Shopping Tycoon — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Update to fix connection problems! | 2020-08-02 | Hi, we have just released a new update that is focused on fixing, above all, some initial connection problems that some players are having. If someone continues to have any kind of problem, please report it through the game forums on Steam. Best regards! DreamsSoftGames |
| Update 1.083 released! | 2018-09-25 | Update 1.083 released: NEW CONTENT: - Added "unattended shelving" icon (shelf outside the working area of stocker employees). - New warning message: "unattended shelf in some floor". - New "parking block model" with yellow color lines. - Added info: an icon will show the current money (cash and card) when a customer buy something. - Added info: "no buy" ico showing "product price" and "current money" when a customer don't buy something (no enough money). - Adaptation to the new Unity particle system. - Added "cancel" contracts button in "Courier menu". - Added "open/close" info in main doors. - Added anthem of Russia when Putin visits your ma |
| Update 1.081 released: more game info! | 2018-03-22 | Update 1.081 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - Added "info tutorial" in main menu: some players wanted to be able to consult tutorial messages during the game. - Added more extensive and detailed tutorial information in order to explain some new aspects incorporated into the game in the latest updates. - Added an information icon in the upper left corner of some menus with information on its function and purpose. - Added some info pop-up texts in some menus and buttons. - Added agnoledments section in credits menu with steam community active users. Thanks for your help!. - Improvements in "warning message system": no warning message if food, wc, c |
| Update 1.081 released: more game info! | 2018-03-22 | Update 1.081 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - Added "info tutorial" in main menu: some players wanted to be able to consult tutorial messages during the game. - Added more extensive and detailed tutorial information in order to explain some new aspects incorporated into the game in the latest updates. - Added an information icon in the upper left corner of some menus with information on its function and purpose. - Added some info pop-up texts in some menus and buttons. - Added agnoledments section in credits menu with steam community active users. Thanks for your help!. - Improvements in "warning message system": no warning message if food, wc, c |
| Update 1.080 released: No more sleep in the middle of the hall! | 2018-03-19 | Update 1.080 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvements - STAFF: No more sleeping standing in the middle of the halls of your mall. Now the staff who are tired or whom we give the order to rest will look for a "only staff" door and they will rest inside. - STAFF MENU:Added an icon in the "staff manager" menu that will indicate when the staff are inside the "only staff" room and when they are going to rest or returning to their work floor (in these cases icon will flash). FIXED BUGS: - Fixed bug: The staff upgrades were only effective if you left the game and reloaded it. From now on, this staff upgrades will be immediate. - Fixed bug: the n |
| Update 1.080 released: No more sleep in the middle of the hall! | 2018-03-19 | Update 1.080 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvements - STAFF: No more sleeping standing in the middle of the halls of your mall. Now the staff who are tired or whom we give the order to rest will look for a "only staff" door and they will rest inside. - STAFF MENU:Added an icon in the "staff manager" menu that will indicate when the staff are inside the "only staff" room and when they are going to rest or returning to their work floor (in these cases icon will flash). FIXED BUGS: - Fixed bug: The staff upgrades were only effective if you left the game and reloaded it. From now on, this staff upgrades will be immediate. - Fixed bug: the n |
| Update 1.079 released: Refilling shelves and putting out fires! | 2018-03-16 | Update 1.079 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvements - STOCK CLERKS: as the community has asked us through the forums, if a shelf contains a single product, stock clerks only buy this product when refill this shelf. - SHELF MENU: If a shelf contains a single product, when you open the "shelf menu" this last product will be displayed. - fire alarm volume fx will be the same as the volume of the anti-theft alarm. It can be modified from the "settings menu". - IA Improvements: maintenance workers: putting out fires (search of the nearest fire extinguisher in the same floor. Not everyone will look for the same extinguisher in different floor |
