Hello fellow dealers,
just a quick community update on the future of the game.
Cloud:
First off, I added steam cloud saving again. Now steam should backup your saves. Last time there were problems with people losing their saves because of steam cloud. I hope that it's fixed and working properly now.
You can disable steam cloud in the properties menu, if you wish to do so.
Future Updates:
I have said it on discord and on steam here and there a few times, but never trough an update. Currently I am remaking the game from scratch (2nd-3rd time?). I have very good progress already and hope to release the new version soon.
It will be an entirely different game on terms of progression, art, functions.
I added many requested quality of life features to it as well. For example, holding the mouse down on an upgrade to auto-buy upgrades as much as you can instead of clicking. That should be easier on your wrists.
Bigger text. Faster lootcrate openings, offline progression and so on.
Right now you have 8 regions with 8 dealers inside for each drug. I have removed that.
It was not very fun for new players that had no upgrades and items to wait 2 minutes for dealers to sell a few grams of drugs. Made progression very tedious and boring.
It also did not make sense to buy drugs. People had more drugs than they could sell. Many variables and timers just for a +1/-1 that is not needed and bloats the game.
Instead you now have "operations". You upgrade your weed dealing operation to get +$1 per second for example. Then there is buildings, crime, research, chemical production, player focus, exp, and so on.
More variety. But function and gameplay wise it's very similar to other idle games.
The main reason for the remake is how the game was made. The code.
I have managed to reduce 10.000 lines of code to 100 for example.
This is good, because I am building the game right now in a way that will allow me to:
1) Push out new content way faster with clean code.
2) Add translations.
3) Publish to mobile.
DLC:
The two DLCs will be added to the game as well of course. Soon they will go on sale for 10%. It's not much but I will never make them cheaper than that. I don't want to de-value my own product.
I would advise you to wait for the new version first, before buying.
All sales are of course a great support for me. Thank you! :)
Save:
New version, new code, new variables. A new savegame will be needed.
I will keep the current version. If you wish to continue your progress, you can do so. Your current save will not be affected. For the new version you will need a new one. Both are separate, so don't worry, you will not lose your save.
It's basically a different game by now, there is no way to keep the current save.
Thanks for reading and your understatement.
Can't wait to get the new update out. :)
If you have any questions, feel free to comment here, on discord, or message me per email.
~ Lord