Drugs and Crime Idle — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Update 4.11 | 2024-05-16 | Update 4.11 - Improved gambling odds for all crates. Getting items should be around 2x times easier now for all crates. It's still random and it might take some tries, but if you don't get them now, it's just really bad luck. The legendary chest should be now at the level of the previous epic chest. Enjoy and have fun! :) |
| Update 4.10 | 2024-01-29 | Drugs and Crime Idle Update 4.10 -Fixed a big issue with gambling not being random enough. Long version: The thing is, software can never be true random, it will always pick the same numbers, even if you set it to be random. I knew that, so the game had two sets of randomizers when gambling, but that was not enough. The software picks a random "seed", which then determines the items you get based on numbers, those numbers are also picked randomly-ish. Problem was, the seed was randomly determined when you start the game, not while gambling. Now it picks a random seed every 15 seconds. I know, why was this not in the game before? I didn't thin |
| Update 4.09 | 2024-01-22 | Drugs and Crime Idle Update 4.09 Brings the option to turn on auto chest opening. If you turn it on, it will open chests by itself until you turn it off or run out of credits. A much requested QOL feature. If you encounter any bugs, please let me know in the comments. Thank you for your patience and have fun playing! |
| Operation Food to Gold - Early Access Launch | 2023-12-12 | Operation Food to Gold, my second idle game after Drugs and Crime Idle is now live, free and available in Early Access. This time I went for a more family friendly vibe with cooking food for an alien and feeding it, instead of being a criminal overlord. You should be experienced in cooking. This time only, you will be cooking hamburgers and chicken tenders instead of crystal meth. The game will be an Early Access version, but all the core mechanics of, what I hope is a fun idle game, are all in there. Please comment in the Steam-Community with any feedback. What do you like? What do you hate? I read everything and reply to everyone. All Drugs |
| Update 4.08 - Prestige Generator & Manual Saving | 2023-10-08 | - Added back auto-saving - Added 3 new buttons to the main page * Manual Save - Creates a new, separate savegame meant as a failsave/backup. Make sure to click this red button every time you close the game and every now and again. * Manual Load - Loads the manual save. * Load Autosave - Loads your regular save game that is created from the autosave. - Added the Prestige generator. * After you prestige at least 1 time, a new bar will start filling, based on the times you prestiged. So, at prestige 1, it will generate 1 out of 1million. After it fills, you get 1 prestige point. At prestige 2 it will 2 out of 1 million, so twice as fast. So, now |
| To an excellent 2023! | 2022-12-31 | Happy new year, you bunch of criminals and drug dealers! May 2023 be your year, full of success and all you wish for. What other dev does that? Probably none, that's why I do it. Thank you all for your support! Up until now Drugs and Crime Idle has been played by 38,133 Players! I am happy, to give people some entertainment from the every day struggle we all face. Time you enjoyed is not time wasted. Happy new year! ~Konstantin Spasoff |
| Small update 4.07 | 2022-12-29 | - Removed auto-saving from the game. Due to issues with the savefile getting corrupted and players losing their progress, I have removed autosaving from the game. Now, if you experience a pc or game crash, then you should lose only some progress, not all of it or the entire save game. The game does continue to save, of course, when it closes. A pc or game crash (or other reason) should not affect the game anymore, hopefully. I apologize to everyone that has lost their save! Happy holidays! ːcsgostarː |
| Version 4.06 - New gang members | 2022-11-20 | Version 4.06 New Gang screen Thugs reworked to only give crimenet balance instead of crimecoin. Lawyers reworked to only give account balance instead of crimecoin & crimecoin lite. Added new hacker, who has a charge like the lawyer and gives both crimecoins. Payout is random from 10 to 160. Can be upgraded with money and prestige, but +5 (10 prestige) per level instead of a multiplier like the lawyer and thugs. Added the casino boss. Works like a rakeback reward in the casino. After 1000 ap spend, you can claim a random reward. 50-800 with very good chances of getting the best one, compared to the hacker. Can be upgraded for +50 (or +100 with |
