Greetings, Alpha 24-140.04 update is live.

We continue our improvement and balancing works after the major content update.
In this small improvement update, especially the changes and arrangements that we have shaped according to your feedback;

• Change: 'Load capacity requirement' has been removed from the 'Water Pump' structure. We have observed that the water pump's request for industrial logistics support at an early stage of the game was pushing the game to a partially unnecessary difficulty. With your request and guidance, we decided that it did not make sense to make water production more difficult in the mid-game phase and exempted this structure from the system.
  
  
• Also, Level II Metalwork and Distillery structures has been removed from the 'Freight capacity' system for the same reasons as in the water pump.
  
  
• In some sessions, we saw that the'Cement' material was positioned to be unlocked in Cycle VIII instead of Cycle V. This has been corrected 'Cement' is available in Cycle V once the 'Production Chains' upgrade is complete and can be produced by Kiln buildings. We apologise to players who have been playing for a bit too long up until now and had to advance their game by unlocking 'Cement' in Cycle VIII.
  
  
• New Effect: Advanced production facilities that you set up far away from your central location have been receiving a negative 'Load capacity' effect applied to Workforce values due to lack of industrial logistics. With this update, in contrast to this effect, your structures that receive service with a high level of transport capacity (production houses located within the service radius of Central or District stations) will now be able to gain up to +10 Workforce with the positive effect called 'Perfect Freight Handling'.
  
  
• As a result of the feedback we received that in some cases the 'blue square' material showing the coverage area of the district freight station and the central station worked problematically and lost its visibility in some places, we made improvements on this part and solved the problem.
  
  
• Some fauna (a shrub and a grass species on the Meadow map) were showing a tendency to glare a little too much when the angle of daylight was too narrow. This has been fixed and readjusted.
  
  
• It was found that some rocks used for aesthetic purposes during the land arrangement phase after building placement or road construction were not fully adapted to the new land form and were corrected.
  
  
• The time sequences that determine the operating intervals of the traffic lights have been extended.
  
  
• Since we have not yet expanded the alchemy production tree and fertilizer production, there is no chance for the player to further develop the farming activities of the Field and Kaleyard structures and adapt to the arid climate.
  For this reason, the 'Water' requirement has been reduced by 40-50% in order not to increase the difficulty of the game.

With these small adjustments, we aim to offer a more enjoyable and highly polished early access experience. Thank you once again for your understanding and support.

We always welcome your feedback.

Greetings,

Thank you for your interest in the major update content. We hope we've been able to convey a strong message about the direction the New Cycle universe is taking, and that we're enthusiastically continuing to develop it in response to your embrace. We'd like to share some small fixes and adjustments we've made to support this momentum.

• We detected a problem for some of our players that the junctions among the highway components could not be displayed correctly in the Ui (development and building construction panels), this has been fixed.
  
• Three junction components with and without traffic lights have been added as existing highway components, they contain all features such as snapping and free placement during the road construction phase as generic. With further updates, it is planned to add the ability to edit the light system and time settings at these intersections according to your wishes.
  
• Extra control has been added to the component that calculates the renewal rate of 'Water' resources at the beginning of the Spring cycle after load (community feedback)
  
• It was detected that the output efficiency of the wood and stone raw materials collected from the terrain with the 'Gather Camp' structure after load could work at an incorrectly high rate (Community feedback) and was fixed.
  
• Adjustments have been made to the components that regulate the colouration of all vegetation during the spring season (Spring tones were working a bit darker and closer to brown, this has been corrected so that light green and other variants on vegetation can stand out more).
  
• Thank you again for your interest and support, your feedback helps us to improve the game faster and more accurately.

Greetings again!

As a result of the tests we have carried out in the hours following our major update, we would like to share a small update that includes balancing in a few titles that fix a number of minor issues we have identified.
With these minor adjustments, which we expect to contribute to the game experience, we hope that we will be able to make the major update content more accessible.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

• 'Resident' building menu name changed to 'Residential'
  
• 'Others' building menu name changed to 'Logistics'
  
• Some completed translation texts of the major update have been added.
  
• It was detected that the Medical Shed structure was not positioned correctly in the menu. This problem has been fixed.
  
