News & Updates
December 30, 2014
FEATURE
A grand total of 77 new casino/crew items have been added (mostly decorations, some appliances and one Daily Slot item)!
UPDATE
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.
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When you level up to one of the bet limit levels, the animation that displays indicates this.
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Smoothed out some issues with the process of deploying an update to the game.
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You now must be level 10+ and have joined 48+ hours ago to list Casino Points for sell on the market.
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The same 48-hour limit is now in place for all Casino Point poker games.
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The Job Board display now shows which jobs are currently in overtime.
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Improved touch-screen compatibility of Sci-Fi Slots bonus game.
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Players at poker cash games that run out of chips and don't rebuy are now automatically removed from their seat.
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Optimizations to the tycoon simulation to improve scalability on the server-side and improve speed of updates.
FIX
Fixed some issue that were causing some players to have frequent, short disconnects periodically.
FIX
Prevent multiple auction bids from going through at the same time and causing various issues.
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Fixed an issue with a confusing slots error message.
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Other crew leaders can no longer edit the permissions of the crew founder.
FIX
Fixed a few issues with shortcut keys stopping during poker games.
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Vault limits now correctly update after purchasing a casino from the market.
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Table chat no longer gets stuck when clicking away from it.
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Fixed another issue that could cause poker tournaments to get stuck with the last 2 players.
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Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent hiring/firing employees in casinos purchased from the market.
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Fixed an issue with walking out of west-facing buildings.
December 19, 2014
Happy Holidays 2014: The city is fully decorated for the season! In addition, we have 5 new limited edition holiday items available. Get all of the details on how you can get your hands on these items before they are gone for good after January 2 by clicking on the snowflake icon at the top of the game screen.
Community Ambassador Applications: We are looking to add a few more players to the team, so if you are interested in being a CA, click here to apply.
Community Ambassador Applications: We are looking to add a few more players to the team, so if you are interested in being a CA, click here to apply.
FEATURE
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."
UPDATE
A notice now shows on the roulette table while you are waiting for the next round to start after first taking a seat.
UPDATE
A few tweaks to the new mission display/animation.
FIX
Only play winning chip sounds at slots for slot winnings.
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Fixed an issue with the new mission step sound.
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Cleaned up a few small issues with the new player tutorial.
FIX
Fixed another issue that was causing some players to stop receiving CP's at solitaire.
FIX
Fixed several errors from around the game.
December 16, 2014
FEATURE
Add 9 new ultra slim ATM items for casinos and crews!
UPDATE
More updates to database infrastructure to improve performance and reliability.
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Increase font size of instant move-in confirmation modal.
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Tweak level limits on low-end clothes.
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Add audio to mission step completion.
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Automatically walk back up to job board in apartment building after completing janitor shift.
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Players under level 10 will no longer be placed on the same blackjack and roulette tables as more experienced, higher level players.
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Various improvements to the new player experience.
FIX
Fixed several display issues caused by overlap of crew war and battle.
FIX
Quick chat is now hidden when editor buttons are visible to prevent them from overlapping.
FIX
The goldfire.me notice for selling a lot/casino on the market is now being sent correctly.
FIX
Prevent bomb drops from getting stuck on the walls of crew floors and unable to be collected.
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Fixed an issue that some players were seeing with the updating of consecutive days count.
FIX
Prevent poker winner text from showing beneath the pot chips.
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Fixed an issue with the party bomb 10-minute timer.
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Fixed issue with playing incorrect background music when loading in on fresh cache.
FIX
Some newer players were having issues with CP not being awarded after leveling up in solitaire.
FIX
Pressing the 'escape' key while at a poker table in your own casino no longer opens the edit floor buttons.
December 10, 2014
Community Feedback Survey: Help improve the survey by taking a few minutes to fill out this survey: click here.
UPDATE
The Windows/Mac Desura apps have been updated for better performance.
UPDATE
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.
UPDATE
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.
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The battle scores alert now rounds the numbers.
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More updates to our audio engine for more cross-platform fixes.
FIX
Fixed issue in poker tournaments that sometimes caused a player to be moved to an empty table.
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Fixed an issue where some daily resets were an hour off from the rest.
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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.
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The new 50/50 max bet limits now work correctly.
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Fixed a rare bug that could cause a building upgrade to be charged twice.
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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.
