There's a LOT of new stuff in this update, so let's walk through it all!
EA 0.10 brings Cinemas, Theaters, a Factory revamp, massive optimization and more!
Roll out the red carpet! EA 0.10 introduces two brand-new, high-end businesses: Cinemas and Theaters.
These premium venues are ready for you to expand into large-scale entertainment operations. You’ll gain access to new employee types and new products to sell.
Hire Actors, Stage Crew and Projectionist and provide your customers with Popcorn, Cotton Candy,
Slushies, and a Cheese Platter!
They’re the largest businesses in the game with some steep licensing fees, but if you can pull it off, you’ll be running some of the most impressive businesses Big Ambitions has to offer.
For EA 0.10, we really wanted the Broadway area to feel epic and more unique. Now you'll find it loaded with more billboards with varied sizes as you walk the streets.
We've added the new C.A.S.T Recruitment Agency, and a brand-new furniture store, Red Carpet Decor. As you wander the area, you'll also encounter new street performers, just hoping you'll leave them a donation!
With newly designed Cinema and Theater buildings and radiating with neon delight, Broadway really shines now!
Okay, this is a big one - factories have received a complete overhaul in EA 0.10. We’ve taken all your feedback to heart and made some big changes to how the system works while fixing the bugs that were causing your factories to stop working!
With the factory overhaul in EA 0.10, factories are now designed to be clearer, more efficient, and far less frustrating to manage. Here’s what you can expect:
Factory layouts are clean and unobstructed — no more belts blocking pathways or navigation
Employees work efficiently without constant back-and-forth walking
Factory lines no longer hoard all the ingredients in a single input station
Factory line production speeds have been ramped up
Every product can be produced by factories
Factory Worker skill matters now has a noticeable impact on production
Here are a couple quality-of-life improvements for managing a massive fleet of logistics vehicles! If you're already having flashbacks to driving back and forth over the bridge - don't worry, we have two little features for you!
Call General US Trucks and get them to deliver your vehicles directly to your warehouse. Order as many vehicles as you want in one afternoon - no more weeks of driving back and forth!
Or maybe you don't mind driving - you're just tired of crossing the bridge over and over again. That brings us to the second improvement: the ability to quickly skip over the bridge!
Employee poaching and negotiation have received some much-needed love in this update!
Employees negotiate more intelligently now, allowing you to get a better price
You can now see the demands of employees you are negotiating with
Negotiated wages now scale better with skill to make that negotiated difference even more noticeable
Rival employees now carry over when you take over their business
Previously, these employees didn't match the "poach" list
With new products for Cinemas and Theaters and all the new factory recipes, we needed to expand and revamp the import piers a bit for EA 0.10!
New items like Popcorn, Cotton Candy, Tea and Slushies have been added to the product importers
The previously hidden, once-per-week Casino pier has been expanded to a full party pier! Don't worry, the Casino boat isn't gone - it still shows up on Friday evenings - but now you can enjoy the pier all week long!
Pier 9, the last pier on the dock, is now open! With the factory update and new raw goods to manufacture, the items available at each importer has been updated
In addition to the Broadway upgrades, Street Performers, Pier rides, and Factory updates, the art team has been hard at work adding a wide range of new furniture and decorations throughout the game.
The new Cinema and Theater furniture store, Red Carpet Depot, features a massive selection of brand-new items to help you decorate your entertainment venues.
Existing stores like Ika Bohag and Lux Concept have also received several new additions.
While preparing all this new amazing content for EA 0.10, we realized that the game's performance needed some major love for this update, so we took some time and really dug into some improvements.
For players whose computers are struggling the hardest, we added a couple options including disabling shadows completely!
And for everyone, we also massively improved how large groups of customers are handled, along with shadow, animation and texture improvements that should boost everyone's FPS nicely and reduce random lag!
You can now sell Cups of Tea alongside your Cups of Coffee. The Industrial Coffee Machines can sell either item now, so be sure to add a couple more machines to start selling Tea today!
New Interior Designer "Packing Tool" allows you to quickly pack things into boxes, move items between shelves, or move items out of storage and to the floor!
Hanging Delivery signs in stores to make it more obvious where you can get deliveries
Purchasing Agents can now "mass assign" items to warehouses
Customer seating in restaurants and coffee shops is now more random so they don't always sit in the same chairs
Game shouldn't continue to autosave if you haven't done anything
Better control over game sliders
Removed TAA anti-aliasing as it was causing most users to have ghosting artifacts
Can click on trash can to throw things away
VoogleMaps now has a "Rivals" filter so you can see the businesses owned by your rivals
Storage Shelves and Pallet Shelves now have a "Sell All" button to quickly empty their contents
If you hold an umbrella, the inventory now automatically opens so you can see it more easily to know how to hide or unequip your umbrella
Increase import limits from 1 million to 10 million
Increase box sizes to help with weekly import limits
Carpet/Rug layering
Fixed several store layouts, colliders and textures
Fixed can drive/get stuck under StockCo (and recovered your vehicles if they were in there)
Fixed several Tutorial quests to be more adaptive to players not following it exactly (if you've gotten ahead of the tutorial)
Fixed Employees that happen to have the same name as the rivals would confuse the UI
Fixed some improperly marked "illegal parking" spots
Fixed after Rival war, Ika Coffee doesn't raise their prices back up
Fixed fruits and Veggies were selling without a scale, but only when not in the store
Fixed recruit's demands were not visible while poaching
Fixed a couple "perfect timing" overlaps
Fixed enter car and open map at the same time caused map issues
Fixed buy a vehicle and open the map at the same time caused map issues
Fixed clicking an item while exiting a building soft-locked you
Fixed ID Mode now copies text for items like the hiring board
Fixed can move employee workstation while employee is still assigned
Fixed pixelated bathroom hider was showing through walls
Fixed 1 10th St. Billboard was not working
Fixed scooter can get trapped "inside" the warehouse geometry
Fixed many furniture colliders
Fixed if using "unstuck" while in the Casino, and your player tries to run back to the casino, even if they can't
Fixed some players' furniture tab was not clickable in the Contacts App
"No Vehicle Damage" custom game setting would partially deactivate after getting fuel
Fixed warehouse vehicles were not unassigned after using movers/installation firm
Fixed vehicles popping out of the back of the above-ground parking garage
Fixed blueprint "sort by" fields
Fixed "Manage Employee Schedule" was showing in employee contacts who are unassigned
Fixed could "Manage Schedule" of an unassigned business by clicking on an employee workstation
Fixed employee quits due to lack of "training" even when HR is training them
Fixed some activities were not interactable sometimes
Fixed some issues causing Headquarters to read "999" employees in each category
Fixed some issues where you can't reach your vehicle's driver door to enter
Fixed some issues painting the floor of a D2 building
Fixed cleaning stations count as "computer workstations" in an office
Fixed opening settings while in VoogleMaps caused some overlapping issues
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