LOGistICAL

Listed is the start of keyboard shortcuts that you can use while playing LOGistICAL.
 

W A S D = move map around

Z X C = zoom in/out

Q = Stop/Start currently selected truck

E = Change status of fully empty cargo (little green light on cargo meter)

R = Repeat the truck route continuously on/off

space = Pause/unpause entire game

F1 = Help/discussion forum

F2 = Statistics page

F12 = Screen shot (may have to try a few times)

- / + or _ / = = game speed up/down

0 / 9 = minimum/maximum game speed

H = toggle tooltips on/off
 

< > or , . = select next/previous truck

LOGistICAL: Italy will be available on the 22nd Aug 2017.


LOGistICAL: Italy is a complex beast adding some new stuff to LOGistICAL, including new town icons (ignore that this image is not properly placed when this screenshot was taken),

LOGistICAL: Italy has been co-designed with Marco Calcaterra (desangre), a local to the region. He not only placed all the industries, but also contributed to a nice complex puzzle using quarantine, islands and a north/south theme. He is now working on translating the game into Italian.

LOGistICAL: Italy creates a great thinking module, so relax and enjoy.
 

There have been quite a few smaller fixes and builds since the LOGistICAL: British Isles release.

* Creation of "Global" contracts. First example is getting a 2x speedup after completing 50 towns. Now this exists as a global contract and is therefore available in all modules whether you are playing LOGistICAL, British Isles or Italy, etc. 

* The map that has been fixed to not scroll beyond the "flat earth" boundaries, has been extended East/West so zooming doesn't drag the map to the left or right of the screen when playing on the outer edges (eg New Zealand and Hawaii).

* Green outlines and shading for the level 3 industries on the Industry and Build screens, so they stand out more.

* Mouse over popup on the build industries to include the size of the industry you are selecting to build, as you move your mouse up and down over the icon.

* Fix on NL to not show both appox and detailed outlines.

* Night/Day transition and texture maps optimised.

* Fix to stop the main globe from going green/blue screen if you click outside the globe.

* Town rarity column on the Statistical LOGistICAL popup (click the total trophies icon to the left of the money). This rarity value is a comparative of how many players have managed to gain that achievement.
This rarity value is from Steam so will only show what is available on whichever module you are playing.

* Load game sometimes doesn't show data. This tends to happen if you load quickly after closing the game and Steam is still in the process of synchronising the save game files. This can get slower if you have a large game and also if you have a huge list of games in your list.

LOGistICAL will create a new save game for you every day, but you are responsible for reducing the amount of games that exist in that list. You will need to use the delete button next to the copy and load buttons. If you try to remove them with your windows explorer, they will sync back from the cloud.

* A couple of fixes and image enhancements of the Statistical LOGistICAL screen.

* Bunch of minor back-end fixes.
 

* Created a live Chat on Discord, so you can talk with other logistical players. Learn from those experienced players and I will also try to be there a lot.
https://discord.gg/xytyWUA
 

This build will be available for beta testing over the next few hours on both LOGistICAL and LOGistICAL: British Isles.

Thanks for playing.

This is fairly large build. It is the precursor to moving into a new structure of LOGistICAL games and add-ons.

This new structure links full, independent LOGistICAL games back to this original LOGistICAL game by sharing the same save game across them all. LOGistICAL: British Isles is the first of those games.

Here is a "simple" architectural diagram to show how LOGistICAL fits in with the Steam architecture.


Other things...

Background textures were turned off for a while as I dealt with lag and lockup issues. These issues have been mostly resolved with a new heart transplant, so the textures are back.
The new textures cover the entire map.

Since the textures were defaulted to "off" for new games for quite some time you may have to turn them back on. See Settings, Map, check on. The slider was to make the graphic fade but is now only working with the non-textured mapping.
 

Just so you know how hard you are working to fix these towns, LOGistICAL now moves between night and day. There is no advantage/disadvantage at this stage (coming soon), but you will see it in the background graphic.

 

Statistics are now available by clicking on the town trophy icon in the top panel, center screen.

Statistics are shown for all the modules that you own, including towns, roads, industries and a score.
You can drill into any module's statistics that have an asterisk (*). You can drill down through the regions to the towns.

Many stats may start as zero. To populate them load the DLC and then save your game (eg move a truck). You should only have to do this once.
On a slow computer, I found it easiest to just load a few modules, save, restart, check statistics and then load more.

Leaderboards will be added to the statistics soon.
 

