Production Line : Car factory simulation news & patch notes

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Yes its true! after all these years, Democracy has finally returned to steam! Democracy 4 is now in Early Access, and your people are eagerly awaiting (or dreading!) your leadership! So far the game supports English-language only on PC (but more languages are coming soon), and we have the following coutrnies in need of governing: The USA! The UK! France! Germany! Canada! Democracy 4 already has steam achievements and steam workshop support, and a full modding guide is available. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/3187dba7ac1ded3058ea738d6f6e79d32772be48.png If you have ever found yourself getting angry in online debates about what the government should do, now is your chance to prove conclusively that you could do a better job. Its actually way harder than it sounds, especially if you think you will be able to stick to your principles AND win re-election over multiple terms... What will people think when you legalize LSD? when you double alcohol tax? when you give the police machineguns? when you force everybody to sing the national anthem? Will they be happy you introduced Universal Basic Income? Democracy 4 is $26.99 Go grab a copy and take control of the country :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/Democracy_4/

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Exciting times! Not only does today mark the first Presidential election debate in the US, its just a week away from the launch into early access of our political strategy game Democracy 4. If you want to try your hand at implementing Universal Basic Income, or maybe you want to ban teaching evolution in schools, perhaps build a border wall, or legalize heroin, or go crazy with the money printer with some helicopter money or quantitative easing... these are all options available to you in Democracy 4. Currently the game features the USA, UK, Germany and France, and we expect to add Canada before Early Access starts, with a list of other countries coming after that as we continue to work on the game in response to player feedback. Here is the official trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg I also just added a new steam guide that explains how people can create mods for the game, which we support through steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2242250360 ...and we will add a steam guide for basic gameplay soon too (although this is also built in to the game just by hitting F1...). I'm also doing developer videos on youtube every other week to go over whats been added to the game where you can see how it plays, and you will already find some youtube lets play videos of early builds of the game. If you are thinking of getting the game (its $26.99 BTW), then please add to your wishlist now and help us get more visibility on the store :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Great news fellow citizens! The latest installment in the geeky-but-popular political strategy game 'Democracy' series is coming to steam very soon, in a US election year no less. Just imagine how calm and peaceful our forums will be :D Its been 7, yes SEVEN years since the release of Democracy 3, and global politics has changed a lot. Democracy 4 takes the series into the modern age with new features like coalition governments, media reports, Quantitative Easing & Helicopter money, Fake news and Social Media. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg Democracy 4 will be released soon on steam, so please check out the store page and add it to your wishlist to keep up to date with developments. We will be coming to early access, so will have plenty of opportunity to get feedback from players on how to best balance the game, and what cool new policies to add. Before you start typing, YES, Universal Basic Income is a policy in the game :D And yes, we are modelling cryptocurrencies too :D As well as updating what the game covers, D4 has a revamped user-interface using slick vector graphics to dynamically resize the main screen icons based on a number of factors, and allow for infinite modding potential. We also have a palletized color system so you can play in dark mode (and soon...colorblind modes). Without a doubt D4 is the very best version of the game, and we are very excited to share it with steam players soon. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/3187dba7ac1ded3058ea738d6f6e79d32772be48.png By the way, most of the features and policies from all the Democracy 3 expansions are rolled into Democracy 4 base game, so we have all the electioneering features, and policies from extremism (plus some new policies that go further, like border walls), social engineering and clones & drones. Plus there are some new screens and visualisations that are completely new for this game, like the voter distribution screens and the disposable income breakdown. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/04254d9c2ffd0a77ec6c4f4e9e7d7a36d2ec14c4.png Anyway... we are very excited about releasing this game, and if you are interested in playing, go ahead and bash that wishlist button :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/Democracy_4/?beta=0

At last! our DLC containing varieties of car models is now on sale. The design variety pack contains a new car design for each of the existing cat categories in the base game (Sedan, Compact, SUV, Sports, Offroad, Pickup and Small Van). You can now select the car variant for each design once you have unlocked them using the design studio. These are cosmetic changes only, they do not affect what vehicle a customer will buy, but you may want to use them to make it easier to visually distinguish between the different car ranges within a style (such as expensive SUV versus budget SUV). Hope ya like em! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Check out how the new designs look in this trailer: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc And the DLC itself can be grabbed here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174730/Production_Line__Design_Variety_Pack/ Thanks for all your support during the development of the game, its a real labour of love! Cliff {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg

Full changelist for this update: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed rare case where some cars would have missing components at specific zoom levels (only painted components drawn) also affected cars drawn in conveyor-placement mode. 2) Fixed bug where you could get the demolish tool 'stuck' because it didnt cancel when right clicking. 3) Fixed bug where backspace key removed 2 characters instead of 1. 4) Added new 'import flow analysis' feature to slots. New arrows on the import tab for the slot window lets you toggle a feature to show the import source for any selected resource. example: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/e1d0363ead5b9cc4335f0a0622539f8f9ccb23f6.png 5) New hotkey: 'P' (remappable) moves the currently selected slot (instead of having to click the move icon at the top right). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like these changes. TBH 95% of players will not notice, but if you are playing large late-game maps, those bugs may have affected you and you might find the import flow analysis thing helpful for working out why some resources are causing a bottleneck. Feedback on this is welcome.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/ee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.png Hi there! We are releasing our second expansion to Production Line: Car Factory simulation on the 23rd October! This expansion is a cosmetic-only change to double (yes DOUBLE) the variety of car design styles in the game! You can now pick from 2 different looks for every car design in the base game (Sedan,SUV,Sports,Compact,Offroad,Pickup & Small van). Mini trailer showing the new designs: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc Here is the store page so you can add the DLC to your wishlist :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174730/Production_Line__Design_Variety_Pack/ Plus if you have not checked out the game for a while, please do as we have released a whole bunch of updates over the last few months that massively improve the playability, performance and stability of the game, mostly in response to player feedback, which has been excellent. Oh and if you enjoy the game but have not got around to reviewing it, leaving a positive review is REALLY appreciated :D Oh and if you bought the game way, way back when it first entered early access...you will not be aware that we already released one expansion for the game, which added both a supercar design and the silly doors on the cars of millionaires and billionaires, appropriately titled 'doors that go like this', which you will find here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067630/Doors_that_go_like_this/ How can you run a sprawling car factory without gull wing doors? :D BTW we keep this forum thread up to date to tell people what changes we make to the game, so you can see if an idea you have for the game is already being worked on: https://steamcommunity.com/app/591370/discussions/0/1290690926863304299/ Thanks for all your support. production Line has over 100,000 happy steam players and that makes us very very proud (and pays for food for 3, yes THREE cats). :D 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed bug where graphics on RHS of screen corrupted when viewing maintenance overlay on a screen wider than 4096 pixels. 