what's new in v1.98...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• City advisor improvements - new color coding for important information. City services will now show covered buildings in green and those without coverage in red for easy identification.
• Added a buildings log to the city advisor - see everything you've recently built and removed.
• Heatmap improvements - added power, water and trash usage.
• Many fixes and improvements.

What's new in v1.97...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• Updated fonts to improve text readability.
• Added a random setting to the forest tool.
• New quick access menu for transportation.
• Warehouse slot capacity is now capped at 10 buildings each.
• Many fixes and improvements.

What's new in v1.96...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• Bulldozer tool will not remove tunnels unless you specifically select it.
• Added tunnel highlighting.
• Added railway bridges.
• Many fixes and improvements.

What's new in v1.95...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• New range of 1x1 residential towers.
• New forest tool to easily zone vast areas of trees.
• Advanced mode features now available on heatmaps.
• Added a city reset preview to improve city resets.
• Improvements to adding/removing water and land texturing.
• Many fixes and improvements.

What's new in v1.94...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• Improved navigation when adding buildings. Tap to scroll once, long press to scroll to the end/beginning.
• Quickly find buildings in your city by using the city advisor.
• Make favourite lists (one per category).
• Added new drilldown windows (in city analytics) to provide a better overview of your city.
• Resized cn tower and eiffel tower.
• burj khalifa, burj jeddah and dubai creek tower are now available for free in the premium buildings pack.
• Many fixes and improvements.

Previous updates...

