News & Updates

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.

There is now an ignore/unignore button in player profiles that will allow you to filter that player's messages from global chat.

You can now store up to 40 favorite waypoints (80 for citizens). There are now also controls to page between your list of favorites in the mini-map and in the taxi.

Crew buildings are now displayed in orange with a 'C' icon on the mini-map.

Taxis now correctly drop you off at the curbside. We plan on eventually making this even better with some cool animations.

Keyboard events for the floor editor are now fired on key-down rather than key-up.

Fix a bug in crew battles that prevent points from storing correctly in poker.

Fix a few depth-sorting issues caused by yesterday's UI performance updates.

The condo's front door is no longer under the editor grid during the intro tutorial.

The vault storage area is now sized correctly, so the prev/next buttons don't go over the bottom of the screen.

Moving an item out of the vault no longer takes you back to page 1.

Setup a new system to make sure new player's verifications actually go through (sometimes they would get dropped due to network issues, so now they will get resent until network issues are solved).

Cleared out a big list of server bugs and errors to prevent crashes, exploits and attacks.

You can finally walk inside apartment buildings! They are fairly limited at the moment, but more functionality will be added in the future. You can go to your condo by walking inside any apartment building and walking up to the elevator. There is also a job board where you will access jobs (the mop in your condo is still there for now, but the plan was always to phase that out eventually).

7 new items have been added to condos, casinos and crew buildings: HDTV and 6 colored lamps.

There are now 3 different dealer images that will show up at dealer switch time at table games.

The poker buy-in window has been improved by showing the min/max buy-in outside of the input box. It also now auto focusses so you don't have to click in the text box to enter your buy-in.

The placeholder text in inputs no longer goes away until you start typing.

Level 1 players can no longer be challenged in party missions.

Poker tables that currently have players on them are now highlighted in green in the poker lobby.

Most of the flickering of outdoor objects should now be fixed.

Fix the last chat character from getting cut off when typing quickly in global chat.

Several more bug fixes and tweaks to environments (keep sending us feedback on these, it is incredibly helpful).

When you edit the tiles on your lot, they will be updated immediately without needing to reload the game.

Prevent any HTML from being used in global chat.

Long floor names now get cut off in the elevator view so that they don't overlap buttons.

Fixed bug in Blackjack and Roulette that would sometimes show a seat as being available to sit at while you were already sitting at the table.

Prevent opening multiple poker join windows at the same time.

If you click join at a poker table and then leave without closing the join window, it will not get automatically closed.

Correctly re-position the missions display when leaving a poker table in your own casino.

Fixed several issues with resizing of the poker lobby display when resizing the game window.

Fixed several issues with resizing of the global chat window when resizing the game window.

A few small performance improvements in various UI components.

The speed of the error window has now been more than doubled.

Lots more random client-side error fixes.

The global chat now has a "Chat Bot" that will post the current time every 15 minutes to give you some context when first loading into the game and looking at chat history.

A repellent has been formulated that has successfully rid the city of the rubber-eating pigeons!

Several tweaks and bug fixes have been applied to the casino environment ratings. This is still an experimental feature and currently has no impact on your casinos as we continue to tweak it until it is right.

The vault check that sees if you have enough room for more items in storage is now working correctly.

When you purchase a new lot, the for sale sign will be removed immediately.

If you leave a cash game and then come back, the amount you need to buy-in with is auto pre-filled in the text input.

Fixed the fading animation when leaving poker tables.

Fixed a bug that would cause the game to freeze if you double-clicked the mini-map while it was expanding after clicking on a taxi.

Lots of other error fixes that were causing various issues.

Casinos now have a new metric in the tycoon: environment ratings. You can view your casino's environment rating from the metrics menu inside your casino. This will show you your entire casino's rating. This is still experimental, so it won't have any affect on your casino's other metrics yet, but we plan on introducing this soon after it has been tested by all of you (so if you think a rating looks odd, please let us know). If you have low ratings, one thing to check is whether or not players can actually get to your games, doors, etc.

Mission coins over mission-giver heads are now now faded out while the mission is unavailable.

Lots around the city that are still available for sale will now have a for sale sign in the middle of their grass.

The global alert showing a player's jackpot win will now also show what casino they were playing in.

Reworked the back-end of the mission system to help us add more missions in the future and to fix bugs/issues with the current system.

Fixed a bunch of various errors that could have been breaking various different things.

The intro tutorial's arrow has been updated to make it more obvious what you are supposed to be doing.

You can now change the name of casinos when they are closed.

Large speed improvement with the GoldFire Network avatars, which leads to much faster loading of chat, poker, blackjack, roulette, settings, etc.

