News & Updates

Several different bug fixes with yesterday's performance update to further improve performance.

Fixed some issues that could cause performance to degrade while walking outside for long periods.

Fixed issue with collecting from trash cans in the mail mission.

Fixed a freeze when upgrading a building.

Bartenders are back from the drink-mixers conference and are back at their posts with new skills in hand.

Players will no longer stack on top of each other on occasion.

The taxi will no longer drop you off inside of a streetlight.

Fixed issues with collecting the flying piggy bank.

Everyone now has an unlimited wardrobe to store your purchased clothes in! This means once you've purchased an outfit, top, pants or shoes, you'll be able to switch into those clothes whenever you would like for free. No more repurchasing of the same clothes over and over. Since there is no record of what you have purchased in the past, this goes into effect from now moving forward.

Emotes! In addition to being able to display chat bubbles over your head, you can now click on yourself to reveal a large selection of emotes to display over your character's head.

Major performance improvement: lots of updates have gone into this release that significantly reduce the work your browser does each time you load into the game. This means faster loading times, smoother gameplay and less sporadic lag. It also means less lag when walking between zones. This should be especially apparent on systems that are less powerful, such as lower-end laptops and tablets.

Fixed a few poker tournament issues that would sometimes cause the small blind to be missed when multiple away players were at a table.

Buy-ins on cash games with blinds greater than 2000/4000 now work correctly.

Don't show any options and prevent folding during All-In SnG poker tables.

Fixed several difficulty issues with the janitor job.

Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the flying piggy bank to not broadcast the message to the correct players.

Changed the color of poker chip transfer text to be easier to read.

Put lots with no casinos at the end of the properties list in profiles.

Don't show a status of undefined in the properties list in profiles.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the poker lobby for tournaments to break.

Fix UI bug with the recent performance improvements.

Prevent walking into casino that is under construction after first building on the lot.

Fixed visual bug with entertainer job stats.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.

There are 4 new items available for your casinos and crew buildings: beam light (outside) and 3 new twisting sculptures.

Just like with poker cash games, there are now sticky Sit and Go's! This means there are pre-setup SnG tournaments ready anytime, and when one of them starts, it will be duplicated for the next group that wants to play. You can of course still setup your own SnG tournaments as well.

Several updates to the audio engine that fix cross-browser issues and increase the audio quality for several areas of the game.

We've made some tweaks to the main UI that should help with performance.

The dead button is now working on poker tables. This was also the cause of a few issues with tables freezing.

The two checkboxes for waiting for or posting the big blind now toggle to fix confusion with unchecking one and having an undesired result.

Various different bug fixes.

You now receive a notice when Episode 1 of the narrative missions is complete, so you don't have to wonder if you've reached the end of that series or not.

Fixed a few issues in Firefox that were causing the game to freeze on loading screens periodically.

Scheduled poker tournaments no longer run the risk of generating too many tables for the number of signed up players.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause players to pile up on each other.

The guest view is now working again.

If your chips and casino points update while you are on a build menu, opening the build menu will update the locked status of items accordingly.

Fixed several issues that were causing invisible players to be generated.

The speed of dialog text fading in/out has been improved.

The new trophies can no longer be upgraded infinitely for free (sorry, you still get awesome free trophy items).

Purchasing 6-months of citizenship now visually updates the expiration time correctly.

Beta trophies! Yesterday, you started getting GoldFire Pioneer Trophies, and today everyone that participated in the beta will get a Beta Trophy in their vaults as well.

Citizenship is here! All of our amazing beta testers receive 30 days of free citizenship (Kickstarter backers have received their free citizenship on top of those 30 days as well). To see all of the benefits, go to the Casino Points screen and click "Citizen."

Everyone will also be getting a beta medal today as well.

Outside audio should all be working correctly now, especially when concerning the 3D fountain audio.

You will no longer hear fountain audio while in some casinos.

The hotkey for the accept button in the editor now works after rotating an item.

Various other bug fixe and tweaks.

A new class of casino item is now available - trophies! However, you can't simply purchase these, they must be earned. The first is called GoldFire Pioneer Trophy, which is earned with each casino built from now through May 31 (if you already have casinos, you'll have some new items in your vault). These are just like limited edition items in that they can't break and they can only be gotten one way - so in this case it'll never again be available after 6 weeks from now.

More balancing tweaks to the early Bartender jobs.

A few tweaks have been made to the display of the new loading screens.

Fixed bug that was causing issues with purchasing new lots.

