New Cities

• Friday Facts #65: A Tale of Two Operating Systems
  

Version 0.0.58.4 ALPHA

Features


• There is now a slider to control how often the game autosaves. Drag the slider all the way to the right to disable autosaving entirely.
  
• Link Mode - When building roads, click on the link button to build a chain of roads.
  
• When querying a building, there is now a button to open that building design in the designer.
  
• Modding: It is now possible to read and modify buildings and building designs in Lua. Also added Lua API calls to get the name of the city's newspaper. See the Lua API section of the Citipedia for more information.
  
  

  Improvements

  
  
• Roads are slightly less shiny.
  
• Water is now completely flat, to improve the visuals of boats.
  
• Historical buildings are now shown in the roadmap, the transit view, and the underground view.
  
• General Performance Improvements
  
  

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Fixed issues with flickering or reappearing UI elements.
  
• Linux: Changed the launch script (newcity-linux.sh) to improve compatibility across distros.
  

Version 0.0.58.3 ALPHA

Features


• Wanderers - The game now features birds, fish, boats, helicopters, balloons, and blimps. They all move about the map dynamically, and they are animated. Some buildings and amenities spawn wanderers.
  
• Modding - It is possible to make custom wanderers, and to control their movement in Lua. See the Lua API section of the Citipedia for more information.
  
• Modding - Vehicles and wanderers can now have sound effects.
  
• FPS Cap - In the video options menu, the FPS can be capped to reduce CPU usage.
  
• When the game autosaves, there is now an animated message box.
  
• Added sound effects for trains, buses, aircraft, boats, and birds.
  
  

  Improvements

  
  
• The game has a new color scheme! Colors are now brighter and more consistent. Colors change with the season.
  
• The skybox has a new texture. The texture of the skybox clouds can be modified with texture/clouds.png
  
• To test the appearance of clouds, run the command "weather 4".
  
• The stadium amenity has been redesigned.
  
• When the UI is hidden, the selection cone is now hidden too. This makes it easier to make screenshots and videos while following vehicles and wanderers.
  
• UI: It is now easier to set sliders all the way to the left or the right.
  
• Aquatic buildings are now worth more and are more likely to spawn. Added some aquatic buildings.
  
• Vehicles and Wanderers are now included in the automatically generated images for cities and building designs.
  
• Natural beaches are smaller, to improve the spawn rate of aquatic buildings. This also fixes a visual glitch.
  
  

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Building Designer: The land and water now renders properly for aquatic buildings.
  
• Fixed a bug where the convention center was shown as abandoned.
  
• Fixed a bug where hotel buildings sometimes would not have a hotel business inside.
  
• Fixed a memory leak. Fixed some crashes and glitches.
  
• Reduced visual glitches (far plane clipping) when the camera is high above the ground.
  

• Friday Facts #62: Top Down
  
• Friday Facts #63: The Man Behind the Curtain
  

• Friday Facts #61: Macroeconomics
  

Version 0.0.58.1 ALPHA

Features


• Tourism - NewCity now features a Tourism system. Once you build an amenity with Tourist points, tourists will start to visit your city. Every Tourist point gives +500 tourists per year. The city will be given a Tourism rating, based on tourists' experiences. The higher your rating is, the longer tourists will stay -- and the more money they spend!
  
• Tourists will only visit amenities which have at least one effect point in either Tourism or Prestige.
  
• Added new building designs, including hotels, motels and resorts. There are retail and mixed use zoned buildings. They will spawn when there is demand for hotel rooms, regardless of the retail zone demand.
  
• New Amenity: Police Operations Center
  
• New Amenity: Theater
  
• LUA - added timeNow(), which returns the time of day.
  
• When placing roads, there are now icons showing intersection points and upgrade plans.
  
• New Newspaper articles
  
  

  Improvements

  
  
• Performance has been improved. You can see data about performance by setting CLogUpdateTime = true.
  
