Megaquarium News

• UX: Decorations can now be placed even where there are no viewable locations.
  
• Fixed bug: Mods with non-capitalised folder names were not being read correctly on Linux OS.
  
• Fixed bug: Could not place underground tunnel in a position where walls would be against the middle edges, at some angles.
  
• UX: Slightly tweaked code for positioning decorations in tanks with raised or lowered substrates.
  
• Modding: Container 'adjust bounds' variables no longer apply to land-based animals when they are on land.
  
• Modding: Added hosting.childLayerConverter to allow tanks to adjust the occupation layers of incoming decorations. This is required for tanks which occupy layer -1 or 1 but not 0.
  

• Fixed bug: 'Reptiles' category was not localised into non-English languages correctly unless FF DLC was installed.
  

• Increased stability when encountering errors contained within mods on save game load.
  

• Fixed bug: If sandbox reward animal is a breeder it was overriding the minimum number of animals to 2, even if it was a shoaler or group spawner which has a higher requirement.
  
• Fixed bug: Greek Arch and Acropolis can no longer be placed under bridge/jetty tanks platforms.
  
• Fixed bug: Sunken wreck can no longer be placed under roofs, archways and bridges.
  
• Fixed bug: Science poster now says Pairs Only instead of Dither Fish
  
• Fixed bug: Science points cannot be offered as a reward in sandbox before rank 3.
  
• Fixed bug: Adorned Decorator Crab counts as a Decorator Crab for objective and count purposes.
  
• Fixed bug: Science tank version of 'Donation' objective had not been updated in the last patch. It now requires a lower science total, the same as the ecology version of the same objective.
  
• Balance: Added an addition trade rarity range (3 total) so that trade rewards match trade requirements more closely. Rarity (prestige) 1-8 trades up to 9-12 which trades to 13-16 which trades to 17-20.
  
• Balance: Trade objectives offer more appropriate animal numbers based on size. More small animals, less big animals. Exception: minimum requirements for shoaling or breeding.
  
• Balance: Added additional trades which give a supply of an animal instead of a finite number for more variety.
  
• Balance: Reduced rarity of animals available from merchants. Trades and objectives are required for best stuff.
  
• Balance: 'Sponsored exhibit' objective in sandbox is now easier and only targets theme decorations. The science and ecology point totals will only be updated in the objective tracker if the tank already matches the 'x different animals' requirement. This will hopefully reduce the occurrences of multiple tank contributing to the same objectives.
  
• Balance: Trades which unlock animals are added to reward tracker so that you don't get offered the same animal again from another opportunity.
  
• Balance: Sandbox 'Rehouse' objective, animal is counted as a reward as well as an objective so you won't be offered the same animal as a reward for another opportunity.
  
• Balance: Sandbox 'Display using X?' objective, decoration is counted as a reward as well as an objective so you won't be offered the same decoration as a reward for another opportunity.
  
• Balance: Reduced difficulty and increased frequency of FF poster objectives.
  
• Balance: Paints are added to objective tracker so you won't be offered the same paint objective more than once.
  
• Balance: Bridge, poster and archway objectives will only be offered once even if you decline and never build any of those objects.
  
• Balance: Multisize decorations cannot be offered by merchants or objectives. The only example of this is Acropolis.
  
• Localisation: various strings improved.
  
• Modding: Removed requirement for attractions to occupy layer 0.
  
• Modding: Fixed bug where hyphen in mod name was causing standalone custom maps not to work.
  

• Fixed bug: you could place Jetty and Bridge tanks over bridges.
  
• Fixed bug: Tanks not being visited under certain conditions.
  
• Balance: In Full Unlock mode in Sandbox, objective difficulty is tied to your rank even though you have access to everything.
  

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• Feature: Decorations can be placed outside of tanks.
  
• Feature: Paints generate prestige.
  
• Feature: Added one-way gate.
  
• Feature: Improved arrow behaviour.
  
• Feature: Guests will actually steal from gift shop supply boxes now. ;)
  
• Feature: You can place guests and staff at different heights e.g. platforms, bridges (AC).
  
• Feature: 1st person mode respects height. But you can still walk through walls.
  
• Feature: Added 3 new objectives.
  
• Sandbox: Improved opportunity variety
  
• Sandbox: Animal rarity affects animals which are excluded/unlocked
  
• Sandbox: Max objectives = 6.
  
• Sandbox: Added abandonment of objectives.
  
• Sandbox: All messages can be deleted after you have finished interacting with them.
  
• Sandbox: Increased starting money.
  
• Balance: Staff talks now have difficulty levels. Low skilled staff will find high difficulty talks very time-consuming. Guests will wander off if a talk is too long and you will receive only partial point income.
  
• Balance: High value food and drink dispensers and massage chairs can break down.
  
• Balance: Decreased breakdown rate increase on higher difficulties. (hard:10%, brutal:25% faster breakdowns).
  
• Balance: Food, drink and gift shop default margins are now 200% (increased revenue from these sources). The highest value food and drink base values were decreased though.
  
• Balance: Added negative thoughts when a guest cannot reach the exit and when an unfulfilled need is making them want to go home.
  
• Balance: Larger decorations have a much greater prestige enjoy chance (internal and external)
  
• Balance: Decoration prestige enjoy change affects cost.
  
• Balance: Increased prestige difference between ranks to allow for increased prestige gain from decorations and paint.
  
• Balance: Guest entrance rate is now constant for a given prestige value, even if distance between ranks is modified by DLC or campaign level.
  
• Balance: Increased prestige from feeding tank (FF).
  
• Balance: Slightly increased entrance ticket rates at ranks 1-6.
  
• Balance: Slightly reduced prestige value of biggest decorations and increased cost.
  
• Balance: Tweaked some animals sizes.
  
• Balance: Gift shop shelves now arrive empty. But they cost less.
  
• Balance: Higher value gift shop items have a lower chance of attracting guests, you need to keep guests near them longer to get the sale!
  
• Balance: Tool dispensers sell for 0 if they are empty.
  
• UI: Split disallowed skill levels into different roles.
  
• UI: Added hotkey to 'copy object'.
  
• UI: Added hotkey to 'copy paint'.
  
• UI: Added tooltip to prestige value on prestige window. Tells you your current base prestige.
  
• UI: Added build menu category to all objects when you hover over the (i) or the portrait on its individual window.
  
• UI: Improved message formatting.
  
• UI: Added many additional icons to non-animal game objects to better describe their behaviour.
  
• UI: Added thousand separators to many numbers.
  
• UI: Objects in the build menu always have the default blue theme.
  
• Graphics: People smoothly transition between different floor heights.
  
• Graphics: People show the object they are holding when you pick them up.
  
• Fixed bug: Poster not updating when animals are added to attached tank.
  
• Fixed bug: 'Floating stuff'
  
• Fixed bug: entrance flag waving.
  
• Fixed bug: sound load paths are escaped so any path can be valid.
  
• Fixed bug: delete bench with guest on it, guest animation resets and item follows guest.
  
• Fixed bug: dislikes food competitors requirement was always met for growing up purposes.
  
• Fixed bug: FF aquascaping types were not increasing costs. FF aquascaping has therefore become more expensive.
  
• Stability: Check for missing staff members on load to avoid error.
  
• Stability: Clamp staff talents and skills at 50 (even via modding).
  
• Optimisation: Improved loading time of staff manage tab.
  
• Optimisation: Spread out objective checking code.