All the industries are already placed and accessible. There are a few players who are getting access to the last of them. The "Super Tech" ones are pretty hard to get.
For development, its now just a matter of tidying up all those little rail bits that don't connect to the main lines, and any other place that isn't accessible... and of course making the game run and play better.
Some players are starting to complete some major sections, like "All Towns in Germany". Well done and feel free to brag about these huge accomplishments on the Discord brag channel (see link at the bottom of the page). We enjoy seeing your brags, big or small. If you feel good about it, let us know.
Wisconsin Access Puzzle
The puzzle to unlock Wisconsin has had some issues. When you have access to Wisconsin by rail, you should be able to get access to road once you have completed 3 of the required resources (standard Airport/Airfield function).
This connection should show something (don't want to give too much away) that will allow you to continue playing with a different transport in that area. You made it through. That is the next puzzle. For some players this "something" wasn't showing and therefore the puzzle stopped there.
To make it work now, fill another resource and the puzzle should complete.
Post in the LOGistICAL forum or Discord if you are still having issues at this point. It is a long difficult puzzle, and you are getting so close to the end.
Industry View Update
The "Industry" view and the "Industry Buying" view have been updated to include paging, rather than shrinking the icons.
As many icons that can fit on the page, do. The rest will be on next/previous pages with "Paging" icons at the top of the popup.
Multi-Nav
The multi-nav tool has undergone a major patch to sort out various issues.
These patches should make using them easier as a "background" tool, allowing you to work on your other vehicles as it completes its shedule.
- Clicking a town when in Multi-Nav no longer cancels any current multi-navs. - Trucks stop once they become empty, instead of continuing to follow the full trucks. - When dragging a non multi-nav vehicle, the cargo went blank when the background multi-nav vehicles completed a town/business. Fixed. - Trucks arriving late to the source industry were not getting full load if the first town/business was completed. Fixed.
This should lead to some other multi-nav updates to make the process even better. More about that as it happens.
Languages
Another big thanks to those that are helping with the languages. There are more "human" updates in this version covering many of the languages. I have used machine translation in order to get the bulk of the work done, so it now a much easier process to tidy up any misinterpretations.
English, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, French, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean
General Updates - Build #859f
- Arrows to "unfound" broken roads are shown if 90% of roads are fixed in that region. - Save of the broken road arrows status (on/off) in the save file. - Access to Wisconsin rail/road puzzle has been updated as some players were have access issues. - Industry popup now has paging instead of shrunken icons - Town/Road/Industry compete popup now goes straight to icon view - Icon view now has click instead of mouse-over to enlarge it. - Move contracts popup now sits where you drop it rather than jumping to the left. - Fixed issue of stats not working for some players (due to pressing the towns link in it and it saving that setting into their save). - Fix to stop train stations joining to towns and businesses - Multi-nav update: Clicking a town when in Multi-Nav no longer cancels any current multi-navs. - Multi-nav update: Trucks stop once they become empty, instead of continuing to follow the full trucks. - Multi-nav update: When dragging a non multi-nav vehicle, the cargo went blank when the background multi-nav vehicles completed a town/business. Fixed. - Multi-nav update: Trucks arriving late to the source industry were not getting full load if the first town/business was completed. Fixed.
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Steam Forum or the LOGistICAL Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
All LOGistICAL modules are on sale for the week (18th Jan 2021 to 25th Jan 2021).
20% off LOGistICAL 3: Earth 40% off LOGistICAL 2: Add-ons (L2 main module is free) 50% off LOGistICAL 1: Main module, all DLCs and Stand-alones
LOGistICAL 3: Earth Updates
LE adds new content including the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
There are also many road and rail modifications to make the game run better.
Steam Achievements
Each region (country) within L3 now has incremental achievements for both the towns and businesses. Each has one for 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 and 15000. A nice incentive to get that bit further in each region and suddenly they will all be finished. Some players are going for the 5 in each region.
