Old World News

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.75439 Test 2024-12-18[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Pathfinder trait now gives 50% bonus to Camps and Nets as Governor and 20% as Leader instead of 100/50%
  
• Swapped maintenance costs of Philosophy/Engineering and Professional Army/Volunteers
  
• The territory of a city being captured is considered neutral territory for the purposes of healing, forts and roads
  
• The terriorty of a nation the player is at peace with is not considered neutral territory
  
• Characters with a religion trait (Clergy, Mani etc.) can no longer be targeted by conversion missions
  
• Conquered cities can no longer be given to a family that has not yet been founded
  
• Grand Vizier managed cities can no longer rush buy (Behind the Throne)
  
• Unpopular trait now gives nationwide 5% rebel spawn chance (Behind the Throne)
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Bonuses and EffectCities give only EffectUnits, not Promotions. Promotions are only for units that can gain XP
  
• Unit effects that come from disabled promotions can now be assigned by bonuses and city effects
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Crowning ambitions are now indicated with the legitimacy crown icon
  
• Added some missing keyboard shortcuts to button help
  
• Improved Choose Governor tooltip
  
• Civilian unit effects such as Surveyor are now shown on the city production list
  
• Pillaged permanent improvements now show a pillaged icon
  
• Encyclopedia improvements
  
• Acting Governor (Grand Vizier) effects now show on the Governor tooltip (Behind the Throne)
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed order yield rates not updating when starting/finishing construction
  
• Fixed broken Civ Fanatics forum link on main menu
  
• Fixed AI movement null reference
  
• Fixed several Portrait Editor bugs
  
• Fixed load/save bug for mods that give bonus effectUnits
  
• Fixed duplicated Hittite portrait
  
• Fixed errors when loading saves with deprecated promotions
  
• Fixed wrong memory display when giving a conquered city to a family
  
• Fixed Macedonia not getting family promotions on their starting units in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
  
• Fixed opinion and legitimacy bonus from founding a family seat getting applied more than once in some cases
  
• Fixed Grand Vizier traits not affecting the cities where they are acting governor (Behind the Throne)
  
• Fixed some UI instances where the acting governor was being treated as the actual governor (Behind the Throne)
  
• Text and event fixes
  

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.75342 Test 2024-12-11[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Grand Vizier now acts as a governor in cities without a governor and controls production only in those cities. Removed all other Grand Vizier yields
  
• Changes to diplomatic Declare War missions:
  
• Ask to Declare War mission now requires a Leader with the Schemer archetype. Removed mission tech requirement and lowered opinion needed to Cautious
  
• Ask to Join War mission added, where you must already be at war with the target. This requires Pleased opinion
  
• With Ruthless AI enabled, war requests will be denied if the player is close to victory
  
• The Random Improvements option now allows any combination of shrine effects instead of picking a set from a random nation
  
• Removed family preferences from crowning ambitions. Most crowning ambition events now allow three choices of ambition instead of two. Along with some bug fixes this should give a much higher variety of crowning ambitions offered
  
• Launch Offensive can now be used from a unit with a rout cooldown and it removes rout cooldowns from adjacent units
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• AI builds fewer duplicate roads
  
• Improved AI retreat vs attack decision making
  
• Disabled implicit subject conversion for DiplomacySubjects bonuses
  
• Hall of Fame games now store the active player so that when you load them the player stays the same
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added minimize toggle to player goals/ambitions display
  
• Inverted red/green warning text in some cases for negative yields
  
• User assigned hotkeys now have more flexibility. Assignments can use previously reserved keys and conflict with non-assignable hotkeys
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed bug preventing some Crowning Ambitions from appearing
  
• Fixed bug allowing ambitions to appear in events with random ambition selections that should only appear in specific events
  
• Fixed cycle button position not updating shortcut keys and not getting saved
  
• Fixed some road pathfinding issues
  
• Fixed player start location bug in the desert map script and made start location picking more robust in general
  
