After a week of break due to holiday season, we are back with another report. The health situation in our country is critical and we are still in lockdown with severe restrictions, but we were able to spend some quality time with our families and get some rest to jump into 2021 with full energy. There was a bit less activity from the development team after the open beta branch was switched to stable version, but now we are gearing up to our usual pace.
From new features in development, we want to mention new option to set different resources for each wagon of the train. It is planned to be added in 0.8.4 and you will be able to load and transport multiple resources on single train, even those which cannot be mixed, by dedicating certain cars to be filled with certain resources exclusively. That is a feature which was requested a long time ago and we think it can improve the logistics significantly.
Another important thing we want to mention is that the price of the game was slightly increased from 22€ to 25€ or from $25 to $30. It is based on decision not to separate some features which were meant to be part of a DLC later. This way there will be only one version for all with all essential features and DLC will come after the game leaves its Early Access stage.
From among fixes and tweaks we want to mention the recent changes of birth-rate. After the deathrate was indirectly decreased by lowering accidental health damage to citizens, we needed to lower the birth-rate because the population was growing too fast. In the first try we lowered it by 40%, but that seemed to be too much, so it was additionally raised by 20%. We still need some time to observe how this will affect some already developed maps, but it may be close to being balanced now.
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Maybe a good small idea, to help you out with the birthrate-problem(problem in that way, that you now need to test with +20%) .... So my idea: Give "some" control over the birthrate by goverment. Maybe to make it simple, just by radio/tv/propaganda.
It will be a huge improvement if we are able to transport diffrent goods in one train. I will be able to completely rearrange my Train transport chain with far less actuall trains. Very nice! Im am near the 500h mark now and I am glad to see how much content had been and will be added to the game.
cada dia esse jogo melhora e muito. gostaria de poder exportar combustível por gasoduto e também que os postos de gasolina tivessem ele
It seems that 0.8.4 will be more focused on "polishing" and Quality of Life features, which is by no means a bad thing. Very much looking forward to it.
I would like to make a remark on the current state of the UI. While it all works from a technical/developer standpoint, the layout is not the clearest, nor the friendliest to new players. You guys are amazing programmers but when you near the end of the Early Access phase, I would highly recommend getting a graphic designer on the team to work on the UI. The same happened with Prison Architect where the UI of the PC version is clunky at best and generally a mess, the tablet and console…
Thanks you. Will the change of birthrate impact also existing saves or only new maps ?