It's been a month since the last update. There is a lot that has been worked on under the hood, but there are some new exciting features.
So without a further ado, let's get started:
Restock One Shelf & Auto-Restock
The first feature is the two new buttons next to each shelf. These two buttons are for restocking, one which will restock only the item on the shelf instead of restocking the whole shelf, and the other one (the green one) is for auto-restocking.
The big new feature here is of course the auto-restocking feature. You can make it that is will auto restock when the shelf is empty, 1/4 is remaining, 1/3 is remaining, 1/2 is remaining, or 3/4 is remaining. In the future, this feature will require an employee that will be restocking your items, but for now, it will happen automatically.
Cashier Open/Close
This is an exciting feature, it is the way cashiers come and go, what does that mean?
Here is a gif:
As you can see, instead of the cashiers magically appearing and disappearing when closing, opening, hiring, or selling the cashier registrar they will actually go and walk. Note that by selling the cashier registrar, the cashier employee will not be fired, but will be sent home.
Manage Employees
Next feature is employee experience. All employees will have experience points which will affect customer ratings.
Then we come to the biggest feature of them all, a highly asked for feature, employee management.
This will be a new page that will list al;l your employees. You will be able to increase or decrease their salaries, you will also be able to train your employees to be faster or gain more experience.
You will notice that every employee has satisfaction points. These points reflect how satisfied the employee with the salary you are giving. When you train your employee they will get less satisfied as they expect you to give them a raise for them getting better. And be aware, if your employees are not satisfied, they might quit the job, so try to balance between the salary and satisfaction. Also, you will also be able to assign cashier employees to different cashier registrar, by clicking the assign button then clicking on the registrar you want him to be assigned to.
And there are many small bug fixes and small features, like customers will analyze and chose which cashier to go to (the least crowded or the closest) small features like that you will have to look to find.
As for German translation, the translation is 90% complete, and an update with the German translation will be released as soon as the translation is finished. So, German translation confirmed/guaranteed.
We asked you to send us images of your market by holding Ctrl and pressing U, but we did not receive enough images. So, if you want your market to be featured as an image in a loading screen hold Ctrl and hit U the game will freeze for a few seconds or depending on your internet speed as a screenshot of your market is being uploaded and sent to us. If we liked your market, you might see it on a loading screen in a future update.
And please if you liked the game, give us a positive review it will really help us make Market Tycoon a better game.
And that's it for this update,
Enjoy!
What's in the next update (Dev Update)
What's up everybody,
So, if you are wondering what new features will be in the next update, here are some.
The biggest new feature is Employee Managing, there will be a new page that displays all your employees (For now, cashiers only) and a few information about them. You will be able to change their salaries, but be careful if you gave them low salary they might quit, you will also be able to train your employees to make them work faster or have a better customer experience, yes all employees will have an experience meter that can affect customers rating. You will also be able to assign cashiers to different cashier registrars.
New language: German
And of course, some other smaller features, and bug fixes
When?
Pretty soon, within the next 7 days.
That's it for now, stay tuned for Market Tycoon V.1.2.1
Update 9/25/2017
The work is done, we are testing to make sure everything is working and finalizing German translation.
Thank you for your patience.
Market Tycoon V. 1.2.0 Patch 3 and 4 (Optimization)
This patch is mostly about optimizing performance when placing items. This took longer than expected but there is more optimization to do. While you will notice a better performance when placing items, more optimization throughout the entire game will be worked on soon.
This patch also includes a fix for a bug where chicken packs are getting expired in the same day. Also, this patch includes a fix for some game loading issues. (After analyzing some reported game loading issues, it seems like the save has been corrupted, and so this fix won't be able to fix it, but hopefully, it won't happen again)
And if you noticed, the game does not have a loading screen and that's about to change. So, now we need a favor from you. The loading screen will have images of markets made in Market Tycoon. To have your market being featured on a loading screen in a future update of Market Tycoon, while in-game hold Ctrl and hit U, the game will freeze for a few seconds or depending on your internet speed as a screenshot of your market is being uploaded and sent to us. If we liked your market, you might see it on a loading screen in a future update.