Broken Roads
A new "helper" to identify broken roads is available. It is on by default but can be turned off by clicking the "B" button on the money panel. When on (purple button), arrows will point to all the "found" broken roads that aren't yet fixed within the currently selected region. Once you have completed 90% of the broken roads within the region, it will also show "un-found" broken roads within that region.
Languages
A big thanks to those that are helping with the languages. I have used machine translation in order to get the bulk of the work done, so it now a much easier process to tidy up any misinterpretations.
English German Russian Italian Dutch French Croatian Spanish Portuguese Japanese Chinese (Simplified) Korean
Faster Save
The save process has been updated so it is much quicker for large files.
General Updates
- Philippines - Lechón recipe change - Philippine road updates - Removal of rail in Philippines - Load issue on LE fixed - Load issue on LV fixed - Update save process to be much faster for large files. - Fixed all the roads that didn't trigger with their contracts. - Added a bunch more contracts - Broken road arrows Press "B" button on money panel and have arrows point to all the broken roads for the region of the current selected town. - To deactivate, click again. - Arrows to unfound broken roads are shown if less than 10% of region is not fixed.- Mapping roads to regions for Europe Asia and Africa. - Fixed game lock when dragging an industry on map - Fixed a load locking error - Access to north PNG
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Steam Forum or the LOGistICAL Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
LOGistICAL 3: Earth brings lots more access with Indonesia, Hawaii, Antarctica, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and much more.
Note: New content for LOGistICAL 3: Earth will always be FREE.
Languages
Thanks to the great efforts of a dedicated bunch of awesome players, there is now a lot more translation content.
I have also Google translated large text area that are being checked and corrected.
Current languages are:
English
German
Russian
Italian
Dutch
French
Croatian
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese (Simplified)
Korean
Updated Launcher
The launcher has been modified so that it will stay in the same window if you are only playing a single game.
An extra button has been added next to each module to allow a "New Window" if you are playing multiple modules at once.
Full Screen Mode
With the launcher update, full screen mode is now functional again.
There is still an issue when playing multiple modules at once from the same launcher.
Super Tech Industries
All industries are now accessible within the game if you have progressed enough.
There is now a collection of Super-Tech industries. I won't spoil what they are, but you should find them fairly interesting.
Steam Achievements
There are new Steam achievements that reward you for your progression through the game.
There are achievements for completing all towns and businesses (one of each) for each region. For large regions there are progressive achievements for 5, 10 ,20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 and 15000 towns or businesses.
There are a lot of data to input, so this is still a work in progress.
Faster Load for Large Saves
The load saved game routine has been updated. There were issues when you have a huge amount of towns and businesses complete.
I won't say how much faster as it embarrassing how slow it was. I just didn't know, as in development mode I don't process data to Steam Achievements or the High Score tables. It was always fast for me.
... but anyway, most players with tens of thousands of completed towns and businesses are loading their save games in less than a minute.
I have more work that I have been doing in this area, including reducing the size of the save files and faster saving.
If you are getting the annoying lag when the game saves, you can increase the amount of time between saves in the "Settings" section (top left button on screen).
High Score Tables
The high score tables have been getting huge with over 8 million entries. Certain summary queries have been taking a long time and putting a strain on the servers.
I have done a huge clean-up (without losing any data) and have also created some routines for generating complex queries periodically.
Now all the Module high scores and Grand Total high scores run from a periodically generated table. This is set to refresh every hour on the hour (which should be reduced to 15 minutes soon).
The scheduliser is still in development, so I am manually updating them at the moment, so you may find periods of no updates until I get this complete.
