Guess who's back? It's us! And we have a new content update for you lovelies! As usual, we'll have an exhaustive list of changes at the bottom, but here are some of the highlights.
PVP Options In the Park
Direct player interaction has been sorely missing from the game until now. We've implemented several options for you to mess with your fellow players by meddling with the game state. These options will only be active if you enable competitive mode during game setup, so you peace loving ninnies don't have to worry about your friends ruining your plans.
New Role: The Drifter
The Drifter is a mysterious stranger, disappearing as quickly as they showed up, but not before turning their workplace around! The Drifter is all about, well, drifting between jobs, working for short spurts of time before having enough and moving on to a new job. The Drifter also has the added benefit of retaining job perks for a short time after moving on to a new job. Give this new role a whirl!
Multiple Bots! Bot difficulties!
You read that right! You may now enable multiple bots when playing local games and tune their difficulty to your liking. Unfortunately, the bots are still having issues during online play, so they will remain local for a while longer, but we are working to get these things onto internet games as soon as possible!
Game Difficulty
You can now tune the overall difficulty of your game to three different settings: easy, medium, and hard! Very original names, we came up with them ourselves. The difficulty setting will affect many different factors, including rent, salary, attribute gains and losses, and more that will make the game easier or harder to play.
New Global Event: Tourist Invasion
A cruise ship full of annoying tourists has landed in Calicornia! During this event, the tourist horde will go sightseeing, occupying a new location every round and locking it. Why would the tourists be so interested in Moo Moo Mart? Who knows?
Four New Avatars!
That's almost five new avatars! Wowza!
There's a bunch of other changes that you can read about in the changelog.
Version 0.45.0
Added a new role, the Drifter, check it out and let us know what you think!
Added 4 new Avatars (that's a 36% increase, wow).
PVP Mode is now available for players who've tasted blood, and want more!
You can now choose from 3 difficulty settings (easy, normal and hard).
Also added a Bot difficulty settings (set per bot).
You can now have more than one bot in Local Games.
Completely overhauled the Character Sheet.
Don't feel like paying your rent? Well now you get evicted and get to live in the Park. It´s the great outdoors, minus the great.
New Global Event: Tourist Invasion. All lines are full and there's no parking while tourists rule the streets.
Swapped out the NPC Landlady in the Fancy Apartment for a new one.
Timer for Reports and Role Selection added.
When receiving Quests from VexCorp you no longer get the same Quest twice (unless you finish all of them, which would be quite impressive).
Bots have been upgraded with a new Br4v3ry module and will now attempt Easy and Medium Quests in VexCorp.
Job Salaries have been tweaked.
Role related Score is now shown correctly in the score screen (it was rewarded under other categories before).
Bunch of Score screen fixes and tweaks (big and small).
A whole lot of new Quests! I would tell you how many, but nobody told me...
VexCorp jobs now reward you with access to the Teleportation Chamber over at VexCorp.
A lot of bugfixes concerning rejoining online games.
Barry would drain way too much Happiness after being voted as Mayor. This has been lessened.
Effects for the Heatwave Global Event and Blimps for the other Global Events have been added back in after being removed for some optimization.
The Adventurer's role bar has been updated for increased clarity.
Education traits tweaked.
And like always, a lot of other minor tweaks and bugfixes.