• For incompatible saves from past versions during the save/load phase, a window that appears when the load button is clicked and directs the user to the relevant guide has been added.
  
• Increased the volume of water sources on the two playable maps by about 200%.
  
• Minor changes have been made to the 'Honey' and 'Diesel' production formulas.
  
• A shift in traffic light synchronization was detected and fixed.
  
• Updated the components positioned in the areas where the maps end so that the player can collide with their vehicle in driving mode.
  
• Slightly increased the grip rates on snowy ground while the player is driving. The sliding action due to angle and speed while driving has been adjusted with a slightly more realistic approach.
  
• Detected and fixed a synchronization slip in the component that manages the overall color gradation during seasonal transitions.
  
• Minor lighting and colour palette changes have been made for stormy weather day and night settings.
  
• Fixed missing title texts for some of the effects positioned in the top left corner.
  
• Expanded the railroad border anchor points for all maps to provide easier access.
  
• Edit: Fixed an issue where ore and water nodes displayed faulty behaviour upon loading a saved game.

Greetings!

We are happy to announce our next big content update.

Thanks to your interest and support, we've had the chance to modify New Cycle's current roadmap over the past month and expand the content inventory planned for version 1.0.

As the first fruit of this reorganization, I am sharing the details of our next major update content below. We continue to complete and add the necessary infrastructure for the New Cycle universe to grow deeper and more versatile in a healthy way.

I would like to remind you that the innovations that come with interim updates are part of early access and may contain missing parts that need to be completed in the next steps due to the natural flow of the development process.

Once again, as dedicated indie developers who are very much connected to the New Cycle Universe, we would like to reiterate that we continue to pay the same attention to detail and quality that we have shown so far with each new piece. Hope you enjoy the content and new mechanics in this update, which takes us one step further and sends another strong message about the potential we are trying to achieve in the future.

Thank you for all your support and patience throughout this process.

Due to the nature of early access and the significant changes we'll introduce with this update, savegames from the current version won't be compatible with the new content. To mitigate any inconvenience and to allow you to wrap up your current game runs, we'll also introduce new branches you can opt into:

• public rollback branch: This will contain the last stable version of the game before the current update. So in this case, it will stay with the 'Alpha 130' versions, while the default build will jump to 'Alpha 140'.
  
• public experimental branch: This will be a branch with mostly untested and probably instable builds for our more enthusiastic community members to check out new features and speculative content. Keep in touch on our discord to find out more.
  
• naturally, the default branch will always contain the current stable version of New Cycle.

Find out more about branch selection here .

• New Building ‘Apiary’
  
• New Building ‘Bakery’
  
• New Building ‘Medical Shed’
  
• New Building ‘Store’
  
• New Building ‘Lightning Arrester’
  
• New Building ‘Central Freight Station’
  
• New Building ‘District Freight Depot’
  
• New Building ‘Asphalt road and components’
  
• New Building upgrade ‘Multi-shaft Mine Tower’

• New material ‘Asphalt’
  
• New material ‘Rubber’
  
• New material ‘V Type Engine’
  
• New material ‘Honey’
  
• New material ‘Herbed Garlic Bread’
  
• New material ‘Fruitpie’
  
• New material ‘Toddler Formula’
  
• New material ‘Mead’
  
• New formula based on fish and grain for 'Filling Meal' production
  
• New manufacturable asset ‘Trucks’

• New side mechanics: local logistics for industrial scale

An expansion that we believe will serve the Dieselpunk theme of the New Cycle universe and its unique interpretation of realism very well, both visually and functionally.

This side mechanic aims to add another level of depth to the gameplay and management process. It will radically affect city planning, the efficiency of structures operating over long distances, the road network, as well as introducing new structures and heavy vehicles into the universe.

Our game design is not based on the absolute transportation of beings from one point to another and the visual realization of this. This can be roughly interpreted as general 'universal free logistics'. However, we still have a transportation/distribution approach that involves distances, roads, conveyor systems and vehicles. Further deepening and developing this approach, with 'Land routes and district depots' you will see additions and changes with the flow as follows:

Advanced buildings that you build within a certain distance (On the playable 3D map) from your initial settlement center will be subject to a negative regional distance multiplier, just like the negative effect of 'no road connectivity'.


