Accessing Old Versions and the New Versioning Scheme

1.24 SP9 Save Games

With version 1.25 coming out on November 8th, 2019, if you wish to continue to play your version 1.24 SP9 save games, you'll need to switch to "1.24" in the Steam Beta's tab. Directions on how to do this are here: GearCity Wiki .

Be sure to switch back to "Default" Build for the latest version after you complete your save game.

Legacy and Stable Build Users

We recommend switching to Default build to play the latest version of the game. But if you wish to continue these old saves, you'll need to switch builds in the Beta's tab again. As both Legacy and Stable build will be deleted on November 8th.

Legacy Build users need to switch to "1.22" to continue your save games. Stable build users, need to switch to "1.23" to continue your save games.

Steam Builds Shakeup

I have switched "Legacy" and "Stable" Steam Beta builds to just their version names. This is primarily to avoid confusion from people who think "Stable" is more stable than the latest build. Any future save breaking major builds, such as 1.24, will get their own build inside of Steam Beta.

With version 1.25 release, both Default and Testing build will be on equal footing again. With no planned save game changes in the future, these two builds will merge back together. If any save game changes occur in the future, such as a crowd-funded expansion, the Testing Build will be relaunched to harbor those changes until v1.26 is released.

New Versioning Scheme

Sometime around 1.21, I started releasing Supplemental Patches to major builds to fix bugs before I break save games. This versioning scheme confused some people when the supplemental patch number was higher than the minor build number. For example, several people assumed v1.24 SP9 was a newer build than v1.24.3...

Since v1.25 should be the last major build, there are going to be a lot of supplemental patches. To avoid any confusion, I am switching the version scheme to Status.Major.Minor.Patch. This means that a number change after the third dot does not require save game changes. So the next update after v1.25 will be v1.25.0.1, and so forth.