• Replaced the short former ReadMe with a detailed 21-page multilingual player guide.
• The guide is available in:
  • German
  • English
  • French
• Added detailed explanations of player-visible rules and calculations.
• Added an updated ModHub icon, store asset and overview artwork.
• Cleaned up GUI textures and replaced problematic assets that caused warnings or visual defects.

Code structure and maintenance

• Replaced the old single-frame GUI structure with separate standalone-menu classes and pages.
• Consolidated many duplicate method definitions that existed in 1.0.3.0.
• Centralized network serialization and state handling.
• Removed obsolete or misleading parallel implementations in the affected areas.
• Removed several mod-internal wrapper chains and integrated their logic into canonical methods.
• Separated GUI, business logic, networking, authorization and persistence more clearly.
• Removed Lua comments from the maintained Lua files in accordance with the project rules.
• Improved static validation of Lua, XML, file references, localization keys and ZIP structure.

Fixes and polish

• Fixed accidental Enter actions across menu pages and dialogs.
• Fixed Enter in the transport dialog triggering dismissal confirmation.
• Fixed visual overlap between the transport dialog and the employee page.
• Removed the unwanted transport-dialog frame.
• Fixed repeated transport-input registration warnings.
• Fixed several text-color call issues that could produce Lua errors.
• Replaced problematic DDS assets and cleaned up texture warnings in the Personnel Management interface.
• Fixed rank placement and spacing around wage and status lines.
• Improved scrollbars and clipping on long pages.
• Improved monthly-report and history readability.
• Corrected profile grammar, pronouns and career-background phrasing.
• Removed obsolete applicant-history localization and display code.
• Added clearer no-data, unavailable and permission messages.

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Compatibility notes

• Multiplayer is supported and personnel data remains farm-specific.
• Existing 1.0.3.0 savegames remain usable.
• Network-state version is 18.
• AutoDrive and Courseplay are not integrated by this release.
• FollowMe remains supported through the employee-selection workflow.