Thanks to some clever use of multithreading in our main simulation loops we have huge performance gains to share! The game is smoother and will run better for much longer than before. It's rare that there are performance enhancements this substantial to share, and we're so very excited that we're bringing this to you all. However, that's not the only thing 1.2 is bringing. A feature that many people have requested is a way for players to be able to save their favorite ship loadouts between games. Now you can do just that! There are simple-to-use buttons in the order ship screen that save and load your current cargo ratios. Left click an available button (uncolored) to save your current loadout, right click to clear the saved loadout. Another big addition are drone indicators in planet view. Now you can easily see when a planet is accepting or sending drones for each individual cargo. Thank you as always for all your support and encouragement! We truly do appreciate it. Enjoy the new update! v1.2.3 PATCH NOTES -Major performance improvements to the later game -Added new multi-threaded c# jobs system to improve performance -Fixed a number of UI screen performance issues -Fixed a number of performance issues with ai company logic -Added drone threshold icon to planet ui -Added ability to save a cargo loadout as a preset in the order ship screen -Fixed game seed input being 1 digit to short -Fixed ship group filter not filtering correctly -Fixed a game crash bug when assigning a ship to a route failed -Fixed an issue where passenger filghts didn't route correclty with drones -Number of other small bug fixes, UI tweaks and game improvements -Updated translations sheet and fixed a number of translations issues -Fixed an issue with passengers not routing over multi drone routes -Fixed performance issue on ship select view with game in play -Fixed an issue with drones sending the wrong cargo for that cargo slot type -Fixed an issue with research stations list having wrong buttons on first open -Fixed "lag" in planet position in planet view at high game speeds -Players are now able to choose where an upgraded ship will be delivered -Fixed an issue with drone cargo maintenance calculation having wrong trip length values causing drone cargo maintenance to be inflated -Fixed an issue with tech modifiers not effecting passenger service costs -Fixed an issue with passengers not loading if one is in a bad state -Fixed various issues with cargo presets

[ 2020-03-09 17:02:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

If any of you have had the pleasure of dealing with Whiskers on the forums or Discord, he is one of the most dedicated and intelligent people I've ever come across. This game and I are blessed to have him on this team. He's come across a new Unity multithreading technique that he's implemented and has resulted in enormous gains in performance. Our next patch will include this and a few other fixes and features. If you're adventurous now you can opt-in to the "pre-release" beta branch to test the improvements for yourselves! Also included in this patch are performance enhancements for various UI screens and AI logic. Along with the ability to save cargo loadouts so you can configure new ships with just one click! There are also plenty of other small UI improvements, translation fixes, and squashed bugs. We are incredibly excited about this release! Hopefully you have a chance to test out the patch, please leave us your feedback if you run across any issues. Thank you all for your support, and look for this patch to release to everyone in the coming weeks!

[ 2020-01-09 04:31:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're back with another small update! This adds one new feature and corrects some bugs from the 1.1 patch that released last week. Please continue to leave any bug reports or suggestions in the Steam forums or on our discord and we will do our best to correct these in a timely manner! Thank you all for your continued support. November 30, 2019, v1.1.2 PATCH NOTES: -Added Dilithum fuel load amount rule to route stops -Fixed ignore reorder button being hidden when ordering new rockets -Fixed order ship screen bounding box issue -Fixed mp clients having the wrong number of passengers on planets -Updated translations sheet

[ 2019-12-04 02:13:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

After some serious delays (thank you for your patience) we have finished putting together all the new content and features for our v1.1 patch! We're very excited to bring this to everyone. While not the highlight of the patch, you'll definitely notice a host of balance changes when first booting up the game again, we think you'll find these changes enhance the mid-game gameplay quite a lot and allow you to explore that portion of the game in more detail, which we've heard lots of complaints about prior to this patch.
The biggest changes to ITC in 1.1 are the addition of generation ships and warp gates. These both enhance the late game substantially. Generation ships will spawn for interstellar colonies with very high habitability and high water availability. Carrying 100 million passengers, they instantly create a new interstellar hub, adding an entirely new dynamic to the interstellar phase of the game!
Warp gates are an end game technology that will allow your ships to travel between star systems instantaneously. These can only be constructed around gas giants as they require large gravitational fields to function. Ships still need to spend dilithium fuel to make the journey. This is an excellent addition that we've been wanting to add for quite some time! There are many dozens of other fixes and improvements (some of which you can see listed below in the patch notes). Please feel free to leave us any and all feedback. Thank you again for your continued support and enjoy all the new features! Patch notes: -Added 5 new techs to the tech tree -Added buildable warp gates for ships to warp to other systems -Added "deliver and distribute" delivery rule for setting up distribution hubs -Added seed value option for custom galaxy generation -Added generation ships to advance interstellar colonies into new earths -Added pad locking options, unlocked, ship only or rocket only -Removed ability to exploit spaceport size increases and rebalanced gate prices -Tweaks to order ship screen to make things more logical -AI will now build research stations at all planets it can if it makes sense. -Increased research point cost of many mid-game technologies -Decreased effectivness and efficiency of higher tier research stations -Rebalancing of delivery prices for Rare Resources, Machinery, and Consumer Goods -Slight rebalancing of delivery and ship prices -Added dev console for sandbox mode commands -Added random names loading from file -Added translations loading from file -Fixed a bug where passengers would not route through third hops -Fixed a bug with empty drones getting sent in error -Fixed a bug with ai sending ships to planets with no owned gates -Fixed a bug with deliver and hold -Added more missing strings to improve translations -Console command tweaks -Spaceports screen tweaks -Plant view colour blind tweak -Order ship screen unresearched ship tweaks -Fixed bug where you could lock other company pads -Fixed bug effecting drone counter -Updated translations sheet -Many other small UI tweaks, bug fixes and improvements

[ 2019-11-21 07:51:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer! We've been putting the finishing touches on the newest content patch and are playtesting it in advance of its release in a week or two. Full patch notes will be released alongside the patch, but I thought I would give everyone a taste of what to expect with this big patch! Firstly we've added warpgates!
These are a really interesting new feature that will allow players to jump between systems quickly instead of having to use the old warp drive to move. They can only be built around gas giants as they rely on the intense gravity of these planets to function! This means gas giants have even more utility now. You only need one per system and ships will use the gates whenever possible. They still spend dilithium fuel when they jump, it is just now a much quicker journey. The second big feature is a bevy of new late game techs! Including the aforementioned warp gate technology.
These techs will add a lot more longevity and interesting decisions late in the game! The third really big feature of this patch is the distribution delivery rule. This can only be used on planets with a distribution hub and receiving center. This allows you to setup "warehousing planets" more simply than previously. Now the cargo will immediately flow logically to the planet that needs it most within the distribution hub's range. The fourth big addition are generation ships. These ships will be sent to distant star systems with a planet that is highly habitable. They carry 100 million people and will instantly offload a large number of people from your starting planet (Earth) to this new distant world! It's an exciting new concept that should spice up the interstellar phase of the game some! There are a bunch of other smaller, but still very significant changes such as more performance optimizations, the ability to lock pads for multi-use or rockets only, random seed for galaxy generation, more color blind support, all future ships visible on order ships screen so you can judge their worth, etc.. You can help us test all of this by opting into the pre-release build in betas. Please don't forget to leave us your feedback here, in the discussion forums, or on Discord! Or just wait another week or two and this will all be live in the game for everyone! =)

[ 2019-09-14 17:51:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone, I really want to stress how thankful we are for the reception we have gotten through full launch. We know that it hasn't been all roses though. Lots of you have very valid complaints, mostly about the user interface. We have addressed a LOT of those concerns over the past month. Everything from scaling and tutorial issues to data presentation quirks has been adjusted to make the game more palatable for you. Chris spent a ton of time combing through all the posts, reviews, and discord chats.. compiling all the feedback into a massive spreadsheet. He then used this to prioritize things that came up most frequently. By far the biggest complaints were about the UI. We grossly underestimated how negatively people felt about the UI in early access and we apologize, but I think we've made very big improvements!! If you haven't' checked the game out since it launched in May, have a look, it's a very different experience from a UI perspective. Another frequent complaint he saw was the tutorials. We put links to the video tutorial in-game since most people have seemed to prefer that format. Perhaps in the future, we will create a new tutorial, or maybe just expand on the video tutorial format. We closed a number of exploits, added a large amount of missing text from the translations, made some pretty significant balance changes where needed. We've also added 11 technologies to the tech tree in the past month since many of you were working through all the new techs much faster than anticipated! Finally, we also removed the company hangars as they really were not working out as originally designed. The purpose they were supposed to serve can be filled by simply over-delivering cargo to a planet directly. I think all of this adds up to a hugely improved experience! If you agree, please take a moment leave us a review here on Steam. It helps us a ton and we really got quite hammered at launch with negative reviews due to some of these issues. Hopefully everything is headed in the right direction! Thanks again for your continued support!! A pretty small patch here today for 1.0.4 Please let us know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions. -Added ability for drones to auto supply dilithium fuel -Balance changes to luxuries production and production boost from robotics -More balance changes to pirates and security stations -Fixed a number of issues with filters -Number of improvements to AI building of industries -Added even more missing strings to improve translations -Many other small UI tweaks, bug fixes and improvements

