Old World News

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.78165 Test 2025-06-04[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Clerics Seat can now build Disciples of any religion founded by any nation. Removed free Monasticism and Found Religion Project from Clerics
  
• Projects and specialists that are automatically removed from the build queue because they are no longer valid now add any progress to the player's yield stockpile
  
• AI governors now emphasize growth and build fewer growth units when city has no citizens
  
• Opulence project now requires a luxury in addition to estates (Behind the Throne)
  
• Reduced probability of Occurrence ready events (Wrath of Gods)
  

Multiplayer Turn Style changes

• Loose turn style can be selected only with a turn timer
  
• Renamed normal turn style to adaptive
  
• Tight turn style is now the default
  
• Strict turn styles no longer allow players to perform any actions when not their turn (this also affects single player)
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Performance optimization
  
• Bug reporting system improvements
  
• Improved sprite loading thread safety
  
• Added safeguards against unexpected UI resets from a game restart
  
• Added 3 additional resource categories to the default map script for use by mods
  
• Added support for partial counterattack strength for use by mods (replaced InfoUnit.mbMeleeCounter with miMeleeCounterPercent)
  
• Added support for upgrading rural improvements for use by mods
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Free improvements and resources are now added to the event queue and placed by clicking a valid tile
  
• Tooltip in tech tree shows the date team mates have discovered each tech, as well as for observers in MP games, and all players when the game is completed
  
• Games with custom names (i.e. Game of the Week) now show their name in the parameters tooltip
  
• Improvement net yield now includes Patrons Precious Resource culture bonus
  
• Border expansion preview has the correct border colors for families
  
• Added Items to Encyclopedia in their own category, with unique events listed
  
• Encyclopedia now lists DLC source for traits where applicable
  
• ESC clears luxury selection before opening menu
  
• City luxury tooltip improvements
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed leader bio paragraph indentation inconsistencies
  
• Fixed farm model roof bug
  
• Fixed visibility load/save error from terrain height change
  
• Fixed an AI bug that made it misjudge large battle outcomes and attack when it should be retreating
  
• Fixed number of improvement ambitions becoming impossible after losing control of a city
  
• Fixed mini tech tree names not being accounted for in scroll area
  
• Fixed council character tooltip positioning with selection active
  
• Fixed reference to Stun in Retreat helptext
  
• Fixed Guilds help text inconsistency
  
• Fixed top bar yield arrows for selected character
  
• Fixed events giving characters jobs getting invalidated when character is general of a unit on cooldown
  
• Fixed Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 4 being continuable after winning
  
• UI modding fixes
  
• Text and event fixes
  

Main Branch 1.0.78114 Release 2025-06-02

Hotfix release that fixes a potential game hang when workers are automated

Main Branch 1.0.78070 Release 2025-05-29

Hotfix release that fixes a bug with some events that could cause the game to get stuck

[h2]Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28[/h2]

[h3]Headline changes[/h3]

• Governor, Law and Improvement changes
  
• Ruthless AI improvements
  
• 14 new events
  
• New Ship icons
  

[h3]Design[/h3]

Garrison and Governor changes:

• Governors no longer require a Garrison
  
• Capital no longer gets a free Garrison
  
• Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)
  
• Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)
  

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:

• 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 penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)
  
• 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
  
• Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team
  
• Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup
  
• Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements
  
• Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied
  
• Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles
  
• Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise
  
• 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]

• 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
  
• 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
  
• Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier
  
• Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural
  
• Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy
  
• Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators
  
• Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer
  
• Added improvement net yields in tooltip
  
• 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)
  
• Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons
  
• Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip
  
• Improved German grammar for character relationships
  
• 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
  
• Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions
  
• Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned
  
• General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types
  
• Character relatives display now left-aligned
  
• Improved border expansion predictions
  
• Leader now shown on Court tab
  
• Leader concept added to Encyclopedia
  
• Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia
  
• Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept
  
• Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia
  
• 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
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced
  
• Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be
  
• Fixed Send Goods icon display
  
• Fixed load/save error from border expansion
  
• Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries
  
• Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset
  
• Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture
  
• Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead
  
• Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects
  
• Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text
  
• 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 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
  
• 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 scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing
  
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early
  
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption
  
• 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)
  
• XML ordering fixes
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.77944 Test 2025-05-21[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

Garrison and Governor changes:

• Governors no longer require a Garrison
  
• Garrisons require 1 Law again
  
• Garrisons now give +1 order (up from 0.5)
  
• Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)
  
• Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)
  

Other design changes:

• Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied
  
• Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles
  
• Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier
  
• Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural
  
• Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy
  
• Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators
  
• Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added improvement net yields in tooltip
  
• Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions
  
• Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned
  
• General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types
  
• Character relatives display now left-aligned
  
• Improved border expansion predictions
  
• Leader now shown on Court tab
  
• Leader concept added to Encyclopedia
  
• Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed lumbermills, granaries and harbors not being buildable (affected previous test build)
  
• Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced
  
• Fixed rename cities button
  
• Fixed SP setup screen not reappearing after backing out
  
• Fixed some ethnicity-based opinion bonuses for foreign nations
  
• Fixed some incorrect breakdown listings
  
• Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be
  
• Fixed Send Goods icon display
  
• Fixed load/save error from border expansion
  
• Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries
  
• Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset
  
• Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture
  
• Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead
  
• Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects
  
• Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text
  
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early
  
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption
  
• XML ordering fixes
  
• Text and event fixes