Good evening!

I am back on the game demo with some updates. I still have no date for the game release, but I come with very welcome fixes!

Today I've been working on some of the serverside performances and came up with a pretty cool fix.

Changelogs:

• Improve serverside performances on multiple spots: factory simulations will be up to 11 times faster. That means:

  • The login (loading) phase shouldn't go past a dozen seconds anymore!

  • You shouldn't feel lags anymore when building.

• These factory simulation improvements will also make the game lighter on your CPU (say a relative 5-10% less, so only noticeable if you play on a potato computer)

• #1691 - While working on a proof of concept for another game I wrote a minimap. So Manufactur'inc has it as well!

• #1878 - Global Market: Tooltip to show the resource's name/price/quantity in the choice

Known issues:

• The MacOS version won't work because of an external issue, it has been disabled temporarily (it's still in the Webkit team's hands :/)

• The "maximum amount" displayed on the global market may include in-transit resources, which may make it wrong by up to 5 units.

• Steam overlay doesn't work.

• Tutorial needs to be reworked.

• We need to prevent the factory from infinitely growing asap, and it's planned in the current set of updates (electricity consumption, employee gauge, and dynamic market prices will be needed)

• Multiple places in the game need a user interface or experience improvements.

• The auto-linking between machines and/or storage is still pretty dumb and needs improvements (and a way for you, the player to override this choice!)

Public dev roadmap

Thank you all for your testing and feedback!

Don't hesitate to send us your feedback on the Official Discord server or via the in-game feedback form.

Elanis