• Fixed illegal urban tiles placed in mirror maps
  
• Fixed unintended Militia appearing on founding in Learn to Play 2
  
• Fixed Hall of Fame difficulty showing Prosperity instead of Difficulty
  
• Fixed character ratings appearing with a divider in some cases
  
• Fixed research popup closing after using Redraw
  
• Fixed null ref in encyclopedia
  
• Fixed duplicate Hall of Fame entries when reloading a completed cloud game
  
• Fixed General not getting removed when upgrading a unit to a type that cannot have one (affects mods)
  
• Fixed incorrect suffix on Ptolemy II
  
• Fixed event system bug that can very rarely lead to valid subjects being deemed invalid
  
• Fixed tooltip expansion when hotkey changed
  
• Text and Event fixes
  

[h2]Test Branch 1.0.75221 Test 2024-12-04[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Removed two Prosperity levels and renamed using adjectives. The AI now plays on Thriving Prosperity (used on Strong Difficulty)
  
• Achievements related to difficulty are now tied to Difficulty instead of Prosperity
  
• Achievement 'Alexander the Great' no longer requires the Great cognomen, just have to destroy Persia as Alexander
  
• Removed restriction on marrying Libyans in Rise of Carthage scenario 1
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Removed improvement dynamic text object from each tile to save some memory
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed improvement pings not appearing when law requirements are not met
  
• Fixed vegetation help text to correctly state a ranged attack penalty
  
• Fixed possible array out of range for bad event links
  
• Text and Event fixes
  

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[h2]Test Branch 1.0.75158 Test 2024-11-27[/h2]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• Difficulty rename:
• The Advanced Difficulty setting is now called Prosperity
  
• The Simple Difficulty presets remain as they were
  
• Difficulty components are grouped together and indented under difficulty mode in the game parameters tooltip
  
• Difficulty will be listed as Custom for combinations outside of the simple difficulty presets
  
• Distant raids are now tied to Tribe Level instead of Difficulty
  

• Alliance victory is now an setup option, default is off
  
• Ask to Declare War mission disabled for allies
  
• Upgrading a unit now keeps its fortification state
  
• Gifting, converting, hiring, or recruiting a unit can no longer result in it being in territory where it should not be
  
• Can now upgrade units inside your team's cities, even if they are not your own cities
  
• Vizier courtiers are no longer giftable in MP
  

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• Improved replay so that it still works if there is data only from the current turn
  
• AI performance optimization
• Added more logging for AI unit priority comparison failure
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Character tooltips no longer show trait effects
  
• All attacks now listed under Units Attacked notifications (previously kills were not shown)
  
• Free promotions are now indicated in the city production list and unit type tooltip
  
• Death of governor decision now auto-invalidates if the city can no longer have a governor
  
• Defeat status now shown when the active player is eliminated in MP even if the game is still ongoing
  
• Event browser story preview improvements
  
• Law strategy notes updated
  

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• Fixed invalid moves adding undo points
  
• Fixed some events failing to appear with the Ruthless AI setting enabled
  
• Fixed player connection state UI for single-player network games
  
• Fixed Thracians in Learn to Play 4 being visible before they should be
  
• Fixed unit widgets failing to display icon and shapes not included in their respective default sprite atlases (affects mods)
  
• Fixed server games preventing eliminated players from joining one last time to see what happened, and for the game to be saved locally as a loss
  
• Fixed bug where client could be in a different language to the active player
  
• Fixed Hall of Fame bug where regenerating was replacing Scenario specific text with Generic game text for Nation, Leader names, and Difficulty
  
• Fixed Hall of Fame difficulty sorting
  
• Fixed network messages being sent out of order
  
• Fixed character suffix bug where a ruler would get the II suffix if a parent had the same name but never was a ruler
  
• Fixed achievement text that referred to Kushite Cavalry instead of Mounted Lancers
  
• Fixed Ten Crowns achievement incorrectly counting regents twice
  
• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 2 goals sometimes not getting offered
  
• Fixed Rise of Carthage starting heirs not being Royal and therefore not tutorable
  
• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 event triggering multiple times
  
• Text and Event fixes