Happy New Year, Mayors! Our update for this final week of the year features preparation for tourism features on the horizon. Our official release now supports Steam Workshop! Also, a big thank you to everyone who has supported us during this Winter Steam Sale. Our community is growing all the time, and we hope the stable branch supporting mods in a more robust fashion will help that along. These are the patch notes:

Version 0.0.57.8 ALPHA

Features



• Neighboring cities have been revamped.
• There are now large and small neighboring cities.
• The game now populates neighboring cities when generating a new map, and it simulates five years of activity before the start.
• Neighboring cities now have NewTrack stations, allowing you to connect your train lines to your neighbors. The above changes only apply to newly generated maps.

  Improvements

  
  
• Increased population growth.
• Freight deliveries are now more frequent.
• Improved performance when placing blueprints.
• Trains and buses now unload their passengers faster. The rate is controlled by CAlightingRate. This only applies to unloading; Passenger loading rate is unchanged.
• The statistic "National Stock Index" (National Economy > Macros) is now the "National Stock Market Index".
• Neighboring cities now have more educated people.

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Lua API: Fixed an issue in getStatisticAvg() where it would return an incorrect value.
• Building Designer: Fixing some overlapping icons in the load menu preview image.
• Fixed a bug where routes without a possible mass transit solution would be recomputed rather than cached.

For more information on the stable release, see the previous patch notes linked here. Check out this update via the Betas tab. Right-click NewCity in your Steam Library and select Properties. Click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose the "test - Testing branch". You can opt-out by choosing "NONE - Opt-out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch. We really appreciate all the feedback and bug reports here on Steam and Discord! Please keep posting your thoughts and touching base with us. Please follow us on Twitter for more upcoming announcements. We wish you all a great 2021. Lone Pine Games P.S. Credit goes to Discord community member WhyBorne for the beautiful thumbnail image!