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Yearly Statement

FlatStudios release their yearly statement for Yapton & District

How did we do this year and what are we planning in 2025...

2024 Reviewed

Well another year is completed! We're coming up to 5 years of Yapton & District which quite honestly is mental to think about. We haven't achieved too much this year unfortunately due to quite a few technical issues with development on our end but also sorting out in-game bugs to improve performance too - these haven't been straight forward however we are progressing and will continue until solved.

The stats.......

Ending the year on 1.8 million visits (an increase of approximately 1 million+ compared to last year)
1 new Yapton Interchange
Created a new Community Page helping operators and other game developers find educational content and retailers.
50+ new or updated buses added
Added the start of our random event development (with more to follow in 2025)
Started development on V4.1
Implemented a realistic time cycle to sync with the UK
Launched our 'Safer Streets' campaign aimed at tackling poor driving in certain areas as a result of road design.
Map expansion: Langford Estate, Ford

Safer Streets in Ford promoting a new roundabout aimed at tackling speed and improving junction design. [May 2024]

A Preview of Langford Estate in its early development. [May 2024]

What are we working on in 2025?

Map Expansions

We hope to rebegin our V4.1 development plan which includes map expansions for towns from V3 including Wick, Climping and Bury. We plan to focus our map expansions between Flansham and Olton offering a link road between the two with towns located on side roads. In addition to this we hope to finally expand Flansham Airport - hence the recent redvelopments. During this terminals will be renamed to Terminals 1 and 2. We hope to offer additional airport infrastructure along with this such as car parks, car rental centres and other facilities.

New Menu UI

We have been developing a new menu UI which will hopefully streamline the process for users which includes a new designed menu and a central vehicle spawning system allowing you to select a bus prior to spawning at a depot along with other features.

* Image does not represent final version.

Departure Boards

We're also hoping to release our departure board system. Once completed we hope to have real time bus information along with user prompted audio departure information. This is currently making good progress with the majority of basic scripted now complete.

Should implementation happen we hope to bring out different versions depdning on location requirements.

New Operator

We're pleased to say we'll be having another operator join us. Keep your eyes posted on our socials and Discord for previews 👀.

Final Messages

While we hope to complete the above this may not always be possible, we hope to try to however. Thank you for your completed support this year and we hope to see you all again in game soon. Wishing you all a happy new year!

With thanks to:

Yapton Country Bus

South West Group

IRVING Coaches

and all our suppliers, staff and players.

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