Old World News

The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.69594 Test 11/15/2023

Design

• New difficulty level added The New. Reworked AI penalties on lower difficulty levels.
  
• Reduced Schemer leader orders per war from 2 to 1
  
• Garrison getting pillaged no longer removes existing governor
  
• Autonomous rule now repairs damaged cities that cannot passively heal completely in a turn, even if it's currently building something else
  
• Reduced Desert mapscript size to be in line with other maps
  
• Collateral damage (pierce, splash etc) formula simplified. This now does the percentage of the damage of a direct attack to the same unit, rounded up. This change increases collateral damage dealt in some circumstances.
  
• In the Rise of Carthage scenarios, Balearic Slingers are now buildable on the islands instead of regular Slingers. Regular Slingers can upgrade to Balearics.
  
• Tweaked a few trait inheritance outcomes
  

Programming

• AI combat improvements. Improved retreat and target selection.
  
• Revised AI Settler movement to force march when it has excess orders
  
• Fixed the AI starting multiple Settlers at the same time, when it just needs one
  
• Fixed AI incorrectly estimating the cost of buying resources
  
• Fixed AI risky behavior of attacking too close to the fog of war without protection
  
• AI builds militia more frequently instead of festivals if it cannot build other units
  
• Minor Stun/Push AI optimization
  
• Minor AI exploration fix
  
• One AI cache per player, instead of one per game
  
• Units that require a non-buildable improvement are no longer considered a possible build, unless that improvement is present
  

UI

• Revised cloud game host control popup to be more consistent. Replaced general save button with individual action buttons.
  
• Improvement suggestions no longer take worker safety into account
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed AI assert
  
• EffectUnit iActionsExtra are now applied immediately upon acquiring the effect
  
• Fixed a few instances where the number of tribes were miscounted
  
• Fixed the Sentinel dynamic tutorial triggering in the wrong player's territory
  
• Fixed collection modification during enumeration
  
• Fixed reveal map division by zero when one of the players has been eliminated
  
• Fixed city sites not keeping track of original tribe upon being cleared
  
• Fixed tribe site visibility on the minimap when settlements are not city sites
  
• Text and event fixes
  

The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.69464 Test 11/08/2023

Design

• Increased AI penalties on lower difficulty levels
  
• Passive AI will not capture cities from a player who originally founded them
  
• Added new trait flavor text and changed some to only appear dependent on character age. Reduced the likelihood of vomiting and diarrhea when characters become severely ill.
  
• Tweaked tutorial events to make them less prone to cluster on the same turns
  

Programming

• Better AI coordination so it doesn't get some units attacking a target while other healthy ones are retreating
  
• AI fixes and performance improvements
  
• GOG SDK updated
  
• Added STAT_YEARS_REGENT
  

UI

• Dynasties are now shown and can be selected on the Choose Leader screen
  
• Moved cycle button tooltips to right of cycle button UI
  
• Added border expansion preview for under construction specialists
  
• Added yields change from trade and tribute to war declaration effect tooltip and yield loss from connected cities to peace breaking effect tooltip
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed last page of Modio mods not displaying in install tab
  
• Fixed bug with cloud games not updating correctly when exiting without completing turn, causing them to need to be rewound
  
• Fixed turn style and turn timer dropdowns in server host controls
  
• Fixed simultaneous mode non-dynamic turn timer length
  
• Fixed map script bug causing generation to sometimes fail on Desert maps with large number of players
  
• Fixed improvement construction time remaining not updating when worker goes on cooldown
  
• Fixed Spartan elimination event in Rise of Carthage scenario 2
  
• Fixed idle councilor reminder showing when no missions available
  
• Fixed Wonders being eligible for pillage by event bonuses
  
• Text and event fixes
  

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
  

The main branch has been updated!
Main Branch: 1.0.69265 release 10/25/2023

Headline changes

• Zealot leader generals have a new action 'Apply Enlist'
  
• Reworked regencies
  
• Added option to disable tile improvement recommendations
  

Design

• Zealot leader generals have a new action 'Apply Enlist', which gives their next kill a 100% chance to Enlist for 3 turns, for the cost of 400 civics. This replaces their previous 10% chance to enlist on kill. When a unit is Enlisted, instead of dying it switches sides and can be controlled by the player.
  
