1.2.4 - The I swear this better be the actual social fame update- Update (Coming Very Soon)

Developer Note: I’d recommend waiting until 1.2.4 before playing. There are at least 2 game breaking bugs Found in 1.2.3. (Disappearing UI and Business Loading Error)

NEW FEATURES & ADDITIONS

Noir Murder Mystery Challenge Pushed to 1.2.4. Almost done, but needs more time for polish that will push this update further.

Premium Mode & Shop Additions:

• Premium mode players now have the option with a new life to select a skill of their choice to start at max level.

• New Custom Person has location split into two sections now:

  • Birth Locations (determines name generation, appearance, and known language*)

  • Current Location (will default to your current country and city, but you can change this option to make your friend/family member a long distance one!)

New Era Additions:

• A banner has been added to the new life page showing the current era and its' preview image. As of this update players wont have access to any other eras, but a medieval era beta will be selectable here in a future update for premium users to test. (All eras will be made available to free users when they reach a more finished and stable state)

New Career Additions (Some Careers added has requirements and features that will get more fleshed out in the very next update 1.3):

• Talk Show Host

• Reality TV Show Host

• Stand Up Comic

• Social Media Influencer

• Social Media Manager

New Country Additions :

• Afghanistan added

• Bulgaria added

• Indonesia added

• Iran added

• Iraq added

• Norway added

• Lithuania added

• Latvia added

• Estonia added

• Peru added

• Moldova added

Social Media & Fame Additions:

• ClipMobi now finally accessible.

• View Social Media feed of users

  • Comment and Interact with other users posts, videos, and clips to build rapport with other social media users and build up your own subscriber/follower count.

  • Share your favorite posts with your friends and families to help build your relationships with them.

• New Social Media Fame/Social Influencer Career Events:

  • Influencer created a diss track on you

• Hire yourself a Social Media manager who will help your videos and social media post have a better success rate along with increasing your chance of duets, collabs, and sponsorships.

• Social Media Friends

  • Interacting with comments has a chance to receive a friend request (or you can send your own too)

  • Building rapport with social media stars as they grow more popular means you can collab and grow together

Sports Additions:

• Baseball uniforms now have a cap

• Football uniform added

New Activity Additions:

• Comedy Clubs (similar functionality to local drama theater)

  • Watch Open Mic Night

  • Perform at Open Mic Night

  • Increase your “Comedy” skill which, might help you get comedy film/tv roles in 1.3.0

Family & Relationship Additions:

• Class Presidency is now visible when managing your child’s school.

  • Can encourage to continue running each year

  • Can encourage to take a rest and let someone else take over next class presidency.

• Players will now receive inheritance money from passed away grandparents if relationship is high enough with them.

• (Added to prevent Birthday Errors when continuing as child) Your children are now assigned a birthday upon birth.

  • If you are playing by year, the birthday will be 100% random.

  • If you are playing by season, the birthday will be random within the appropriate season. A Summer baby will of course have a Summer birthday.

House/Property Additions:

• Amenities Purchasable with yearly bonus effects to all occupants.

  • Different house types have different max number of amenities.

  • Strategize boosting perks & skills for you and your family members based on which amenities are on which house.

• New Purchasable House Types

  • Wooden Cottages

  • Farmhouse

  • Barn

  • A-Frame House

  • Mansions

• Houses can now be built yourself, you just have to buy an appropriate lot size.

  • Rented/Purchased rooms can not be modified until construction of a property is complete.

  • You can not occupy/live in a property that is not complete.

Political Additions:

• Spoken Languages are now visible in political page. So far just shows what countries will speak what language but functionality will come with Royalty Updates.

School Additions:

• Visit/Manage Dorm Room in University

  • Move into Dorm Rooms

  • Meet Dorm-mate

  • Throw Dorm Party

New Events:

• Long Lost Sibling (with possibility of it being a scam!)

• Get offered drugs at College Party

• Parents have given you your first phone!

Misc. Additions:

• Load Files page has been replaced with the table object and now has sortable categories by name, occupation, and year.

