Tutorials - and TONS More!

Hotfix - March 10, 2019

• Fix intermittent black screen when beginning tutorials
• Fix vehicle spawn not prioritizing supply truck appropriately

Six Tutorials - Learn by Playing

• Adds SIX different playable tutorials covering progressively more advanced topics
• Earn 1 Steam Achievement by beginning any tutorial
• Completing each respective tutorial earns 1 Steam Achievement

Staff Scheduling & Management

• New 'Staff Hub' UI separates Staff/Administrator, hire/fire management for each
• Control costs by Scheduling Staff at only specified operating hours
• Mass Hire/Fire: add/remove 10 with CTRL+CLICK, 5 with SHIFT+CLICK
• Staff paid hourly wages when at airport, leave when not scheduled
• New daily overhead charged for hired/on-payroll staff, regardless schedule
• Staff types that can be scheduled are: Staff, Security, Retail Workers, Chefs
• All staff now arrive & leave via transport

Clone Tool - Copy/Paste for Airports

• Adds Clone Tool that allows you to copy/paste segments of your airport
• Requires Foreman Administrator and is restricted to indoor areas
• Certain objects cannot be cloned (walkways, stairs/escalators, queues, zones)
• Rotate your copied selection with the rotate key or mouse button (default is 'R')

Retail Overhaul - Stores, Food, Objects, etc

• Adds 'Store' zones that can be renamed like Cafes
• Pax purchase products from various displays & pay at cash registers
• Pax browse displays before purchase; varied displays increase chance of sale
• New Store Objects:
  • Clothing Display
  • 2x Candy Display
  • 2x Book Display
  • 2x Makeup Display
  • 3x Souvenir Displays
  • 2x Shoe Displays
  • 3x Pharmacy Displays
  • 3x Jewelry Display

Underground Roads! Construction & Repair Updates!

• Adds 'Road Ramp' transition objects, ability to draw/build underground roads
• New system that provides capabilities not available previously
• Maintenance project improvements; reliability & new per-type config options
• Improved handling, performance, data integrity for Supply Pile related logic
• Area Sell now provides per-type sale price breakdown
• Can now zone over pending construction
• Most placement & build validations no longer blocked by pending construction, validates based on 'future' state
• Dismantle button now validated 'live', prevents untimely dismantles
• Construction tasks now more responsive and workers 'think ahead' (head to project while supplies are carried by other worker)
• Adds agent tool animation back, displays when worker is actively constructing
• Improves handling of multi-change construction on a single tile, primarily Foundations & underground roads

GAMEPLAY - Retail & Cafes

• Adds 'Chef' staff type. Cooks food in the kitchen & stocks up food kiosks, food displays in cafes.
• Cafes now accept all chair types except office chairs
• Cafe min size now 6x6; kitchen min size now 4x4
• Cafes zones can be renamed for aesthetics
• New build menu category for kitchen & cafe objects
• New Hot Plate item added to the kitchen
• Chefs now wash up at kitchen sinks for food safety purposes
• New items: Food Warmer and Food Cooler for the Cafe; these are food displays for your passengers to pick food from & take to the cash register
• Food kiosks & displays now require food to be produced by the kitchens
• Workmen now stock up kitchen storages and refrigerators with ingredients
• Bars and coffee kiosks require stocking with drinks by workmen
• Each food has its own cooking process, meaning that having multiple appliances will help the efficiency of your kitchen; chefs perform each step
• Pax have a preferred food (including drinks), and will only eat or drink at places that serve it. Vending machines are used by everyone but with less effectiveness
• Kitchens have a new 'Kitchen Overview' screen (click any kitchen zone to access); shows how each food is cooked & which steps you are missing
• Retail workers are allocated directly to cash registers in the cafe, no more running back and forth to the kitchen to finish orders
• Cafe zones now get assigned to kitchens (previously individual cash registers)

