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BuildCity Development Notes

Follow the decisions behind BuildCity updates: balance changes, city simulation fixes, performance work, and quality-of-life improvements written for players who want to understand what changed and why it matters.

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What These Updates Cover

Each note is written to explain the player-facing result first, then the design or technical reason behind it. This keeps the update history useful for returning mayors, new players, and search crawlers reading the site without launching the game.

City Systems

Road access, utility coverage, zoning behavior, taxes, happiness, public services, and the rules that shape city growth.

Performance Work

Model loading, render cost, cache behavior, and mobile-friendly changes that keep the city playable on modest devices.

Player Guidance

Short explanations of how each change affects city planning, budgets, service placement, and early-game decisions.

Community Feedback

Comment threads collect bug reports, balance reactions, and requests so follow-up work can be tied to a specific version.

How To Read A BuildCity Patch Note

The update log is organized around practical questions a player would ask after returning to a saved city.

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Check the gameplay impact

Look for changes to money flow, service coverage, roads, zoning, happiness, and city rank before changing a long-running layout.

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Review stability notes

Performance, loading, cache, and save-state fixes are called out because they affect browser memory, network requests, and older devices.

3

Use comments for follow-up

If an update changes your city in an unexpected way, leave feedback on that version so the report includes the right context.

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BuildCity Updates

Read the latest game updates and leave feedback on each version.

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Version v1.4.45

  • Added municipal operating costs that grow with city size. They start at 25%, then rise to 50%, 75%, and 100% after 24, 48, and 72 effective hours counted in settlements. The budget shows the cost and current percentage.
  • Income settlements now apply the selected tax rates and upkeep for facilities, extensions, and transport trucks. Fixed duplicate income or costs and balance discrepancies around loading, saving, collecting taxes, and claiming rewards.
  • Adjusted visitor revenue rates for standard, hotel, and luxury casinos to 3, 3.75, and 5, with visitor operating costs of 1.5, 1.875, and 2.5. Fixed upkeep is calculated separately, and Casino Association progress retains its previous pace.
  • Increased hourly alloy production from 25 to 45, steel from 35 to 50, and processors from 20 to 30. Input requirements stay the same, and saved production facilities use the new output rates.
  • Removed periodic cargo station payments that required no stock. Trade that transports actual inventory remains, with consistent import and export prices across trucks, trains, ships, offline trade, and warehouse stock refunds.
  • Fixed missing oil, coal, and ore deposit legends on White Sands Coast and other maps before reaching the mining construction rank. Added resource preview buttons to the mobile mining menu and fixed legend closing, reopening, and its deposit heading.
  • Ships now check their routes and hull sizes, waiting to depart until an earlier ship leaves when their routes would cause overlap.
  • Disabled the rewarded ad button until provider integration can verify completed ad views. Removed rewards granted when no ad was played.

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Update Archive

Browse previous releases as individual pages. The archive helps players trace when a system changed and gives crawlers a clear path to the full update history.

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