The car company tycoon game Cars Incorporated has received a bugfix and UI improvements update today, bringing it to version 0.11. A playable alpha-demo can be downloaded on the homepage.
List of changes:
New Features
- Adjustable numeric values can now be clicked and edited directly (prices, number of workers, etc)
- The month end ledger displays the number of new messages beside the corresponding icon
- The order of messages in the office and projects in the research department can now be reversed with a new button, so that the newest ones will be shown first
- Factory lines and sales spots can now be turned on and off to pause production or prevent new orders on your cars temporarily
- Setting up a production takes 3 months now and costs 1/10 of the construction of a new level 1 factory line
Other changes
- The text of input fields can now be clicked directly in order to edit it
- Cars with extremely high prices lose customers rapidly
- The demand for cars offered below their constructions costs will rise a lot
- Cars that are one of a kind will now be rated against all other cars in the region
- Some texts in the tutorial have been optimized
- Messages are now marked as NEW individually and will be unmarked when you click on them
- Thumbnails of cars will now be displayed in the car list of the research screen
- A new button will link to this update info page for future updates
- 3 new company logos and 1 additional AI data set have been added
Fixed bugs
- Cars that are the only one of their type will no longer be bought for all prices
- Cars with extremely high prices will no longer be considered for the average price of a car as part of the demand calculations
- Parts can now be selected for cars in the science screen even when there are several pages of parts available
- A bug that caused cars to turn black on some systems when you changed their color has been fixed
- A bug causing cars in thumbnails to be off-center has been fixed
- Some small typos in the tutorial have been fixed
- A tutorial pointer that was in the wrong place due to the new button in the science screen has been repositioned
- An error that could lead to unfinished, copied cars winning awards has been fixed
- The costs for factory and prototype construction are now displayed correctly in the month end ledger again
