Surprise! Alpha 9 is here a week earlier than usual! The full change log is at the end of this post.



Music Rock Park, by CoasterB



Holidays

The reason is that after working non-stop since early 2014 we’re taking a two week holiday break to recharge and think about other things than theme parks for a bit :)

We’ll be back in the second week of January 2017. Hope you all have nice holidays! :)



Devlog

Luuk added adjustable coaster lift speeds:

Tim added a bunch of scenario goals:

They can be set up in the scenario editor with customizable settings and rewards:

Experimental performance improvements

We’ve got some pretty big performance improvements coming up for multi-core systems when lots of objects are on screen. It especially helps when zooming all the way out in very detailed parks, but should also improve performance overall to a smaller degree. In our tests we’ve seen CPU load improvements of up to 35%.

Before turning them on for everyone we would like to do some more testing though! We have created a Steam beta branch for this. If you want to give it a try, right-click on Parkitect in your Steam library, then select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select “Experimental”.

Savegames are compatible between the regular and this experimental version, so you can give it a try without any risk. If you do please let us know your results!

Changelog



- added Mine Train Coaster

- added Turbine

- added Market Research

- added scenario goals

- added sorting attraction/shop list by various properties

- added adjustable chain lift speed

- employees only work on tasks outside their assigned zone if there’s nothing left to do in their zone

- less blurry shadows

- fixed Ferris Wheel being a sadness factory

- fixed all kinds of problems with wooden supports

- fixed problems with building tracked ride blueprints near park border

- fixed lag if loading a new savegame while the game is paused