Oligopoly
Patch #16
I overhauled the whole balancing of the game. Some people found it hard to make enough money at the beginning of a mission to keep on playing, this is now drastically improved.
Small cities do now buy more products relative to bigger cities (e.g. sales figures do not anymore raise linearly with the size of the city). Also, natural resources now have higher margins and maintenance costs are slightly lowered.
Have fun!
Out of early access
I am happy to announce that Oligopoly is now out of early access. Big thanks to the community for all of their valuable feedback.
Additions
- added the ability to disable edge scrolling in the settings
Improvements
- rearranged the missions of the first campaign
HUGE EA patch #15: translations (French, Italian, Spanish) + weather system + many improvements and fixes
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!
EA PERFORMANCE patch #14 release
I am happy to announce another huge performance boost. The calculation time when a new road is built is about 10 times faster! Also, before, when playing for more than an hour, the FPS started to drop. This is now fixed as well.
This fixes lead to a very noticeable, much smoother overall gaming experience. Enjoy!
EA PERFORMANCE patch #13 release
I am happy to announce a huge performance update. This patch brings a noticeable overall boost in performance and especially at later stages of the game, when cities become much larger.
I also tweaked various other things. For example the camera is much smoother when it tracks a vehicle. Also, I switched from forward to deferred rendering, which improves some graphics like trees for example.
Enjoy!
BIG EA patch #12 release
I am happy to announce the biggest update since EA launch. This patch brings a new category of buildings, a new map, a new campaign and new missions.
As requested by the community, the new map contains much more landmass than the previous maps. So you have plenty of space to build. Have a look here:
The patch also brings a new category of unique, expensive buildings, such as a company headquarter and a marketing agency. This buildings can only be built once and bring bonuses. Have a look here:
Additions
- unique buildings
- company headquarter (maintenance costs for all buildings -20%)
- marketing agency (sales figures for all goods +20%)
- company headquarter (maintenance costs for all buildings -20%)
- new map named Thaler
- new campaign
- 5 new missions
- Future Technology
- Company Headquarter
- The Hotel Chain
- Marketing
- Sun-Dried
- Future Technology
Improvements
- slightly decreased cities grow speed
- decreased maximum game speed for better performance
- some missions rearranged
- some sounds replaced
Bug fixes
- fixed balance chart not showing negative values
Have a nice weekend!
EA patch #11 release
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. This patch brings a lot of new buildings and products to the game. Enjoy!
Additions
- new buildings
- Machine Factory
- Specialist Store
- Textile Retail
- Textile Factory
- Furniture Store
- Machine Factory
- new products
- Battery
- Lithium
- Motor
- Tyres
- Electric Vehicle
- Mower
- Grill
- Silicon
- Solar Panel
- Cotton
- Cloth
- Punching Bag
- Skateboard
- Piano
- Felt
- Rug
- Slippers
- Rag Doll
- Sweater
- Bed
- Office Chair
- Battery
Improvements
- Tutorial window is now transparent, so it doesn't hide anything important
Bug fixes
- fixed bug where the last mission did end too early without any goals accomplished
EA patch #10 release
just a small change, but because I love it so much, I thought I upload a patch immediately. Ships, trains and trucks do now load and unload containers, see here:
Have a nice weekend!
EA patch #9 release
I've created a new patch which will be released in the next minutes. As requested by the community, this patch adds charts to the game. Please keep in mind that this feature is in an alpha state. It works, but the data will not be saved.
Also, I have overhauled the visualization of connected buildings. You can now simply hover your mouse over one of your buildings to see to which other buildings it's connected. You can also hover your mouse over a store to see which city buildings are supplied by the store.
Additions
- Charts (work still in progress)
- hovering the mouse over a building shows connections
Improvements
- added some missing german translations
- slightly adjusted the layout of some user interface elements
- removed the main theme music (this track now only playes at the end of a mission)
Bug fixes
- fixed a rare bug where a save file didn't load correctly (thank you John for finding it)
EA patch #8 release
another day, another patch. Here we go:
Improvements
- drastically reduced the amount of visualizations of negative money
- some other performance improvements
Bug fixes
- fixed a bug where ships disappeared after loading a save file
- fixed a bug where trains may got stuck in rare cases
- fixed a bug where train trailers did not follow correctly when the game runs at full speed
- made some corrections to the german translations