Cityscapes: Sim Builder

2024-09-18

Hello Mayors!

This update brings an abundance of enhancements designed to streamline city-building and enrich your gameplay experience.

General Improvements:

- Use the 2 hand pinch and rotate gesture to rotate maps on Vision Pro

- Renamed Game Modes so they’re easier to understand

- Campaign = Story Mode

- Trials = Multiplayer

- Sandbox = Free Play

- Sandbox “Relaxed Mode” = Creative Mode

- More variety added to Multiplayer maps

- Added new Civic and Landmark buildings to the layouts

- Can now have anywhere from 3-5 active policies instead of always having 4

- Can have more buildings overall pre placed in the maps

- Refreshed map layouts

Balancing:

- Residential, Commercial, and Industrial buildings level up faster so you get to bigger cities sooner

- Reduced the amount of Population and Sustainability required to level up so there isn't too much of a grind at certain City Levels

- Adjusted Workers/Shoppers needed for City Challenges to go along with other Population and Sustainability changes

- Increased Coins from taxes so you don't run out too frequently

- Increased Coin rewards for reaching the first 10 City levels

- Lowered the Tax penalties/bonuses for high/low Approval scores so there isn’t too much of a drastic swing for tax income

- Increased the default zone for Approval before Tax penalties/bonuses kick in

- Reduced Coin rewards from Projects so they're focused on Approval rewards/penalties

- Unlock Common and Uncommon Civic buildings at the same time so there's a choice between cheap standard buildings or expensive powerful versions

- Increased the range of Common and Uncommon Civic buildings

- Increased the power of starting level Common and Uncommon Police and Fire buildings

- Increased the cost of Uncommon Civic buildings to go along with their bigger ranges and higher power

- Increased the amount of Uncommon and Rare Residential, Commercial, and Industrial buildings that can be placed at each City level

- Removed Residential, Commercial, and Industrial building limits once you reach City Level 100

- Increased the Season Token rewards from Projects so it’s easier to purchase the Seasonal buildings in the Shop

- Increased Approval/Coin rewards/penalties for Decision bubble choices

- Buildings take longer before they actually go abandoned

- Can see more Abandonment bubbles at once, and see new bubbles more frequently at later City Levels

- Increased the Approval penalty when lower rarity buildings go abandoned

- Unlock Story mode maps 2, 3 and 4 all at the same time so you have more freedom on where to start your 2nd city

- Unlock Story mode maps 5-16 sooner so you get to experience all of the different locales sooner

- Unlock new land at earlier City levels, and reduced timers, so you have more freedom to layout cities the way you want

- Free Play mode unlocks sooner so you can experiment with different building types and layouts

- Tons of coins to start with in Free Play Creative mode

- No RCI building limits in Free Play Creative mode

- Doubled the amount of Coins to start with in Free Play Standard mode

- Unlock new maps in Free Play as soon as you get them to level 2 in Story Mode

Bug Fixes:

- Showing all of the correct building rewards for increasing your City Level

- Fixed various visual issues with buildings, the terrain, and the water--

- Fixed beachside buildings showing up in Multiplayer maps that don’t have beaches

- Fixed maps where beachside buildings were sunk into the sand

- Fixed issue where buildings placed with the Quick build button were not matching the same default building shown in the preview

- Fixed issue where some screen resolution settings were getting cut off on certain Macs

- Graphics settings now saving correctly when exiting and restarting the app