News & Updates
October 23, 2019
HALLOWEEN PROMO: The city is decked out for this spooky time of year, and we have 6 incredible limited edition Halloween items to celebrate! Get the details on how you can get yours before they are gone for good after November 7 by clicking on the pumpkin icon at the top of the game screen.
TRICK-OR-TREAT 2019: When the ghosts and ghouls start roaming the streets, you know what that means! Click on the candy icon next to the promo icon to see the trick-or-treat progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide event. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a new limited edition Trick-or-Treat 2019 Trophy item!
TRICK-OR-TREAT 2019: When the ghosts and ghouls start roaming the streets, you know what that means! Click on the candy icon next to the promo icon to see the trick-or-treat progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide event. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a new limited edition Trick-or-Treat 2019 Trophy item!
UPDATE
The keyboard now gets hidden on mobile after sending a global chat message.
FIX
An error in our e-mail system caused some players to get an e-mail saying their casinos were in danger of going to foreclosure when that wasn't the case.
FIX
Many NPCs were failing to leave floors and getting stuck at the doors.
FIX
NPCs that left buildings often didn't show up for others outside that building or walking to other buildings.
FIX
The "market" button now restores correctly after traveling to a lot in the market.
FIX
Prevent multiple clicks on the poker seat button taking more chips than intended.
FIX
Various other fixes and tweaks that were causing different issues.
October 5, 2019
UPDATE
Casinos with hotels now have an updated icon on the expanded mini-map.
FIX
Various solitaire issues that could cause several different bugs.
FIX
The editor would cause lag when going in/out of the editor multiple times.
FIX
Casinos in new zones with few open casinos would get overrun by NPCs.
FIX
The bar drinks would sometimes get stuck on the screen.
FIX
Some casino front doors would take you to the first hotel floor instead of the casino floor.
FIX
The morale hints for wages have been adjusted to correctly account for hotel employees.
FIX
Leaving a slot would sometimes cause a black screen to get stuck.
FIX
Dragging items from the vault would sometimes cause them to vanish back to the vault.
FIX
Multiple blackchips wouldn't always apply the correct chat mute time.
FIX
Deleting crew chat announcements didn't always work correctly.
FIX
Opening and closing the mini-map could cause elements to get stuck on screen.
FIX
Various other fixes and tweaks throughout the game.
September 20, 2019
FEATURE
There are new metrics available to help with your hotel staffing. Click on your hotel's guest rating in the editor and then click the new "staffing" button to reveal the supply & demand values for each amenity.
UPDATE
Increased the world population of NPCs that visit your casinos/hotels by 25%.
UPDATE
The manage tab has been updated to again let you see and modify count and wage for employees without opening a new window.
UPDATE
When sending a gift, you now receive a notification as a receipt of what was gifted and to confirm that it went through.
UPDATE
Added hotel amenities as a filter category to the vault.
UPDATE
Blinds in poker tournaments will now top out at 1500/3000 instead of 1000/2000.
UPDATE
Tweaked the hints for number of managers on the morale window to be more helpful.
UPDATE
The first floor of hotels now have a door to the outside world just like the first floor of casinos.
FIX
Another issue with slot sprints/tournaments that could show the wrong or two winners.
FIX
Correctly setup new hotel medals on Steam.
FIX
A lock icon would show on top of party bomb items sometimes.
FIX
Party bomb items would sometimes appear to be "ghosts" in that you could see them but not collect them.
FIX
Sometimes the game icons would show incorrectly on casino floors in the elevator.
FIX
All NPCs would vanish after using the elevator sometimes.
FIX
The metrics tab would sometimes appear blank when opening the editor.
FIX
Some hotels ended up with "vanishing" floors that really just had the wrong level number on them and were hidden.
FIX
If you left a slot machine before the spin finished and got double XP, the flag wouldn't show.
FIX
The elevator wouldn't always show all of the amenities that your floor had.
FIX
Various issues with chat ban and other messages accidentally broadcasting to everyone online.
FIX
Various issues with metrics changing too drastically from hotels being added.
FIX
Various server errors that were causing disconnect issues.
FIX
Lots of errors and random bug fixes related to the hotels update.
August 27, 2019
FEATURE
You can now add a hotel business to your casinos using the new "Hotels" tab in the casino editor! A casino must be 2-star or greater and you can build as many hotel floors as you have casino floors. The hotels tab offers some new metrics (keep in mind that just like in the casino, changes you make take time to fully reflect) as well as the ability to set room rates for the various types of rooms your hotel offers.