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Fixed display of last page of battle challenge list.
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Fixed various bugs and errors throughout the client/server.
December 2, 2014
FEATURE
3 new casino/crew items: Grand Pianos.
FEATURE
13 new condo items that allow you to have a personal kitchen!
FEATURE
Purchasing GoldFire Gold now supports gifting, just in time for the holidays! When opening the Buy Gold window, click the "Buy as a gift?" link and enter the username of the user you'd like to send the gift to. If there is a promotion going on, they will also receive the promo items, etc.
FEATURE
There is a new 24-hour window before crew war voting begins that allows crews to add enough funds for the war. So, if you didn't have enough in the bank when war was declared, you aren't left out if you want to participate.
FEATURE
When joining a tournament table before it has started, a countdown will now appear on the table to show how long until it starts.
FEATURE
Poker SnG's and tournaments now come with a single 30-second extra time for each player. Using this gives you extra time to make a big decision, but once used is no longer available for the rest of the SnG/tournament.
UPDATE
The max bet for 50/50 has been tweaked: 100k (level 25) and 250k (level 30).
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Added a tutorial hint to poker for the pre-turn checkboxes.
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Added some new symbol animations to Western and Space slots.
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Automatic battle protection after completing a battle has been lowered from 7 to 5 days.
UPDATE
As your casino empire expands, your crew gains collective knowledge. Because of this, item break rate now slightly scales down as you expand.
FIX
Fixed a few different issues that were causing some players to get stuck while loading into the game.
FIX
Fixed some issues with how the private driver drop-off location was calculated.
FIX
Rebuying on large poker cash games should now work correctly.
FIX
Folding before cards finish dealing no longer causes a card to stick on the poker table.
FIX
Fixed bug with going full screen in Internet Explorer 10.
FIX
Fixed a bug that was blocking the game from loading for some players on Desura.
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The watch count/list now updates correctly when a poker tournament starts.
FIX
Fix a bug with the "No Jaywalking" mission caused by the pathfinding updates.
FIX
The "Mail Pickup" mission now correctly counts towards the Building Permit.
FIX
Updated our audio engine to fix a few cross-browser issues.
FIX
Various other fixes and tweaks.
November 21, 2014
FEATURE
There is now an official way to change your username from your goldfire.me user settings page.
UPDATE
More improvements to the server to help with performance and scalability.
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Several new improvements to the goldfire.me system to help with scaling and performance.
UPDATE
Paused background poker tables that have nobody playing at them so that they stop using server resources when not needed.
UPDATE
The crew member limit for battle challenges is now based on active members rather than total members.
UPDATE
Any player that has more than 250,000 chips is now blocked from joining the Noob poker table.
FIX
If you walk out of a building and you get disconnected, you will no longer get stuck on a black screen (the reconnect detects this and transfers you outside again).
November 18, 2014
FEATURE
There is now a button to undo last move in solitaire (won't allow you to undo a flipped over column card).
FEATURE
Anyone can now setup custom Casino Point poker SnG tournaments, just like with cash games.
FEATURE
When a sprint completes, the organizer of the sprint is presented with a popup that allows you to automatically reinvite the sprint group to play again. No need to leave the game and click on each person again!
FEATURE
When failing a casino game mission, a popup will now display asking if you'd like to retry the mission.
UPDATE
The path-finding system from players and NPCs has been improved to prevent you from walking through the corners of walls. It also takes much more inteligent paths to your destination, avoiding those annoying non-straight routes when walking past sidewalks, etc.
UPDATE
Casino Points won from slot spins now animate from the CP slot symbols rather than alongside the chips.
UPDATE
If you have typed a number into the auction bid input box when a new bid comes in, your number will only get reset if it is lower than the new minimum bid.
FIX
Made more updates to the server to improve network performance and help with some lag issues that some may have experienced.
FIX
Fixed an issue in slots that would sometimes cause XP to display incorrectly, making it appear as if your XP had dropped when leveling up (when it checked with the server, it saw you were out of sync and updated it...you didn't actually lose any XP).
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Fixed an issue in sprints that would sometimes visually show the wrong win amount.
FIX
Fixed a rare bug that could cause you to get stuck in a solitaire game.
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Quickly paging through the crews list no longer causes them to overlap.
FIX
Fixed a few more missing addresses.