[ 2019-06-30 07:30:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you to everyone for our great launch! We've got a nice big patch for everyone. This includes a ton of fixes that have been requested by the community over the past month. Lots of UI and quality of life improvements, some exploit fixes and much more! After this patch, we will be working on more new content and a larger patch. We're thinking of adding some victory conditions and a proper end to the game (you can still continue playing if you wish of course) along with adding warp gates to the game as an extremely late-game tech. I hope this sounds interesting to everyone and I would love to hear your feedback on these ideas! -Added 5 new techs, thruster efficiency 3 and drone efficiency 1 to 5 -Added civil war random event, increases demand for weapons or medicine -Added game speed 5 -Added over 200 missing strings to improve translation coverge (more to come!) -Added cross filtering for financial summary drop down filters -Added route screen filters -Improvements to filters general use -Improvements to spaceports screen, added reseaction stations page, weekly changes page, supply/demand page and system filter -Improvements to ui drop down and scroll view menus, including alpha-numberical ordering and fixing scroll speeds -Improvements to tooltips to better explain things, mainly in order ship screen and plant view -Lot of other UI tweaks and improvements, inculding on the planet view and routes screen -Fixed issue with line of credit, not being able to repay full amount to zero balance -Fixed an issue with conditions expiring on wrong date -Fixed an issue with interstellar ships and rockets bringing to much fuel -Balance changes to pirates to make them more of a real threat to shipping -Removed Company Hanger -Added some building limitations and restrictions -Many other small UI tweaks, bug fixes and improvements

[ 2019-06-25 19:27:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today we're putting out a patch which hopefully helps the new player experience a bunch along with addressing some bugs people have run into. There's lots of good stuff in here, but our favorite (and the most noticeable change) is the resize, move and help handles on all the UI windows! This should make things easier on new players struggling to see something in the UI. The patch notes are below, and we hope everyone enjoys the new changes! We want to take a few moments to talk about the future development of Interstellar Transport Company. We will continue supporting this game for years and working on new content, optimizations, and other features for as long as we are able and wanted to share some of our plans with you all. We've decided on a few things we want to add in the next couple of content patches. We would also love to hear your ideas on this and for further future development! So here is our roadmap of planned features: -More technologies, including some that are "forks" in the tech tree path. This should provide some really interesting decisions on how players and AIs develop their companies! -Warpgates, very late game tech allowing for instantaneous transportation between systems. -More events (including political upheavals, wars on planets and embargoes etc...) -Contracts (allowing companies to claim sole shipping rights to certain planets or earn a stable income for meeting terms of contract etc...) Thank you again for all your support, we appreciate it immensely! June 7, 2019 v1.0.2 PATCH NOTES: -Added resize, move, and help handles to all windows. -Added "Wait for full load" for passengers. -Adjusted scaling of supply / demand graphs to be a more informative to players -Added Help interface (this is a work in progress, we will continue to add more useful information to this) -Changes to the in-game popup tutorials to be more informative and guiding to new players and less spammy. -Reduced drone cargo maintenance amounts. -Added drone ship type filter to ledger for better visibilty of drone profits and losses. -Default delivery rule for human players is now "Deliver and Store" -Fixed a bug with Stellarium that was causing it to be used at much higher rates than intented when first discovered. -Added 3 dedicated autosave slots. -Reversed colors on scroll views to make it more apparent which item you have selected. -Fixed a bug causing less population to be removed from a planet when passengers were picked up than were actually delivered. -Fixed an audio issue preventing music from playing in busy areas of space. -Reformatted some text sizes and panels to make the UI a bit more cohesive looking. -Reduced max amount of stars possible in custom game and reduced stars in predefined games. -Possible fixes for graphical issues on some linux platforms

[ 2019-06-08 03:36:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you all so much for all the support you've shown us, and thank you for your confidence as we work through some of these launch week growing pains! We have now sold over 15,000 copies of Interstellar Transport Company which is good news! We are so excited that we will be able to continue improving and building on this game! We have been listening and working vigorously to get some of these issues taken care of. A lot of people have been having UI issues, especially scaling issues. We have made some changes to address these. Also, please remember that you can scale individual UI windows by holding the right mouse button over the window and dragging to scale up or down. We have also heard the problems with the tutorials, we've made some changes that should improve that, and included links to the official video tutorial I made for the launch. Hopefully, people find that useful! I prefer video tutorials over in-game tutorials, and I'm sure there are plenty others out there that feel the same. There are dozens of other fixes, some too small to list, but hopefully we've fixed your issue if you were having one! Please let us know if we haven't yet and we'll address it as quickly as we can. Also, here is a link to the video tutorial if you haven't seen it yet: https://youtu.be/giqes5HD_qY In addition to the fixes, we've decided to add some more content in the form of six new technologies! Many of you playing have flown through the tech tree much quicker than we anticipated. We have added some late-game techs to give you places to spend your points towards the end of the game and also we have made late game techs more expensive to balance things a bit better. We hope you all enjoy this bit of new stuff! May 27, 2019 v1.0.1 PATCH NOTES -Added 6 late game upgrade techs -Some UI Scaling fixes and more tooltips & tutorial references describing scaling individual windows. (You can do this by holding down the right mouse button on a window and dragging) -Added video tutorial link to tutorials menu and the main screen. -Drone range map mode added -Sporadic multiplayer research bug fixed -Players no longer need to click edit and save to change the route in the ships screen. -Rebalanced late game technology costs -Fixed several issues with ships and repair ships getting stuck in bad states -Fixed some issues with ship details camera -Fixed various tutorial issues -Fixed 3d information windows sometimes rotating into very poor positions.

[ 2019-05-27 21:41:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you!

I just got done hitting the big green button after working on Interstellar Transport Company for 3 years. It's an amazing feeling to be here and we are so incredibly grateful that we've had so much support and feedback from you all along the way. We definitely couldn't have made this as great a product as it is without a lot of your help!

Need Help?

Firstly before I go into the patch notes, I know there will be some people who pickup this game and are all like "so... how do I play this??" No worries! I stayed up until 4am last night making you a video tutorial Tutorial steamhappy It's quite informative, and even if you get through the first 10 minutes, it should give you a very good idea of how to play the game! There are multiple ways to reach us. The best is probably Discord if Discord isn't your thing, then the Steam discussion boards are also a great spot! If your problem is in game, we prefer a bug report from in-game if possible. Simply go to menu > bug report. We're here to help! Don't hesitate to reach out with your issues or suggestions.

v1.0 Patch Notes

Finally, here are the patch notes! We've been working tirelessly to polish this up and give you tons of quality of life improvements, we couldn't be happier with the results. The other programmer and I were discussing yesterday and we agree that we did the absolute best we could with this and we're both extremely proud of how far this has come! I truly hope you enjoy this and I am truly grateful for your support! Thank you, -Mike and the MT Worlds team v1.0.0 PATCH NOTES: -New Order ship screen -New volumetric galaxy dust and appropriately selected star system backdrops based on position within the galaxy. -Night lights on all planets which change based on population of the planet. -Big improvements to AI! They will be competitive throughout the entire game now. -Three new scenarios in predefined games including starts in the Trappist1 and HD10180 star systems! -2 New ships, an interstellar rocket and the KV5 ferry -The D530 was made smaller and cheaper, the 949 was made larger and more expensive to give them both more unique functionality. -Selecting a route "highlights" the ships that are assigned to that route. -New song selection method and more music including an epic 10 minute track. -Updated Unity version for improved stability and development features. -Multiple graphic optimizations -Can now duplicate a route -Can clone multiple ships at once -Rebalanced Tourists so there are more in the game when appropriate. -Available loan tweaks -New more appropriate net worth calculation -Tooltips in the main menu -Multiple fixes to the way drones handle cargo. -Improved game sound effects. -Performance improvements -Updated translations -Added new Asian fonts -Fixed some UI issues when in a different language -Fixed Stellarium supply issue -Fixed issues with Genetic Materials and Xenobiologics -Fixed money pop up visible in wrong system -Changed rendering order of ship and planet icons -Added hotkey SHIFT + ALT + F = in game FPS counter -Added hotkey SHIFT + ALT + B = in game bug report tool -Added hotkey SHIFT + ALT + S = screenshot, while in screenshot mode -Updated and improved in game bug reporting tool. -MANY more smaller fixes, features, and improvements!

[ 2019-05-24 13:15:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're so excited to announce that Interstellar Transport Company is launching out of Early Access on May 24th 2019! After almost two years of development in early access we have come a LONG way! We couldn't be more thrilled with our progress and we couldn't be more excited to see where this goes from here. We expect full launch to be huge for ITC based on how well the game has been received lately by new players and how much development has gone into it over the past couple of years. We've accomplished a lot since launching into EA, some of the bigger achievements are below:

• Autonomous Distribution Networks really streamline the mid and late game, allowing you to focus on the big picture instead of micromanaging many hundreds of ships.
• Tech tree / research system really gives you more decisions and control over how your company develops.
• We've fixed the major balance and performance issues.
• Multiplayer is great now, it feels just like playing singleplayer but even better with human opponents. Give it a try if you haven't already!
• Added Mac & Linux support and some basic localization for ~15 different languages. It's not perfect by any means, mostly using Google translate, but it should allow these folks to enjoy the game!
• New Ships and routes screens with much more functionality and information.
• 6 new ships since launch.
• Hotkeys for game speed, pausing etc... many other quality of life changes like this.
• Ship refitting & ship replacement with newer models.
• List of current buildings on a planet and redesigned interface for constructing buildings.
• Tons of interstellar re-balances and fixes to make this more playable.
• Entire UI and individual windows are now scalable
• Market prices now visible at each planet (even more easily accessible info coming soon with the new spaceports screen which is a WIP)
• 7 new cargoes and complete re-balance of existing cargoes. New cargo bays, buildings etc... to support these new cargoes.
• New, more fair reputation system with more visibility of information.
• Completely new UI graphics!

