1.8m Update

This months update contains the following changes:

- added modding support for defining object spawn sounds
- scenario editor: clicking on a trash bin with the trash spawn tool now toggles the bin between being full/empty
- slightly adjusted how often rides break down, which should make breakdowns in big parks feel slightly less unfair
- fixed Heartbreaker ride physics

0.7.0 The Doctor is OUT NOW!

Hey Drifters!
The Doctor update is here!

With this patch we introduce the first specialist: The Doctor.
Specialists are unique drifters that unlock specific content. In this patch, The Doctor offers a way to cure drifters from their pollution diseases.

Additionally we took time to look at the current game features and improved them. Improved diseases. A new large handmade map that goes from West to East, which is a step into the direction of procedural generating an infinite map. A look at morale, with increasing drifter needs. A look at resource progression using tools and much more!

What's next?

If you want some extra insight into this patch, the original intent and development process for it is explained in the previous post. As for the future, currently we're working towards the next couple of specialists. Soon you'll meet the Botanist. Who'll bring plants, parks and town beautification to increase drifter morale :)

Enjoy the new update!

Changes

Specialist: Doctor

- New Construction: Med Pod.
- New Construction: Apothecary.
- The Med Pod and Apothecary Constructions can only be unlocked in the research tree if you have a Doctor Specialist.
- New Specialist: Doctor.
- The Doctor can be found by using the Radio Construction.
- New Resource: Medicine.
- New Resource: Mushrooms.
- The Doctor can make Medicine from Mushrooms in the Apothecary.
- Removed disease: Microbe Plastics.
- New disease: Spongehead. Drifters with Spongehead will drink twice as much.
- New disease: Musselmouths. Drifters with Musselmouths will eat twice as much.
- New disease: Smogbreath. Drifters with Smogbreath affect other drifters with low morale.
- Drifters now get a random disease when fully polluted.
- Drifters will be diseased for longer periods.
- Drifters can now be cured of their disease by going to a Med Pod when there's Medicine and a Doctor available.
- New Construction: Radio. This construction will be used to scout in future patches. Currently scouts for the Doctor specialist.

World and Region updates

- New Landmarks: Polluted Woods Mushrooms
- New Landmarks: Polluted Woods Dead Trees
- New Resource: Goods. Goods are a processed resource. It can not be crafted in the town.
- New Construction: Recycler. The recycler can scrap Goods for parts and create Drywood and Plastic Waste.
- New Landmarks: Rural Ruins Goods
- New Landmarks: City Goods
- Goods will now be available on landmarks with indication of former civilization.
- New resource: Tools
- New construction: Tool Maker
- Some landmarks now require Tools to salvage. Larger quantities of resources can be gained by using tools.
- New handmade map: First iteration of a corridor-type map.
- New Landmarks: Apothecary landmarks. This landmark contains Medicine.
- Apothecary landmarks can now be found in the Rural Ruins region.

Morale and Experience

- Knowledge is now gained by cumulative town-wide drifter experience rather than drifter level-ups. 1 knowledge point is obtained by getting 500 experience.
- Drifter level now decides their morale needs. Higher level = higher needs.
- Daily reports now contain the amount of knowledge gained that day.
- Daily reports now contain the amount of experience gained that day.
- Drifter overview panel now has notifications on the side. These allow the player to toggle different filters for the drifter overview.
- The Tech Tree is now in multiple rows. You can choose between multiple tech to research first.
- Updated housing morale effect to award more morale for higher tier housing.
- Added morale effect that awards morale based on the level of attributes a drifter has affinity for.
- Drifters can no longer share a House or Big House. Having a better house will make the drifter happier.

Balancing

- Large rebalancing run to accompany new changes. Some outliers:
- Fishing Chair and Fish Sticks now behind research.
- Chop Shop is now available from the start.
- Rebalanced weight tiers, Townheart now needs less fuel for travel.
- Rebalanced eel-ectric storage amounts and eel-ectric consumer/producer amounts.
- Changed cost of various constructions.
- Nerfed athletics attribute.

