Roro, I couldn't figure out what corrupted your save file, but I will continue to watch out for the cause.
I've posted a new update! This one will hopefully add a little more spice to the game, and I'm especially hopeful that people will post some custom item lists. Down the road I might adjust the game so that people can disable the built-in items that the game starts with, and have it only run off of the custom lists. That will depends on whether people actually end up using this feature.
Changes from 0.8 to 0.9
- Fixed the warehouse menu, which was returning people to the wrong spot after buying merchandise.
- Fixed a typo on the monthly statement that switched the words "loss" and "gain".
- The pharmacy has been added to the game, as another store extra that can help keep customers returning to your store instead of visiting your competition.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the AI players from ever setting up a customer rewards program at their stores.
- Fixed a bug that was showing the wrong items and purchases in your monthly statement.
- Fixed a bug that was sometimes crashing the game suddenly.
- The dedicated research team has been added now. With this store extra, you pay $2000 each month but no longer have to pay for individual market research services. If you find yourself spending over $2000 each month on research, adding this to your store might be a smart move.
- Each week the game will automatically save your game into a temporary file called "lastsave". This should not be used as an excuse to exit your game without saving, but should something terrible happen and the game closes without you saving, at least you can load up a recent save file.
- Due to a variety of game changes over the past several versions, players can no longer load saved games created with version 0.6b or earlier. Up until now I've been careful to keep the game able to load those old save files, but I think most players will already be using a more up to date version.
- A ton of new items have been added to the game, but there are only ever 28 types available at the warehouse. When an item is completely sold out, it will be replaced with an entirely new item. This should help keep the player on his/her toes because new items will continue to pop up which might be the next big seller!
- Feel like playing the game with some custom items? Well now you can! You will find an example file in your U-Mart folder, named items1.txt. Read it carefully and you should be making your own items in no time! Not only can you fill the file with a bunch of items, but you can create more files too. Just change the number, up to a maximum of items99.txt, and the game will read in all of them. Why would you need 99 files if you can put hundreds of items into a single file, you might ask. The answer is that you could keep things organized into themes. Perhaps you use 1 file for pet store related items, and another for clothes. You can also write up a great file and post it for other players to download! I can only imagine all of the creative and funny items the community could put together.