For 1.0 we are focusing mainly on polishing and balancing the game so it gives everyone the best experience possible. We will be adding a few features however. Namely a new order ship screen, a few new ships, a new song in our already great soundtrack (the longest and possibly best yet) and many other quality of life improvements. This isn't the end of the road though! We have more content planned and will be supporting ITC for a long time to come with the same great level of customer service you have come to expect from us. Thank you so much for everyone who has helped us get this far, we couldn't have done this without some of the awesome support we've gotten from our players and community. You guys rock!! We can hardly contain our excitement! Be sure you wishlist our game or come back to check it out on May 24th if you've been away for a while! v1.0 here we come!!

[ 2019-05-01 15:59:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a BIG patch! We've been working tirelessly to get this one polished up and out to you all. There's so many improvements and the game has really took another big step up in quality overall. Mid and late game are hugely more playable with the addition of the autonomous distribution networks and much improved AI. To use distribution drones you will need to turn a gate into a Distribution Hub on the planet you want to source cargo from. On the planets you will be receiving cargo upgrade one of your owned spaceport gates to a Distribution Receiving Center. If they are within range of eachother, drones will start moving cargo autonomously from the hub to the receiving center(s). Level1 Hubs only are able to supply a planetary system (a planet and it's moons) Level2 Hubs can supply any planetoid within 3AU. Level3 Hubs can supply any planetoid in its star system. Below are the patch notes (excluding many dozens of small fixes and improvements). Can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of this! Enjoy. -Mike and the MT Worlds team April 29, 2018 v0.5.0 PATCH NOTES: -Autonomous Distribution Networks added. These allow you to upgrade spaceport gates to hubs and receiving centers allowing cargo to automatically flow without the need to micromanage large amounts of ships. This will make the mid and end game much more playable for large interstellar companies! -Reworked how Raw Materials and Consumer Goods work in game and rebalanced both. Added RM mines and CG factories. -Changed Most spaceport graphics to make their appearance more dynamic as they grow. -You can now automatically reorder rockets when they land by using a toggle on the route. -Icons above the gates when ships are getting repaired, waiting for full load, or waiting for dilithium fuel. -Added buttons to move between planets in planet view. -New ship icons for all the different classes of ships. -New research point graphs allowing you to compare your research output with your opponent's. -Robotics and Stellarium rebalanced. -Added random company names -Seperated research costs as it's own category in the company ledger. -Rebalanced all ships some, added quite a bit of cargo space to bigger ships. -Added tooltips to all research projects in the Research screen. -Colonist amounts rebalanced, it will now start a bit slower and gradually increase in pace. -Tooltip Tutorial system is now turned off when in the standalone tutorials. -Some big performance fixes were implemented in regards to the translucent windows along with other optimizations. -Fixed a medicine exploit. -Fixed lobby search window from staying open when returning to the main menu. -Fixed some supply values in the planet UI. -AI can no longer ever assign ships to a flight with no gates. -A & D keys work when editing a planet's name now. -Increased pirate attacks some to make security more important. -If ship is one time use it will never break down. -Flight stats now records properly for rockets. -AI will prioritize class C ships more now. -AI now mothballs all research stations after researching all techs -Fixed a potentially AI-breaking error when they sold a ship. -AI holding onto unprofitable ships for too long at times. -AI favors rockets over 909s more frequently now for new colonies. -Major improvements in the methodology AI uses when deciding to expand flights and add ships. -Removed some big lag spikes that occur in mid-game. -Moved Colonial Involvement to be sooner in tech-tree. -Improvements to auto-saves -Many other bug-fixes and small improvements

[ 2019-04-29 05:29:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

This patch has taken months longer than anticipated, but we are finalizing the main autonomous transportation mechanics now. Soon we will be doing intensive playtesting and polishing. We will be releasing the patch by the end of April, hopefully within the next few weeks! This will really make the game a lot more playable in mid- and late game, we can't wait to get it out to everyone! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for news on a full launch date as well! Thank you to everyone for your continued support and patience.

[ 2019-03-26 22:30:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

I hope everyone is having a good time with the new tech-tree system! We have a smaller patch to fix some issues with 0.4.0. We will now be starting on the autonomous transport system which I can't wait to get into the game! I really think it will take ITC to the next level. Patch notes for today's patch below: December 27, 2018 v0.4.1 PATCH NOTES: -Medicine will now be given priority over other cargoes of same slot when its price is higher. -New Cochin ships now have exhaust trails. -Passenger icons are now white and much more visible in planet window. -Added a few new tutorial popups -Lowered brightness of class M4 planets -Fixed problems with Cert research for B3, C4, WC2 -Pressing esc now properly unpauses the game when exiting the menu. -research station text and tooltips corrected. -Fixed a game crash having to do with Robotics production on Mars. -Fixed a bug causing subsidizing industries to not always take your money. -Fixed bug causing AI to not go bankrupt sometimes. -Pickup next demand for machinery and robotics will now always work correctly. -Increased max system scroll radius. -Fixed machinery prices on Mars. -Ship hover details no longer will stay visible when a ship has warped out of the system.

[ 2018-12-28 01:44:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

We hope everyone is having a great time with family and friends for the holidays! We would like to add to the cheer with a Christmas gift of our own. Patch 0.4.0 is now live! This patch has a lot of great additions and changes. Including our research and tech tree systems which changes fundamentally how the game progresses and gives players another fun way to manage the development path of their companies. You must now construct research centers, which are orbiting facilities, and spend research points to gain access to new ships, efficiency upgrades to your ships, different buildings, and even a way for you to gain goods from newly subsidized industries.
We've added three new ships from a new manufacturer "Cochin". All three of these ships are late-game heavy haulers. Two being intrasystem and one being a giant 160 slot interstellar ship.
Bankruptcy now functions quite differently and is more forgiving and easy to tell when it will hit you. We have made a new in-game popup tutorial system to help new players. There are also a TON of optimizations this patch! Should make things quite a bit smoother graphically. We didn't stop there however, there's a bunch of other small fixes and additions. I hope everyone enjoys, and we look forward to hearing any feedback you have! We'll be working on a patch to fix some of the smaller issues with this release over the coming week or two, then we will be moving on to another big system which will add to the play-ability of the late game experience a ton! -New Research system. You must now construct a research station to build up reseach points which can be spent on various technologies to advance your company. -3 new large ships available from new manufacturer (Cochin) -Bankruptcy now works differently. It now takes 3 straight months with negative cash to go bankrupt. Getting positive money at any point resets the timer. On easy and normal difficulty players will now get a one time grant from the government when cash goes negative. -New in-game popup based tutorial system to help guide new players. -Auto save game improvements. No more giant list of save games -Big performance optimizations! -New trail render based orbit lines (experimental) -In game bug report system -Government colonizing toggle in custom games -More work on new spaceports menu to make it more functional (still a work in progress) -Once editing a ship name, icon changes from "edit" to "save" symbol -Leasing a gate now prompts for "Yes" or "No" -Various new tooltips to assist players in game setup and play. -Button in the routes screen to bring up ships screen with route filter applied. -Limited system, galaxy scroll boundaries. -New notification when a planet reaches it's max machinery level -Fixed dilithium crystal price readout -Some AI improvements to route expansion. -Fixed spaceport passenger list width and scroll speed. -Ship type drop down fixed in ledger -Upgrading a ship no longer reset's it's name and group -Tooltip on the ships screen to view exactly what a ship is carrying. -AI will take a small loan to buy a gate if it has too many ships orbiting. -Ability to rename and nickname planets. -Last company name and color saved from previous games. -Added button to reorder rockets on route in routes screen. -Stopped some more hotkey inputs from triggering while typing in an input box.

[ 2018-12-24 16:59:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, wanted to give a quick update with the status of our next patch. We are already more than a month behind schedule and honestly it will probably be another month before the patch is ready. It will include the following things: -New tech tree system, ships, tech upgrades, industries, buildings etc... will now unlock via a research system. -Research stations which generate research points. These will be orbital facilities that will only generate 100% of their potential output when placed around a planet class that doesn't already have a station. These are also upgradeable. -New tutorial system based on "hints" during real gameplay instead of separate tutorials. -Bankruptcy will now work differently. We've actually finished most of this, however AI needs to know how to use the techtree system which is quite a big undertaking and we haven't yet started on the new tutorial system which we want to get right before releasing more complexity to the game. We apologize for the slow patch time, full time work and full time school have been getting in the way for us big time recently. Thank you all for your patience! For slightly more frequent updates, please follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTWorlds

[ 2018-11-25 16:17:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wow, I can't believe it's been over a year since we first released Interstellar Transport Company to early access! It honestly seems like just a few months ago. We're also extremely happy to say we've made over 10,000 sales of our game with a very good 85% review rating on Steam. All of this is a magical feeling for us! Thank you so much to everyone for your support, encouragement, and appreciation of our game. While it wasn't enough for us to quit our day jobs and focus all of our time on the game, we have been able to get a ton of content and systems added to ITC since launch. I just wanted to take a moment and go through some of what we added since August 16th, 2017.

