Hi everyone,
A ton of work has been put into Beta 16 this week. I’ve also been working on rectifying a problem causing the first savegame to be lost for a small portion of first-time players.
The devlog gives a sneak peek into what has been developed on the game over the past week. It is not a new release and is not available yet. New features are always released as official Beta releases.
Hosting Buildings
Beta 16 is introducing a complete rewrite of the hosting functionality. The first step is adding new buildings dedicated to hosting. The first hosting building to be introduced will be the cheapest option and it will be located in a basement close to the small office.
In these new locations, you will only be able to place hosting related equipment such as server racks. By clicking on server racks, you will be able to easily configure each rack and design for maximum performance. I’ll describe and show screenshots of the “rack configurator” in next week’s devlog.
Virtual Servers will continue to be part of the game, but a maximum CU cap will be implemented to force players into building their own hosting facilities.
City Map
With the introduction of hosting buildings, it was clear that the game needed a better and more immersive way of showing buildings. This will be done with the brand new City Map. I don’t have any screenshots available yet, but I hope to be able to show it in a couple of weeks.
Beta 15 changes
🔵 Automatically disable and hide “Big UI” functionality if screen height is below 1440.
🔵 If saving to disk fails, the game will now throw an error and stop the game, forcing the player to restart the game. Errors will also be shown to the player for further research.
🔵 Fixed bug causing the game to allow upgrading efficiency to reach 105% when the maximum is 104%.
🔵 Added “Big UI” support to new “upgrade feature” dialog.
🔵 Fixed bug causing deleted savegames to reappear.
🔵 Fixed bug causing “load game” dialog to crash if two new savegames are created in the same session.
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That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading.
All the best,
Jonas