Navigate by Landmark
Navigating Goodbury just got a whole lot easier, and stories now spawn around city landmarks. Introduced as graphic elements on the map in Alpha 9.8, these unique buildings now become a key factor in your day-to-day tactics.
Scroll down for a full list of changes.
All story types still spawn randomly throughout the city, but if you are looking for a specific type, you will be better off hanging out near its associated landmark. I will leave some of the discovery up to you, but as an exampe "Sports" stories spawn more often near the stadium, MegaChain Park.
This is especially helpful, if you're looking to make a themed issue. In that case, you can much easier find suitable stories by going to the associated landmark. Note that story types you haven't unlocked yet, still won't spawn.
Changes in Alpha 9.9
- New: stories now predominantly (58%) spawn near landmarks. There are 5 landmarks: city hall, the MegaChain stadium, the harbor, Harriett Hospital, and the business center. There are 3 story types associated with each of these.
- New: When the map guide is enabled (hot key G), each landmark is labeled as you scroll around the map
- Balance: the number of stories spawned per hour is reduced by one third to increase the challenge for those who min-max their stories.
- Balance: drastically lowered the required score to win Award of the Month
- Fixed an overlap bug that would cause local high scores to display beneath Steam stats
- Fixed a bug that erroneously displayed Steam stats without connection to Steam
- Fixed bug that caused old save games to crash when an award event would trigger