Thank you for your patience, we try hard to deliver the best experience possible.
*With patch 4, we fixed more bugs primarily those caused by patch 3.
Market Tycoon V. 1.2.0 (Biggest Update Yet. New Languages, New Features and Bug Fixes)
Hi everyone, it's been a while since the last update and we hope this update will worth the waiting.
As you can see from the title, this is the biggest update Market Tycoon has every received and there is a lot of new features and bug fixes, so let's go into it.
First, what has been fixed:
• Fixed restock all showing the wrong price. (When hovering over the restock button it tells you how much restocking the shelf will cost, the value here was totally wrong and now has been fixed)
• Fixed item getting rotated in the wrong direction. (Sometimes when moving a shelf with items in it and rotating the shelf, the item stay in the same direction before rotating the shelf, this has been fixed with this version) It's worth mentioning that if you experienced this bug before, the affected items might not be fixed but this bug will not happen again.
• Fixed a bug where item popularity doesn't get loaded.
• Fixed a bug where the "?" sign not going away next to popularity when when "+" or "-" is added.
• Fixed item sales amount not getting saved on Quick Qtats and Price Change page
• Fixed a bug where people get stuck next to the door or cashier.
Next, Improvements:
• A small improvement in AI pathfinding.
• Optimized game performance especially when placing items.
• Small Graphics/Color changes. Here are the before and after images.
And there are many many more smaller bug fixes and improvements.
Now, the fun part. What's new:
• Many asked for this feature, Price Change. Yes, now you can increase or decrease prices. (Changed "Quick Stats & Discount" to "Quick Stats and Price Change")
• Another asked feature is item sort and item search, now you can search for items instead of finding it and/or sort by:
1- Alphabetically
2- Price Low-High
3- Price High-Low
4- Sales High-Low
5- SalesHigh-Low
6- Popularity
• Exit tabs and pages by clicking ESC.
• 64 brand new item. discover them.
• Customer comment. Now, customers will give comments about your market, so you could know what is working well or why your market rating is bad. Here is an example image:
• Another really cool feature is Expiry Report. What is this feature you might ask? Now you can know exactly how many items are going to expire on a certain day. Here is an image:
• And for people in Arab world, France and Romania, we are happy to tell you that Market Tycoon supports Arabic, French and Romanian languages. Russian Language is coming in the next update.
If you have a good understanding in English and would like to help translate Market Tycoon to your language contact us by sending an email to contact@protectiongames.com
Now we need a favour from you. We are planning on having a loading screen with market images, to do that, while in-game hold Ctrl and hit U the game will freeze for a few seconds or depending on your internet speed as a screenshot of your market is being uploaded and sent to us. If we liked your market, you might see it on a loading screen in a future update.
There are much more planned features to come in the future as we sail along in the development of Market Tycoon.
That's it for now and thank you for waiting for this update.
V. 1.2.0 P.1 (8/22/2017):
This is a very small patch release fixing a bug when sorting items.
V. 1.2.0 P.2 (8/23/2017):
Another patch release, fixing some game loading issues reported by some players. And fixed a bug where the people are stuck next to shelves.
If you have placed hot sauce or chili sauce in your market before this patch they might be rotated the wrong way, this bug however will not happen if you placed a new pack of hot sauce or chili sauce.
Quick Dev Update. Almost Ready
We are in the final stages of getting the next update ready.
We expect for the update to go live in the next 4 days. This is the biggest Market Tycoon yet, there is a lot new in this update and its worth the wait.
Please if you haven't reviewed the game yet, please do it really helps us.
Thanks,
Quick Dev Update
We are very sorry for the delay of the next update, it's taking longer than expected. we promise it's so worth it. Many new features, content, and lots and lots of bug fixes as well as localization to multiple languages.
Hopefully we can the update will be available within the next 2 weeks
Market Tycoon V. 1.1.26 (Bug Fixes)
This might be the last update in the 1.1.X cycle. We are planning for a big update very soon so stay tuned.
In this version of Market Tycoon, we fixed a lot of bugs and added small new features.
This update includes, but not limited to:
• Fixed a bug that leads to losing all save games when upgrading a market. (Your old game save should be automatically retrievable)
• Fixed a bug where price animation of the restocked item won't show.