| Version 4.05 - Press the X | 2022-11-14 | Version 4.05 Changed the lawyer max progress to 200. A lawyer action still takes 100 points, but now you can store up to 200 points, so they don't go to waste. Added the ability to stand up and smoke a fat one. Taking a break from all the money making and managing. Has an audio as well, so make sure your game is not muted. Just for fun, does nothing else. Also comes with 1 new achievement. |
| Version 4.04 - Faster crate opening | 2022-11-12 | Version 4.04 Very small update. Crate opening is now twice as fast. It feels much better to open crates now. Something that has been requested a lot, for a long time. Have fun! |
| Update 4.03 - Prestige and Achievements | 2022-11-12 | Update 4.03 Prestige System and Steam Achievements In update 4.03 you can reset your game progress and start all over again with the Prestige system. You gain 25 Prestige for doing so, which you can spend on new upgrades. The upgrades are the same as those on the upgrade page, except doubled (max ap and max crimecoin 4times). Those upgrades do not reset when you reset your game. I chose against other prestige upgrade options, like money and drugs, since those would make the game too easy. Those, who have the DLCs, can claim them again after a reset. There are 6 Achievements related to the prestige levels, but you can keep going as much as you |
| Update 4.02 | 2022-10-29 | Update 4.02 Quality of Life change to how opening crates works. Before, you had to buy the crate at the crate screen, then open it, then click on crates again and so on. Now, you can go to the crate screen and the cost deducts after you press the button to spin. This allows you to open crate after crate, without changing the screen. It feels overall faster and more fun to open them now. Thank you RemboW for the nice suggestion! Crate screen overhaul The crate screen now shows the crates with the items inside. A general visual overhaul. The coin generator now also has an image. Lawyers Lawyers were way too generous. This was not intended. They |
| Game remake! Version 4 is now live! | 2022-10-25 | Drugs and Crime Idle Recreated. Because drugs are recreational, get it? Anyway, after one a half years, I have re-made the game from scratch, for the 4th time. All previous versions, except the first, are available under the games betas tab. You can continue to play your savefile on version 3, the last one. Your savefile is unaffected and separate from this one. I will post a detailed guide on how to switch versions. Please check the guides tab in the community. In short: Rightclick drugsandcrimeidle in steam library -> properties -> betas What's new? Everything, yet it should still feel the same. Money gained is now per second, instead of ev |
| Community Update + Steam Cloud integration | 2021-06-23 | Hello fellow dealers, just a quick community update on the future of the game. Cloud: First off, I added steam cloud saving again. Now steam should backup your saves. Last time there were problems with people losing their saves because of steam cloud. I hope that it's fixed and working properly now. You can disable steam cloud in the properties menu, if you wish to do so. Future Updates: I have said it on discord and on steam here and there a few times, but never trough an update. Currently I am remaking the game from scratch (2nd-3rd time?). I have very good progress already and hope to release the new version soon. It will be an entirely di |
| Update 1.8 - New Save/Load System | 2021-05-27 | New: Save System I redid the entire save and load system from scratch. The old one was problematic to say the least. I noticed that the drug numbers weren't saving properly. Sometime you had 0.007, closed the game and you had 0.0010 or sometimes 0 on load. This is of course not acceptable. The old system used base64 encoding. While converting numbers to letters and then back to numbers issues arised. My guess is that many had lost their savegames because of that too. Steamcloud was also not working with that and I had to remove it. All for what? To make it harder on people to cheat. It's a single player offline game. Who gives a cr...? It's n |
| Update 1.7 - small fix | 2021-05-23 | Fixed a small issue with the employees at stacey's, that made the game crash. Sorry for that! If you find any other bugs please let me know. |
| Update 1.7 - Money Laundering DLC and game improvements | 2021-05-22 | Hello dealers, it's been a long time. The last update was in february. Due to health issues I was not able to work much, so that's why I have delayed the update so much. But it's all good. Thank you all for your patience. First off, the new money laundering dlc is not complete. There is currently 1 business to purchase out of 6. This one will be free for everyone, so everyone can experience the money laundering feature, that wie tie heavily into future updates and progression. The dlc itself will give you the option to purchase the other 5 businesses wich I am currently working on and planning to release soon. I wanted to get this update out |
