🏢 KN Tower – Tonight’s Update

As promised, launch was just the beginning! We’re continuing to expand and improve KN Tower, and tonight’s update brings more control over your elevators and hotels, balance adjustments, and improvements to performance, building placement and everyday gameplay.

📖 Tutorial & Controls

• Added an illustrated tutorial in all 15 supported languages, accessible from the pause menu.
• Added a 2x speed option.
• Improved mouse-wheel zoom and added camera dragging with the middle mouse button.
• Added default keyboard shortcuts for more actions.

🛗 Building & Elevators

• Added individual floor settings for each elevator cabin.
• Improved the elevator manager’s layout and automatic updates.
• Crossing cabins now remain visible, with one becoming transparent.
• Improved elevator placement and alignment.
• Adjusted building placement to prevent gaps that are too narrow to fill.
• Elevator shafts extending above the building no longer count as additional floors.

🛌 Hotels & Services

• Added a hotel manager with occupancy, income and cleaning reports covering the last seven days.
• Added three price levels for each hotel room type, balancing income per guest against demand.
• Improved VIP guest behaviour during suite stays and visits to the tower’s attractions.
• Improved how housekeeping, waste collection and security staff divide work across floors, with further improvements planned.
• Fixed service staff disappearing during longer play sessions.
• Updated service warnings and explanations to better reflect the tower’s actual needs.

📊 Economy & Balance

• Reduced construction costs for elevator shafts, escalators, waste collection and security facilities.
• Reduced running costs for snack bars, shops, restaurants, waste collection and security.
• Increased laundry running costs.
• Improved financial information and corrected misleading building descriptions.

🎨 Visuals & Sound

• Added and improved visible activity inside homes, offices, hotel rooms, shops and entertainment venues.
• Improved character positioning and movement on stairs, escalators and in elevators.
• Updated lighting, clouds, rainy skies and fire effects.
• Added flashlights for nighttime service staff.
• Expanded background music and sound effects, including rain and thunder, and adjusted audio levels.

⚙️ Performance & Interface

• Improved performance in larger towers and during daily updates.
• Improved loading with a dedicated loading screen.
• Updated building previews and information windows.
• Fixed various window placement, interface and update-detection issues.

Your feedback has helped shape this update. Thanks for sharing your experiences and helping KN Tower grow. More improvements are on the way! 📋