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This weekend, the Community Control Center Events organized by PeDePe will take place (from 4 to 10 p.m. each day). You can register now in the Control Center Simulator!

Saturday:
Ahlheim Laurenzbach Updated (35% bonus)
Krefrath (35% bonus)

Sunday:
BRT Berlin (40% bonus)
Städtedreieck21 (40% bonus)

We are looking forward to your registrations and wish you a lot of fun! :)

With this new update we bring some new life into the game for all players and have also implemented two requests of the Premium players :)

- Bonus Mission: Start the bonus mission in either singleplayer or multiplayer to earn an additional reward every day.
- Ticket inspectors can now gain experience, increasing their success rate. Advanced training can also increase the success rate. The higher the level, the higher the salary. The previous experience of all existing ticket inspectors is…

Highlights:
- External Depots: Build up to 15 external depots on your map, each able to hold up to 100 additional buses
- Automations: With the new research, your staff can check the buses on their own and wash, refuel or clean them if necessary
- Staff scheduling: Determine when which group of employees should come to work from home and how many employees should be present on the premises outside core working hours
- Parking space allocation: Buses can now be permanently assigned to a parking…

Highlights:
- Performance and freezes in savegames with a lot of employees optimised
⁃ Preview of passenger volume now loads much faster
⁃ Bus stop limit per line increased to 500 (incl. waypoints)
⁃ Maximum shift length can now be set
- Fixed several bugs that caused passengers to not exit the bus correctly
⁃ In case of a faulty map cache, the affected tiles are now reloaded to avoid green tiles
⁃ Buses now no longer get stuck at the entrance and block traffic
⁃ Fixed bug where buses were…

Highlights:
- Waypoints for line construction (hold shift to place a waypoint)
- Optimisation of performance, especially with high numbers of employees and buses
- Optimisation of RAM consumption and fixing of memory leaks and resulting crashes (e.g. when building long lines, ordering many buses, painting)
- Significant optimisation of the loading time (the loading time of old savegames is still very high until they have been loaded and saved once with the new version)
- New faster save and…

- BBS Premium players can now rent buses instead of buying them (when buying a new bus, you can choose whether you want to buy it directly, rent it or pay for it in rates).
- Addition (Update 4.0.9.2): Rights to buy and rent buses can now be assigned separately
- New multiplayer map: LANUS
- Several bug fixes

Today at 5pm (CEST) the Easter Event starts in the Bus Company Simulator!

By driving certain routes, you can earn event points, which can then be used to unlock special additional rewards. If you earn enough event points, you will receive an exclusive badge!
In addition, all drivers also earn event points for the company for which they drive the event tours. Each company has an individual goal that must be achieved to earn an additional reward and an exclusive badge for the company.

Open the…

Highlights

- You can now add your own buses to the game via the new Bus Modding Tool and share them in the workshop!
- Bus Upgrades: Upgrades (e.g. premium seats, passenger information system) are now available for buses to improve passenger comfort.
- WLAN: Mobile data contracts with different data volumes can be booked in order to offer passengers WLAN during the journey
- Timetable: The driving times in the extended timetable can now be entered manually instead of having to select a fixed…

- New multiplayer maps: Grundorf Plus BR - RKC, Woltersdorf_2016, Montevideo Ficticio V2.5, Habana Oeste, Ribeiro de Abreu V5, Landkreis Lahnau V3, Neunkirch, Landkreis Unterhölz V2, Landkreis Stein, Délpest 5.2, Lincolnshire, Avelia V3, Borsodi régió, Demircity 3.8, Demircity 2, Sao Miguel City (World Coordinates), SP-EXTREMO PARELHEIROS (World Coordinates), HCM, Pruszkow, Berlins berühmte 100 V.1, Wiesental
- Several bug fixes

- Preferred vehicle groups can now also be set for each timetable in the extended timetable mode. This will then be taken into account in the shift schedule for all shifts that have not yet been assigned a preferred vehicle group
- When automatically assigning bus drivers, the working time of the last 7 days is now taken into account
- Buses now use petrol stations/wash stations in close proximity for refuelling and washing in order to avoid unnecessary journeys across the whole company…

In this update we have implemented some of your most requested features! We have also fixed many reported bugs.