| Update 1.079 released: Refilling shelves and putting out fires! | 2018-03-16 | Update 1.079 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvements - STOCK CLERKS: as the community has asked us through the forums, if a shelf contains a single product, stock clerks only buy this product when refill this shelf. - SHELF MENU: If a shelf contains a single product, when you open the "shelf menu" this last product will be displayed. - fire alarm volume fx will be the same as the volume of the anti-theft alarm. It can be modified from the "settings menu". - IA Improvements: maintenance workers: putting out fires (search of the nearest fire extinguisher in the same floor. Not everyone will look for the same extinguisher in different floor |
| Update 1.077 released: IA improvements and auto-rest option! | 2018-03-10 | Update 1.077 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvementes - employees: Added configurable "auto-rest option" in "STAFF MENU". Now your employees will rest automatically when they reach the highest level of fatigue, but you will can set the fatigue level from which employees will automatically rest. - IA Improvements - customers: better search of "wc free" and fewer complaints about occupied toilets. - IA Improvements - customers: better search of "cash register": First, we look for a cash register free. If only there are occupied cash registers, the previous game version was searched randomly. Now, game search for the busy cash register with |
| Update 1.077 released: IA improvements and auto-rest option! | 2018-03-10 | Update 1.077 released: IA IMPROVEMENTS: - IA Improvementes - employees: Added configurable "auto-rest option" in "STAFF MENU". Now your employees will rest automatically when they reach the highest level of fatigue, but you will can set the fatigue level from which employees will automatically rest. - IA Improvements - customers: better search of "wc free" and fewer complaints about occupied toilets. - IA Improvements - customers: better search of "cash register": First, we look for a cash register free. If only there are occupied cash registers, the previous game version was searched randomly. Now, game search for the busy cash register with |
| Update 1.076 released: Deliveries info menu! | 2018-03-06 | Update 1.076 released: - Deliveries Menu added: added a button on main menu (on bottom of screen) with deliveries info. A new menu that shows info about information about the orders of products and the status of deliveries, assigned courier company, elapsed time since the order was placed, number of products requested,... Clicking on each delivery record will show a list of the ordered products, the cost price and the sale price of the shelf where they will be stored. - Merchandise delivery information system: when you click on a shelf (delivery status and time elapsed). It will show you information about the amount of merchandise pending del |
| Update 1.076 released: Deliveries info menu! | 2018-03-06 | Update 1.076 released: - Deliveries Menu added: added a button on main menu (on bottom of screen) with deliveries info. A new menu that shows info about information about the orders of products and the status of deliveries, assigned courier company, elapsed time since the order was placed, number of products requested,... Clicking on each delivery record will show a list of the ordered products, the cost price and the sale price of the shelf where they will be stored. - Merchandise delivery information system: when you click on a shelf (delivery status and time elapsed). It will show you information about the amount of merchandise pending del |
| Update 1.073 released: adjustable "working area" bounds! | 2018-02-27 | Update 1.073 released: - Now you can move the "working area" bounds of your staff. You can make them cover a larger working area (so you will need fewer employees and you will pay less salaries) or concentrate them on a smaller working area (this will make them more effective and serve their jobs more quickly, but you will need more employees). - Fixed bug: cleaner animation was not running. Update 1.074 released: - Tutorial updated with info about "working area" system. We continue working!!! Best regards! |
| Update 1.073 released: adjustable "working area" bounds! | 2018-02-27 | Update 1.073 released: - Now you can move the "working area" bounds of your staff. You can make them cover a larger working area (so you will need fewer employees and you will pay less salaries) or concentrate them on a smaller working area (this will make them more effective and serve their jobs more quickly, but you will need more employees). - Fixed bug: cleaner animation was not running. Update 1.074 released: - Tutorial updated with info about "working area" system. We continue working!!! Best regards! |