Misc

- Only scout landmarks of neighboring regions are activated when scouting a region.
- New Animation: Electro-Crafter
- New Animation: Food Truck
- New Animation: Fishwasher
- New Animation: Chop Shop
- The Doctor has a quirk that prevents them from getting polluted/diseased.
- Updated and cleaned up various new City and Highway landmarks that had test assets.
- Added dead wood salvageables to the Polluted Woods region.
- Drifters that did not eat nor drink in the morning will now eat/drink when it becomes available during the day.
- Drifters gain more experience when salvaging landmarks with tools.
- Updated survival guide with new and changed information.
- Added pages for the diseases.
- Changed the fish patches to specific fish patches. Each fish patch will now contain a specific fish. The type of fish will be shown on the map. Fish type spawning now based on region.
- Changed color of bottlefish from orange to blue to more accurately show it's the "starter fish". Changed Oil Gobbler color to orange.
- Producers can now have 10 recipes queued.
- Added Doctor idle animation.

UI

- Removed drifter level-up notification.
- Greatly reduced duration of marker and landmark completed notifications. Reduced duration time of various other notifications.
- Removed bottom bar art and tweaked spacing.
- Updated swimming icon
- Updated notification width and spacing.
- Improved the landmark actions UI.
- Improved the producer UI.

Fixes

- Reduced memory allocations caused by drifter portraits and drifter tools.
- The Unbottler now correctly uses the Cooking priority.
- Fixed issue where a tooltip showed of a construction when hovering over UI.
- Fixed issue where tools would not be removed when rerolling in the crew select screen.
- Fixed bug where the experience bar of a drifter would reset upon saving and loading.
- Fixed a bug where the patient of a Med Pod would break the save if it did not have a disease.
- Fixed issue where you couldn't select the Manual-Powered Generator due to the energy overlay.
- Fixed issue where you could no longer see experience or morale gained of previous days when loading a game.
- Fixed issue with scouting landmarks giving a notification that they were "salvaged" instead of the region being scouted.
- Fixed drifter duties panel tooltips giving wrong information about some constructions the duties were used in.
- Fixed issue where Medicine and Farming would show as possible attributes in the crew select panel, breaking the reroll functionality when applied.
- Fixed issue with shadow quality not being set correctly.
- Fixed issue where drifter portraits were being wrongly scaled with UI scale.
- Fixed flotsam LODs sometimes triggering faster than required, not showing any floating flotsam in the water.

Behind the Scenes

- Created a Voronoi map editor for map creation.
- Implemented a region based flotsam generator.
- Created a Query Tool to help with balancing.
- Added a region point-of-interest generator pass for the new voronoi maps. This allows us to more accurately balance what regions contain which resources.

Space Haven Alpha 16 - Version 0.16.0 Build 15 Released as Stable.

Greetings, Spacefarer!

We have fixed some bugs and put together a new patch for the Alpha 16 Update. The newest version is now 0.16.0 Build 15.

Alpha 0.16.0 Build 15

- Fixed build restrictions of the Item Fabricator.
- Fixed a bug where a crew member would not open up the storage inventory when given the command.
- Fixed bugs.

Stay tuned and enjoy the new update!

- Fixed a SwapBuffer error issue that happened because of a mouse cursor rendering error.
- Fixed an issue that caused double buffering of the graphics scene that could lead to crashes and slowdowns.
- Fixed an issue with the ConcurrentQueue function that caused crashes during loading.
- World entity limit increased from 300.000 to 1.000.000 entities.
- Fixed an error during pipe removal.
- Fixed a deadlock that occurred due to an error when a seasonal event is active.

Tropico 6 Update 19 Hotfix

Fellow Tropicans,

we have just released a hotfix for Tropico 6 Update 19 for Steam, Epic and GoG. Other versions will follow as soon as possible.
This hotfix includes a fix for the era progression with the new landmark 'moonlander'.
Please find a detailed list of changes below.

