CivIdle News

[h3]Festival[/h3]
Positive Happiness (max. 50) is converted into festival points. For every 100 festival points, your empire enters a festival cycle, granting a significant map-specific boost.

• Saturnalia (Rome): Alps no longer increases Consumption Multiplier
  
• Panathenaea (Athens): Poseidon provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings
  
• Opet (Memphis): Great Sphinx no longer increases Consumption Multiplier
  
• Lunar New Year (Beijing): Great Wall provides double the boost to buildings. Porcelain Tower provides +1 level to all great people from this run
  
• Thanksgiving (New York): Wall Street provides double the boost to buildings and applies to Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund and Bitcoin Miner. Research Funds get +5 Production Multiplier
  
• Akitu (Babylon): Ziggurat Of Ur and Euphrates River apply to buildings unlocked in the current age
  
• Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto): Mount Fuji generates double the warp
  

[h3]Age Wisdom[/h3]
Age Wisdom provides +1 equivalent level of eligible great people of that age. It can be upgraded with permanent great people shards of eligible great people:

• Level 1 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 1 (1)
  
• Level 2 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 2 (3)
  
• Level 3 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 3 (7)
  
• Level 4 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 4 (15)
  
• ...
  

Please note that when upgrading account rank from Tribune to Quaestor, Age Wisdom cannot be carried over



[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• To celebrate Industry Idle 1.0 release, from now until Oct. 15, All Industrial Age buildings get +1 Production Multiplier
• Research Lab's base consumption and production are increased by 50%
  
• Add Great Person Cleopatra: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Shrine (Memphis Exclusive)
  
• Fix a bug where contextual tutorials do not load localizations correctly
  
• Fix a bug where Empire Value by Hour incorrectly shows total empire value in an hour instead of average. This stat is only correct for new runs
  
• Add a search bar to filter great people in Broadway
  
• Manage Great People page has been redesigned and combined into one popup
  
• Add a filter to filter great people by age
  
• "Apply to All" for Market settings
  
• Construction/Upgrade Greedy Transport: This will make buildings keep transporting resources even if it has enough resources for the current upgrade, which can make upgrading multiple levels faster but end up transport more resources than needed
  

0.16.0 mostly focuses on bugfixes and QoLs. However, the earliest two maps (Rome and Athens) deserve some love - they are buffed a bit to bring them more in line with newer maps.

[h3]Rome[/h3]

• Colosseum: Chariot Workshops are exempt from -1 happiness. Consumes 10 chariots and produce 10 happiness. Each unlocked age gives 2 extra happiness
• Grotta Azzurra: When discovered, all your Tier I buildings get +5 Level and +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier
• Julius Caesar: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Gold Mining Camp (Rome Exclusive)
  

[h3]Athens[/h3]

• Aphrodite: +2 Builder Capacity Multiplier for each level when upgrading buildings over Level 20. All unlocked Classical Age permanent great people get +1 level this run
• Poseidon: All adjacent buildings get free upgrades to Level 25 and +N Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. N = Tier of the building
• Aristotle: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Library (Athens Exclusive)
  

[h3]QoL[/h3]

• Show empire value of each resource in Stat Office
  
• Deficit Resource list in resource panel is now sorted by run out time: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1272646020471328779
  
• Add a button to fill max available amount when filling a trade https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1269405085763371230
  
• Always show accurate game timer https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1270435218171625534
  
• Show resource sufficiency https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1264684571480559746
  
• Change the default width of side panel to 450px
  
• Add an option to turn off transport arrows (only slightly improve performance)
  
• Add time series plot showing Empire Value and Science in Statistics Office
  
• Add an option in Gameplay that allows use max pick per roll in Porcelain Tower: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273628478822023238
  
• All "Apply to All" to Warehouse autopilot settings
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Statistics Office is now unlocked by Counting and costs Stone and Wood to build
  
• Cotton Plantation is now unlocked by Arithmetic
  
• United Nations General Assembly no longer boosts storage multiplier. This is to prevent overflow of storage when the boost ends (Tier boost continues to boost storage multiplier)

[h3]Bugfix[/h3]

• Fix a bug where warehouse per cycle setting is not applied correctly
  
• Fix a bug where Real Second and EV/Real Second stat is incorrect
  
• Fix a bug where Stat Office incorrectly reveals natural wonders https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273078842742800495
  
• Fix a bug where buildings that cannot be electrified do not show power status https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273193366334734336
  
• Fix a bug where Market/Grand Bazaar shows incorrect percentage when the percent is too small https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1270780708503425118
  
• Fix a bug where Mount Fuji can overfill warp in Petra
  
• Fix a bug where Statistics Office does not show Science value after constructed Matrioshka Brain https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273890349084966943
  
• Fix a bug where setting an invalid player handle during tutorial does not show error message correctly https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1279401683658608680
  

[h3]What's Coming in 0.17[/h3]
0.17 has two important new mechanisms planned: Festival and Age Wisdom. You can follow the development here: https://github.com/fishpondstudio/CivIdle/issues/323

