Beta 2.3.1

A bunch more stuff and now available in a Windows compatible executable! (I hope)

• Managers (both the Manager Robot and a Farm Manager) have a new Surplus setting with three choices:
  • Manual: you handle surplus goods and the Surplusoton yourself (the default).
  • Sell to the Surplusoton: whenever the Surplusoton comes, the manager sells it every legal good in the sheds and trailers.
  • Donate leftovers: each night the manager delivers the planet's request and sells what the traders will buy, then gives the rest of the sheds' legal goods to the planet's food drive. It keeps whatever the planet's request still needs.
• Managers have a new Approve days off setting. With it on, workers get the day off when they ask, without asking you. A Farm Manager's own requests still come to you.
• The nightly report says what the manager gave to the food drive and who it gave a day off.
• The player's handbook describes both new settings.
• New visitor: Barx, a farmer from the farming coalition. Once you own 5 farms he invites you to join.
  • Members get 10% off farming supplies: seeds, water delivery, pesticide and Animal Feed. Managers buying for you get the discount too.
  • The coalition asks members for crops, a request at a time. It collects each crop overnight once a farm has the whole amount, and pays minimum market value. Barx brings each new request.
  • Go 60 days without a crop collected and you're thrown out for good. The night report warns you near the end.
  • Managers keep what the coalition still needs instead of selling it or giving it away.
  • The market's Planet tab shows the coalition's request and how many days you have left.
  • Turn Barx down and he asks again later.
• After 90 days as a member, Barx offers a seat on the coalition's board. Turn it down and he asks once more, 180 days later.
• Board members vote on motions Barx brings every few weeks, each about a different part of the galaxy:
  • Forgiving new farmers' land-lease debts (1,000 nibs to vote yes).
  • Building food distribution centers (2,000 nibs to vote yes).
  • Sending a major food package to a disaster zone (yes doubles the coalition's next 10 requests).
  • How you vote changes what the people of every planet think of you, or what the coalition thinks of you.
• New visitor: Jymo, from the Deluxe Luxury Company. Once you own 10 farms he offers you the Void Yacht for 200,000 nibs.
  • "Maybe later" brings him back every 15 days, or as soon as you can afford it.
  • Buying the yacht doesn't sit well with the people of any planet.
• The Void Yacht is a boat-shaped second home docked at your Personal Space Base:
  • It has a sun deck, a grand saloon, a games room and a bow lounge.
  • Buttons on the top bar take you aboard and back.
  • It has its own store, with a sun lounger, potted palm, cocktail bar, hot tub, grand piano and star projector.
  • The store also sells three new arcade cabinets: Minesweeper, Moon Maze and Asteroid Belt.
• Jymo later comes back now and then with a luxury, for the base or the yacht:
  • A White Gelatinous Goat in a cage, 50,000 nibs, one only. Owning it doesn't sit well with the people of any planet.
  • A 3×3 Beef Beetle Shell Rug, 20,000 nibs, in a different pattern each time.
  • A 3×5 Woolbug Wool Rug, 10,000 nibs, in a different colour each time.
  • If you own the yacht you choose where each one goes. Pick it up with 7 and press Space to send it to the other place.
• The cheat menu has a new Games tab that plays every arcade game and repair puzzle. Its Visitors tab can bring Barx's invitation, board seat or motion, and Jymo's offers.
• The handbook covers the coalition, the board, Jymo, the Void Yacht and its games.

Beta 2.2.1

Companion planting (hidden)
Every crop now has a companion: the crop with the most similar needs. A plant with a living companion on any of the 8 tiles around it grows 1.2 times as fast, and its harvest is a little better. This isn't shown in the game or the player's handbook.

Planet opinion
Turning the Surplusoton away raises the planet's opinion of you a little, but only when it offered to buy something.
A new Food drive section in Market > Planet gives away every legal good in your sheds. Illegal goods and trailer contents stay. The more the goods are worth, the more the planet's opinion of you rises.

Awards
New award, Kindest Heart: donate to a food drive 10 times. Progress shows in the Awards tab.

New visitors
Two people now visit, made from Kenney character parts. They walk in instead of rolling in.
Kyrn, Local Representative (a man in a suit) comes once, 3 days after you have both sold a Farmoton and hired a farm hand, in either order. If you agree, he replaces the Liaisonoton on every planet. In older saves, a Farmoton already sold or a hand already hired counts as happening on the day you load.
The Smuggler (hat, coat and satchel) comes every 20 to 45 days on each farm. He offers 5 to 15 of one illegal good at 10 to 20 percent under base price, and never shows the discount. You can only buy as many as fit in that good's shed. Two typos in his speech were fixed ("basement prices", "quite a profit").

Beta 2.2.0

I've added so much and forgot to release any stuff in between like I swore I would, so I can't even begin to list the stuff. There's just a lot of stuff. Play the game and find out.

Beta 2.0.3

• Change the name of the Planet Local tab to just Planet.
• Increase the time fish can go without food to 14 days.
• Combine the Pome and Drupe cateogries and shed into one, taking the Drupe Shed away and giving the player 300 nibs on loading farms with Drupe Sheds from previous saves. The Pome Shed will them become Tree Fruit Shed and the category Pome and Drupe will be combined into Fruit Trees.
• Make the window title say Interplanetary Farmer Beta.
• Make tooltips that show a plant's name when you hover over it like the buttons do.
• Use the PSB background music in the space station screen as well and use the farm background music in the main menu.

Beta 2.0.1

First public beta release for testing.