News & Updates

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.

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.