• Reworked regencies:
  
• Regents no longer lead to legitimacy decay as normal leader changes do.
  
• The Rightful Heir will automatically become the Chosen Heir and this cannot be changed by the Regent.
  
• Regents no longer cause others in the line of succession to become bypassed on becoming Regent or on giving up the throne.
  
• Regents who do not give up the throne become Usurpers and do cause others in the line of succession to become bypassed.
  
• The free Garrison in your Capital and Fair from a Traders seat can now appear on any valid tile instead of only on existing urban tiles. As before, the locations of these can be set by using improvement pings.
  
• Exiting a cloud game mid turn will now save your progress and no longer reset to the start of the turn on reload
  
• Urban tiles no longer placed under tribal settlements unless they are city sites (applies when City Sites number is modified)
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile campaign - No leader turns family opinion penalty no longer applies
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 - Reduced raids and increased Amun units on higher difficulties
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6 - Climate change induced Nile flooding now has a 10 turn grace period
  
• Tweaked capture foreign cities ambition tiers
  
• Sacred and Profane - Make Clergy mission requires target to be single
  
• Enabled Extreme Terrain and Tribal Lands map options for multiplayer Continent and Donut map scripts and Tribe Number map option for multiplayer Seaside and Bay map scripts
  
• Fervent trait (from the Kush Piye dynasty) now grants the bonus militia in the city the religion spreads to instead of in the capital
  
• Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 happiness per Monk class instead of +2 per Elder Monk
  
• Guilds now gives happiness per Hamlet class improvement instead of just per Town
  
• Random maps are more likely to have at least one luxury resource of each type (does not apply to mirror maps)
  

Programming

• Added new EffectUnit options for modders - SelfApplyEffectUnitYieldCost, SelfApplyEffectUnitTurns, AttackApplyEffectUnitTurns, aiOccurrenceFromModifier, bMercenary
  
• Added new EffectPlayer option for modders - miMaxCities
  
• AI now waits until it has a greater power ratio before launching an attack outside of its borders
  
• Clarified the distinction between a tribe city site, a tribe settlement tile, and a tribe site, which are all technically different things but in many cases the same
  
• AI performance optimization
  
• Added AI for Zealot leader enlisting
  
• Improved performance in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2
  

UI

• Added player option to disable tile improvement recommendations
  
• Schemer's Adopt Child mission now visible on the leader
  
• Character event log now puts all events of the same year on the same line, to save some vertical space
  
• Removed 16 nation display cap from Choose Leader screen
  
• Better improvement ping support for bonus improvements. If there is no improvement ping, an improvement ping for the same class is considered.
  
• Added helptext to events requiring an active Occurrence
  
• Mod Manager - Uploading mods is now a background task like downloading is. Status added to bottom of mod manager
  
• Mod Manager - faster Modio downloads. Download size and percentage added to mod download status.
  
• Added warning to the tooltip if assigning a general or governor is going to replace another character
  
• Character illness is now included in the turn
  
• Rival visibility toggle (\) now shows visibility from allied units as well
  
• New cognomen popup will now display the legitimacy it gives
  
• Other team VPs will now display in yellow/red as they get close to victory
  
• Improved display of Zealot Enlist Next effect
  
• Tooltip for event bonuses that affect all cities of a religion now shows how many cities it will affect
  
• Added loading hint for Slow AI option
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed cloud game bug where sometimes it remained locked to a player who had exited the game without ending their turn
  
• Fixed potential issues with transition from sequential to simultaneous turnStyle
  
• Units that were under attacked cooldown and now are supposed to be allowed to move because of a turnStyle change, have their cooldown removed
  
• Attacked cooldown is no longer given if an attacked unit could not move at that point in the turn anyway
  
• Fixed null reference
  
• Fixed tile visibility exception
  
• Fixed OccurrenceEndPlayer bonus
  
• Fixed victory popup display with more than 10 ambitions or players
  
• Fixed camera panning to attacked cities with Follow AI set to None
  
• Fixed turn style and turn timer in the options popup being applied before you click save
  
• Fixed reset button on options panel not updating the turnStyle and turnTimer settings
  
• AI now does diplomacy with other AI first before getting to humans so diplomacy events are more current
  
• Fixed improvement help text bug on city sites
  
• Fixed victory event not appearing if the leader dies on the last turn
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile campaign - Blocked Visitor from the East event
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 - Blocked Monotheism law
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 - Change state religion hidden until appropriate time in the campaign
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 - Fixed some Zone of Control bugs
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 - Fixed defeat event not popping on total defeat, or loss of Akhetaten. Improved speed of victory event popup.
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 - fix possible AI hang when it's thinking about healing an Amun unit by pillaging
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4 - Ramesses and Muwatalli event and achievement fixes
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 - fix defeat event not popping.
  