• We've fixed the major balance and performance issues found at launch.
• Multiplayer is no longer a "stutterfest", it feels just like playing singleplayer but 10x better with human opponents. Give it a try if you haven't already!
• You can lose the game in predefined games (BIG changes to this again coming in the next content patch, maybe a month away)
• Added Mac & Linux support and some basic localization for ~15 different languages. It's not perfect by any means, mostly using Google translate, but it should allow people in those nations to play.
• New Ships and routes screens with much more functionality and information.
• 3 new ships since launch, many more to come soon!
• Hotkeys for game speed, pausing etc... many other quality of life changes like this.
• Ship refitting & ship replacement with newer models.
• List of current buildings on a planet and redesigned interface for constructing buildings.
• Tons of interstellar re-balances and fixes to make this more playable.
• Entire UI and individual windows are now scalable
• Market prices now visible at each planet (even more easily accessible info coming soon with the new spaceports screen which is a WIP)
• 7 new cargoes and complete re-balance of existing cargoes. New cargo bays, buildings etc... to support these new cargoes.
• New more fair reputation system with more visibility of information.
• And most recently completely new UI graphics!

This isn't the end though, we still have quite a bit to complete from our roadmap! Here is what we plan on completing over the coming months before full launch which is very tentatively scheduled for February 2019:

• We will be putting in a tech tree system along with adding many new ships to the game. This is already in production and we hope to have this patch out to you all in about a month's time.
• Next we will be implementing some autonomous transportation using transport hubs. You'll see a lot of information about this after the tech tree system is in place!
• We will possibly be adding more incentive for players to subsidize industries (maybe giving them some percentage of goods directly to company storage)
• Interstellar obstacles
• Contracts from local governments
• Buildable jump gates
• Additional starting scenarios for predefined games
• Ranked multiplayer game mode

These next two items may possibly be pushed out until after full launch: - We will be implementing our politics and factions system. This will introduce interstellar wars, nations and nation-wide reputations, embargoes etc.. We are considering pushing this out to gather even more information about how it will impact gameplay. During design brainstorming sessions it seems like a lot of work for very little impact on acutal gameplay. We are very open to feedback however!! - Stock market system

[ 2018-09-24 16:44:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been a long time coming, but we finally reworked the UI visuals and boy does it look better!!! Not only has everything been reskinned we completely redid the window sizes, got rid of the borders around windows, fixed transparency issues, created new icons, made a new main toolbar etc... It really helps to be able to enjoy the game when you're not fighting against the user interface so much! I hope everyone enjoys and I would love to hear what you think. Plenty of other changes in this patch as well including a bug we missed for the AI from last week's patch. 0.3.5 PATCH NOTES: -Completely reskinned the User Interface. -New windows with less transparency, no borders. -New fogged transparency on windows. -New more modern menu bar and menu buttons -Less words, more icons throughout interface. -Started adding research elements, not functional yet. -New spaceport menu, still a work in progress. This allows you to compare spaceports, buy gates and setup two stop routes from one location. Will expand on it's functionlity over coming months. -Optimization of RAM usage. The game now uses ~25% the RAM as it did previously. -Fixed the AI "loop" bug which stopped AI from functioning. -Unity upgrade to 2018.2.4f1 to fix some Unity bugs. -Fixed a couple NAN situations. -Profit line graph loan issues corrected. -Surface building buttons always appear so you can see requirements for building them now. -Fixed cargo not loading correct amount with "next hop demand" pickup rule selected. -Dilithium crystal price corrected in planet view. -Machinery prices lowered. -Food, water, Raw Materials, Rare Resources prices all raised slightly.

[ 2018-08-23 23:07:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

-AIs have a completely reworked ship selection method. -AIs now will expand routes more aggressively. -AI sends more passengers than before. -AI will reduce ships and remove / buy gates more logically than before. -AI no longer buys 2nd gate when expanding a spaceport. -Tooltips are much more readable now. -Planet development should get stuck at 99.9% much less often now. -Added more AI companies to predefined games. -Fixed building shuttle service step in tutorial 3 and other various tutorial issues -Fixed supplemental video tutorial not playing. -Slowed colonization rates a bit. -Active MP games are shown but greyed out in the browse games list. -Milestone text sized up. -Lobby passwords now work. -Search lobby no longer disappears. -Updated Unity to 2018.2 -Fixed Linux double input bug Patch will be live in about an hour. Enjoy and please let us know if you run into any troubles!! I hope you enjoy the more competitive AI and all the bugfixes!

[ 2018-08-17 18:48:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

As discussed briefly in our development roadmap, the reputation system in Interstellar Transport Company needed some love. It was just too confusing, too many variables at play, not transparent enough, and the 2.5% penalty when constructing a building was frustrating to players. All of this has changed!
As shown in the screenshot above, you can now easily see exactly what modifies your reputation. The calculations have been simplified and modified, the 2.5% reputation penalty removed and reputation is slightly more impactful to fare prices etc... I think you will all really like these changes! In addition we've changed the way colonization occurs. You will now notice faster colonization when there are more companies in the game and early game colonization has been guaranteed a little bit to provide a slightly more predictable early-game experience. We've also fixed a few other bugs and inconsistencies that should also help improve the game! Enjoy and we look forward to hearing your feedback! June 6, 2018 v0.3.3 PATCH NOTES: -New reputation system and calculations. -New reputation tooltip showing exactly why your reputation changes. -Removed reputation penalty for constructing a building. -Colonization rates now adjust based on how many companies there are in the game. -Early colonization will now always occur. -Upgraded to Unity 2018 -Slight rebalancing of fares. -Security station tooltip fixed, no longer shows AU% -ship name in "Not at least two stops" tooltip. -Changed "taxi" to "shuttle" -Renamed "operating profits" to "overall profits"

[ 2018-06-06 19:12:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, we're currently taking a break from development for spring break. Spending time with family and vacations and such. Just thought I would take a moment to update our development roadmap. We are scratching some items from our last roadmap and would love feedback if you have it. -we will be working on redoing our reputation system next, we hope to make it simpler, more common sense and transparent to the players. -we also will possibly be adding more incentive for players to subsidize industries (maybe giving them some percentage of goods directly to company storage) -next we will be implementing our politics and factions system. This will introduce interstellar wars, nations and nation-wide reputations, embargoes etc.. -after that we will be putting in a tech tree system along with doubling the amount of ships we have in game. -interstellar obstacles -contacts from local governments -buildable jump gates -stock market system -additional starting scenarios for predefined games -ranked multiplayer game mode After all these things are in game we will likely do our full launch and leave early access. We're hoping this is before the end of 2018!

[ 2018-05-05 22:20:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

-Models for all 5 new buildings added. -When a ship arrives in a system it is now placed much closer to it's destination planet. -Fixed ships not picking up dilithium fuel and going negative fuel at times. -Fixed major price fluctuations. -Most cargoes had some amount of rebalancing done to them. -Duplicate star and planet names can no longer occur. -New music track added. -Reduced max galaxy size some to reduce float precision issues. -Fixed destination scroll list bar. -Fixed the discrepancy between ship group list and ship graphs. -Route renaming text box no longer loses focus randomly. -Deleted routes will no longer show up in the ship filter list after loading a save game. -Colony ship has been sped up and will now jump to interstellar space like all other ships. -Last ship built will "stick" when the window is closed. -Selected ships will now clear from details pane when they are sold.

[ 2018-04-24 21:30:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for the awesome response you've given us to 0.3.0! This really is game changing and we're so fortunate to have such an involved community around this game for all your feedback and bug reports. We've started to go through and correct some of these issues. The most common issues have been resolved with today's patch and we're making a lot of progress on balance. Though it may be a while until balance is back to where it was prior to 0.3.0 just because of the sheer amount of things that have changed. We're working as hard as we can to get this corrected. Thanks again everyone! Enjoy today's patch which also includes one new features: prices being permanently shown in the planet view. April 5, 2018 v0.3.1 PATCH NOTES: -Prices or supply levels are now always visible in planet view -Fixed bugs in tutorials and made them available again -Lowered the starting stockpile of Raw Materials and Rare resources on Earth -Changed balance of Raw Materials and Consumer goods production / consumption. -Weaponry usage and production was reduced and prices rebalanced -Food, Water, and Medicine price calculations correctly use population + refugees now -Fixed refitting of ships with new cargoes not clearing ship slots correctly -Fixed new cargoes not loading when stop pickup rule set to 'pickup next hop demand' -Fixed issue with upgrading spaceports to max level -Fixed building list not updating after using a,d hotkeys -Increased minimum scale size of scalable windows (right drag vertically to scale window) -Fixed issue with loading an old save of incompatible version not returning to main menu correctly -ESC hotkey now closes any open windows -Increased repair and colony ship speeds -Fixed issue where business passenger would not load -Fixed issue with passengers not loading ships indirectly going to there final destination -Fixed issue where auto route name would go to blank when removing 1st stop -Added passenger price tooltip to destinations listing in planet screen -Fixed NaN bug caused by population going negative when planet in famine and refugees transported away from planet -Fixed save games not loading correctly into a multiplayer game Known Issues - Balance is still a work in progress - New buildings have placeholder models and images