GAMEPLAY - General

• Multiple staff can be allocated to work on some objects to improve effectiveness
• Kiosk Scheduler removed & replaced with Staff Deployment; includes a paintable timeline feature to organize schedules
• Bare concrete now has negative environment impact
• Staff hire/fire now exclusively via staff hub UI
• Add zone validation 'requires adjacent road that can reach spawn/despawn'
• Add ability to construct up to 3 LRT platforms (1 train each, round robin style)
• Lowest LRT interval reduced to 7 minutes
• Improved speed of LRT boarding/unloading routines
• Fuel truck now visually drives on/off aircraft gate
• Pax now have slightly more urgent desire to leave after missing flight
• Dumpsters now allowed indoors to accommodate underground garbage zones
• Tweaks to defined queue movement behavior for higher efficiency
• Adds all-new aircraft liveries/textures for all built-in airlines/aircraft
• Adds Thirst pax need -- applicable retail objects now satisfy thirst
• Improve error handling & recovery on agent task runners
• Fuel trucks now willing to refuel themselves even if network cannot fully fill them
• Vehicles re-attempt when zone target goes away instead of giving up
• Improved save version tracking for better player warning capabilities
• Welcome text shown on new maps
• Any camera movement key-press now stops camera 'follow mode'
• Cash register sprites updated
• Numerous decorative flooring tile sprites updated
• News Stand & Apparel Stand now require retail workers instead of vendor workers
• Revises all non-vehicle agents to unified task-based system
• Fuel Depot now using road-adjacency system, requires direct-adjacency
• Improve 'can reach spawn' and 'can reach despawn' checks; now checks for primary de/spawn points OR Pickups/Dropoffs (can be improved further still; setups that do not produce warnings could rarely have the potential to be logically problematic)
• Adds validation warning if no lighted runway but night flight scheduled
• Runway light placement now force-refreshes applicable validations
• Multiple minor improvements & adjustments to agent sprites, offsets, colors, etc.
• Adds gate validation warning if no reachable runway has lights & night flight scheduled
• Object placements now force-refresh applicable 'related object' validations
• Improve road placement tool validation error messages to include specifics on the offending “nearby blocker” object/structure
• Find 'nearest zone' lookups now accurately account for floor deltas
• Changed certain path following routines, less likely to 'cut corners' through objects
• Add validation to aircraft gates to help prevent them from being placed backwards
• Balance adjustments on all Fuel Tank types
• Flight schedule resolution increased; can schedule on per-minute basis
• Add ability to configure maintenence priority & choose 1 of 3 'settings' for when repairs take place on that object type
• Object 'repair override' now simply allows out-of-window repairs
• If object hits 0% override automatically is switched on; override is automatically disabled upon repair completion
• Workers can now abruptly stop working on a maintenance project when window closes, override turned off, or settings changed
• Construction project 'options' menu now accessed via standard left-click
• Can now set construction project priority to Urgent/High/Normal/Low
• Rough balance adjustments to maintainable objects via MTBF adjustments
• Add BClaim validation: 'requires valid path to Pickups'
• Add 'door must be reachable from desk' warning validation to Gates, existed previously but now distinct from 'requires assigned desk' message for confusion avoidance

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION - Areas Addressed

• Implemented staff task pooling - RAM
• Multiple extremely commonly used position enumerations - RAM
• Commonly called appearance lookups - RAM
• Functional object manager - RAM
• Vehicle movement & node find/recall - RAM
• Zone periodic validations to be more allocation friendly - RAM
• Pax 'need display' tooltips - RAM
• Core passenger AI loop - RAM
• Long-distance & local-area path following routines - RAM
• Build menu button requirement / count checks - CPU
• Find 'nearest walkable area' now threaded - CPU
• Agent identity logic & setup routines - CPU+RAM
• Road graph generation performance - CPU+RAM
• Objects in zone find & cache mechanisms - CPU+RAM
• Object selection - CPU+RAM
• Assignment mode data structures - CPU+RAM
• Agent 'carried object' handling routines - CPU+RAM
• Object pool CPU usage when pooling/de-pooling certain objects - CPU+RAM
• Rendering of: Trash Bags, floor dirt, Supply Piles, Roads & Taxiways - CPU+RAM+GPU
• Attach to wall visual render - CPU+RAM+GPU
• Vehicle transfer animation visual render - CPU+RAM+GPU

MISC.

• Add Spanish language support (THANK YOU!!)
• Update all translation files to & from Github including new Tutorial.xml
• Add numerous new translation keys and re-implemented localization on some UIs
• Add stroke/outline to agent sprites
• Add graphical post-processing stack (anti-aliasing & color grading)
• Increase max zoom distance slightly for a given map size
• Add slight color variation to some tiles to improve aesthetic
• Foundation tool now shows tiles that are to-be-walls visually for better UX
• Minor tweaks & improvements to Flight Schedule UI
• Multiple minor improvements & adjustments to agent sprites, offsets, colors, etc.
• Revise thread-based state systems into unified state manager
• Improved save game screenshot previews