• Many new buildings have been added.
• Added exclusive premium buildings to make your city skyline unique.
• You can now rename your buildings.
• Landscaping can now be overlapped to create even more realistic designs.
• Improved user interface.
• New transportation overlays in full city view.
• The new stackable warehouse means you can store many more buildings.
• All public transport now has a subway connection.
• New ratings leaderboard to highlight the highest rated cities. You'll need at least 50 likes for inclusion on this leaderboard.
• New usage stats have been added.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved how the game is backgrounded.
• Better support for Chromebooks.
• Improved memory management.
• Performance improvements.
• More chances to win on the daily bonus wheel.
• It is now easier to find fires on the city map.
• Performance improvements.
• Added fence and wall T pieces.
• City advisor improvements.
• Hide buildings on heat maps to easily find tiles without coverage.
• Added a new tool to help you balance your city.
• Advanced mode added more more building information.
• Taipei 101 is now a mixed use building.
• Warehouse button has been moved to the main screen for quicker access.
• New city advisor showing what you have built/not built is you have advanced mode enabled.
• Many new buildings have been added.
• Building multiple tunnels and overpasses is now much easier.
• Trains and monorail now have multiple carriages.
• Earn extra income from trains and ships.
• New transportation statistics.
• Increased the amount of people.
• Improvements to the exchanges.
• You can now use block mode to remove water.
• Runways will now only accept a single plane and the planes will be aware of the orientation and length of your runways (if you have used the correct start and end pieces). Note: Runways must be at least 5 tiles long to function correctly.
• Earn extra income for every passenger plane that lands in your city.
• Improved filtering system for finding buildings.
• Canton tower now has the correct height.
• More employment analytics.
• Added a bulldoze mode to quickly remove large areas for redevelopment.
• Power, water and trash services can now be purchased (configured in the trading screen). This enables you to outsource all of your power, water and trash service supply. You can purchase up to 150% of the current usage of your city. Buy/sell rates are symmetrical.
• Added a filter to only show unlocked buildings.
• Exchanging resources is now much easier/quicker.
• Performance and stability updates.
• It is now easier to layout transportation.
• New 1x1 city services with a larger area of effect.
• Add a rocket launch to your city.
• New large american football stadiums.
• Diamond mines now yield 5 diamonds.
• Launch pads now yield in 5 hours.
• New range of seasonal trees.
• Build large university campuses.
• Make onramps for overpasses.
• Challenge and achievement popups have been removed so they will not interrupt your game flow.
• Get notified when someone visits or likes your city.
• Land update to 200x200 - 7,600 more tiles for you to build on. This will also boost the ecology and happiness in your city.
• Many new buildings have been added.
• New 7 span and 8 span bridges.
• More landscaping and larger mountains.
• Improved street lighting.
• Learn all about the special buildings in the game - full stats and all the history.
• You can now upgrade all instances of the same building with a single action.
• Many new buildings have been added.
• Building money yields are now processed in real time (no more waiting until it is ready).
• More green energy power production plants.
• Easily find buildings without coverage.
• See upgrade levels on enhanced eyetool.
• New sports and government categories.
• Warehouse improvements and capacity increased to 150.
• See your public transportation usage in your city.
• Added a new ecology tab to the city overview window. This will give you more granular information on ecology. See how green your power production is.
• Ecology is now calculated more accurately. Buildings next to (or on) water should receive an ecology boost.
• Public transportation now has a greater ecology boost. The more you have the greener your city will become.
• Added many more flags.
• Get more detailed breakdowns of how ecology and city services affect individual buildings.
• Analytics now splits special buildings into the correct categories.
• New set of parking lots.
• Subway layer improvements.
• Eyetool improvements.
• Add ferry services to your city.
• Trash is now provided in units (the same as power and water) but will still provide an area of effect bonus. It is no longer required to have trash services all around your city. This gives you the freedom to place them anywhere in your city.
• Many buildings have been updated.
• Cities are now more animated.
• Buildings that do not need city services will not be included in coverage stats.
• Buildings placed on water no longer need city services.
• Add a cloud layer to your city to add a new view for your screenshots.
• You can now filter your warehouse by category.
• New DC leaderboards give you more chance of ranking.
• For ranking, the building cap has been raised to 200 - any more than this will negatively affect your ranking. Landscaping, parking lots and public transport are now excluded from this check.
• Build more of the same building before it costs gold.
• Boost ecology by upgrading trees.
• Expanded support for devices with cutouts/pinholes.
• You can now expand your land in 5x5 blocks rather than in rings. Expansions will now only cost game money (not gold and diamonds).
• RCI demand bars are now easier to understand and have been rebalanced. You will only need half as much industrial as commercial to balance your city. R = 2C + I.
• Add overpasses to your city.
• Improved city stats.
• Control land generation dynamics when you reset your map.
• Batch mode now applies to upgrading roads/paths.
• Improved Area of Effect calculations for city services will slightly boost your happiness if you have good coverage.
• Earn more money from extinguishing fires.
• Better support for devices with cutouts/pinholes.
• Android 11 support.
• Fix for offline gameplay.
• Many new special buildings from around the world.
• Add airfields to your city.
• More landscaping.
• City income is now automatically collected.
• Improved analytics and reporting.
• Yield times for gold and diamond producing buildings are reduced.
• Increased income from special buildings.
• Mixed use buildings will give more income when upgraded.
• Added dirt roads.
• Collecting diamonds no longer costs gold.
• Libraries now provide education coverage.