[ 2018-04-05 18:27:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been a couple months in the making and is finally ready for everyone! This patch is massive and makes the game a lot more polished and complete. The main feature here, of course, is the seven new cargo types and they are lots of fun to play with! You will now need to avoid epidemics by supplying colonies with medicine, increase food, water, and raw material production by supplying colonies with robotics, keep security stations operational by supplying weaponry, meet the power needs and keep development levels at 100% on highly developed colonies by supplying Stellarium, and supply medical factories with Xenobiologics refined from Genetic Material. Not to mention that raw materials and consumer goods are no longer useless to transport. They are now both profitable and interesting to play with. Stellarium and Genetic Material are both late game additions that can only be found in interstellar locations and your starting planet's supply of luxuries will become depleted (along with many other resources) over time meaning that you will need to seek out interstellar sources of it. This all adds depth and interest to the late game and really gives you many more reasons to venture into interstellar space. AI has been improved significantly, and while not perfect is very competitive for longer periods of time. Multiplayer has been improved a ton, enough so that we've removed the "buggy" warning that menaced our main menu. It is now judder free and much more stable. We've made huge improvements to the data available to you, the graphs and new data in the ships screen being an especially awesome addition. Important planets now get random names, you can now see at a glance when important cargoes are very low on colonies. Colony ships now travel to create new colonies so you have a bit of time to plan and anticipate new colonies coming online. There are plenty of quality of life improvements also. Windows can now be individually resized by holding your right mouse button down over them and dragging them to size. In the planet view press A and D to cycle through the planets in a system. The route list is now sortable and filterable, the cargo rules are a ton easier to manage via a matrix of rules instead of the old drop-downs. Not to mention all the bug fixes of which there are dozens! We still need to add in the new building models, update our tutorials, and do a little more fine tuning on late game balance, expect these things to be patched in over the coming week or two. Please let us know any problems or feedback you have, we would love to hear it!! Thank you all so much for your continued support and for all of your suggestions that have gone in to making this patch so great! Can't wait to see everyone enjoying this, it really is a "game changer". ;) Promised patch notes are below: New Content - Added 7 new cargo types: - Stellarium - Weaponry - Robotics - Xenobiologics - Genetic Material - Luxury Goods - Medicine - Added 5 new surface buildings: - Stellarium Mine - Weaponry Factory - Robotics Factory - Xenobiologics Lab - Medicine Factory - Updated ship cargo slots configuration: - Slot 1 = Food, Rare Resources, Refugees - Slot 2 = Machinery, Robotics - Slot 3 = Raw Materials, Dilithium Crystals, Stellarium - Slot 4 = Water, Dilithium Fuel - Slot 5 = Consumer Goods, Luxury Goods, Medicine - Slot 6 = Weaponry, Genetic Material, Xenobiologics - Slot 7 = Colonists, Tourists, Business Passengers - Added new events for new cargos and buildings - Balance improvements to existing cargo types - Added A,D hotkeys to cycle planets while in planet view - Game now starts paused - Randomly generated planets now get their own names - Colony ship now goes out to colonize planets - Raw Materials, Dilithium Crystals, Rare Resources, Luxuries, Genetic Material now all become depleted as they are harvested. -Removed fuel capacity and distance cap of interstellar ships UI Improvements - Added low threshold icons to planets in system view, to highlight at a glance which planets are running low on food, water etc - Improved Routes Screen: - Added stop cargo rules grid - Added route list sorting - Screen now hides while adding stop - Improved Ships Screen: - Added graphs to show ship performance over time - Added profit and cargo info to ship list entries - Improved Finances Screen: - Change to tables on summary page - Added spaceport and ship type filters - Improved Ship Order Screen: - Added button to clear all cargo - Now shows ship on sale dates range - Launch immediately now ticked by defaut - Improved Planet Screen: - Added new cargos - Added new buildings - Waiting passengers are now a list of destinations - Updated map modes with new cargo types - All screens are now resizable with right mouse drag - Updated ship hover details for new cargo - Added icons and hover details to repair and colony ships Bug Fixes - Lots of multiplayer bug fixes - multiplayer no longer 'buggy' - Lots of AI bug fixes and improvements - Fixed autosave naming bug - Fixed operating profit line graph being wrong - Fixed other UI bugs - Lots of other bug fixes and improvements Known Issues - Tutorials still need to be updated - New buildings have placeholder models and images

[ 2018-03-30 15:15:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

I hope everyone's Wednesday is as exciting as ours is today, because we finally have all the details finalized for our new cargoes and can share all the details with you! We think you'll be just as excited after reading through all the changes we have planned. Say hello to our revamped cargo flowchart!
This might look daunting at first glance, but I will walk you through all of the changes. We have seven new cargoes, five new buildings, and a bunch of new cargo / simulation interactions that will really add a lot of interesting decisions to gameplay! Firstly, two big changes we're making to existing systems, the first is that we are removing two seating types and leaving only a single seating type, passengers just weren't as interesting as we expected so we are simplifying that portion of the game significantly. We will be adding Goods storage (for Consumer Goods, Luxuries, and Medicine) along with Isolation storage (for weaponry, xenobiologics, and genetic material) The addition of these cargo slot types will result in much more interesting decisions than deciding between seating class type for passengers. In addition to removing two passenger slots we are also making it so that raw materials, rare resources, dilithium crystals, and luxuries diminish as they are harvested. This will change the game in drastic ways and make the game even more dynamic then it is. For example, no longer will there be an ever-lasting source of rare resources on the moon to fuel your machinery production. After a few decades you may need to look elsewhere for rare resources. The first new cargo type is Stellarium, this is an extremely rare element only found in very specific environments in the galaxy (will not spawn in your starting system / Sol) and is used in highly efficient fusion power generation which begins phasing out conventional power generation methods usually about 25-50 years into the game. Because of this, you will need to transport Stellarium to all high and medium population planets to satisfy their ever-growing demand for power. A Stellarium mine is required to extract this resource. Luxuries is the next new cargo type, this is a moderately rare resource found in random locations throughout the galaxy that requires no building to harvest. All populations want luxuries so this is a good source of easy income (until the resource is depleted of course). In addition to populations directly wanting luxuries it is used in weaponry production. This will especially be important when (in a future version) wars rage between factions and no luxuries are flowing because the weaponry industry is using them all. In this way we hope to simulate the drag on civilian production during a large interstellar war. Since we've already touched on Weaponry I should also mention that it requires a Factory produce along with rare resources. However, the really interesting thing about weaponry is that security forces require it to maintain their operations. If weaponry should ever run out on a planet, all security stations essentially "shut down" on that planet. You can imagine how detrimental this could be if it happened on a place like Earth that provides over half of the security of the Sol system. Shipping lanes would very quickly be heavily infested with Pirates. Therefore it will be very important to keep your security stations stocked with weaponry at all times! Next on our list is Robotics. Robotics will give a boost in production to Food, Water, Raw Materials, and Luxuries. The ability to boost production of these cargoes has been requested many times, so this should be a welcome addition! This cargo is similar to Machinery in many respects, it has a maximum amount and is required for a planet to reach it's maximum possible production capacity. However, it's also quite different since the amount needed on a planet is variable based on the population of the planet and it also is "used up" over time. Robotics requires a Robotics Factory along with machinery and consumer goods to produce. It should open up some very interesting strategies! Moving way over to the right in our picture above is Genetic Material, Xenobiologics, and Medicine. I will discuss these together since they are very interdependent. High habitability planets (besides Earth) will provide genetic material (alien lifeforms basically) which are not harvestable until the planet reaches 100% development, they will diminish rather quickly also. These need to be delivered to a planet with a Xeno lab built on it. Xenobiologics production is increased every time a unit of genetic material is delivered to the xeno lab, meaning you can create a truly massive xenobiologics facility if you wanted to. This is then used in the production of medicines (which also require a small bit of food to produce) at a Medical factory. The amount of Xenobiologics needed to produce one medicine increases with the amount of xenobiologics created galaxy-wide. Medicine is used on all planets to increase birth rates, but is especially useful on low-habitability planets where medicines will be in very high demand to fight off very high mortality rates. To prevent Robotics and xenobiologics becoming weaponized, robotics factories are not allowed on the same planet as weaponry, nor are Xeno labs allowed on the same planet as weapons factories. Also, the interstellar governing agencies have also ruled that Xeno labs are not allowed on planets with habitability higher than 10% to prevent possible contamination of large populations or native species. In addition to all these changes, there is BIG news on the multiplayer front... We have solved the stuttering that clients experience and expect this fix to be in patch 0.3.0 as well. There are also a number of other small bug fixes and improvements to come. We are beginning to throw thousands of new lines of code at Unity so we can get this huge patch out to everyone as quickly as possible! That being said, don't expect it for at least another 3 weeks which puts us solidly at mid-March for a possible release timeframe. These are huge changes as we want to take our time with them and do it right. Thank you all so much for your patience! Sorry for the huge amount of text, hopefully it was interesting to read of all the new features though =) Let us know what you think below! Thank you all for your continued support.

