LOGistICAL

LOGistICAL: Caribbean is now available.


LOGistICAL: Caribbean brings you many new puzzles.

* Planes. Lots of island hopping to get about.
* 20t, 40t and 80t trucks can drive empty on 8t roads and ferries.
* Varied Consumption Rates: Quite a few countries have different consumption rates. All these consumption rates are lower than average. It is kind of like a mini-Xmas, but definitely not as idle. Makes towns look pretty scary.


* Quarantines. Yes. They will make you think a bit.
* There are 27 countries in LOGistICAL: Caribbean spread across many islands. Not all countries are actually in the Caribbean.

 

Build #497
- Now showing non-completed towns that can have the potential to have the specific industry when pressing that industry on the industry window as small grey circles.
- Added the road (R) and industry (I) count to the money window (top center) for the current module. Mouse over will show the target values.

- Added ability for 20t, 40t and 80t trucks to travel empty on 8t roads (selected modules only - ie Caribbean).
- Set the air zones on the map as non-filled circles when a truck is selected and as solid disks when planes are selected
- Higher pay for town completion for certain regions (used within Caribbean)
- Increased the pace of Cottage Architect, House Architect and Building Architect
 

- Shortened the spikes on the globe for modules that you don't own (or are not installed). The crimson ones.
- Background colour for modules that have been created are now yellow on the globe
- Added the module name to the country if the country belongs to a module belongs with a different title (eg. Jamaica: Caribbean Islands)
- Updated the details of the modules (on the right hand side of screen) when you mouse over a country on the globe.
- Module title now sits below the game (LOGistICAL) title
- Country now appears below the flag
 

• A big thanks to the testers that help to get these new modules nicely balanced.
  
  A big thanks to all those that are out there every day helping others with their comments within the various forums and chat sites. You all make the game so much better.
  
  A big thanks to all the language translators that help so much.
  
  A big thanks to all the players that continue to play and enjoy the game which allows me to continue to bring new content and updates to the game.

LOGistICAL: ABC Islands is a free introductory game to the LOGistICAL world.


With 68 towns spanning 3 countries at the bottom of the Caribbean sea, LOGistICAL: ABC Islands brings you some of the basic game play.
 

Build #486 brings a new bunch of requested and other updates that are now available across all the LOGistICAL games/servers.


Summary:
- Ability for you to change the time saving interval in Settings (big game = big save)
- Manually save by clicking the save icon (top right)
- Save count down timer in front of the save text (bottom center)
- Enlarged yellow town circles
- Numbers on the yellow town circles when dragging vehicle
- Top Number: The number of resources that a town requires (>10 = star)
- Bottom Number: Approximate number of tons required for selected resource
- Lightened the light blue glow behind towns that have industries that will satisfy the town needs
- Added a line from the currently selected town to the town popup
- Added ABC Islands module
- Sound editing on the truck sounds
- Removed the continuous truck murmer when sound is on. Now as short truck sound
- Changed the "Level 3" goal to "Max Level" as some industries don't require a 3 tier upgrade (eg Tutorial)
- Dim the trucks in extra modules when playing more than one module at a time
- Approximate distance indicater when dragging a vehicle
- Updated the Flinders Island tutorial to include \"Basic Mechanics\" of game playing
- Set the Flinders Island industries to not require upgrading (except for the apple orchard, which is a tutorial)
- Fixed new airplane achievements that weren't popping
- Added Xmas2017 achievements to the ABC Islands module
- Added and Xmas2017 flag
- Updated the Tutorial flag
- Removed the constant text over the flags (bottom right), so they only appear on mouseover
- Fixed and highlighted blue the region on the town popup. Clicking will show status circles on the map
- More French Translation (thanks HunterBill)
- More Italian Translation (thanks Desangre)
- More Russian Translation (thanks Shylight)

A mini update to bring you some new requested features and also fix a few loose ends on the last release build (LOGistICAL: USA - Wisconsin).
 

There are now 9 different coloured pins you can use to pin a town.
Continue to click the pin at the top of the town popup to cycle through the colours and eventually back to none (unplucked red pin).
 

Nothing to do with the coloured pins mentioned above, these are pins scattered throughout the interface that you can mouse over to get the high scores, instead of them seemingly randomly popping up all over the place.


There are 7 High Score Pins, basically moving from left to right across the interface, getting more detailed with each pin.

They are represented in 3 different colors:
"Blue" - Towns, sorted by most towns descending, score desc, time taken asc
"Red" - Score, sorted by summed score descending
"Green" - Efficiency, sorted by highest efficiency descending (Town level only).