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6 - Worst Possible Ending achievement fix
  
• Learn to Play 3 - Fixed rare null ref error if there's no heir. Fix defeat not triggering if conquered by raiders/rebels/barbs
  
• Fixed AI not declaring war on tribes to expand
  
• AI retreat fix
  
• Fixed some AI exploration confusion
  
• Map Editor - Fixed null ref when removing ruins improvement from an urban tile
  
• Old World premade map fix to Kush starting location
  
• Fixed events featuring players or tribes the player has not yet met
  
• Fixed some rare AI behavior when encountering danger before founding the first city
  
• Fixed new game portraits being overwritten with second display of portraits using nation index instead of playable nation index. Was affecting Hatti and Kush if those DLC were not owned.
  
• Fixed some issues with loading a save in a different game mode from where it was saved
  
• Reduced frequency of limit of 5 events per turn getting exceeded
  
• Fixed improvement upgrade cost bug
  
• Fixed Resume and Quick Cloud Load on main menu not unloading mods first
  
• Fixed bug with tribe settlement distribution
  
• Fixed free tech preferring tech currently being researched
  
• Fixed bad AI exploration with military units
  
• Fixed events not working for cities in anarchy
  
• Fixed bugs with Rise of Carthage scenario 3 sometimes failing to generate goals
  
• Fixed stolen city/city site trigger not taking teams into account
  
• Fixed family luxury menu display issue
  
• Fixed opinion bars displaying inconsistently
  
• Fixed specialist widget timers not updating when city yield production changes
  
• Fixed Learn to Play 5 bug where player couldn't declare war again after accepting truce via an event
  
• Fixed unit/city stats sometimes not updating when general/governor stats change
  
• Fixed frame limit functionality
  
• Fixed map script non-city resource placement
  
• Fixed premade maps failing to start when No Ancient Ruins option enabled
  
• Text and event fixes
  

The test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.69198 Test 10/18/2023

Design

• Zealot Enlist ability cost reduced from 600 civics to 400 civics
  
• Fervent trait (from the Kush Piye dynasty) now grants the bonus militia in the city the religion spreads to instead of in the capital
  
• Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 happiness per Monk class instead of +2 per Elder Monk
  
• Guilds now gives happiness per Hamlet class improvement instead of just per Town
  
• Random maps are more likely to have at least one luxury resource of each type (does not apply to mirror maps)
  

Programming

• Added AI for Zealot leader enlisting
  
• Improved performance in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2
  

UI

• Rival visibility toggle (\) now shows visibility from allied units as well
  
• New cognomen popup will now display the legitimacy it gives
  
• Other team VPs will now display in yellow/red as they get close to victory
  
• Improved display of Zealot Enlist Next effect
  
• Tooltip for event bonuses that affect all cities of a religion now shows how many cities it will affect
  
• Added loading hint for Slow AI option
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Resume and Quick Cloud Load on main menu not unloading mods first
  
• Fixed bug with tribe settlement distribution
  
• Fixed free tech preferring tech currently being researched
  
• Fixed bad AI exploration with military units
  
• Fixed events not working for cities in anarchy
  
• Fixed bugs with Rise of Carthage scenario 3 sometimes failing to generate goals
  
• Fixed stolen city/city site trigger not taking teams into account
  
• Fixed family luxury menu display issue
  
• Fixed opinion bars displaying inconsistently
  
• Fixed specialist widget timers not updating when city yield production changes
  
• Fixed Learn to Play 5 bug where player couldn't declare war again after accepting truce via an event
  
• Fixed unit/city stats sometimes not updating when general/governor stats change
  
• Fixed frame limit functionality
  
• Fixed map script non-city resource placement
  
• Fixed premade maps failing to start when No Ancient Ruins option enabled
  
• Text and event fixes