FEATURE
When editing your hotel floors, you'll find a new "Amenities" item category, which boasts 129 new items spanning 3 different hotel amenity types: entertainment, restaurant and wellness. Any non-game item can be placed on a hotel floor and amenity items can only be placed on hotel floors. Many of these new amenity items can be interacted with like bars.
FEATURE
Three new job types have been added: housekeeper, wellness worker and waiter.
FEATURE
The hotel buildings out in the world can finally be entered! Once inside, you are greeted with a fancy hotel lobby, and speaking to the concierge allows you to visit a random hotel floor somewhere in the city.
FEATURE
The elevator now has a casino/hotel toggle that lets you go to either the casino or hotel floors.
FEATURE
The elevator also shows the game and amenity types available on each floor with icons under the floor names.
FEATURE
The casino profit window has been updated to show the breakdown of casino and hotel revenue.
FEATURE
The casinos app has been updated to show which of your casinos have hotels and shows the individual floors for each.
FEATURE
NPC's have been updated to visit the hotels, use the amenities and say new phrases.
UPDATE
Card shuffling in all our card games use a standard shuffling algorithm that many card games use, but we've taken it a step further by adding 7 "riffle" shuffles in addition to the standard shuffle to better simulate real-life shuffling.
UPDATE
Further tweaked down item break frequency on upgraded items.
UPDATE
Only players with verified accounts can send condo invites now.
FIX
The final order of slot sprints and tournaments didn't always show correctly when the winner was declared.
FIX
Various other fixes around slot sprints/tournaments.
FIX
App windows would sometimes get stuck half faded-out and preventing you from clicking in that area of the screen.
FIX
Adjust poker chat bubbles to not cover chip amount.
FIX
Player lookup from the apartment building lobby now works on mobile.
July 24, 2019
SUMMER PROMO: We have 6 new limited edition summer-themed items available for your casinos and lots! Get the details on how you can get yours before they are gone for good after August 8 by clicking on the beach ball icon at the top of the game screen.
HOT DOG EATING CONTEST: It wouldn't be summer without over-eating from the grill! Click on the hot dog icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide hot dog eating contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a limited edition Hot Dog Eating Trophy item!
HOT DOG EATING CONTEST: It wouldn't be summer without over-eating from the grill! Click on the hot dog icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide hot dog eating contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a limited edition Hot Dog Eating Trophy item!
FEATURE
You can now invite friends to a casino game sprint without traveling to the same location. Simply open their profile actions and click the "invite to sprint" button.
FEATURE
The favorite locations now have tabs for friends and crew that let you easily access all of your friend and crew members' casinos without needing to manually create favorites for all of them.
UPDATE
Various performance improvements to the game server.
UPDATE
Elevators can now be added to casinos while the 2-star upgrade is pending.
UPDATE
Slightly tweaked down the rate of getting wall items versus other item types in party bombs.
UPDATE
The gifting window now shows the level of items that can be gifted.
FIX
Improved efficiency of simulation to resolve issues with it getting behind.
FIX
Poker chat on the iOS app was causing issues after sending a message.
FIX
Items could sometimes end up overlapping outside.
FIX
Party Bomb counters on other players could get out of sync when going in/out of floors/buildings.
FIX
Various fixes and tweaks to the new player tutorial.
FIX
Various visual fixes caused by the performance improvements in the last update.
FIX
Various other fixes and tweaks.
June 27, 2019
FEATURE
Clicking multiple items in your vault now updates a single confirmation window allowing you to sell specific items in bulk.
UPDATE
Updated how our rendering engine handles art assets to lower memory usage, improve rendering performance, lower initial download size and lower battery usage. The new system is in place, but only around half of the assets have been converted to the new system, so this should continue to improve over the next few updates.
UPDATE
Tweaked up the odds of getting 2 daily slot spins from a party bomb and some minor tweaks to that challenge's scoring in battle/war.
UPDATE
Completing a solitaire hand during a battle/war challenge now provides a higher score boost than before.
UPDATE
Tweaked up the battle/war scoring on the roulette challenge.
UPDATE
Doubled the speed that the daily slots jackpot will increase.
FIX
Various fixes and tweaks to the new Lucky Dragon Slots and its bonus game.
FIX
The correct color of unlocked item is now shown in slot bonus game.
FIX
Display of XP when receiving a bonus in the Lucky Dragon Slots bonus wheel is corrected.
FIX
Global and crew chat scroll issues on some older browsers.
FIX
Further improvements and fixes to the new player tutorial.