• Many Amenities now give Tourism points. Some other amenity effect points have been updated.
  
• The Public Beach Amenity is now always unlocked. The Ice Rink now only unlocks when the weather is cold enough. (Sorry, desert city players.)
  
• The Convention Center Amenity now contains hotel rooms.
  
• The total number of retail businesses in your city is now driven primarily by the total value of retail transactions per hour. More shopping => more retail.
  
• Hospitals are no longer "Limit one per city"
  
• Buildings now have an effect on the Value heatmap.
  
• Less traffic in small cities.
  
• Cars will now despawn when lost rather than rerouting.
  
• The Police Headquarters Amenity now gives more Order, less Law.
  
• In-game Amenity Info now covers all information about the amenity.
  
  

  Visual Updates

  
  
• Shadows are now sharper. Fixed shadow acne and peter-panning.
  
• Light color is now sampled from the palette, in the same way that skybox color is. Light color is the first color patch of the three.
  
• Updated the appearance of water.
  
• Animations are now smoother.
  
• Off map roads are hidden again, except in the road map, traffic view and transit view. Fading roads heading off map are now longer and easier to see.
  
• Land Grain has been removed. It can be brought back by replacing textures/land-grain.png with textures/land-grain-alt.png
  
• Trees on boulevards are removed for now. They will be brought back when we improve road rendering in a future release.
  
• Added statues to university buildings.
  
• Known issue: there are some visual glitches such as UI elements reappearing after being hidden. To fix this, set CCullingAlgo = 0. Performance will be degraded slightly.
  
  

  Building Designer Updates

  
  
• Designs can now have up to 2 billion families and businesses of each type.
  
• You can now disable spawning on particular designs, by unchecking the “Spawnable” box. Use this for in-progress, prototype and scratch designs to prevent them from appearing in game.
  
• Designs now have a default end year of 9999. Designs which previously had an end year of 2100 (the previous default) will now have an end year of 9999.
  
• Known issue: Playing NewCity for 8049 years will result in buildings not spawning, and is not recommended for your health.
  
  

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Fixed several bugs related to families and family membership.
  
• Fixed flickering when placing a road.
  
• Fixed a bug when rotating or flipping blueprints.
  

Company Updates

Plans for NewCity

Tourist System

Economic Model

Full Mass Transit

Municipality System

Version 0.0.57.8 ALPHA

Features


• Neighboring cities have been revamped.
  
• There are now large and small neighboring cities.
  
• The game now populates neighboring cities when generating a new map, and it simulates five years of activity before the start.
  
• Neighboring cities now have NewTrack stations, allowing you to connect your train lines to your neighbors.
  The above changes only apply to newly generated maps.
  
  

  Improvements

  
  
• Increased population growth.
  
• Freight deliveries are now more frequent.
  
• Improved performance when placing blueprints.
  
• Trains and buses now unload their passengers faster. The rate is controlled by CAlightingRate. This only applies to unloading; Passenger loading rate is unchanged.
  
• The statistic "National Stock Index" (National Economy > Macros) is now the "National Stock Market Index".
  
• Neighboring cities now have more educated people.
  
  

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Lua API: Fixed an issue in getStatisticAvg() where it would return an incorrect value.
  
• Building Designer: Fixing some overlapping icons in the load menu preview image.
  
• Fixed a bug where routes without a possible mass transit solution would be recomputed rather than cached.
  

Version 0.0.57.7 ALPHA

Features


• It is now possible to pin charts from the National Economy or neighboring cities.
  
• Added some growable seaside buildings
  
  

  Improvements

  
  
• Transit routes now have a bonus no matter how long they are. Previously, only transit routes shorter than 2 hours got the bonus.
  
• On Very Hard difficulty, Value is harder and more dependent on prosperity.
  
  

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Fixing an issue that prevented upload to steam, related to image resolutions.
  
• Fixed an issue where always available designs were not available on new games (not loaded from a save.)