News & Updates
May 28, 2013
FEATURE
There is a surprise waiting for you when you walk off the edge of the map.
FEATURE
You can now use the elevator! This also means that you can purchase multiple floors for your casino to get more floor space.
FEATURE
Big tycoon updates:
- Popularity is now much more realistic and more challenging to achieve. There is no longer a hard 100 limit at the high end.
- Popularity now has a greater impact on how many patrons visit your casino.
- The location of your casino can help improve your casino's popularity.
- When real players visit your casino, you will get popularity boosts for that (think of real players as in-game celbrities that the AI players want to be around).
- Your casino's star-rating (1-5) also affects your casino's popularity now.
- Logging in regularly and visiting your casino(s) provides positive morale boosts to your employees.
- Employee morale now has a noticeable impact on their performance.
- There are now positive and negative impacts to hiring the right mix of employees.
- The morale menu now provides hints as to what factors are impacting morale.
- The citizens of GoldFire City have become messier, and there is some variance so its not so rigid anymore.
- Entertainers also impact your popularity now.
- Most all casino items have been tweaked and provide various positives and negatives to your casino.
- Bars now require bartenders, and when you hire a bartender, he will visually appear manning the bar.
- Firing an employee can now have negative impacts on morale (or maybe not...).
- There is now the chance that a high roller could visit your casino and earn you extra profit for a period.
- Low security may lead to cheaters taking a percentage of your profits.
- Since you can now add multiple floors, upgrading items no longer increases casino capacity.
FIX
Players that have been having trouble connecting due to outdated firewalls should now be able to connect to the game.
FIX
The formula used to calculate real-estate prices based on how many properties you already own has been tweaked to be more reasonable.
FIX
Fix door placement on new 5-star casino.
FIX
Tweaked the size of the large mini-map.
May 27, 2013
FEATURE
Automatic zone generation: whenever a zone is 80% occupied, all empty neighboring zones will be generated, allowing the city to automatically grow with the population.
UPDATE
Finish setting up all map templates. You won't be able to see these until automatic zone creation is finished (and there are more players in the game to expand the map).
FIX
Fix a few issues with buildings not always loading correctly when entering game from outside of Zone 0.
FIX
Fixes editor bug where items with a 0 coordinate didn't probably reset their position.
FIX
Fixes editor bug where all items showed confirm button after destroying unbought editor entity.
May 26, 2013
UPDATE
The map template files are very large, and this is most of what you download each time we release a new version of the game. These have now been moved out of the main game file, so load times should improve a lot from this.
UPDATE
The 5-star casino has been completely redesigned, and we think it looks amazing (we think you will too)! Now all current buildings are fully visually updated.
May 25, 2013
UPDATE
Added an animation for winning Casino Points similar to when you win Chips.
FIX
Fix a bunch of issues with the playback of background music.
FIX
Hitting raise or bet with an empty bet input box doesn't cause a fold anymore.
FIX
Raising without enough chips is now handled correctly.
FIX
Poker chat input focus is no longer stolen when it is your turn.
May 22, 2013
UPDATE
The 4-star casino now has new art and animations!
UPDATE
Standardized the animations for chips and casino points.
UPDATE
Added a subtle animation for leveling up.
FIX
Fixed issue with chip animations running for too long.
FIX
You no longer get stuck in some casinos outside of Zone 0.
FIX
Tweaked the position of the camera in lot edit mode.
May 21, 2013
UPDATE
The art for the Entertainer NPC is now complete.
UPDATE
Selling items now actually returns part of the purchase price, based on the time since it was bought.
FIX
A bunch of updates to the AI players to get them working better and improve performance.
FIX
Fix issues with fade screen from outside editor to game world.
FIX
Fix flickering issue with fading out red arrow.
FIX
Disable player walking while inside of the casino editor.
FIX
Update Real Estate prices after purchasing a lot.
FIX
It is no longer difficult to click the volume button.
May 19, 2013
UPDATE
Remove 'RENAME' icon in properties manager and allow editing of text by clicking on the name of the casino.
UPDATE
Mousing over or clicking on the status bar on the manage porperties window will now show the status number.
FIX
Fix bug that caused mission givers to go invisible.
FIX
There were issues entering casinos in zones outside of Zone 0.
FIX
Fix issue that caused ground textures outside of Zone 0 to disappear.
FIX
A few more tweaks to remove stuttering in cluttered areas.
May 17, 2013
UPDATE
Show the poker shortcut keys in the info window.
FIX
Double-clicking again no longer causes hyper-animation and the title to get stuck.
FIX
Sorry folks, you can no longer play a slot machine from outside a casino.
FIX
Fix some choppiness caused by a previous update.
FIX
Changing bet/raise amount should now always work in poker.
FIX
Hitting enter in poker chat will no longer fire the bet/raise button.
May 17, 2013
FEATURE
Add a new outside item: Brick & Hedge Wall.
UPDATE
Update the look and animations of the 3-star casino.
UPDATE
Improve the loading times when going from inside to outside.
FIX
Fix some issues with the NPCs not always showing.
FIX
Fix visual depth-sorting issue with mission NPC coin.
FIX
Fix issue with objects 'popping' into view on the edges of the screen.
FIX
Fix empty speech bubble in morale window.
May 16, 2013
FEATURE
AI players are finally here! You will see non-player characters walking around and interacting with the world. We are starting it off small to ease into it, so please send feedback on this fairly large new feature.
FIX
Fix bug that caused chips to get out of sync.
FIX
Fix a bunch of issues with global chat that caused overflows and messed up paging.
FIX
Dramatically improve rendering speed of chat messages.
FIX
Active chat participants were not showing correctly before.
FIX
Cleanliness history should now be correct.