We spend most of our time staring at the surface, roads, lights, a pleasing grid, then we act surprised when the economy behaves like an animal. Version 1.4 is about removing that comfort blanket: more visibility into price, profit, and the small accounting lies that quietly become big disasters.\n

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Economy, money, and the parts you were previously guessing

• New Business Info screen: inspect company performance directly, check cash flow, sales and revenue data of any company in your city, accessible with a new button available in the inspector dialog.

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• New Land Value map: now you can see a heatmap of property prices that shows you where land value tax actually comes from.

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• Improved company AI: Firms are greedier than ever, make saner hire and fire decisions using cashflow forecasts and are generally better at avoiding bankruptcy.

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Transport, buses, and the uncomfortable arithmetic of movement

• Improved UI and management of Bus fleets and bus stops

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• Improved the transport economic simulation: Transport data now accounts precise ticket revenue and parking lot usage. Parking lot usage now can also be inspected using the query cursor.

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• Buses are visible in traffic, bus routes now show buses driving through the city instead of ghosting out.

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Fewer bugs, and fewer immortal toddlers

• Fixed family and age calculation issues, families no longer leave dependent children behind, or move out with adult dependents.

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• Fixed age group errors that caused bizarre side effects like immortal citizens and 3 year old immigrants. Arrivals to the city now always are in the working adult age group, and cities have more realistic demographic distributions.\n

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Parks, neon lights, and the tyranny of grass

• Night Mode: toggle with N key or in Settings, a cosmetic dark look so you can admire the city lights while the simulation keeps grinding exactly as before.

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• Parks now have stricter rules, park features require grass first, so you build a park instead of decorating bare dirt.

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• Park features reclassified: Hot Dog, Lucky Cat, Chess Corner, Monolith are now park features, not buildings.

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• Park scoring is more honest: all park features count toward the park index, not just fountains and playgrounds.

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• New achievement, The Botanist: reach a perfect park score.

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• New tree models at correct world scale, the forest stops lying about its size.

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New buildings, gifts, and curated absurdity

• New build: Diner, with 100% roadside americana vibes, because every city needs a place where time does not move.

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• New gift buildings: Modern Art Museum and the Sakura Tree, for beauty, confusion, and pink serenity.

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• New museum build: The Lost and Found Museum, locked until your city reaches 1 million bus rides, an equally amusing and confusing exhibition of items lost and found in buses.

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Interface clarity and narrative texture

• Improved demand points UI, now signals when demand is stagnant due to oversupply, with better help content to get you unstuck.

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• More newspaper content, refined and expanded, with more commentary straight out of events from the simulation.

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Balance and stability

• Many small rebalances, park costs, construction times, achievements, and building capacities tuned.

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• Linux launch issues fixed, for players who prefer their mayorship with a penguin.

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A city is a beautiful, but insane machine that survives always in homeostasis and always in chaos. In 1.4 you get a little less narrative, a little more reality, the structures of everyday life exposed, greed companies, economy that doesn\'t forgive, even the broke. The night mode is a pleasant anesthesia; use it, but do not confuse ambience with robustness.