| Update 1.6 - Balance,fixes,faster gambling,sound | 2021-02-27 | Hello again dealers and lootbox openers, I've been pushing out daily updates, hope it's not getting annoying. I would rather make one bigger update, but the issues that needed fixing were severe. - Fixed the backup saving. Again. Now it should be working. The regular saving might still have some issues, but the backup saving should work now. If your save is corrupted. Delete it and rename the backupsave.sav to 333.sav and everything should be back to normal. I've tested it multiple times and it works. I am looking into alternatives to saving to resolve this issue once and for all. The best option would be online saving, but this comes with it |
| Update 1.5 - More fixes | 2021-02-24 | Update 1.5 is another small update that focuses on fixes. I was made aware... that you were able to buy meth for the price of weed, but sell it for the price of meth. So you were able to buy 1kg of meth for $5000 and sell it $25 a gram. This is obviously not intended. The prices have been updated now and balanced. Time to focus on the other drugs, not just meth ;) - fixed meth buy prices - fixed crack buy prices - re-adjusted some prices in general All in all it's still cheaper to buy in bulk. - fixed an issue of tooltips not displaying at the exchange button - added the option to exchange from epic to legendary - changed cost from common to |
| Update 1.4 - Fixes | 2021-02-23 | There is nothing worse than playing for hours and then losing your save. This has sadly happend to many, so it was my top priority to fix it. I have changed the saving system. This will not affect your savefile, don't worry. Your normal savefile "333.sav" is now saving in a different way that should eliminate all issues with losing your save. In addition to that, the game is saving in the old way a second time a "backupsave.sav" file. This means, that even if you lose your regular save file for some reason, you will have a backup save. You can then rename the backup save to "333.sav" and will regain all your progress again. This is a failsafe |
| Version 1.3 - QOL changes | 2021-02-20 | Hello dealers, many of you have made great suggestions of improvements to the game. Thank you for contributing! :) This a rather small update with quality of life changes. --------- New: - Lootcrate exchange buttons There is no point in opening common or rare crates if you have all the items. Some are hoarding then in the fifties or hundreds. Opening 50 crates can be very annoying, especially if you have no gain from it. Now there are 2 buttons. You can exchange- 5 common crates for 1 rare 10 rare crates for 1 epic Now getting epic and legendary items should be a bit more fair and easy. Adding the same exchange for epic to legendary is not an |
| 1.2 - Save fix and Screenshot fix | 2021-02-17 | This is a quick and small update to fix two issues. For some players the game was not saving properly and causing them to lose all of their progress. It was rare, but it was happening. That is a pretty big issue. Sorry to anyone that lost their savegame. I finally found the issue and fixed it. Technical stuff below. Also fixed an issue with steam screenshots. Apparently they were not working. Now they are. If anyone is still having issues with the savegame, then please let me know! ----------- For anyone interessted: The game autosaves every two seconds. For most everything seemed to be working fine. It was hard to find the issue why it did n |
| Small update 1.1 | 2021-02-14 | A quick small update to fix two issues. - Tutorial Page: Now the main menu has a tutorial page with a quick guide on where to start and what to do. Click on the claim button to get an additional $100 and 1 epic crate. A little something for new players and players that can afford to open the crate. :) - Lootcrate change Now, when you get a duplicate item, you get money + 1 chest of the next tier. Before that it was just money. The money amount has not been changed, just a bonus chest added. Thank you Rommel for the suggestion! Many other great suggestions have been made. But implementing them will take more time and consideration. Thank you a |