[h2]New Map: Kyoto[/h2]


[h3]Wonders[/h3]

• Itsukushima Shrine: When all technologies within an age are unlocked, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the cheapest technology in the next age
  
• Osaka Castle: Provide power to all tiles within 2 tile range. Allow electrification of science producing buildings (including Clone Lab)
  
• Golden Pavilion: All buildings within 3 tile range get +1 Production Multiplier for each adjacent building that produces any of its consumed resources
  

[h3]Natural Wonders[/h3]

• Kanagawa: All great people of the current age get an additional level for this run (excluding Zenobia)
  
• Mount Fuji: When Petra is built next to it, Petra gets +8h Warp storage. When the game is running, generate 20 warp every minute in Petra (not accelerated by Petra itself, not generating when the game is offline)
  

[h2]Achievement[/h2]

• Heian-kyō: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Kyoto (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)
  

[h2]Balancing Changes[/h2]

• Socialism Level 4/5 changes from the most expensive to the cheapest technology in World Wars/Cold War era
  
• Ziggurat of Ur: the effect no longer applies to buildings that produce workers. The effect only applies to buildings unlocked in the previous ages (Stone Age ~ Current Age - 1)
  
• Euphrates River: the effect only applies to buildings unlocked in the previous ages (Stone Age ~ Current Age - 1)
  
• Petra: now allows up to 16x speed up (if your CPU can run the simulation at that speed)
  

[h2]Performance Optimizations[/h2]

• Smooth Ticking: the game does logic calculations of each cycle in one frame before - it is quite fast for a small empire but as the empire grows, the calculation takes longer, resulting in frame rate drops. This optimization will instead spread the calculation among all frames within a cycle, which can help eliminate the frame rate drops. However, it will not reduce the total computation time (in fact it might even increase a bit due to overhead)
  
• Transport Plan Cache: Every cycle, each building calculates the best transport plan based on its settings - this process requires high CPU power. Enabling Transport Plan Cache will attempt to cache the result of the transport plan if it is still valid and therefore reduce CPU usage and frame rate drop. This would significantly speed up the logic computations. It needs to be turned on manually in Options -> Gameplay -> Performance
  

[h2]Contextual Tutorials[/h2]

In this version, tutorials have been revamped - instead of a wall of text when you first start the game, now the tutorial will pop up when certain mechanisms become available. The "contextual tutorial" covers the following topic: Happiness / Wonder / Great People / Science / Worker / Storage / Tradition / Electricity. You can always go through them in Help -> Tutorial

[h2]Other Changes[/h2]

• Warehouse/Caravansary should not reset import settings when production multiplier changes - instead each transport will only transport partially. There is also a warning in the UI if this happens
  

[h2]Future Plans[/h2]
For those of you who owned Industry Idle Expansion Packs, I have added CivIdle Supporter Pack to the "complete collection" - and Industry Idle Expansion Pack owners will get a discount when purchasing CivIdle supporter pack (and vice versa).

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24685/Industry_Idle__CivIdle_Complete_Collection/

Here's the plan for the future patches:

• 0.16: Focus on QoL, with some balancing content for earlier maps
  
• 0.17: New game mechanisms and content, especially online features
  
• 0.18: New map
  

[h3]Ideology[/h3]

You can unlock Ideology by building Big Ben (Unlocked by Capitalism). Big Ben also provides +2 Science From Busy Workers.



[h2]New Great Person[/h2]

• Yuri Gagarin: Cold War age promotion great person
  
• Stephen Hawking: Information age wildcard great person
  
• Zaha Hadid: +6 Builder Capacity Multiplier
  
• Peter Higgs: +5 Science From Busy Workers
  
• Maryam Mirzakhani: +4 Science From Idle Workers
  
• Gabriel García Márquez: +6 Happiness
  

[h2]New Buildings[/h2]
There are some breaking changes regarding Livestock Farm - it is split into two buildings: Poultry Farm which only produces meat and Dairy Farm which only produces milk. To help with this transition, existing livestock farms will continue to work but can no longer be built. Dido still provides boost to Livestock Farm in 0.14 but will be removed in 0.15.

• Add "Poultry Farm": 2x Wheat -> 2 Meat
  
• Add "Dairy Farm": 2x Wheat -> 2 Milk
  
• Add "Poetry School": 2x Paper + 1x Alcohol -> 2 x Poem
  
• Deprecate "Livestock Farm": existing livestock farms will continue to work but you cannot build new livestock farms
  
• Dido now boosts Dairy Farm and Poultry Farm
  
• New great person Homer: +1 Production and Storage Multiplier for Stable and Poetry School (Classical Age)
  

[h2]New Wonder[/h2]

• Large Hadron Collider: All Information Age great people get +2 level for this run. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 level to all Information Age great people for this run (Unlocked by Virtual Reality)
  

[h2]Other Changes[/h2]