New features:
- Size of the premises doubled
- 5 new bus access roads added to the site to avoid traffic jams
- Tasks (washing, refuelling, etc.) can now be ordered at the same time, even if no staff or items are available, and will be processed automatically afterwards
- Brazilian currency added
- Many new features in the shift plan

Shift schedule:
- A desired vehicle group can now…

With this update, a bug has been fixed that caused tours in the single player to not be compensated correctly in some cases. Affected players will receive compensation later today. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused!

With this update, the next premium feature that won the survey has been implemented: You can now open a statistic for the buses in which you can see how much income and expenses the bus had in the last 30 or 90 days and which tours were driven with this bus. Please note that the expenses will only be assigned to the buses as of today and the corresponding numbers in the statistics will therefore only become meaningful over time.

In addition, a bug has been fixed that prevented some tours from…

Features:
- Autosave setting: the interval for automatic saving can now be self-determined or optionally completely deactivated.
- Employees can be sent on holiday so that they can recover completely
- In the financial overview there is now the possibility to show all investments (until now only current expenses were shown)
- Norwegian Krone added as currency
- Employees become a bit more unfriendly when they are too much stressed

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where the game wouldn't load and the…

- 10 new bus models added
- China and Hong Kong added as region
- When researching, the buses that match the region of the depot are now unlocked first
- Christmas decoration added
- Fixed bug which caused the loading screen to not disappear
- Fixed bug which caused buses to stop several times when entering the paint shop

In this update we mainly focused on performance improvements, so you can expect significantly more FPS especially in the later gameplay.

Changelog:
- Performance improvements when you have many buses/employees
- Performance improvements when many buses start a shift at the same time
- Performance improvements if you have many buses on the yard at the same time
- Loading time optimised (especially noticeable in game states with many lines)
- Wayfinding of employees and buses optimised
- Added…

In this update we have improved the route planning on the map, so that now more roads can be used.

Routing:
- Missing bus roads added
- Ferry routes can now be used and thus islands can also be built on
- Barriers (e.g. bollards), which are open for buses, can now be passed
- One-way streets that are open for buses can now be used
- Fixed the bug that routing did not work on a big part of the map
- Streetcar, Tram and Subway routes are now reliably displayed as rail instead of road
- Roads…

We have just released Update 1.0.3.1. We received a lot of suggestions, wishes and bug reports, thank you very much! Please understand that it may take a while to process them.

Changelog:

- Passenger numbers in large cities optimised (with existing savegames, it can take an ingame day until this shows up)
- Willingness to use public transport starts with a lower value in larger cities, so that there is more time to unlock and expand larger buses at the beginning
- Subsidies increased…

- Fixed bug that multiple buses parked on one parking space
- Fixed a bug that buses could never reach their parking spot
- Fixed bug that buses got stuck on the way to the garage / gas station / car wash
- Fixed bug that buses got stuck in the fence
- Fixed bug that buses have blocked each other
- Fixed bug with articulated buses that sometimes the joint was rigid or sunk into the ground
- Fixed a bug that you could not zoom in on the map anymore
- Fixed a bug that in rare cases the map…

- Fixed a bug where buses would incorrectly show that they were in a shift and could no longer be used
- Fixed a bug where the game would freeze when starting a new game if the Microsoft Media Feature Pack was missing
- Fixed a bug that in rare cases you had to press Escape when starting the game to get to the main menu
- Fixed a bug that the line color could not be changed
- Added missing translations
- Text in the service center dialogs enlarged
- Inactive lines can now be hidden permanently…