Salutations, Mayors!
Today's patch is our first step towards addressing issues with early game zone demand. We streamed a bit of the progress on Twitch last night, where the VOD is still available for those interested.
Lone Pine Games on Twitch
These are the patch notes:
Version 0.0.58.11 ALPHA
- We’ve made significant improvements to the long standing issue with early game zone demand. The early game should now be much less frustrating and tedious.
Features
- Density now grows faster up to Density 3. Density 4-10 is unchanged.
- Workers now get jobs immediately when moving to the city. Workers also get a new job when they get laid off, and 90% of the time when losing a job due to a long commute. This dramatically reduces unemployment, and now unemployment matches the Target Unemployment Rate. More information on this will be detailed on the blog at lonepine.io
- Community, Health, Prosperity and Crime now influence population growth.
- Factories have zero demand until the city has 1,000 people.
- Offices have zero demand until the city has 10,000 people.
- Mixed Use has zero demand until the city has 20,000 people.
Fixes
- Fixed edge scrolling in all video modes.
- Fixed several issues that could cause population growth to stall in the early game.
- Fixed two situations which would cause a crash.
- Fixed a bug where statistics which count people by education level could be negative or inaccurate.
- Fixed an issue where houses turned gray when zooming out.
Known issues
- Mid-late game mass transit can be buggy and isn't where it should be.
Development News
Check out this update via the Betas tab. Right-click NewCity in your Steam Library and select Properties. Click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose the "test - Testing branch". You can opt-out by choosing "NONE - Opt-out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
We really appreciate all the feedback and bug reports here on Steam and Discord! Please keep posting your thoughts and touching base with us.
Pleasant Beginnings,
Lone Pine Games
P.S. Thanks to Kola on the NewCity Discord for the thumbnail!