Hello everyone, I'm back with another update to the beta build, this time the update includes dialog for the Akihabara mission and tutorials for the new systems, specifically the Stock Market and the new Trending system. I also improved the way in which these new features are unlocked.
The Stock Market is unlocked right after you unlock the second shop, this is early in the game but it allows you to start investigating how the companies' worth change over time and you can check out the cool rewards of some companies. Trending doesn't kick in until you learn how to create a drink and feature it. After this point you will start seeing trending ingredients and rival companies trying to take advantage of the trend, you will also see two new guiding messages from Mr. Danger to better understand how trends work. NOTE: there is still a bug where ingredients that you haven't unlocked can go trending, this will be fixed soon.
Another small change, is the addition of a useful tooltip in your shop, that shows the active market balance campaign, this is especially useful when playing the Akihabara missions.
Finally, I fixed two important bugs, a crash when trying to customize the floor of Akihabara and a bug where ingredients that are not actually in the game yet like 'Candy Dust' and 'Strawberry' show up as trending ingredients.
The to-do list is shorter every day and now these are the remaining items to fully release the update.
- Add two more rival stores with rewards(ingredients/cool item)
- Add option to sell company, recover value of all stocks plus money in bank
- Register stock purchase in expenses
- Add level restriction to AI trending
- Have stores trend affected by ownership
- Make detail descriptions expand for all items but stations
- Hide buildings in new location based on camera
- Add matcha
A Japan shop without matcha? I don't think so, so I decided to add the new ingredient to the
to-do list.
These items don't take that long, only the rewards for the other two rival shops, but every other thing is mostly code changes that should be done pretty quickly. Thanks to everyone that has reported bugs and given feedback, I hope you are having a good time. I will see you soon with another update, enjoy your coffee.