The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.56.6a ALPHA
Fixing a crash when loading 125x125 maps.
New and improved Building Selection Panel. This is the panel that pops up when using the Query Tool (1) on a building.
Added the Statue decoration. The statues are a reward for IndieGoGo contributors. To see the statues in action, open G6x6_terracotta_army in the building designer. The statues will be added to buildings next week.
Fixing a bug where building designs with no structures would get an image of just grass.
Water no longer rises and lowers due to tides. This is because tides make it difficult to place items on water.
The Earthworks Tool (5 > E) now has a cost.
Transit stops will now be removed when they have no transit lines.
Removed the ability to shut down a transit system. If you accidentally shut down your train or bus system, they will be restored, although you will need to replace the lines and stops.
Note: There is an additional line item listed in-game for "experimental Steam Workshop subscription support." That support is not actually active in this version yet due to a bug. Soon!
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.56.5
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.56.5 ALPHA
Improved Steam Workshop uploading to support four file types and proper tagging.
Added placeholder text and a Steam Overlay redirect to Steam Workshop tabs that don't have unique functionality yet.
Added staging area cleanup on launch for the Steam Workshop.
Added Boat group decorations, like the sailboat, kayak, motorboat, and yacht.
Added contributor statues as .obj files, with procedural placement in-game to come.
Optimized the size of terrain render chunks and the tree simple distance (LOD) for improved performance.
Changed the tree model to include multiple distinct trees, minimizing the number of tree entities needed and improving performance.
The Lua API now has functions to read player input, control the game's camera, and read terrain elevation.
Set the default Bulldozer subtool to the Destroy subtool.
Made the Earthworks Bulldozer subtool unlockable with the Town achievement (5k population).
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.56.4
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.56.4 ALPHA
Steam Workshop Upload support. This is an early preview.
The game now captures a preview image when saving a city or building design.
When loading a city or building design, the preview image is shown. Extra info is displayed on building designs.
Added the Memorial amenity and associated achievement.
New aquatic building decorations.
More work on vapor modpack.
Metric units are now default for new players. This will not effect existing players.
Capture a map of the city as a PNG file by running "capture 0 map.png" on the in-game console.
Fixed a bug where the zoomed-out view, called the satmap, was too dark.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.56.3
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.56.3 ALPHA
Added new UI sounds and a music track to the Vaporwave modpack
Added the BART train model to the Vaporwave modpack, which replaces the diesel engine and passenger car.
Added new textures to the Vaporwave modpack for government and mixed use buildings.
Changed Vaporwave palette colors.
Added new console commands: "songinfo" to display debug info for loaded songs, "songplay" to play a song by index, and "songshuffle" to shuffle the current song.
Added documents on the Palette Texture File Format and the Building Textures File Format to the Citipedia.
Added new Industrial and Residential designs and associated textures.
Fixed backfaces with the satellite dish prop.
Buildings placed in Test mode will no longer be set as Historical.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.56.0
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.56.0 ALPHA
Added the Citipedia - Open it by clicking the Question Mark icon on the toolbar. It will be a dynamic and growing source of information for gameplay mechanics and FAQ style answers. NOTE: The Citipedia is in an early preview state and subject to significant change.
Added the Newspaper - Once you have your first business, you'll start getting your city's newspaper once per day. It will have articles containing critical info to help you manage your city, as well as some more lighthearted and entertaining pieces. NOTE: The Newspaper is in an early preview state and subject to significant change.
Added new Lua API constants for the Newspaper, as well as statistics available to modders for creating their own Newspaper articles with unique triggers.
Added box delete to the Destroy Tool.
Added a missing contributor to the list in the About Panel.
Added new building decos for the Residential, Floor, Park, and Vehicle groups.
Added new building designs for Residential and Retail.
Added some hidden statistics formerly used for debugging to the Stats Panel.
Added the ability to set a minimum year and a maximum year for designs in the Building Designer.
Added the ability to hide lots visually.
Achievements have migrated to Lua for easy modification.
Building design can now have more than 50 homes or businesses.
Changed the way saves are loaded with the Underground View active to prevent bugs with building visibility.
Changed the amenity category Parks to Recreation to better reflect the variety available.
Changed the Pavilion building design to require less density.
Changed the 181 Fremont Skyscraper building design to be density 9, so it's properly considered a skyscraper by the game logic.