November 11, 2014
FEATURE
6 new items have been added to the Western theme: 3 Western Chandeliers and 3 pianos (pianos have ambient sound). One of the pianos is a Daily Slot exclusive.
FEATURE
Experience is now awarded to individual participants of the winning teams of crew battles/wars.
FEATURE
When clicking the icon over bars, you can now hire a bartender specifically for that bar without going to the Manage menu.
FEATURE
Pressing the "escape" key will now close the active modal window without having to click the "x" icon.
UPDATE
Made several changes and optimizations to the server and database to improve performance.
UPDATE
Solitaire payouts have been improved! You now earn 1/10 of your total bet per card moved to the foundations (previously it was 1/20.4).
UPDATE
It is clear that the solitaire jackpot is still too easy, so we've tweaked the time limit again to 2:30.
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The "End Game" button in solitaire is now disabled until after the first move, preventing accidental pressing.
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Lots/casinos are now ordered by age instead of randomly in the manage properties window.
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There is now a limit of 50 members on crews.
UPDATE
The maximum SnG buy-in has been raised to 9,999,999.
FIX
Fixed an issue with some missions that caused the reset time to be several days in the future.
FIX
Crew names are now shown as the owner of lots in the Real Estate building.
FIX
Prevent issues with multiple bidders in last second of auctions.
FIX
Prevent contractors from overlapping mission givers when loading into game.
FIX
Slower frame-rates should no longer see slot reels getting stuck and spinning for long periods of time.
FIX
Fixed a bug that in rare circumstances could allow a crew to challenge another crew that was already waiting for a battle to start.
FIX
Fixed a few missing addresses on lots.
FIX
Fixed a rare bug that would sometimes prevent the purchaser of a casino from the market to hire/fire employees.
FIX
Tweaked size of upgrade modal to fit longer item names.
FIX
Fixed visual issue with war countdown clock.
October 29, 2014
FEATURE
You can now see the username of the owner of a lot from the real estate map.
FEATURE
There are now keyboard shortcuts in the global chat window to switch between global and crew chat (press the 1 key to go to global and the 2 key to go to crew).
UPDATE
Several new loading screen images can be found for the city, casinos and solitaire.
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Add in the real medal images for the new solitaire medals.
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Slots now continue their auto spins after bonus spins have completed.
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Slightly increased the speed of solitaire card moving animation.
UPDATE
Players and NPC's now show dynamic emotes while playing solitaire just like the other casino games.
UPDATE
The time limit for the solitaire jackpot has been lowered to 2 minutes, 45 seconds.
UPDATE
The repair item window now displays the name of the item being repaired and the number of times it has already been repaired.
UPDATE
When receiving exclusive items from a holiday promotion, your vault will now automatically refresh without you needing to reload the game to see your new items.
FIX
Solitaire medals should now award correctly.
FIX
If there is an error while dealing a new solitaire hand, your bet will get refunded and the game will reset.
FIX
Fixed another issue with the Bubble Stream item animation.
FIX
Fixed an issue that could cause solitaire games to get stuck after receiving an "illegal move" error message.
FIX
Quickly paging through medals on a player profile no longer causes them to overlap.
FIX
Fixed another placement issue with the Post Woman's real estate mission.
FIX
When a bartender quits, they will now correctly be visually removed from staffing a bar.
FIX
Cleared out several cross-browser errors.
October 27, 2014
FEATURE
We are excited to introduce our 6th major casino game: Casino Solitaire! Solitaire is one of the most popular card games on the planet, and the casino variant (based on Klondike) is even more exciting. You can play by going up to a solitaire table, just like all of our casino games.
FEATURE
There are 13 new casino items available, all of which are different types of solitaire tables.
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There are 10 new medals available for solitaire.
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To go along with the new solitaire game, there is now a Solitaire Sprint party mission.
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There is also a new leaderboard metric: Solitaire Cards.
UPDATE
The poker and blackjack games have received refreshes to the decks they use.
UPDATE
The algorithm to select the spot you end up on from spawns, taxi rides, etc has been improved and optimized.
UPDATE
Tools provided to Community Ambassador's for chat moderation have received more improvements to aid in fair handling of situations in a balanced manner.
FIX
Fixed an issue with double-xp day that caused it to be off from the usual schedule.
FIX
Fixed an issue with the new Bubble Stream item animation.