Old World News

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.77780 Test 2025-05-14[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Leaders can be assigned as a Governor without a Garrison. Free Garrison in the Capital removed. Garrisons no longer require a Law
  
• Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%
  
• Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%
  
• Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%
  
• Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)
  
• Increased AI penalites on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)
  
• Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team
  
• Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup
  
• Ruthless AI no longer counts VPs of player allies as a double victory threat
  
• Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)
  
• Performance optimization
  
• Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible
  
• Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer
  
• Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons
  
• Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip
  
• Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia
  
• Improved Encyclopedia entries for Captial and Citizen concepts
  
• Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions
  
• Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC
  
• Improved German grammar for character relationships
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish
  
• Fixed founded city territory bug
  
• Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases
  
• Fixed missing at sea bonus description
  
• Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible
  
• Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[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
  

[h2]Main Branch 1.0.77503 Release 2025-04-30[/h2]

[h3]Headline Changes[/h3]

• New map script Rejuvenation added to the Wrath of Gods DLC. A barren desert that becomes more temperate and acquires resources over time
  
• Ships can now enter defensive formation, which works in the same way as Fortify for melee infantry. Ship promotion balance tweaked
  
• Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
  

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Ships can enter defensive formation, giving +10% defence against Ships per turn, up to a max of 30%. A counterattack is gained at maximum level and each attack against the ship removes one level.
  
• Grappler promotion immobilizes ships instead of stunning them and no longer has an attack penalty
  
• Fireship promotion no longer gives +10% attack
  
• Cockswain promotion gives +20% strength in National Territory instead of Rout
  
• AI more likely to break alliances with poor opinion
  
• Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if it's not completely ready to do so
  
• When a tribal alliance ends and there are tribal units in the same tile as player units, the tribal units are bounced, not the player units
  
• When a national alliance ends, a unit in its own territory never gets bounced
  
• Expose Agent mission takes 1 turn to complete (was 2)
  
• Rise of Carthage campaign tweaks and rebalancing
  
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2 rebalanced
  
• Slums worker discount removed and militia discount increased (Behind the Throne)
  
• New map script Rejuvenation added (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Occurrences that affect water movement (eg Hurricane) affect player-controlled water as well, both for water units and land units using anchored tiles (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Hurricanes remove Anchored status from ships (Wrath of Gods)
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Restart Game and New Map now generate a new game ID so that a new entry can be recorded in the Hall of Fame
  
• AI less averse to building Militia and Conscripts when it cannot build a latest upgrade regular military unit
  
• Pathfinder performance optimization
  
• Moved project spread to the Player class
  
• Memory refactor
  
• Testudo is now a unit effect
  
• Added delete functionality to Manage Mods tab for mapfiles with no ModioID/WorkshopID
  
• Added support for showing images of workshop maps in Manage Mods tab
  
• Added support for council positions that don't require any traits
  
• Added support in the game class for adding visual effects to tiles independently from the occurrence system
  
• Added support for yields with negative demand
  
• Added backwards compatibility for mods with zero-cost projects (notably fixes freezes in Projects+ mod)
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
  
• Added year of discovery to each acquired tech on the Tech Tree
  
• Can no longer see citizens, specialists, and happiness level of foreign cities without an agent
  
• Selection panel tooltips appear on the left
  
• Score/ambitions panel hidden with attack preview active
  
• Ambition display tweaks
  
• Added Net Yield Change to project build tooltips
  
• Improvement and specialist tooltip tweaks
  
• Added reminder count on tooltip for pillage reminders
  
• Decreased size of religion icons on city widgets and archetype/family icons near leader portrait
  
• Discord/Steam rich presence now updated after loading a save
  
• Added Save button to cloud host controls screen
  
• Notification URL icon shown in cloud game list
  
• Observer hosts of MP games can send messages only to everyone
  
• Added notification icon for City Damaged
  
• Added Increase Unit Movement Radius Visibility button to accessibility options to allow players to boost unit movement radius contrast
  
• Added spacing between archetype/ratings/items on character cards
  
• Source of counterattack damage in the combat preview is more specific
  
• Improved tooltip alignment and positioning
  
• Law tooltips now show F1 Encyclopedia links
  
• Encyclopedia updates
  
• Localization text updates
  
• Added explanation popup to target player when a mission has resulted in an AI or a tribe agreeing to declare war on that player
  
• Shrines are listed in city pagan religion help text, just as monasteries, temples, etc are listed for world religions
  
• Agent networks with agents now shown in Spymasters Agent Networks submenu
  
• Improved helptext for traits that can replace other traits
  
• Removed the Text tab from the Event Browser
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed DLC that is not owned being marked as disabled
  
