Summer's here, so I'm dropping July's updates in two waves. Here's what's landing right now.
Parks are back, and they're daily. I rebuilt Parks from scratch. Every day you get three fresh puzzles picked just for you: a small, a medium, and a large one. Solve them for dealer points, then come back tomorrow for a new set. [Available on the City Page]
Weekly Arena prizes got hammered up. I've permanently 5x'd every Arena payout, and that's the new baseline going forward. On top of that, for High Roller Summer I'm doubling it again, so all July you're playing for 10x the old prizes. The 10x kicks in with the July 12th payout and runs weekly into early August, then it settles back to the new 5x.
Black Market opens Sunday. Brand new weekly trading floor. Everybody gets a free $1,000,000 paper account to trade eight commodities. Prices swing all week, there's no buy-in, it's pure skill. Top of the board each week takes RM days and points, and anyone who ends the week in profit pockets a little too. First market opens Sunday, July 5th, and a fresh one opens every Sunday in July. There's a full how-to-play guide at the bottom of the page.
July Raffle is all credits this month. Tickets are $1B each, 20 spots max, and your numbers are assigned in the order you buy in. Ten winners, drawn live in Discord at month's end:
- 1st: 12,000 Credits
- 2nd: 6,000 Credits
- 3rd: 2,000 Credits
- 4th through 10th: 1,000 Credits each
You can buy RM with credits again! The Paypal/Stripe buttons are still there if you'd rather.
That's Part 1. Part 2 coming soon.
Parks are back, and they're daily. I rebuilt Parks from scratch. Every day you get three fresh puzzles picked just for you: a small, a medium, and a large one. Solve them for dealer points, then come back tomorrow for a new set. [Available on the City Page]
Weekly Arena prizes got hammered up. I've permanently 5x'd every Arena payout, and that's the new baseline going forward. On top of that, for High Roller Summer I'm doubling it again, so all July you're playing for 10x the old prizes. The 10x kicks in with the July 12th payout and runs weekly into early August, then it settles back to the new 5x.
Black Market opens Sunday. Brand new weekly trading floor. Everybody gets a free $1,000,000 paper account to trade eight commodities. Prices swing all week, there's no buy-in, it's pure skill. Top of the board each week takes RM days and points, and anyone who ends the week in profit pockets a little too. First market opens Sunday, July 5th, and a fresh one opens every Sunday in July. There's a full how-to-play guide at the bottom of the page.
July Raffle is all credits this month. Tickets are $1B each, 20 spots max, and your numbers are assigned in the order you buy in. Ten winners, drawn live in Discord at month's end:
- 1st: 12,000 Credits
- 2nd: 6,000 Credits
- 3rd: 2,000 Credits
- 4th through 10th: 1,000 Credits each
You can buy RM with credits again! The Paypal/Stripe buttons are still there if you'd rather.
That's Part 1. Part 2 coming soon.
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holy hail michael I done now wat too say I am star stroke I done went too congratulate u just yet bot all most keep it up
50,000 tickets left! this seems like an ambitious goal to fill 👀
like 13 spots of 0's in market capital by my math 👀 👀
like 13 spots of 0's in market capital by my math 👀 👀
I think on the whole, wave 1 seemed pretty good. Looking forward to more waves 👋
I'm sure team sadmin has all sorts of fun things planned for High Rolling Summer but since I been slacking on the usual forum post of things that need tweaking, I figured we could drop a quick bullet list here in case they are in the running or can be added to the next wave 👋 👋
- achievements really need to be continued and upscaled. it's been a very long time since they were buffed in payouts and new ones added. now the payouts don't match game economy and most have run out. Almost half of mine say completed and the rest are kinda meh for payouts so this could use some attention
- season pass could use some buffing as well. It is supposed to reward active players every day and the format works great as far as cost, size, duration, etc. I wouldn't touch any of that because then it becomes a chore to do or too expensive etc. So all that is good, but some of the items are outdated and flooded in the game now. For instance, we don't need any more house bombs or drugs every month. We need more shards and activity points and train packs and dbl gyms and DXP etc. I think these could all use some buffing on the payouts to go along with the new daily deals that were added. Better items and larger quantities to keep it short. The rest is working fine
- activity points need a better way to generate or some type of buff across the board. I have been very active this month compared to other months recently and it still costs more activity to buy dealer points and day to day items than can possibly be generated without missions. Forget even using them for stuff ppl really need. At that point, it will bankrupt your AP quickly. That really needs to change. Activity is what drives every game and it should be highly rewarded. I don't have many great suggestions for this so hopefully sadmin or others do. I would think that AP on job clockins could be buffed lot as well as all other job clockin stuff. Unfortunately jobs are kinda limited because 50 clockins a week is still tough to do so they would need a complete overhaul in order to add new ones as we discussed prior. But no reason the current system can't get buffed. Also, season pass AP as mentioned above. Maybe some type of other random stuff that rewards AP but isn't a chore to do or get stale like missions.