  • Developer Note: This change makes selecting and finding the save you want SO much easier when you have lots of saves but remember it is still a better practice to clean up and delete old save files you no longer use to get better performance.

• New Available Inventory Items (Mostly Preparation for future updates but there is still a chance to randomly be awarded one of these items with some functionality)

  • Nightstalker Pistol

  • Thunderclap LMG

  • Detective Defender (20s era Revolver)

  • Award Trophy

  • Knight’s Sword

• Firearms have murder action when interacting in inventory.

• When sent to jail any firearm in your inventory will be confiscated.

BUG FIXES AND QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

Premium Mode & Purchases Fix:

• Fixed a bug when trying to redeem

Game Optimizations:

• (iOS Specific) Enabled on-demand resources. iOS in recent update (1.2.3) may experience an even bigger hit to framerate. This was because a lot of content was moved to addressables to save memory but since “On-Demand Resources” was previously disabled it was loading everything intended for addressables at start-up (and throughout game)

  • Android already had this feature enabled.

• (GAME BREAKING BUG FIX) - This was a bug that was actually affecting my in dev files as well. It was deleting activities in modern era permanently. The effect isnt permanent for the android and iOS builds BUT it does remove activities until restart.

Inventory/Appearance Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug upon reloading where you were given a beard in your inventory (the icon is shown as a teddy bear), which you were able to gift or sell.

• Improvements to the blending of 3D and 2D character designs.

  • Reorganized which 3D models show up based on the 2D shown hair piece.

  • 2 additional 3D hair models were added to match their 2D counterparts.

  • Facial Hair (eyebrows in this case but 3D beards/moustaches to be added soon) now have the correct hair color.

  • Eye colors of 3d models now match 2D counterparts.

  • Fixed jackets not sizing properly with weight for male body types.

  • Fixed toddler eyes

• Some inventory items now can no longer be gifted to others.

  • Currently only applies to firearms but other item types might also see restriction as well. Illegal firearms gifting/sharing may be added in Crime Jobs Update.

• Inventory Items health/condition is now saved properly. No items take good use of the health value yet but the next updates will see more inventory item condition values having effect.

Family & Relationship Fixes:

• Fixed bug when befriending an NPC while having a conversation you were brought into the “Edit Person” menu.

• Players will now age up on the season of their birthday. (Saves made in updates prior will work as they had before aging with the new year.)

• Fixed bug with fertility where an NPC could still get pregnant even if one of the sexual partners has a fertility of 0.

• Fixed bug with next generations causing your child’s parents (your husband/wife/etc) to be erroneously turned into StepParents.

Saving/Loading Fixes:

• Added an additional check for business loading errors with previous version saves.

• Fixed core bug causing Business Simulator start ups

  • Was specifically due to an index error when loading up employees which is fixed but for 1.2.3 users avoid loading files/lives businesses with employees.

  • If you get halted by the business sim error, the business save is most likely still functioning properly and will work with no issues in 1.2.4.

Property/Housing Fixes:

• Fixed bug with renting homes, preventing possible tenants from showing up on the table

• Fixed missing “Select Tenant” button preventing tenants that did show up on table from being selected to be rented to.

• NPCs over the age of 18 will automatically help out with cleaning the house

• Houses now show different prices depending on the age of the house. (Older Houses will start off at a lower condition in exchange for a better price)

  • In addition: selling your house in a future date might also mean loss in value.

  • Current rate is -$5000 a year, but depending on feedback may be rebalanced.

• Fixed bug where rent was shown as $0 even after getting a successful popup message after changing.

• House Profiles now show total rent collected from all occupants in summary page.

• Fixed bug that caused your houses to all get replaced into brand new houses when continuing onto the next generation when one of your parents are still alive and it showed you as occupants of all of them.