These values are displayed when you mouse over your money in the top middle panel).
Since the "modular load" build of LOGistICAL, these values have not always been totally accurate, especially the roads and industries.
These have been fixed and are now totals of the statistics page, so if you can query them by drilling into them.
These values will only be fully accurate once you have loaded all the your game modules.
 

Once all towns are full, there maybe no where to deliver cargo from an industry that isn't fully upgraded.
You can now transport cargo to completed towns. There is no payment but the towns will gladly accept it.
 

Sometimes when there are town "needs" items that get duplicated. eg. a town may require bananas and fruit. Fruit also contains bananas. The collective groups will always show after the single items.
When this happens, you can't use bananas as a part of the fruit, as it will continue to be delivered into the banana line item.
Now the duplicate icons will no longer appear within those groups.

Towns decide where the incoming cargo goes with their own priority order.
If the town requires an item for their town needs and an industry within the town also requires that item, then the town "needs" get first priority.
The industry icon will now be displayed with a padlock over it until the town's needs have been completed.
 

Flinders Island has been retired as a tutorial. It will soon appear as part of the Australia main map.

A new tutorial is now available and it is all about motorcycles.
This Isle of Man is known for its annual motorcycle races. The island is small and the bikes race around at crazy speeds.

Well, the Isle of Man wants motor bikes and lots of them. You are to build up all the industries that eventuate to a final product of producing motorcycles.

This tutorial is voluntary to all players that have passed the original tutorial.
There is no completion objective to allow you to move into the main games.
Just click the globe and click the country that you want to play and your initial truck(s) should appear with the first contract.

Achievements for the Isle of Man will only be available in the British Isles module.
 

Pause has been fixed and modified.
Pause now stops the trucks, industries production and town consumption.
While in pause you can still move trucks around the map and all the other general game play mechanics.
There is a pause icon in the center of the screen when the game is paused.

SPACE BAR is now a shortcut for pause.

The depot flag now sits over the town dot, so when zoomed out you can find it easier.

Iron ore in UK and BI modules has been hard to find, even for the most avid of players, so there is now a hint contract to help you find it.
Hint: If you are having trouble finding an industry within the map, try using an internet search. "Most" industries are placed where they should be.

A few minor fixes in the British Isles and Isle of Man modules.
 

As always, I would love you all to try the beta version out before it gets upgraded to Live (within the next 10 hours).

Beta uses the same save file as Live, so none of your game play will be lost.

I have set this beta to use the UK map, not the BI map, so it would be great to see if those playing UK find the new changes (eg Republic of Ireland and the Chanel Islands).

To play this new beta, right click on LOGistICAL in your Steam library, select Properties, select the "betas" tab, select "beta" from the drop down list. There is no password.

Thanks all for playing and hope you are all having fun doing so.

A small update with a few small fixes for United Kingdom DLC.

* Depot Towns in UK were requiring town needs. Fixed.

* Community page showing latest LOGistICAL news, screenshots and articles.

* Truck spikes to help identify what you were up to on that save game.

LOGistICAL expands to include the United Kingdom.

This module consists of 4 new countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), with over 1,800 new towns to complete.

The road system needs a lot of upgrading if you are to take your trucks all over these countries, so a lot of road repair deliveries will be required.

Plenty of industries to upgrade and new challenges.


This new module also brings a new build for the current LOGistICAL and all the DLCs addressing lag and freeze issues. Getting UK DLC is not required for this update.

Edit: Steam publishing is offline over the weekend, so Canada won't be available until 10th July 2017.

Canada is huge. 2nd biggest country on this planet.
Bigger than Australia but many parts not as accessible.
That being said, it will take a lot of travel to play this country.
 

Welcome to Canada. The second largest country on the planet.

Canada is cut in two after a long cold winter. East to west.

The road at Thunder Bay has been cut off and repairs are under way.
It has been said "There are only two seasons around here. Winter and construction. It is now construction season."

Only long large loaded trucks can get through (ie 40t laden). Smaller trucks can make it though without a load (unladen).

Follow the 40t road to find a truck depot and move the resources east to west and west to east via the storage facilities.

Money will be tight, but you may find some gems around the map.

Get out there and get these towns fixed.
 

Most of the updates for this latest patch are based around optimising speed and trying to reduce slowdowns.

The groundwork is done and more updates will follow after game stability.

This is a big build with a major rewrite of the back-end in order to allow for single game loads (ie single DLCs).

So now you can load a single DLC straight from the globe without having to load the main game and all the other DLCs in your library.

There were a few glitches along the way and with the help of a great bunch of beta testers I managed to subdue the bugs (hopefully all of them).

