🔥 Smoke that means business
The longer a fire burns, the worse it gets.
- A fresh flare-up is a thin wisp – leave it and it becomes a thick black column that hits the ceiling.
- The kitchen slowly fills with smoke, then it creeps into the dining room. Leave it long enough and you can barely see your own hands.
- Ignore it completely and smoke pours out of the doors and windows and rises into the night sky. The whole street will know.
- Put the fires out and the smoke clears again.
🍽️ Guests: a whole new system
- How many guests come each evening now depends on the day, your stars, the evening's theme and your marketing – not on how many chairs you own.
- Buy too many chairs and the room stays half empty. Buy too few and the line goes out the door.
- A guest who gives up waiting in line never costs you stars. You only lose the money they would have spent.
- Guests arrive spread out – no more 7 people walking in at once.
- A table too small for a group? Seat as many as fit, the rest wait in line.
- New in the shop: Posters around town and a City banner across the street – more guests, if you have the seats for them.
- A forecast by the door and on the PC ("Guests tonight ~22 · seats: 16"), and the evening summary tells you what to buy next.
- The critic and the streamers skip the line, so a busy evening can't ruin a boss night.
Also new
- The Don's debt grows by 20 % with every payment.
- The tutorial evening ends with a few real guests to serve on your own.
- Up to 6 players in one restaurant.
Fixes
- The self-playing piano can finally be heard – and it follows the Music volume (the pianola plays softly).
- You can buy enough chairs for every table (42, or 60 with Le Salon).
- A glass knocked off the drink machine mid-pour no longer gets stuck at "Pouring… 85 %".
- The game can no longer quit by itself from a stray key press – menus are mouse-only and Quit asks to confirm.
- The intercom alert no longer hides under the evening bar.
- The city banner is properly tied to the buildings.
- Joining a friend on a different version now tells you which versions you each have.
Everyone in a lobby needs version 1.0.2 – Steam updates it automatically (restart Steam if you don't see it).
Thanks for every report, clip and stream! ❤️