2) Search bars on R&D and task picker now create a drop down of items to click on as well as zooming to the first item. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/ac1bea11bc82bdc86bf30fe6ad2c2806de3e0e9d.png 3) There is a new button on the showroom screen that allows you to toggle between the normal and (new) summary view. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/ecaa578d10418a7137c14bd4a2e2431fb6786094.jpg 4) Fixed wrong display of points-per-minute on the R&D screen for designs. (purely a visual problem). 5) Battery indicator now shows supply values over 100%. 6) Fixed bug where if you changed a floor tile using the factory decoration several times, then removed a slot, only the first change is remembered. 7) Mods can now include scenarios in the \modname\data\scenarios folder and they will be recognized. (still only 1 per map for now). 8) Fixed some bugs relating to manufacture of powertrains (upgrades were not mutually exclusive) and stop start engine upgrade not requiring the correct components. 9) Fixed rare bug that gave an error about being unable to highlight a tutorial window. 10) Improved and expanded initial tutorial 11) Aluminium is now available as a resource everywhere once you research alloy wheels OR aluminium bodies. 12) Fixed error in the way imported components were being calculated on the components efficiency screen, meaning they were sometimes assumed to be imported when stockpiles were being run-down instead. 13) Fixed UI anomaly on the lines showing incoming resources to a slot on huge maps when partially zoomed in. 14) major speed-up of the processing of customers for late-game with many customers and cars in showroom for a long time. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Thats all for now :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all! Here is a relatively big update to the game with lots of cool stuff... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed timing bug that affected the speed that some slots operated in certain combinations of upgrade. 2) You can now scroll on the marketing screen using the mouse wheel. 3) Fixed crash bug on certain fixed hour boundaries if a debugger was detected. 4) Fixed crash bug when placing supply stockpiles rapidly after one another when frame rate was low or number of slots really high. 5) Sort order and direction now remembered for the vehicle design screen, the expenses list and the component (efficiency) list. 6) Income screen now has sortable columns. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8b7b98a7ee07501ae90f2c013cb05f41d151c8b0.png 7) The bottom-right screen event messages now have delete buttons so they can be closed immediately. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/2609d78eaad62696020ae7423ebbd2b134126c04.png 8) Fixed some weird incorrect characters in certain areas of Italian language text. 9) Fixed hyper rare crash bug relating to advisors and multithreading. 10) Fixed crash bug when moving visual inspection slot with all upgrades. 11) Reduced market value of a hybrid powertrain to $7,500. Increased cost of Hybrid Powertrain to $1,950. 12) An extremely long list of minor changes and tweaks to colors / positions, fonts etc for various parts of the UI. 13) Search bar added at the top of the slot picker! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/3aae6fc1b43ef031a1c15580aad5e48aed3b11e9.png 14) Fixed missing resource options for the import priorities tab for non-standard powertrains (hybrid etc). 15) Both direction drag now works in map editor create new zone. 16) Hybrid powertrain never becomes common now. 17) Improvements to UI for placing resource conveyors. 18) Fixed GUI bug where the AI-research icons on a research-facility popup did not drag with the parent window. 19) Hovering the mouse over the sales/showroom button now expands that white bubble to show a detailed showroom breakdown. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/ca5c6df18e430c885e88ec7cbd73ace2609c73a2.png 20) 5 new researchable marketing options: Social media,Sponsorship,Product Placement,Billboards and Banner ads. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/5bc8e835421b41d22fc54059d931b3da3061356d.png 21) Better car light graphics. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/7c8ad6428d02f10d423d1d41277562c47962eb3f.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope ya like all these changes. I think the new lights look cool, and I'm glad I finally got around to expanding on the marketing options. let me know what you think :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all! Here is the latest update to the game! Full changelist: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed bad formatting of car sales values over $2billion. 2) Added new researchable upgrade for the visual inspection slot which makes the checks take much longer but very high chance to spot defects. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/ec075ada8d5d0fd60b19462e1f35c2419f8236c4.png 3) Added new researchable slot to manufacture hybrid powertrains. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/357b9c6501a0e240fd441756d75c632629100d8c.png 4) Improved a number of tooltips and requirements on the research screen to hide pointless tooltip information, reformat short ones, and make requirements more sensible. 5) Clicking any box on the market matrix (sales) where you have a design for that price/body style now opens the design window for the first matching design. 6) The text on the market analysis window for each car design can now be clicked on to open the vehicle design screen. 7) Added visual up/down indicators to the columns in component efficiency and finance expense screens to indicate/reflect the current sorted column and direction. 8) You can at last drag-and drop research queue items to re-arrange them! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/6e7e47b174228dd3bcb846d664309b83a5c7adc0.png 9) Added search bar to the top right of the research screen. start typing in there to find a tech from its name. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/d0fe0bb6ad3c548da0986d0db30c737245666d66.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like these changes! Feedback welcome. I have a list of small GUI changes todo, and also plan on looking into some late game marketing options to boost sales for those ultra-huge factories.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Lots of UI improvements in this one. Here is the complete list https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed crash bug when deleting a smart junction with an open config window for that junction, then adjusting its settings. 2) Fixed misleading yellow warning for sunroof on some designs where panoramic sunroof was unlocked and common but not valid on that body style. 3) Fixed missing import config options on the fit seats slot for nappa, red and white leather seats. 4) Finance screen tabs now autosize where possible to save taking up too much space. 5) Expenses tab on finance screen now sortable up/down on each column. Pie charts now sorted by cost. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/bcf6230b37530ed4a23066ce10b165ce08dd605b.png 6) Fixed crash bug when marketing window is open at the point when a marketing campaign ends. Also the customer/revenue stats now update in real time. 7) Brand awareness from high sales (organic) now easier to achieve and has a bigger effect. This is now shown on the brand awareness box. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/ab47e37cd3532e250b1433a5dba05545876c55cb.png 8) Options screen now includes the option to disable the red flashing and facility pop-ups when no research is currently taking place & facilities exist. 9) Fixed bug where you could still click on or right-click-delete a blueprint when those blueprints had been deliberately hidden. 10) Fixed hang when connecting resource conveyors to a vast list of unconnected stockpiles with the slot notices activated. 11) Vehicle design screen now shows design preview icons by names (if space permits) unless it needs the space for longer names. 12) Vehicle design screen feature strips are smaller and the market price has been moved to the tooltip. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/fa58abd7900c3d287b23077a286629a11a44d0ef.png 13) A number of user-interface and formatting changes (improvements hopefully) to the research and development screens. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/7a67c655c7093e5b0869f57a45ed7d6bc4c282ae.png 14) Increased both the cost and the research speed of research offices and centers by 10%. 15) Changed some of the UI colors and added support for a proper color palette loaded from a bitmap. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/0913b3f874610b8df5facedea1e503a8ab4872a5.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg These changes mean that its now SUPER easy for me to change the color palette used for the UI, so I'm very open to feedback on that (FWIW its a file inside \data\bitmaps called color_palette.png, you can edit it yourself). Hopefully the extra data that is now shown when hovering the mouse over a feature on the vehicle design screen is helpful tom players. This calculates the actual *real world* cost of the resources required, taking into account cases where you are producing some or all of them in-house, and how much the raw materials thus cost. Thanks for all your support, ideas, and kind words about the game.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi everyone! A bunch of cool new improvements covering all areas of the game, here is the complete list: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed crash bug when using B hotkey twice with task picker closed. 2) Improved component tab on efficiency screen shows more stats, in more sortable columns, with only one column now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/c20bd579587688661f99630badbf184a248a337e.png 3) Improved pie charts on expenses chart now highlight the top few component costs as different shades of red. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/599f9c5f1226c6872189926ec3906055a6361124.png 4) Fixed missing LED headlights graphic for sports car. 5) Fixed bug where the player was not credited a refund when unused resources were automatically refunded by a slot due to not being used over a long period. 6) Fixed bug where the 'prefer local' option for resource importing seemed to work incorrectly. 7) Slowed down the rate at which the perceived value of vehicle features change over time in response to competition. This should reduce price micro-management. 8) Fixed bug where car designs that used white or red seats, but fewer of them due to body design were using too many and wrong seats. 9) Fixed issue where in certain combinations, resources might be ordered badly by slots, notably the air suspension upgrade on fit undercarriage. 10) Changed the vehicle design screen so that component cost was using the current purchase price of components, not just the games starting price for them. 11) Improvements to map editor to allow placement of import/export on edge tiles, also blocks out and shows the 2 adjacent tiles next to export slots. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b08536974cf310e20e0ff90473c53ea2074a3b45.png 12) Reduced lag on huge maps when placing new overhead conveyor routes. 13) Moving a task-linked supply stockpile now retains its task link. 14) The advice to research new body types now will not trigger if you are already researching your first body type. 15) When placing a conveyor or the overhead conveyor, ESC key now cancels, as does right-click. 16) When design is being researched (or along with normal research) an extra green progress bar appears by the research icon now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/f82cb4b7f19e9764edc1e7a97975ee6018aaf727.png 17) Fixed zoom limit on map editor with really big maps. 18) Zoom in/out with the mouse wheel on the map editor now does zoom-to-cursor. 19) When moving an existing slot, disabled upgrades are no longer removed and need re-buying. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like the changes. I have more improvements planned for the charting and reporting stuff. Some of that formatting could be improved. I also want a more elegant way of breaking down component import costs. Hopefully the game will have slightly less micro-managing of prices now, and for people on massive, slow custom maps, performance should have been boosted a *lot*. Please let me know here if this update has introduced any new issues. The known 'problems' I am aware of are: 1) very occasionally cars are drawn with missing components after playing for a long time and slightly zoomed out. 2) very occasionally the screen will go mostly white for a period, which is fixed the minute you re-start the game. I still cant reproduce this yet. Thanks for all your support in offering suggestions and advice to improve the game, and for continuing to support my little company :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png OK...wow...so much change... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Some manufacturing slot research now requires the base fit slots to be researched and unlocked first now. 2) The 'copy from slot' feature on supply stockpiles now takes into account that batteries are needed for fit fuel tanks if electric or hybrid cars are researched. 3) The post-research screen now takes powertrain into account when suggesting which cars get a feature. 4) There are now small up/down buttons on the vehicle design screen to adjust the price, which do the same job as the mousewheel. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/943f4ddcd6202cf9cd045689e98f8d6a323a7f1e.png 5) The discounts for the showroom have been moved into a tab on the market screen. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/23e3c4d2f52f4323cbbcfb17024292552749778f.png 6) Fixed bug where the setting for global factory resource importers persisted if you started a new game. 7) Nappa, White & Red seat manufacture slots now do the correct thing and don't produce any standard seats. 8) Fixed bug where placing then deleting conveyor belts in blueprint mode prevented new blueprints being placed in the same place. 9) Defects now start fading in over ten hours rather than suddenly appearing at some point in the game. 10) Added new button on the option screen to reset the status of advisors so you get all advice categories again. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/968cc3d3ee5853da168be752bdedc9312107c6af.png 11) You can now infinitely expand all of the slot picker UI in blueprint mode so you can place down any blueprints ahead of researching them. 12) The pop-up windows on the task-picker for resource importers now show how long each one takes to import an item, to more clearly show relative speeds. 13) Supply stockpiles now also automatically stock combo-resources such as heated and folding wingmirrors, if all the sub-components are required for a linked slot. 14) The pop-up label for the supply stockpiles now show the current linked slot type in brackets underneath if linked. 15) Fixed bug where if loading or starting a second game, some visual elements like open top or sunroof or wheels did not show correctly. 16) Market value of each car now shown in the vehicle design screen. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b0a60f04382167f623378373a396881995220173.png 17) Mouse wheel now scrolls correctly in the showroom vehicle features list. 18) Renamed the 'insufficient resources' message, and also 'wrong bodystyle' and 'predictive stock control' so they all make more sense. 19) Fixed layout of market analysis screen at 2560x1440 res. 20) The 'new' text on recently researched slots on the slot picker now times out and disappears after being displayed for 30 seconds. 21) Fixed font problem with the X character in company name. 22) Map editor now highlights the potential placement tiles for importers and exporters in that mode to avoid confusion. 23) Fixed bug where blueprints placed and then bought, then slots deleted could still prevent other blueprints being placed. 24) The drop-down list in the production manager (for new car scheduling) is now sorted alphabetically. 25) The demolish tool (drag-select to delete) now works on a 1 tile width/height area, previously was a minimum of 2. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like these changes. I am planning on improving the reporting of what components are costing you on the finance screen for the next update. BTW the latest blog video can be found here: https://youtu.be/KPXwpP9ZS2o Cheers!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi. This patch is a relatively small one, but there are some good changes ( i think ) in the balance tweaks that improve the late game and also make smart junctions a more viable option earlier on. We also have 3 (rare) crash fixes. Also i fiddled with the car price slider, which should be a lot more usable now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed rare crash involving placing a blueprint for a slot on top of a starting-slot (like chassis assemble), then buying the blueprint. 