Hello, Dealers!

You might have noticed our three-week-long break in posting. Due to Russia’s unprovoked act of aggression towards Ukraine we’ve decided to temporarily cease our communications. We stand for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, who are now bravely and tirelessly defending their country against the invader. In the meantime, we have stopped all sales in Russia and Belarus. We wholeheartedly support peace.

However, a break in posting doesn’t mean a break in working! We’re still working on additional bug fixes after the latest update and we’re doing some further work which we will say more on later. We will be returning to regular posting now, so expect some more content soon.

What’s more, to show our support for Ukraine, our publisher donated 1 000 000 copies of games for Humble Bundle’s Charity Bundle for Ukraine. If you can afford it, we do encourage you to help! Check it out here.

Stay safe, Dealers, and stay strong.

EDIT: Initially we have stated in this post that Drug Dealer Simulator was included in Movie Games' donation to the charity bundle. Correction: we did consider that, but ultimately we concluded with our publisher that the bundle should have a universal appeal, and DDS is controversial due to its themes. Instead, Movie Games went with Treasure Hunter Simulator.

Hello, Dealers!

The long-awaited update has just landed on Steam! We’re proud to present the massive Uptown Kings Update.



The new patch introduces enormous changes to the game core, mechanics and balance. We put all efforts to make sure old saved games work perfectly and adapt to the new systems, but highly encourage you to try out the experience from scratch and start a new game!

What’s new?

• New drug demand system;
  
• New money laundering mechanics;
  
• New sector;
  
• New hideouts;
  
• Gang rebalancing;
  
• Power sabotage mechanics;
  
• Apartment manager mode;
  
• Dealer levelling system;
  
• Improved time flow;
  
• More save slots;
  
• And many, many more!

Update the game now and start discovering new additions. Take a look at the new sector, see how your job changes! And most of all, have fun!

Patch 1.1 changelog

Newly added:
- New map sector and 7 new sale areas and 5 new hideouts
- New money laundering mechanics
- New gang money payment method and gang overall fixes and rebalancing
- Added 3 new shops
- New furniture and equipment including special money safes and more
- New items including valuables
- Added power sabotage mechanics
- Added usable keys and key passages
- Added security cameras that can alert the police
- Added interactive trash containers that generate random loot from time to time as well they can be used to dump and remove unused items
- Added an apartment manager mode to the furniture mode, where you can either sell unused furniture and equipment as well as ship them to other hideouts
- Added the ability to turn standing lamps on and off manually if needed
- Added the ability to put some of the decorations or lighting objects onto other furniture (like plants or TV on tabletops and more)
- Added tabletop lamps to place on tables and workstations
- Added dealer levelling system
- Added a chance of dealer arrests with the option to bail them out of prison earlier
- Added new hideout stats including boosting up the max amount of dealers
- Changed the flow of time (increased) and added a weekend order system (weekends generate more and bigger orders)
- Added a completely new drug demand system (drug demand differs per sale area as well as the proportion of demand for low-tier and high-tier drugs have been rebalanced. This introduces more strategy into distribution
- Added active bushes all over the map that make noise as well as slow down the player if ran into
- Added fall damage for high altitude jumps that temporarily slows the player down
- Added the ability to expand the save slot list up to 20 slots
- Added slot looting mechanics to dead drops and trash containers

Changed:
- New reworked grid inventory system with stacks and new drug package stacking
- Reworked NPC and police spawn and despawn systems for reduces CPU usage and removal of multiple NPC related issues and glitches
- Reworked many technical, economical and balance aspects of the game
- New reworked item, shop, inventory equipment and furniture backend data system that will highly improve the ability to rework world and item properties and balancing regardless of saved serialised data as well as making it much easier to introduce new content to the game
- Removed shop stock limits
- Reworked many technical aspects of the workstation as well as removed many quality of life issues
- Rebalanced weed growth time and settings and balanced it
- New ShadyComm map including new map and sectors
- Reworked the main world map including new icons, color coding and more
- Added the map player marker for the underground

Performance:
- Improved performance with draw distance, lighting and texturing changes and system changes reducing mostly CPU usage
- Improved underground sewer performance significantly

Hello, Dealers!

