News & Updates
April 29, 2014
FEATURE
The poker tables have received a total interface overhaul as well as a host of new features:
- Everything on screen has been made larger to better accommodate all screen sizes: table, cards, fonts, etc.
- The gameplay interface has been re-imagined to be much easier and faster to use. New, larger buttons allow all game actions in the bottom right of the screen on desktops and touch-screens alike. There is also a new, larger chat window that you can open/close.
- Not only is there a new chat window, but chat from players at the table will show over their avatars as they chat.
- You can now see when a player is typing in chat.
- Like with local chat or chat at blackjack/roulette, you can now chat by hitting the 's' key.
- Ignore functionality now works for poker table chat as well.
- The winner(s) of hands are now highlighted and their winnings animated to their seat.
- The winning hand(s) are now displayed in text on the table to make it easy to see without looking at the dealer log.
- The card animations have all been redone to be more realistic.
- The bet/raise slider has been redone and is much easier to use.
- There are now pot bet buttons in addition to the all-in button on the bet/raise slider.
- Folded and away players become transparent so it is easy to see who is still in the hand.
FEATURE
You could always change the colors of your walls, but now you can also change the material or add various wallpapers. This applies for casinos, condos and crew buildings. There is a new option on the menu that allows you to change the colors.
FEATURE
Your vaults now work on the outside of your casinos now!
FEATURE
NPC's walking around can now display emotes as well. This will be especially useful to watch in your own casino to get a better sense of how patrons are liking/disliking your casino.
FIX
Palm bushes no longer get cut off when in certain configurations.
FIX
Fix bug that prevented outfits from being purchased.
FIX
Fix a table freezing issue in poker cash games.
FIX
Fix bug in roulette that prevented further betting after re-betting.
FIX
Don't allow purchasing of your own Casino Points.
FIX
Buildings are now much more transparent while editing your lot.
FIX
Various other bug fixes and tweaks.
April 23, 2014
FIX
Several different bug fixes with yesterday's performance update to further improve performance.
FIX
Fixed some issues that could cause performance to degrade while walking outside for long periods.
FIX
Fixed issue with collecting from trash cans in the mail mission.
FIX
Fixed a freeze when upgrading a building.
FIX
Bartenders are back from the drink-mixers conference and are back at their posts with new skills in hand.
FIX
Players will no longer stack on top of each other on occasion.
FIX
The taxi will no longer drop you off inside of a streetlight.
FIX
Fixed issues with collecting the flying piggy bank.
April 22, 2014
Community Ambassador Applications: Now that we've launched, we are looking to expand the CA team by a few people. If you are interested in helping out, click here to apply.
Poker Contest Update: The Poker Contest overall goal has been lowered to 100,000 hands!
Poker Contest Update: The Poker Contest overall goal has been lowered to 100,000 hands!
FEATURE
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.
FEATURE
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.
UPDATE
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.
FIX
Fixed a few poker tournament issues that would sometimes cause the small blind to be missed when multiple away players were at a table.
FIX
Buy-ins on cash games with blinds greater than 2000/4000 now work correctly.
FIX
Don't show any options and prevent folding during All-In SnG poker tables.
FIX
Fixed several difficulty issues with the janitor job.
FIX
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the flying piggy bank to not broadcast the message to the correct players.
FIX
Changed the color of poker chip transfer text to be easier to read.
FIX
Put lots with no casinos at the end of the properties list in profiles.
FIX
Don't show a status of undefined in the properties list in profiles.
FIX
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the poker lobby for tournaments to break.
FIX
Fix UI bug with the recent performance improvements.
FIX
Prevent walking into casino that is under construction after first building on the lot.
FIX
Fixed visual bug with entertainer job stats.
FIX
Various other bug fixes and tweaks.
April 18, 2014
FEATURE
There are 4 new items available for your casinos and crew buildings: beam light (outside) and 3 new twisting sculptures.
FEATURE
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.
UPDATE
Several updates to the audio engine that fix cross-browser issues and increase the audio quality for several areas of the game.
UPDATE
We've made some tweaks to the main UI that should help with performance.
FIX
The dead button is now working on poker tables. This was also the cause of a few issues with tables freezing.
FIX
The two checkboxes for waiting for or posting the big blind now toggle to fix confusion with unchecking one and having an undesired result.
FIX
Various different bug fixes.
April 17, 2014
UPDATE
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.
FIX
Fixed a few issues in Firefox that were causing the game to freeze on loading screens periodically.
FIX
Scheduled poker tournaments no longer run the risk of generating too many tables for the number of signed up players.