"G" - Global Blue, 
"M" - Current Module Blue
"R" - Current Region Blue
"C" - Current Sub-region Blue
"T" - Current Town Blue (sorted by date/time completed asc)
"S" - Score of the current Town Red *
"E" - Efficiency of the current Town Green *

* - only show up when the town is complete.

# - I have only just started using the region breakdown terminology of region/sub-region which is not a standard used across the globe nor LOGistICAL.
There are many breakdowns that could be used, for example: country/state, state/region, region/county, etc. In the past I have just avoided any terms where possible.
 

Within the Statistics screen (F2) you can hover over any of the 3 coloured columns to show the high scores of those modules, regions and towns.

The 3rd column, that was the same as the 1st column, is now sorted by number of towns, time taken and then score (prior to number of towns, score, time taken).

The far right thin column may display an "!". This indicates that your statistics score does not equal your High Score.
I am currently working on a process of syncing these values, which I hope to have out over the next week.
 

Not nerfing the whole of Russia's 5,838 towns, just one.

One town in the LOGistICAL: Russia module (Novyy Urengoy, Yamalo-Nenets Region, Ural, Russia) slipped through dev, past the testers and onto Live, being over twice the general allowed difficulty.

Usually we pick these up, but this module is so huge that no tester or player has completed the module after being released for over a month. I don't think it will be long now.

Thanks 737737 for pointing out its extreme level of difficulty.
 

A stretch of the top section of the town popup. It was getting a bit crowded up there.

A couple of fixes where the animations in the town popup appeared over the wrong icons.
 

This build is now released to all servers.

No new module this month with so many players still working their way through Russia. Lot of new stuff and build fixes...

LOGistICAL is built over many different games but all plays back to a single huge game, so should the high scores... and now they do.
I have built a LOGistICAL High Score server that will aggregate all your games to a single series of high scores. At this point all high scores are based on town completion. This can expand with player interest.

There are three types of High Scores over the Grand Total, each Module, each Region, each Semi-region and each Town. That is over 70,000 of them, all dynamically created, with includes your Rank in each.

There are three types of High Score tables...

This sorts by the number of towns completed and duration of play between the first and last towns.
This table is similar to the current ones on Steam but also include the duration of game play with the shortest first.
For Town high scores, it is by the date completed.

These tables sort descending on you aggregated score. To see how a score is calculated click on resource needs of a completed town.
Soon you will be able to replay maps or parts of maps (including specific towns), so you can improve your score.

Efficiency tables are sorted descending on your play efficiency.
Efficiency is the amount of resources at town requires divided by the amount of resources that you delivered.
Efficiency is only calculated at the Town level.

To get to the high scores, click on the left hand "Towns Completed Trophy" on the money window (F2) and hover over any of the blue, red or green columns. It may take a second to first download a result.
Click on any row to drill into the Module, Region and Sub-Region.
 

High score tables are now visible if you:
- mouse over the left trophy on the money window (total towns complete)
- mouse over the right trophy on the money window (module towns complete)
- mouse over the town title on the town window (current town)
- mouse over the sub-region title on the town window (sub-region towns complete)
- mouse over the regions title on the town window (regions towns complete)

At this point only towns of currently loaded modules are loaded into the statistics screen. I will soon include the towns when clicked on a sub-region.

Game data is uploaded to the server when the game is saved (every 2 minutes and upon X exit of the game).
Back dated game data is uploaded by the module at every save (2 minutes) until all modules have been uploaded. This is a once only process and once complete shouldn't happen again.
There is only 1 copy per SteamID per town, so any players that have multiple games running will only get the first uploaded. Subsequent uploads will fail with a data conflict.

There are many future things that can come out of these tables.
For example getting notified if you have moved up a place when completing towns. Being notified of interesting high score facts of other players. Tagging friends so you can see how they are doing.
 

Once you reach 50% towns completed within a Region, the icons of those not finished change from grey to red. If the town has an industry it will show purple.
 

A few new fixes for the Air Transport including:
- If you deliver to a town and achieve something (ie town finish, industry input full, road fixed), then the conveyor belt will auto retract to the airport, instantly.
 

The maps' overlay has been dimmed to show the underlying map better. Brighter in the day and darker at night.
 

Already, if you click on an incomplete region in the achievements window, it will show town circles indicating completion status for each town of that region.
This can now also be done by clicking the region title in the town popup window.

To turn the circles off, click a town on the map.
 

If you play multiple modules at once, the current non-played one will dim.
Towns with resources in other modules won't show up when hovered over.
 