| Update 1.072 released: Cash registers queues organization! | 2018-02-23 | Update 1.072 released: - Better cash registers queues organization! Customers will not crowd so much waiting to pay at the cash registers. They will try to respect a waiting queue. - Added free / full indicator to cash registers. - Smaller "pending order" icons (to improve visibility of your products. At the moment only on clothing shelves) - Smaller "customers icons notifications" (to improve visibility of your mall). - Fixed bug: some customers passing into the shop through the outside wall where no door exist. - Fixed bug: Some of the icons are missing from the menu bar (bus,taxi, deals). We continue working. We have a lot of community sug |
| Update 1.072 released: Cash registers queues organization! | 2018-02-23 | Update 1.072 released: - Better cash registers queues organization! Customers will not crowd so much waiting to pay at the cash registers. They will try to respect a waiting queue. - Added free / full indicator to cash registers. - Smaller "pending order" icons (to improve visibility of your products. At the moment only on clothing shelves) - Smaller "customers icons notifications" (to improve visibility of your mall). - Fixed bug: some customers passing into the shop through the outside wall where no door exist. - Fixed bug: Some of the icons are missing from the menu bar (bus,taxi, deals). We continue working. We have a lot of community sug |
| Update 1.071 released: delimited working areas for your staff! | 2018-02-19 | Update 1.071 released: - Added working areas system for your staff. Each employee will have a limited range of action and only will move and work into their working area. A color will define each employee type (when you activate "staff menu"). This will make it easier to identify areas where there is no employee to service them. Mantenance staff don't have a working área. They will move through all the building floors. - Fixed bug that causes that stock clerks don't work when you had less that 4000$ (minimum money balance to buy gender to fill the shelves). Now, minimum is 1000$. But they continue transporting boxes from the warehouse and ref |
| Update 1.071 released: delimited working areas for your staff! | 2018-02-19 | Update 1.071 released: - Added working areas system for your staff. Each employee will have a limited range of action and only will move and work into their working area. A color will define each employee type (when you activate "staff menu"). This will make it easier to identify areas where there is no employee to service them. Mantenance staff don't have a working área. They will move through all the building floors. - Fixed bug that causes that stock clerks don't work when you had less that 4000$ (minimum money balance to buy gender to fill the shelves). Now, minimum is 1000$. But they continue transporting boxes from the warehouse and ref |
| Update 1.070 released! | 2018-02-13 | Update 1.070 released: - Added a button in "settings menu" to make transparent or remove the bus stop, subway and parking exit. (They don't block the mall view). - Added a button in "settings menu" to control the spycam sounds volume. - stock clerks only worked when shelves was 50% empty. In this update they work harder (when shelves be 75% empty). - Improvements in warning messages system - Improvements in characters animations sequence when speed changes (in older versions, characters who were standing without walking were encouraged). - Improvements in the cash registers system and now customers will take longer to complain. - Customers wi |
| Update 1.070 released! | 2018-02-13 | Update 1.070 released: - Added a button in "settings menu" to make transparent or remove the bus stop, subway and parking exit. (They don't block the mall view). - Added a button in "settings menu" to control the spycam sounds volume. - stock clerks only worked when shelves was 50% empty. In this update they work harder (when shelves be 75% empty). - Improvements in warning messages system - Improvements in characters animations sequence when speed changes (in older versions, characters who were standing without walking were encouraged). - Improvements in the cash registers system and now customers will take longer to complain. - Customers wi |
| Update 1.066 released! | 2018-01-25 | Update 1.066 released: - Prevention of overlapping on-screen menus in different screen resolutions. - Improvements in the refrigeration machine menu (it will allow access to lighting and refrigeration menus and the circular menu selector can be used to modify the operating speed). - More realism in the electric generator. In the menu, the needle will tremble more intensely the higher the percentage of operation. If you exceed 100% will start to smoke from the generator to warn you that you need to increase the power. - Improvements in the placement of clothing in male clothing manikins solving a visualization failure. - Changes in the names o |
