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3.72 is on its way to both stores — 27 fixes and upgrades, and almost every single one traces back to a report from this sub or the Discord. This is the "you told us, we fixed it" update. Thank you.

🌍 Emigration finally shows you your points

The system was always deep — you just couldn't see it. Now:

• The apply screen shows "Your points today: 52/70" with exactly which levers are weak and how to strengthen them, before you commit
• While your application pends, the passport card shows the full per-lever breakdown, live every year
• Refused? The letter now tells you your score and precisely what fell short — no more guessing
• Study real languages — the Language Class now opens a picker (Japanese, Spanish, anything) and feeds your migration language score. A Modern Languages degree counts too
• Passports at 16, and solo emigration at 16-17 on a student visa — visit first, show tuition funds
• To the posters who kept pushing on this system: this whole section exists because of you

💀 The death screen got a rebuild

Clean estate rows, business legacies with valuations in gold, and giant fortunes now read "12.59T" instead of a 14-digit number clipping off the screen. And to the poster who asked "how does 40% of 62 become 57?" — you were right, the label was lying. Normal estates pay your country's real rate (nothing at all in the UAE, 40% top rate in the UK); colossal estates hit the anti-dynasty mega-estate duty, and the death screen now says so with the real effective rate.

💰 To our trillionaires: impressive. Also, over.

We read the write-up. It was genuinely brilliant. It's also patched:

• Market concentration caps — no more swallowing an entire market's liquidity
• Real borrow costs on whale positions
• Randomised mean-reversion — the timing exploit is gone
• Fraud now has an annual budget

Trillionaire is supposed to be crazy hard. It is again.

🛠 And 20+ of your most-reported bugs

• Taps always answer — no more double-charged check-ups or actions that silently did nothing
• Your partner's bond updates the moment you act (no more tab-switching to see the number move)
• Closing your YouTube channel actually closes it (closed channels were secretly still earning six figures a year)
• Day-job criminals get their empire menu back
• The bug-report ladybug stays out of your money stat — it stops right under the header, exactly where you asked
• Pinch-to-zoom works on the live market chart
• The "self-employed internship" is now a proper Trade Apprenticeship at Millhaven Trades Guild (mid-programme saves update themselves)
• Emoji no longer peek out from behind family portraits, "a friend for life" actually joins your friends list, raises stick, paid rent rises display, and more
• Android: the game no longer draws under the status bar or the navigation buttons

Availability: Android is rolling out now; iOS is in review and should land within a day

Found something broken? The 🐞 button in-game sends us your save directly — most of this update started exactly that way. Keep them coming.

Hey all — solo developer here looking for honest advice on taking on investment for the first time, from people who’ve actually done it.

The game: — a deep text-based life simulator game (think cradle-to-grave: careers, family, crime, property, politics, fame) for Android, iOS and web. It’s a genuinely big simulation — around 250,000 lines, ~7,000 functions — built and maintained by just me.

4.8 rating on iOS and android and about 600reviews so far

This week I shipped the big update , The World Update (3.7): a full emigration system (63 countries, each with real visa routes, a points test, language/culture/settlement mechanics), a rebuilt travel system with private jets, a living world economy, politics rebuilt end to end, and 150+ fixes driven directly by player bug reports.

Where it stands:

**•**	Live on Google Play and the App Store, monetized through in-app purchases (premium unlock, cosmetic/convenience packs) via RevenueCat  
**•**	Revenue is small but real and consistent — roughly **$30-50 on a slow day up to \~$200 on good days rare days even $400**  
**•**	An engaged community: an active Discord where players file bug reports with save files attached — I’ve triaged 1000+ of them,  
**•**	Development velocity is my biggest asset: major systems

What I’m trying to figure out:

**1.**	At this size, is investment even the right move vs. just compounding organic growth? What did the decision look like for you?  
**2.**	Where do solo mobile devs actually *find* investors — publishers, indie funds, angels? Which ones are worth talking to for a live-service life-sim?  
**3.**	What do investors want to see from a game like this — revenue multiple, retention curves, install growth? What should I have ready before any conversation?  
**4.**	Horror stories welcome: what should a solo dev never give up in an early deal?

Happy to share more detail — screenshots, the update history, numbers. DMs are open if you’d rather talk privately or have information you don’t want to post publicly.

I wanna see who would be a the first to become a trillionaire in this update new life no money to start off with who can make it !!!

