Old World News

Test Branch 1.0.74469 Test 2024-10-16


[h2]Design[/h2]

• City damage is now affected by critical hits
  
• Slander, High Synod, and Trade missions cost Money instead of Civics
  
• Grand Vizier position disabled in Competitive mode (Behind the Throne)
  
• Beja Archers no longer have the Pierce effect (Pharaohs of the Nile)
  
• Reduced the chance of an event from the "Scheme Against a Rival" mission (Behind the Throne)
  

[h2]Programming[/h2]

• AI prioritizes building roads, connecting cities, and exploring more
  
• In Simultaneous MP games, the AI now waits for all human players to end their turn, or the turn timer to almost expire, before taking its turn
  
• Removed unneeded terrain rebuild on application focus for Macs
  
• minRating/maxRating subjects can now check for a value of 0
  
• Relaxed version checking requirements on modded MP games. A warning only popup is displayed when joining games where mod versions do not match
  
• MP players without identical mods will have a warning "Version Mismatch" in their player tooltip
  
• Added mod support for adding new diplomacy types
  
• Added mod support for dynamic improvement names
  
• Yield price calculation values now moddable via XML
  
• Map Editor max map size increased to 180x180. This is now moddable via XML
  
• XML changes to units and event links. See the 'Notes for modders' section
  

[h2]UI[/h2]

• Shift-Clicking on recommended improvements now adds them to the worker's queue
  
• Any non-leader character can now be pinned (e.g. foreign leaders) and pins are no longer cleared on character death
  
• Unit tooltip is now scrollable and unit effects are alphabetically ordered
  
• Cloud game tooltips now show elapsed time since the last upload
  
• Scenario screen category toggle arrows no longer select scenario class
  
• Removed total yields display from most effectPlayer and effectCity help text, to simplify tooltips
  
• Re-aligned game log graphics
  
• Player luxury management context menu now scrollable
  
• Clicking on the nation name in a foreign city widget now selects the nation
  
• Improved accuracy of yields on out of territory improvement pings
  

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed missing damage preview for civilian units/ships if they are the only unit in a city
  
• Fixed Passive AI attacking cities when it shouldn't
  
• Fixed EffectCity terrain yields being counted twice
  
• Fixed fog reveal animation not clearing tiles it has already animated
  
• Fixed unit animations sometimes freezing
  
• Fixed some bad player start placement asserts
  
• Fixed hidden units not getting bounced when hostile borders expand to include their location
  
• Fixed clicks not behaving as expected on city screen
  
• Fixed replay for games where multiple players can take their turns simultaneously
  
• Fixed toggling off "Use Mods" in the MP setup screen not unloading mods
  
• Fixed mission results not appearing in target player's turn summary e.g. city damage from treachery
  
• Fixed bug which sometimes allowed tribute while at war
  
• Fixed issues with starting a multiplayer game from the mods screen
  
• Fixed null check for notification helptext
  
• Fixed exception if right-clicking the empty head of a not-yet-founded religion
  
• Fixed missing trait in Hanno II's dynasty tooltip (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[h2]Notes for modders:[/h2]

If your mod adds units in unit.xml:

• Add a bRegular flag (after bGeneral in the order) to denote a "regular military" unit.
  
• The flag makes the unit count as "regular military" in the stats, and the AI also assumes that non-regular units are worth less.
  

If your mod adds event links in eventLink.xml:

• aeSubjectClasses is no longer needed
  
• The link will save all subjects in the triggering event, it will figure out the classes by itself
  
• If you only want some subjects saved, put iNumSubjects on the link (in eventLink.xml) to save that many subjects
  
• Put iNumSubjects = 0 if you don't care about any subjects and are only using the link as a shortcut to trigger something else
  
• For any event links that are meant to be immediate, and are used with EventLinkStart:
  
• Tag the link with bImmediate = 1 in eventLink.xml
  
• Use EventLinkAdd in eventOption.xml, as with regular links. EventLinkStart will be removed in the future
  

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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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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