In order to work beyond certain distances without negative worforce bonuses, you will need to build small logistics hubs in those areas and need to connect these logistics hubs with a 'road network' to a main logistics hub in your city, which can be one, just like a train station.

Complete the necessary developments and design routes that operate between these logistics centers by producing trucks with various types of cargo transport.

Each district will need a different scale of transportation capacity according to the assets it produces. In addition, the labor force that will work in these regions will also need to be transported by vehicles. (definition of the need to transport people in proportion to the labor force required by the structures in the region).

Along with universal efficiency and workforce values, 'logistics capacity' for these regions will also work as a productivity multiplier.All this traffic will require active maintenance and uninterrupted energy supply for the structures involved, and will rely on the fuel and maintenance costs of the operating vehicles.

Additional surprise sub-mechanics, entirely at the player's choice, to spice up the gameplay experience in a different dimension. However, we will be careful to ensure that this approach does not conflict with the 'City Builder' spirit, and does not tip the balance by adding too much extra to the game.

• New subsystem: Procedural deposits

In all playable maps, mineral deposits locations and contents will now be procedurally redistributed at the start of each new game. In subsequent updates, the procedural infrastructure will be supplemented with similar methods that are much more dependent on land morphology, such as agriculture and other resource points.

• New side mechanic: Distribution of daily consumer goods

We may live in a post-apocalyptic universe, but if we can make flour, why not cake?

Everyday consumer goods, extra food supplements, products for different needs! Daily distribution with delivery structures (Stores) close to the living areas to raise the living standards of the community and provide us with extra gains. It will work in a similar way to structures that offer services and products, such as pubs or infirmaries. We aim to deepen production/consumption and output flow one step further with this new side mechanic that will also distribute 'luxury' consumer goods such as tobacco, coffee, spices, etc. in the future.

• Expanding mining side-mechanics

A new add-on designed to expand mineral deposits accessed through advanced mining towers, or for prospecting excavation to find new ones to replace depleted deposits. You will need powerful diggers and advanced infrastructure to carry out this exploration activity. You will need to be able to produce advanced components, such as the engines used in trucks, and integrate them into the mining rigs to make them work. This will also increase the electricity required by the advanced mining tower.

With the additions and updates to the rendering process, we are now able to provide an infrastructure to support the use of more real-time light components. This will make a significant difference to night gameplay, while also improving both the performance and visual feedback of effects and general lighting in day mode gameplay.
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With the new logistics system and procedural mineral deposit distribution system, old and small maps will no longer be used. Instead, a tundra and steppe variant of the current 'Great Meadow' map will be used, scaled 25% larger. You can experience the new great tunda map in this update and steppe biome is being completely overhauled and will be released in the next minor update.

Community

• Crispy Bread Grant It can be achieved through successful distribution of the relevant product (Herbed Garlic Bread) within the 'store'.
  
• Early Investment It can be achieved through successful distribution of the relevant product (Toddler Formula) within the 'store'.
  
• Sweet Addition It can be achieved through successful distribution of the relevant product (Fruitpie) within the 'store'.

Mechanical

• No staff at the central freight station
  
• Overloaded Districts
  
• Shortage of Fuel
  
• Worn-out road networks
  
• Lack of Staff

In line with the roadmap and in response to feedback and community requests. Those not on this list but in the planning/production phase will also be included in the 'Roadmap' document.

Important changes

• Some buildings (Pubs, infirmary etc.) have been moved from the 'Utilities' menu to the 'resident' menu.
  
• All road, belt and other logistics structures have been moved to the 'others' menu.

Gameplay

• The freestyle road placement component has been improved, automatic snap and curve precision has been strengthened.
  
• During the road- and building construction phase, the labeling of the collisions that occur along the entire component intended to be produced and the structures and elements that perform them has been refined.
  
• The bar on the main HUD where resources are displayed and managed has been modified to display one row and two rows, as well as a third row. 'This feature is defined as a sequence to the same activation button’. After the customization of this panel, the problems that could be experienced in the save/load process have been fixed.
  