Thank you for staying aboard,
Your Tropico 6 Team

Changelog:

- Fixed citizens being stuck at entrances of buildings after they aborted waiting in the spaceship.
- Fixed Era progression quest in cold war when stealing the ‘moonlander’
- Salvaging space debris now fills up the rocket, if it started partially empty
- Fixed an overview checklist entry when reducing additional supplies and fuel
- Fixed two buildings overlapping in the starting city of the Map "A Bold Step Ahead"
- [Controller only] Fixed silently aborting mission a mission when pressing X on the Controller while rocket info is shown.

0.585.3 - Dark Energy

Kessler syndrome accelerating
A runaway Kessler syndrome triggered by a rogue asteroid impact earlier this year is accelerating. While cascading collisions produce more fine-grained ring particles each day, covering the upper and lower areas around the A-ring, scientists believe that proximity of the ring plane will eventually cause the cascade to slow down and diminish - but provide no estimation on when that will happen. Crews excavating in affected areas are urged to exercise caution.

Labor law expanded
The Mining Guild of Enceladus managed to win a class lawsuit against Enceladus Corp. Effective today, downtime during interlunar transits, as long as it is fully controlled by the autopilot, is classified as paid vacation. While this forbids employers from requiring crews to perform tasks not mandated by their job duties, some station citizens vote concerns that interlunar transits could be subtracted from mandatory vacation quotas.

Shadow dives available
With a new navigational array being available on polar orbit around Saturn, greatly enhancing the resolution and light sensitivity of Enceladus Corp systems, the station will now allow launches of private spacecraft into the shadow-covered regions of the rings. While lack of solar lighting can prove to be a challenge for inexperienced crews, many captains are excited about lower traffic volume and prospects of higher yields.

Maintenance Logs
- Fine-tuned in-game physics options to allow better performance of the physics engine based on real-world data supplied by players.
- Shifted computing majority of the ring background particle system from CPU to GPU, which improves average framerate on all systems with modern graphics cards. Older and integrated GPUs will not be affected.
- Improved performance of ore chunk physics simulation. Immobile chunks can now free up computing power, lowering the processing requirements for strip-mining ship builds depending on cleaning up a large area of the rings and capturing ore with nanodrone systems.
- Adjusted parameters of simulation throttling system. While previous values were effective at keeping the framerate consistent on tested systems, extreme builds could lock the system in a state where no new iceroids were generated. New changes ensure that even with a limited simulation range, iceroids can still appear around you.
- The physics throttling now adjusts the area of detailed simulation, not its radius, giving it much finer control over changes introduced in the game physics.
- Nakamura-Titan Mining Companions now have a slightly reduced iceroid detection range. While it makes them a bit less effective at mining, it reduces the CPU load of their onboard AI by over 400%, which allows ship builds sporting multiple companions to work with much better performance.
- When many in-game days pass in an instant - during interlunar transit, repairs or extended vacations on the station - your crew used to gain education experience for the first day only. Now you will get the full benefit of the entire time period. For most playstyles, this will increase the rate your crew educates itself downtime by up to 500%.
- When your processed mineral storage becomes full, your ship will now sound a brief alert.
- Adjusted the physical cargo bay shape of the Pelican Prospector so the cargo baffles installed inside work as expected.
- You can now turn off all the dynamic lights, including the sun, with the lowest lights detail setting, which improves performance on low-end systems. For roleplaying purposes, you can assume you are diving into the shadow of Saturn.
- The in-game profiler overlay available with the F11 key will display a version string for easier comparison of changes introduced in different releases.
- The Equipment menu “Simulation” and “User Manual” tabs now have icons, making them easier to spot by novice players.
- Elon Interstellar Model E cargo door dampeners are not as stiff now, making the ship open and close its excavator much quicker.
- New cargo acquisition protocol ensures that ore deflected from an area that the ship considers a cargo bay will not be accounted as on-board cargo briefly.
- Adjusted the physical shape of AT-K225 to better match the displayed sprite.
- If you created a custom player-created ads directory but did not put any custom ads inside it, the game would crash when loading the Enceladus station.
- When a ship appeared on your lidar, your astrogator assigned it a tactical marker - but if it moved into a shadow for over 60 seconds, its name would disappear from the list on the Pilot tab.
- Adjusted the default game settings for a new game to offer better default performance and experience over a variety of systems. You can still adjust the settings to your liking.
- Some events were despawning much quicker than they should have, which made locating them challenging.
- Updated game engine version for Linux and Steam Deck to Godot Engine 3.5.1, bringing all the new performance and stability enhancements to these platforms.
- Updated translations.

