Whats new?
Upon this page we will post up warnings and eventually confirmation of any additions to the game or rule changes that may affect the residents of Netropolis.
November 2007 Changes
- Buildings will sell for their actual value and not the original cost of the building.
September 2007 Changes
- Emails will no longer be sent when you make a transfer from the Netropolis bank, on the bright side you can now make much faster transfers at the Netropolis bank.
- Zoomed out nuke targeting page fixed
- Select a nuke target maps fixed
- Withdraw from sale right click option fixed
- Due to stricter building regulations the Netropolis Board of Govenors will no longer allow companies under level 3 to site their headquarters within the city limits.
- The Netropolis Board of Fair Play is taking a more active interest in the activities of our shadier entrepreneurs.
August 2007 Changes
- Buy, sell and sell to state added to some right click shortcuts
- Assorted bug fixes..
- Short cuts have been added to the map screen
By right clicking on a property you can access a number of actions to perform. - The corporate satelite network is back in operation, it will now be easier for you to highlight your foes
- Clean up now removes fire as well as dirty trick effects
- Company limits modified on City entry
- An issue with mass building renovation has been fixed
In Development - changes currently in test or in development, more details will be published when they are ready to go in an update.
- Only active companies are allowed to maintain a plush office in the city, as your influence dwindles so does your office space.
- Buildings will degrade over time
- Changes to the speedlimits
- Dirty trick effects changes
May 2007 Changes
- Updated Turbo Pack including a few missing images added courtesy of Craig.
May 2004 Changes
October 2003 Changes
- New buildings added Renovated Office and Manor Restaurant
August 2003 Changes
- Tournament sign up now available, you must have set your name and address under the player profile section of your account before you can sign up for a tournament
- Number of actions and company level now viewable on the profile page under HQ
- Stop dirty trick and highlighting no longer actions
May 2003 Changes
- Netropolis 2 Accounts system launched, please consult with the help pages for more information. Many thanks to Bri-UK_Mafia for the help page
- Rate of fire spread reduced by half
- Damage caused by Fire proximity reduced by half
- Account profiles is now live, change your passwords and your display names from here
April 2003 Changes
- Netropolis 2 launched!
- Natural disasters introduced to the game
- Internal security mesasures will now show on profit and loss tables
- Internal security no longer takes additional damage from continuous fire spread
- Seasons system implemented, affecting fire spread rate
- Cities that you have heroed will appear on the profile page
- South America added, 13 new cities now available
- Europe added, 10 new capitals now available
- Newbie Land is now available, please read the notes on the joining page before joining (or attempting to join one)
- Heights maps should be nukeable now
- Game optimised so hopefully some speed issues have been resolved
- 12 new map layouts added to the game on the new continents
- Updated turbo pack has been added, please inform the games team if there are any issues or broken images DOWNLOAD NEW TURBO PACK HERE
- If you downloaded the last turbo pack then please apply this top up pack for full functionality - DOWNLOAD TURBO PACK PATCH
January 2003 Changes
- New turbo pack has been added, please inform the games team if there are any issues or broken images
- If you downloaded the newest turbo pack (the 12 MB version) then please apply this top up pack for full functionality - DOWNLOAD TURBO PACK PATCH
December 2002 Changes
- Rate of fire spread during a fire strike has been lowered
November 2002 Changes
- Transfer limit in Belfast reset to £1,000,000.
- Minimum transfer amount is now 10% of the maximum for that person's location. e.g. minimum transfer to a town is now £5000.
- Offline tax has been lowered by order of the Netropolis High Commission
- The unions are taking hold, watch your services
- Links page updated
October 2002 Changes
- Fire extinguishers now available from the security menu
- All medals and shields are in the game now with the following criterion:
- Bronze shield for completing more than 5 towns
- Silver shield for completing more than 5 cities
- Gold shield for completing more than 5 capitals
- Bronze medal for completing all towns on any continent
- Silver medal for completing all cities on any continent
- Gold medal for completing all capitals on any continent
- The gold bust award should now appear in the company and rich lists
- Removed the criminality column from the lists to give more space for all the awards
- It should not be possible to change a building type into a hotel at town level anymore
- Mini map in John O Groats has been fixed
- Removed some of the misleading messages and links from the Bank screens
- On the stats screen, the player's position will now appear at the top next to the player name
- Bugs with the renovate menu option for properties should be fixed
- Heights maps Valhalla and Atlantis have been readded to the game
- Mini map in Stornoway has been fixed
- Mini map in Bangor has been fixed
- Mini map in Bundaberg has been fixed
- Town, City, Capitals and Heights Hero limits have been reset to the correct amounts
- It should not be possible to build hotels at town level anymore
- Stats are now fixed in Darwin and Olympus
- Entry and transfer value for Darwin set to correct amount
- Transfer value for Melbourne set to correct amount
- Netropolis has been reset, thank you for bearing with us
- All further changes will be posted here and on the forum