2) Fixed crash when loading a game with vehicles at any very extreme edge tiles. 3) Improved usability of scroll wheel on car design price slider. 4) New car designs get a sensible starting price when created due to research to prevent accidentally having zero priced cars. 5) Increased purchase price of the shipping and paperwork slots by 30% 6) Increased purchase price of the fit computer and fit electrical components slots by 80% 7) Doubled the purchase price of the make electric powertrain and make electric motor slots. 8) Doubled the production cost of the make steel sheets slot. 9) Reduced the research cost of smart junctions by about 50%. 10) Increased the research time for some types of wheels and seats (design types). 11) Changed the export-rate for supply stockpiles so that they could not be overwhelmed, resulting in long invisible queues and an inability to send items out at a reasonable rate. 12) Fixed crash bug under certain circumstances when deleting very busy resource importers. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Don't forget we have new DLC coming in just a few days! Check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067630/Doors_that_go_like_this/ ..and also a video where I show off how that all works can be found here: https://youtu.be/XS8jntMn8Y4 let me know if I've made any screw-ups with this update :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Right...we have not had a list of changes this big for a while. Some good ones in here, I'm excited about changes to the price slider. I know its not perfect, but I think its way better. Plus the rapid shipping thing is cool. And yet more performance improvements (I'm determined to have it running silky smooth for you people with insane-size factories). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) The choose company logo window is now larger if space allows. 2) Fixed some locations where numbers greater than 2 billion were still displayed wrongly. 3) Fixed resource bug whereby with 'prefer local' setting, a slot could ignore nearby supply stockpiles and use importers instead if there was no local production in the factory or local items in the stockpile. 4) Overhead resource items not drawn when very zoomed out or if frame rate is low and fairly zoomed out. 5) Fitting the high performance powertrain now has a speed penalty to bring it more in line with other engine upgrades. 6) FINALLY fixed that long standing graphical glitch where newly placed slots sometimes had 1 or 2 little decorative items that stopped a few pixels short of landing until you moved the camera. 7) Fixed slight visual anomaly where a car might initially face the wrong way when waiting to be processed at a smart junction. 8) Clicking the power gauge before power plants are researched will launch the research screen focused on powerplant research now. 9) Added a new button at the top of the slot picker that toggles the display of blueprints on and off while the game is in the normal factory view mode. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/5cafe4365bd7d7d061dbb67418d6b5ead7b40e51.png 10) Clamped map scrolling so its impossible to scroll the whole world offscreen. 11) Mod browser now shows red/green for disabled/enabled status on the left hand side. 12) Fixed a few visual anomalies on the vehicle design screen previews with layers showing incorrectly. 13) Basic car now hidden as a feature for smart junctions, but basic features like solid roof are now selectable. 14) Smart junctions now show what mode they are in, and if feature mode, what feature(s) are being filtered when hovering mouse over them. Also support 2 features at a time. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/1390bfa232c0d719c0ae7f19fb060a4dd3d2f8b8.png 15) A series of balance changes to enable the manufacturing slots for seats,aircon,sunroofs,panoramic sunroofs and fuel tanks to produce multiple items in one go. 16) Adjustments to improve competitiveness of some manufacturing slots such as chip production,arches,bumpers,brakes and heated wing mirrors & steering wheels. 17) Added new researchable rapid shipping slot which reduces shipping time by 25%. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/583867fe40da7af27d2e9f3bce94c89c817595bd.png 18) The game now saves the current mod list in save games and warns on load if a specific mod is not installed and enabled. 19) Major speedup to path-finding to reduce lag after loading game or placing/changing resource conveyors. 20) Fixed bug with global local setting for resource imports. 21) Changed R&D so that smart junctions can be researched earlier and more quickly, whereas predictive stock control requires turbo charged conveyors. 22) Fixed bug where the player has named multiple zones identically in a custom map, and therefore savedgames only unlock the first zone of that name (now all get unlocked). 23) Doubled size of maximum objects and increased performance for assigning them to prevent random crash with super-huge factories. 24) Improved the design of the vehicle price slider. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/5bf0132283ac8fc303d9fdc3eacc9e14f9b600c1.png 25) Fixed UI issue where the width of the 'defects' tooltip for vehicles was too long in rare cases. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like the changes. if I have broken anything at all, please let me know!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hey all! Any update with any crash fixes is getting prioritised for release, so here is another update. We have made a big performance increase that you wwill really notice if you have big maps or a very low spec PC. We also fixed some obscure crashes, and there are some nice UI tweaks too (I'm especially happy to finally get that click-production-schedule notice thing in there!). Hope you like the changes :D https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed crash when a supply stockpile window is open, and linked to a specific slot while research completes for an upgrade that would add new resources to that slot. 2) Sped up calculation of maintenance effect overlay which *might* fix a crash bug for the maintenance facility. 3) Added hotkeys for finance screen ('f'), Vehicle design ('v'),Research ('t'), Sales ('m'), Efficiency ('e'). All are remappable. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/efa4cf783799faa7a42dae583a0d3b7848c01157.png 4) Much faster route finding, which should boost performance during load and also when placing new slots or resource importers/conveyors. 5) Fixed error where the token 'SHARE' was shown untranslated in one event pop-up window. 6) A new button at the bottom of any slots 'imports' tab gives you access to a screen which lets you change the global import setting for all current & future imports. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/9f929a950f17634102fa9239aeb24877a902be99.png 7) You can now move individual items up and down within a production schedule using new up and down buttons. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/786338ebf9b1c216e167f09bfbc93c6e5c620895.png 8) You can now click directly on those pop-up notices at the start of a production line to go directly to the production manager screen for that slot. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/71631fc7e3dfb7a4917fb69f9d7f827fc0928810.png 9) You can now click anywhere on a closed drop-down list to expand it. 10) Fixed bug where saving a game and then re-opening the save game list shows two copies of the same game. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like the changes. More GUI tweaks and balance tweaks to come in the next few weeks. Plus maybe some cool new content... :D If you like the game, PLEASE leave us a positive steam review, it is so appreciated when people do that and only takes a minute or two!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hey everyone. This is mostly a bug fix update, but we also added in much requested sliders for both autosave frequency and camera panning speed to the options menu. Here is a complete changelist: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Added sliders in options screen to adjust camera panning speed and autosave interval. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/1b6d8c49e207fb52c5fe9711e44f7828fc97bc50.png 2) Fixed some issues that allowed nonsensical combinations of some features such as pollen filters without aircon, or large batteries with a hybrid powertrain. 3) Fixed crash bug when clicking on the notification message that a world event has recently ended. 4) You can now no longer place down cosmetic items on walls on locked areas or in facings that cannot be seen. 5) Changed the reporting of customers per hour on the market screen so it shows 'average' customers per hour, not the number for the previous hour. 6) Changed the 'next slot not found' error so it reports the next unlocked slot, not ideal slot. Also fixed word-wrapping on those messages & partial car rendering. 