Updates #858
Build #858 on LE (live) - Super Tech industries and contracts - Truck floaties are now available in east Canada depot - LOGistICAL: Languages - French, German, Dutch, Croatian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, English, Chinese (Simplified) and Korean - A lot of these are done via Google Translate. There are some players validating the translations. - Language popup from "L" button on money panel - Language popup on first game if no language ever set - Loading save game optimisations to speed up the loading time by a bit. - Indonesia access - Moved "Rendang" to from India to Indonesia - Fixed a bunch of roads and rails - New Zealand resource changes (now all towns and businesses can be completed with resources from Martinique, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) - Optimise database to bring back faster data on some views (eg module HS) - Central Asian contracts now open - Hawaii open - Antarctica open - Weddings industry open - Buttons on startup now load in the same window. A "New Window" button allows multiple windows. - End region achievements for towns and businesses for all regions - Steam Achievements for incremental progress for each region. 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000, 15000 towns or businesses. - English for businesses and museums for regions. Currently alphabetical up to "Italy". - Optimised the loading of large save game to load faster - Saving the language into the save file to stop it always showing on load. - Connecticut, USA back door contract (for those having trouble with the Bronx contract) - Faster highscore charts for Grand Total and Module This is now on a 1 hour refresh, so scores won't update immediately (in dev) - Fix cyclic finding of roads to make game lock with lots of planes flying the same path. - New industry. That's it. The last one.
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
This build is to tidy up a few odds and ends as well as adding some updated graphics and a few smaller helpful features.
Depot Flags
The depots now have different coloured flags on the map, so you can have a good idea on what they sell. Trucks = Green Trains = Purple Ships = Blue Planes = Yellow
Industry Discovery
Prior to this build, when industries were discovered, you were given a popup to let you know that there was a new cargo available.
This popup is now an "Industry Discovery". This will inform you that you have found an industry, where it is at, and what inputs and outputs it has. This is for all discovered industries, including the same types you may have discovered somewhere else.
LOGistICAL: Earth and LOGistICAL: Vaccine Steam Achievements
LOGistICAL: Earth has passed the Steam detection metrics to determine that it is a "legitimate" game.
Explanation: Some time ago there was an inundation of new releases on Steam that exploited what games really were and how Steam Achievements were rewarded. As there were also so many games being released it was near impossible for Steam to manually examine each of them. Steam created an automated method of determination so that every new game is limited for a period until some metrics are reached. I don't know what these metrics are, so don't ask. LOGistICAL: Earth has now passed these metrics and will now show up as your "favourite" game (if so tagged), and all the rewards you get in LOGistICAL: Earth will show up in your statistics. LOGistICAL 2 long ago passed these metrics. LOGistICAL was created before these metrics were introduced.
What to expect: Part the restrictions that were placed was that only 100 Achievements could be created. This limit is now much higher at 5,000. LOGistICAL: Earth is huge, so there will be a few more achievements added. Already I have added achievements for completing all the "puzzles" within the game. Next there will be achievements for completing each of the regions (250). There will be achievements for playing and completing LOGistICAL: Vaccine. This makes around 750 achievements so far. Others achievements will be added over time to take into account the continuing list of "group" contracts and also some to break the huge countries into smaller goals.
I am open to other ideas and suggestions and hope that soon, one day some players will get 100%.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine
Just a reminder that LOGistICAL: Vaccine is free to all LOGistICAL owners and is available from either LOGistICAL 3: Earth or the LOGistICAL 3: Earth (demo).
The latest patch ensures that LOGistICAL 3: Vaccine is now fully completeable. Congratulations to @Rayanth who has made it to 100%.
Languages
Under the skin of LOGistICAL 3: Earth lies 8 languages (English, Dutch, Russian, German, French, Italian, Finnish and Spanish). These are the language translations bought forward from LOGistICAL and LOGistICAL 2 that have been contributed by a group of wonderful LOGistICAL players that have given their time to make the game even better. Thank you again guys so much for your contributions. It has been wonderful.
The current default language is English. You can currently change the language by pressing "cntrl-L". This interface will be updated soon to have the language popup the very first time you play the game with a button to change it later.
