Happy New Year, Mayors!

Our update for this final week of the year features preparation for tourism features on the horizon. Our official release now supports Steam Workshop!

Also, a big thank you to everyone who has supported us during this Winter Steam Sale. Our community is growing all the time, and we hope the stable branch supporting mods in a more robust fashion will help that along.

These are the patch notes:
[h2]Version 0.0.57.8 ALPHA[/h2]

[h3]Features[/h3]

• Neighboring cities have been revamped.
  
• There are now large and small neighboring cities.
  
• The game now populates neighboring cities when generating a new map, and it simulates five years of activity before the start.
  
• Neighboring cities now have NewTrack stations, allowing you to connect your train lines to your neighbors.
  The above changes only apply to newly generated maps.
  
  [h3]Improvements[/h3]
  
• Increased population growth.
  
• Freight deliveries are now more frequent.
  
• Improved performance when placing blueprints.
  
• Trains and buses now unload their passengers faster. The rate is controlled by CAlightingRate. This only applies to unloading; Passenger loading rate is unchanged.
  
• The statistic "National Stock Index" (National Economy > Macros) is now the "National Stock Market Index".
  
• Neighboring cities now have more educated people.
  
  [h3]Bugfixes[/h3]
  
• Lua API: Fixed an issue in getStatisticAvg() where it would return an incorrect value.
  
• Building Designer: Fixing some overlapping icons in the load menu preview image.
  
• Fixed a bug where routes without a possible mass transit solution would be recomputed rather than cached.