Old World News

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Old World October 2nd Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.74282 Test 2024-10-02

[h2]Design[/h2]

Drunk trait now gives -20 opinion to religious and family heads, down from -40
Water shrines now give 2 money per water tile in the city instead of 10 per nets improvement (from previous test branch update)
Added turn delay to most event options with random traits or relationships

[h2]Programming[/h2]

Loading and exiting a team cloud game without changing the game state no longer locks the turn
Reimplemented Rally Defense to be more robust for mods
Suppressed Modio errors (i.e. Invalid Token) on game start

[h2]UI[/h2]

Shrine improvement pings can now be placed even if shrine already exists
Characters in mission target lists now sorted by importance
Made contact event truce flags more consistent in event options
Religion icon now shown on unit production buttons when applicable
Simplified religion tooltips

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

Fixed religious improvements being affected by other religions theologies
Fixed yield preview overlays getting stuck
Fixed ally declared war event trigger
Fixed monitor option setting
Timeline screen map now only shows city borders that player currently has visibility of. This fixes a bug where unrevealed borders could be shown.
Text and event fixes

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Old World September 25th Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.74203 Test 2024-09-25

[h2]Design[/h2]

Improvements now take 1 extra turn to build per 5 points of Worker damage (+1 turn at 15-19 HP to +4 turns at 1-4 HP)
Undo re-enabled for strict(teams) turnstyle cloud games. Once the game is loaded, a turn must now be completed before other players on the team can take their turn
Shrine of Water now gives 10 money per nets improvement in the city in addition to previous effects
Shrine of Healing now gives a free Healer promotion to units built in the city instead of the previous healing ability
Revised law switch costs. First switch costs 200 civics and each subsequent change costs 100 extra
Power comparison is now solely calculated on military unit strength, with ships counting for less based on how much water is on the map
Can no longer upgrade a unit if the upgraded unit is not allowed to be in that tile
Can no longer build forts on non-urban tribe settlement ruins (affects non-default City Site Number options)
Rally Defense now only activates on killing promotable military units (i.e. not Militia)
Improvements that spawn units (Colosseum, Cothon, Holy Sites, etc) try first to spawn them on the tile of the improvement
Balance pass on Punic Duel premade map

[h2]Programming[/h2]

Event processing performance optimization
Raider AI improvements
AI code cleanup
Added event triggers EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLIANCE_OFFER and EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLY_DECLARED_WAR
Added STAT_CHILDREN_COUNT
Added InfoGoal.miCityLuxuries
Old World no longer supports runtime compiled scripts. Standalone compiler removed
Ctrl-Shift-X (toggle replay) has no effect when it's not your turn in cloud games

[h2]UI[/h2]

Removed recently added yield name and sign from helptext, now just shows yield icon as previously
Added legitimacy graph to Records screen
Family unit banner shape now shown on family tab panel
Existing specialists now shown on pillaged tiles
Improved replay for team games
Added resource removal warning for Add Urban action
Project help text now includes information about other projects that add the project (i.e. Inquiry shows the different levels)
Reordered trait display order
Moved opinion yield rate help text from potential to main effects
Mod folders that begin with "." are no longer displayed

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

Fixed workers stopping rout of African and Turreted Elephants
Fixed occasional doubled religion indicators on tribe widgets
Fixed some raycasting issues on tribe widget, character list religion icons
Fixed former regents affecting succession in some cases
Fixed yield rates not updating when units move to/from improvements
Fixed minimized decision UI not working for diplomacy decisions
Fixed effectCity improvement yield help text
Fixed unit yield consumption estimate for effectPlayer to correctly show yields saved instead of new yields consumed
Fixed AI unit protection calculation and possible divide by zero errors when attackers can't do any damage (affects mods)
Text and event fixes

Historical 4X game Old World adds new events, items, and maps for free

If the news of Civilization 7 has your 4X muscles twitching, a new update for fellow historical strategy game Old World might be just what we need. Created by Civ 4 lead designer Soren Johnson, built by his team at Mohawk Games, and published by indie strategy experts Hooded Horse, Old World is rippling with pedigree. Its blend of classic 4X design and more intimate character-driven storytelling in the style of games like Crusader Kings 3 ensures it's well worth a look, and a free update has just made it bigger and better than ever before.

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