FIX
More fixes for poker tables freezing.
FIX
More fixes for poker tournaments not always merging correctly.
FIX
The consecutive day streak would sometimes go up by 2 instead of 1 (the streaks that were off have been adjusted).
FIX
Some missions in the Golden Joker series wouldn't complete correctly.
FIX
The stats in the crew's bank tab wouldn't always update correctly when switching back to it.
June 4, 2019
GOLDFIRE DAY PROMO: GoldFire Studios is turning 11 on Sunday, June 9! To celebrate, for 24 hours only, a very limited edition item will be available for purchase (or until they sell out). We'll release a batch of 100 of the item every 2 hours throughout the day so every timezone gets a chance. These are on a first come, first serve basis with a limit of 5 per person, per batch.
FEATURE
Our latest slot game, Lucky Dragon Slots, is now available! In addition to the new slot theme, it comes with an all new bonus game and can be accessed from the slot lobby or the games menu in your in-game phone (as well as visiting a casino that already has the new game).
FEATURE
To go along with the new slot game, there are 131 new Chinese-themed items available for your casinos (slot machines, decorations, wall items, etc).
UPDATE
Crew battles have been updated to set the bet amount and refund the difference as soon as a match is made rather than waiting for the battle to start.
UPDATE
The timers app can now set timers up to 999 hours.
UPDATE
The break rate on upgraded casino items has been tweaked down as an added benefit to upgrades.
UPDATE
The mobile app can now be used in portrait orientation to make using chat, forums, etc easier.
UPDATE
Various improvements to scrolling in global chat on mobile.
UPDATE
People you've placed on your ignore list will now also be blocked from sending you gifts.
UPDATE
End of war notifications will now show you your final ranking.
UPDATE
There is now a background on daily slots to help with performance, especially on crowded floors.
UPDATE
Mobile devices will now show 2 party bomb items per tile over 500 (instead of 3 over 1000 as on non-mobile) to help with performance issues.
FIX
Some computers/devices would have issues where one of the slot reels (usually the last one) would appear stuck.
FIX
The ordering of party bomb items wasn't always consistent when entering/exiting a floor with lots of items.
FIX
Some bartender job levels didn't have a max speed working correctly and were much more difficult than intended.
FIX
If someone else had their party bombs locked, their bombs wouldn't show at all instead of just being opaque.
FIX
Chat messages in global chat with multiple addresses now work correctly.
FIX
Hired contractors would sometimes promote a different casino than the one you hired them at.
FIX
Improved performance of loading into slot games.
FIX
Grouping of items in the vault wouldn't always work as expected.
FIX
Stats would sometimes show incorrectly in the vault when owning multiple of the same item at different levels.
FIX
Various issues that could cause items to overlap on the floor or wall, making it look like they had vanished.
FIX
Error in slots that could cause them to freeze when entering bonus games.
FIX
Throwing cards in the entertainer job would sometimes go through the board on mobile.
FIX
If someone was near your crew hall or casino when you closed it, they would still be able to walk inside.
FIX
NPCs will no longer enter closed floors.
FIX
In poker, a straight with a low ace wouldn't highlight the winning hands correctly.
FIX
If a player leaves their crew before the crew war has started, they'll be removed from the war and the crew will be refunded.
FIX
External links will now correctly open in the system browser from the mobile apps.
FIX
Various fixes and improvements to the new player tutorials.
April 17, 2019
EASTER PROMO: GoldFire City is fully decorated for the season and we have 6 exciting limited edition items! Get the details on how you can get yours before they are gone for good after May 2 by clicking on the egg icon at the top of the game screen.
EASTER EGG HUNT 2019: It wouldn't be Easter without a massive Easter Egg Hunt! Click on the basket icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a limited edition Egg Hunt 2019 Trophy item!
SLOTS UPDATE: We had hoped to have a new slot game ready for this update, but we are still putting on the finishing touches. A new slot game based on the poll results will be coming in the next update!
EASTER EGG HUNT 2019: It wouldn't be Easter without a massive Easter Egg Hunt! Click on the basket icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a limited edition Egg Hunt 2019 Trophy item!
SLOTS UPDATE: We had hoped to have a new slot game ready for this update, but we are still putting on the finishing touches. A new slot game based on the poll results will be coming in the next update!
FEATURE
Lots without a casino can now be clicked on in the mini-map to see their name, address and who owns them.
FEATURE
The mobile apps for iOS and Android now support pinch-to-zoom so that you can zoom in to see details and zoom out to better see the world or the casino floors. This works on phones and tablets.
