Old World November 2nd Updated Test Build

The test branch has been updated and is now 1.0.69366 Test 11/01/2023

Design

• Persian Unique Units (Palton Cavalry and Cataphract Archer) now have a range of 1. This can be increased by effects which increase range (Hills, Marksman promotion etc).
  
• Kush now available on the Middle East premade map
  
• Generals of tribal units now get XP
  
• Tribes now attack civilian units at a lower priority
  
• Upgrading an improvement now also upgrades the specialist, if the existing specialist is less advanced than the starting specialist of the upgraded improvement
  
• Rise of Carthage scenario 4 starting city happiness boosted
  
• Former regents now get a trait giving +1 wisdom and keep their King/Queen Regent title
  

Programming

• AI strategic improvements
  
• Better AI awareness of power shift when it moves its units
  
• Improved AI evaluation of tiles for border expansion and buying
  
• AI exploration and wood chopping improvements
  
• Reduced AI fort spam outside of borders, especially for Kush
  
• Starting location resource placement order shuffled, so players later in the turn order don't always slightly benefit from rare luxury placement
  
• Added Pharaohs of the Nile campaign source and XML to Reference folder
  
• Added effectCity bAutoBuildUnits, which is like the current autonomous rule, but builds units instead of projects and specialists
  

UI

• Alt+right mouse button is now a shortcut for improvement pings
  
• Loading a single player game as a network game now allows AI player reassignment
  
• Mouse click no longer triggers when releasing button after drag
  
• Reduced spacing in yield display for tile/specialist widgets
  
• Reduced tile text font and icon size
  
• Random nation now sets random dynasty for both SP and MP
  
• Negative changes in happiness/discontent now shown using opposite yield color
  
• Event Browser: The New Entry button now opens a new event the Wizard
  
• Added Deficit concept to Encyclopedia
  
• Dynasty dropdown with Pick Later will use the dynasty name if available
  
• Added option to only use default dynasties for AI players
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bugs causing replay data to get discarded unnecessarily
  
• Fixed events not triggering on clearing tribal camps
  
• Fixed double folder names when mod name contains plus (+) symbol
  
• Fixed Cognomens getting replaced with lower value versions in some scenarios
  
• Fixed critical hit icons not being immediately updated on ending turn or changing turn style in MP
  
• Tribe units now actively occupy empty city sites to convert them to settlements again
  
• City widget and culture bar update fixes
  
• Fixed city attack damage preview for adjacent effectUnits
  
• Nested link fix (affected anti-Melee, anti-Infantry etc links)
  
• Fixed some null references for tribal invasion AI
  
• Fixed leaderboard display in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6
  
• Fixed families of starting units in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios 3 and 6
  
• Fixed issue with scenarios not getting unloaded correctly
  
• Fixed tribe AI movement bug
  
• Fixed Hittite AI chopping trees too much at the expense of exploring
  
• Fixed Map Editor not setting mapWidth and mapHeight values on loading a map
  
• AI military fix
  
• A slot assigned to an AI when loading a MP game now gets full AI state
  
• Fixed an AI cache issue for of existing improvements outside territory
  
• Fixed no character UI issues
  
• Happiness/discontent bar sign issue fixes
  
• Fixed subject reordering breaking old saves
  
• Fixed out of range exception
  
• Fixed decision cycling sometimes not actually cycling
  
• Worker selection cycling UI performance fix
  
• Fixed client background task deadlock
  
• Text and event fixes