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Old World May 7th Updated Test Build

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.77641 Test 2025-05-07[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

Law changes:

  • Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance
  • Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city
  • Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library
  • Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs
  • Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs


Other design changes:

  • Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable
  • Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning
  • Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning
  • The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed
  • When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible
  • In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal
  • Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)
  • Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)
  • Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)


[h3]New Events[/h3]

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

  • A City Like No Other
  • Deadly Inheritance
  • I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
  • New Front
  • No War Declaration
  • Not to Be Trusted
  • Offensive Remarks
  • Reaping the Whirlwind
  • The God Queen
  • Triple Cross!
  • Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries
  • No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)
  • Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)


[h3]Programming[/h3]

  • Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density
  • Memory allocation improvements
  • Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly
  • Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple
  • Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects


[h3]UI[/h3]

  • Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible
  • Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible
  • Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)
  • Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement
  • Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements
  • Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext
  • Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup


[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

  • Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages
  • Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages
  • Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles
  • Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader
  • Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases
  • Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active
  • Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it
  • Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity
  • Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor
  • Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management
  • Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job
  • Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range
  • Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory
  • Fixed some AI retreat confusion
  • Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button
  • Fixed nation crest color issues
  • Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling
  • Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries
  • Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus
  • Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters
  • Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame
  • Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases
  • Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen
  • Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 Epic Victory achievement sometimes not unlocking
  • Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions
  • Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site
  • Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI
  • Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario
  • Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned
  • Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)
  • Text and event fixes