Update: Friday, December 21, 2012

Sorry guys for late updates... It was due to my pc problem.. but I guess it's working okay now...
So here is one more late update...

Developer News   2012-12-21

Merry locale graphics christmas? We've finally added custom locale graphics to version 2.0, and valid locale- and home owners of almost all shapes and sizes (not rented apartments, though) should now be able to spice up their place. The image dimensions has changed to better match the official ones. The new size is 489 * 258 pixels, so fire up your image editor of choice and resize your old images. Visit "Edit information" on your locale page to add your image. Also, remember to refresh your browser cache in order to update any CSS files that has been stored locally. For those who do not wish to be offended by the creativity of others, there's an option to only show official locale graphics under "Account Details" > "Content Settings". Have a merry x-mas, splendid kwanzaa or whatever you choose to celebrate in the end of December!

Update: Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-19

Phone memory upgrades The phone memory upgrade credit product was removed from version 1 of the game today, and any memory upgrades you've made in the past has been transferred into the address book in version 2. The V2 address book supports 300 entries in it's default form. All upgrades made has been directly converted into the equal amount of extra "memory" in the address book.

Update: Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-18

Brace Yourselves Brace yourselves, hold on to your hats, and take whatever other precautions you feel necessary. Operation click-reduction is now in full speed ahead which will mean frequent gusts of awesome implementations all across Popmundo in the days to come. Okay, that’s promising too much. But changes do keep trickling in at a steady pace and hopefully, there will be time for a fair few before the coming holidays are upon us. New for today is a Diary remake and Record Studio to Artist messages. Read more about them below. Diary remake Your personal diary has been given a remake, and now shows a week at a time instead of a day. You also have the option to filter your diary to only show a certain type of events. The categories right now are: - Complete Diary - Character Focus - City Travels - Cash Transactions - Artist Essentials - World Tour - Company Management Record Studio to Artist messages The same functionality as in the old version, you can now send messages to one specific/all signed artists on your label. You can find this option in the Studio Management menu, called Artists Announcements. As an artist, you will see messages sent from record studios as an entry in the Artist Journal. They are also notified like normal journal entries, so you won’t miss them.

Update: Friday, December 14, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-14

Is it Friday Already? Before we know it, 2012 will be over and we've spent yet another tinkering on the world of Popmundo. It's hard to believe. What isn't hard to believe however, are some of alterations to the game we've done recently which you can check out for yourself here in the new version. We've redone the page listing artist invitations so it includes relevant data about the venues, competitions etc in addition to a new view which lists your invitations together with already booked shows and hours between shows. Accepting the invitations is also easier now since we've added that option to this page directly. We've altered the list of your current bids on the Property Market in a similar way. This page now also allows you to quickly increase your bid on locales without having to leave the page. VIP members can pick up & drop multiple items at once, using checkboxes to select which ones. You can now pick up protected items in your own home(s) which belong to other people. You still can't use them however. We know this is can be a real problem when the items belong to dead people, we'll take care of that problem soon. Have a nice weekend! P.S. Don't forget that if you're arranging any final competitions in the old version of the game, you should have handed out invitations for those by now. Like we announced earlier, we're removing this possibility from the game for a while. We we're officially removing it on the 10th of December. And we've now given you an extra week.

Update: Thursday, December 13, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-13

Divorce tweak If your partner does not sign your divorce request withinfour weeks, it will be automatically granted. This only applies to divorces made in V2 from 10.00 CET today, so if you have an old divorce request that hasn't been signed yet, cancel it and file a new one.

Developer News   2012-12-12

Clubbing for Rookies We all know how rough it can be to get a gig sometimes - not to mention an audience. To try and help this problem, we - in our almighty power - have made a few changes that you’ll notice both as club owner and as musician. Genre strength Genre Strength is no longer affected by all gigs played at a club, but instead only by the best act who has played there during the past year. That means lower rated shows won’t lower the genre strength at all. (Also, just in case there’s any misconceptions on this, high genre strength does not mean you sell more tickets - you just sell your tickets faster.) Stray sales We also recognise the fact that fans are a little bit nuts. From now on, that may even save you from an otherwise failed show if you are very lucky. A few odd Does may rumble in to your gig even if the ticket prices are a bit off, or if you’ve played in the city a bit too many times already. Just remember, there are no guarantees here. So don't rely on stray ticket reservations to get an audience, they just popped by randomly for the music.

Update: Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-05

Goodbye Yellow Brick Company Licence That which used to be known as the Company Licence is now for sale as three separate credit products in the new version and it's now cheaper than ever to start your career as a company owner. There's one for starting up a company, one for buying new company locales, and one for trading company shares. Please check out the credit product page for detailed information about how these three products work exactly. Why did we make this change? Please read the rest of this news to find out more. We felt that having one subscription based product was enough. We like the simplicity of offering a VIP membership for the hardcore gamer and complementing this with credit products sold separately as items without expiration dates. Granted, having two subscription based products wasn't all that confusing, but when we started thinking about future games within the Popmundo Universe it became clear to us that multiple subscriptions was not the way to go. The three credit products that replace the Company Licence are priced to make it cheaper for players to get a company of their own up and running. It also offers the player the flexibility of only paying for what they are interested in instead of the whole expensive package we offered before. Some players interested in managing countless companies and massive global chains of clubs will protest and say that this new setup is much more expensive than the old Company Licence. But that is only true if you were to buy all the locales and companies in your empire with credits. We'd much rather you traded shares with each other and bought locales on the Property Market without spending massive amounts of credits. (Although we're sure our owners would love it if you did.) The idea here is to take care of the companies and locales that already exist, and not flood the game world with more businesses that only end up littering our cities. Anyone with an existing company licence from the old game will be able to enjoy it like they are used to until the day it expires. The date of expiration is shown on your player information page here in the new version. To make this change less sudden for active company licence holders we've extended all Company Licences that expired in November, or later on this year, to the end of 2012. Thank you for your attention.

Update: Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Developer News   2012-12-04

Slight disturbance in conversations We're adding some functionality to the conversation system, and for a few hours, starting now, you might (will) experience some problems with accessing yourconversations. Please bear with us!

Developer News   2012-12-04

Communication is key Sorry for the hour long disturbance on the webs today. Billy Bob, most likely hungover on tequila, managed to overlook one slight detail... Anywho. We've made a few changes to the conversation system, that we wanted to publish today: 1. You may hide individual messages in a conversation. Click the little eye icon on the right hand side to do so. Hidden messages may be brought back later on, by clicking "unhide conversation" on the top of the conversation page. 2. You can now mark messages as unread, by clicking the envelope icon on the right hand side. Please note that messages you've marked as unread are going to stay so until you manually mark them as read again (once again, by clicking the envelope icon), or until you mark your entire inbox as read. We've also revamped the inbox page a bit. A few more improvements are coming, in a future not so far from now. And oh, if stuff doesn't work, clear your browser cache.