Home Construction
This update introduces the home construction passion and related careers - purchase empty lots and build your own home on it.
If you don't have the skills as a Builder, Electrician or Plumber then you'll have to pay for them.
You might be tempted to save money by taking shortcuts during construction, especially if you don't have the required skills... if you decide to do this, the house has a chance to completely collapse.
Brand Awareness
Brand Awareness has been adjusted - businesses with a smaller expected maximum size will have cheaper advertising costs. In addition, the advertising / promotion choices themselves have been heavily modified. You should check which ones you have activated in your existing games and decide whether they meet your business' needs.
Version 0.57.01
Cool New Stuff
- Add Electrician jobs and Electrical Services player business
- Add Plumber jobs and Plumber Services player business
- Add Builder jobs and Building Construction player business
- Add Home Construction Passion
- Add Empty Residential Land real estate
- Add Electric Van vehicle
- Add button to choose goal site on Passions window
Business Brand Changes
- Advertising costs scale depending on expected size of business
- Current brand awareness adjusts when changing base jobs to reflect new expected size of business
- Brand awareness choices - rebalance the base price and effects
- Change Discount Promotion to Celebrity Sponsorship
Other Changes
- Add little icon if activity, job or education has a special tip
- Auto action desire calculation for Cook Food takes into account household size
- Supply Construction Site contracts now affected by Residential and Commercial industries
- Passion goal's chosen site highlighted when hovering over goal action button
- Update some passions so relevant activities are only available at goal's chosen site
- Add functionality for activities and goal outcomes to require owned real estate
- Adjust Hardware Supplies cost/usage/floorspace
- Reach For Immortality mod - Footballer job changed to have higher max age
- Fix Qualified From Previous Work display showing jobs even though not qualified from previous work
- Fix new people not being met from work or study
- Fix some Corporate Espionage activities missing Computer requirement
- Fix Auto Actions window help button not working