FIX
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause players to pile up on each other.
FIX
The guest view is now working again.
FIX
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.
FIX
Fixed several issues that were causing invisible players to be generated.
FIX
The speed of dialog text fading in/out has been improved.
FIX
The new trophies can no longer be upgraded infinitely for free (sorry, you still get awesome free trophy items).
FIX
Purchasing 6-months of citizenship now visually updates the expiration time correctly.
April 16, 2014
This is an exciting day for all of us here at GoldFire Studios, and we hope you join us in that excitement! Today is the official launch of CasinoRPG after a full year of beta testing. We can't thank all of you enough for your support and feedback. We've still got a lot in store for this game, and we hope to see all of you along for the ride.
Launch Day Sale: For the first 24-hours of the launch, all Casino Point purchases with Gold will get an extra 25% CP!
Launch Day Sale: For the first 24-hours of the launch, all Casino Point purchases with Gold will get an extra 25% CP!
FEATURE
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.
FEATURE
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."
UPDATE
Everyone will also be getting a beta medal today as well.
FIX
Outside audio should all be working correctly now, especially when concerning the 3D fountain audio.
FIX
You will no longer hear fountain audio while in some casinos.
FIX
The hotkey for the accept button in the editor now works after rotating an item.
FIX
Various other bug fixe and tweaks.
April 15, 2014
FEATURE
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.
UPDATE
More balancing tweaks to the early Bartender jobs.
UPDATE
A few tweaks have been made to the display of the new loading screens.
FIX
Fixed bug that was causing issues with purchasing new lots.
FIX
Fixed a bug in the lot editor that would sometimes cause the screen to get stuck.
FIX
Pigeon droppings should finally be working correctly.
FIX
Fix a new player's character from being generated invisible.
FIX
Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer and the Windows app that could cause various issues after leaving a slot machine.
FIX
Various other client and server bug fixes.
April 14, 2014
FIX
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).
FIX
Fixed several audio issues, especially in Firefox.
FIX
Fixed bug in Firefox that sometimes caused players to get stuck on loading screens.
FIX
Fixed a rare bug that could cause floor tiles to appear invisible when loading into the game.
FIX
The "finish" button on daily slots is now working again.
FIX
Deleting waypoints will now always delete the correct waypoint.
FIX
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).
FIX
Fixed several issues in the intro tutorial.
FIX
Fixed a rare bug that could allow two players to sit in the same poker seat if they joined at the exact same instant.
FIX
Players on slower computers will no longer see their character only half faded in, which made them look sort of like a ghost.
FIX
The janitor job now shows the correctly loading screen.
FIX
Party missions now display their messages outside of the global alert queue.
FIX
Casino floors that are closed no longer count against your casino's environment rating.
April 13, 2014
UPDATE
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.
FIX
The chat ignore feature should now be working correctly for all players.
FIX
The crew invite button is again working correctly.
FIX
Fixed several visual glitches around the map, especially in Zone 3C1.
FIX
Fixed several bugs associated with switching tables at a multi-table poker tournament.
FIX
When watching a multi-table tournament, the button to the table you are at is now disabled in the table switch area.
FIX
Fixed a few areas where the new loading screens still had the spinning chip.
FIX
The signup/cancel button for poker tournaments now updates correctly.
FIX
Fixed a few more bugs with resizing the game window while the poker lobby is open.
FIX
Fixed a bug that would on rare occasions send you to a player named 'undefined' player profile when trying to login.
FIX
Fixed a bug with the intro tutorial that broke things on smaller resolution screens.
April 12, 2014
EASTER 2014: The city is fully decorated for this most colorful of holidays! In addition, we have 6 new limited edition holiday items available. Get all of the details on how you can get your hands on these items before they are no longer available after April 24 by clicking on the Easter egg icon at the top of the game screen.
FEATURE
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).
FEATURE
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.
UPDATE
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.
UPDATE
The Postwoman has moved to a new location because some of her missions were impossible based on her location around the city.
UPDATE
Made quick chat easier to read by adding a stroke around the text.
FIX
Smoothed out several loading screens that appeared to "jerk" when fading in/out.
FIX
All areas where modal windows could be opened multiple times without closing the first should now be fixed.
FIX
When leaving a poker table, the chat area gets removed immediately so it now longer shows over the loading screen.
FIX
Selling condo items now works correctly again.
FIX
Prevent the main loading screen from going to 101%.
FIX
The time between dealer switches on poker tables has been increased.
FIX
Fixed various other client errors.