I am now looking for players that wish to contribute some time to translate new content into their own languages. The process will be done via Google Sheets which I am currently setting up now. As a lot has already been done, this will be an addition to what is already there. If you wish to contribute, pop over to the the LOGistICAL: Discord (link below) and express your interest in the #localization-bugs channel.
This is a "love" job though contributions often see gifted games. A good opportunity for those that haven't saved enough pennies for L:E.
Build #856ya
Build #856ya on LE (live) - Graphics updates of remaining industries and cargos - New flags for depots to dignify transport type (green=trucks, purple=train, blue=ship, yellow=plane) - New icon for "Zen" mode, so it doesn't get mistaken for "globe" mode of other modules. - Modified the "missed highscore" function for towns that may have missed being pushed to the highscores. - Found and fixed some duplicate towns/business ids between Vaccine and Earth. - Fixed issue with contracts displaying "new" truck when they should be "used" - Changed the "Found Cargo" popup to "Found Industry" which gives all the input, output and location of the industry. - Fixed issue of some "used" trucks being giving in contacts showing as "new" - Vaccines is fully completable - Fixes in India and southern Africa
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
LOGistICAL 3: Earth brings more FREE content with India, South East Asia, Southern Africa, a Thailand rail depot, many Pacific Islands + more. Its a large amount of content and there are updated tools to make it easier.
Note: New content for LOGistICAL 3: Earth will always be FREE.
Multi-Nav News
Multi-nav is a gizmo that you can buy for all your vehicles. With a multi-nav gizmo installed you can queue your vehicles destinations up and complete many quickly.
There is also way to make multi-nav go even further. This is best done with lots of trucks at once, but can also be done with a single truck.
Once a multi-nav process has completed and all the trucks are empty, and you still have a bunch of towns/businesses still in the multi-nav queue, you can continue the process by:
- Select a truck or group of trucks that each have a multi-nav gizmo - Drag from an industry output on a town popup to start multi-nav town/bus selection - Click on many towns/bus until you have over 100% on the drag amount (but don't click on any towns/bus that are too high eg. 200t). - I usually get mine up to about 200%-400%. - Click the "Done" to set the trucks off. - They finish and the extra towns/bus of the multi-nav are still highlighted. - Next, click on the "destination" (the lower one) of one of those trucks in the truck list. - Drag from the town popups same resource that was used, to the source industry on the map. - The trucks go to that source town, back to the destination and then continue to follow the multi-nav path.
Note: You don't have to use the same source location as the original multi-nav setup. Note: This works on large businesses as well, but it is best on many small businesses. Note: To purchase a multi-nav gizmo from any depot, you firstly have to complete regions.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine
LOGistICAL: Vaccine is now available to all LOGistical owners. For those that don't have LOGistICAL: Earth, you can launch it from the LOGistICAL: Earth (Demo). This can be found in the right hand column of the LOGistICAL: Earth store page.
Upates
Build 856t on LE (live) - India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and South East Asia added (not for the squeamish) - Kaliningrad and Malaysia access. - Southern Africa access via rail and road. - Airport hint for the US (for those struggling to get eastern USA access). - Marked all the latest rail and road depots so they get flags. - Multi-select truck load/unload onto ship - Selected town will not show on the map as a destination, when dragging any resource from that town - Connected Thailand rail station to a road so it should show when a truck is near. - Made the railway driveways thinner - Connected Israel rail to main lines in area. - Updated launcher to detect L1, L2 and L3 ownership to allow all L owners to play Vaccine. - Fixed road/rail issues - Fix a rail connection in northern South America - Fix of a couple of duplicate townIDs that were causing a "+" within the clusters. - Fixed others due to undiscovered rail or mismatched rail/road segments. - Fix of a bunch of towns and businesses that were going over water. - Fix contracts to get to New Zealand and within New Zealand.
