News & Updates

Lots of new tiles: 40 outdoor and 88 indoor!

There is now a setting to allow quick chat to display on table games.

There is a new trophy, GoldFire Flame Trophy, that is awarded top the top 10 in each month's overall rankings.

Crew members can now have the permission to transfer funds without having the permission to edit members.

Tweaked the starting speed of the janitor job to prevent issues on higher levels.

Players that sit away from a paid poker tournament are now removed after 30 minutes (still 15 for freerolls).

When buying Gold as a gift for another player, their avatar now shows next to their username to help you make sure you are gifting the right person.

Fixed an issue with the display of the mail rush mission window.

Fixed a few bugs with outdoor audio.

Fixed an issue where some roulette mission givers weren't accessible.

Players currently in the tutorial no longer appear to come from the elevator instead of the front door.

Various bugs and tweaks around the game.

The game settings have been updated with two new options. Instead of "hide quick chat," there is now the option to "hide global chat" and "hide crew chat." You can check both boxes to completely hide quick chat, or you can select which of the two you want to see. If you are only showing crew chat, the "/c" will be auto-filled into the quick chat input box.

Native alert/confirm popups don't work inside of the Windows app, so the few places we were using them now use standard game modals instead.

There is now an instructions screen on the janitor job with a start button.

When getting bonus spins in slots, the spins remaining counter will now pulse to show the updated total.

Fixed a few different bugs that could cause poker tournaments to freeze.

Fixed bug at Auction House that would sometimes prevent bids from being placed after the first.

Fixed an area of the city map that was mis-aligned in one corner.

Clicking to unlock a username change should now work correctly from within the Windows app.

The issue with party bomb drops disappearing should now be fixed.

Updated the Desura app to fix a few issues.

Prevent multiple job boards from opening after completing janitor shift.

Fixed mirrored countdown text on elevators.

Prevent typing chat bubble from sticking to seat when player gets removed from poker table.

Fixed several bugs in the new player tutorial.

After last week's outage, we've put a lot of time into developing a self-recovery system for our server architecture. What this means is that in the rare event that none of us are around to fix something if one of our server's hardware fails or there is some other issue, the system will automatically fix the problem and bring the game back up. If hardware fails, this will still lead to around 10 minutes of downtime, but our next step is building a failover system that will prevent any downtime at all.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause table items to not expire.

Closed a loophole that allowed playing multiple sprints at once.

Fixed several server issues that in rare cases could lead to a myriad of strange bugs.

Want more insight into what we've got in the pipeline? Then this new feature is just for you! Some things we are working on are to remain as a surprise, but everything else major will be listed on the new development status page.

14 amazing new items are now available for your casinos and crews (some are added to the jungle theme and the rest are generic).

The button to open the feedback window now also includes a contact form to open a support ticket if you are having an issue that doesn't fit in the forums or feedback page.

There is now an RSS feed available for this news page: click here for RSS.

The chat shortcuts (/c, /w, /r) are now case-insensitive, so that if you accidentally type '/C', your message will still go to the crew instead of to the global chat.

We've made several updates to the new player tutorial to try and help make the process of getting started easier, and we are now testing this alongside the previous intro tutorial.

Changed the font color of the Head CA so that it doesn't look like crew chat.

Any players that have been a member for 90+ days must now wait 30 days after acquiring a lot/casino to list it on the market.

Fixed a bug that sometimes prevents sprint re-invites from working.

Casino metric histories are now correctly stored for the last 30 days instead of 14.

Fixed sizing of long crew names in the battle display.

A rare occurrence of the days consecutive medal not getting awarded has been fixed.

Fixed a few bugs with the previous update to auto setup new poker cash games.

Fixed a few visual bugs with the loading screen.

The error modal now auto-adjusts its height for longer error messages.

Rotating an item such as a slot machine now correctly updates its position without needing to save first.

Fixed a visual voting bug with wars.

We've moved all of the game's servers to a new hosting provider that offers dramatically improved network speeds and processing power. This will vastly improve speeds, disconnect issues and lag issues. This also means that the disconnect caused by game updates will be drastically shorter.

The system that load balances between the game servers has been completely rebuilt and can route requests up to 2-4x as quickly (so, even more speed improvements).

New sticky poker cash games will be created automatically when the previous fills up (for example, if there are 9/9 at Low Rollers, a new Low Rollers #2 will become available).

There is now a minimum value calculated for each property based on the type of casino, items, etc. This value is displayed when listing a property for sale and is also the minimum that a casino can be listed for sale.

Lots with a closed casino can no longer be listed for sale on the market.

Combined gains from owning multiple casinos have been increased by lowering the break rates on casino items even further.

Colors for admins and community ambassadors are now shown on their usernames over their characters and in quick chat.

When a player receives a chat ban, it is now shown in the global chat.

There is now a confirmation popup when placing bids in the Auction House.

Upgrade costs in crews are now increased for crews with more than 25 members to maintain cost balance/fairness with smaller crews.

Fixed a big list of bugs dealing with the previous rendering engine update.

Fixed a few small visual issues with the Water Wall items.

