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Genre: Simulator

City Bus Manager

🚌Your opinion is important to us!🚎 | Join this 5 minute survey!

🚌Your opinion is important to us!🚎



As part of the Holiday Resorts & Sighteeing Buses DLC for City Bus Manager, we have a few questions for you. The questions should not take longer than 5 minutes to answer and you can even win something.
At the end of the survey you can enter your e-mail address to take part in a prize draw. You can win 5 Amazon vouchers of 25€ each plus a key for CBM including all CBM DLCs.

The survey is active from 14.10.24 - 21.10.24.

Please note that the survey is only available in English and you can only take part once.

The survey and prize draw are not connected to Meta, LinkedIn, X, Discord or Steam.

Link🔗 https://www.empirio.de/s/ZUF1i2c00d

Hotfix 2.1.17

We have released a small hotfix to adress your reported bugs.

Changelog:
- Fixed a bug where there were no more passengers on the map after some time
- Fixed bug that savegame was not saved in rare cases
- Reduced size of savegames
- Fixed bug that depot could not be placed in regions where water divided the map into multiple parts
- Old bus stops from hotel transfers are now automatically deleted
- Several points of interest of the same type no longer multiply the number of passengers in some cases (e.g. several universities in one spot)
- Zoom speed on the map has been optimised
- Missing translations in some languages added
- Fixed a bug that caused events not to be saved and loaded correctly, which could cause shuttle orders to disappear before they took place, for example
- Fixed repaint template of B9TL

Global Farmer is now available in Early Access!

Global Farmer is now available on Steam in Early Access!



Just like City Bus Manager does Global Farmer use OpenStreetMap! You can build and manage your farm everywhere in the world 🌍🍂🚜 Whether you build your farm next to the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal or your bedroom window - there are no limits! 👨‍🌾 📊
In the release week you can benefit from a 10% discount. 💸

🔗Link:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2615630/Global_Farmer/

🌱 Farm the World: With Global Farmer, the world is your farm. Thanks to OpenStreetMap you can set up your farm in any real-world location, from urban landscapes to rural expanses, adapting to local soil and climate. Farm besides the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal or your bedroom window.

🏗️Strategic Farm Management: Focus on the intricacies of farm operations without the need for hands-on vehicle control. Players will engage in strategic planning, managing a fleet of agricultural machinery, and optimizing crop cycles for maximum yield.

📊Real-World Data Integration: The game incorporates actual soil quality, seasonal weather patterns, and regional flora, offering an authentic farming experience that reflects the chosen location's environmental conditions.

🚜Economic Strategy: Beyond planting and harvesting, players can take on contracts to deliver goods, manage finances to expand operations or invest in new technology, reflecting the economic aspects of modern farming.

🐄Animal Husbandry: Players can also delve into livestock farming, managing different animals for products like milk, eggs, and wool, adding another layer of strategy to gameplay.

🗺️ Customization and Community: A comprehensive Map Editor allows players to customize or create new farming environments. These creations can be shared via the Steam Workshop, encouraging community interaction and creativity

Holiday Resorts & Sightseeing Buses | DLC out now!

Hotfix 2.1.8

We have just released a hotfix which solves the reported issues of the latest content update:

- Passengers can now stay on the bus for longer than an hour if they are travelling long distances with few intermediate stops
- In scenarios with a Point of Interest goal, the POI is now highlighted on the map while the goal is active
- Fixed a bug where the resolution was not saved in window mode
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed the message that the final stop was not near the start stop when building a route
- Fixed a bug where the repaint of the previous bus was sometimes still displayed in the paint shop
- Fixed a bug where modding buses did not work correctly if there was a ‘/’ or ‘\’ in the name
- Fixed a bug with the time jump
- Fixed a bug where outer walls were not demolished when ivy was attached to the wall
- Corrected further positions of airports

Holiday Resorts & Sightseeing Buses | DLC out on September 26th!



