1.2.80
2024-04-04
New Content/Features
- Building Shop
-- Vote Shop is now called Building Shop
-- Daily free building in the Shop
-- Rotating daily and weekly Landmark in the Shop
-- Revamped Shop screen
Bug Fixes
- Fixed building drag and placement issues
- Fixed mismatching dashed land border lines on Campaign and Trials maps
- Fixed visual issues with Daily Login Bonus
1.2.70
2024-03-07
Hey Mayors! This release brings exciting enhancements to our city-building experience. From quicker building placement with Quick Build to optimized rendering for vehicles and pedestrians, get ready for smoother gameplay! Additionally, Civic buildings now boast faster-growing ranges of effect, allowing for more strategic variety in placement. Explore new ways to optimize your city layout and dominate the skyline!
Happy gaming!
New Content/Features
Quick Build
Introducing Quick Build! Now, building your dream city is faster and more convenient than ever. Here’s what’s new:
- Tap or Click to Spawn: Simply tap or click on a building card, and watch it materialize on the map. You can still drag the building if you like.
- Faster Placement: Quickly add multiple copies of the same building.
- Hold for Tips: Need guidance? Hold a building to access its tooltip and learn more.
- Unlock: Quick Build unlocks the first time you are in a city level 5 or above.
Building Range Growth
We’ve supercharged building ranges! High-level buildings now wield even more power, allowing for greater variety in strategic placement. Explore new ways to optimize your city layout.
Unified Daily and Limited Time Login
Say goodbye to confusion! We’ve merged the Daily and Limited Time login into a single, streamlined system.
- There will be a new login reward set available every 2 weeks.
- We have increased the rewards since they now only come from a single set.
General Improvements
- Oh Snap? Buildings now are better at snapping to corners during placement.
- Are you ready to enjoy smoother gameplay? We have optimized vehicle and pedestrian rendering to improve performance.
Bug Fixes
- Upgrade arrows are now hidden while placing a building.
- Fixed a rare case where a building would get stuck during the upgrade tutorial.
1.2.60
2024-02-15
Hey Mayor!
This update includes various bug fixes and improvements.
General Improvements
- Adjustments to how UI items are shown in-world. You may notice some adjustments to how things are scaled.
- Building feedback is now displayed in a more efficient way to improve performance.
1.2.51
2024-02-05
Hey Mayors,
This update fixes the crash on Alpine maps.
1.2.3
2023-11-16
Hey Mayor!
This update includes various bugs fixes and improvements.
New Content/Features
- New Project reminders in the Build Mode screen
General Improvements
- Updated onboarding
-- Players can now skip the early tutorial
-- Added clarity to the tutorials
- Improvements and fixes to how we check GameCenter connectivity
- Updated Mac icon
Bug Fixes
- Various fixes for building visual issues
- Various translation fixes
- Fix for wrong data appearing in Sandbox mode configuration after starting a city
- Fix for to show the logo to exit Photo Mode
- Mountain City now has working beaches
- Fix issue where taxes would show an incorrect amount
1.2.2
2023-10-12
Hey Mayor!
This update includes various bugs fixes and improvements.
General Improvements
- Server side improvements and optimizations
- Various fixes to support iPhone 15 and iOS 17
- Clearer instructions for when disconnected from GameCenter
Bug Fixes
- Fix for black bars on some iPads
- Fix missing road texture and props in Chinatown District
- Fix for blurry text when anti-aliasing is enabled on some devices
- Prevent the Inbox from automatically opening over the screen
1.2.1
2023-09-25
Hey Mayors!
This is a smaller update with a lot of bug fixes and an updated merge screen.
General Improvements
- Card merge screen now shows a breakdown of building counts to make merge easier to understand.
- tvOS will now warn players when there is no network connection.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with sandbox and trials maps not loading.
- Building sort toggle now saves correctly.
- Fix an issue where buildings would not receive a good or service despite being in range.
- Various building bugs and visual issues fixed.
- Removed the long text that would occasionally show up on the building model swap button.
- Cameras will now move correctly around all maps.
- L2 button on controllers now correctly adjust camera interactions.
1.2.0
2023-09-07
Hey Mayors!
New Content/Features
- Play the game your way in Sandbox Mode
-- Choose from 3 preset settings or customize your settings the way you want.
-- Adjust Abandonment, Approval, Taxes, Projects and more.
-- Select custom policies to apply to your city.
-- New Sandbox Only map
-- Unlock all maps by progressing in the campaign.
- Quickly customize your city with the bulk paint and bulldoze options in the building tray.
- You can now choose the building model when placing a building with multiple visual options.
-- This is available when placing the building and also in the paint mode.
General Improvements
- New home screen layout to support sandbox mode.
- Game will return to the building tray after tapping on a building when the tray is open.