We've completed a huge overhaul to our rendering engine with a focus on performance. Lower-end systems should see the most improvement, but others should see memory usage improvements as well. Otherwise, you shouldn't see any difference, and if you do, please be sure to report it as there are likely to be some visual bugs here and there after such a large update.

To make replying to whispers easier, we've added a '/r' option. Typing this with your message after it will send a whisper back to the person that last whispered at you.

Players that are away during poker tournaments are now auto-folded even when they are all-in.

The Large Chat Text game settings option now also makes quick chat text larger.

Tweaked the look of the main menu text to be easier to read.

Tweaked up the speed of the Sci-Fi Slots bonus game.

A casino's address is now displayed next to its name inside the casino.

Fixed a bug that was causing some players to see the wrong time on battle countdowns.

Improved touch-screen compatibility with global chat.

Some older versions of browser and some Android browsers would show a bottom section of the screen cut off in full-screen.

Hovering over buildings causes them to highlight, and this also caused some weird visual bugs with animations. These have now been fixed.

Keep audio muted when changing volume with "mute all" checked.

Fixed a broken animation with the orange solitaire table item.

Walking out of the Real Estate building in the main square no longer sends you into a shrub.

A grand total of 77 new casino/crew items have been added (mostly decorations, some appliances and one Daily Slot item)!

The bet limits on all casino games have been tweaked and standardized (all now updated at levels: 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50). The previous max level was 30, so there are now new, higher limits for higher level players.

When you level up to one of the bet limit levels, the animation that displays indicates this.

Smoothed out some issues with the process of deploying an update to the game.

You now must be level 10+ and have joined 48+ hours ago to list Casino Points for sell on the market.

The same 48-hour limit is now in place for all Casino Point poker games.

The Job Board display now shows which jobs are currently in overtime.

Improved touch-screen compatibility of Sci-Fi Slots bonus game.

Players at poker cash games that run out of chips and don't rebuy are now automatically removed from their seat.

Optimizations to the tycoon simulation to improve scalability on the server-side and improve speed of updates.

Fixed some issue that were causing some players to have frequent, short disconnects periodically.

Prevent multiple auction bids from going through at the same time and causing various issues.

Fixed an issue with a confusing slots error message.

Other crew leaders can no longer edit the permissions of the crew founder.

Fixed a few issues with shortcut keys stopping during poker games.

Vault limits now correctly update after purchasing a casino from the market.

Table chat no longer gets stuck when clicking away from it.

Fixed another issue that could cause poker tournaments to get stuck with the last 2 players.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent hiring/firing employees in casinos purchased from the market.

Fixed an issue with walking out of west-facing buildings.

There is now an ignore feature for goldfire.me private messaging. To ignore someone, make sure they are no longer on your friend list, then go to their goldfire.me profile and click "Ignore Chat."

A notice now shows on the roulette table while you are waiting for the next round to start after first taking a seat.

A few tweaks to the new mission display/animation.

Only play winning chip sounds at slots for slot winnings.

Fixed an issue with the new mission step sound.

Cleaned up a few small issues with the new player tutorial.

Fixed another issue that was causing some players to stop receiving CP's at solitaire.

Fixed several errors from around the game.

Add 9 new ultra slim ATM items for casinos and crews!

More updates to database infrastructure to improve performance and reliability.

Increase font size of instant move-in confirmation modal.

Tweak level limits on low-end clothes.

Add audio to mission step completion.

Automatically walk back up to job board in apartment building after completing janitor shift.

Players under level 10 will no longer be placed on the same blackjack and roulette tables as more experienced, higher level players.

Various improvements to the new player experience.

Fixed several display issues caused by overlap of crew war and battle.

Quick chat is now hidden when editor buttons are visible to prevent them from overlapping.

The goldfire.me notice for selling a lot/casino on the market is now being sent correctly.

Prevent bomb drops from getting stuck on the walls of crew floors and unable to be collected.

Fixed an issue that some players were seeing with the updating of consecutive days count.

Prevent poker winner text from showing beneath the pot chips.

Fixed an issue with the party bomb 10-minute timer.

Fixed issue with playing incorrect background music when loading in on fresh cache.

Some newer players were having issues with CP not being awarded after leveling up in solitaire.

Pressing the 'escape' key while at a poker table in your own casino no longer opens the edit floor buttons.

The Windows/Mac Desura apps have been updated for better performance.

There is no longer a timer associated with the solitaire jackpot. Instead, you must now win two games in a row by moving all 52 cards to the 4 foundations.

Withdrawing from a battle now gives 24 hours of battle protection to prevent immediate re-challenge; however, the bounty has also been increased to 33% of the buy-in.

The battle scores alert now rounds the numbers.

More updates to our audio engine for more cross-platform fixes.

Fixed issue in poker tournaments that sometimes caused a player to be moved to an empty table.

Fixed an issue where some daily resets were an hour off from the rest.

In rare instances, leaving the game open for long periods of time would cause the daily consecutive count to reset. This should no longer be an issue.

The new 50/50 max bet limits now work correctly.

Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building upgrade to be charged twice.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent a crew from being able to vote on their challenge if they were currently being challenged by another crew.

Fixed display of last page of battle challenge list.

Fixed various bugs and errors throughout the client/server.