Some of you already guessed the name of the second City Bus Manager DLC "Holiday Resorts & Sightseeing Buses". In addition to the name, we can also reveal that the DLC will be out on 26th September!
Embark on a sunny vacation adventure on September 26th in the second City Bus Manager DLC, "Holiday Resorts & Sightseeing Buses". Expand your fleet with 10 new buses and plan efficient routes to fulfill the extensive contracts from various attraction providers and much more!
Visit the Steam page for more information 👉 https://links.aerosoft.com/2df692yy

Content Update 9: Map Update, Automatic Repairs in External Depots and many more



The City Bus Manager Content Update 9 is now available for all users!

You can read the entire changelog here:

Highlights:

  • Automatic repair in external depots added
  • Update of the map data to August 2024
  • 600 million new buildings added to the map, especially in UK and USA (Thanks to GeoSci for the support!)
  • Hotels added as points of interest, which also have an impact on passenger numbers
  • New objectives in the scenario editor: ‘Transport passengers to a specific location’ and ‘Transport passengers to a specific type of location’
  • ‘Allow line changes within a shift’ can now be set individually for each timetable

Map:

  • Bollards that can be passed by buses can now be driven through
  • Corrected positions of some airports

Routes & shifts:

  • Fixed a bug where passengers never boarded at the start stop
  • Fixed a bug where passengers did not board the correct bus
  • Fixed a bug that caused 0% network coverage to be displayed in the statistics
  • Fixed a bug where some routes were still displayed on the map even though the route was never built
  • Fixed a bug where the coverage of stops was not displayed correctly in certain cases
  • Fixed a bug that caused the shift plan to be unlockable in scenarios, even though it should have been researched from the start according to the scenario settings
  • - When building a public service line or event line, the relevant POIs are now highlighted in a larger size

Events:

  • Multiple rail replacement transport events can now take place simultaneously
  • Rail replacement services can no longer start and end at the same stop
  • Rail replacement services now only take place at stops that can be reached
  • If the bus is being cleaned during a bus hire request, the cleaning staff will no longer be abducted
  • Fixed a bug that prevented shuttle orders from being completed

Buses:

  • When assigning a shift, the system now calculates exactly whether a bus has enough fuel for the shift
  • Fixed a bug where the exit animation for modding right-hand drive buses was not working correctly
  • Fixed a bug where the bus details were not displayed when a bus returned from a shift
  • Fixed a bug that caused buses to clone themselves in rare cases

Employees:

  • In external depots, the current workload is now displayed for employees (instead of stress, which is not relevant for external employees)
  • Fixed a bug that caused training to be free for employees

Technical bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug under MacOS where you only had a black screen in full screen mode
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze when extending the map
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze in rare cases when loading ‘Load navigation data’
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the game to stay paused forever in rare cases

E-Bus & Green Energy DLC:

  • Corrected power consumption of the eCitaro
  • Fixed a bug in the calculation of the required range for a shift in the shift schedule

Other:

  • Added support for right-to-left languages
  • Fixed a bug where the opening hours in the Service Centre were not saved in certain cases
  • Various translation errors fixed
  • Updated Unity to 2022.3.44

Second DLC - Guess the title



As well as a new content update, the second City Bus Manager DLC is coming soon! However, the title is still a secret. Share your best guesses in the comments and stay tuned for the big reveal! 🕵️‍♂️🚍

The winners of the City Bus Manager Scenario Contest have been announced!



🎉 You've voted and the winners of the City Bus Manager Scenario Contest have been announced! 🏆

1️⃣ The new CEO - Tehla
2️⃣ Master the Islands 2/3: Usedom - ItzJxnnik
3️⃣ Malle für alle! - Chepper

The winners will be contacted in the next few days to receive their prizes. We hope you enjoyed the contest as much as we did! Thank you for your participation. 🙌 Be sure to check out all the scenarios - there were so many great ones. Have fun playing! 🚌💥

City Bus Manager Scenario Contest | Voting Phase



The voting phase of the City Bus Manager Scenario Contest is starting today!
Vote for your top 3 scenarios until August 13th. Please write down the full name of the scenario. Only scenarios with the hashtag #cbmscenariocontest are taking part.
👉 https://forms.gle/GK5KekfWV9tuf4zs7