| Update 1.066 released! | 2018-01-25 | Update 1.066 released: - Prevention of overlapping on-screen menus in different screen resolutions. - Improvements in the refrigeration machine menu (it will allow access to lighting and refrigeration menus and the circular menu selector can be used to modify the operating speed). - More realism in the electric generator. In the menu, the needle will tremble more intensely the higher the percentage of operation. If you exceed 100% will start to smoke from the generator to warn you that you need to increase the power. - Improvements in the placement of clothing in male clothing manikins solving a visualization failure. - Changes in the names o |
| New content added in update 1.060! | 2017-12-22 | Update 1.060 released: In this version we added new content: some new textures of floors and walls, new decoration items, colored lights and new lamps, escalators and shelves with a greater variety of colors, ... With this update we hope to continue expanding the possibilities of customization of your malls. Our best wishes! |
| New content added in update 1.060! | 2017-12-22 | Update 1.060 released: In this version we added new content: some new textures of floors and walls, new decoration items, colored lights and new lamps, escalators and shelves with a greater variety of colors, ... With this update we hope to continue expanding the possibilities of customization of your malls. Our best wishes! |
| Update released: "open/close button" | 2017-12-04 | Update 1.057 released: This version include: - "Open/close" button added: if you need you can open and close your mall when you want. Customers will go to cash registers and they will pay for their purchases. Some players had requested this feature or the possibility to customize the opening/closing time. We have chosen the option to open/close button because it allows much more flexibility and freedom to the player. - Since the last news we have released 10 updates that have been improving the delivery of goods and order management and fixing some bugs. - Now we continue working on new content to expand the possibilities of customizing your |
| Update released: "open/close button" | 2017-12-04 | Update 1.057 released: This version include: - "Open/close" button added: if you need you can open and close your mall when you want. Customers will go to cash registers and they will pay for their purchases. Some players had requested this feature or the possibility to customize the opening/closing time. We have chosen the option to open/close button because it allows much more flexibility and freedom to the player. - Since the last news we have released 10 updates that have been improving the delivery of goods and order management and fixing some bugs. - Now we continue working on new content to expand the possibilities of customizing your |
| Update released: Closing Time and achievements! | 2017-10-26 | Update 1.047 released: This version include: - "Closing time" modified: Now at closing time (20:00 hours) customers will start to go to cash registers (make sure you have enough or they will get angry!). At 00:00 hours the mall will open again, but, if you want, you will can advance the opening time when your mall be empty of customers. - Added "mouse and keys sensitive" option in "Settings menu" (for scenery scroll). - Added confirmation message with timer when you press esc key to exit the game. - Achievements fixed! some graphics fixed and also an error that made that the achievements were lost. - Fixed some bugs. |
| Update released: Closing Time and achievements! | 2017-10-26 | Update 1.047 released: This version include: - "Closing time" modified: Now at closing time (20:00 hours) customers will start to go to cash registers (make sure you have enough or they will get angry!). At 00:00 hours the mall will open again, but, if you want, you will can advance the opening time when your mall be empty of customers. - Added "mouse and keys sensitive" option in "Settings menu" (for scenery scroll). - Added confirmation message with timer when you press esc key to exit the game. - Achievements fixed! some graphics fixed and also an error that made that the achievements were lost. - Fixed some bugs. |
| Update released: New Deals Menu! | 2017-10-19 | Update 1.046 released: This version include: - Added "Deals menu". As you unlock categories, you will can assign discount or increment percentages to all shelves in the same category (food, sports,...) - Improvements in path finding of workers men in some building architectures. - Workers men: Better distribution of the work for the repair of electrical faults. - Use the center button (wheel) of the mouse to scroll in some menus of the game. - Fixed some bugs. |
| Update released: New Deals Menu! | 2017-10-19 | Update 1.046 released: This version include: - Added "Deals menu". As you unlock categories, you will can assign discount or increment percentages to all shelves in the same category (food, sports,...) - Improvements in path finding of workers men in some building architectures. - Workers men: Better distribution of the work for the repair of electrical faults. - Use the center button (wheel) of the mouse to scroll in some menus of the game. - Fixed some bugs. |