[ 2018-02-21 22:43:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

-Market prices are now shown for each cargo in the planet screen by hovering on the cargo name or icon. -Fixed a bug preventing players from buying ships with no route created. -You can now get more reasonably sized loans with more favorable interest rates. -Slowed down the rate of spaceport upgrades by local authorities. -Raised the amount of rare resources in random starting systems to Sol-like levels. -Big ships screen performance increases, regular data refreshes should be much faster! -Sorting by ship profits is now usable in ships screen with much less stuttering. -Upgraded Unity version to 2017.3 -Two AIs are no longer created when AI is in the last slot in custom / MP game -Ship orbiting count on planet screen now updates in MP -Planets no longer spin for clients in multiplayer when they are in planet view. -Changed the default UI scale to .85 since more people want a smaller UI than larger -High demand food and water were a bit OP, lowered profit curve -Units are now displayed for ship speed in the order ship screen. -Galaxy dust now shows is correct position at game load. Patch is live =)

[ 2018-01-30 23:05:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been a frequent complaint of new players that the in-game tutorials are not sufficient to learn how to play the game. We agree with this sentiment and will eventually add / replace the tutorials in game. However, in the mean time we thought it would be helpful to create a video tutorial that goes into a little more detail. https://youtu.be/901H8evO0H8 While there are a ton of good Let's Play videos available for ITC, there were surprisingly no video tutorials available. Hopefully this gives new players a better idea of what they are supposed to be doing and how to do it. Please let us know if you have any problems with the video or have further questions, we would love to hear from you! -Mike and the MT Worlds team

[ 2018-01-24 16:34:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone, I hope your holidays were as awesome as ours! We're back with a really great patch. We weren't able to complete the new routes screen yet, mainly because we decided that adding in some new cargoes and redoing passengers a bit should be done first. That way we only have to change the routes screen around once instead of twice. This patch mainly focuses on performance! It's been one of the biggest complaints from users. The game just starts performing really poorly in mid game. We combined some really aggressive LODs on the ships with some code tricks and cleanups on the route lines to SIGNIFICANTLY imrpove mid and late game fps. I'm talking like it should be night and day for many of you! Can't wait to hear some reports back on how it performs for you all. Please let us know! This DOES NOT fix the lag in the ships screen, that is a completely separate issue, but something that we hope to fix soon also. This patch also includes a good number of bug fixes and small quality of life improvements. I really hope this, all put together, increases the play-ability of the game a lot! Thank you for your continued support and patience. And as promised... the patch notes! ːsteamhappyː -Combined AI route lines resulting in huge performance gains mid and late game. -Made more aggressive LODs for ships increasing performance by about 15% across the board. -Increased performance by an additional ~3% and made the ship scaling effect work better and more efficiently. -Increased performance by ~2% in system view by optimizing sunlight calculations. -Fixed a ship size exploit when upgrading ships. -Ships can no longer be sold while waiting for repairs in space. -Rockets can no longer be built on planets not on their selected route. -Ships can no longer be build on planets in systems they can't reach. -The tool-tip for planet population now shows weekly net gains or losses for child births and deaths. -If a planetoid goes into famine or dehydration, all passengers should cancel their travel plans there. -Famine and dehydration notifications are now separate. -The company name is color-coded when hovering over a ship now. The patch should be live in 1-2 hours time

[ 2018-01-08 23:10:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! I'm so glad that you are enjoying the game and we are extremely excited to bring the next content patch to you which should include significant changes to the routes screen and hopefully another ship (a larger and later-game version of the Farja KV3). We will be taking off a couple of weeks to recharge over the holidays and spend time with family. We will return with this patch most likely in the 2nd week of January.. Possibly the first week.. We will continue to monitor our social media, forums, support emails, etc.. etc.. as normal. Thank you for your continued support, Merry Christmas, and Happy New year!! -Mike and the MT Worlds team

[ 2017-12-21 21:12:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone, excited to share this one with you. We finally came across a good method to scale our UI and we are very happy with the results so we are sharing this with you. This has been asked for many times and it's something I'm sure lots of you will appreciate! You can find the option in "Other Options".. Which we really should rename "UI Options".. hmmmm.. Anyhow! In addition to this we've also added two new rocket types. The Andromeda and Messier rockets. The Andromeda rocket becomes available in 2058 and can carry 15 units, the Messier is available in 2066 and can carry a full 40 units of cargo. At some point we will add one or two interstellar rockets, but these are good fast mid-game intra-system haulers! I expect to see them used a lot to quickly stave off famines and help kickstart new colonies quicker since they can land without a gate. These rockets use the old graphics from the Sparrow and Neptune rockets and these original rockets have gotten a facelift!
We've also replaced the models for the medium and large maintenance hangars, so they no longer reuse the small maintenance hangar graphics. In addition to all this new stuff, some re-balancing has been done to alleviate some earlier-than-expected starvation on Earth. You should now have another few decades to help get more food to Earth or move more people off of Earth before the effects of overpopulation really kick in. We will now begin work on overhauling the routes screen which hopefully won't be as large a project as the ships screen was! In case you were wondering, some graphs will be going in that big open space on the ships screen. Hopefully in the next few weeks we can get this feature in for you. We hope everyone is enjoying the game and please continue to let us know your suggestions and any issues you experience while playing. And as promised, below are the new patch notes! -UI is now scalable via the "Other settings" panel in options. -Two new mid-game rockets added. -Graphics for the Sparrow rocket and Neptune rocket replaced. -Graphics for the medium and large Maintenance Hangars replaced. -Increased prices of the Gorman Darter and Starchaser. -Population at which a planet produces less food than it consumes increased -Reduced starting population of Earth slightly.

[ 2017-12-16 00:39:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

We've really tried to spend a lot of time fixing up interstellar play some more so that it is more viable and fun. I think we're finally to a point where I can say that interstellar play is compelling and playable. With a few more ships and cargo types it will really shine!! This patch also includes significant AI improvements and many other quality of life fixes. Thanks so much for all your support and help in making ITC the best it can be! November 25, 2017 v0.2.6 PATCH NOTES: -AI will now save up for ships it wants instead of only focusing on the cash it has currently on hand. -Improved random system generation to make them more scientifically accurate and more playable. -Rebalanced dilithium fuel, crystals, mines, refineries, usage and cost to try and improve interstellar play -Now checks interstellar distance when assigning ships to routes just like when you check gate sizes for ships -Now only if there is a dilithium refinery in a system will ships demand enough fuel to make a return trip, otherwise enough fuel for a one way trip will suffice. -Ships screen is no longer incredibly laggy when open. Needed to remove profit from owned ship panes. -Now does a check to make sure there is a 85%+ hab planet in the game other than Earth, if there's not boost the 2nd highest planet to that level -Nerfed Triton so that local governments no longer want to colonize it. -Ship groups work again in singleplayer -You now only receive ship notifications for your company ships -AI will transport passengers more often -Companies go bankrupt in custom games and multiplayer now. -AI landing pads get blocked much less frequently now. -Charts will no longer stop updating when a competitor goes bankrupt -Reduced birthrate by 15% -Exploit fixed allowing players to edit AI routes and ship status -Can no longer view AI ship details by clicking on them, can only view the hover information now. -Demand threshold amounts added to waiting cargo tooltips in planet view -Ship selling works correctly in multiplayer now -Ship count on a route has now been corrected when changing the route of a ship. -Rebalanced water prices Patch will be live in about 1-2 hours

[ 2017-11-25 21:08:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

-Fixed spammy ship notification news events -Reduced cost of dilithium fuel -Added a count of orbiting ships in planet view -Amount of passengers now scale with number of companies in the game -Amount of machinery and rare resources on Earth now scale with number of companies in the game -F2 now works exactly the same as closing the routes window with the close button. -Various Multiplayer bug fixes -Fixed a bug where an AI just randomly doesn't start -There is now only 1 AI on each predefined game difficulty. This is just for testing purposes, please let us know if the AI is more competitive. -Ship hover text now no longer overflows -Fixed company name text boxes in multiplayer lobby eating letters -Fixed game unpausing unexpectedly from in game menu -Fixed remapping keys in control options bug -Colony founded now shows who subsidized the colony -Normalized text to "cash in hand" MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES: -Poor performance with ships screen open in mid-game -Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companys. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks. -Translations are not complete, if you would like to help with translations please see discord or steam discussions pinned post -Multiplayer is fairly unstable currently in mid game

[ 2017-11-21 15:40:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

-Now possible to select multiple ships in the ships screen -Random galaxy generation tweaks, now always starts with a moon -Added jump to light-speed graphics when ship jumps out of system -Made distance of jump out of a system much closer than it was before -Custom game cash and loan sliders now round to 50k -Balanced early game ship fuel costs -Balanced gate prices -Now get a free gate with upgrading of a spaceport -AU orbit distance of planets now shown in planet hover panel -Repair ships should now come from the closet planet -Add notification for when ship is waiting for repair ship and when is waiting for free gate -Tweaked AI to be more active on lower difficulties -Fixed bug where number of ships in route screen would be wrong -Fixed interstellar events not firing -AI now name there routes to help analyse there actions -Fixed bug where loading a game with ships on interstellar leg would adjust their current course -Fixed bug where ship days to delivery would go negative while waiting for a gate -Fixed machinery pickup next demand bug -Other multiplayer bugs fixes and improvements

[ 2017-11-19 03:18:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

October 27, 2017 v0.2.3b PATCH NOTES: -Updated translations -Fixed issue where translations would just be 'Loading...' -Balanced number of ai companies per pre-defined setting

[ 2017-10-27 19:00:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

October 25, 2017 v0.2.3 PATCH NOTES:

-Added list of surface buildings to planet screen -Tweaked ai upgrading spaceports when they need to -Added pressing 'DEL' closes all open windows -Fixed in game menu not appearing on top of other windows -Fixed game pausing in relation to opening and closing of the in game menu -Fixed ships, with 'sell at next stop' status, positon not updating on remote clients in multiplayer -Fixed issue with pressing F3 to open order ship screen while owning no gates -Fixed ships list being empty on remote clients after multiplayer load game -Fixed repair ship rotation on remote clients in multiplayer -Optimized multiplayer packet sending to help with later game lag -Added desync check auto pause to keep multiplayer in sync, grace period 5 days -Fixed upgraded ships disappearing from ships list -Rebalance of food and water production and galaxy generation -Fixed issue with "Deliver and Store" for machinery.