Today we bring you more insight into the changes from the new update. Actually, we’re close to the finish line! We’ve been conducting beta testing and collected valuable feedback and insight from our testers. What awaits us is some more testing and checking the game for final bugs which might have escaped our attention so far.

So, what new changes will we see? We’ve completely removed the risk factor from the game as it was too similar to the exposition. Exposition no longer increases for a while after every single action but it will take into consideration your playstyle over the course of 3 days. If you want to avoid DEA raids or arrests, when your exposition grows, you’ll have to wait it out until it drops again.


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We’ve also changed the balance. Dealers now level up, and when they do they sell more stuff. We’ve added opportunities, where dealers will receive much bigger orders than usual. The chance for these opportunities grows as dealer levels up. Also, you will sell more during the weekend.

Ah, and we nerfed gangs.

Looks interesting? Stay tuned for more info on the update!

Hempy New Year, Dealers! May it bring you prosperity, fortune and lots of cash. Let’s hope for the best year of our lives yet.

Wassup, Dealers?

We’re now in that limbo state when the Holiday cheer has subsided a bit but not yet completely because New Year is around the corner. Do you also look for something to do during this time? We have an idea! Join Rafał while he plays Gas Station Simulator.

Watch the stream on the page linked below and see if Rafał can figure out how to renovate an abandoned gas station in the middle of Route 66.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/682990/Drug_Dealer_Simulator/

See ya there!

Hello Dealers!
Do you smell that? Gingerbread? Ah, it’s that time of the year again.



We wish you a very hempy highlidays and a cracking best time! Thank you for being with us.

Hi, Gamers!

We invite you to check out the Steam Winter Sale, and especially the deals from our publisher Movie Games. We have historically low prices on their greatest hits, including Drug Dealer Simulator and The Beast Inside. Who knows, maybe you will even get one of them as a holiday gift for someone? Or for yourself!

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Hello, Dealers! Guess what? It’s Winter Steam Sale! If you don't have the game yet or want to get it as a present for someone, now is the best time for it. Get Drug Dealer Simulator 50% off.

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Hello Dealers! Today we continue the topic of the police in its early stages of development. We’re all very familiar with being stopped for a search and trying to run away, right? Let’s see how it started.



What you see here is not much different to what you have in the game. The patrols consisting of two police officers spawn and walk along a predefined route. If you behave normally, they won’t be very interested in you.



The trouble starts the moment you seem at all suspicious – if you behave abnormally, like crouch in front of them or run around like a madman, or if you have a big backpack with you. Then they will call you to stop and approach you to perform a check.



If you stop, and if you don’t carry like a ton of crack with you, you should be fine. However.



If you start running away, they’ll immediately start chasing you. It is possible to run away but your chances decrease significantly if you cross paths with another patrol. The patrols have the ability to predict where you’re going to go. If they see you jumping over a fence, they will run around to block your path. They also pass information between themselves about where they have seen you last.



You can hide from the patrols in buildings, however, if the building is marked as abandoned, the police can check it out. If you break into a private building, they won’t enter and you can wait it out while they search the area for you.



After a while, they will lose interest in you but will still remain alert. You’ll get a Fugitive marker for some time. If the patrol which was chasing you spots you again, they will immediately start running after you. A different patrol will not recognise you so as long as you don’t behave suspiciously around them, it is possible to just walk past them. They will, however, be more suspicious of you knowing a fugitive is on the run, so be careful because the possibility of them halting you increases.



At that point in time the patrols couldn’t do anything yet, they would just chase you and stop when they reached you. And yell. The consequences of being caught by the police were added later on.



That’s it for today’s throwback! How many differences do you see between this early look and the current version of the game?

Cheers!

Gas Station Simulator, which is a part of our Desert Connection Bundle, releases a new update! Save 10% on both games and get your Gas Station up and running.

Get the bundle here:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/22705/The_Desert_Connection/

The bundle includes:

Gas Station Simulator - Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients’ demands.

Drug Dealer Simulator - Have you ever thought about expanding your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Now you will finally be able to crawl into the dark alleys of the drug dealing business! Become a street business mastermind or a ruthless gangster - it's up to you!