Quests, Mailbox and Katra - v0.13.9

Patch Notes

Hey shopkeepers! We went a little heavy this time and turned up with a properly packed update. Quests, a mailbox, inventory sorting and a pile of fixes... things are heating up in Katra.

New Stuff

• A quest system has been added. For now it only covers Merchant Guild quests. If you are a new shopkeeper, quests will reach you automatically and give you a solid head start. But we did not forget the veterans either: any quest you have already met the requirements for is handed in automatically. We could not let all that work go unrewarded.
• A mailbox system has been added. Both quests and the systems coming later will use your mailbox as the line of communication between you and Katra.
• Inventory sorting has been added. You can now arrange your items in whatever order you like.
• Repeat last order has been added. If you keep placing the same order over and over, you no longer have to do it by hand every time.
• You barely knew when you had an outstanding loan. Our banker now leaves a message in your mailbox in Katra. Pay your loans on time, word travels fast around here.
• The screen now shows when the latest updates went out. We push updates pretty often and it was getting hard to keep track, so we put it there too.

About Katra

Yes, there is a bit more detail in the game now: we are in the city of Katra. New shopkeepers are learning this as they go, and we did not want to bore the veterans with it, so our apologies. Maybe the old shopkeepers will pick it up in time as well.

Fixes

• Repeatedly placing an item and picking it right back up left it magically floating in mid air. That particular spell of ours is gone now, the issue is fixed.
• With a steering wheel or a controller plugged in, your character would walk off on their own and UI lists would scroll down by themselves. That is sorted out too.
• Killing a thief gave you no details at all. It now clearly states which item went where. Some players thought their items were lost for good, but they should have been returned. Beyond the text, a few smaller issues with how thieves behave have been fixed as well. None of this should happen again.
• Shadows on the blackjack table sometimes caused distracting flickering, and that has been fixed.
• At the default field of view, the names of the spells in your hand were hard to read and could even run off the screen. That has been improved.

Changes and Improvements

• Your Steam language was not being picked automatically even when the game supported it. It now selects it for you.
• The tutorial has been improved, so new shopkeepers should have an easier time settling in.
• General UI improvements across the board.
• There was no way to reset your settings to default. Now there is.
• The decoration score was not working properly. It has been reworked and is far more functional now. It still works as decoration and score only, with no effect on customers yet. In one of the upcoming updates we are overhauling the customer system from the ground up, and decoration will get its proper treatment then.
• Experience gain has been reduced by 10%. We noticed shopkeepers were progressing faster than we expected, and we did not want things moving quite that quickly in Katra. Orders from above, we just carry them out. This may change over time.

Keep the reports and suggestions coming, we read all of them. Now get back behind that counter!