[ 2017-10-26 07:51:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

October 21, 2017 v0.2.2 PATCH NOTES:

-Added Notification click events -Ships no longer get stuck when in "sell at next stop" status -Change loadout now always works as expected -Tweaked AI to be more proactive late game -Ships are now removed from a route when it's deleted. -Clicking edit ship from a ship window now shows the proper ship selected in the ship screen. -Farja KV3 now properly requires a level 3 spaceport -Habability loss event is game breakingly op Order ship screen now properly focuses when it's opened -Fixed text sizes of values in order ship screen -Zero cash no longer pops up non-stop when ships are waiting for dilithium fuel. -Press ESC now works again -Mapmodes now update each day -Added "Press ESC to exit ship view" while in ship view The patch will be live at about 2pm EST

[ 2017-10-21 17:46:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

One of the most highly requested features since launch two months ago has been the ability to change a ship's cargo bay loadout after purchasing it. I'm pleased to say that today's patch allows this! We've also heard quite a few complaints about the legibility of text in the game. We've increased many font sizes in the game, normalized font sizes all over the place and fixed dozens of overlapping and other readability issues. This combined with a slight darkening of all UI windows should improve things a bunch in this department! Please leave comments and feedback on the changes, we love to hear them. Thanks for your continued support!

October 14, 2017 v0.2.1 PATCH NOTES:

-Ships can now be refitted with new cargo bay load-outs -Font size increased and more normalized across the board -UI windows all darkened slightly to improve readability -Fixed dozens of text size and fit issues -Fixed multiplayer text over floating heads being too large. -Stars now have slightly more random positions in "height" from the galactic plane.

[ 2017-10-15 03:52:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, a nice big patch incoming with lots of great new UI features and a new ship. Enjoy!!

October 6th, 2017 v0.2.0 PATCH NOTES:

-Added new ship, Farja KV3 -New map modes feature -More ship screen improvements, added ship sorting, added option to hide competitor's ships -More localization and translations improvements, better chinese font added -UI improvements, new top menu bar -Added upgrade ship feature -Added hotkeys for game time 1-2-3-4, +/- -Added hotkeys for ui windows F1 - F6 -Added option to filter finances screen by archived ships and routes -Fixed bug when two companys tried to buy a gate at the same time -Changed default ship naming convention to SHIPTYPE-NUMBER e.g D909-001 -Increase the dilithium fuel tank on the Byeolwamul from 70 to 95 -Ships now have to land first before they are sold -Fixed not being able to start a custom game with no steam link -Changed linux to default to windowed to fix full scren lanuch grey screen issue -Fixed colour of colonist supply bar in planet supply/demand bar graph -Fixed clone ship not building on correct planet MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES: -Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companys. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks. -Translations are not complete, if you would like to help with translations please see discord or steam discussions -Multiplayer is fairly unstable currently in mid game Patch should be live in about 30 minutes time.

[ 2017-10-06 23:02:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! We're so happy to bring this patch to you. It is the beginning of a couple of very big projects that we think will do wonders for the game. First of all, the ships window has been changed drastically, you can now assign ships to groups and filter ships by type, route, group, and cargo bays. This will make managing fleets much simpler in mid and late game! However, this is only half of this project. Next we will be allowing you to sort the ships, providing you some graphs to view historical performance data for your ships, allow you to select and edit multiple ships at once, upgrade ships with a couple of clicks, and also hide your competitor ships. Expect to see this all in the next couple of weeks. The next thing we're excited to bring you is localization for 14 languages. While most of the translations are simply translated through Google Translate currently, it should be playable and we will be improving the quality of the translations over the coming months. Below is a list of the languages we currently support: -English -French -Spanish -German -Italian -Korean -Russian -Dutch -Portuguese -Chinese -Japanese -Danish -Finnish -Norwegian -Swedish

September 18, 2017 v0.1.6 PATCH NOTES:

-New ships screen (more functionality to come) -User defined ship groups -Ship filtering -Better background coloring on some scroll view elements for better readability -AI improvements and bug fixing -Fixed fonts not being all from the same set for some languages -More Localization and Translations improvements -Fixed delete save game not working

[ 2017-09-19 02:37:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Now that all the launch craziness has finally settled down some and most of the launch bugs have been taken care of we're starting to transition back in to heavy development mode. Our internal roadmap has been reordered some and we have already begun work on our next projects. The first of these being a new ships interface. The old one is just not up to the task of managing hundreds of ships. Below is an early sneak-peek of the new ships screen in development!
Expect the new ships screen to be done in a week or two! In addition to the ships screen, we are also working on localizing the game. Currently we are up to 14 languages. While most of them use Google translations, about 95% of text in the game has been localized.

Current Development Road Map

Here is a short glimpse of some of our roadmap as it stands now: -Localizations -Interface usability improvements for large companies (ships / routes screens mainly) -Notifications system rework including notification filters and clickable notifications to be taken to the event -Initial modding support -More cargo types including luxury cargoes and weaponry -Map modes and reports to visualize supply / demand and other factors easier -Politics and Factional relations (politics patch) -Route waypoints, interstellar obstacles and very late game warp gates -New play-through tutorial to explain game better -Techtrees and research -Stocks and IPO system -VR Support -Ranked multiplayer mode (we have moved this to the end of development to hopefully bring in a large influx of people at full launch for this feature) And finally patch notes from today's patch which just went live!

September 7, 2017 v0.1.5 PATCH NOTES:

-Impored Localization and Translations -Fixed main game not getting translated bug -Add 6 more languages: -Chinese -Japanese -Danish -Finnish -Norwegian -Swedish -Renamed 'Prev' button in MP lobby to 'Game Settings' -Improved options flag dropdown look -Fixed report line graphs y axis not centering on 0 -Fixed company name input fields to be the same length -Fixed broken save game button -Fixed broken down/repairing ships movement in MP -Fixed tooltip not being disabled -Fixed loans exploite -Tweaked diffuclty starting cash and loans -Buffed ai speeds and other ai balance tweeks -Titan should now colonize earlier for better dilithium fuel supply -Add a cargo maintenance ship type modifier -Only the first few ships have an end manufacture date for the time being -All ship prices have been rebalanced some

MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES:

-Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companys. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks. -Translations are not complete, if you would like to help with translations please see discord or steam discussions

[ 2017-09-07 22:49:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are very excited to announce that Interstellar Transport Company is now available in 9 languages with more to come soon. While the translations aren't 100% accurate or complete, it should be plenty playable for speakers of these languages. Thank you to the community members who have helped with these efforts thus far! As a side note, this was in parallel to the work we're doing to improve the ships and routes screens. More info will be available on that project in the coming days. Also in today's patch we are releasing support for Mac and Linux systems! We look forward to seeing you all in the game! Please report any issues with Mac, Linux, or language localization to the game's Steam discussion boards.

August 31, 2017 v0.1.4 PATCH NOTES:

-When a taxi service is built on a planet, ships will no longer leave empty on their first launch -Added Mac and Linux Support -Fixed bugs for mac and linux support -Add Localization and Translations: -English -French -Spanish -German -Italian -Korean -Russian -Dutch -Portuguese -Brazilian (Portuguese-Brazilian) -Fixed more multiplayer bugs -Added "Are you sure?" confim when leaving game -Changed autosave naming formate to be sortable -Fixed game save lists to sort descending

MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES:

-Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companys. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks. -Translations are not complete, if you would like to help with translations please see discord or steam discussions

[ 2017-08-31 21:50:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

August 28, 2017 v0.1.3c PATCH NOTES: -AI company being liquidated will no longer liquidate all ships in the game -Company being liquidated now also removes their loans -10 year milestone will no longer be displayed for games loaded past the ten year mark. -Ships should no longer turn around before even passing a planet in outer solar system. -Ships should no longer leave empty on their first run -Adding first class slots to a new ship won't break the slot UI anymore MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES: -When loading a save game with in-transit interstellar ships, odd behavior can be exhibited and you might lose the ships currently. -Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companies. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks.

[ 2017-08-28 08:04:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just finished up a nice big patch for everyone tonight! Includes a lot of fixes to some very annoying things you all have been experiencing. We are now diving head-first into the Ships screen to completely rework that and make it much more user friendly in mid and late game. Thanks for everyone's suggestions on this subject, I think what we have planned will really help! Saved games from previous versions are incompatible with this patch -"wait for full load" issues are fixed, it now loads the ships that have been waiting the longest -Loading a save game will no longer break ship icons -Profit graph fixed to be accurate -Added more financial graphs comparing you and the competition -Removing the current stop on a route doesn't break the game with huge cash payments any more. -Changing cargo rules should be more predictable, there were some cases where they weren't saving previously. -Lots of multiplayer connectivity issues resolved. -AI should now better prioritize reliability for long travel distance routes. -AI should now consider larger ships more often -Multiplayer chat window greatly improved -In multiplayer, on client computers, moons of non-colonized planets should orbit better now. -Planets and moons now orbit about half the speed they did previously -Reduced spaceport size requirements for multiple ships -Re-balanced multiple ships (cargo size, system speed, prices) -Updated to Unity 2017 -Reduced the number of AI companies in predefined games to 3 for easy, 2 for normal and hard, and 1 for unfair -Enabled loading a save game in multiplayer (still laggy for most clients after a reload however, we're working to correct this) -Fixed lots of multiplayer bugs -Improvements to AI companies -Fixed news items not being saved MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES: -Ships screen and UI in general is very unintuitive later in the game. We are working hard to make it simpler to manage large companies. Expect big changes to some UI windows over the coming weeks.

