Content Update 6: Railway Replacement Services, Charter Request, 20+ Events

Highlights

• **Random Events: **Over 20 new exciting events that can occur at any time, adding even more variety to the game, from rail replacement traffic, charter requests to employee illnesses

• When starting a new sandbox game, you can now choose starting money, research, subsidies and the map starting size

• The range of bus stops is now visually displayed

• Lines can now be activated and deactivated to pause them temporarily or not activate them immediately after construction

• New airport data: Only passenger airports are now displayed and the passenger numbers generated are dependent on the airport size

• During line construction, the line duration and the number of connected buildings and POIs are now displayed directly

• Editing lines now works reliably so that buses only use the new line and timetables from the next day onwards

Performance

• Performance improvements for high number of shifts and bus stops

• Fixed random lags under macOS

• Optimized loading time

• Disk space consumption of large savegames extremely optimised

Buses

• When buying a new bus you can now cancel the purchase in the paint shop

• Tank size of the buses is now displayed

• The standard buses supplied can now also be deactivated if you only want to use certain buses

• Fixed bug that buses disappeared in rare cases when transferring between depots

• Fixed bug that buses were not shown in depot in rare cases, although they were there

• Bug fixed that defective buses were sometimes not shown in the list of defective buses

• Fixed bugs with assigned parking spaces

• Defects on buses now occur more randomly

• Fixed bug that buses could get identical number plates

• Fixed bug that smoke particles were not displayed on modding buses

Staff

• Employee salary can now be adjusted for all employees with the same experience level with one click

• Bus drivers now no longer have core working hours but come to work for their shifts

• Fixed bug where staff were coming to work late from home

• Fixed bug where stress indicator was not working for staff in external depots

• Salary range of employees is now adjusted to their experience level

Map

• Added distinction between tram stops and train stops, which are now also taken into account in the passenger simulation

• When clicking on several buses / stops on the map at the same position, a selection box is now displayed

• Fixed bug that at some stops it was not shown correctly how many passengers were waiting

• Fixed bug that buses flew over the map in rare cases

• Optimised sorting of bus stops in different languages

• You can now zoom out further in the map view

Building

• Incorrect preview images of objects corrected

• Fixed error when building wall objects

• Fixed bug that armchairs could not be deleted and moved in the Service Centre

Shifts

• You can now manually cancel the shifts of buses on the map that they go directly back to the depot after completing the next tour

• Fixed bug that shifts were regenerated every day, even though there were no changes to the shifts and you had to reassign them every day

• Fixed bug that shifts were not started in time

• Fixed bug that shifts failed without reason

• Fixed bug that shifts were partially assigned to bus drivers from other depots and thus the shifts could not be carried out

• Fixed a bug when assigning vehicle groups to shifts

Lines

• Line colours can now be freely selected via a colour picker

• Visual improvements in the display of deleted or edited line courses

• After creating a line, the depot can now be selected directly

• Improvements in the feedback of the clients of public service lines

• When building lines, POIs now no longer count as reached by waypoints

Timetable

• Additional trip intervals available in the timetable

• Fixed bug that trip times were not displayed correctly when opening the timetable for the first time after an edit

• Bug fixed when copying timetables

• Fixed bug when updating timetables

• Fixed a bug when saving timetables

• Adding waypoints afterwards no longer resets the journey times

Miscellaneous

• It is now brighter at night

• The company name can now be changed

• Waiting time of the service centre is now displayed in the UI

• More data volume selection levels added to mobile phone contract

• New animation when unlocking a medal

• Running costs of external depots (rent and maintenance) are now partially subsidised (this may change the running costs if the subsidy rate changes)

• Balancing the rewards of tasks

• Fixed bug that text fields sometimes got focus for no reason

• Fixed graphic error in the financial overview

• Added error message when saving cannot be done due to a full hard drive

• Added confirmation messages before overwriting a savegame

• Weekdays are now displayed correctly in Chinese

• Fixed bug that F1 messages were not possible while the game was paused

• Fixed bug that postcodes were not found in some countries, e.g. Poland

• Fixed a bug that caused passengers to write bad reviews in spite of a very good overall rating.

• Many other small bug fixes and improvements

Note: With the new update, the initial loading of existing savegames may take longer once.

**We would like to thank you once more for 100% positive recent reviews and your ongoing support! **