News & Updates

v1.2.0

August 5, 2016

FEATURE

The editor for casino/condo/crew floors and casino/crew lots is one of the last holdouts from the pre-beta version of CasinoRPG. In this update, we've completely re-thought and re-written the editor and related features from the ground up to offer a vastly improved tycoon experience:

Editor is now opened with the "EDITOR" button in the top right of the screen.

Editor now opens as a full-width panel along the bottom of the screen.

When editing, changes don't persist until you save. This allows experimenting with layouts and changes without committing to them and the costs.

In general, the editor is more lightweight and lowers CPU and memory usage.

When done editing, there is a new review display that breaks down the changes and lets you reset them in groups (new items, changed items, wall colors, etc).

The editor is now fully responsive to stretch or shrink to most any size screen.

New casino metrics display makes it much easier to see how your casino is performing at a glance. Clicking each section drills down into a detailed view.

The build menu now includes several new categories for items.

Search bar on build and vault menu allows searching items by name.

Added filtering options to all displays (sub-categories, themes, etc).

Items are now grouped by color, and the color can be changed until the editor session has been saved.

The left/right walls can now be modified separately.

A new color wheel has been added for walls, enabling vastly more color choices.

Managing employees has been simplified to hire/fire and change wages inline.

Items in vaults are now grouped by level and type instead of just type.

In addition to stats and level, vault items now show how many times they've broken.

Added ability to filter vault items by area, and defaults to current (casino, condo, lot).

Selecting an item on the floor shows the number of breaks and current level.

Items are now visually lifted off the floor when selected for editing, and the tiles underneath are highlighted.

When dragging an item, arrows point out on the sides to indicate you can drag.

When editing/placing items or floor tiles, the editor panel is hidden to provide maximum editing area.

New sound effects have been associated with editing actions.

The "instant" button has been merged with the "accept" button/action on new items.

When confirming a placement, you can check a box to take that action (instant or not) automatically for the rest of the session.

All floor/lot changes are now shown real-time to nearby players on save (only some were before).

Improved the countdown display on new/upgrading items.

Upgrading an item has a new display showing the relative changes and a new instant upgrade option.

Overhauled building menu on lots for easier upgrading, renovating, etc.

Limited edition items in your vault are now marked with a "LIMITED" banner.

New items in the build menu are marked with a "NEW" banner.

Items now show as broken and are highlighted as such from within the editor.

The display of locked items is more clear now.

Closing a casino is now done from the metrics display inside.

The metrics display now includes a live countdown to when the next simulation update happens.

The popularity details window now lets you view a list of recent VIP visitors.

FEATURE

One of the new item categories is walls! You can now hang art, lamps, etc on your casino/crew/condo walls. We are launching this feature with 60 amazing items to decorate with, and more are in the works.

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The "permanently broken" modal now includes a "sell" and "replace" button so you don't even need to go to the editor.

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The Properties app now shows an indicator on each lot with the number of garbage and repairs in each.

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The floor edit modal from within the elevator now has a "move" tab that lets you swap floors within a casino.

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When replacing used floor tiles, you'll now receive a discount on the new tiles worth 25% of the original purchase price of the old tiles.

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Modal windows can now be dragged like windows in an operating system.

UPDATE

Updated the style of modal windows, buttons and text inputs to be consistent game-wide.

UPDATE

Our open-source audio engine, howler.js, has reached v2.0.0 and is now included in CasinoRPG to improved audio support.

UPDATE

Error windows can now be closed with the ESC key like normal windows.

UPDATE

Crews that have been inactive for at least a year are now deleted (this will take a day or so for the current list to update).

FIX

An issue that would sometimes cause party bomb drops to go outside of a floor's boundaries.

FIX

A few bugs with how restarting the standing cards mission works.

FIX

Issue with casino address not showing inside casinos sometimes.

v1.1.25

July 14, 2016

SUMMER PROMO: We have 8 new limited edition summer-themed items available for your lots! Get all of the details on how you can get your hands on them before they are never again available after July 24 by clicking on the beach ball icon at the top of the game screen.

UPDATE

Party Bomb drops will no longer get stuck in areas that aren't walkable from where the bomb was set off (like behind a bar, etc).

UPDATE

Made a few tweaks to the difficulty on the new standing cards mission series.

UPDATE

Table item purchases are now rate limited to every 30 seconds (so you can buy one per person every 30 seconds).