• The ability to set how many minutes a New Cycle day will run has been added to the 'Settings' menu.
  
• Improved the calculations during tree and plant removal when placing a building.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented selecting more than 6 products on the Conveyor Belt separator UI
  
• Aging mechanics (for age groups 60 and over) process values were revised.
  
• Special structures 'Sculptures' can now be erased and rebuilt.
  
• ‘Diesel’ production formula and output values rebalanced
  
• ‘Tin Ore’ and ‘Tin Ingot’ production formula and output values rebalanced
  
• ‘Rubber’ added to 'Workwear' production formula
  
• The 'Conveyor' system was shifted an Era with the addition of the Vehicle mechanic so as not to overwhelm the gameplay as systems accessed simultaneously.
  
• In the trade panel, tooltip plugin indicating the products in the warehouse has been added
  
• In the maintenance structure Ui content, the high, medium and low cost buttons are prevented from refreshing on every click.
  
• Added the ability to 'Save/load' during the Tutorial phase.
  
• The Solarstorm event cinematic sequence and effects duration have been shortened by 50%.
  
• In the Storage structure Ui panel, areas that allow you to set the maximum storage limit for materials by manually entering data have been activated.

Assets

• Improved and reorganized the 3D models of a few intermediate products such as Basic Tool, Wire, Motor displayed on the Conveyor Belt.
  
• Fixed 'CampName' change not being saved in Scout building Ui
  
• House Ui panel has been revised.
  
• In the winter season, the visibility and color of the 'outline' showing selected objects has been readjusted.
  
• Fixed the display of the winter season negative factor on the Ui of the 'Farm' structure
  
• Edits were made on the 3D model of the ''Refinery'' structure. Removed loose parts and added a chimney.
  
• Renewed Apartment Complex, Communal Kitchen, Small Workshop, Tubule Cave, Warehouse, Building UI Header Images
  
• Updated Ui icons for ‘precision tools’ and ‘supply box’ products
  
• Diesel Generator construction case remodeled and added
  
• Remodeled and added roof crane of Lumbermill II building
  
• Fixed premature display of the ventilation part that appears during the construction phase of the ‘Apartment complex’
  
• Fixed premature display of the ventilation part that appears during the construction phase of the ‘Mine III’
  
• Fixed large surface collision on one side of the ‘Water pump’ structure
  
• After the placement of the narrow-gauge railroad tracks, the visible segregation on the rails was fixed.

Our content for the next major update and the minor updates before it will focus primarily on the following topics;

• Upgrade for the 'small workhall' which produces intermediate and final products such as 'Tanned Leather' and 'Herbal Tea'. The reason why this is not included in this update content is that this structure needs new intermediate products and structures that will come with the 'chemistry' product tree at advanced levels.
  
• Variety of belt components; we are working on new belt components with more feed and output sockets. We are also working on a solution for users who want to install an underground belt system.
  
• Integration of 'chemistry' based raw material group and intermediate products. This expansion, which will diversify the production tree and bring us a little closer to simulating the ordinary flow of life, will also include new structures and developments.
  
• Completion of the operating model of the Cycle progression process. We are working on a system that will work according to 'Population, owned infrastructure and reputation' indicators instead of the current progression format 'Population and Knowledge'.
  
• Adding a Region map variant. At this stage, we are running a completion process centered on city management, production trees and buildings. Before the completion and integration of the story-oriented content that will enrich the Region section in the future, we are trying to bring at least two playable Region maps to the next major update content.

Localization
Due to some unforseen issues with editing and our localization pipeline, text will partially default to English. We're working hard at a solution and will fix this asap! Please reach out to us on our community discord server [//] if this is impacting you experience!

Greetings!

We're on the final stretch of finalizing our next big update, and we're excited to announce that it brings not only a lot of fixes and improvements, we're also introducing brand new content and features to New Cycle. Advanced resources, new buildings and structures, bigger maps and a new logistics mechanic will bring more depth and variety to the gameplay. We wil share more details upon release of the update, which we are planning for July 11th.