BUG FIXES

• Fix 'X' button on main menu settings UI not opening the primary menu screen
• Fix Flight Crew arrival & boarding routines that were using legacy code
• Fix Gate Desk using legacy pax handling code, more robust & may speed up slightly
• Fix 'Circle Flight Pax' not circling newly spawned pax
• Fix environment pax need impact not taking window effect into account
• Fix zone HUD alert/notifier showing repetitive messages
• Fix camera settings sliders rounding to whole number values causing unexpected setting changes when resuming a gameplay session
• Fix Perfect Ops bonus showing negative days
• Fix several bag hub registration / de-registration bugs
• Fix moving walkway build cost bug
• Fix material ordering & disallow project cancel for runway/walkway extension projects
• Fix runway validation bug when attempting to place on right or top edge of map
• Fix weather dialog showing "Inactive due to weather" when runways are down for non-weather related reasons
• Fix memory leak and errors due to leftover adhoc queue upon object dismantle
• Fix UI selected object hover box being rotated incorrectly on non-rotated objects
• Fix error on some rare short-distance agent pathfinding requests
• Fix PA Speaker not unregistering when deserialized in a pending dismantle state
• Fix maintenance projects started via override while outside of window
• Fix duplicate state-set bug that could cause projects to be left in undefined state
• Fix piles destined for non-walkable underground (fuel tank), were being dropped in poor locations resulting in very long walks
• Fix runways able to be built half off-map, causing numerous downstream issues
• Fix placeables sometimes not populating translated name/description during init
• Fix luggage cars can get stuck when depot is in certain orientations relative to the nearby road(s)
• Fix supply pile not preferring against being dropping on existing escalator/stairway/walkway
• Fix multiple Workshop & mod related bugs
• Fix departing bag count incorrectly displaying arrival bag count
• Fix pause toggle action sometimes getting stuck on pause
• Fix wind UI text display, update it to show 3-char direction
• Fix supply pile project re-allocation not seeing all piles correctly causing price mismatch vs display price
• Fix flight schedule UI bug for certain flight time
• Fix middle mouse scroll not taking into account zoom level
• Fix ticket kiosk logic may have been able to errantly allow usage when not in gate-assigned zone
• Fix agent state bug that could cause failed agent startup on some very old saves (circa 2017)
• Fix pooled path data structures rarely not being fully reset if canceled late
• Fix thread safety issue, maybe caused boarded pax to very rarely be 'missed flight'
• Fix vehicles running traffic-aware paths before being stuck in traffic
• Fix Perfection Bonus showing all days, should only show prior 30 days
• Fix staff not getting floor change on last waypoint during path-following
• Fix road node reservation bug during runway construction/dismantle/expand
• Fix pax spawner only looking at “Today” in prep for EAM flights
• Fix extremely delayed passengers unable to despawn due to archived flight data
• Fix several UIs need to check if game is quitting before cleaning up
• Fix zone removal not always cleaning up scheduled staff tasks/allocations
• Fix Fuel Truck reachability check which could cause failed fuel requests
• Fix Fuel Truck distance heuristic returning inaccurate distance numbers causing failed refueling or poor/distant vehicles to be assigned
• Fix performance 'leak' during when initializing & configuring certain agents & objects
• Fix sub-task tracking issue that mostly impacted retail workers
• Fix target selection bug that could cause retail staff to attempt to path-find to a wall
• Fix aircraft being visible and 'floating' after takeoff on some large maps
• Fix pax rarely becoming stuck mid-security process when objects are deleted
• Fix multiple save/load issues related to zones, revised zone references to use primary GUID & assignments system
• Fix roads unable to be placed on outdoor gates
• Fix Needs UI not showing 'fully satisfied' for Environment/Frustration
• Fix taxiway & runway light sprites not respecting underground opacity
• Fix flight spawn curve shifted towards being too late
• Fix attach-to-wall objects not not always causing wall sprite to refresh/update properly
• Fix luggage using wrong material when on conveyors
• Fix object selection dialog 'Follow' mode not providing state feedback
• Fix fuel one-time purchase input too small
• Fix object warnings flashing too rapidly
• Fix Luggage Vehicle checking one-way path instead of bidirectional
• Fix sector generation thread safety issue, could cause corrupted sector state (stuck & clumping pax, strange behaviors, etc)
• Fix sector data pooling bug that caused RAM usage to continually increase
• Fix lighting 'flash' each day at 20:00
• Fix road reachability matrix & caching when using one-way taxiways
• Fix rain appearing off screen when zoomed out
• Fix several bank loan text/translation related issues
• Fix gate name dropdown visual quirk
• Fix mod status menu not being sorted alphabetically
• Fixed duplicate floor types (removed Floor09, dupe of Floor12)
• Fix PAPI not being blocked by other objects
• Fix and update several aspects of Hangar submenu; adds money validation text
• Fix wall tiling/bitmask not visually treating all doors the same