7) You can now move existing slots regardless of whether or not you could afford to buy a new slot of that type. 8) Fix for display problems when any financial figure exceeded roughly 2 billion. 9) Fixed crash when selecting the research button when clicking to see details of a rivals recent research. 10) Fixed bug relating to deleting resource importers with items bound for a supply stockpile in the queue which could lead to supply stockpile problems later. 11) Fixed crash bug when hovering mouse over details window for rivals research, closing it, then launching the features tab of the efficiency window. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg We plan to revamp some of the pathfinding code before the next update which will lead (hopefully) to better performance on really large maps (especially custom ones with lots of extra importers). I also have plans to work on the following: A button to toggle off all blueprints A button to reset the advisors advice so you can see it again after toggling it off. Allowing you to change the order of items in the production queue. A big thankyou to everybody has been buying and reviewing the game. If you are enjoying it, and have not already done so, please leave us a positive steam review, its one of the best ways for us to get attention for the game!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Quite a small patch this time, just to address some items that came up now we have a larger playerbase hammering the game. Here are the changes. 1) Word-wrapping works on the blueprint slot names now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/d0176d1a6b0d1534130362d90a24a89472bcdde4.png 2) Fixed bug where it was possible in some circumstances to skip specific slots on the line. 3) Tweaked the animation for polishing paintwork so its scales nicely with the progress of the slot. 4) Fixed crash bug when trying to toggle off the upgrade for the maintenance facilities. 5) You can now type non english (supported characterset) characters into text edit boxes like company/vehicle name. 6) Added an explicit fullscreen button to the resolution picking screen under options to reduce confusion on how to enabled fullscreen. 7) Reduced volume of slot placement sounds. 8) Added an extra line in the tooltips to show any applied discounts to the price on cars in the showroom. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/d5e55a8c04d512759a7d9e4173900eb6c6f88f8a.png 9) New statistic displayed on vehicle design window: 'in production' to show partly assembled cars of that type. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/2bdf368b8f643008a37de6462451cc6bb77022dc.png 10) Hopefully a fix for the rare 'too many path objects' crash. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg We have a list of things we will be working on over the next week or two, including a fix for the financial totals screwing up if they go beyond 2 billion dollars, improvements to the UI to allow changing the order of car production, better explanations for which slot is missing next, and making camera pan speed configurable. I'm also aware of a bug where music stops after a certain amount of time for some players, and that there is a crash bug relating to the maintenance facility for some players. I'll also be looking into making it easier to copy existing lines at some point, and looking into some code optimisations too. Eventually we will get working on an expansion too :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi there! This is the last feature-update before we come out of Early Access. The next week is likely to just be bug fixing and usability/UI tweaks and fixes. Here is the list of new stuff: 1) Changed vehicle renaming so it doesn't annoyingly add (1) to a duplicate name until you leave that screen, to prevent driving people MAD. 2) Component prices on the finance screen can now be sorted up or down by either name or price. 3) Added remappable shortcut key (B) to toggle blueprint mode. 4) Redesigned layout of car design screen to accommodate longer languages. 5) Added Swedish translation and improved others. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/36fedecbcc4da06dc1c882cecdae63033724f7e5.png 6) Fixed bug when adding items to a supply stockpile where some categories would occasionally not be shown. 7) Smart junctions now retain their list of designs when switching in/out of design mode, and also add new designs to the default list. 8) Fixed crash bug when moving existing paint drying slots. 9) You can now move supply stockpiles, and they keep their configuration when moved. 10) Fixed bug where if you changed floor textures under office space, then moved existing office facilities, the default office floor texture was not re-set. 11) Added researchable make electric motor and make electric powertrain slots. 12) Canceling a slot or facility movement action snaps the item back to its old location. 13) You now get a brand awareness boost of up to 20% automatically if you have high number of sales over the last four hours. 14) Moved slots now remember their import preferences. 15) Telling a supply stockpile to copy a specific task's requirements now links it, and it auto-updates to account for new research. Any manual change to the slot breaks the link. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/dfecfb1a8f93420c201a5b2812acae1551f31480.png 16) You can now place down conveyor belts as blueprints. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/58765b945567366bca51169bc01c8802ac5c58ef.png 17) The production schedules at the start of each line are now saved if you move that slot. 18) Slight gradients on the vehicle design price slider now mark out the different price ranges. 19) Some new items have been added to various slots, to show gantrys, dashboards, shock absorbers, speedometers,automated platforms & scisssor lifts. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/5d45d6b3879565d8ebb883b9d4d33e2f39c7b744.png Hope you like the new stuff. feedback most welcome, as are bug reports, we really want a bug-free emergence from Early Access. Many thanks to all your support while the game was in EA. Suggestions for future updates also welcome. if you like the game and have not yet left a review, it is much appreciated!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi everyone! A quick update before we add swedish translation and translations for the new in-game playerguide. Hope you like these fixes and improvements to the game: 1) Fixed building zone unlock costs all being zero. 2) Conveyor placement now cancels if it would make the player bankrupt 3) Changed R&D screen to ensure connections to items not currently on screen are still visible to avoid confusion. 4) Added a new in-game player guide (F1 or ? button) to explain game to new players. Also launchable from the main menu. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/6ec4d338bfeaae3a1ed9d66e56c041cd93dc3581.png 5) Some extra tutorial windows have been added to explain demolishing items and the canceling of the resource conveyor placement tool. 6) Fixed display-only bug where the component cost of vehicles with some options (like red leather seats) was miscalculated on the car design screen. 7) new icon at top right of a slots window allows you to reposition that slot at no cost. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/735a7637b89b80f3e0e38ac0fae440f88de7728e.png 8) New button with a car icon on the features window lets you re-launch the post-research screen to assign features to designs. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/0901edc485aa0f7841fcc4d07444c5de7b79c8a0.png 9) The rear window is now applied visually to the vehicle when the other windows are fitted now, instead of when the windscreen gets fitter. 10) Camera controls can be remapped using a new option on the options screen. Hope you like these changes. We have now raised the price to $24.99, as we get closer towards the release out of early access. We also plan to add a few more remappable keys, and maybe improve some aspoects of the GUI before release, please vote on the priorities from within the game. Thanks for your support, it is much appreciated! BTW the latest developer video blog showing off some of these features can be found here: https://youtu.be/JpK6Egzs148 Cheers