• Clone Factory will no longer sustain itself - it is required to transport resources from a building that produces the resource to be cloned (e.g. If you want to clone Super Computers, the clone factory can only use Super Computers directly transported from Super Computer Labs. Super Computers stored in Warehouse/Caranvansary/Clone Factory cannot be used)
• Transports to buildings that produce workers no longer require workers. This will help with worker domino collapse issue
  
• When upgrading wonders (Internation Space Station, Marina Bay Sands, Palm Jumeirah, Alderson Disk, Dyson Sphere, Matrioshka's Brain, Luxor Temple Chogha Zanbil), the builder capacity will increase linearly with the level
  
• Matrioshka's Brain: each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier for buildings that produce Science
  
• Geography research will increase the explorer's range to 2; Steam Engine research will increase the explorer's range to 3; Aviation will increase explorer's range to 4
  
• Peacekeeper is unlocked by Financial Arbitrage (instead of Virtual Reality)
  
• When an Information Age wonder is being upgraded, it will continue to provide boost
  

[h2]Bugfix[/h2]

• Fix a bug where Future achievement is not correctly awarded
  

With the release of 0.14.0, the 0.15.0 development cycle has started, follow the draft patch notes here: https://github.com/fishpondstudio/CivIdle/issues/304

Update: please make sure you are on Build 405. An earlier build (404) has player trades disabled by mistake

This patch brings you Information Age, and the complete tech tree! But the game is far from done! I have plans for more content:

• 0.14: More Great People, Ideology
  
• 0.15: New Map
  

And more to come! But for now, enjoy the 0.13 patch!

[h2]Information Age[/h2]

[h3]New Production Buildings[/h3]

• Maglev Factory: Train x15 + Airplane x15 + Car x15 => Maglev x1
  
• Software Company: Computer x1 + Philosophy x10 => Software x1
  
• Internet Service Provider: Computer x1 + Optical Fiber x5 => Internet x1
  
• Mutual Fund: Forex x1 + Stock x1 => Mutual Fund x1
  
• Clone Factory: Clone any resources
  
• Clone Lab: Convert any resources into Science
  
• Supercomputer Lab: Software x1 + Computer x5 => Supercomputer x1
  
• CivTok: Internet x1 + Politics x1 => CivTok x1
  
• Hedge Fund: Mutual Fund x2 => Hedge Fund x1
  
• Robocar Factory: Car x5 + Supercomputer x2 + Satellite x1 => Robocar x1
  
• Space Center: Maglev x1 + Radio x1 + Supercomputer x1 => Planetary Rover x2
  
• CivGPT: Internet x1 + Supercomputer x2 + Radio x1 => CivGPT x1
  
• CivOasis: CivTok x1 + Supercomputer x1 + Diplomacy x2 => CivOasis x1
  
• Peacekeeper: Nuclear Missile x4 + Diplomacy x1 + Radio x1 => Peace x1
  
• Bitcoin Miner: Hedge Fund x2 + CivTok x1 => Bitcoin x1
  

A new Science building has been added to Cold War

• Computer Lab: Computer x1 => Science x79930
  

[h3]New Wonders[/h3]

• International Space Station: All buildings get +5 Storage Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings
  
• Marina Bay Sands: All buildings get +5 Worker Capacity Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Worker Capacity Multiplier to all buildings
  
• Palm Jumeirah: +10 Builder Capacity. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +2 Builder Capacity
  
• Alderson Disk: +25 Happiness. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +5 Happiness
  
• Dyson Sphere: All buildings get +5 Production Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings
  
• Matrioshka Brain: allow Science to be counted when calculating empire value (5 Science = 1 Empire Value). +5 Science Per Busy and Idle Worker. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Science Per Busy and Idle Worker
  

[h3]New Great People[/h3]
This patch brings new great people that boost production buildings in the information age. Great people that boost other aspects of the empire (science/builder) will come in the next patch (0.14)

• Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Service Provider, Optical Fiber Plant
  
• Gordon Moore: Computer Factory, Supercomputer Lab
  
• Dennis Ritchie: Software Company, Maglev Factory
  
• Hyman G. Rickover: Aircraft Carrier Yard, Nuclear Submarine Yard
  
• Harry Markowitz: Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund
  
• John Carmack: CivOasis, Computer Lab
  
• Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin Miner, CivTok
  
• Carl Sagan: Space Center, Peacekeeper
  
• John McCarthy: CivGPT, Robocar Factory
  

[h2]Other Changes[/h2]

• When you select a building, the game will now draw lines from incoming and outgoing transports (it only drew incoming transports before. This requires more calculation, thus can slow down a bit on older computers)
• Improve the performance of Building tab in Statistics Office when there are lots of buildings
  
• Remove Zenobia from the list of great people from Broadway (since it does not work anyway)
  
• Reduce the threshold of multiple Great People per pick to 50
  
• Improve the performance when selecting tech tree item
  
• Improve the performance when showing/hiding the chat