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
PS. It is getting close to having the full map complete now, so if you have been putting it off, it may be a good time to start as there is a lot to catch up on.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine is now available to all LOGistICAL 3: Earth owners. LOGistICAL: Vaccine will soon be available to all other LOGistICAL owners (subscribe to the forum to get updates).
LOGistICAL 3: Vaccine
LOGistICAL 3: Vaccine (Xmas 2020) is Sacada's 2020 gift to all LOGistICAL owners.
Its 2020 and the Earth is sick... very sick... and vaccines are almost ready. Vaccines will require transport throughout the entire world, and LOGistICAL is a great place to practice on.
Beginning with the 9 WHO vaccine companies (plus Russia) you are to distribute the vaccine to all the regional and local distribution centres in every country around the world. Of course it isn't that easy. You will also have to transport ingredients into the vaccine centres to make the vaccine, and also upgrade the vaccine industries, and then transport inputs to those industries and upgrades for them as well, and then for those inputs as well... etc, etc. You know how it is.
Oh, and lots of the vaccines require a lot of refrigeration, so you will have to transport to construct that as well as deliver them to many distribution centres.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine is a small (large) LOGistICAL game with over 5,000 businesses that each are all quite small (generally less than 50t requirement), and they are all businesses.
Here is a summary: - 5,000+ smallish businesses to complete - All roads are visible - No roads require repair nor upgrade - No consumption - No industry building - Some quarantines, but not a large quantity of them - Large trucks can drive anywhere (except ferry routes) - Unlimited quantity of each vehicles types - 100+ vehicles allowed - Multi-Route and Multi-Truck navigation is support - All the LOGistICAL: Earth functionality - Fully rendered maps.
Start the game by delivering vaccines to the nearest places to establish your finances. Work your way across the planet. Don't try to upgrade things straight away. You may find that fairly difficult and therefore frustrating.
As LOGistICAL: Vaccine is based on the LOGistICAL 3 framework, it will firstly be available to all LOGistICAL: Earth owners and follow later to the other LOGistICAL owners.
LOGistICAL: Earth Updates
New areas to play in LOGistICAL 3: Earth include: - the United Kingdom, Ireland and Isle of Man, - Rail in Southern Africa,
LOGistICAL 3: Launcher
Due to L3 now having two modules to play, there is an L3 launcher. Start the game and select to play either L:Earth, L:Vaccine or both at once.
There is still an issue with maximising the games. A workaround is to drag the game's top Windows task bar to the top of the screen.
PS. If you want any more LOGistICAL modules, you may catch the last day of the Steam Autumn sale (ends 2 Dec 2020).
All LOGistICAL modules are now on sale (until Dec 02)
50% off LOGistICAL 1 modules 40% off LOGistICAL 2 modules 20% off LOGistICAL 3: Earth module.
For those new to LOGistICAL, there is also a bunch of freebies you can try out on, including a LOGistICAL 3: Earth demo game.
... anyway enough of that... what about the free gift.
LOGistICAL 3: Vaccine
LOGistICAL 3: Vaccine (Xmas 2020) is Sacada's 2020 gift to all LOGistICAL owners.
Its 2020 and the Earth is sick... very sick... and vaccines are almost ready. Vaccines will require transport throughout the entire world, and LOGistICAL is a great place to practice on.
Beginning with the 9 WHO vaccine companies (plus Russia) you are to distribute the vaccine to all the regional and local distribution centres in every country around the world. Of course it isn't that easy. You will also have to transport ingredients into the vaccine centres to make the vaccine, and also upgrade the vaccine industries, and then transport inputs to those industries and upgrades for them as well, and then for those inputs as well... etc, etc. You know how it is.
Oh, and lots of the vaccines require a lot of refrigeration, so you will have to transport to construct that as well as deliver them to many distribution centres.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine is a small (large) LOGistICAL game with over 5,000 businesses that each are all quite small (generally less than 50t requirement), and they are all businesses.
