LOGistICAL 3: Earth brings more FREE content with China, Nepal, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Saint Helena, Martinique, New Caledonia, Vanuatu + more
There are also a bunch of other new area accesses. Check the game contracts.
Note: New content for LOGistICAL 3: Earth will always be FREE.
Build Outline:
Besides the new content to play there are also lots of new updates including new features.
Player Heatmap and Your Completed Places
You can now download the "player heatmap" (bottom of the map filters) (see top image).
This gives a graphical indication of the quantity of players that have completed each town and mailbox. Red is a few. Yellow is many.
If you turn on the Player Heatmap and your Completed Places, your Completed Places will be hidden. This gives you an indication of what you haven't done but other players have.
If you are feeling lost, use this view and follow the brightest yellow.
New Start Region
Martinique in the Caribbean is now the new starting place for LOGistICAL 3: Earth.
This is a small, less daunting learning area with fewer towns, businesses and industries.
I hope we can find many new players that don't run off scared at the overwhelming task ahead.
You can complete all towns and businesses (minus the port, airport and airfield) with the local industries.
The end final contract places you in New Zealand to continue the game.
Current players will get a new truck within Martinique to complete the island.
Tagged Industries
Some industries with special properties are now tagged
- "U". Unique industry, generally specific to the region in which it is placed. Cannot be built elsewhere.
- "R". Restricted industries. Limited world locations. Cannot be built by the player.
Huge Town Resource Requirements
Some towns have resource requirements that are near impossible to complete (see the "Shenzhen Consumption" contract).
By completing other towns within the same region (China), you will slowly reduce the consumption rate of these towns, making them easier to complete.
Select a consumption rate that you feel you can complete the town.
In China, the consumption rate is reduce by 1% per "completed town", with a minimum of 5%.
If, for example, you feel you can complete a town with 6,000 t resource requirement, then you should reduce the rate to match that value
(eg. Shenzhen requires 28,800 t. therefore 6,000 / 28,800 = 0.21 or 21%).
Optimisation of Town/Business/Road Completion Code
The end sequence when completing towns/businesses/roads has been optimised to remove the annoying pause.
Updates
Build #851c on LE (live)
- Zero length roads are auto upgraded to top level road.
- Fix when can't build due to two primary industries in same "area" where one is not fully upgraded. (eg Clay in US and CA)
- Optimisation of code for complete town/business, fix roads and upgrade industry
- Dont show the town/business complete (+others) if it will cover the town popup
- China, Hong Kong, Mongolia and Nepal.
- Donuts is no longer "local" industry and can be built everywhere.
- Kosovo and Moldova can be fully completed with resources discovered up to that point.
- New Caledonia and Vanuatu completable with resources from NZ and AU
- Heatmaps - At the bottom of the filter list. Easier to see if you click off "Transport" and "Places"
- "Player Heatmap"
- All completed towns and businesses from 2 or more players.
- Ranges from red to yellow. The more yellow, the more players have completed
- Downloads from the server, so takes a few seconds (see log - bottom right of screen)
- "Completed"
- All the towns and businesses that you have completed.
- Only yellow
- "Player Heatmap" + "Completed" together
- Shows the "Player Heatmap" without your "Completed" (ie, those you haven't completed)
- This modes can give you an indication of where to go to next. Great if you feel lost.
- No build restrictions for China, Mongolia or Nepal
- Over a dozen newly placed industries in China
- Building restrictions begin at 1/2
- Contract to remove the building restrictions
- Zinc road upgrade
- Resource changes to Ports of Anchorage, Constantza, Novorossisk & Amsterdam
- China contract to remove industry restrictions fixed on game boot.
- Martinique as the new starting area of LOGistICAL 3: Earth. A new 1t truck will appear for both new and current players. Completing will get new players to NZ.
- Road access to the Ports of Amsterdam and Constantza
- Fix for blank resources in Nepal
- Moved clay in Taiwan
- 4 towns with huge resource requirements now have a consumption reduction process.
- Complete towns throughout China to reduce the consumption rate on these towns.
- Each town completed in China reduces the consumption rate by 1%.
- A contract highlights the towns and explains the process.
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
https://discord.gg/xdQ2Gws
Enjoy,
Sacada.