- Increased lobby search range
- Added button to view lobby player steam profiles for easier friend request sending
- Lobby now displays rough time estimate for game given chosen settings

Hello Electioneers!

It's been a while since our last update but we finally have an upgraded candidate AI in place!

The new AI now runs way more ads and polls, balances money throughout the game better, sets things up to more effectively fundraise. We're going to be making additional balance updates to the AI and Voters over the next 2-3 weeks that should make the gameplay more interesting and balanced. We'll also be making some UI changes so you can get a better idea of what the candidates are up to.

Best

Jordan

Hello people!

It is the 9th of May and this is a special date in remembrance of the end of WWII in Europe and it is a worthy date to announce our plans.

We will be starting phase 2 during the next week. Release will follow closely after.

Remember Phase 2 will consist of one week of multiplayer testing, followed by the weekend for conquest (dynamic campaign) testing.

What took us so long you may ask? Well, the most important factor was the lengthy netcode upgrades. The netcode redesign was aimed to support bigger battles and users with worse connectivity. It took way longer than expected, because we added many new features which hadn't been previously synced through the servers. The netcode is now being fleshed out in its first version. Remember this is a test, so we had to finish this first before we could ask you to test the new code.


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Conquest (dynamic campaign) also went through some important upgrades. We added features like minefields and redesigned systems such as the way in which the bots field their troops. We are now at a stage where the conquest can be tested and can therefore proceed.

We have great plans for conquest, from historical calendars to new game modes and dynamics. This is a huge investment over time and we will continuously upgrade it and evolve it. How far we can go will depend on the success of the game, as we must also focus our attention to creating new nations and new theatres after the release!

You can expect the release approximately one or two weeks or so after the end of phase 2, it will depend on how much feedback we have to process.

Thanks for staying with us, happy victory day, and see you soon!

Build 0.5.0: May 9 2021
"Tons of New Stuff!"

[ADDED] Added Map 5!
[ADDED] Added 27 new buildings to unlock!
[ADDED] Added dozens of research and work order upgrades!
[ADDED] Added 8 new relics!
[ADDED] Added farming upgrade menu to spend your hard earned harvests in! Over 100 upgrades!
[ADDED] 2 New plants!
[ADDED] A New Special Encounter!
[ADDED] A bunch of new base decorations!


[ADDED] Timescale view mode that uses your buffer threshold setting as the unit of time.


[CHANGE] Some Juices have slightly updates sprites to make each tier visually distinct.
[CHANGE] elementium gain doesn't impact cost of breakthroughs anymore.
[CHANGE] Because of ^^^, nerfed the Elementium gain relic.
[CHANGE] Base decorations can be placed further off the screen, to allow more creativity.

[BUGFIXES] Plant power and Breed Power didn't apply correctly to some plant types.
[BUGFIXES] Breakthrough paging was scuffed. Now it aint'.
[BUGFIXES] Wokr Orders "have:" amount now update in real time
[BUGFIXES] blueprints with blank names now properly use the name of an building applied, if used


that's it. that's the announcement. go play!

-4G

Having studied the data of the players who responded to the survey, I came to the conclusion that this problem is not related to any particular computer configuration or installed software.
Let's go the other way, problems with the game crash appeared during the last few updates, when I began to introduce new technologies to optimize the game, probably one of these technologies caused the game to crash.
I will take turns to bring new technologies and release a test version of the game. I ask everyone who encountered this problem to participate in the test of this version.

Enter the password and choose the test version.
Password for the test version of the game. RQNElNUMmCP0Bm

As of today, the new Sketchbots Early Access update is live, featuring a number of minor fixes. Also, when playing against the computer AI in the duel mode, you can select the AI difficulty, which currently supports a fairly basic AI brain you've seen before and a more complex one for a better challenge.

Version v1.008 released. New functions:

1. if you press LEFT/RIGHT HAND TRIGGER or A,B,X,Y keys during the game, your race car will be in your field of view. You need to look directly at the sensors.
   
2. If you select MENU/AUTO VIEW/ON, your race car will always be in your field of view without pressing any button or turning your head.
   
3. New demo race track.

I would recommend to use the new functions 1. and 2. only when sitting or for training purposes.

0.6.2
- The all new leaderboard is here: you need to be authenticated and your Steam ID need to pass VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) to submit to leaderboard
- The game will gradually move to use Steam Cloud as your main save (currently your local save is your main save). Please upgrade to this version and confirm that your Steam Cloud save is working
- Game studios are available for non-expansion owners. Air Shuttle Inc is in expansion pack 1
- New city bonus for Detroit: car factories use gas instead of petrol
- Wholesale orders are now scaled to your production (instead of market cap)
- Now you can play the game in fullscreen on Steam
- Now if you choose a dark them, the window frame/scroll bar/dropdown menu will also adapt accordingly on Steam
- Optimize performance of the game on Steam, if you had performance issue before, see if this update fixes it for you
- Fix a bug where your own player trade allows you to increase the price range
- Update Chinese/Russian translation
0.6.3
- Fix a bug where wholesale orders have incorrect amount
- Fix a bug where game does not run in background any more
0.6.4
- Fix a bug where Nikola Tesla policy is broken on Detroit
There are 76 resources, 104 factories, 37 policies, 11 maps and 33 achievements available in this version
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play (0.4.5): https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore (0.4.5): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

Weapons:
-Added a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) into the game. The RPG is really strong and has a big blast radius. Effective in taking out large swarms of sharks.

Gameplay:
-Each weapon will now have its own movement settings. (Will continue to tweak individual weapon movement settings in future updates)

UI:
-Fixed some ui elements

We have started to add support for other languages, you can change the language in the game settings in the Steam library.

At the moment, we have included the following languages in support:

English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Thai, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Danish, Czech, Turkish, Greek and Ukrainian.

Unfortunately, the translation may not be accurate in many points, if you want to help us, then go to the website to contact us.

Website: https://spycity.shibogames.com

P.S.: Anyone who helps with the translation will be added to the next Update Log as a special thank you.