First of all, Special Thank
ZAP Hosting sponsor us(you and me) 2 VPS servers so we can have the game server open 24/7 from now and I can develop multiplayer features more frequently. You can visit their website to find more services.
What are in V0.2.0
This version is in multiplayer mode(dedicated server). It take place in IndustrialZone. In the previous version you have worked very hard to earn money and to buy items. Some of you have a business mind and invest in currency items which make them do less work and more rich. So this version HAILIndustries want to make a business with you. They built 20 small factories for renting.
Please note that the market only work when you see green text "Export Allowed" like this. Otherwise exporting will fail and someone has to poke me in Discord.
First you'll need to redeem money to your account(LittleArctic Government Bank) from Trading Center building.
At the reception desk you can redeem money from these Steam Items.
Labour Bond
Business Bond
Business Trip
Press F to open menu, and drag item to the right. You can either redeem to account or buy-back to items. In case of redeeming it will consume your Steam Item. You may have to click refresh button too.
After that you will need to import items from CargoService (at the blue mini-container office nearby). Importing will consume you Steam Items.
Importable items for now are
People's Car need for People's Roadster
Heavy Oil (Barrel) 200 Litres
Heavy Oil (Tank) 20,000 Litres
You can import specific amount of item.
You may need to click refresh button to see if your cargo is update.
Now you can go to any small factory to order new items. If your order success you'll see that money and oil decrease from your account.
Every factory have limited capacity so each of them will accept order only one per person. This mean you can have maximum 20 orders(from 20 factories) at a time in one server.
Every order need 15 minutes to complete. When the order completed they will send new items to your inventory automatically and you even don't have be in the game. For example, if your order is the 20th in a queue you have to wait (15x20=300 Minutes) 5 hours.
Important : If the market status is "Export not Allowed" all order that finished after that time will failed to delivery and no refund for this case. So someone need to contact me from discord as soon as possible. Maybe I can fix something quick enough. However it's unlikely to happen.
In the first month I will open 2 servers, after that I will use Experimental Server to test new gameplay.
All gameplay for this version end here. I hope you get items you may need for use in the future.
What I will do next?
- remove itempacker branch , the reason is I need you to sell item only quantity of 1 per listing like typical games(as many listing you need). Because matching system has limitation which allow any buyer to buy from any listing only once. So when someone sell item in stack and sell the cheapest, buyer will can only buy for the first time, the second time will not success(the market will get clogged in this case). So new set of item will unlikely to cause this problem.(1 item per listing).
- Swap V0.1.4 to testdrivemap branch. So you can play that map and get items until it expired. On 1st September that map will stop dropping item forever. So if you need some items you will need to get them before that day.
- Rework on Vehicle Physics. If it goes well we'll have Land,Air and Sea Vehicle in one research.
- Rework on Character movement for reduce jittering.
- Create my own netcode, for better networked gameplay.
I'll trying to make new small experimental rather than big update like this and make it modular for easy testing. You can join my Discord for Bug Reporting
You can send me financial support (or tell someone to do)
See you next time. :emofdr: