v1.7 — Update Notes

• Added a full day/night cycle with gradual dawn and dusk transitions
• Night now occupies roughly 25% of the day, keeping nighttime atmospheric without dominating gameplay
• Added working nighttime lighting for homes, businesses, offices, civic buildings, streetlights, parking lots, and vehicles
• Added vehicle headlights and taillights at night
• Added time-of-day changes to ambient town audio
• Redesigned the calendar around four 30-day seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
• One in-game year is now 120 days, allowing seasons and long-term town growth to progress more naturally
• Added full seasonal visual changes, including spring growth, summer greenery, fall foliage, bare winter trees, and dormant winter landscapes
• Added dynamic weather, including sunny, partly cloudy, overcast/gloomy, rain, thunderstorms, light snow, and heavy snow
• Added wet roads/pavement, snow accumulation, snow melt, lightning, thunder, and weather-specific ambience
• Weather and seasons now influence outdoor resident activity and traffic conditions
• Changed the default clock to 12-hour AM/PM time, with optional 24-hour time in Settings
• Reduced excessive UI click sounds and refined remaining sounds toward a subtle retro-PC feel
• Completely redesigned the HUD around a skeuomorphic late-90s PC city-builder aesthetic
• Consolidated scattered controls into a much cleaner top status bar and bottom control deck
• Redesigned icons, buttons, panels, demand meters, time controls, and build menus to match the new interface
• Added a fully integrated 1990s-style car stereo/radio to the HUD
• Added six radio stations: Rock, Pop, Country, Jazz, Chill, and Hip-Hop
• Fixed zoning overlays becoming difficult/invisible at night
• Added a proper electricity system
• Added multiple sizes of electrical substations
• Added wooden distribution poles and larger high-capacity transmission infrastructure
• Electricity can propagate through connected development, so individual buildings do not need their own power lines
• Added dedicated Power View, capacity tracking, and no-power warnings
• Added a proper municipal water system
• Added multiple sizes/styles of water towers
• Added an underground Water View for laying water pipes
• Water pipes provide service within a visible coverage radius instead of requiring individual building connections
• Added power and water capacity management as towns grow
• Integrated utilities with zoned development, buildings, nighttime lighting, and existing saves
• Added utility infrastructure appropriate to prebuilt towns
• Improved power-line visuals with thinner wires, wider pole spacing, and less visual clutter
• Improved power distribution so a line only needs to reach a connected cluster of development rather than running past every property
• Added numerous additional weather, seasonal, utility, audio, UI, save/load, and visual fixes