[ 2017-08-26 02:28:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been an extremely exciting and insanely busy 3 days for us! I am so grateful for the reception we've received so far. We finally polished off some of the biggest bug fixes today and are so excited to get this patch out to you. Below are all the patch notes from today and the the previous two patches since launch:

August 19, 2017 4pm EST PATCH NOTES:

-Ship screen jitter fixed when there are lots of ships -Improved AI Balance -Improved AI gate buying and selling behaviour -Improved AI buying, selling and upgrading ship behaviour -Fixed AI over supplying machinery and other ai bugs -Fixed and Improved hot join for multiplayer -Added player list to above chat box and on connecting screen for multiplayer, includes icon for ping warning and kick button to resolve stuck games after player failing to connect -Optimized multiplayer for large number of ships late game causing network lag -planet view camera reverted to fix the "jumpy" planet in mid game -Ship LODs adjusted to help improve framerate with lots of ships some. -Fixed ship camera when in another system and you "center camera" -Fixed company rep tooltip in multiplayer showing company names with "_gameobject" prefix

MAJOR KNOWN ISSUES:

-Loaded dilithium fuel gets removed from ships -Multiplayer saved games cannot be loaded -Randomly Multiplayer clients become unstable (working hard on a fix!) -News items don't get saved in save game file -Sometimes "Wait for full load" doesn't work -Screen judder / delay when ordering ships and other general ship screen performance issues.

2nd patch August 17, 2017 PATCH NOTES:

-Fixed machinery demand being incorrect causing lots of AI issues -Passenger prices are no longer changeable -Camera now stays centered with speed increases -When a colony fails and is re-colonized the spaceport no longer is removed -Fixed not being able to again assign flights to ships in ships view -Fixed edge scrolling for only when game is focused -Added more info to company reputation tooltip -Increased size of font for save game list -Changed ai gate buying behaviour -Fixed loading save casuing company names to "_gameObject" prefixed -Fixed not being able to ai to custom game and lobby after removing some -Added a new music track -Fixed no steamworks link game breaking bugs, ship fuel bug etc -Dilithium Crystals no longer prioritized by local government colonizing until FTL travel discovered

August 17, 2017 PATCH NOTES:

-Better ship reliability balance -Loading a saved game no longer "revives" deleted routes -Gate dialogs currency now formated -Increased size and readability of dropdowns -Non-interstellar ships are no longer assignable to interstellar routes -The first interstellar system that is colonized will now always be within return range of the Gorman Starchaser -Fixed a lot of multiplayer lobby issues -Keyboard hot keys no longer break after using an input box and closing it with a carriage return

[ 2017-08-19 19:51:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been such a long time since we started this project, and we are so incredibly proud of what we've accomplished so far. We hope that you all love the game and have a blast with it! That being said, this is one milestone on many we have planned. Our early access journey is just starting, and we are looking forward to making this game amazing with your help. So please leave your feedback on the Steam discussion boards, it helps us tremendously! Thank you also to all the support we've received from our testers, youtubers, and the community that is beginning to grow around this game. You all are awesome and it will be so much fun iterating this game with you over the next year. Over the coming days our focus is going to be on fixing these known issues: -Random multiplayer instability -Need to be able to load multiplayer saves, currently not working -Need to have news items saved into save game files -Hotjoining games not working -Short lag spike when ordering new ships at times Expect fixes to most / all of these things in the coming days. Thanks again everyone! See you in the game! -Mike and the MT Worlds team

[ 2017-08-16 15:12:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

I know, I know.. Most everyone else posts these sorts of things a week or two after early access launch. We hope to not be like everyone else though. We strive to be friggin' awesome! Along with totally transparent.. I thought it would be helpful to everyone deciding whether or not to buy the game now to see exactly what we have planned for the full version, without digging for the information, so we're also posting it now. We expect to be in early access for a year.

In very rough chronological order:

-Ranked multiplayer We think ITC would benefit greatly from a competitive ranked multiplayer ladder system. It's possible this is done before EA launch, but if not, it will be ready in the weeks after -More cargoes To give players even more reasons to travel interstellar for hard to find natural resources. Also weaponry which will be important for the next item... -Politics This will make the game incredibly more dynamic. Civil wars will break out and you will need to choose a side and embargo the other, reputations will change depending on factional politics and who you are servicing, planets and systems will change hands, handle huge weapon demands during times of war etc... -Contracts Local governments, business, and authorities will approach you with contracts that you can fulfill for big bonuses and penalties upon failure. -Techtree and Research Currently ships are released at predefined days. We will give players more control over what ships are researched and also give companies exclusive rights for a period of time to ships they had a large hand in developing. -Stock Market and IPOs We feel this is an essential feature for the management side of the game. -VR Support We love VR and have been planning since day one to add VR support. -Mod and Workshop support We're not precisely sure how much modding support we can offer yet, but it will at least allow new ships, planet types, and some game balancing variables to be changed. Possibly much more.

Also we will be adding these things periodically throughout development:

-Localizations to other languages -More starships and rockets -Better / more realistic flight paths for ships -More options in galaxy generation -More planetside infrastructure There's also a hundred different directions we can take this game. It really depends on the feedback we get from all of you during early access. I can't wait to see what you all think, and where you would like to take ITC, starting in just 6 days! And finally, just for fun, a shot of a multiplayer test we did last night! It works great!

[ 2017-08-11 14:44:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

https://youtu.be/AglGv63q8tQ In this latest VLOG I discuss everything we've been working on the past couple months as we lead up to our early access launch.

[ 2017-08-06 04:11:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Something that most tycoon game developers struggle with is how "realistic" to make their simulation. After all, we play tycoon / management games (really games in general) in order to experience something we normally couldn't in life. In our game's case, we are experiencing what it would be like to manage the logistics of the rapid colonization of space. While concessions absolutely had to be made in the name of gameplay, we have struck a balance that we think is both engrossing in the depth of the simulation but also approachable enough that players can have a profound impact on the simulation results.
At Early Access launch on August 16th, there will be 8 different cargo types and 4 different passenger types. We will expand on this during the early access phase, but this gives players a great starting point. Each cargo type is unique in the way it's created and consumed and each requires players to take a different approach and think strategically about how they will source and supply each most profitably. Below is a very rough flow chart (was actually made for our team internally) that shows how the resources, modifiers and buildings interact with eachother.
Passengers are just as interesting, and I don't think we've spoken about them much yet so let me explain how they work. The four different types of passengers are Colonists, Business Travelers, Tourists, and Refugees.



Colonists are created at crowded planets and want to go to new colonies to start a new life; pretty straightforward. They pay well as they are often sponsored by a local government or company to move. Business Travelers are created by any planet with high development and high populations. They will stay at their destination for a short time and then want to return home. YES! We actually track the passengers and simulate their return trip, which is most notably used in our next passenger type.. Tourists are created again at any planet with high development and high population. They are also created at lower population planets as many people would love to go visit Earth if they have never been there etc... This is where the return trips for passengers really shines. Often large population planets will create many tourists to go to a remote, sparsely populated planet, we want to make sure the traffic back home is simulated after an extended stay, which we do! Every tourist and business traveler will want to return home. Refugees behave differently. They are created on planets experiencing famine (later on extended wars etc...) they provide very little income when you transport them, but will be very thankful to you and you'll notice a boost to a planet's reputation when you deliver them to a safe planet. They also currently don't use the normal passenger seating, but instead will forcefully crowd into your dry climate controlled cargo bays, filling those to capacity. Speaking of passenger seating... there are three different types, coach seating, business class seating, and first class seating. Some passengers will desire a higher level of seating, some will desire the cheaper seats. The longer the trip the more common it is for passengers to want the more expensive seating. You can also set your ticket prices for passengers, so you can compete against your rivals for the available passengers. Thanks for all of your support and we can't wait for August 16th! -Mike and the MT Worlds team

[ 2017-07-27 17:11:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone, just a quick update from our side. We are stoked at the reception the game has been getting when people see the trailer and read about it thus far and hope to keep gaining momentum up until launch. Please be sure to spread the word about the game, it means a ton to us! We've been working on a lot of interesting things this past week, maybe the most visual being random starting systems. If you want to start in a system that is not completely familiar you can choose to start in a randomized system instead of Sol. The systems are similar enough that everything is there you'll need to get started, but different enough that it's a completely different experience every time you play one of these systems.

We have also been hard at work trying to get ranked multiplayer done in time for August 16th. It may not be fully featured, but it seems that we will have a version of ranked multiplayer with auto-matchmaking in at launch which is great news for everyone! We hope this feature keeps fans enjoying the game for many years to come! Especially as we continue to improve the systems throughout Early Access.
Please let us know if you have any feedback, we love to hear from you! Thanks, -Mike and the MT Worlds teamM

[ 2017-07-17 21:00:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are so incredibly excited to be at this point in development. For over a year this game has been growing and growing, countless thousands of hours have been poured into it and we are just over a month away from letting you all see our creation; we can not wait! There has been so much excitement today, and i'm so pleased to see how well the trailer and game concept has been received. The team just got done with a Skype meeting and we had a very productive multiplayer test and discussion on the final features we hope to add before we focus 100% on polishing it up for launch. Multiplayer is working very smoothly and we only found a few bugs to fix which is leagues ahead of our last MP test a few weeks ago, so MP should be in great shape for launch! AI was performing awesome as well and was very competitive. We discussed the ranked multiplayer system and various leaderboards we'll have for predefined single player games. I'll try to make a full post on that soon which should be an awesome read for RTS and fans of competitive games in general! This game is set to be an amazingly original deviation from other transportation management / tycoon games and we think everyone will appreciate the work we've put into it. Please be sure to follow us on Twitter for the latest up to the minute info on the game: MT Worlds on Twitter Thanks again for all your support, please stop by the Steam discussion forums with any questions or suggestions, we would love to hear them! -Mike and the MT Worlds team

[ 2017-07-09 01:29:22 CET ] [ Original post ]