News & Updates

Major performance improvements that could see greater than 20% improvements in framerates depending on your system. We are also happy to announce that performance on tablets (especially iPad) is now much improved as well. We should note that only playing in Safari on an iOS device will result in playable performance.

Fixed bug in Blackjack that sometimes caused too many cards to be dealt.

We have rebuilt our real-time connection system from the ground up to be faster and more reliable. The data that is sent between your computer and the game server is much more lightweight, resulting in faster load times and more responsive gameplay. The new system also has many improvements and fixes that should improve better stability for those of you that were experiencing random disconnections from the game.

Fixed a few visual errors with the credit card screen when purchasing GoldFire Gold.

Closing the editor menu with an instant move-in confirmation window open will no longer break your game.

Fix white backend issues on the quick menu when using Safari (desktop or mobile).

Cleared out a bunch of random errors on the server (one of which caused a server crash earlier today).

Construction sites once again display correctly in the game world and on the mini-map.

Fixed some typos in the game guide.

Fix a bug that would cause new players to get stuck in the tutorial if they opened the news screen.

Add the global 'h' shortcut key to show/hide the HUD while walking around the city.

Admins now have their usernames highlighted green in global chat.

Non-casino buildings once again display correctly when panning around the mini-map.

Prevent the feedback button from covering chat on smaller screens.

You will no longer get stuck inside of a Real Estate building if you reload in it.

Players that are lower than level 10 can now see what land is and isn't available.

We've moved our database to a new datacenter to improve speed and stability. The database now has redundancy built in so that we don't run into an outage issue like we had last week.

Improved card shuffling speed and accuracy by using the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm (used for all card games).

Fixed bug that was causing some buildings to randomly disappear.

A few other various bugs.

Several major performance improvements (especially for players on older or weaker computers) to overall gameplay and when moving around the map.

Decrease data streamed from the server by 40% to improve load times and performance.

Fix a few issues that were causing issues with some of the missions.

There are 19 new items available for inside your casinos! These range fro potted plants all the way up to super-premium bronze statues.

We've made several changes to how map data is loaded and drawn to the screen which should smooth out performance when walking around the map and help prevent or minimize the periodic hangs some of you may have noticed.

Fix new bug that prevented buildings from loading onto the mini-map while walking around the city.

Removed a blinking behavior that appeared while scanning around the mini-map.

A few types of tiles were showing up as invisible on the mini-map.

Various other bug fixes and tweaks.

Add a loading indicator when opening global chat window.

Speed up the panning of the mini-map.

Buildings now load in correctly while panning around the mini-map.

Fix display of multiplier percent that was sometimes off by 1%.

Fix several random client and server errors.

The 'Post Big Blind' option in Poker Cash Games now works as expected.

Fix issue that caused your Chips display to get off while playing slots (only if your casino was running a loss).

Fix a few issues with the new player tutorial.

All of the issues with the GoldFire Network crashing and blocking logins should now be fixed.

Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the quick chat display from showing all new messages when previous longer messages were displayed.

Fixed a few display issues with the new daily slots.

Prevent issues for new players by not displaying the daily slots while they are going through the tutorial.

Tweaked some of the images for a few of the new items.

You can now walk on top of the new in-ground lights.

Cleared out several more server errors.

Daily Slots! This is a really cool new slot machine game that you can play for free each day. The first time you login each day, the Daily Slots will appear on your screen. You get one free spin and big prizes could be yours. Winnings are awarded by adding up the 5 symbols that you get and then applying a daily consecutive multiplier bonus. Each consecutive day you play the daily slots you get a +10% bonus (up to a maximum of 300%).

We have added 13 amazing new items for your casinos! These include new outdoor lighting, new ATMs and a new stacking block item that allows you to get really creative.

The images are now complete for all of the different types of vaults you can upgrade to.

We've continued fleshing out our moderator tools and plan on opening up applications sometime in the next few weeks.

Trash is now more evently distributed around the floor of casinos.

Fix a bunch more server errors that were causing various issues.

Updated our audio engine to help fix some browser issues with sound.

Selling lot entities now properly refunds both Casino Points and Chips.

Work is underway on a more comprehensive admin console for us to better and more quickly provide support.

Fixed some issues on the GoldFire Network that were causing off-and-on issues over the last day or two (still a few more fixes in the works).

Fixes several issues with upgrading casinos.

Several other back-end updates to fix some various bugs.

Some more fixes to players stacked on each other around table games.