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi everyone. This new update marks us declaring that the game is now BETA. That means we are not planning any more major new features pre-release (although we are very likely to continue updating the game post-release). This also means we will be shifting direction more towards bug fixes, tweaks and improvements to stuff like the tutorial. PLUS WE ARE PLANNING ON RAISING THE PRICE. (We cannot do this until 12th Feb, which is when it will go to $24.95). Here are the changes in the new version released today: version 1) Fixed some graphical glitches with overhead conveyors appearing behind things they were in front of, and vice versa. 2) Added new 'world events' to the game which start in the late game and affect prices / demand / features etc. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/896ecd78ac5a63c0dd8d94f6627eb53b59343104.png 3) Research queue names are now cropped to elipsis (...) rather than word wrapped, which caused issues in German. 4) cars now open their hood/bonnet (or trunk/boot for sports cars) to have engines worked on. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/55b239c9397aa644a7acf0e93a790ea698f34d25.png 5) Fixed some mixing or badly translated text in various locations. 6) Doubled memory pool for routes to prevent this error: "Too many Path Objects requested!" 7) You can no longer change the floor texture of floors 'outside' the factory zones. 8) Potential, unbuilt export slots now show a shuttered slot rather than just a gap. 9) New researchable 'type 2' resource importer speeds up resource importing by 20% (also stacks with general speed upgrade research). 10) Fixed rare crash bug on launching the production manager screen. 11) Lots more wall texture options! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/3c15da640ac76040a4c9983df94a096bb2bc9bc2.jpg 12) New wall-clocks for sales dept, world map for shipping department and animated CNC milling machine for engine block manufacture slot. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/2afd270ff6dc987d806ba1db09d79f47cbb462b1.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like these new changes. Don't forget to tell your friends who may be thinking of getting the game that the price goes up soon! If you have any feedback on this update please let me know. Like I say, we are mostly looking to tweak, balance and improve the tutorial at this point. Thanks to everyone who continue to support the game, it is much appreciated, this game would not be as good as it is without the supportive community here and on our website, reddit etc. BTW our latest developer video blog is here: https://youtu.be/1ckjeT2fJaQ

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all. I just made the unstable build the new default build, with a bunch of improvements. Here are the changes: 1) Some improvements to the interface for the map editor. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/c36d84140e48820829321b31d86100e6dbb9c676.png 2) Component efficiency window now displays a dash '-' for production in cases where there is no option to produce a resource locally. 3) You can now click and drag to edit the wall graphics just like floor tiles in the cosmetic editing feature now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/2dbf7090ed1fa7e8cb65aff2970a80ff1e509998.png 4) Tweaked difficulty slightly easier by adjusting a number of parameters, especially relating to competition and AI research. 5) Fixed a few places in the GUI where resource icons like the paint-tin were drawn wrong. 6) Fixed a bunch of z-order bugs that drew things weirdly in the factory. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/a46a5c3c1ad55b94fc64e15b3d54c57eefd60e85.png 7) Fixed occasionally corrupt text on repay loan button. 8) Fixed bug where load game screen is stil open if you use the load icons instead of double clicking. 9) Changed market screen height so it never obscures the speed buttons. 10) Changed production schedule UI so it never spills off the screen bottom on really low res monitors. 11) Fixed bug where some robots would not animate at the right times. 12) Cars now go up and down on platforms when getting wheels,tyres fitted etc. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/381c0c0a83a773e23d46b58ba5fa1df60e09c2fc.png 13) New stats window in the efficiency screen now shows more factory-wide data. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/25f4708270d154ad776f02fe9c7c65a974cbff28.png Hope you like these. I do plan to (at last!) start working on world events soon That will include stuff like regulatory changes affecting seatbelts & airbags, increased demand for electric & hybrid vehicles (or changes to resource prices due to global events) and so on...

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all! Here is the complete list of changes in todays 1.64 build: 1) Job creator achievement requires an extra 200 employees (now 1,200). 2) Production at scale achievement now requires 6,000 not 5,000. 3) Deleting a save game from the load game dialog now works. 4) Fixed bug where sometimes you could not toggle off the advice on certain types of advice dialog. 5) Clicking the research icon on the top menu when it is flashing green (for no design research) now auto-switches to the design tab of the R&D screen. 6) When the research screen is launched to show a specific unresearched item, the screen now temporarily highlights that item to make finding it easier. 7) New researchable upgrade for some slots: Liquid-Cooled Welding. (5% faster. All welding slots are 2.5% slower now before this upgrade). 8) Fixed occasional crash bug on some maps when switching to blueprint mode. 9) New rotate buttons now allow you to preview vehicle designs in all four directions. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8a2907023ced1344c81ec91ec115dcafc22e150f.png 10) New cosmetic placer on the slot menu lets you change the floor textures (drag place) or place down a few cosmetic items. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/195fc10f26893a663716c659ab4b2889d0f733d0.png 11) If you run out of money, and the only available loan will not cover the financial shortfall, it is not made available now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg The liquid cooled welding, rotatable previews and the new customisation options for factory floors etc are likely the most important changes in this build. I've also started work on improvements to the usability of the level editor, which will be in the next patch at the start of next year. Please let me know if this update causes problems or introduces any new bugs etc. Also thanks to everyone buying the game for your support over the last year, and many thanks to everyone who likes or tweets our developer blogs, and tell their friends about the game, its much appreciated!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Time for the roll out of a new update. Here is the list of changes in this build: 1) Fixed crash bug when deleting a facility that is displaying a details window. 2) Vehicle details window now shows the correct sale price of the vehicle when finished, assuming no components are missed and no defects found. 3) A system of advisers give helpful pop-up window hints now during the game. 4) Processing order of slots now regularly randomised to prevent bottlenecks happening where production lines converge. 5) In R&D screen where an upgrade is applicable to multiple slots, its shown as researchable if only the easiest (highest in the hierarchy) slot has been unlocked. 6) Fixed crash bug when going from main menu to new game then back to main menu then selecting mods. 7) Main menu interface redesigned. Thanks to Perseco. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/accd84f71676a6403b1b1468224987cbe93c5b47.png 8) Fixed crash bug under certain circumstances relating to large numbers of component manufacturing slots and multithreading. 9) Fixed bug where researching electric powertrain made the post-research GUI think you had locked the same upgrade twice. 10) Support for new changelist update window on main menu. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/fcc765eaafec99a723f6f040c68c617a9653df68.png 11) Update notification for non-steam builds also now shows nicer color-categorised and sorted list of changes. 12) Fixed bug where on 1280x1024 res monitors some of the speed buttons could not always be clicked. 13) Fixed bug where the selected features for smart junctions in feature mode were not properly saved and re-loaded. 14) Rework is now researchable earlier and at lower cost. 15) Fixed bug where some resources, like directional xenon lights, did not have resource importer strategy options. 16) Custom maps are now embedded in save games, so you can edit custom maps and not have them wreck existing save games based on that map. 17) New production manager GUI. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/d5e76243be622b5a80f1894986a2f83bad8bfe60.png The big changes are probably the new adviser popups and production manager although you will also notice changes to the layout of the main menu, and hopefully a bunch of small gui tweaks and improvements, plus a lot of fairly obscure bug fixes. Fix #4 is also quite significant I think as it will lead to fare better flow of cars where multiple lines converge. Thanks to everyone who playtested some of these features in the unstable build as that was good feedback on the advisers, which are now less annoying! All feedback and suggestions are most welcome!

