Transport INC
NEW UPDATE ENTERING BETA TODAY
The main mechanic we are focused on improving with this update is the buyout mechanic. The process of making an offer on a company and waiting for their reply was uneventful. That has all changed now with stocks!
Check out a detailed explanation of how stocks and the improved buyout mechanic work in our new in game Wiki! Many important game mechanics are explained in detail with pictures and text.
This change makes the process of a buyout much more engaging and gives our players new important decisions to make. The new wiki will help all players understand the game’s mechanics and refresh their memory when needed. We hope you all enjoy it and are looking forward to the feedback!
We are excited to share this new update with the community. This update will be leaving beta soon, so be sure to join us in making this update even better!
Stay safe!
-Team
DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
Our main focus for this update is to polish, fix bugs, and improve existing mechanics. Before we add anymore new features to the game, we want to make sure our existing ones are the best that they can be.
As we briefly mentioned in our last update, we are improving the way buying out a company works by introducing stocks! Rather than simply making an offer and waiting for an answer, we are making the process far more interesting. You will not be the only one buying out companies, a competitor can now buyout your company as well!
All companies will start with 10 stocks each. Purchasing a stock from a company will give you a slight ownership of that company. If a company loses all of their stocks, they will be in danger of being bought out. They must defend by quickly buying back their stocks from competitors. If they do not act fast enough, they will be purchased and forced to merge with their new owners.
Changing up the buyout option this way adds new strategies, decisions, and depth to the game. We can’t wait to share it!
The hint system is also getting an improvement. We are reworking this to include a full in-game wiki where you can easily look up all the info you need, when you need it. Features and mechanics will be neatly organized and explained with pictures and text. The wiki will also include the requested option to disable hints!
Other improvements include drivers salary demands and strike behaviors are being tweaked, several visual issues are being addressed, menus will now include scrollbars, and more!
We have been working closely with our community to polish the game where it needs it the most. All of your bug reports and feedback are looked over daily. We appreciate and read every email. If you are not already a part of our community, please join our Discord and help us make Transport INC the best it can be.
The beta will be arriving soon! Be sure to hop on board!
Stay safe!
-Team
The Steam Awards - Vote in "SIT BACK & RELAX" category for Transport INC!
As you may know, the Steam Awards are happening now!
To hand us your nomination, simply go to the Transport INC Steam page and click the little Steam Awards widget—you can’t miss it!
STOCKS AND QOL IMPROVEMENTS
We want to make the experience of purchasing a competitor’s company a bit more exciting and strategic. We also want to add the danger of your company potentially being purchased by a competitor. To do this, we are incorporating stocks into the buyout process. More information on this improvement will be coming soon.
Thank you all for playing and being such a great community. Be sure to join our Discord if you haven’t already. We always want your help shaping the future of Transport INC.
Stay safe!
Team
Transport Hubs and Hints hotfix v1.2.7
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Team
TRANSPORT HUBS AND MORE LANGUAGE OPTIONS ARE OUT NOW
Need to get to an island, but there is no airport in the city? Build a hub in a neighboring city with an airport! You can travel to the hub on a bus or train, then take a plane to the island! Trains are not an option in all cities, but now with hubs they are! Travel by bus to a hub with a railroad and then switch your customers over to a train to speed up their journey and keep them happy.
Transport Hubs are not just for passengers. They can be used on cargo as well. Fly cargo into a hub on an island and then distribute those goods with trucks to neighboring cities.
We want to make sure that Transport INC can be played and enjoyed all over the world, so we have added support for 5 more languages! Czech, Slovak, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian have all been added. Be sure to change the game to your native language in the options menu.
We hope you all enjoy this new exciting layer of transportation. Let us know what you think of this new feature or if you have a request for a language that is not yet available. We are always listening and interacting with our players on our Discord server.
Stay Safe!
Team
Car Trader Simulator - Early Access Release and Loyalty Discount
We are happy to announce the launch of Early Access version of Car Trader Simulator - a game about fast auctions, buying cars, repairing and selling them with great profit to customers - all while building your own car trading empire and becoming really rich!