- Add a settings option to sort all earned buildings to the back of the building list.
- Revamp the game’s local notifications to be more relevant and better scheduled.
- Server update to ensure more stable trials scoring and server reliability.
- Simplified the graphics settings screen.
-- Added a zoom setting and higher max zoom option.
- Improve logic and messaging when a player is disconnected from GameCenter.
Balancing
- Adjust tuning for daily tasks to be easier to complete each day.
- Increase the starting coins to 100k from 50k to make the first few city levels easier.
- Adjust pacing on abandonment bubbles to ensure there is more time between issues.
Bug Fixes
- Various fixes to improve save syncing across devices.
- Fix support for Nimbus+ controllers.
- Fix issue that prevented Chapter 2 of the story from playing.
- Fix issues with cars pointing in the wrong directions.
- Fix issue with wrong bubble image showing up
- Fix issue where buildings are not immediately refunded after a trial ends.
- Various fixes for Right to Left text displays in game.
- Various building visual fixes.
1.1.1
2023-08-03
Hey Mayors!
This update includes various bugs fixes and improvements.
Balancing
- Adjusted the radius for walkability
- Prevent buildings from entering the smoking state
Bug Fixes
- Fixed incorrect task for Chinatown district
1.1.0
2023-07-24
New Content/Features
- New special Daily Login rewards that have limited time rewards scheduled all year
- Controller support is vastly improved with shortcuts added across most of the game
- Chinatown and Carnival districts are now unlocked in campaign mode along with better tuning
- Home screen now displays City Pass progress and various news items
General Improvements
- A CTA when tasks are ready to collect in the city view.
- Trials interface update to add clarity to the rules and rewards
- Rebalanced the decisions
- Reconnection spinners now pause the game
- Game will no longer start projects that can’t be completed on a map
- Add zones data layer to various palettes
- Add an “i” button to the Vote Shop items so you can look at details before purchasing
Balancing
- Improvement for how pollution is calculated for a building
- Increase the score from tapping shopping bags and boxes in City Challenges
- Adjust pacing of timed projects
- Adjust tax rate
- Increase coins from bailouts
- Adjust the early game building limits to improve the pacing of the first 15 levels
- Minor reduction to the effect of the Bus Terminal on Bus Stops
- Fire inspector now targets factories
- Fires are now slightly more likely to happen in more buildings
- Improvements to the various policies in Trials maps to have more consistent tuning
Bug Fixes
- Various typo fixes
- Prevent cases where the city would load into a blank map
- Vehicles now rotate correctly when going over a bridge
- Fix issue where buildings would not complete construction when offscreen
- Merging buildings will no longer reduce progress on the Build Buildings project
- Reduce pollution project now uses a more accurate stat
- Prevent factories from having negative pollution
1.0.4
2023-06-23
Hey Mayors!
This update includes various bugs fixes and improvements.
Bug Fixes
- Play the correct story intro for Sun Islands
- Fix various unlocalized text strings and typos
- Fix issue where Apple TV could not load a save from iOS
- Fix for annoying SFX loop
- Fix for server reset dialog when the game is paused for too long
- Fix for landmarks not being refunded to players
1.0.3
2023-06-08
Hey Mayors!
This update includes various bugs fixes and improvements.
General Improvements
- Issue bubbles will now clear faster when needs are met.
- Allow purple buildings to be auto-merged.
Balancing
- Daily tasks are now easier to complete.
Bug Fixes
- Syncing progress on iPad and iPhone now works correctly.
- Fix for low resolution on Mac.
- Land unlock pin on dry plains now correctly appears.
1.0.2
2023-05-25
Hey Mayor!
We continue to hear you and our community and we are happy bring you some of the most requested fixes. In the 1.0.2 version, unlocking land works correctly and you won't have issues growing your city anymore! Besides that, we continue to improve the residential/shopping/industrial balance so you shouldn't have issues fulfilling the needs of your workers and shoppers. We have also slowed down how often a bubble can appear over a building to give you more time to relax and enjoy your cities.
1.0.1
2023-05-12
Hey Mayors!
Thank you for being the first to play Cityscapes: Sim Builder! This update fixes a lot of the issues you kind people have spotted and reported.
It adds a daily login reward and achievements.
Stay tuned! More updates coming soon.
::::: Daily Login
- The daily login is now active. Come back each day to get a reward.
- As a reward for existing players you may get multiple rewards when you first update the game.
::::: The Fixes
- Issue with workers and shoppers that would lead to conflicting bubbles.
- Issue where project details would disappear.
- Various fire issues that would result in buildings getting stuck on fire.
- Disable the resolution drop-down selector on MacOS. Players should use the resolution slider to adjust render resolution.
- Other various bug fixes.
- Update support button in settings.