Hi all! I just pushed build 1.62 out to everyone! here are the changes: 1) All car colors are now unlocked in freeplay modes. 2) ou can now click and drag around the Research screen in both axis with the left mouse button held down. You can also use middle mouse to do that annoying autoscroll thing too :D. 3) New feature (researchable): Active spoilers for sedan & sports cars. (powered spoilers requiring sensors and servos). 4) New upgrade: preventative maintenance. needs researching and can be carried out at each maintenance facility to reduce breakdown chance by 50% in inner radius, 25% in outer radius. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/94232812560e66f28755b6ba4d9dd7cacb5702b8.png 5) Fixed visual anomaly where setting a car design colors to chrome, then removing that option could mean some cars changed color when zooming in or out. 6) Fixed crash bug (assertion error) when deleting some resource importers. 7) Clicking an un-researched upgrade at a slot now takes you automatically to the research screen to show where the research item is. 8) Yellow and red warning icons now also show in car design screen on categories where an item (of greater value) in that category has become universal or common. 9) Manufacturing slots now show an error message if the export stockpile is not connected, and they will not run until this is corrected. 10) Fixed crash bug on some occasions when leaving the slot details window open for a long time on a manufacturing slot. 11) Valve and Engine block manufacture now depend on the research of engine assembly manufacture. 12) A whole bunch of windows that could not be dragged around can now be dragged. Also icons added to facility/slot details title bars. 13) Upgrade strips on the slot details window now show icons for each upgrade instead of pointless *cash* icon. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/5b28172704c07e5c5cc4430ad5f8bc41fec3711b.png 14) Some pie chart and other chart colors adjusted. 15) New researchable manufacturing facility and resource: Silicon and Chip manufacturing / Ai chip manufacturing. Adds new employee type. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/87367935e5989bd71104677fb1fb8e6245d33c08.png 16) Game will no longer allow you to rename or name designs so two designs are exactly the same (caused chaos!). 17) Fixed a bug where sometimes applying a tech on the post-research screen did not seem to work. 18) Smart Junctions now have side and 3 exit variations. Art not final. New 'default' option simplifies assigning designs. 19) When deleting a manufacturing slot you also now get a refund for the value of any stock in the export-stockpile for that slot. 20) On the imports tab for slot windows, there are no longer misleading import strategy buttons for raw materials that cannot be made locally. 21) Red and White leather seats can now be researched in the design studio and installed in the sedan and sports car. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/3dd7fe14897ce85e85a73cff801f28ab629b5d85.png Hope you like the new stuff. Advisers coming soon. As ever, all feedback is welcome, don't forget to vote on our priorities from the main menu, and if you really like the game, a steam review is always welcome and a tweet, Facebook or Reddit post is always super-welcome too!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Loads of cool stuff this time :D https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Loans can now be re-paid early, assuming you have the funds, at a penalty of 12 hours interest. This was widely requested, and I kept putting it off because I felt that it would lead to an unbalancing in the games difficulty, but actually now I’ve tested it for a while I think I’ve got it about right and am glad its in there. 2) Conveyors use less obtrusive graphics 3) New screen for market analysis to show breakdown of demand, production and sales. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/7f9e03bf443ab9167cf7b827d48b83541437db6e.jpg I find this new screen really helpful when playing the game towards the later stages when there is a lot to keep an eye on. I worry its not immediately obvious how it works, but I do think its a usability improvement for managing supply and demand. 4) New researchable upgrade & feature: large touchscreen. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/210a177cebeba80e653a12b34f81c65c2cb42cf0.png To make it obvious some cars are tesla-level expensive, and some are more Ford Ka level… :D 5) Vehicle design screen now hides categories entirely if there is only a single default option. 6) Fixed design research queue bugs where you could adjust first and last items up and down, causing a crash. 7) Fixed bug where the second-nearest import bay for each stockpile was sometimes calculated wrong, meaning inefficient routing. Also major route calculation speedup. 8) Major increases in the cost and value of electric car batteries (large and small) and touchscreens. 9) Increased the power draw and process time for making wheels. 10) New researchable feature: parking sensors. Now a pre-requisite before reversing camera. Fitted at bumpers. Amazing we went so far without these, as they are getting so common now. Also handy to be able to add a new feature without requiring yet another resource as ‘sensor’ is already in there. Plus it gives some much needed upgrades to the bumper slots. 11) Revamp of the ‘apply options’ screen post-research, which adds price category indicators and selective coloring, and new buttons to apply a feature to a whole category at once. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8bd8af9a049bb45eda436ea453a84dd3c75ec79f.png This makes things much quicker when you have 20+ designs, and you don’t really want to make a more nuanced decision other than ‘add this new widget to my expensive ranges’. 12) Music and cruise control are now feature-categories, where the more expensive versions include the resources, value and features of the cheaper ones. 13) Self-driving! new researchable tech, new resources and feature category for high-end cars. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/95fc1cb544f60e1c1cbb45b4f08978cf98f94211.png This is very late-game stuff and requires quite a bit of research, but then you should have expended your factory enough to have a good dozen or two dozen research facilities at this point. 14) Boosted the impact on marketing campaigns on showroom visits by 25% to increase total market size possible with current campaigns. 15) Fixed bug where sometimes the warning on the design screen about common or universal features missing would be skipped if the feature had a category. 16) Fixed bug where changing the color of a car design could lead to duplicating the price slider GUI. 17) Fixed bug where the correct price-category adjusted market value of a feature was not being displayed in a number of places. 18) Double clicking a car in the showroom now launches the vehicle design screen for that car’s design. 19) New researchable vehicle body style -> The small van. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/eb397f9ec7a7443685d32e067283a8760d910166.jpg 20) Fixed bug where the car renders in the showroom screen did not use the correct shader. 21) Smart Junctions now have a new mode: Feature mode, where they filter cars left or right depending on if they have or do not have a selected feature. 22) Fixed bug where the percentage progress on the research center pop-up window did not update in real time. 23) Fixed crash bug launching research screen under certain circumstances. 24) Fixed bug where tooltips for some conveyor belt resources were wrong. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Hope you like it. Currently discounted in the steam halloween sale so tell your friends to grab a copy (or treat them!) :D