Here is a summary: - 5,000+ smallish businesses to complete - All roads are visible - No roads require repair nor upgrade - No consumption - No industry building - Some quarantines, but not a large quantity of them - Large trucks can drive anywhere (except ferry routes) - Unlimited quantity of each vehicles types - 100+ vehicles allowed - Multi-Route and Multi-Truck navigation is support - All the LOGistICAL: Earth functionality - Fully rendered maps.
Start the game by delivering vaccines to the nearest places to establish your finances. Work your way across the planet. Don't try to upgrade things straight away. You may find that fairly difficult and therefore frustrating.
LOGistICAL: Vaccine is coming very soon... currently in final stages of testing. As LOGistICAL: Vaccine is based on the LOGistICAL 3 framework, it will firstly be available to all LOGistICAL: Earth owners and follow later to the other LOGistICAL owners (most likely through the LOGistICAL: Earth - Demo).
Multi-Navigation
In case you missed it in an older post, LOGistICAL: Earth now has Multi-Navigation. Here is a brief summary from a past news article...
Gizmos are now available for create multiple routes stops in a single navigation. - Complete any region to gain access to a Multi-Nav gizmo. - Purchase gizmos at any vehicle depot once your vehicle is parked there. - Select your vehicle and drag an output resource from an industry. - Instead of a single drop to a town or business, you can continue selecting destinations. - Check the dragged vehicle for the percentage queued. Once over 100% the truck will stop. - Click the "Done" button to set the multi-nav in motion. - Multi-trucks work with multi-nav
More in LOGistICAL: Earth
As LOGistICAL: Vaccine rolls out, LOGistICAL: Earth will also have new areas to play in, including: - the United Kingdom, Ireland, Isle of Man (which will mostly complete Europe), - South Africa, many eastern and southern African countries (which will mostly complete Africa), - and many islands throughout the planet (which will mostly complete North America, South America and Oceania).
LOGistICAL 3: Earth brings more FREE content with South America, Mexico, all the mainland Central American countries + more. Its a large amount of content and there are new tools to make it easier.
Note: New content for LOGistICAL 3: Earth will always be FREE.
Build Outline:
Besides the new content to play there are also lots of new updates including new features.
Multi-Navigation
Gizmos are now available for create multiple routes stops in a single navigation. - Complete any region to gain access to a Multi-Nav gizmo. - Purchase gizmos at any vehicle depot once your vehicle is parked there. - Select your vehicle and drag an output resource from an industry. - Instead of a single drop to a town or business, you can continue selecting destinations. - Check the dragged vehicle for the percentage queued. Once over 100% the truck will stop. - Click the "Done" button to set the multi-nav in motion. - Multi-trucks work with multi-nav
Vehicle Filters
You can now filter the vehicle list by vehicle type. Click a filter button to turn them on/off - Parked Vehicles - 8t, 20t, 40t Trucks, - other Trucks - Trains - Ships - Aircraft
Build #854t
- Multi-Route. Check in-game contract for more details. - Bunch of road fixes. - Cap of $1,000,000 on boosts for truck rejuvenation. - Resources left to complete town, shown in town popup (hold ctrl) - New contracts for turkey - Resource update for Syria contract - 2 African rail stations - 3 African rail networks removed. - Fixed islands in the Indian Ocean. Some now accessible. - South America - Central America contracts - Connection of ports in Greece and Egypt - Multi-nav clearing linked truck list fix - Multi-route percentage indicator, shows tonnage of selected towns / tonnage of trucks - Press "L" to change language (WIP) - Truck filters (trucks have been split into 2 groups, press "h" for help to see the breakdown) - Road, rail and contract fixes throughout South America - Road fix in Columbia - General road fixes in other countries - Multi-nav no longer counted to sold trucks
Puzzled?
If you are having difficulties solving areas, pop over to the Discord where there is a wealth of hints and player knowledge. Feel free to ask your own questions.