Various network tweaks/optimizations to improve performance and fix lag/crashing issues.

Fixed very rare poker bug that would cause a crash if a player got a straight flush with 2 aces on the board.

Various other behind-the-scenes updates to improve stability/performance.

We now accept Bitcoin for purchasing GoldFire Gold (and thus also Casino Points)! We've partnered with Coinbase to make this happen, so it is especially easy if you already have a Coinbase account. Otherwise, you can still purchase with your Bitcoin wallet like you normally would.

There is a new 5-star casino design available, which now means there are a total of 10 casino designs to choose from.

The purchase window for UltimatePay (mobile, bank, etc) when buying Gold is now inline, so you don't need to open a new window.

The quick chat input will no longer hide unless the text input is empty (this was often an annoyance if you were trying to chat while walking around or playing a game).

Added a toggle behavior to the Manage Properties window so that you couldn't open multiple on top of each other.

Various database optimizations to improve server performance.

Instead of completely hiding other buildings while in lot edit mode, they are now simply "ghosted."

Released a new version of the Windows 8/8.1 apps to fix some crashing issues.

Cleared out a bunch of client errors that could have been causing various issues.

You no longer have to reload the game to see the updated name of a casino after changing it from the Manage Properties window.

Your casino's name and username now show correctly after editing the building and leaving the editor screen.

Fixed bug that prevented casino sounds from stopping when going to your condo.

Fixed bug that prevented fountain sounds from playing when leaving condo.

Various other audio issues for different browsers.

New mission giver! You were probably wondering where the Roulette missions are now that we've got a Roulette Sprint. Well, now there is one hanging out in a city square near you.

The first version of the spawning system we've been talking about for a while is in this release. This is still a basic version of it, but it will start to spread more experienced players out into the world. By default, players that don't yet have a building permit will spawn from their condo to the 0A0 square, but everyone else will have spawn points randomly, yet intelligently selected each time you leave your condo. The basic idea is to spread players around the game world, but to still attempt to cluster groups of players so that you don't get dropped in an empty zone. We've got plans to make this even more intelligent in the future, but would love to hear your ideas to improve the system.

Tweak the 3D audio inside and outside to make the world feel more spread out.

Only play music in casinos if the casino is not open to the public.

If a casino floor is open but has nothing in it, still only play music.

Casino ambiance sounds are now more intelligent. Slots sounds will only play if there are slot machines on the floor. Table game sounds will only play if there are table games on the floor.

You can now see the scores of all participating crew members in crew battles, not just the top 5.

Fixed another bug that was showing cards that shouldn't be shown (they were actually from a different poker table).

Sometimes inside casino sounds would fail to stop playing when going outside.

Sometimes loading into the city from outside would prevent inside sounds from playing.

Fix an issue with mini-map panning getting stuck sometimes.

Fix a bug with mission completions that was causing various odd bugs and prevented some players from finishing their building permit mission.

The poker bet/raise slider no longer shows behind any player avatars.

The empty space underneath editor menu tabs no longer blocks clicks, which was causing issues with placing items, painting tiles, etc.

You've got sprints for slots, poker and blackjack, and now you've got them for roulette! Remember, to start a new sprint, simply click on another player and click the challenge button (the one with the dice).

There is a new, alternate 4-star casino design available.

The art for the original 1-star casino has been updated.

The Real Estate Office now tells you which directions a building can face on a lot before you purchase it.

Crew battle timers are now displayed with more exact times.

Crew battle stats now show the percent so that there is no confusion.

Various small performance tweaks around the game.

The Poker Casino Points Raffle is now only available to players on public cash games.

Possibly fixed a bug that in rare cases showed a player's cards too early (please keep reporting this if it keeps happening).

Editing of crew lot now works again.

Editing of inside of crew buildings by other members of the crew now works again.

Fixed bug that would cause you to get stuck on 99% loading after reloading inside of a crew building.

Lots of various bug fixes and tweaks with the mission system.

Fixed several issues with reset times on repeatable missions.

The 'splash' animation now displays correctly when purchasing a lot.

Fixed issue that caused a lot of lag for 5-10 minutes after new game updates.

Missions that award items are now correctly showing those items as rewards again.

Fixed issue when entering/exiting lot editor that would sometimes cause world objects to pop in slowly.

Fixed issue with Windows Store App that would sometimes cause players to show as online when they had exited the app.

Crew roles now correctly update in real-time when a crew leader updates another member.

Increase wall height by 1 pixel so that it matches up correctly with outside walls.

Fixed two visual bugs on the map.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.