The whole game should speed along at a nice pace now.
 

The first rollout of the language module is included in this build.

There are tutorials in Russian, German, Finnish and Spanish. Russian and Spanish continue into the Main modules contracts. Slowly more languages and parts of the game will get added.

Click the language flag or anywhere on the Notice form for the default English language.
 

Generally you can just click load and it will load the top file, which is most likely the last game that you played.

The game file list has been updated to a file requester. You can now have a huge amount of tiles. Beware that the more files you have the longer it takes to cloud load.

Instead of the usual eight files, there is now a daily file save that has the number_reverseDate format (eg 00002_20170630.sav).

Each time the clock ticks over to a new day, a new file is saved.

The number is incremented if:
A file is loaded that is not of that format (eg, the old files)
A new game is started
A copy game is clicked

If you click a file with a lower than the top number, then that game is continued but will have the new date (if it is a different day), so a new file is created if a new day.

To assist any issues or corruptions that may occur along the way, a rolling 10 minute interval file is also saved with the format "backupSave_10-MinutesPastTheHour.sav", so every 10 minutes you get a new additional save that writes over the last 10 minutes save of that time period (hope you get what I mean there).
Anyway, in short, if you have a problem with a game you can go back a bit and redo it.

Clicking on any file in the list will show the number of trophies the file has and also the date and time it was saved (UTC date format).
 

Once you have a game loaded/started, you are faced with the globe. On the globe you can click any of the DLCs that you own and it will load only that DLC (except if it has dependencies upon another, eg NZ).

You can play that modules as you always would have.

If you want to play a second module, then click on the globe and click another module that you own (green countries).

When that loads, you will have two flags in the bottom right corner. You can now click on those flags to jump between the modules. Both will continue to play.

There were a bunch of other minor fixes that also went into this build.


Again, a big thanks to those that participated in the beta trial. The feedback was excellent and I think we ended up with a reasonable improvement.

Let us know if you find any issues.

The new build will go live shortly (about an hour).

This build is the second part implementation of the globe. Most of it is background that you won't see.

Things that you will see include:

* Roads no longer have two visuals (mouse up or down). These are combined into a single unified view.
- Colour represents speed of the road ranging from red, through yellow and to green for the fastest. There is still bright red for broken.
- Size is for the maximum size of any vehicle that can travel on it. The thicker the road the bigger the truck that can travel on it. The centre line of the road also changes from black to blue for the larger sizes.

* "Disappearing Roads" bug has been found and fixed. This was an intermittent bug that was hard to reproduce. To reproduce it you had to mouse over a truck (it enlarges), move the mouse to the very left or right, mouse down to drag the truck and then zoom the map. Phew, that took a couple of days just to find and about 30 seconds to fix.

* Mouse over Australia in globe now fixed. It used to say Tutorial.

* Tutorial added to globe.

* Set maximum game speed per module. In dense areas like Europe the maximum is 8x, while other less dense places like Australia are 16x.

* Sale of truck money now goes back to wallet. Did you know in the old days you couldn't sell trucks, just delete them. Now you may know how that feels.

* Cancellation of trucks loads now penalises the correct wallet.

* Change the quarantine blinking to use the universal blink function within the game to stop some blinking from being too fast.

* Turn off region areas of map dots at different zoom levels to process map faster. (Will soon be per town dependent on size and isolation).

* Working on language module to display text in different languages.

* Less towns visible in Australia. These have been changed to dots at different zoom factors.

* Quieter default sound effects

* No default music

* Preparation for the LOGistICAL - Germany DLC about to be released.

This beta will go live in around 4 hours.

A few changes plus also getting ready for Hawaii DLC.

* Added a difficulty level to each of the modules. These are viewed by mouse-over a country on the globe.
Levels are Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme.
There are often two values as each module can take you from one extreme to the other.

* Removed the green glow of the save. You can still see when the save last saved by looking at the date and time. It will auto-save every 10 seconds if you do anything down to moving a truck or arrive at a destination, etc within that 10 seconds.

* Updated the scoring system. Found that the multiplier for the number of resources required for doing a towns escalated the score into the billions. It is now a little less.

* Setting the ground for scores to be on a leaderboards. Are you ready for it?
This will show how you managed your trucks for the duration of a modules.

Better scores when:
delivering less tonnes to the town (ie beating consumption).
the size of the town (population)
the difficulty level of the town (the town multiplier)
the number of resource lines needed
using small and less trucks to do it with
the play efficiency

All this and the formula is view-able by clicking on the score within a finished town's popup.

A few other things.