The 1,2,3,4 hotspots for the multi-truck save were slightly out. Fixed.
 

The Xmas scores for completing towns often sit in the billions and even trillions, which throw out the overall grand total.
These scores are now divided by 1,000,000 so they sit better with the overall scores, especially the totals.
These will be evident from the start on the High Score tables. If they don't update on your statistics page, open the Xmas module and then save.
 

When upgrading industries at high game speeds, an 8t truck can't effectively complete 2 x 4t town upgrades.
This would most likely be due to the huge speeds blowing the cargo out of the top of the truck. Tarpaulins for the trucks should stop this (or a code tweak).
 

The menus where looking a bit worse for wear, so have been given a redo.
Money at the start was showing various incorrect values. Fixed
Money and Buttons window now showing up on startup. Fixed
 

There are many other smaller fixes as well.

This version is now available on LOGistICAL [beta] and LOGistICAL:Russia [beta]. Feel free to test it now.
The final version should be released over the next week.

LOGistICAL: South Africa released.


LOGistICAL: South Africa brings you a smaller module but with lots more puzzles to work through.

LOGistICAL: South Africa includes:
* 3 countries = South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
* Industry Lock puzzles
* 3 levels of Quarantines
* 6 capital cities (which means 6 lots of 2x speed ups)
* Over 300 towns to complete.

Fixes
Changes this build are mostly around back end fixes and the multi-truck selection:

* Mouse over on town and truck dims town if truck selected.
* A more solid foundation for the multi-truck select.
* Fixed a few drag issues with mult-truck where trucks already with cargo were being dragged to places that don't require that cargo.
* A few updates for L:California contracts.
* Function Keyboard shortcuts:
- F1 Help
- F2 Statistics
- F3 Settings
- F4 Trucks
- F5 Industries
- F6 Contracts/Achievements
- F7 Audit
* More translation updates in French and Russian
* Different coloured money highlights for the module you aren't playing (ie orange instead of yellow).

A big thanks to all those that have been testing all these updates already and also a thanks everyone for playing and keep up the great feedback.
A big thanks to the translators in all these languages. Excellent work.

This is a post build for the new "town needs" screen with circles plus a few mini updates.

* Reduced amount of text in the town popup
* Mouse over text popups for cargos and industries
* Enhanced mini pie charts with colour coding for industries and roads in town popup
* Fix to stop trucks teleporting with the "skip (T)" button
* Ability to show ALL the town icons across a map
* A few configuration controls on how the map looks
* A few fixes in various modules including Japan and Canada
* French and Russian updates

LOGistICAL grows some more in the USA, introducing New York.

New York is big.
It includes New York City, which happens to be the largest city in the United States.
It also includes the well known boroughs of New York City - the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
Then stretching all the way to Canada, there is Upstate New York consisting of over 1,000 other towns to complete with areas like Niagara Falls, The Great Lakes, the Appalachian Mountains, the Adirondack Mountains, the Hudson River and many other landmark areas.

Parts of the game include:
* A multi layer road maze to unravel with nearly 2,000 roads to repair
* Large suspension bridges to strengthen
* Supply and finish many large cities
* Work your way through the long complex maze of road enhancements to finally allow all your large trucks access across the state
* Many, many other small and large puzzles and situations to complete.

LOGistICAL: USA - New York brings you all the fun and puzzling of LOGistICAL with even more towns, more puzzles and much more to do.

THIS GAME DOES NOT REQUIRE THE ORIGINAL LOGISTICAL GAME TO PLAY.
 

* More work on the multi-truck select. Mostly backend.
* Update of save process with the roads (backend stuff).
* Ability to uninstall modules but retain the trophies and regional statistics.
* Ability to play offline (wip).

A small LOGistICAL update with the new high resolution, brighter, more colourful, maps.

Italy

Florida

Giving LOGistICAL a bit of a face lift. Modules done so far include...

* LOGistICAL (Australia and Tutorial)
* Isle of Man
* British Isles
* Norway
* Italy
* New Zealand
* Japan
* US: Hawaii
* US: Oregon
* US: California
* US: Florida
* US: New York (Coming Soon)

LOGistICAL now expands into South America introducing Chile.


At an average of 150 km wide and over 4,000 km long, Chile is quite a unique long country.

LOGistICAL: Chile is a small sized module but full of town challenges and multiple play areas with new discovery contracts.
 

The main update with this build is the addition of icon links to help pages. There are four main types of help with images, videos, statistics and URLs.

There are a few basic links to begin with and more on the way.