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png This is an update I've been looking forward to setting live, as it has a bunch of cool stuff in it :D here is the full list: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Cars now have a range of different wheel options to be researched upgraded and introduced: matte black, 5-point, turbine, high-tech and gold-plated! 2) Certain mandatory included features like emissions checks no longer listed in car design or feature availability list. 3) The resource imports tab for slots now also shows options for combination resources such as heated and folding wingmirrors, and crops their name to fit. 4) Resources are now 'unlocked' over time by the research that requires them, to limit the huge list of resources otherwise shown during the early part of the game. 5) {Bug] Conveyor belts now don't get 'stuck' visually briefly after exiting the research screen. 6) New researchable upgrade and feature 'air suspension' which requires 'air suspension bag' resources. 7) The research button will now flash green, instead of red, if there are un-researched design items, and no current design item being researched. 8) Hang when running a large map on a PC with more than 8 available cores is now fixed, max cores set at 20 and never causes problems even above that. 9) Increased responsiveness of load/save game dialog when a number of large save games exist. 10) Breakdowns now do not start until later in the game. 11) ESC key now brings up quit to main menu dialog. 12) New auto-renew feature for marketing campaigns which can be toggled on or off form the marketing screen. 13) Fixed Bug where cars stopped counting towards the min spec achievement. 14) Added explanatory tooltip to the defects tab of the vehicle defects screen. 15) Fixed issue where with some upgrade and powertrain combinations, redundant resources were ordered by certain slots. 16) Redesigned the layout of the R&D screen, including a slightly compressed version for very small screen resolutions. 17) New chrome paint option in the vehicle design screen allows for a polished metal look to the cars. 18) Defects do not start to appear now until 50 hours into the game. 19) Design tech tree now has its own separate research queue. 20) Holding shift when clicking an item in the research screen adds it to the queue (or researches it immediately if no other research is active). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Some of this stuff was specifically requested by players in our forums and the steam forums. I hope you like the new stuff. The new wheel options are just half of the new 'appearance' stuff to go in, as we will have different front vent/grille and light options coming very soon, plus eventually a little mini-van body style to add!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi, here are the latest updates (to both master and unstable buids): https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Budget cars can now never consider a sunroof to be common. 2) Redesign of the showroom car details screen. 3) Showroom vehicle icons now have a warning or error icon on them depending if they have defects/missing features (error) or uninstalled features (warning). 4) New options added to options screen to toggle the 'no export room' and 'insufficient resources' notices on and off. 5) Redesign of the income screen so it shows revenue breakdown as a pie chart by category and by body style 6) Reduced size of save games. 7) Added new animated battery cell production machine. 8) New upgrade for paint-rooms: next-gen paint compressors. 9) Make brakes now produces 2 at a time, takes slightly longer, and costs more to place, uses more power. 10) Cost of valves doubled, cost of engine assembly +$200. Value of basic car $+200. Production time & power use of manufacture valves increased. 11) Value of a stop-start powertrain increased by $500. Cost of component increased by $350. 12) Touchscreen component cost increased by $300. 13) Cost of wood increased by $200. 14) Production time to make servos increased from 3,900 to 4,200. 15) New category-based system for the car design window to make toggling between mutually-exclusive options much more obvious. 16) new researchable powertrain options (also manufacturable): Fast and Super Fast powertrains (ICE/electric variants) 17) Loans are now capped at $5million and no loans are offered if bank balance is above $10million. 18) Fixed a few memory leaks that could theoretically cause issues with really huge maps over long periods. 19) Car-production slots now re-stock their stockpiles assuming the next car will be the same model as the current one, which should reduce the amount of refunded resources ordered. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg You can find the latest developer video blog, which talks about some of these changes here: https://youtu.be/o6tYr1cMW8w The upcoming changes in the next build are likely to include some UI improvements, along with the addition of extra wheel and front grille options. We are also experimenting with glossier rendering for the cars. Don't forget to vote on your priorities at the main menu, and thanks to everybody wwho reviews the game.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi, this build was the 'unstable' branch until now, and both branches are now the same. here is the full run-0down on what's changed: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) New tutorial popup for completing research of polished paintwork or aircon to make it clearer these are new slots. 2) Fixed random crash bug in vehicle processing. 3) Fixed long running bug where the warning/error icon on the vehicle design button was not always in synch with the designs to show missing features. 4) Placing down car conveyor belts over the top of existing belts or slots now gives an appropriate refund for the cost of the existing slots to prevent double charging. 5) New researchable upgrade for export slots: Larger sales teams. 6) Fixed bug with the display of some slot upgrade time reductions. 7) Fixed bug where research and design studios researched differently at each game speed, also clarified true points generation per game minute. 8) Holding down shift when clicking a resource import strategy button now applies that to every slot of the same type. 9) Fixed bug where zooming in to put a currently highlighted and window-connected slot offscreen, then scrolling the world resulted in the window-connection lines screwing up. 10) Maintenance facility (researchable) can speed up breakdown repairs, plus new breakdown feature (optional) where production slots can stop working. 11) Buyall option for upgrades no longer closes window behind it. 12) Major framerate boost for massive maps. 13) When zooming out, max zoom out now correctly limited so you can see the whole map and nothing else. 14) The lists of upgrades and imports on a slot window are now sorted alphabetically instead of seemingly randomly. 15) List of car features at the bottom of the showroom screen is also now sorted alphabetically. 16) Smart Junctions can no longer break down. (They lack the UI to show progress on repair so this seemed fair). 17) Camera zoom is now non-linear to improve usability (hopefully :D) 18) Export slot can now be broken down into paperwork and shipping. All previous upgrades are now paperwork upgrades. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg Feedback on the new maintenance stuff is very welcome. I'll be working on improving some minor usability things in the next few days, and also investigating some reported issues when it comes to headlights and resources being refunded and re-ordered. There should be new artwork arriving soon which will mean a bunch of new content to come over the next few weeks.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi, a small list of mostly UI improvements and bug fixes this time. Some more content hopefully coming in the next patch after this one. Don't forget to vote on your priorities! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Vehicle design screen now correctly re-calculates the price and profit etc whenever an option is toggled. 2) Supply stockpile window now greys out text and adds a new tooltip to show when import priorities are not researched. 3) Improved car-price setting GUI. 4) Fixed bug where AI research could stop updating. 5) Fix for a faulty 'not connected to resource network' error when a slot needed a resource that was being produced by a connected and upgraded manufacturing slot. 6) Percentages now shown in vehicle pricing screen plus gross profit highlighted. 7) Notices informing you of resources not being connected now show the unconnected resource icons. 8) Icon for computerised and expedited sales techs now show the export slot. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg