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HUGE EA patch #15: translations (French, Italian, Spanish) + weather system + many improvements and fixes

Hello lovely Oligopolists,

I am happy to announce that Oligopoly has been translated into French, Spanish and Italian. This patch also brings many improvements and a new beautiful looking weather system, have a look here:

Street lamps and vehicles are now emitting light:

Many things have been overhauled, like transportation routes visualization for example:

Moreover, this patch brings approximately 20 improvements and bug fixes, see the following list for details:

Additions

  • added translations: French, Italian, Spanish
  • added weather system where it sometimes starts to rain
  • added weather system settings, available options are: mixed, always sunny, always rainy
  • charts fully implemented (chart datas are now saved and loaded as well)
  • added transportation costs (your transportation routes now cost money)
  • added transportation costs to the charts
  • added pavement to standard road

Improvements

  • changed road construction animation
  • prevent building windows from being partially out of screen when opening them
  • store window slightly overhauled
  • natural resources availability tooltip window redesigned
  • natural resources availability is now always 100% or 0% (and no values in between) to keep things simple
  • added emission to the tutorial arrow
  • improved transportation route visualization
  • natural resources availability visualization remade from scratch
  • standard road texture replaced
  • electronics shop resized
  • some tutorial texts improved
  • various adjustments for different graphics settings (higher performance for low settings and higher quality for high settings)
  • unity engine upgraded to the latest version

Bug fixes

  • fixed a bug where stores had to be clicked twice to open it's window
  • fixed a bug where the connected buildings visualization stayed active after constructing a building even if the mouse is not hovering it anymore
  • fixed text overflow in store windows
  • fixed a bug where after loading a save file the UI showed wrong balance for the first couple of days
  • fixed a bug where vehicles did accelerate/decelerate too quickly
  • fixed distorted road lines at intersections

Enjoy!