5 Years of Industry Tycoon

Hello dear Tycoons

On November 1st Industry Tycoon will be celebrating birthday, its 5th already! It has been an exciting time and the game evolved almost every week.

One of the most important aspects of the game's success is, and will always be the community. The age-average is relatively high and the youngest in the community have been socialized nicely. The admin team continues to be excited about this development, and as you know we are frequently in the chatroom busily talking and joking. A few of us had a community meeting in Germany last year, not only to chat but also deepen new formed friendships.

But back to business: A few things are to be announced for the upcoming round:

New products:

Here's just the list without any comments. Of course you can feel free to debate everything in the forum.

Electronics:

- Computer (1x Plastic, 1x Steel, 2x Electronic components) - Wiki
- Printer (1x Plastic, 1x Electronic components) - Wiki
- TFT display (1x Plastic, 1x Electronic components, 1x Precious metals) - Wiki
- Keyboard (2x Plastic) - Wiki
- Computer Mouse (1x Plastic) - Wiki

Book store:
- Trading Cards (1x Cardboard) - Wiki
- Sticker (1x Paper) - Wiki
- Sticker Album (2x Paper) - Wiki

Textile:
- Basecap (2x Fabrics) - Wiki
Crocodile leather and crocodile handbags are removed from the game
Any researched quality from crocodile handbags is transferred to "Basecap"

Furniture:
- Wooden garden chair (1x Lumber) - Wiki
- Plastic garden chair (1x Plastic) - Wiki
- Wooden chair (1x Lumber) - Wiki
- Office chair (1x Plastic, 1x Fabrics) - Wiki

Music:
- Drumkit (1x Steel, 1x Lumber) - Wiki
- Bassguitar (2x Lumber) - Wiki
- Microphone (1x Plastic) - Wiki

Fueling station (new):
- Gasoline (1x Oil) - Wiki
- Diesel (1xOil) - Wiki
- Motor oil (previously sold in the car dealer)

New minor features:

For every round reset we would like to award the best companies. For this reason we will introduce a new medal system. These medals will be displayed at various places in the game (Highscore, Profile, Players online list).

Halloween

We are planning to include a few more frequent real-life events in the game. In this week (probably tomorrow noon) you can grow "Pumpkins" in your farms (starting level 0). Starting Thursday you will then be able to take part in the Helloween-event until the round resets. Please keep in mind that you can only donate once (for more info please check the manual or the wiki ).

The Top 25 donors will receive a medal for "Halloween 2008". The exact name for the medal will be disclosed later.

Industrie Tycoon 2

Lets get to the big exciting news. I am proud to annouce the beginning of development for IT's sequel. It's our goal to release Industry Tycoon in 2009. I will inform you about it with more details about 1-2 weeks after the reset, so please be a little patient.

The new Portal

Just fyi we will go live with our newly refurbished portal. The old one looked a bit outdated and will make room for a brand new modern one.

I very much hope you are looking forward to the changes and future plans as much as we do.

You can discuss everything in this letter here.

'Til then
greetings

Maikel Urlitzki
Thomas Stahl
and the Industry Tycoon team

... and a few changes regarding gameplay:

Forward transactions
Successful forward transactions will now be rewarded with points in the Best-eventmanager highscore. For each 100pcs delivered you receive 0.1 points.
Once you have accepted a forward transaction, a little green/red symbol will inform you about whether or not you are currently fulfilling demands for a successful transaction.

Best-Eventmanager Highscore:
At the end of each round your score will be added in an "alltime highscore" chart.

Classified ads:
It is now possible to highlight several classifieds (similar to the buildings menu) and deliver them with one click.

Quality research:
It will be possible to select a follow-up research.

Visual improvements:
The visual appearance of the pie-charts in the SuDe and the line chart in the balance has been changed.

Thanks to "firma0816" for translating the original topic!

You can now produce "Pumkin" for the shortly starting "Hallowen"-Event.

Seed: February
Harvest: September
You can produce it in your farms (level 0)

Trick or treat?

You can now donate your produced Pumpkins for the Helloween-Event until October 31th, 2008 @ 24:00 CET! (roundreset)

I have now distributed the halloween medals to the top25 companies of the event. You can see your medal in your profile (activate your profile if u want that other players can see your medal).