Version 1.0.0
**Arc 2: Alignment**
- Expand your research team with a new Alignment track with 12 milestones
- Balance four alignment submetrics to keep your AI helpful, honest, and harmless
- Choose how much autonomy to grant your AI, up to complete freedom, if you dare
- React to ethical dilemmas, alignment incidents, and research moratoriums
- Reach 15 bespoke endings depending on your alignment progress and management style
- Track your progress towards endings with 16 achievements
**Balance**
- Mastery no longer decays
- Retuned competitor pacing to be slower early-game and faster late-game
- Rebalanced prestige bonuses to nerf short losses
- Nerfs to mid and late game research
**Quality of life**
- Added speed controls (1-4x)
- Added arc/mode selector which resets your run but preserves meta-progress (achievements, lifetime stats)
- Improved responsiveness for smaller screen resolutions





