Changes/Balancing
- Changes to the land value algorithms: effect of education, health and security levels +20%. Decayed buildings effect -50%. Pollution effect -20%. Skyscrappers effect -30%.
- The economy creates a bit less jobs by default, differences between income classes further reduced. Effect of education on participation rate removed. Effect of unemployment increased. (low unemployment rate increases the participation rate)
- The zoning tool is now more tolerant and will proceed to build lots even when the cursor is above a built area
- Low income housing will now only be built if the land value is below the city's average instead of a fixed value.
- Changes to the inflation rate system. More stable equations, less punitive, especially when the unemployment rate becomes negative.
- The local currency can now have a higher value than the USD, enabling more control over the inflation rate.
- Added a loading icon to the launch screen. Smoother intro video.
Bug fixes
- Delete save game was not erasing some files and could cause problems in certain cases
- Added safeguards to the nation loading screen, should now open a new Nation automatically if last Nation can't be found or if data is unreadable.
- Trees could be transparent after loading a city without any tool being selected
- Alert messages were popping up while in pause
- Destroying all connections with an existing neighbor city could stop the city's growth.
- Pollution effect value in custom policy was inverted
- Custom policies on the right column could be selected but only the ones on the left side actually exist!
- Thousands of airplanes could apparently, in rare cases, spawn at the airport
If other serious issues are reported new patches will be uploaded. If not I will be able to work on additional content (unique buildings, new growables, fire truck...) and the improvement of the existing tools (roads especially).
Any bugs, balancing issues? Let me know!
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