How to emigrate in 3.7:

**1.** Open the 🌍 **World** hub → **✈ Travel**.
**2.** Go to the 📘 **Passport** tab and get a passport if you don’t have one.
**3. Visit the country first** — book a holiday there from the departures board. You can only apply to emigrate to countries you’ve actually been to.
**4.** Back on the Passport tab, a **“**🌍 **Consider Emigrating”** section appears with a card for every country you’ve visited — tap one to start your application.
**5.** You’ll be scored on your real life (age, money, education, job, family) across visa routes — skilled, family, investor, student, ancestry. Applications take years and can be refused, and you track them on the same tab.

Requirements: age 16+, not in prison or hospital. And moving is a real decision — you can lose your job (unless your industry transfers), you can’t live in houses you leave behind, and relationships strain across borders.

Heys Android users I mainly focus on fixing the lag issue I really hope I cancelled it out as best as I can, the main issue is my save system I don’t get the lag on my test devices so it’s a bit tuff to narrow down, but using save files I did a bit of process of elimination

VERDANT — The World Update (v3.7 · shows as 3.71 on iOS)

The One new headline feature, a travel system rebuilt from the ground up, and over 150 bug fixes — including the most-reported bugs in the game's history. Here's everything.

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🌍 NEW: Emigration — live your life anywhere

You can now leave your birth country and build a life abroad. This isn't a menu toggle — it's a full system:

63 countries to move to, each with its own visa routes, points test, costs, language, culture, and tax system. Apply through the Passport tab, get scored against your real life (age, money, education, job, family), and get accepted, rejected, or offered a lesser route.

Life abroad is a life. Three settlement meters — Language, Network, Belonging — grow through what you actually do: study the language, build your circle, join local life. Let them idle and they decay; homesickness bites.

The meters pay off. High Network gets you job introductions and a real pay bump. High Belonging brings friends, romance prospects, housing credit and locals' prices instead of tourist prices.

Living in-country teaches the language — immersion scales with your Network. And your kids? A child born abroad grows up local.

270+ migration events — border interviews, visa scares, the 3am "your interview is TODAY" panic, blend-in moments, all with real choices that have real consequences. No cosmetic buttons.

Every country has its own local life. "Enjoy local life" draws from your country's actual catalogue — ramen counters in Japan, Sunday asado in Argentina — not a generic list.

562 festivals, customs and taboos now fire. Join the local festival or skip it, learn the customs, stumble into a taboo early on (it fades as your language and years there grow).

The world is alive. Every country's economy and stability drift year to year — booms and recessions change your pay, the cost band changes your yearly bills, instability brings rare shocks. Your destination in year 10 is not the country you landed in.

Home never disappears. Fly home for a visit (and choose what the visit is about — family, old friends, your roots), or make the standing decision to return home for good — a real relocation, not an event you have to get lucky and roll.

Heritage carries down the bloodline — and the bloodline speaks. Born with roots in another country? You're told at birth. At 18, the game reminds you that country's door is open, with an ancestry route to citizenship in the World tab. Children and grandchildren inherit a head start in the old country's language, eased cultural distance, and citizenship claims generations later — in every family line, migrant or not.

The hard roads exist too: overstaying a visa and living undocumented, marriage-visa scrutiny, pensions paid from your origin country, and a migrant's story scored in your legacy at the end.

Leaving costs something. Long-distance relationships decay. Children you uproot — or leave behind — remember it.

Under-16s can't emigrate solo; 16–17 needs an assisted route.

Work papers matter — like real life. A skilled or investor visa IS a work visa. A family visa lets you live there, not work — buy the work permit first. Undocumented? No employer will touch you; cash work is all that's left.

The right careers move with you. Tech, finance, medicine, engineering and science jobs can transfer abroad when the destination's economy supports it — and the game warns you before you apply what emigrating means for your job, either way.

Your old house doesn't forget you left. Every property now shows the country it was bought in. Emigrate and you stop "living" in the home you left behind — but deep-clean and furnish it, and it becomes an Airbnb you manage from the travel screen.

✈️ NEW: The airport

Travel is no longer a list of trip packages — it's a departures board. Pick the country first, like booking a real flight.

Four cabins: Economy, Business, First Class, and Private. First is ×6 the fare and genuinely ultra-luxury.

NEW: Private jets. Buy one in the Mall or the Vehicles hangar and the board offers "Switch to your jet" — or hit 🛫 Fly Abroad right on the hangar card. Unlimited trips, bring anyone for free — but you pay fuel per flight hour and yearly hangar + upkeep, all disclosed before you buy. Can't cover the upkeep? The bank forces the sale, at a loss.

