Villages
Devblog #3 Overhauling Project
Within a week from now my project will be deconstructed and will rebuild again in more modular way. This means I cannot maintain V0.2.0 anymore.
You will have to wait until V0.3.0 for any bug fixs, but before that I will upload partial versions to the Experimental Branch and I will mention it in annnouncement.
I mainly focus on vehicles and character movement now and hope it works in a few days.
See you next time.:emofdr:
Devblog #2 with update V0.2.0
First of all, Special Thank
ZAP Hosting sponsor us(you and me) 2 VPS servers so we can have the game server open 24/7 from now and I can develop multiplayer features more frequently. You can visit their website to find more services.
What are in V0.2.0
This version is in multiplayer mode(dedicated server). It take place in IndustrialZone. In the previous version you have worked very hard to earn money and to buy items. Some of you have a business mind and invest in currency items which make them do less work and more rich. So this version HAILIndustries want to make a business with you. They built 20 small factories for renting.
Please note that the market only work when you see green text "Export Allowed" like this. Otherwise exporting will fail and someone has to poke me in Discord.
First you'll need to redeem money to your account(LittleArctic Government Bank) from Trading Center building.
At the reception desk you can redeem money from these Steam Items.
Labour Bond
Business Bond
Business Trip
Press F to open menu, and drag item to the right. You can either redeem to account or buy-back to items. In case of redeeming it will consume your Steam Item. You may have to click refresh button too.
After that you will need to import items from CargoService (at the blue mini-container office nearby). Importing will consume you Steam Items.
Importable items for now are
People's Car need for People's Roadster
Heavy Oil (Barrel) 200 Litres
Heavy Oil (Tank) 20,000 Litres
You can import specific amount of item.
You may need to click refresh button to see if your cargo is update.
Now you can go to any small factory to order new items. If your order success you'll see that money and oil decrease from your account.
Every factory have limited capacity so each of them will accept order only one per person. This mean you can have maximum 20 orders(from 20 factories) at a time in one server.
Every order need 15 minutes to complete. When the order completed they will send new items to your inventory automatically and you even don't have be in the game. For example, if your order is the 20th in a queue you have to wait (15x20=300 Minutes) 5 hours.
Important : If the market status is "Export not Allowed" all order that finished after that time will failed to delivery and no refund for this case. So someone need to contact me from discord as soon as possible. Maybe I can fix something quick enough. However it's unlikely to happen.
In the first month I will open 2 servers, after that I will use Experimental Server to test new gameplay.
All gameplay for this version end here. I hope you get items you may need for use in the future.
What I will do next?
- remove itempacker branch , the reason is I need you to sell item only quantity of 1 per listing like typical games(as many listing you need). Because matching system has limitation which allow any buyer to buy from any listing only once. So when someone sell item in stack and sell the cheapest, buyer will can only buy for the first time, the second time will not success(the market will get clogged in this case). So new set of item will unlikely to cause this problem.(1 item per listing).
- Swap V0.1.4 to testdrivemap branch. So you can play that map and get items until it expired. On 1st September that map will stop dropping item forever. So if you need some items you will need to get them before that day.
- Rework on Vehicle Physics. If it goes well we'll have Land,Air and Sea Vehicle in one research.
- Rework on Character movement for reduce jittering.
- Create my own netcode, for better networked gameplay.
I'll trying to make new small experimental rather than big update like this and make it modular for easy testing. You can join my Discord for Bug Reporting
You can send me financial support (or tell someone to do)
to one of these links.
See you next time. :emofdr:
Devblog #1 with update V0.1.0
Important Note
After this version there will be no minor update or bugfix until Version 0.2.0
I will only add more items to "The International Market" as v0.1.1.
I need about 4 months to rework all major system include Co-op Mode, Dedicated Server Mode, Voice Chat and more.
Next announcement expected to be on 13th July 2018.
But I will post Devblog when the game has progression.
Before go to actual update
I must explain some basic rules that will comprise to the complex economy in Villages.
1.Steam Item can be obtained in Dedicated-Server Mode only.
But before V0.2.0 I allow purchasing in SinglePlayer/Coop mode for limited time.
Ability to redeem Steam item for in game item and to exchange between Steam item(unboxing, claim Lottery) still allowed in the final version of game in every modes.
2. You can exchange in-game item to Steam item with 2:1 ratio, plus transportation fee and tax. (From CargoService to The International Market).
So now is the best time for stock goods due to temporary 1:1 exchange ratio.
Now an actual update
- You still have one job that is "Test Driving" but this time the car has manual transmission. You have to drive along the road to the end. If you really reach the end point you will get 1 Payload and need to deliver it at where you start and you will recieve 30000 Kattas.
- You can spend your hard-earned money at Trading Post by using the computer that has direct access to The International Market.
The limitations are you can only purchase one item for each type per processing(every 90 seconds). After puchases order is in queue you can leave the Trade Post, when order completed there will be notifications messages send to you. No save implemented yet so make sure you spend all money before leave the game.
- About every 10 minutes when you vistit Trading Post you will recieve Bonds interest from "LittileArctic Government".(calculated from every bonds you hold in your Steam Inventory) There are 4 Bonds available, all of them give 5% of their value for example "Business Bond has 1 million Kattas in value will give 50,000 Kattas interest".
In final version the interest will automatically paid per real-time hours by Dedicated-Server you playing in and time is accumulate only when you are actually playing in that server.
- If your car really stuck you can reset it by walk in front of a phone booth.
-If yourself stuck in terrain, try press R when you align your face out of object you stuck in.
- If you cannot unstuck press Home to teleport to the base.
P.S.
I will add a few more items to The International Market within a week as v0.1.1 but without announcement.(See version in upper-left corner in the game)
See you next time. :emofdr:
Mini Update, add Duty-Free Zone map
This map introduce new set of items, but no item dropping, you must use LabourBond you earned from TesDriveMap to buy items. If you have enough LabourBond in your inventory you can buy them.
Price List
-People's Car 10 LBs
-Food Coupon 1 LB
-Lottery 1 LB
-Camping Tent 3 LBs
Lottery and Coupon can be redeemed.
Lottery has 1/100 chance to win.
See you next time. :emofdr:
I hope next time it will be in version 0.1.0 .
Mini Updates 21 Jan 2018 (Item dropping for a limited time)
I added Steam Items to our game. You will earn "The Welcome Box" when visit Test Drive Map for the first time. You will also earn "Labour Bond" each time you drive to the other end of the road and enter green box, and you drive back to the green box at the start. You can repeat this to get maximum of 10 Bonds per day.
Item dropping will end with the coming of new map which has lower drop rate or not drop "Labour Bond " at all. ("Labour Bond" will later be use to exchange with in-game money)
2 Achievements can be unlocked in this updates.
See you next time.:emofdr:
Devblog 0 : Prepare for V0.1.0
Next version will be V0.1.0 and "expected to be non-dedicated-server" (Lobby Style) until major mechanics are integrated in the game.
For now you will have a Test Drive Map to of course "Test Drive".
Achievements are not yet integrated now.
See you next time.:emofdr:
Assets Test Map live for a limited time.
It will live until intial version of SmallTown map is finished.