Fixed a bug in how sales tax is applied to unemployment; the effect has been increased
Fixed a bug in the Mass Transit Router.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
The previous Testing branch patch has been set live on the main branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.55.7
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.55.7 ALPHA
Added new park decorative objects.
Added new floor decorative objects.
Added new residential decorative objects.
Added new retail and residential designs.
Added the currently playing song to the Options Audio tab.
The save game menu now shows files with similar filenames to the current save.
Fixed a crash related to undo and deleting objects in the Building Designer.
Fixed an issue when connecting a road to the end of another road; the road now connects to the intersection properly.
Fixed custom textures on giant apartment complexes.
Fixed lot generation behavior by preventing it when the road is underground or otherwise shouldn't have lots associated.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
The previous Testing branch patch has been set live on the main branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.55.6
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.55.6 ALPHA
Implemented a hashmap for the draw buffer as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and memory usage.
Added texture to snow cover on mountainous terrain.
Added variance to land color and trees based on slope.
Added new decorations, building textures, and palette changes.
Fixed influences on Value heatmap so that Crime, Pollution, and Education have the appropriate positive and negative effects.
Fixed culling of labels, the cursor, and nodes when they should be visible.
Prevent scaling and rotating at the same time in the Building Designer.
Removed unlock for pedestrian paths, as they are not fully implemented.
Removed unnecessary entities from certain terrain chunks.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.55.5
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.55.5 ALPHA
When hiding labels, the labels of neighboring cities are hidden too.
New decorations and building designs, including a designed police station, police headquarters, police stand, new giant mansion, trailer homes and mobile homes.
Building Designer: it is now possible to move entire building designs in the X and Y axis. Check the paint tab.
Fixed an issue where unzoned lots were displaying in the building designer.
Low value and low density buildings are less likely to spawn in high value, high density areas.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.55.4
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.55.4 ALPHA
Tunnels and viaducts are now more expensive. Road tunnels now cannot be built under deep water, but train tunnels still can. Messages about problems building roads are now more visible.
Water is now visible in the Transit View, Road Map View, and Underground View.
The load game menu now has a search bar. This is particularly useful in the Building Designer. When loading a building design, you can now see building designs from only the modpack directory.
Increased retail demand. Retail gives more prosperity.
Reduced the amount of negative community from offices and retail.
Colleges now give a bonus to the cap on bachelor's degrees and doctorates.
Prevented a case where both tax locks would happen at the same time.
The camera can now be zoomed using the plus and minus keys, for players that do not have a mouse with a scroll wheel.
When the Zone Tool is selected, unzoned lots are displayed in red.
Scrollboxes can now be controlled with the mouse.
The maximum Level of Detail setting has been increased, allowing for maximum-quality screenshots.
Vehicles are now visible from further away.
New house designs, including shanties.
The sun now comes from a higher angle in the summer.
In the Building Designer, roof-only structures can be made, for bungalow-style porches. With the Decoration Tool open and a decoration selected, press G to move that decoration without needing to click the mouse. Decorations and structures can now be hidden, making complex designs easier to modify. The season can now be changed.
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
Patch Notes - v0.0.55.2
Mayors,
The latest version of NewCity is now live on the Testing branch. Details below:
Version 0.0.55.2 ALPHA
Added smooth scrolling to scrollboxes
Added toggle for contour lines on terrain
Added new art assets for decorations
Added more color and variety to the building illumination textures
Added the Federal Building amenity and associated achievement
Added LOD simple meshes for vehicles
Fixed certain situations where University Buildings wouldn't unlock
Fixed improper calculation of economic statistics when reloading saves
Fixed amenities disappearing in certain situations
Fixed an issue where vehicles would get stuck at the end of lanes
Fixed incorrect amenity maintanence display
Fixed counting error in the People Sick statistic
Fixed some situations around Building Highlights that would result in a crash
Improved error handling and logging for OpenAL errors
New and Improved Building Designs, including new Skyscrapers
Removed the negative effect of vehicles on the Health heatmap
You can opt in to the Testing branch via the Betas tab, found by right-clicking NewCity in your Steam Library and selecting Properties. Simply click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose "test - Testing branch." You can return to the current main build via the same dropdown by choosing "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.
Thank you to everyone who's been playing and submitting feedback and bug reports; we hear you! Keep posting your thoughts in our Steam Discussions, touching base with us on Discord, and Tweeting us videos and screenshots of what you're building. We may not respond to each and every one, but rest assured we're paying attention.
As always, we can't wait to see what you build. Lone Pine Games