• Fixed bug that forced some map scripts to put all players on the same continent
  
• Fixed increasing player count disabling Allow Duplicate Nations option
  
• Fixed Governor gendered helptext issue
  
• Fixed event browser not using selected language for event preview
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the AI from declaring war to expand
  
• Fixed broken river segments in mirror maps
  
• Fixed missing available luxury highlights
  
• Fixed enlisted unit of eliminated nation becoming a rebel
  
• Fixed bug with AI understanding of how city attacks work
  
• Fixed character mission tooltip positioning inconsistency
  
• Fixed left unit healthbar always showing 0 damage in attack preview
  
• Fixed specialist tooltip net yield change to correctly account for the loss of a citizen
  
• Fixed tile tooltips revealing yields for foreign improvements when at Peace
  
• Fixed restarting a hotseat game losing player information
  
• Fixed map selection clickthrough issues
  
• Fixed F7 city list not sorting when agent tab is selected
  
• Fixed incorrect default number of opponents set in single player setup screen
  
• Fixed configuration of female scout and female worker combat portrait prefabs
  
• Fixed city recommendation icons appear for non-visible production buttons
  
• Fixed agent networks submenu player colors
  
• Fixed issues with city widget capture text
  
• Fixed data issue for culture on city tab
  
• Fixed data issues for specialist widgets and pings
  
• Fixed improvements placed in the map editor always getting raised to the hill height offset
  
• Fixed irrelevant tribes appearing in the tooltip of some character bonuses
  
• Fixed team/tribe diplomacy icon not updating in score area when diplomacy changes
  
• Fixed event text/goal mismatch
  
• Fixed incorrect number of players stored in the options file for multiplayer settings
  
• Fixed hotseat games restarting with the wrong active player
  
• Fixed modio maps not showing in mod browser
  
• Fixed modio maps not updating properly
  
• Fixed a couple of issues with maps on Workshop
  
• Fixed Modio API errors on uploading mods
  
• Fixed modio uploading all files in Maps folder
  
• Fixed modio maps reporting version issues if modVersion is blank
  
• Fixed modio maps sometimes not getting metadata embedded in the mapfile
  
• Fixed modio maps images not showing on manage mods tab
  
• Fixed possible null reference when map filename isn't the same as map display name
  
• Fixed mods with file information showing private full path filename
  
• Fixed mod uninstall button not working on Install tab immediately after an installation
  
• Fixed issues with loading mod units from asset bundles
  
• Fixed UI exception for non-civics projects when AI build recommendations are enabled (affects mods only)
  
• Fixed non-civics projects displaying the incorrect yield above the build queue (affects mods only)
  
• Fixed Enlist killing enlisted units if the enlist-on-heal amount was too low (affects mods only)
  
• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 not taking into account the final turn's yields for determining goal completion
  
• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 issue with rebels capturing cities
  
• Fixed Civil War affecting all players (Behind the Throne)
  
• Fixed missing Clergy in Wrath of Gods scenario
  
• Fixed Stele appearing in improvements list when it cannot be built manually (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Fixed crash caused by Inferno (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Fixed Occurrences sometimes occurring more often than they should for a given player (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Fixed map Occurrences not being added to mirror maps (Wrath of Gods)
  

[h3]Notes for Modders[/h3]

• Five separate memory types (MemoryCharacter, MemoryTribe, MemorReligion, MemoryFamily, MemoryPlayer) are now one type, Memory. The base file name is memory.xml
  
• Mods that add memories need to rename files, e.g. memoryCharacter-add.xml should be memory-character-add or just memory-add. The dash after memory is the important part
  
• Event bonuses are now just Memory / Forget, for all memory types. Events should take care to apply the bonus to the right subject. For example, a Memory bonus applied to a SUBJECTCLASS_CHARACTER subject is the equivalent of the earlier MemoryCharacter bonus
  

• It is recommended to upload new versions of map mods in order to take advantage of fixes and new features
  

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.77393 Test 2025-04-23[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Expose Agent mission takes 1 turn to complete (was 2)
  
• Rise of Carthage campaign tweaks
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Restart Game and New Map now generate a new game ID so that a new entry can be recorded in the Hall of Fame
  
• AI less averse to building Militia and Conscripts when it cannot build a latest upgrade regular military unit
  
• Added support for yields with negative demand
  
• Added delete functionality to Manage Mods tab for mapfiles with no ModioID/WorkshopID
  
