Industry Idle News

[h3]Patch Notes:[/h3]

• If you own either expansion packs, you can double your offline earning without watching a reward video (iOS & Android only)
  
• Bugfix: When Factory Mining policy is active, wholesale orders will not contain natural deposits (reported by @jgestiot, fixed by @FishPond)
  
• Bugfix: When Pumpkin Battery or Pumpkin Steel is active, the corresponding research buildings are not shown in Research center (reported by @WingedLeo)
  
• Add in-game notification about seasonal events in Policy Center
  
• Add a banner and link in Headquarter about CivIdle: Industry Idle's spiritual successor. The banner can be turned off in settings
  
• Add back support for Windows 7/8/8.1
  

[h3]Devlog:[/h3]
A lesson I've learned recently is that always read changelogs. I usually keep the game's libraries up-to-date. However, during an update, the library (Electron) dropped support for Windows 7/8/8.1. It broke several players who are still using older Windows versions. I've downgraded to the last version that supports Windows 7/8/8.1.

Industry Idle is in a good state - most bugs have been ironed out and the game is quite balanced - I feel it's time to leave early access and call it 1.0 - this should be just a matter of changing the version number and I plan to do it in the next update.

Regarding CivIdle, I am doing final testing myself before the next playtest: fixing game-breaking bugs, and soft locks, and balancing the game a bit. If you are interested in joining the playtest, head over to our Discord and join #cividle-general channel, leave a message saying that you are interested and I will start distributing keys once the game is ready.

Meanwhile, I've recorded a CivIdle overview video, enjoy!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

- Introducing weekly free premium city roster: every week, a city in either of the expansion packs will be free for all players regardless of expansion pack ownership
- Previously, if your account has connected to another game profile, it will fail authentication silently. Now the game will show 'Account Connected' check in Headquarter
- Bugfix: In previous patch, the trade quota calculation is incorrect. This patch corrects the calculation: profits result from trading will be excluded when calculating market cap-based quota
- Add Hungarian Translation (@KaaPeeM)

Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046


[h3]Dev's Note:[/h3]
Recently, I have been getting (back) into Age of Empire 3 (Definitive Edition, great game by the way). The game offers a free-to-play civilizations roster, which I think is a great idea to provide more content for free-to-play players. So I went ahead and implemented this for Industry Idle.

Also, the progress for CivIdle has been steady (maybe a bit slow). I have continued to work on the new player trading system while improving the game's core mechanism. I am providing a weekly update in our Discord channel, you can join here: https://discord.com/invite/xgNxpsM



https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181940/Cividle/

Patch 0.20.6
- Update translations
- Balance: When calculating market-cap based trade quota, trades since the last market update will be excluded (@FishPond)
- QoL: The game will try to renew authentication if it expires. There's also a new button in Headquarter to manually renew authentication (@FishPond)
- Upgrade game engine and runtime frameworks - this should help improve compatibility (@FishPond)

Also, I'd like to provide some updates on my future plans. As those of you who are on our Discord server are probably aware, I am focusing on developing the spiritual sequel: CivIdle

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181940/Cividle/

There has been a small-scale closed alpha testing, which provides very useful feedback and results in a rebuild of the tech tree and progression. The progress has been slow at times but the pieces are coming together. I have finished most game content before Medieval (buildings, production, wonders, etc) and am now focusing on getting the new player trade system to work. After that, I plan to open up another round of testing. If you are interested in CivIdle, please join our Discord to follow more updates: https://discord.com/invite/m5JWZtEKMZ

0.20.5-build.337
- Added Turkish and Bahasa language in chat (@FishPond)
- Hide Produce All Crops Swiss Boost if the game does not have Expansion Pack 2 (@FishPond)
- Bugfix: Activating Electric Fish Pond policy without Hydro Power Plant will cause Fish Pond to malfunction (@FishPond)
- QoL: Add building count in building panel (@WingedLeo)
- QoL: Add a warning if a building does not benefit from certain policies (@WingedLeo)
There are 154 resources, 234 factories, 66 policies, 19 maps and 71 achievements available in this version
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

0.20.4 has been released. This version is compatible with Steam Deck.

- Allow returning trade profit by paying resources (@FishPond)
- Showing the existing trades that offers better profits in Player Trade UI when adding a new trade (@FishPond)
- Bugfix: Fix disabling controller support does not work (@FishPond)
- QoL: Batch sell of buildings (@WingedLeo)

Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046