• Fixed a bug that leads to an inaccurate number of items or items itself in the shelf when clicking on the shelf.
• Few other bug fixes and improvements.
• Added an in-game bug reporter on the pause menu.
• Spacebar now pauses and unpause the game when pressed.
• Advertising has much more effect.
If you are still in the open beta version 1.1.23 B.1, it's highly recommended to opt out of the beta as there is nothing special in it, as all the features in the open beta is now in the final build, plus many more bug fixes. (If V. 1.1.23 B.1 watermark is on the lower left corner in the main menu it means that you are in the open beta version, so it's highly recommended that you opt-out)
In case you missed it, we are starting to translate Market Tycoon to other languages.
If you are interested in translating Market Tycoon to your language and want to contribute to making that happen, send us an email at Contact@ProtectionGames.com with the subject "Market Tycoon Translation" and in the message type the language you will be translating Market Tycoon to.
Requirements to translate Market Tycoon:
• Good understanding in English as you will be translating from English.
• Good understanding of the language you will be translating Market Tycoon to, preferably a native speaker, so if you are a native speaker of the language you will be translating to mention that in the email.
Thank you and please if you found any bugs, let us know through our email contact@protectiongames.com or post on the Bug Reports thread here.
Market Tycoon V. 1.1.25 (Bug Fixes, Improvements, and help translate Market Tycoon to your language)
This is a small update fixing some bugs and making small improvements.
In this update:
•Added audio settings in main menu
•Fixed a bug where deep Statistics is updating previous month information.
•A small improvement on number of customers visiting your market.
•Few other bug fixes.
Now we have a big announcement, as you may have guessed from the title, we are starting to translate Market Tycoon to other languages.
If you are interested in translating Market Tycoon to your language and want to contribute to making that happen, send us an email at Contact@ProtectionGames.com with the subject "Market Tycoon Translation" and in the message type the language you will be translating Market Tycoon to.
Requirements to translate Market Tycoon:
•Good understanding in English as you will be translating from English.
•A program that can open .CSV file like Exel for example.
Our target is to start sending .CSV files within a week, so if you have been selected, we will contact you within a week with the guide to translate and everything you need to know.
And that's it for now,
Cheers
Market Tycoon V. 1.1.24 (Bug Fixes, In-Depth Statistics)
With this version of Market Tycoon, we fixed a few bugs and made some improvements.
The new thing with this update is In-Depth Statistics feature or as we called it Deep Statistics. Now, you can know how many of an item you sold and how much money you made selling a specific item, you can also know how many of an item got expired and it's value as well as information on how many items you bought alongside its value.
In addition, the Market Rating system that was introduced with the beta version of Market Tycoon V. 1.1.23 B.1 has now made it to the main build.
Thank you and please if you found any bugs, let us know through our email contact@protectiongames.com or post on the Bug Reports thread here.
Market Tycoon V. 1.1.23 (Bug Fixes, Improvements, and Join The Beta)
In this version of Market Tycoon, we fixed a lot of bugs reported in the Bug Reports thread.
This update includes, but not limited to:
• Increased day length by ~13% (~42% from original length of day)
• Hold Shift to view placing indicator introduced with Market Tycoon V. 1.1.22
• Fire/Hire cashier while paused.
• A bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
Now we have a very exciting news, we are now running an Open Beta for Market Tycoon and if you would like to opt-in here is how:
1- Find Market Tycoon in your Steam library.
2- Right click on Market Tycoon and click on Properties.
3- Click on the BETAS tab and from the drop-down window select openbeta.
That's it you are now on the beta version of Market Tycoon.
Here is what's new with on the beta version of Market Tycoon 1.1.23 B.1:
We added a new feature, Market Rating.
This feature has not been tested enough, and instead of publishing it to everyone, we would like for those who would like to try it out early to tell us how they find the rating system is and if it needs any improvements/changes.
We have many more exciting features in plan thanks to the community ideas, and we are working to bring them to you.
Thank you and please if you found any bugs, let us know through our email contact@protectiongames.com or post on the Bug Reports thread here.