• Added support for showing images of workshop maps in Manage Mods tab
  
• 
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
  
• Added year of discovery to each acquired tech on the Tech Tree
  
• Added explanation popup to target player when a mission has resulted in an AI or a tribe agreeing to declare war on that player
  
• Can no longer see citizens, specialists, and happiness level of foreign cities without an agent
  
• Shrines are listed in city pagan religion help text, just as monasteries, temples, etc are listed for world religions
  
• Agent networks with agents now shown in Spymasters Agent Networks submenu
  
• Added minimum range to unit encyclopedia entries where relevant
  
• Improved helptext for traits that can replace other traits
  
• Localization text updates
  
• Removed the Text tab from the Event Browser
  
• 
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed repair recommendation and improvement ping hover issues
  
• Fixed production queue buttons
  
• Fixed increasing player count disabling Allow Duplicate Nations option
  
• Fixed character memories also getting applied to the character's family
  
• Fixed city recommendation icons appear for non-visible production buttons
  
• Fixed agent networks submenu player colors
  
• Fixed issues with city widget capture text
  
• Fixed data issue for culture on city tab
  
• Fixed data issues for specialist widgets and pings
  
• Fixed improvements placed in the map editor always getting raised to the hill height offset
  
• Fixed irrelevant tribes appearing in the tooltip of some character bonuses
  
• Fixed team/tribe diplomacy icon not updating in score area when diplomacy changes
  
• Fixed bug that forced some map scripts to put all players on the same continent
  
• Fixed event text/goal mismatch
  
• Fixed incorrect number of players stored in the options file for multiplayer settings
  
• Fixed hotseat games restarting with the wrong active player
  
• Fixed modio uploading all files in Maps folder
  
• Fixed modio maps reporting version issues if modVersion is blank
  
• Fixed modio maps sometimes not getting metadata embedded in the mapfile
  
• Fixed modio maps images not showing on manage mods tab
  
• Fixed possible null reference when map filename isn't the same as map display name
  
• Fixed mods with file information showing private full path filename
  
• Fixed mod uninstall button not working on Install tab immediately after an installation
  
• Fixed Civil War affecting all players (Behind the Throne)
  
• Fixed map Occurrences not being added to mirror maps (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[h3]Notes for Modders[/h3]

• It is recommended to upload new versions of map mods in order to take advantage of fixes and new features
  

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.77261 Test 2025-04-09[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Ships can enter defensive formation, giving +10% defence against Ships per turn, up to a max of 30%
  
• Reverted Ship counterattack damage back to 1 (from 2)
  
• When a tribal alliance ends and there are tribal units in the same tile as player units, the tribal units are bounced, not the player units
  
• When a national alliance ends, a unit in its own territory never gets bounced
  
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2 and Rise of Carthage scenario 3 rebalanced
  
• New map script Rejuvenation added (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Occurrences that affect water movement (eg Hurricane) affect player-controlled water as well, both for water units and land units using anchored tiles (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Hurricanes remove Anchored status from ships (Wrath of Gods)
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Added support in the game class for adding visual effects to tiles independently from the occurrence system
  
• Memory refactor
  
• Testudo is now a unit effect
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added Increase Unit Movement Radius Visibility button to accessibility options to allow players to boost unit movement radius contrast
  
• Added spacing between archetype/ratings/items on character cards
  
• Source of counterattack damage in the combat preview is more specific
  
• Improved tooltip alignment and positioning
  
• Law tooltips now show F1 Encyclopedia links
  
• Encyclopedia updates
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed missing yields on Council tooltip
  
• Fixed missing city build recommendations
  
• Fixed specialist tooltip net yield change to correctly account for the loss of a citizen
  
• Fixed tribe widget display issues
  
• Fixed tile tooltips revealing yields for foreign improvements when at Peace
  
• Fixed restarting a hotseat game losing player information
  
• Fixed map selection clickthrough issues
  
• Fixed F7 city list not sorting when agent tab is selected
  
• Fixed incorrect default number of opponents set in single player setup screen
  
• Fixed configuration of female scout and female worker combat portrait prefabs
  
• Fixed Enlist killing enlisted units if the enlist-on-heal amount was too low
  
• Fixed modio maps not showing in mod browser
  
• Fixed modio maps not updating properly
  
• Fixed a couple of issues with maps on Workshop
  
• Fixed Modio API errors on uploading mods
  
• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 not taking into account the final turn's yields for determining goal completion
  
• Fixed Occurrences sometimes occurring more often than they should for a given player (Wrath of Gods)
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[h3]Notes for Modders[/h3]