April Update
Hey everyone it's update time again!
Sorry it was a few days later than usual this time but I got a good amount done.
The main highlights of this patch are:
Mess Tracking:
Click on a bin to see some stats about how mess is being handled throughout your Rec Center, like the ratio of mess thats being dropped on the floor vs being put in bins. This will help you optimise bin placement for greater coverage to keep your Rec Center clean.
This is important because you'll need to prove you can run a clean business to unlock the Childcare technology!
Childcare Facility:
Busy customers are now able to pay an hourly price to leave their children in your childcare facility, should you choose to build one.
This will make your Rec Center more appealing to certain people and provide a small boost to daily customers.
Set your own custom Childcare hours & keep the children happy with the new equipment being added.
To unlock this tech, first research Entertainment II, then prove you can keep a clean Rec Center by ending a day with at least 70% of all mess going into bins on a busy day with 50+ customers.
The full patch notes are:
- Childcare Facility:
New Zone: Childcare
New Floor Tile: Colored pattern
New Objects: Kids Tables
New Object: Ball Pit
New Object: Game Console
New Object: Book Shelf
- See details about mess around your Rec Center by targeting a bin
- Buy Menu tabs revamped
- Several equipment & general sprites have been redrawn & improved
- Improvements made to grid display
- Countless minor optimisations to background processes, improving overall framerate by up to 15%, this will be more noticeable in late-game when you have a very large Rec Center with lots of customers & employees.
Minor changes & bug fixes:
- Swimmers are now around 20% less likely to start drowning
- Increased range of bins by 15%
- Customers' chance to leave a review now decreases the busier your Rec Center gets, this is to reduce review spam in late-game
- Customers can no longer stay on computers for hours after closing time
- Fixed bug causing event customers to make twice as much mess
- Fixed crash that may occur when a cook can't find any stock to use
- Fixed crash affecting old saves when entering Research menu
- Fixed minor issues with object depth causing some visual bugs
- Fixed minor bugs with customer AI
- Fixed bug causing customers in their swimwear to walk around endlessly
- Removed weird 'orbs' that appear when zoomed out in Utilities mode
- Many more minor adjustments & fixes
What's coming next patch:
Daily Business Reports
I plan to add a business report that you can read at the end of each day that tracks a large amount of stats. These reports will be saved into a large array and you'll be able to view & compare each days data with any previous day.
Reviews Overhaul
In the next update I want to overhaul the way customer reviews work, expanding the info you receive from each review.
For example, instead of just giving an overall rating out of 5 stars, you'll receive an out of 5 rating on other things too like cleanliness, value for money, how much stuff there is to do & how crowded the place is etc..
Heavy optimisation of menus (Most prior optimisation has been to background processes)
I've figured out a couple methods of massively reducing resources consumed by menus to make them barely impact performance at all so I plan to rework many performance intensive menus over the next week or two. So expect more large performance gains next update!
One last thing to note is that next update might be a little later than usual because I'm getting laser eye surgery in a few days & I need to avoid looking at close up screens for about a week after.
Let me know what you think of these changes & I hope you enjoy! :)
Sorry it was a few days later than usual this time but I got a good amount done.
The main highlights of this patch are:
Mess Tracking:
Click on a bin to see some stats about how mess is being handled throughout your Rec Center, like the ratio of mess thats being dropped on the floor vs being put in bins. This will help you optimise bin placement for greater coverage to keep your Rec Center clean.
This is important because you'll need to prove you can run a clean business to unlock the Childcare technology!
Childcare Facility:
Busy customers are now able to pay an hourly price to leave their children in your childcare facility, should you choose to build one.
This will make your Rec Center more appealing to certain people and provide a small boost to daily customers.
Set your own custom Childcare hours & keep the children happy with the new equipment being added.
To unlock this tech, first research Entertainment II, then prove you can keep a clean Rec Center by ending a day with at least 70% of all mess going into bins on a busy day with 50+ customers.
The full patch notes are:
- Childcare Facility:
New Zone: Childcare
New Floor Tile: Colored pattern
New Objects: Kids Tables
New Object: Ball Pit
New Object: Game Console
New Object: Book Shelf
- See details about mess around your Rec Center by targeting a bin
- Buy Menu tabs revamped
- Several equipment & general sprites have been redrawn & improved
- Improvements made to grid display
- Countless minor optimisations to background processes, improving overall framerate by up to 15%, this will be more noticeable in late-game when you have a very large Rec Center with lots of customers & employees.
Minor changes & bug fixes:
- Swimmers are now around 20% less likely to start drowning
- Increased range of bins by 15%
- Customers' chance to leave a review now decreases the busier your Rec Center gets, this is to reduce review spam in late-game
- Customers can no longer stay on computers for hours after closing time
- Fixed bug causing event customers to make twice as much mess
- Fixed crash that may occur when a cook can't find any stock to use
- Fixed crash affecting old saves when entering Research menu
- Fixed minor issues with object depth causing some visual bugs
- Fixed minor bugs with customer AI
- Fixed bug causing customers in their swimwear to walk around endlessly
- Removed weird 'orbs' that appear when zoomed out in Utilities mode
- Many more minor adjustments & fixes
What's coming next patch:
Daily Business Reports
I plan to add a business report that you can read at the end of each day that tracks a large amount of stats. These reports will be saved into a large array and you'll be able to view & compare each days data with any previous day.
Reviews Overhaul
In the next update I want to overhaul the way customer reviews work, expanding the info you receive from each review.
For example, instead of just giving an overall rating out of 5 stars, you'll receive an out of 5 rating on other things too like cleanliness, value for money, how much stuff there is to do & how crowded the place is etc..
Heavy optimisation of menus (Most prior optimisation has been to background processes)
I've figured out a couple methods of massively reducing resources consumed by menus to make them barely impact performance at all so I plan to rework many performance intensive menus over the next week or two. So expect more large performance gains next update!
One last thing to note is that next update might be a little later than usual because I'm getting laser eye surgery in a few days & I need to avoid looking at close up screens for about a week after.
Let me know what you think of these changes & I hope you enjoy! :)