February 23, 2016
FEATURE
The mini-map has been completely overhauled with lots of new features, tweaks and fixes:
- Expanding the mini-map now takes it full-screen and the scale adjusts based on your screen size.
- Panning around the expanded mini-map is now much smoother and supports variable dragging speed.
- Buildings rendered on the expanded mini-map are now clickable, providing details and actions.
- Viewing casino info now lets you see what casino games are available inside.
- Citizens can now use their driver to go directly to any building from the expanded mini-map.
- Mission givers have a more distinct representation on the mini-map, and are color-coded by type.
- Mission givers are also now clickable on the expanded mini-map to view extra info.
- Lots that are for sale are now marked as red with a white border.
- Clicking on for sale lots in the expanded view lets you go directly to the Real Estate Office.
- Lot tiles are now rendered on all lots when panning the large map, not just around where you started.
- Closed casinos are now dimmed on the mini-map.
- Added 'M' shortcut key to open/close the mini-map.
- Increased size of player marker to be more clear.
- Optimized bandwidth usage for faster loading while panning around mini-map.
- Improved algorithm that picks the drop-off location when getting out of taxi to be closer to the front door.
- Search is now on both taxi and expanded mini-map displays.
- Allows you to search for zone, address, building name and username.
- If you search for a username, it'll move your position to the closest casino owned by that user and highlight all of theirs.
- New, full-screen favorites display allowing you to see more at once.
- Favorites can now be manually re-ordered.
- Add any building to your favorites by simply clicking on it on the expanded map, and it'll auto-load the name.
FEATURE
A new mini-map search feature has been added:
FEATURE
As part of the mini-map update, favorites have also received some updates:
FEATURE
In addition to favorites, you can now add temporary waypoints to your mini-map by clicking the button to the left of the favorites "heart" button. This will mark the position on the mini-map until you reach it, and it will also show a visual path in the game-world to where you are headed. Some missions (especially for new players) will auto-generate a waypoint path when sending you back to the mission giver.
FEATURE
Buildings now become transparent when walking behind them.
FEATURE
The name card shown when you walk up to a building now shows which casino games are inside.
FEATURE
52 new items have been added to your casinos, including 5 new Lottery Machines and many high-end decorations.
FIX
Fixed an issue in scratchers that would sometimes make it look like you were scratching multiple cards at once.
FIX
Various other bug fixes and tweaks.