1.29.0

• Big networks lag a lot less: on a network with a hundred POPs and a thousand peering ports, the NOC dashboard opens six times faster, the side panels three times faster, and each game day takes about a third less time. The map needs about a third fewer drawing steps per frame, and open panels only update what changed, which keeps them smooth and lets the traffic bars glide to their new values. The connection and customer lists in the NOC dashboard show 100 rows at a time, with a button for more. While the game is paused or animations are off, the map is only redrawn when something on it changes, which saves a lot of battery on phones. On a phone, the map also rests while the NOC dashboard fills the screen, so scrolling it stays smooth.
• Africa grows from five cities to twenty-six, across nineteen countries, and a new scenario, Cape to Cairo, asks you to cross it. New: Dakar, Abidjan, Accra, Douala, Kinshasa, Luanda, Casablanca, Algiers, Tunis, Djibouti, Addis Ababa, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Kigali, Maputo, Durban, Windhoek, Lusaka, Harare and Gaborone, each with its own IX. Overland fiber across an African border costs twice as much, and Kinshasa, Lusaka and Harare have unreliable power.
• Brazil now has all forty IX.brrr locations, from Manaus to Lajeado, so you can build a real national network. Fiber into the Amazon costs twice as much and its repair crews go by boat, Oi Oi, TIM-TIM Mobile and Brisanada join Brazil's networks, and a new scenario, Order and Progress, asks you to peer on 20 IX.brrr exchanges.
• Series of Tubes now speaks Portuguese (Brazil). The game follows your browser's language the first time, and you can switch to Português under Settings or on the title screen.
• Come chat with other players in the new Series of Tubes Signal group. It's linked from the title screen, the menu and How to play: share screenshots, report bugs and argue about peering policy.
• RouteScript speaks more BGP. prefer transit and avoid transit set which upstream goes first, like local-pref, prepend transit PROVIDER 1-3 moves part of an upstream's traffic away, the way AS-path prepending nudges the rest of the internet, and protect customers routes business traffic first when links are congested, so home users take the hit instead of your SLAs. A new Optimize button drafts a script from live traffic and points out networks you could reach over an IX or a PNI instead of transit.
• Twelve more Latin American cities: Montevideo, Asunción, Córdoba, La Paz, Quito, Medellín, Caracas, Guatemala City, San José, Querétaro, Monterrey and Guadalajara. Moviestar, Liberty Latte America, Antelope and Tiger Mobile join them, and Salvador and Montevideo get cable landings.
• Seven new cables around Africa (ACE of Spades, SAT-3-Legged Stool, MainOne-Track Mind, Mint Tea West Africa, Set SAIL, Sea-Comedy Hour and Dare-Devil-1), and the existing ones now stop in the new cities. Set SAIL and SACS-y Cable link Brazil to Cameroon and Angola, and Sea-Comedy Hour links Djibouti to Mumbai. Liquid Lunch Networks, Sea-Comedy Networks, Angle-a Cables, Djibouti Calling, Empty-N, Air-Tell Africa, Ethio-Tele-Calm and Atlas Shrugged Telecom join the networks.
• Hamburg and Munich join the map, with the Moin-IX and the Brezn-IX. Stuttgart and Frankfurt are back where they belong on the map, with Stuttgart between Frankfurt and Zurich instead of halfway to Prague.
• Swapping router models now sells the old ones on eBuy for 30% of their price, and removing a router does too (#82). A POP takes one swap a day, so a double click no longer buys two upgrades, and optics and waves now say which port speed they need instead of naming one model.
• Fiber between nearby cities bends gently again instead of looping wide around the neighbourhood, so dense regions like Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal stay readable.
• The game no longer gets slower after a long pause. The money that floats up from your cities on payday kept piling up off-screen instead of fading, hundreds of them on a big network.