UPDATE
Made significant improvements to the rendering of the game to improve overall performance, especially on mobile (which should help with battery usage). We are seeing increases anywhere from 15-50% depending on the device being used.
UPDATE
Floors with VIP status disabled can now be moved to the first floor of a casino (VIP will remain disabled until they are no longer on the first floor).
UPDATE
Improved the consistency of XP award animations with double-XP to make it more clear (you always were awarded correctly, but sometimes it was confusing).
UPDATE
Profiles now show the name of lots that don't have a casino on them.
UPDATE
When on a chat ban, you are also blocked from buying table items for others.
UPDATE
Clicking to edit a lot from the phone while inside a building now walks your character outside before going to the lot editor instead of just giving an error.
UPDATE
There is now a confirmation popup when listing CP for sale.
UPDATE
When building a new casino, there is now an instant build option sort of like when buying items for your casino. This is only for a new casino and not upgrades.
UPDATE
Tweaked down the size of the mini-map on phones so that it didn't cover up so much of the screen.
FIX
Various bug fixes that could cause items to appear to have vanished after being placed on a floor/lot.
FIX
It was possible to sometimes end up with two of the same card in Solitaire.
FIX
Slot sprints would sometimes finish without showing who the winner was.
FIX
Crews would sometimes get matched for battle without having enough available players.
FIX
Players that didn't participate in the war now correctly see the war results on their crew page.
FIX
Server restarts could sometimes cause the poker screen to go black.
FIX
Selling condo items would sometimes appear to be worth nothing, though the server awarded the correct value.
FIX
Getting a blackjack at the same time as the dealer wouldn't correctly count towards mission progress.
FIX
The citizenship bonus no longer factors into the daily spin challenge in battles/wars.
FIX
Winning the daily spin jackpot now gives a score in the battle/war challenge.
FIX
Other players would sometimes appear invisible after traveling to a location (there may be multiple issues causing this, so let us know if you continue to see it).
FIX
Improved global chat handling on mobile.
FIX
You will now stop walking when opening the mini-map.
FIX
Several issues and improvements to the new player tutorial.
April 16, 2019
We've reached quite the milestone today, one that most games never achieve. Five years ago today, CasinoRPG left beta testing! We've made lots of improvements, feature additions and new friends along the way. Whether you've been here from the start or just found our community yesterday, we are happy to have you as part of this amazing community. All of us on the GoldFire team have enjoyed getting to know all of you and we look forward to continuing to make this a great game and great community experience.
March 4, 2019
MARDI GRAS PROMO: The city is decked out for the Mardi Gras festivities and we have 6 exciting limited edition items available! Get the details on how you can get yours before they are gone for good after March 19 by clicking on the Mardi Gras hat icon at the top of the game screen.
BEAD COLLECTING 2019: Join up with the rest of the community and collect the most Mardi Gras beads from the casinos of GoldFire City! Click the beads icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a new limited edition trophy item!
BEAD COLLECTING 2019: Join up with the rest of the community and collect the most Mardi Gras beads from the casinos of GoldFire City! Click the beads icon next to the promo icon to see the progress and get details on how to participate in this community-wide contest. Participants that reach their goal and the community goal will receive a new limited edition trophy item!
UPDATE
Updated crew war date selection (which the server selects randomly) to not schedule a war that overlaps with double XP day.
UPDATE
Added option to withdraw from crew war while it is still pending.
UPDATE
Each raffle prize (poker, online, war) can now only be won by the same person once every 6 hours to give everyone a fair chance.
UPDATE
If the top item on a stack of party bomb items is one that you dropped, it would previously block collecting the one that is below it that someone else dropped. It now goes down the stack and collects the first one that you are able to collect.
UPDATE
Minor tweaks to scratcher odds to increase XP/CP payouts.
FIX
If a player sat at a Blackjack table while the dealer's cards were being dealt, a new hand would start instantly.
FIX
Another issue that could cause a poker tournament table to not start.
FIX
Various visual, scoring and other issues with crew wars.
FIX
Various issues with crew battles since the last update.
FIX
Possible fix for an issue that would randomly cause a phone app to get stuck on the screen.
FIX
Various issues and performance improvements on the new mini-map.
FIX
Various issues and tweaks with the new player tutorial.
FIX
Various issues that could cause server crashes, frozen poker tables, duplicated bombs and other random issues.
FIX
Waypoint paths could sometimes get stuck after doing a casino game mission.
FIX
Reordering of favorites wasn't always working correctly, especially with large numbers of favorites.