Old World News

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
  

The test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.69073 Test 10/11/2023

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 600 civics. This replaces their previous 10% chance to enlist on kill.
  
• 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
  

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
  

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 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 summary
  

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
  
• Text and event fixes
  

We are pleased to announce that the third DLC for Old World, entitled Pharaohs of the Nile, is now available with a 10% launch discount.

Six scenarios will take you across the span of Egypt's New Kingdom in a new campaign, from the unification of Egypt to the Bronze Age Collapse. The DLC also introduces a new nation, the Kingdom of Kush, whose bonuses to shrines and forts make them a force to be reckoned with.

Read all about it and get "Pharaohs of the Nile" now at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2587410/Old_World__Pharaohs_of_the_Nile/

You can also listen to the developers discussing the new content in the Mohawk podcast at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mohawk-games/episodes/Old-Worlds-Pharaohs-of-the-Nile-DLC-e2a2lmc