Good News Everyone!

Tricity 1.4c2 is now available!  So many tweaks and bug fixes happened since the last version, and I couldn't be happier with the current state of the game after only 5 weeks of development.  Here are some of the biggest changes:

• Environment
  • Terrain striation added
  • Redesigned trees and foliage
  • World size increased to 7000 parcels
  • Added:
    • Boulders - Non intractable or clear-able
• Game play
  • Clearing forests leave stumps that decay naturally over time
  • Water tiles no longer intractable (will be fixed in the future)
  • Redesigned population mechanic
  • Power demand/supply affects population growth
  • Tiles now must be fully cleared before developing or placing any structure on them
  • Increased housing spawn chance
  • Reworked housing population capacities
• Interaction
  • Movement speeds now increase the farther zoomed out you are
  • Left Shift to move twice as fast
  • Camera movements are now more natural
• Graphical
  • Lighting has been greatly improved
  • Draw distance increased
  • Rendering optimizations
  • Completely redesigned User Interface and in game quitting (opposed to force quitting)
  • Roads re-texture
• Loading
  • Game now loads all tiles at run time instead of before application initialization.  (Same loading time but prettier!)