Due to the nature of Early Access, all these new content and features come with a small hook attached: savegames from the current version won't be compatible with the updated game version. To mitigate any inconvenience and to allow you to wrap up your current game runs, we'll also introduce new branches you can opt into:

• public rollback branch: This will contain the last stable version of the game before the current update. So in this case, it will stay with the 'Alpha 130' versions, while the default build will jump to 'Alpha 140'.
  
• public experimental branch: This will be a branch with mostly untested and probably instable builds for our more enthusiastic community members to check out new features and speculative content. Keep in touch on our discord to find out more.
  
• naturally, the default branch will always contain the current stable version of New Cycle.

You can find more information about branch selection here . Of course you can always reach out to us in case the options above don't work out for you, best way for this would be to jump onto our community discord server [//].



Thank you and keep up the great support!

Heyho everyone,

In collaboration with various other friends from the genre, we are happy to announce our "City Builder Masters"- Bundle:

Included are:

• New Cycle (by Us :) )
  
• Endzone (by Gentlymad Studios)
  
• Islanders (by CoatSink)
  
• Pioneers of Pagonia (by Envision Entertainment)
  
• The Wandering Village (by Stray Fawn)

Greetings,

I would like to thank you for your ongoing support since the beginning of the release and would like to state that we have completed the further revision of our current roadmap based on your feedback throughout the entire process and our observations from the field.

Thanks to the overwhelming interest and support of our community, we were able to create a deeper gameplay and wider universe goal for the future.


To view the detailed roadmap:
https://newcycle.notion.site/New-Cycle-EA-Roadmap-da9d6510067d4945868b64df98861675?pvs=4


This content will always be open for revision after any input to support community engagement and help us make a better game.

We carefully review and evaluate all the feedback you provide via Steam, e-mail or Discord.
Thank you for your support and interest. We are also happy to announce that earlier this week, we will share the content and release date of the next major update.

Dear New Cycle Community,

We want to say hello again after a long development period. In this process, we considered and discussed in detail the feedback we have collected from you throughout our Early Access period up until this point, especially those that can get included in our roadmap for the 'Medium and Long-Term.' In response to your intense care, we have revised our already-existing roadmap to achieve a more overarching, interactive, and sustainable game world. We keep dedicating our efforts to make both the simplified and detailed version of our renewed roadmap, which will be open to your feedback in the process and available for general access soon. Therefore, thank you in advance for your understanding and interest.

Here is what we did along with the changes as bringing some late-game mechanics to an earlier phase and speeding up our preparations for a few bold additions:

* We focused more on the end-game process and the completion of the mechanics of the New Cycle world.
* Cleaned minor bugs and improved UI components that may have been disturbing the current user experience.
* Focused on resource cycle balancing for Sandbox mode to support infinite gameplay better.
* We worked on the 'Multi-production' side mechanic for the mid to end-game phases with the necessary revisions and new structures in the production tree.
* We have made inroads in the 'Logistics between in-land Regions' side mechanic we planned with the expanded map scale.
* Whilst some technical aspects (rendering performance, pathfinding algorithms, design settings from development periods) have been fine in early access, we have implemented a number of upgrade solutions in order to be ready for future scale-ups and our intention to run more content smoothly.
* Improved the tutorial menu to provide a better experience for our new players and aimed to explain the mechanics more comprehensibly.
*We realised that we could not explain some new capabilities and sections to our users very well, especially since we had serial updates close to the first release period. In this direction, we are making improvements, including more description fields, improvement of Ui indicators and changes on some definition fields.
* A series of micro-headings based on community feedback in particular.

Furthermore, we also want to share some welcome news that makes us glad this month. We were deemed worthy of awards in the categories of 'Game of the Year' and 'Best Computer Game of the Year' within the 'Crystal Pixel' game awards, which are valuable for the local ecosystem of our country, Türkiye. We hope it can be a morale booster for the Turkish game development industry in creating quality games that get worldwide recognition. Once again, we thank our community for being one of the most notable contributors to this achievement.

And we send our greetings together with our team mates and friends who attended the night

We look forward to catching you on our following post, in which we will share the roadmap and the content of the next update.

Greetings!

After the last major update content, we have identified and fixed the problem that some of our users encountered mainly in the 'Auto' save phase.

* Fixed sub-component causing crashes

Thank you for your understanding and support.