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In the Pipeline 14-01-2016

Hi all,

Welcome to our newest post of our ‘In the Pipeline’ series. This is our way of letting you know what we are working on, what we are thinking about and what we know we want to do:


In the Pipeline will contain all the items that are literally and figuratively in the pipeline. This will (but does not have to) include crashes to fix, bugs to splat, player suggestions to incorporate and improvements to make that we feel are necessary for the next update.

Below are three categories:

  1. In the Pipeline – stuff we are working on right now and would like to add to the game soon; the next update if possible.
  2. On the Horizon – stuff we know that we will add, but are not working on yet. Expect this in the future.
  3. Still dowsing – stuff that we need to think about. Things on this list might not be feasible due to time/development constraints. Or they are things that we are not super excited about, yet.

All items are subject to change, of course ;)

New players entered the Arena

Because of all the new players entering the arena during the holidays, there was a lot of activity in the forums and good feedback. That combined with the new features, that we put in the game just before the holidays, means we have a lot of small things to work on: fixes, tweaks etc. This will take up some time.

Having said that, we also want to tackle some bigger systems and add new features, like Expert Mode, better AI for NPC’s and Mayor Tips. The list is quite long because of that and we are not quite sure what we can fit into the next update. We will hopefully release the update at the end of next week. This is what we have in mind:

  • Expert Mode.
  • New characters.
  • Mayor’s Tips.
  • Better AI for NPC’s bidding on land and buying upgrades.
  • Smoother experience going from one Area to the next.
  • New distribution factors for Oil, Rock and Gas.
  • New upgrades for Thermal Gas dynamic.
  • Tweaks, crashes and bugs.
  • Mac (and probably Linux).
  • Steam Leaderboards.
  • Steam Trading cards.
  • Steam Achievements.
  • Steam Cloud Saves.
  • Infinite mode.
  • Custom single player games.