Hello again fellow CEOs! We have worked hard and long hours to get you something sweet, and here it is! Highlights of this build are highly improved balancing, headquarter bonus buildings and the ingame help. In details:
- Implemented a comprehensive ingame help and filled it with lots of content. It can be accessed from every window, jumping to the right topic, or via "help key", currently defaulting to "X"
- Headquarters can now be extended with mighty huge bonus buildings that apply to all active oil fields
- Added the first batch of 10 bonus buildings, each can be built only once
- When viewing building details, Hektor's hat now bears the according icon, and the first line "type" was added to inform about the purpose. Also, the help key (top right "lightbulb") will lead to the according help page explaining the building
- Rebalancing: Maintenance and Safety productions have been doubled
- Rebalancing: Upkeep has been reduced for all buildings, several construction prices have been changed (pumps, refinery)
- Rebalancing: Maintenance now not only stops building decay, if surplus maintenance is available, buildings are constantly repaired. See help for the details!
- Toggle speed (default: Spacebar) now also works when normal windows are open
- Market-Opinion prerequisites have been fixed to align with market opinion display at the top
- Fixed building details window staying open after dismantling a building
- Fixed tooltip display issue on available contracts
- Removed variable oil field yield, it now stays fixed over its lifetime (before: curve)
- Fixed display issues in the message log (top right)
- Building-mouseover now correctly changes the cursor to the pointy hand
- Added tooltips for the main menu entries
With all these changes, we are closing in fast to a stable state of the game that is worth another go. So if you didn't enjoy your time playing so far, be it because of an "abysmal" tutorial or because of stuff going on that wasn't explained properly, now is the time to dig into the ingame help and give it another try. I tried to touch every topic asked in the past days since early access launch, but I'm sure there will be more questions to come, so please, as always, ask away!
Known Problems
- Key Setup (Settings screen) and the help window don't work in Main menu (only in the game)
Coming up next:
- Minor window adaptions where necessary ("Brain" Button)
- (a lot) more Special Events with a visually improved message box
Can't wait to hear from you!