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Updating a product can entail patching any bugs that have been verified by your support team and/or increasing a product's tech levels to attract new customers or hold on to existing customers. There are no limits to how often you update your software. You can release daily patches if you want. Click on the {H:Update} button when you are ready to go.

Start by launching an update of one of your existing products

You can use {H:Central Heating} and {H:Roof ACs} to distribute hot and cold air throughout a building using {H:Radiators} and {H:Ventilation} in each room. Since Radiators and Ventilation don't require maintenance, it will heavily reduce the workload for your staff. When you've placed a central temperature unit, you can select it and click on the {H:Auto-buy temperature outputs} in the bottom left corner to place ventilation and radiators in offices and reception areas automatically.

Offices and reception areas need to have some temperature regulation to make sure employees and guests are comfortable in their environment. Rooms can be heated and cooled in two ways: Either on a room-by-room basis or using a distributed system of pipes and vents. To regulate the temperature in small offices, you can place down {H: Small Heaters, Ceiling Fans, Electric Radiators and AC Units}, which will immediately start changing the temperature in a room. Regulating the temperature in this way requires a lot of maintenance and will quickly drive up expenses in larger buildings. Click {H:Continue} to hear about the distributed solution.

Start by entering {H:Build mode} by clicking the Build-button.

To get an overview of your teams role assignments you can click the {H:Manage roles} button. You can also set {H:Secondary tasks} for each team. Employees will only work on secondary tasks if they have no assigned primary task, which by default is every task.

You can set when vacation starts for your teams and how wide vacations should be spread. A vacation range of 2 means the vacation of all employees on a team will be split in 2 over 2 months, so you'll always have at least half of the employees at work. You can enable crunch on a team to force your employees to work faster at the cost of their well-being.

When you select one or more teams in the list you can see the average skill and counts of each specialization level of all employees in the selected teams. You can change your teams' arrival and departure times by typing your desired hours in the left input fields with one or more teams selected.

In this window you can manage and create teams. You can add a new team by typing a name and clicking the button in the bottom.

Begin by opening the team window.

Support tickets should be answered as quickly as possible to avoid consumer backlash and a loss of market recognition. An employee's {H:Service} skill determines how quickly they can answer support tickets and having at least one star in the {H:Support} specialization will allow them to report bugs. As bugs get verified by supporters, you'll want to fix them by releasing updates, which you can do by clicking the {H:Update} button on the task or from {H:Your releases}.

When you release a new piece of software it will spawn a support work item. Through this work item you will receive support tickets from your customers, assuming you have any. Support for a product never ends by itself, so you'll have to end it when you think support isn't necessary anymore. Keep an eye on the active user count to help guide you.

Before the support tutorial can continue, you need to have a product released and start support for it. You can open the {H:Your releases} window and start support from there, if you have any products.

Some tasks can be assigned to subsidiaries as well. This is expensive and takes up a lot of the subsidiary's resources. Keep an eye out for the company option when you are selecting teams for a task. End the tutorial when you are ready

Developing takes up resources for a subsidiary, if you want them to work on specific tasks, or you want to control their release schedule, you can disable their autonomy, to make sure they don't spend time doing other things. You can only assign projects that the subsidiary normally develops, so pay attention to their past and future releases. Try opening the design document and picking the software type they normally work on.

You control subsidiaries mainly in the company detail window. You can use the slider to withdraw and deposit money, just like your savings account. Withdrawing all money from a subsidiary will close down the company, giving you all their assets. The detail window also gives you an overview of their planned releases and the ability to cancel them. Press Continue when you're ready.

To begin the tutorial, make sure you have a subsidiary and have their company detail window open.

Owning share in a company will earn you {H:Dividends}, which means you will get a percentage of the company's profits each month, depending on how much of the company you own. Note that you also have to pay dividends to your shareholders. If you own more than {H:10%} of a company, you get to use their research before anyone else and if you own more than {H:25%} you don't have to pay royalties when using this company's tools, operating systems, frameworks or patents. Again, this also works the other way. When you own more than {H:50%} of a company, you have a chance to buy them out. Buying a company out allows you to take over all their assets or make them a subsidiary. Subsidiaries will continue to operate as normal, but you can control their releases and ask them to do certain tasks for you. If another company owns more than 50% of your company, they might start a {H:Hostile takeover}, which gives you 6 months to get them below 25% before your company is dissolved. When a company goes bankrupt, all its assets will be distributed among its majority shareholders.

In the upper right corner of the company window, there's panel that allows you to sell shares in your company. Your company's value depends on how well your company is doing selling services and products, which determines how much of your company you can sell. The first time you sell shares is called a {H:Initial Public Offering}, and all your money and the money you are raising will be separated into approximately {Currency:100} shares, which will be distributed among yourself and your investors. Below this panel you will see a list of stocks you can buy and sell, depending on whether the company is {H:Publicly listed}, i.e. whether they are selling any shares at all. Try opening another company's detail window, to see how many stocks they have. You can check the {H:Listed} column in the company window, to see how many percent of a company is up for sale.

Start by opening your company detail window to view your stocks.