| 1.0 - Complete game remake | 2021-02-14 | The next major update is finally done. Version 1.0 is now live. In january I decided to completely remake the entire game from scratch. That meant deleting everything from the game and starting from zero. I did it because I was not happy with certain features and mechanics. I wanted things to be one way, but the old versions code and how everything was build made it impossible to implement the way I wanted it to be. So, a complete rework it was. Now I am pretty happy with the state of the game, enough to call it a fully release instead of an early version. This does not mean that I am done. More updates will come. Important: The new version w |
| Version 0.010 - More employees and prestige rebalance | 2020-12-30 | Thank you jesperds for pointing out that the current prestige and gang heat system needed some re-balance and rework. ːdw_yesː I think that everything is better now, but it's still a work in progress. So, what changed: - Prestige Old: 1 prestige = $1000 New: 1 prestige = $10 000 Enemy calculations Old: lets say if you had a prestige level of 10 (so old $10 000) it would either give you a random number of enemys between 4 to 6 or see how many you have and add +1 to it. This sucked, because you could have 8 thugs at a low level and the system could give you 9 at random or 3 some other time. New: Fixed amount of enemies till prestige level 50. T |
| V0.009 - Small update - Tutorial and balance | 2020-12-28 | Version 0.009 brings nothing special. I have finally added a tutorial to the game to make it easier on new players. Something that was requested since day 1 actually, but there was just a ton of other stuff to do. The tutorial gives enough information to get a new player started. I have color coded it, so the important stuff pops out. Hopefully so you can get the important information fast without the need to read the whole thing. I had originally other plans with the tutorial, but this will do for now. Also balanced the numbers a bit and fixed some issues. There was some stuff I missed with the last update. I will bring out small updates, fi |
| V0.008 - More upgrades and QOL changes | 2020-12-26 | Fixed an issue with the display of integrals. - The game was displaying money like $10.00 when buying drugs. Now it displays it as a $10. A small but very annoying issue. Same goes for money, sometimes it was $500, other times it was $500.00. -Changed the money display to shorten the amount of money displayed. So $10000 is now $10.000k Millions and billions are displayed the same way, the million plus 3 integrals behind. 30.011 million instead of $30011333 for example. It goes only to 999 billion and i doubt anyone would reach that far. - Fixed jobs not displaying any text of what job you are about to do next to the button. - Auto-Attack and |
| Major Update V0.007 - New UI and new combat system | 2020-12-23 | Update 0.007 is finally done. The UI, Gang Heat rework and balance update. First off, your savegame won't work in this new version because a lot has changed. So... I promised a custom savegame to people, but decided against it. Instead everyone will get 60 Respect when he starts the game. You can exchange it in the shop for $$. So everyone starts with $60000, no need to download savegames. I think this is way better and easier. Why respect and not straight up money? Because of the new prestige system. Combat is calculated based on it. The more prestige, the more enemies will attack you. Respect is not in that calculation. So you can exchange |
| Update 0.006 - The "Art" update | 2020-12-15 | Alright, so before I start talking about the new art/pictures, please keep the following in mind: I have to draw art with my mouse and keyboard.... I have a wacom drawing tablet, but its the old one where you draw and look at the screen, not the new expensive fancy one where you actually see what you draw. I tried... but can't get used to it. My lines look like trash. It's actually far more efficient, and clean to draw with the pen tool in photoshop. It's a great tool! The 3 drawings of the dead guy, prisoner and chemist were done this way... but first... it's slow... like really slow and second, it still looks like sh*t. I had to make a deci |
| Update 0.005 - Steam cloud saving and saving rework | 2020-12-14 | Implementing cloud saving was pretty high up on my to-do list, but also completely reworking the saving and loading system, mostly loading. Went from ~500 lines of code to ~1700 The old way of loading the game was very faulty, leading to crashes if the savegame failed to load or was edited or corrupted. Now instead of crashing it will just set the value to 0. Important for future updates. If you wish to disable cloud saving, then ask away in the discussion page, I would be happy to help. Not sure why anyone would want to, but one never knows. This update brings nothing noticeable new to the game, but it does a lot behind the scenes. Changed: |