Alpha 16 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

The janitors and mechanics got improved a bit to recognize trash and vandalized objects on adjacent tiles instead of only on the tile they’re standing on. Additionally all staff wandering behaviour has been improved a bit to make them less likely to step on tiles they’ve recently visited. This makes them cover their area more uniformly and should increase their efficiency a bit (and makes them seem a bit smarter). Here’s a test with the old completely random movement. The red squares mark where the employee in this test went:
And here’s the improved one:
We added the Boat Transport ride from this weeks Art Stream.
And we wrote a bunch more explanatory tooltips.

Changelog

• added Splash Battle ride
• added Boat Transport ride
• added Spooky and Fantasy props, buoys
• added shuttle mode for Monorail, Suspended Monorail transport rides
• added reordering custom color slots using drag & drop (hold Alt to replace instead)
• added tapping shift when building toggles between setting the object height to the last used one and ground level
• added more tooltips
• improved overall performance, especially with many objects on screen (up to ~40%)
• improved staff patrol behaviour
• improved janitors/mechanics to be more aware of nearby trash/vandalism
• improved behaviour when building entrance/exit between tracked ride stations with one tile distance
• improved camera pan speeds
• improved the look of metallic and glass objects
• improved research costs and duration balance
• fixed visualization views not working anymore
• fixed input field arrows misbehaving on Linux with a non-english locale
• fixed boats driving through coaster tunnels, stone paths, transport system tubes, wooden supports
• fixed errors when deleting a boat ride
• fixed sometimes not being able to open a boat ride even though it is placed in a valid location
• fixed some random error messages popping up occasionally when using any UI with a scroll list
• fixed wrong savegame entry being selected by default when saving game

[ 2017-07-29 17:55:37 CET ] [ Original post ]