Hey everyone, the long-awaited Party Update is now here! Here's what's new!

• Players now form parties!

  
  Your Subscribers can now form parties of up to four players to take on your MMO together! If you've developed the 'Parties' technology, you can enable this feature from the 'Design' window's "Features" tab, and then players will tend to gather around Taverns to form parties.

• New Artist, New Buildings!

  
  Adds a whole bunch of new building model variants. Almost every type of functional building now has two or three new versions of the standard model. We now have a new artist on the team, working on making heaps of new buildings and game assets, and this is just the first drop of those new assets; we're planning to continue with more regular art updates over the coming weeks!

• Unsubscription Report

  
  Theres now a new Unsubscribe Reasons Report, which can tell you what players have given as reasons for unsubscribing from the game (along with tracking the total number of unsubscribers over time).

• Subscription Savings Plans!

  
  Previously, a lot of subscribers would unsubscribe when their subscription fees came due because they didn't have enough money in their daily entertainment budgets to pay the whole fee. Now, they'll save up toward the subscription fee in advance, so this should be much less of a problem!

• Solid Walls

  
  Players should no longer walk through walls (or over mountains or etc), if you've completely walled off the place that they wanted to go to. (previously, if there was no legal way to reach their desired destination, they'd ignore obstacles in order to get there. Now they'll just fail to go there, instead)

• Littering is Bad, M'Kay?

  
  Fixes the infamous dropped weapons bug, which would sometimes result in dozens or even hundreds of pure-white weapons being randomly strewn about on the landscape. (This mostly happened on larger games, when players bought weapons while out of view of the camera; the weapons were appearing wherever the character had last been visible on-screen, and stayed there until the next time you looked at the player who owned each weapon)