Patch Notes for Build 0.6.98.20437

Major5 - Tourist Trap

0.6.98.20437

Tourist Updates

• Behaviour, preferences, and desires... tourist AI has had an overhaul!

  • Tourist types now have distinct preferences, desires and traits. Fulfilling these affects their EGO review of your town.

  • Build menu objects are marked as showing how effective they are at meeting desires. These are:

    • Entertainment

    • Rest

    • Hunger

    • Health

    • Exploration

    • Shopping

  • Food and shopping items now have a 3-star preference system. You'll need to offer a wide variety of items to keep your tourists happy!

• Reduced tourist train frequency from 6 trains to 4 trains a day

• Removed "exotic" tourist types from arriving on the train (Exotic townies will still appear on the train)

• Updated the spawn balance of the regular tourist types to have a better mix of each tourist type

New Tourist Type

• Easy-goers: A simple tourist type that as long as their most basic needs are met, they're hard to displease!

Tourist Thought Bubbles

• Tourists will periodically share their thoughts on what they're experiencing, giving you an insight into their behaviour and needs.

• New options in the Gameplay tab, allowing you to choose how vocal they are.

Townpedia Updates

• Added new guide entries for each tourist type which describes what desires they require as well as what traits they have

• Added guide entry for explaining tourist desires

Tier 3 Industry

• Build the Factory to fuse togethor resources from multiple industries

• Produce space-age wonder materials! perfect for advanced large scale projects (as well as more specialized use-cases...)

  • Expandable Rod

  • Encabulator Cube

  • Reinforced Brackets

  • Structural Plating

New Fishing Industry Resource

• Craft Yum Grease from Deep Sea Cutlets

• Added recipes to select fitouts to use Yum Grease

  • Lava Lamp added to the Crafter medium fitout

  • Seafood Sticks added to the Fish N Chip Shop small fitout

  • Dirty Mag added to the Book Nook small fitout

• Yum Grease is also used in the manufacturing of Tier 3 materials!

New Townies

• 7 new exotic townies to invite to live and work in your town!

  • Each townie will offer a new Transit Terminal to build...

  • ...Some of their townie friends will need to be in your town

    before they appear though!

• 2 new "regular" townies. Yep, totally normal.

Transit Terminals

• You'll now be able to build Transit Terminals to allow your more... exotic tourist types to visit.

  • 7 new Transit Terminals to build

  • Ability to open/close each terminal, allowing you to customize your tourist flow.

  • Please note this changes the spawn behaviour of existing 'exotic' tourists.

Major Landmarks

• Invest your hard earned resources into constructing new Major Landmarks:

  • Lighthouse

  • Conservatory

  • Hot Springs

  • Stadium

• These iconic buildings aren’t just for show; they'll help tourists fulfill their desires.

Terraforming Updates

• At a certain point, you'll unlock the ability to edit and place elevated tile types. This gives you access to:

  • Cliff

    • Clear out extra land or add Cliffs where you'd like them!

  • New Cliff Water terraforming tile

    • Make elevated bodies of water

    • Produces waterfalls when on the edge of cliffs

  • Forest Edge

    • Dense forest foliage

• We've refined the Sand, Slow-Sand, and Dirt tile visuals for a more natural, organic appearance.

• Footpath tile updates and additions

  • Footpath tile types now have colored edging to improve the previous 'gray outline' visual

  • We've made 4 new tile types to decorate your town with, check with trader Tina Timba

    • Olde Towne Pavers

    • Peach Piazza

    • Scalloped Flagstone

    • Arcade Blocks

Customization Options

• Houses/Apartments are no longer random; choose which variation you want with the 'Cycle Visual' feature in build mode

• Added new visual variants for certain directional barriers and lampposts

  • Lamp Post

  • Gothic Lamp Post

  • Metro Lamp post

  • Park Light

  • Firefly Lamp Post

  • Hanging Lanterns

  • Lantern Lamp post

  • Bamboo Barrier

  • Green Bamboo Barrier

  • Wood Fence

  • Highway Barrier

  • Roadworks Barrier

  • Rose Bush Barrier

• Flaming Barrel

• Water Jet; a new water based decoration that can be angled and rotated for water displays

• "Pink Flamingo" has been renamed to "Plastic Flamingo", and now supports custom painting

Courier Delivery Priority

• Manage the courier delivery priority on fitouts, food carts, market stalls and the new factories.

• You can now set the courier delivery priority to High, Standard, Low or None

UI Improvements

• Added new User Icons for tourist types (Aliens, Clown, Dino, Ghost, Mummy, Robot, Wolf)

• Added a tally to show the number of fitouts built in town when inspecting in the manage menu

• Added support for showing item tags on recipe cards

• Show desire panels when hovering and moving props

Audio updates

• Trains now CHOO-CHOO and have arrival/departure whistles

• New voice types for Aliens, Dino's (Grarr), and another neutral tourist variant type

Misc. Changes

• Moved the fireworks launchers to the basic category and the wishing well out of the statues group in the build menu

• Added map filter for new tourist spawners

• Small adjustments to early game pacing to make it easier to generate EGO and unlock early EGO packages

• Increased the input storage size of the Book Nook small fitout so that it can fit new recipes and has more room for ingredients

• Added Tripod Work Light to Trader Griswald's inventory.

• Rich tourists drop coins 50% of the time

• When leaving town, tourists now react with their EGO review BEFORE visually exiting

• Updated Hypnotron visual

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where workers would ignore newly placed transition levels (ie mines) until they quit and reloaded the game

• Fix crashes when clown spawners were set to disabled

• Fixed issue where prop colliders could persist after build mode, causing tourists to get stuck

• Resolved issue where tourists would complain about rest if they had filled their idle stat

• Reduced the distance that clown shoes are heard at

• Squared up the garbage bin offsets for rotation alignment

• Fixed issue where you could terraform cliff and water tiles under POI objects

• Coins dropped by rich tourists will now vanish after an hour

• Rich tourist wallets will no longer get bigger each time they drop a coin

• Various performance improvements

• Fixed some rules allowing undesired terraforming beneath players/actors

• Prevent overlapping tourist speech bubbles

• Fixed a bug in which a passenger could store a vehicle sending the vehicle (and the driver) to Limbo.