News & Updates
December 12, 2013
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Happy Holidays 2013: Three new limited edition holiday items are now available (Holiday Poker Table and Blue/Red Sculptures). These will only ever be made available until December 30, 2013 @ 11:59 PM CST. Click on the snowflake icon at the top of the screen for details.
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You've probably already noticed, but the citizens of GoldFire City have gone all out with their holidays decorations around the city. Be sure to explore the different areas of the city to take in all of the festivities.
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This isn't the only place we post updates, we have an official GoldFire Studios Blog as well, and we now have an e-mail newsletter. If you'd like to keep up on big announcements and what we think about game development, gaming, startups and more, click here to add your name to the list.
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Fix bug in poker SnG's that prevented payouts from being awarded properly.
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The medals for a 2-star and 5-star casino are now awarding correctly.
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Fixed a rare bug that allowed a player to sit in two seats at once during a poker tournament.
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Winning the jackpot while playing the western slots now works correctly.
December 10, 2013
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The screenshot/sharing tool inside of your casinos now works again. Remember, you can easily click the share button to post a screenshot of your casino floor to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+. Also, if anyone signs up and builds their own casino after looking at yours, you'll get 100 Casino Points.
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Fix issue with the Crape Myrtle changing colors.
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Fix issue that prevented you from adding items to your lot if you bought a lot that had been reclaimed by the Real Estate office.
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Various other tweaks and bug fixes.
December 8, 2013
Chrome Web Store Users: If you are a user of the CasinoRPG app on the Google Chrome Web Store, we could really use your help to rise in the rankings from positive reviews and +1's with the G+1 button. No obligation, but if you'd like to help grow the community, click here to visit our listing.
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Google+ login has been added for GoldFire Network logins to CasinoRPG.
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Poker tables should now longer have their player counts off.
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When leaving a poker table, the poker lobby will re-update with fresh data.
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Poker stats now correctly update when getting refunded from a poker tournament that didn't start.
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Poker stats for chips won are now updated correctly from freerolls.
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Prevent opening of multiple poker tournament signup windows so that you can't accidentally signup to the same tournament multiple times.
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Players that are inactive and sitting at a poker SnG that hasn't yet started will now be removed after 3 minutes, just like on a cash game.
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Prevent your cards from flashing sometimes before the start of the new hand.
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Fix rare issue in poker that would cause your previous hand's cards to show rather than the new cards.
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Various other bug fixes.
December 5, 2013
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The property management window can now handle multiple pages of properties.
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Opening multiple employee management windows now closes the previous to prevent window flicker issues.
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Your slot games no longer get reset if the server disconnects, they will now auto reconnect.
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We've made some behind-the-scenes updates to the missions system to prepare for the in-progress party mission system (woot!).
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Fixed some user experience issues with the chip races missions.
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A rare timing issue that could cause a poker tournament to freeze has been fixed.
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When loading into a poker table that already has chat messages, they will now scroll to the bottom automatically from the start.
December 2, 2013
Reminder: There's only a few days left to apply to be a Community Ambassador (click here to apply).
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You can now close your casino. Why would you want to do this you ask? Well, the most common scenario is when someone opens their casino too early and weren't really ready for the rush of customers and costs associated with them. So, if you are a Citizen (which everyone is during beta) or during the first two weeks your casino is open, you can close your casino's doors by going to the outdoor building editor.
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You can now enter your condo by walking up to any apartment building and going inside. This is just temporary as we plan on having actual insides to the apartment buildings (similar to the real estate building) in the future.
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We've made some tweaks to the intro player tutorial that will let them see the 3 main areas of the game right from the start.
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Fixed a few bugs with the murder mission.
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There was an occasional bug in poker that caused bet chips to animate at the end of betting rounds from players that weren't in the hand.
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Fixed a bug that could cause Chip/Casino Point counts to be visually off when rapidly purchasing many casino items.
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Empty floors no longer count towards overtime when working the janitor job.
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Removed the arbitrary casino popularity limit of 1000.
November 27, 2013
Community Ambassador Applications: If you would like to be a CA, click here to apply.
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Real Estate Offices will now offer a free taxi ride to another office with open land for players that don't already own land.
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There are now a few new chip race missions scattered throughout the city.
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The lot editor now hides other buildings during editing.
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When leaving a slot game, the other players on the floor will be correctly synced.
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When you unlock an item in a slot bonus game, you no longer have to reload the game to see the updated unlock status.
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Fix a bug that caused an upgrade to a 5-star casino to show as a 4-star casino.
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Fix bug with casino upgrade notices being sent too many times.
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Fixed a bug with the Blackjack dealer switch that caused it to not always work as intended.
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Fix a bug that caused doorways to interfere with mail mission delivery.
November 25, 2013
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New slot theme! Up until now the only slot game you could play was 'Classic Slots.' We are now excited to announce the release of 'Reel Saloon,' which is a western themed slot game. You can play this by walking up to one of the new western-themed slot machines in a casino that has one.
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In addition to the 3 new slot machine items (which must be unlocked from the bonus game on the new slot theme), we've added 27 new western themed items for use in and out of your casinos.
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Chip race markers on the mini-map are now more obvious.
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Fixed some issues with the pigeon pass mission that may have been causing pigeons to get stuck.
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Fixed several server bugs that were causing disconnects and crashes.
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Fixed issue with the awarding of the 'Monthling' medal.
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Shortened numbers that are greater than 10 million now get displayed correctly (example, 10 million to 10M).
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Signing up for poker tournaments now correctly updates your poker stats in your profile.
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Fixed a display issue with casino capacity.
November 18, 2013
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There is a new mission near the main square, a murder mystery! Find the police officer to get this mission. You will be employed as a detective on a murder case and you must solve the murder to receive a reward.
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We now have an official CasinoRPG Twitter account, click here to follow us! On that note, don't forget to also like us on Facebook.
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The postwoman mission has been moved to a new location.
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Fix a few server errors in poker and blackjack that were causing server restarts.
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Fix a Blackjack bug that allowed hitting after a double on the first set of a split.
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A poker table or tournament should no longer have a chance to get frozen if an error occurs while starting a new hand or during a table merge.
November 13, 2013
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Seven new poker tournaments have been added to the schedule (Tri-Daily 2.5K Freeroll, Midnight Madness, Sunday Millions, Turbo Tuesdays, Turbo Thursdays, The Mayor's Weekly 10K Freeroll, Daily 5K Turbo). These will begin to show up for signups over the next few days.
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There is a new global broadcast that fires when new poker tournaments open for signups.
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Fixed a visual glitch in the poker lobby.
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Fixed a rare bug that would cause an all-in player to lose their chips if a lower-stack all-in player folded their hand after the flop, but before the river.
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Fixed some issues with poker medals not being awarded correctly, and awarded the missing ones.
November 12, 2013
This is mostly just a maintenance update. We've got some bigger updates in the works that will be coming soon though!
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Fixed a few small bugs with poker tournaments (more on the way).
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There was a bug at the beginning of the month that prevented monthly rankings from resetting, this should be fixed for next month.
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Fixed some visual issues with the revenue chart.
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Fixed bug that prevented some entities from being placed along editor borders.
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NPC's should no longer occasionally exit an elevator onto the wrong floor.
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Mission-giver portrait images will now always be mounted to the window instead of sometimes not showing up.
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Some other various bugs and tweaks.