Sports Fixes:

• Fixed index error when hiring a new coach

• Fixed fighting minigame characters being off screen

• Fixed duplicate minigame models being stored off screen even after fighting was finished, resulting in slowdowns and crashes

• Fixed scaling of children-age fighters in fighting minigame

• Fixed martial arts outfits and fighting input bugs for Karate, Jiu Jitsu, etc.

Social Media/Fame Fixes:

• (Backwards Compatibility Fix) Fixed bug preventing Photogram, MobileLive and other social media platforms from no longer working when playing an older save. (Bald Saves)

• Social media UI have had a total overhaul. UI more represents a mobile app/feed while still using MobileLife’s modular UI pieces.

• Posting Photogram posts success is influenced by factors depending on the chosen post type.

  • Selfies and Seductive Photos (Sexy Pic & Thirst Traps were combined since its essentially the same thing) are influenced by characters’ appearance value

  • Posting artwork gets a boost in popular depending on “painting” skill.

  • “Funny Meme” boosted by comedy skill and charisma.

• Added an age filter for the “Seductive Photo” option for posting on Photogram.

Political Fixes:

• Fixed bug preventing you from meeting with leaders from other countries.

• Fixed bug preventing you from interacting with a Cabinet Member that you brought in personally.

• Palestine missing cities added

• Public apologies previous weren’t having effect on your approval.

• Fixed bug with imprisoning protestors and “shoot protestors” order that automatically resulted in you losing your position 100% of the time.

• “Shoot Protestors” action has been fixed. It was calling the wrong function and repeating the “imprison prisoners” action previously.

• Fixed bug with Stepping down from leadership, which kept you in the same menu allowing you to still take actions on protestors despite not having a position in office anymore.

• Removed headers on the tables in Manage Country action since they were just adding unnecessary blank space.

• Fixed several bugs preventing any progress in Alliances/Hostilities for new countries that haven’t had an ambassador sent over yet (country hasn’t been added to your saves’ simulation).

• Countries added in previous update have now fixed their missing names. (Which results in names being chosen from a long list of general names instead of one specific to the country.)

• Income Taxes can no longer be set higher than 100%

• Population and Federal Reserves amount is now formatted in shorthand (e.g. 1.4b, 2.3m, 1.3k)

• Fixed bug with changing Free Education policy (the voting was the opposite of the one you chose. So players wanting to change to get free education were getting accepted to keep no free education.)

• Fixed a bug preventing some saves from continuing onto the next year when they are the current president/leader.

• Fixed bug with submitting policies for Travel and Law based policies.

• Fixed policy bug with “No Prison” policy. If the country has been assigned with the “No Prison” policy, any crime you are caught and charged with will now result in a fine.

Misc. Bug Fixes and Changes:

• (Modern Era) new life random year is now more favored towards the early 2000’s rather than in the 1900’s, so non-premium players can experience social media functionality more commonly.

• Fixed bug with Mothers and Fathers’ transitioning into StepMothers and StepFathers when you continue as child.

• Fixed Progress bar percentage value in reading minigame.

• Fixed New Life bug, where a random city was chosen by the game outside the range of available cities causing an error and your new life to merge with your old save.

• (Backward Compatibility) Fixed bug with older saves (the bald saves) that caused an error when you tried to attend the hair salon.

• Assault action now has type of attack “Punch”, “Kick”, “Headbutt”, etc.

• Fixed bug when getting caught attempting to murder someone the popup would close automatically, allowing you to freely murder people with no chance of doing time.

• Fixed murder bug when choosing to murder a random stranger and you have a younger sibling under 18 they get murdered instead.

• Gem Amount moved to below “Shop” button so it is visible in most menus and also makes room for the below change:

• Current Year (and season if in seasonal progression) shown now on timeline page to keep better track of time.

• Fixed the pregnancy event (random popup that occured when aging up) where selecting to keep the baby didn’t always result in a pregnancy.

• Minor optimizations.

*Developer Side Note: Languages are being added to the code in preparation for the Royalty Update. Characters will start having in their skills of known languages but it will not have any functionality until the Royalty Update. Would love some suggestions on different features/limitations for languages and being in a country whose language you do not speak.