The game comes with a campaign mode where you can play through 3 different paths allowing yourself to become either a lawful, down to earth tradesman or to side with the mafia and build your business by illegal means. This coupled with the sandbox mode means that you're in for hours of great fun being the best car dealer you can be!
Feel free to check out the trailer for the game to see how the game presents itself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcn1UI4snk8
We're releasing the game with the special 10% EA launch discount and you can start playing right away for only $9.99!
Additionally, if you have any of the games from the list below you'll receive an additional 15% loyalty discount! Be sure to not miss the chance!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/689980/Car_Trader_Simulator
See you soon in the game!
DEVELOPMENT UPDATE - HUBS
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Connecting flights and layovers are a common thing in the transporting world. We are bringing that same reality to Transport INC. Your passengers will need help reaching their final destination using multiple different vehicles. Using Hubs, you can achieve new ways to transport! Land a flight in one city, then have your passengers take a train to reach the next. Take a cross country trip using multiple busses and Hubs.
Cargo will also be able to take advantage of these new Hubs. Fly your cargo from the mainland to an island using a plane and then distribute the goods throughout the island’s many cities using trucks. Move passengers and cargo like never before all over the map.
We are testing this new update now and it will be arriving to you soon! If you would like to be a part of the Beta, please join our Discord and message us! We are always happy to see new people in the Transport INC community.
Discord server link
Stay safe!
Team
SUBSIDIARIES UPDATE IS OUT!
A subsidiary is a new company that you can make during gameplay. This new company, owned by you, will manage and upkeep vehicles in chosen territories. After creating your subsidiary, it is your job to analyze the territory the subsidiary is responsible for and provide the vehicles it needs to transport passengers. Supply the right vehicles and you will rake in the profits from your satisfied customers.
This new feature will lower the amount of micromanaging required with each expansion of your company. As you expand into new territories, you can build subsidiaries to upkeep previous territories so you can focus on your new one.
Come check out the new update now and let us know what you think of subsidiaries!
We are interested to hear your thoughts and feedback. Please click the following link and fill out the form. This will greatly help us shape the future of Transport INC. By filling out the form, you will also be entered into a chance of winning a free game from the Games Operators franchise.
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Plenty of your feedback made it to the game too:
- When a vehicle is in a depot for repair can it please still be listed against it's route. It will nearly always be reassigned to he route anyway, especially with a manager so having an inaccurate/incomplete count on the routes list is very confusing.
- Also, when you have many icons on screen, it's hard to see behind everything. But when you use the eye to make them disappear, you don't see any of their stats. It'd be nice to click on a vehicle circle when the "eye" button is activated, then a small window shows up that shows the current stats of that vehicle. otherwise the only way to see the stats is to unclick the eye, making everything visible again
- Allow adjusting scrolling speed
- Make it possible to create routes from city window directly
- Why isn't there a hotkey to open the shop? I can't see it in the menu anyway. I feel it'd be one of my most used hotkeys
- Have some way to bring the problem vehicle (causing the red flashing) to the top of the list so you don't have to scroll through it
- It would be nice to have a list of idle or empty vehicles so you know if something needs tweaking because scanning the world map late game for that is impossible
- Could we have a way to change our company name within the same save
- Assign each vehicle a unique ID, just a number would do, which would make it easier to locate the one you want within the route and vehicle lists.
- I think small popups should have dark background. same, as in left top
- We can sort the vehicles list, I would also like to be able to sort the routes list, at least by profitability and name.
- So each new game I have to reset the name, difficulty, win conditions, vehicle limit, number of opponents and then think about where I want to lay routes. In many other games those things stick from playthrough to playthrough.
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Team
DEVELOPMENT UPDATE - SUBSIDIARIES
Subsidiaries are a new company owned by you. They manage a number of vehicles for you in a specific territory. This will allow you to continue expanding rather than upkeeping.
We are currently testing this new feature in a closed beta. If you would like to participate please join our discord and ask for your beta access!
Discord server link
This update will be arriving to the full game soon!
Stay tuned and stay safe!
Team