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Update 0.9.9

Autumn, Snow & Ice

The map now shows the seasons. Trees change colour in autumn, snow lies in winter, and lakes, rivers and cold coasts freeze. The ice grows and melts with the weather.

Play 0.9.9 Patch notes
3kinds of water that can freeze: lakes, rivers and the sea
−1.8 °Cwhere the sea freezes. Lakes and rivers freeze at 0 °C
+9%speed at 400x in a big colony
29changes in the patch notes
01Seasons

Autumn

Trees now change colour in autumn. They turn from the middle of August and have their full colour in October. The woods stay brown through the winter and turn green again in March and April.

Pines, olive trees and other evergreen trees stay green. The grass turns a little brown too, and the light changes with the season.

  • Leafy trees turn yellow, orange, red or brown. Reeds turn the colour of straw.
  • About one tree in four turns late. In October it is still half green.
Dunwick by its river and the sea in late October. The woods round the town are orange, red, gold and brown, with dark green pines among them. The grass is olive.
The same view in July. The woods and the grass are green.
Dunwick in July and in late October
02Winter

Snow and ice

Snow now lies on the land and in towns after it snows. It melts when the weather is warm. The water and the things you build stay clear of it.

In a cold winter, lakes, rivers and the sea can freeze. Thin new ice is dark, and the water shows through it. A few centimetres of ice make a pale sheet.

Fenwick in a mountain valley in early February. Snow lies on the land, the woods and the town, and on the peaks round it. The two lakes are frozen, pale grey and blue.
Fenwick in February
03Ice

Ice from the weather

The ice comes from the weather. Open water must first cool to its freezing point: 0 °C for lakes and rivers, −1.8 °C for the sea. Then the ice grows while the air stays cold. Snow on the ice makes it grow more slowly. Warm air and the sun melt it.

  • A lake freezes after one or two weeks of frost.
  • A river needs more cold, because its current carries the first ice away. In spring, rivers open before the lakes.
  • The sea freezes only along very cold coasts, over the shallow water near the shore.
  • Boats and water birds leave water that has frozen.
  • Old saves start with the ice of their climate on that day.
Cairnmouth between its river and a lake in early March. The snow has gone and the river is open, but the lake is still frozen. The woods are brown.
The same view in late January. Snow lies on the land and the woods, and the river and the lake are frozen.
Cairnmouth in late January and in early March
04Speed

Big colonies run faster

Big colonies run about 9% faster at 400x. A colony in its 40th year now runs at 220x. Before, it ran at 202x.

05Shop

Upgrade to the Founder edition

With the Game edition, the full game panel now offers the Founder edition for €10, the difference between the two. You keep the same code.

06Bug reports

A question on your bug report

A bug report can now get a question back. A lamp on the Bug report key and a note on the start screen show it, and you answer it in the bug report panel. A report still carries nothing that tells who you are.

07Patch notes

Everything in 0.9.9

Every change in this update, as it is listed on the changelog.

New 16
  • Trees change colour in autumn. Pines and other evergreen trees stay green.
  • The woods stay brown through the winter and turn green again in spring.
  • Grass turns a little brown in autumn and winter.
  • Snow now lies on the land and in towns after it snows. It melts when the weather is warm.
  • Lakes, rivers and the sea can freeze in a cold winter. The ice grows and melts with the weather.
  • Lakes freeze first. Rivers need more cold, and only very cold coasts freeze.
  • In spring, rivers open before the lakes.
  • Boats and water birds leave water that has frozen.
  • The light on the map changes with the season.
  • New Challenge, Metropolis: a large city on the coast with only fossil power. Make the most points in 20 years.
  • Teksas is closed. The Challenge window keeps its final leaderboard, with the top three on a podium.
  • Powerstate is now in German. All text in the game is translated.
  • A language switch is in the top right corner of the start screen and in Settings.
  • The German game shows money in euros.
  • With the Game edition, you can upgrade to the Founder edition for €10.
  • A bug report can now get a question back. You read and answer it in the game.
Better 5
  • Big colonies run about 9% faster at 400x.
  • The bug report asks for your browser, system and device if the problem is with graphics or speed.
  • The Challenge no longer refuses very high scores. A run far ahead of all others is checked by hand.
  • The start screen no longer shows the Buy me a coffee link.
  • Old saves load. Their lakes, rivers and coast start with the ice of their climate on that day.
Fixed 8
  • Zoom with a trackpad, a pinch or a fine mouse wheel is no longer too fast.
  • Towns showed grey boxes instead of houses in Safari, Firefox and Brave.
  • If the GPU renderer fails twice in a minute, the map now changes to the Standard renderer. Before, it flashed black again and again.
  • Export in a Challenge run now saves the Challenge, not your last colony.
  • A town you take on now gets at least 4 months after its own substation is built before fines start.
  • The Metropolis dynamic tariff now starts at $100 over the hourly price. It started at $0.
  • Keys at the top of a card no longer run off its edge. They move under the name.
  • The Development heading no longer covers its title.
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