NEW: The routes rotate. Ten destinations fly each year, changing annually — your jet ignores the rotation and flies all 26, always.

NEW: In-flight moments. Champagne at altitude, the scenic loop over the Alps, ten minutes at the controls, the seat-kicking child in economy — real choices with real mood effects, on every kind of flight. No more "landed, refresh."

Fares are ×3 across the board. Flying used to be pocket change; now a holiday is a decision.

NEW: The postcard album. Every country you visit earns a postcard in your Passport tab — 26 to collect, and the rotation makes it a real chase.

Travel moved to the World hub — it's a life decision now, not a night out.

👪 FIXED: Family & generations

Continuing a life as your heir was quietly broken in a dozen ways. All fixed:

Your heir's siblings actually exist on the People tab now — and heirs stop inheriting an invented family (a fabricated second parent, wrong grandparent labels, made-up step-typing).

Artworks, antiques and your private jet now pass to the next generation — the will finally carries the collection, not just the cash. (Yes, Reddit, we saw the "Brotherrrrrr" post.)

A dead parent is no longer filed under "Others" with your colleagues, doesn't offer live actions from beyond the grave, and a dead spouse can no longer be romanced — the game now tells you clearly they've passed (with a proper pop-up, not a toast).

Siblings, grandchildren, friends and partners now get names that match their gender (no more brothers named Susan), friends have genders and portraits, and both parents no longer read as identical people.

The Family tab and People tab finally agree about your nieces.

Kids' surnames stop being silently rewritten to a step-parent's on load.

💰 Economy & balance

The money ceiling is now £9 QUADRILLION. You asked for the next step after trillion — the Q tier is here. (£9Q is the edge of what the engine can count exactly, so every pound still counts at the top.)

Estate tax is real now: progressive rates plus country-specific inheritance tax — the infinite dynasty-wealth snowball is over. A mega-estate backstop catches the billionaires.

Market manipulation by the ultra-wealthy hardened (~100× harder), era wages capped at 25×, inflation capped consistently everywhere.

Rent can actually rise again (a maths bug froze it at zero forever), and rent adjustment stops silently confiscating your rent.

Savings interest shown on the Finance tab is the number that actually arrives.

You can finally CLOSE a credit card. Pay it off, cut it up, free the slot — then apply fresh at today's score for the limit you deserve. Closing an old account dings your credit a few points, like real life. (No more being stuck forever with the 35% APR starter card you got at 18.)

Self-assessment tax no longer destroys money above £500bn, and the year-end weed sweep can't drive your new year's income negative.

💼 Careers

The job board stopped hiding whole industries. You told us finance jobs were nearly impossible to find — the yearly board now guarantees every industry a seat, every year. Roles you don't qualify for yet still show, locked, with exactly what's missing.

The retirement offer can't be silently lost anymore, the pension pays what it promised, and your veteran title names the career you actually had.

Ex-military careers no longer freeze at "0 years" for life.

Career actions grant the stat they advertise; promotions on £0 salary stop claiming you're "at the top of the pay band."

Children are no longer silently assigned jobs by the career self-heal.

Abandoning a renegotiation no longer strands you with no career actions, and one wrong tap on the F1 prompt no longer locks you out of every hustle.

🎬 Fame, arts & side hustles

Side hustles stopped disappearing from the tab (and an abandoned entertainment career can't hijack it).

Writers: the vanished "Start New Book" button, the frozen "held manuscript," the burnt-out dead-end with no options — all fixed. The indie revenue cap is the advertised one.

Followers no longer bleed away in total silence — you're told why.

Audience trust can actually recover now, a famous actor finally counts as famous to the cult gate, and the manga resume event stops spamming your life log.

The Sable exchange rate no longer collapses to its floor.

⚖️ Crime & prison

NEW: Growers for hire. Hundreds of plants and two hands? The weed hustle now lets you put your hired growers to work on the grow op — they harvest ready plants and replant your best strain on their own each year, up to their skill capacity. Toggle the crew's auto-tend on or off any time; anything past their capacity still needs YOUR hands.

The RICO seizure that never let go — fixed. Parole no longer tells a prisoner "Not in prison."

Weed dealing tells you where the money actually went, and the crime gates say which money they're checking.

Heat now comes with an explanation.