Succubus: Angel and Demon Update

Hey Martyrs!

Today we're happy to announce the release of the latest free update for Succubus - Angel and Demon!

The update is already available!

Have you ever wondered what would happen if instead of a thirsty Succubus, it was a sexy Angel who punishes sinners? Now you can check it yourself!

What exactly can you expect from today's free update?

- Full Demon (armor/skin)
- Angel (armor/skin)
- Angel whip (weapon)
- Demonic whip (weapon)
- Two new selfie poses
- Two new Looped dream animations

There is only one condition:
To play as an Angel or Demon and unlock new weapons, you must first complete the "Amazon Arena" level.

Have fun!

Space Haven Alpha 16 - Version 0.16.0 Build 16 Released as Stable.

Greetings, Spacefarer!

We have fixed some bugs and put together a new patch for the Alpha 16 Update. The newest version is now 0.16.0 Build 16.

Alpha 0.16.0 Build 16

- Fixed a bug related to rare unexplainable power shortages.
- Fixed bugs.

Stay tuned and enjoy the new update!

'Tis the season to get FREE stuff!

New Free Content!

3 New merry Crypto skins
1 New festive Saucer skin

General

- Fixed some stability issues:
o Rare Multiplayer freeze after dying in Bay City waters,
o rare crash after Arkvoodle mission 13,
o potential game freeze issue after transmogging the courier’s vehicle in SM11,
o rare soft-lock in Multiplayer pause for Player 2,
o rare crash when Player 1 enters the saucer with Player 2 PK’ing a specific NPC,
o potential SM17 freeze during the escort step,
o rare Ion Detonator-related crash
o rare input-mashing related crash
- Fixed some issues around the bodysnatch ability:
o Bodysnatched NPC models work properly with Selective X-Ray Vision mutator
o Fixed a case where powers and weapons might become unusable if bodysnatching an NPC and breaking line-of-sight at the right time
- Fixed some audio issues
o Fixed some cutscenes music not playing properly
o Fixed an issue where Crypto’s three-point-landing with Smashdown unlocked would have no sound
- Fixed objective blocker in Arkvoodle mission “Publicity Stunt”, where a hippie could be slurped and blocking the missions
- Fixed some Blisk movement issues in SM07
- Fixed tanks to have consistent physics behavior against Ion Detonator grenades
- Fixed some collision issues in Solaris
- Fixed objective blocker in Oddjob mission “Ruin Lives - The Secretary!”
- Fixed some issues with the Free Love ability to make it consistent in some gameplay instances
- Fixed potential objective blocker in Oddjob mission 23 “The Abominable Yeti”
- Fixed potential objective blocker in Arkvoodle mission 11 “Alien Overlords: The Reality”
- Fixed a collectible issue in Tunguska, now the music disc can be properly collected

Player reported issues

- Bongwater can no longer randomly get stuck during the boss fight
- Re-balanced the building destruction with Sonic Boom
- Fixed that collected tracks are in the Jukebox
- Fixed audio issues in Bay City occurring in certain conditions after defeating Coyote Bongwater
- Fixed issue after using the Slurbmaster in Arkvoodle mission “Publicity Stunt”
- Fixed inconsistencies in the voice lines for the prank calls
- Fixed that no more US military vehicles spawn in Takoshima when the alert level is raised
- Fixed objective blocker with mission progression for the “The Siberian Job” rg. Sergei’s truck, spore cylinders, and the KGB cars
- Fixed that the PK’ed objects do not get stuck in geometry when those objects are mission-relevant

Keep watching the skies (and watch out what's coming up your chimney)!