- OTH and OTD payouts could prolly be buffed to match arena spots now. Maybe the points dailies as well or anything else that can give AP
- Housing shards are another thing that kinda need attention. I don't have a great solution for those tho. But cost of housing has eclipsed the money and points and shards that most ppl can generate. The housing system might actually need the overhaul more than the shards themselves. The solution is gonna be to make housing affordable somehow and not to flood the game with more cash like some other places have done in the past 👀
I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch and prolly should make a proper thread but these are just a few off the top of my head that come to mind quick. while we are getting our annual updates in on the waves 👋 👋 👋
I'm sure team sadmin has all sorts of fun things planned for High Rolling Summer but since I been slacking on the usual forum post of things that need tweaking, I figured we could drop a quick bullet list here in case they are in the running or can be added to the next wave 👋 👋
- achievements really need to be continued and upscaled. it's been a very long time since they were buffed in payouts and new ones added. now the payouts don't match game economy and most have run out. Almost half of mine say completed and the rest are kinda meh for payouts so this could use some attention
- season pass could use some buffing as well. It is supposed to reward active players every day and the format works great as far as cost, size, duration, etc. I wouldn't touch any of that because then it becomes a chore to do or too expensive etc. So all that is good, but some of the items are outdated and flooded in the game now. For instance, we don't need any more house bombs or drugs every month. We need more shards and activity points and train packs and dbl gyms and DXP etc. I think these could all use some buffing on the payouts to go along with the new daily deals that were added. Better items and larger quantities to keep it short. The rest is working fine
- activity points need a better way to generate or some type of buff across the board. I have been very active this month compared to other months recently and it still costs more activity to buy dealer points and day to day items than can possibly be generated without missions. Forget even using them for stuff ppl really need. At that point, it will bankrupt your AP quickly. That really needs to change. Activity is what drives every game and it should be highly rewarded. I don't have many great suggestions for this so hopefully sadmin or others do. I would think that AP on job clockins could be buffed lot as well as all other job clockin stuff. Unfortunately jobs are kinda limited because 50 clockins a week is still tough to do so they would need a complete overhaul in order to add new ones as we discussed prior. But no reason the current system can't get buffed. Also, season pass AP as mentioned above. Maybe some type of other random stuff that rewards AP but isn't a chore to do or get stale like missions.
- OTH and OTD payouts could prolly be buffed to match arena spots now. Maybe the points dailies as well or anything else that can give AP
- Housing shards are another thing that kinda need attention. I don't have a great solution for those tho. But cost of housing has eclipsed the money and points and shards that most ppl can generate. The housing system might actually need the overhaul more than the shards themselves. The solution is gonna be to make housing affordable somehow and not to flood the game with more cash like some other places have done in the past 👀
I'm sure I am forgetting a bunch and prolly should make a proper thread but these are just a few off the top of my head that come to mind quick. while we are getting our annual updates in on the waves 👋 👋 👋