Fixed a bug in the lot editor that would sometimes cause the screen to get stuck.

Pigeon droppings should finally be working correctly.

Fix a new player's character from being generated invisible.

Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer and the Windows app that could cause various issues after leaving a slot machine.

Various other client and server bug fixes.

Fixed several issues with Chips and Casino Points getting out of sync and appearing not to be updating (they were updating correctly on the server).

Fixed several audio issues, especially in Firefox.

Fixed bug in Firefox that sometimes caused players to get stuck on loading screens.

Fixed a rare bug that could cause floor tiles to appear invisible when loading into the game.

The "finish" button on daily slots is now working again.

Deleting waypoints will now always delete the correct waypoint.

Fixed issue in slots that would sometimes cause a jackpot winner to visually appear to win double the jackpot amount (again, it was updating correctly on the server).

Fixed several issues in the intro tutorial.

Fixed a rare bug that could allow two players to sit in the same poker seat if they joined at the exact same instant.

Players on slower computers will no longer see their character only half faded in, which made them look sort of like a ghost.

The janitor job now shows the correctly loading screen.

Party missions now display their messages outside of the global alert queue.

Casino floors that are closed no longer count against your casino's environment rating.

We've built fresh servers for every layer of CasinoRPG's infrastructure (GoldFire Network, game server, database, etc). We've also built in some speed and scalability improvements as we prepare for the launch on Wednesday.

The chat ignore feature should now be working correctly for all players.

The crew invite button is again working correctly.

Fixed several visual glitches around the map, especially in Zone 3C1.

Fixed several bugs associated with switching tables at a multi-table poker tournament.

When watching a multi-table tournament, the button to the table you are at is now disabled in the table switch area.

Fixed a few areas where the new loading screens still had the spinning chip.

The signup/cancel button for poker tournaments now updates correctly.

Fixed a few more bugs with resizing the game window while the poker lobby is open.

Fixed a bug that would on rare occasions send you to a player named 'undefined' player profile when trying to login.

Fixed a bug with the intro tutorial that broke things on smaller resolution screens.

Each citizen's driver can now instantly take them to their own casino for free from the manage properties menu (and since everyone is a citizen right now, everyone has this feature unlocked right now).

If you are level 10+, you can now transfer chips to other players by going to their in-game profile window. There is a new Actions button that holds this action and others.

All of the loading screens for the different areas in the game have been updated with some wonderful new art that represents the area you are loading in/out of. The spinning chip is now gone from most loading screens.

The Postwoman has moved to a new location because some of her missions were impossible based on her location around the city.

Made quick chat easier to read by adding a stroke around the text.

Smoothed out several loading screens that appeared to "jerk" when fading in/out.

All areas where modal windows could be opened multiple times without closing the first should now be fixed.

When leaving a poker table, the chat area gets removed immediately so it now longer shows over the loading screen.

Selling condo items now works correctly again.

Prevent the main loading screen from going to 101%.

The time between dealer switches on poker tables has been increased.

Fixed various other client errors.

Up to this point, many of the missions and features around the city have felt somewhat disjointed. There has always been a plan to implement a storyline that ties everything together, but a lack of ample development time has caused this to be pushed back over and over. Until now! We are excited to announce that Episode 1 is here for your enjoyment! If you've already completed the Simon missions in the main square, simply head to any Real Estate office (and ignore the line about talking to the lady at the desk if you've already got a building permit). This first episode offers a glimpse into some of our city's main characters and some of the city's backstory. We plan on periodically releasing new episodes that further develop the world around you, so stay tuned for those updates!

The feedback tab has been removed. However, we are certainly still collecting your feedback, and the feedback area can now be found from a new button in the main menu (3 bars in the top left).

Improved the initial loading time of the game, especially when loading into your condo.

Other various performance improvements around the game.

Significant improvements to performance of connections between CasinoRPG and the GoldFire Network. One side-effect is that leaderboards now only update once every 60 seconds, but it will help massively with scalability and general performance.

The properties in profiles are now ordered by star-rating, and that star-rating is now visible.

Fixed issue with slots that sometimes threw an error for seemingly no reason.

Improve speed of server restart to fix rapid disconnect issue.

The issue that sometimes caused the camera to go crazy while walking outside should now be fully fixed.

Mission givers will no longer walk away while you are talking to them.

Tweak the volume of the slot machines down slightly.

Long casino names in player profiles are now cut off.

Lots of general improvements to the mission system to help make development faster and prevent future bugs.

Fix a few different bugs with taxis.