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Old World March 13th Updated Test Build

Test Branch: 1.0.71462 Test 2024-03-13

[h2]Design[/h2]
  • Added per player Development setting to multiplayer setup. All players, Human and AI, can have their own development setting, which gives additional starting cities and techs.
  • Rider family seat now gives 1 Order / turn
  • Legitimacy cost for adoption reduced from 4 to 2
  • Miserable trait has a chance per turn of being removed
  • Competitive mode back to giving a flat rate of science, civics, training, and money
  • Improved city site resource placement so that it is less likely that one of them is unreachable
  • Old World premade map tweaks. Extended map one tile north, fixed some resources and ruins that were out of borders. Added Lavender to several locations on map.
  • You can now shift-click a law to abolish it without replacing it. This will increase the cost of establishing a law in that pair by 100.
  • When moving allied units, the moving player now gets exploration and ruins yields instead of the unit owner. Moving allied units can no longer trigger events.
  • Khufu's wonder cost reduction lowered from 50% to 25% (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Marius' enrolment post now gives -25% for warriors only instead of all infantry, training cost for project removed. Sulla now more likely to cause Marius problems. (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Hannibal now gets -20 family opinions and an increased legitimacy penalty in some Hannibal specific events (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Added preferred families for more dynasty leaders (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Sulla's Dictator trait now included in Terrifying trait group (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Agrippina unlocking a spymaster is now tied to a trait, the current one will stay if she dies but a new one cannot be appointed (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Parsa renamed to Persepolis in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5


[h2]Programming[/h2]
  • Moved map scripts to their own folder
  • Network code cleanup
  • Adjusted character portrait selection to be more likely to choose same portraits if characters' age difference is large, all else being equal
  • Fallback for DLL mods that fail to load. A message will be shown and mods disabled.
  • AI now purposely builds ships in specific water areas, like humans can
  • Map files now support DynastySites in the tile data. Mods can append nation start tiles to premade maps
  • Hotseat with one human player now behaves like single player for achievements, save files, discord, death with no heir, tutorial, hall of fame, etc


[h2]UI[/h2]
  • Clicking a link within a mission button will activate the mission rather than opening the link
  • Popups and tooltips now have scrollbars when needed, will no longer make text smaller to fit
  • Adjusted floating text to better accommodate some bonuses
  • HUD changes to prevent overlap. Research is now centered according to the other HUD elements rather than the center of the screen
  • Added founded turn to city sort. This was always the default sort and can now be selected again after changing the sort order
  • City screen (F7) now applies default founding turn sort when clicking the city name column
  • Added connected icon to cities tab
  • Moved family/religion actions to bottom of selection panel
  • Added per-culture level limits to improvement Encyclopedia entries
  • Ships show a text status while anchoring
  • Raider unit tooltips now show original tribe
  • Unit tooltips now show original unit owner
  • Improvements to unit range tooltips. Fixed range now indicated in the unit's tooltip
  • Improvement yield modifiers are shown even if they sum to zero
  • Trait gain / loss bonus helptext now shows yield change for traits with leader effects
  • Added popup for when connection is restored in network multiplayer
  • Changed Mod Browser resources link to Modding Guide page
  • Added button with link to documentation to Portrait Editor
  • Added Turns to Hall of Fame and allowed sorting by Legitimacy, VPs, Turns and Ambitions
  • Show character subject requirements in red when no valid characters found for a mission
  • Allow deselection on inheritance screen by clicking background
  • Aligned ping popup dropdown/input field
  • Added a hint about customizing opponent player parameters in a single player game
  • Former regents now included in turn summary
  • Improvement helptext displays when max improvement count is 1 for a city
  • Updated National Alliance helptext to include that players can move and attack with allied units
  • Added descriptions to Make Clergy and Pagan Sacrifice missions
  • Add Road button now shown on invalid terrain
  • Wonders now shown on city Improvements tooltip
  • Negative penalty for missing family luxuries shown on send luxury to family button
  • Added email reminder to non-strict turnstyle team server and cloud games for the last player to take their turn
  • Added unsubscribe instructions to multiplayer turn emails
  • Mod browser speed improvements
  • Display the build's date in unambiguous international format instead of American


[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]
  • Fixed units incorrectly advancing when rout not possible
  • Fixed event level not being visible in scenario MP screen
  • Fixed missing Resource density, city site density, and city site number options on some map scripts
  • Fixed some mod load/unload issues
  • Fixed DLL mods not shutting down when loading a save in-game
  • Mod assemblies are now reference counted to fix DLL load/unload issues
  • Fixed inconsistent header sizing on tab panel
  • Fixed unit action buttons not appearing for units of allied nations
  • Fix tile yield calculation with maiYieldRateSpecialistUrban only getting counted once per EffectCity
  • Fixed assert error in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
  • Fixed double mission display in Hero tooltip with Shammuramat selected (Wonders and Dynasties)
  • Fixed unit harvest tooltip to display yields gained for allied units
  • Fixed initialization of mod browser scrollbar on manage mod list.
  • Fixed clicking some input fields (text ping, bug report screen) selecting all text
  • Fixed settlement religion icon update on undo
  • Fixed bug where raiders could raid the wrong player
  • Fixed fortification bar for AI units showing even when they are moving
  • Fixed leader background not being updated when switching due to premade map
  • Fixed heir naming popup title
  • Fixed overlap on dynasty portraits in SP setup
  • Fixed free ships spawning on smaller bodies of water when a larger one is available
  • Fixed missing options menu tooltips
  • Fixed city luxury list tooltip not appearing
  • Fixed an AI-related UI assert
  • Fixed an assert for automated human units
  • Fixed leader tooltip overlap with actions menu
  • Fixed dynasty dropdowns not populating correctly on scenario setup screen
  • Fixed decision update bug for MP games
  • Fixed assign general audio level
  • Text and event fixes