GearCity 1.22 Progress Thread

[Eric.B]

Hey Eric,

hope you've had a wonderful christmas, quality time with your family and more of that stuff people say around this time of the year *yawn* and so on and on

Thanks! And you as well.

(Although working on my laptop is not so fun... Shouldn't have been so cheap and spent $300 instead of $200 when I bought it!)

I think i'll love the unlimited playtime feature and it opens up so many oppurtunities for the "late game" of GearCity. Do you think with the upcoming modding tools it will be possible to create a somewhat "Modded Version of the upcoming Future" with things like newspaper entries, maybe wars, new companys, new technology to research, new fuel types, racing series, marketing options, branch and factory sizes, map changes (like population, city names, regions (from wars maybe?) etc.) ???

Most certainly. And I already have the UI layouts designed for Map systems and about 90% done on the City Editor.

Pretty much everything in the game stored in xml files are modifiable or will be, very shortly. The only time limitations we have right now is pre-1900, but I could always go through and the same thing I did to unlimited time for pre 1900 time.

Outside of that, you can pretty much make your own tycoon game out of the mod tools as long as the unmoddable stuff (UI/Formulas/Stats) make sense for it. (Hopefully the contracting system will be improved enough in v1.23 to allow for more modability there as well.)

Unlimited still needs quite a bit of testing to make sure it's not buggy.