FIX

Text popups getting stuck on some browsers.

FIX

Prevent keyboard on touch-screen devices from opening when mini-map is made full-screen.

FIX

Various other errors and bugs fixed.

v1.1.24

July 1, 2016

FEATURE

A new mission giver is now available for level 20+ players. She gives a series of missions that earn you various items you can only earn from her. If you can complete the series fast enough, you can even get an exclusive!

UPDATE

The lag experienced when walking between zones around the city should now be limited or removed completely (depending on your hardware).

UPDATE

The free taxi ride to a nearby real estate office with lots for sale now shows for anyone, not just new players (shows on the lot selection screen in the office of full zones).

UPDATE

Limited edition items can now be vaulted even if your vault is full.

FIX

The duplicate cards issue in solitaire should now be fixed.

FIX

A bug in Roulette that could, in rare instances, cause a bet to show on screen without registering on the server. If the ball landed on that bet, it wouldn't pay out since the bet didn't exist, which should now be fixed.

FIX

Better normalize the scaling of party bomb item drops.

FIX

Fixed some flickering issues with some party bomb drops.

FIX

Mission givers that aren't unlocked will no longer show on the mini-map.

FIX

Fixed issue that was sometimes duplicating Flying Piggy Bank timers in the Timers app.

FIX

Prevent errors caused by spinning right as a slot loads.

FIX

Many overlapping messages that are the same (such as from bars or scouting missions) will no longer queue up, causing the appearance of lag.

FIX

The Ocean Slots spin button now shows correctly in Safari.

v1.1.23

June 15, 2016

FEATURE

Solitaire missions! There is now a solitaire mission giver located in a few different areas around the city. She offers a new series of missions as well as ongoing missions like the other casino games offer.

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The timers app now has an audio tone and a visual message when a timer has ended.

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Custom timers can now be restarted with a single button click.

UPDATE

Added an intro tutorial for the expanded mini-map.

UPDATE

A few more tweaks to the engine to further improve performance (mainly on lower-end computers).

UPDATE

The number of participating members in battle for each crew is now set when the match is made rather than when the battle starts.

FIX

Various bug fixes and tweaks to new player tutorial.

FIX

Various fixes and tweaks to casino game missions.

FIX

The bomb fairy's pickups no longer trigger the bot checker.

FIX

If someone collects the flying piggy bank near your location while you are inside, you'll no longer see the animation.

FIX

Fixed issue that could sometimes cause the mini-map marker to get stuck or out of place.

v1.1.22

June 1, 2016

FEATURE

Game settings have been moved from the main menu to a standalone app in your phone.

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In addition to the new settings app, you can now select from 6 different colors for your phone's wallpaper.

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Your phones are getting another new app: Timers! By default this will show you timers for the Flying Piggy bank and Party Bombs. It also lets you set up to 4 additional custom timers to keep track of anything you would like.

FEATURE

A mysterious being has been spotted darting in and out of casinos. Locals are afraid to get too close, but what about you?

UPDATE

Made several optimizations to animations that should help improve CPU performance (especially on low-to-mid level hardware).

FIX

Fixed a bug that could cause poker players to get booted from tournaments too early.

FIX

Fixed a loophole that let poker players get around the banking protection at cash games.

FIX

Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause war team challenges to get stuck.

v1.1.21

May 16, 2016

Solitaire Bug: We are aware of a rare bug in solitaire that can cause a card to be duplicated. We need more information before we can fix it, so if you see this happen please submit a ticket with the time it happened and what card was duplicated.

UPDATE

The janitor job has received a makeover, now better resembling the slot machine you are actually cleaning.

UPDATE

The difficulty of the bartender job has now been better balanced.

UPDATE

Improved the feedback on the performance for entertainer job.

UPDATE

Various other tweaks and fixes relating to jobs.

UPDATE

Increased the chips that higher-end vaults can hold.

UPDATE

NPC's can now play on video poker machines (this could take a few hours to kick in after the update).

FIX

Fixed a few performance issues from the last update.

FIX

The gun from the Western bonus game now hides correctly at the end.

FIX

Removing games from a casino now correctly updates the list of games displayed on the map/door.

FIX

Clicking on mission givers on the mini-map now works correctly outside of E0S0.

FIX

Prevent bonus spins from counting as 2 spins out of your 50 for battle challenges.

FIX

The counter on Party Bombs and Pigeon Pass will no longer get obscured by world objects.