• Land increased to 180x180 - an extra 6,800 tiles to build on. This will also boost the ecology and happiness in your city.
• New residential, industrial and special buildings.
• Cheaper land expansions (the first 4 are now free).
• Get 250% more money for purchases.
• More realistic planes and they will now correctly orient to runways.
• Add naval bases and coastguard to your city.
• Many new buildings including special buildings.
• Added many new tree variations and improved the existing trees.
• Batch mode for placing water.
• Added some wild west buildings.
• Improved railway bridges.
• Improved path bridges.
• More road/path upgrades.
• Fresh new look to the UI.
• Many fixes and improvements.
• New commercial and special buildings.
• Analytics will now track over 60 days.
• New city happiness reporting.
• Heatmaps now show an entire city minimap.
• Get double money from game purchases.
• iOS devices can now use their Apple account to transfer their city to a new iOS device.
• Added trees to fit corner ground tiles.
• More flags added.
• Searching for buildings is now language aware.
• New special buildings.
• Transamerica pyramid is now available for everyone.
• Special buildings are now free to upgrade.
• More landscaping features including geysers and volcanoes.
• Improved embankments.
• Added search and improved filtering to make finding buildings easier.
• Building transportation networks and landscaping is now free.
• Deleting buildings is now free.
• Paths are now upgradeable.
• People will walk on paths.
• Rating cities is now optional.
• New random leaderboard (see 10 random cities on each refresh).
• New daily bonuses.
• UI improvements.
• City services will not have an AoE unless connected to a road.
• Switchable detail levels.
• Monorail and train stations can now be placed/moved without having to have existing tracks. This should make designing public transportation networks easier.
• Improved memory management.
• Improved traffic flow.
• Improved topography.
• Added an emergency center which provides massive police, fire and health services in a single building.
• Upgrading values now factors in building modifiers.
• New passenger port and cruise ships.
• New special buildings.
• New range of sports stadiums.
• New landscaping category with various mountains.
• Adding public transportation will now reduce traffic by up to 50% (and pollution too).
• Switchable design grid.
• Improvements to ground texturing and you can now change ground textures in batches.
• New historic buildings.
• New landmark buildings.
• More ground textures.
• All devices will now run in HD.
• New marina with speedboats.
• Cheaper diamond land expansions.
• Increased AoE for police and fire headquarters.
• AoE now changes with zoom level.
• Rate cities you've already liked.
• You can now rate other cities and see your own ratings.
• Laying down transportation will be much faster.
• More road upgrade options.
• City advisor now keeps the history of messages.
• You can watch an ad to 'collect all' for free.
• Welcome to the DC farming update. Create massive farms, harvest the land, boost your income or save up and exchange it for diamonds!
• We've reduced the texture memory required to run the game.
• Increased zoom levels.
• Reduced loading times.
• Increased traffic.
• Fix for reward ads.
• Many new buildings have been added. Including an updated tileable zoo and golf course.
• Visual updates to many buildings.
• You can now build city walls on roads and rail.
• See all your transportation when in subway view.
• Enhanced eye tool. Now you can view your city by category.
• City trading now dynamically updates based on changes in your city.
• Higher definition for all buildings.
• Night time is now much more colourful and vibrant.
• Improved runways (your airports will see an increase in airplanes).
• Improved area of effect. It is now even easier to map your coverage.
• Daily bonuses have doubled.
• New special buildings.
• Increased the exchange rate 5x for converting gold into money.
• New building interface. You can now drag and drop to build.
• Rapid build has been added (you can enable this in your game settings).
• Purchases award extra diamonds each time you make a purchase.
• Improve transportation in your city by constructing road tunnels and railway tunnels.
• Roads now support upgrading to make tree lined avenues.
• Add tolls to your roads for extra income.
• A new class of self-contained building has been discovered; add an arcology to your city.
• Monorail can now be placed on top of road bridges.
• Various fixes and improvements; especially for 4x4 buildings.
• Christmas has arrived in Designer City. Join in the festivities by decorating your city with our collection of Christmas decorations, parks and buildings.
• Visual updates to a lot of the entry level residential buildings plus many new residential buildings have been added.
• You can now add railway networks to your city. This will boost ecology.
• Updates to roads and paths.
• Paths, monorail and railway will now automatically spawn bridges.
• Visual updates to city services.
• Color balancing for a brighter more natural look for your cities.
• See buildings in both night and day before you build them.
• Too many power stations? Well you can now consolitate these with the new power and water utilities (in the special category).
• Halloween has arrived in Designer City. Decorate your cities with spooky buildings.
• More commercial and industrial buildings added.
• Building the same building is now 50% cheaper.
• Decorations can be placed on water.
• More bridge styles - for 5 and 6 spans.
• You can now easily see the new buildings.
• We have extensively reworked the game engine to support a much larger playing area. So you now have an additional 5,600 tiles to build on.
• Fix for ads not always playing/completing on certain devices.
• Cheaper diamond expansions.
• Improvements for "tall" devices.
• Find the hot air balloon for a gold bonus.
• No more build times for building and upgrading.
• New residential, industrial and special buildings.
• Trading has been added - sell your excess power and water.
• Diamond buildings are now 10x cheaper to upgrade.
• Gold buildings are now completely free to upgrade to level 10.
• Roads, rail and paths will now automatically remove trees. Trees are free to remove.
• Warehouse capacity has been increased to 100 spaces.
• Road improvements.
• Improvements to the exchange.
• Gain a boost to your city with increased area of effect for city services.
• Improved heat maps.
• Added Google sign in so you can backup/restore your city.
• You can now view help and FAQ if you are offline.
• Parking lots now act like roads to allow more flexible designs.
• Fixes for functionality on certain tablets.

Happy designing!