🏛️ Politics opened its doors — and got a full overhaul

Anyone can stand for office now — age 18 and a nomination deposit, exactly like real life. The degree, stat and experience requirements are gone. The climb from Councillor to PM is still every bit the fight it should be, and a legal or government background gives you a genuine head start.

The promotion wall is down. You told us you were stuck at MP for decades — we found why. Campaign actions (including fundraising) no longer vanish after your first election, the loyalty requirements make sense now, and scandals actually resolve instead of silently haunting your approval forever.

Scandals are real now — they build, hit the press, and end careers (or get survived). Rig elections on the dark path and the rigging can actually leak. Suspend elections and there genuinely are no more elections — just a country deciding how it feels about that.

Allies can be recruited, supporting them finally builds your party standing, politicians earn honest side income (speeches, columns, board seats), and a politician with a criminal past can finally reach the wind-down button on their old empire.

NEW: Six political moves that were promised but never built — Fundraise, Constituency Work, Attack a Rival, Leak to the Press, Diplomacy, and Governance are real buttons now, each with costs, limits and consequences. Survive enough leadership challenges and the no-confidence milestone is finally reachable. Every button on the political ladder does what it says.

🖥️ Interface & quality of life

Switch layouts in one tap — a 🔀 Layout button now sits on the rail next to More. Simple hubs or the classic 18 tabs, your call, any time.

47% of world events printed the literal word "undefined." Gone — along with every other "undefined" in the life log.

Saves screen lag killed — save storage rewritten per-slot, and big saves shrank by ~half.

"Start a New Life" can no longer delete a saved life without warning.

Buttons can't be text-selected instead of pressed, the work menu stops hanging off the bottom of the screen, the life-log filter stops dumping you at age 0, and the money tile no longer splits a negative balance across two lines.

The Belongings mall now tells you what an item does before you buy it.

The school menu charges the price it quotes. The Try-for-Baby menus agree with each other. Your dog knows more than one trick after the eighth. The football club you bought actually shows up. Smarts explains why it keeps falling past 70. Trust meter's visible. Screen Presence shows its /100.

A crash mid-year can no longer disable the age button with no way back, and a straight-A student stops being told they were held back.

35 missing name pools added — a character born in Kenya is no longer called Nigel Robinson.

Events can finally move Reputation and Charisma (the only two stats they couldn't touch).

A minor can no longer be matched with adult dating prospects — and single players 30+ get an era-appropriate dating route.

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Fixed across 30 days of full-time bug-hunting after work against 600+ player reports from the Discord bug channel and Reddit. If you reported something — thank you; there's a good chance your save file is the reason it's fixed. Keep them coming.

Hey all — I'm the solo(ish) dev behind Verdant Life, and I'll be upfront: this is my game. I'm posting here because if you love BitLife, you are literally the person I built it for.

I've sunk thousands of hours into BitLife and other life sims, and I always hit the same wall — you "win," you've done every career, and the money/business side is paper-thin. So I built the life sim I always wanted the genre to be. Same cradle-to-grave DNA, but the world underneath it is deep and it actually reacts to you.

What makes it different if you're coming from BitLife:

💼 126 real careers with actual progression — not just "get promoted," but industries, salaries modeled on real UK/US pay, and side-hustles you can run ALONGSIDE a full-time job.

📈 A LIVE stock market (64 stocks) + crypto you can actually day-trade, plus a real-estate game with 350+ properties — buy, rent out, flip, build a portfolio. Money is a whole game, not a number.

🌿 Deep criminal empires — grow & deal weed from one plant to a full operation in a living market that fights back (rival dealers, heat, turf), run businesses, launder money. Crime has actual systems, not one-tap outcomes.

🏰 Generational dynasties that mean something — die, inherit, and keep building a bloodline across generations. Your choices compound.

💷 A real economy — actual prices, taxes, mortgages, inflation over a life. Being rich feels earned.

And the part I care about most: it's FREE, there are NO ads, and there are NO paywalls on core gameplay. Continuing your bloodline is free forever. The only optional stuff is a God Mode toggle and inheritance packs if you want them — that's it. No energy timers, no "watch an ad to continue," no subscription.

It runs instantly in your browser (no download, no signup) and it's on iOS & Android too.

I update it constantly and I read every bug report personally — if something's broken or you want a feature, I genuinely act on it. I'd love for you to try it and tell me what a BitLife veteran thinks it's missing. Roast it, I can take it.

Thanks for reading — happy to answer anything in the comments.

Would like to know your game and how many users as well as avg monthly