Main Street

by Foogimicester
Main Street
This is an economic game about running a successful business on Main Street.
ID:2123743
 
Since Update 1 less than 48 hours ago, we have gotten lots of feedback and activity! This has enabled us to quickly identify and crush bugs. We've also been working hard to balance the formulas for the most fun and exciting experience for short and lengthy game play sessions.

If you haven't checked out Main Street yet, it is an economic/tycoon game founded on three core principals: Collaboration, Creativity, and Competition. Read all about it here.

We're totally thrilled with the activity so far! Many players and developers alike from the BYOND community have been coming on to play, often for 3+ hours a session. We expect the amount of users to rise steadily but we are not going to aggressively seek out new players until we have stream lined the web client version of Main Street (it still needs a lot of tender love and care, but is functional).

Special thanks to Higoten, Michael Pol, and Windows 7 for their awesome assistance in identifying bugs.

Features Added:
[-]Shop owners can now hire as many employees as they want!
[-]Progression formulas tweaked for extended gameplay
[-]Game window is now re-sizable
[-]The green inspector box was replaced by on screen map text
[-]You can now name your shop!
[-]There is a new "world" tab which shows the stats of online players
[-]Your shop is sold along with stock and shop shelves when you log out
[-]You can now rotate rotate-able objects by clicking them
[-]The map now features rocks, trees, flowers, and shrubbery
[-]The map now has a more realistic coastline
[-]Decorative rugs have been added!

Bugs Fixed that Need Testing:
[-]Players who have employees should be hire-able now

Bugs Crushed:
[-]Objects such as rugs can no longer be overlapped
[-]There was a rock that spammed a message when you bumped it
[-]Fixed areas that flooded outside of shop

Upcoming Features:
[-]Shops will periodically charge the owner rent
[-]Logging out will no longer reset your data or erase your shop
[-]Offline players will be charged taxes (and rent if they own a store)
[-]If you are away for too long and run out of money (and own a shop) you will be evicted
[-]A leader board showing the most popular/valuable shops will be added
[-]A new decorative object: fountains
[-]Shop Themes - there will be four shop themes for you to choose from when you rent a shop. The content and strategies necessary for quick success will vary between the themes to create more diversity and excitement in the gameplay
[-]Newspaper boxes will be added. Buy an ad in the daily paper to temporarily boost your popularity!
[-]Want to undercut your competition? We'll be adding the ability to change item prices to speed up sales or to raise your profit margin.

If you enjoy Main Street, like the idea, or get good feelings when you read about the big strides in our first week being listed on BYOND (and our first 10 days of development) please go to our page and become a fan! We really appreciate it. :)
We just released a patch for tonight's update with a few bug fixes.

Bugs Fixed
Popularity loss when selling others' objects or building over turfs
Couldn't recover default floor of a shop
Setwage had no cancel option