FIX

Fixed issue in slots that would cause volume to go up temporarily at the end of chip rewards.

FIX

Coming back to Deuces Wild in the middle of a hand now correctly displays the "wild" symbol.

FIX

Fixed various other errors and bugs.

Chrome 50 Issues

May 6, 2016

There is currently an issue with Google Chrome 50 that is affecting some computers with an AMD video card (and possibly other brands using certain drivers) on Windows. This can cause various features in the game to break, such as the phone, poker lobby, etc. This is not a bug with CasinoRPG and isn't something that we can fix in our code. We've been in contact with Google, and they have fixed the issue in the upcoming Chrome 51. In the meantime, they suggest to either use Chrome Canary or another browser such as Edge until Chrome 51 is released.

v1.1.20

May 3, 2016

FEATURE

Video Poker is here with 3 initial variants: Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild and Joker Poker! This is a new standalone game and comes with 17 Video Poker Machine items (1 of which is only available in daily spins and bombs). We especially want to thank FlagDUDE08 for contributing open-source code to allow for Deuces Wild and Joker Poker variants!

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Added a Video Poker sprint party mission.

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Added a Video Poker team challenge to battles and wars.

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Added 10 new medals relating to Video Poker.

UPDATE

The Windows App has been updated so that the game will no longer auto-reload every time you minimize it (it now only needs to do that after being minimized for 5+ minutes).

UPDATE

Both the Windows and Chrome apps have been updated with new icons.

FIX

Identified and fixed several memory leaks that could have caused slowdowns after extended play.

FIX

Fixed several bugs that were causing various issues with slot bonus spins and entering slot games in some cases.

FIX

The slots spin counter will now go down to 0 during bonus spins before reverting to the auto spins count.gr

FIX

The new slot bonus games will now correctly survive server restarts or disconnects so you won't lose your progress.

FIX

Fixed a bug that was sometimes preventing battle flags from appearing.

FIX

Sometimes slot challenge results would appear on screen before bonus spins on the 50th spin were complete.

FIX

Prevent phone from getting stuck on screen with rapid open/close.

FIX

If a casino is closed, don't show what games are inside on the door display (just show that it is closed).

FIX

Fixed position of instruction text on Jungle/Base slot bonus games when using a smaller screen resolution.

FIX

When in a taxi, if you move the location and then select a favorite, the map will now correctly update to the favorite location.

v1.1.19

April 20, 2016

FEATURE

We know you all love to play slots, so we've been hard at work on some major improvements to all of our slots games:

Unique Egyptian Slots bonus game.

Unique Ocean Slots bonus game.

Unique Western Slots bonus game.

New sound effects for different symbol wins.

New sound effects on all slots.

Each slot game now has a unique intro animation and sound effect.

The last reel(s) will now speed up and take longer to hit when a bonus or big hit is possible.

New symbol animations have been added for winning symbols.

Auto spins can now be stopped before they complete (the button will be changed to "STOP").

Getting 5 CP symbols on a line now rewards 25 CP instead of 5 CP.

The info screen now displays session winnings and item unlocks.

The Jungle and Sci-Fi bonus games will now always rewards something even if you lose them.

Increased the average bonus game payouts across the board.

Fixed several visual issues caused by switching browser tabs.

Fixed some issues with text overlapping.

Various bug fixes and tweaks to all slot games.

UPDATE

Photo limits have been increased to 50 and 200 (citizens).

UPDATE

Favorite limits have been increased to 50 and 100 (citizens).

UPDATE

24-hours of battle protection is now given after withdraw.

UPDATE

Added some spam filtering features to global chat (you generally shouldn't run into these unless you are actually spamming, but tweaks may still be needed).

FIX

Fixed an issue with Winner-Take-All SnG's that prevented them from actually being WTA.

FIX

If there is network lag, solitaire cards now show a loading indicator instead of looking like they weren't flipped over.

FIX

Fixed a few other solitaire-related issues.

FIX

Fixed depth-sorting issues with players that are carrying a party bomb.

FIX

Fixed a few issues related to casino foreclosures.

FIX

Fixed several cross-browser issues with audio.

FIX

Fixed a rare case where an incorrect third poker sidepot was created.

FIX

Don't auto-focus poker bet input on mobile/touch devices.

FIX

Fixed another issues that could cause cards on poker tables to show incorrectly after switching browser tabs.