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Release notes · Version 0.9.39 ·

Watch the clock

New

  • The heat gauge now keeps time. It counts down to the next point of heat you lose ("Next −1 heat in 12 min"), tells you when the district you're in will be cool again and, while you're Watched or Hot, when you'll drop below Watched. Every district in the list and on the city map shows its own "cool by" time, and the lay-low page shows what each choice takes off and by when. Times are on the game's clock. Heat cools exactly as fast as before.

Improved

  • New players start in the Classic view. You can switch to Graphical at any time from the top bar or your Account page; if you already picked a view, it stays.
  • A block now also stops bounties between the two of you, and friend requests either way.
  • The filter for names and headlines catches more disguised swear words, such as numbers or letters standing in for look-alike letters.
  • Job rank perks on the Jobs page and medal notices now read in your language, with the medal's name translated too.
  • In Spanish, French, Portuguese and German, a quiet line at the foot of the page says that parts of the text were translated automatically, and wire stories read in a translation say so under the byline. The legal pages (terms, privacy, cookies and the like) stay in English until a person has checked the translation.
  • The draw rules now open inside the game, so reading them no longer takes you out of the Graphical view.
  • Business income above your daily target is taxed a bit more: the Properties page now shows the taxman taking 85% of what goes over.

Fixed

  • The portrait you chose now shows in jail, in hospital and in Federal Jail.
  • The gang badge on a profile opens the gang's page again.
  • On phones, long tab names wrap onto two lines instead of being cut off.
  • "Walk the streets" on the city map now plays its painted transition into the neighbourhood.

Release notes · Version 0.9.38 ·

Over the wall

New

  • Jailbreaks are a fairer bet on a long stay. The base chance is now 20% (it was 15), Dexterity adds 1% for every 40 points (it was every 50), and every 20 minutes you still have to serve add another 1%, up to 10% more. Caught now costs 10 extra minutes instead of 15; the mark on your police record and the alert to your friends stay. With 100 Dexterity that's about 23% on a short stay and about 29% with two hours left; with 500 Dexterity about 33% and 39%. Short stays are still best waited out.
  • Marks beside names. A name now shows one mark at most: the Staff badge, a role mark (the press card for writers of The Evening Racket, the quill for the wiki's writers), the Founder laurel or the donator star. The Rules page explains each one: only the game puts a mark there, the Staff badge is optional, and nobody with a mark will ever ask for your password, your Gold or your items.

Improved

  • Two new reasons when you report a player: "Claims to be staff" (zero tolerance) and "Claims a role mark they don't have". Pretending to be staff now has its own line under Fair play on the Rules page.

Release notes · Version 0.9.37 ·

Cooler heads

New

  • Heat cools faster. A district's own heat now drops 4 points an hour, and the heat that follows you round the city drops 2 an hour at the same time. While your heat where you stand is 60 or more, that district cools twice as fast. From Hot (90) your heat is gone in about 14 hours (it took 30), from 60 in about 11 (it took 20), and laying low at your own lodging takes Hot down to nothing in about three and a half hours.

Improved

  • On phones, the pinned strip now shows your level as "Lvl 9" instead of a purple star that was easy to mistake for Respect. On narrow phones the district name sits on its own line, and the shortcuts fit the smallest screens.

Fixed

  • On phones, the notifications panel now fits the screen in both views, and long titles wrap onto two lines instead of running off the edge.