Mayors,

We come bearing an update! Version 0.0.58.14 ALPHA is now live on all branches. Details below:


1. Overhauled the Tutorial Experience:

• All New Tutorials covering basic gameplay, transit, expressways, economy, education, heatmaps, blueprints, and winning the game.
  
• Streamlined new player experience.
  
• Several bugfixes and improvements to the tutorial system.
  

• The toolbar is now positioned along the left edge of the screen, with labels for each tool, making it easier to navigate.
  

• Roads and rails are now always built at a height relative to the terrain.
  
• This may prevent certain bugs where roads didn't quite snap to one another, and were offset vertically.
  

• Pollution spreads further.
  
• Increased Community's protective effect on Health
  
• Neighboring cities will no longer affect the Density and Health heatmaps. Neighbors create less Crime and Pollution.
  

• Mixed Use zones can now spawn Residential, Retail, and Office buildings, in addition to Mixed Use buildings. Mixed Use zones cannot spawn Farms or Factories.
  
• Added the Summer Spectacular winner names to the list used for random citizen generation.
  
• Added many newspaper articles focused on you as the Mayor, funny characters in your city, and economics.
  
• Added a Design Organizer to help organize building designs by zone, density and value. The Design Organizer can be accessed from the Building Designer.
  
• Search in Controls Options.
  
• Markdown can now display charts and animated images.
  
• Various improvements to performance and stability.
  

• Fixed a memory leak when reading blueprints.
  
• Fixed a memory leak during building illumination texture cleanup when resetting textures.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when rendering multiline text in the UI.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when rendering span UI elements.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when caching building decoration information.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when reading the Designs directory.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when drawing the cursor.
  
• Fixed a memory leak during tree cleanup when resetting terrain.
  
• Fixed a memory leak for family members when resetting people.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when reading the RenumTable.
  
• Fixed a memory leak when finishing a RouteRequest.
  

• Fixed a bug where reading binary data from the input file would result in reading zero-length or invalid length data when copying to cache.
  
• Changed how Steam API functionality is shutdown to prevent race conditions and fully clean up state.
  
• Fixed a potential crash when attempting to load a preview image for a city or design that doesn't exist.
  
• Added some Windows specific error handling in certain situations to prevent CTDs (Crashes to desktop) unless absolutely necessary.
  
• Added better error checking to the isEntityActive check.
  
• Changed the frontBuffer flag to an atomic boolean to prevent certain bugs related to multithreading.
  

• Fixed a bug where the Route Inspector said citizens value their time at "$0.00 per hour."
  
• Fixed a bug in Planner Mode when building expressways that caused a "Bad Angle" error.
  
• Fixed the Traffic Infoview, which was not displaying correctly.