A Record of Your Own

A fairness patch. Records now genuinely work per difficulty charter, warnings about your stations arrive as messages you cannot miss, and ships and planes take a smaller bite of their market.

Every charter's best sets records now

The record books have been split by difficulty charter for a while — but the nominations weren't. Only the single best company on the whole world was ever considered per category, so if a stronger company on another charter shared your map, your values never even reached the books. A Normal player next to a dominant Easy player could barely set a thing on a near-empty Normal book.

• One nomination per charter, per category. Vehicle income per mode, the market bonus, the biggest town and every industry type now nominate each charter's own best — an Easy giant no longer erases a Normal player's best mine.
• The self-repeat spam is fixed too. A bug let you re-break your own records every time you levelled up (your badge changes, so you looked like a new holder). The 2-hour anti-repeat cooldown holds properly now: a record announces when it's set and when a rival takes it.

Station warnings you cannot miss

If a station's parts drift more than 5 tiles of empty ground apart, you get warned and eventually the stray part is removed. A player got the removal with no warning they ever saw — the warnings were being delivered, but rendered as ordinary chat from a confusing sender.

• Warnings now arrive as private messages to every crew member aboard, unmistakably addressed to you.
• If nobody's aboard when a warning fires, it's held and delivered when someone connects — a warning is only considered given once somebody actually received it.
• These always come through — !hide never mutes them.

!hide is for record fanfares only

The new mute was too greedy: it also hid the hourly boards and the MATCH OVER standings. Now !hide silences record announcements and nothing else — boards, match results, warnings and replies to your own commands always show.

Ships and planes flood their market less

Each ship and plane now adds fewer service units to its mode's market share, so sea and air read scarcer and their bonuses hold up better as fleets grow. Ferries (5), light ships (3), helicopters (2) and the land modes are unchanged.