Warsim: The Realm of Aslona News

Hey everyone, so not the biggest update but still plenty of new stuff and important changes. I've not managed to log a ton of hours into programming recently but I'm trying my best. I hope everyone is doing as good as they can during this pandemic, without further ado... the update.

TROOP HIRE AND TRAINING CHANGES (8 features)

Videovillain suggested that when you have a Barracks or Grand Barracks you should be able to do the troop training the upgrade offers outside of the location itself and in the main troop menu, this makes perfect sense and should have been done way earlier so It's now in the game. While working on it I noticed several other things that needed changes and fixes so several other improvements have been made.

* Added having barracks or grand barracks also allows the training to happen directly from the hire menus disarm and convert submenu (credit u/videovillain)
* Reworked Barracks and training ground intro texts
* Added new indicator inside Barracks and training ground showing how many troops are trained each year
* Added upgrade screen with sfx when upgrading barracks/training ground from within the other buildings screen
* Added slave training pen indicator in disarm and convert menu
* Added new text introduction to disarm and convert menu
* Added new text introduction to hire troop menu
* Added new text introduction to sell troop menu

FIXING THE NEAR NORTH (15 features)

After doing a Playthrough and exploring the near north I noticed a few issues with area descriptions among some other bugs, I've tried to fix as many of these as possible!

* Rewrote slaver's fort intro text
* Reworked slaver's fort title on near north menu
* Reworked Near north intro text
* Reworked fort northwatch text and grammar
* Fixed brawlers pit grammar issue
* Fixed brawlers pit intro text blocked for ascii free version of warsim
* Fixed shallowrock mine intro grammar issue
* Added new screen for buying Shallowrock mine
* Fixed option to buy shallowrock not being blocked when you can't afford it
* Fixed text bugs in ruined cartographers guildhall
* Reworked cartographers guild main menu
* Reworked thickblood tavern main text
* Reworked thickblood tavern owned main text
* Fixed text bug in phase 1 of fort ruin restoration
* Fixed grammar bug in ruined fort

NEW NAME SUFFIXES (2 features)

These were mentioned in Charkiboi's awesome new Warsim youtube video so I had to put them in, check it out here if you haven't seen it yet here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi4QXyItj5A
* Added new name suffix 'the Rat-Squeezer' (-2 battlescore) (credit Charkiboi)
* Added new name suffix 'the Horse-Jerker' (-3 battlescore) (credit Charkiboi)

LOTS'O'AMULETS (5 features)

Was fixing a bug with the dwarvern amulet artifact and thought of 5 variants!

* Added 'fake dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'broken dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 10 gold)
* Added 'ancient dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 155 gold)
* Added 'royal dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 160 gold)
* Added 'ancient royal dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 320 gold)

BUGFIXES (10 features)

A couple of fixes here, thanks VineFynn for the bug report I had this one noted from a while ago but finally got on top of it.

* Fixed Fort Kullak troops not appearing in troop count report (credit VineFynn)
* Fixed broken character used for a hero name prefix causing buggy character
* Fixed artifact market text bug
* Fixed ability to remove and invite non-existant staff to your staff meetings
* Fixed text bug with mystery box seller in artifact market
* Fixed dwarvern amulet artifact name bug
* Fixed scorpion pit intro text
* Fixed text split bug when arresting mystery slaver
* Fixed fort Gorthmek grammar bugs
* Fixed artifact market champion post taking 20% more gold than advertised

EVERYTHING ELSE (2 features)

Some changes made here and a change to the mystery slaver as 75 gold seems too steep.

* Temporarily removed ancient lands and ancient map from the game (as it's unfinished)
* Reduced mystery slaver cost to 50 gold

So this update is focused primarily on overhauling staff meetings as I was reviewing some notes I had for staff in my development plans. There's also the ability to tell jokes and get paid, and a couple of bugfixes and other misc stuff!

STAFF MEETING OVERHAUL (17 features)

Staff meetings can be held in your throne room where you can ask your current staff any of a number of questions. The system had some good information in it but there weren't many questions and they were laid out and designed poorly. The system has now had a reboot with lots of new questions split into categories, a new layout, and new systems such as the random arrival of staff, the ability to dismiss staff from meetings, and more answers that vary depending on the state of the world. This was a mountain of work as over 400 dialogues were written or revised but I'm glad to be able to finally present it!

* Added new council arrival for meeting system with sound effect and random entry text
* Added new category system for questions
* Added new introductory screen for your first meeting explaining some things
* Added jester's quirks such as Honk honk/wonk wonk/nervousness, will be displayed when they are asked questions
* Added ability to dismiss staff from meetings
* Reworked all questions layouts to better split text
* Rewrote 100+ dialogues from staff meetings to fit and make more sense
* Added 50+ new variants of old answers to be more dynamic
* Reworked all questions layouts for staff names
* Fixed all typos and grammar issues in meetings
* Added 'What sources of income should I look at next' question (25 replies)
* Added 'Are there any ways to reduce expenditure' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about the rebels' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about demons' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about demons' VARIANT FOR DEMONIC RULE (25 replies)
* Added 'how can I make my army more effective' question (25 replies)
* Added 'Are there any points of interest in this realm?' question (30 replies)

ARE YOU JOKING? (4 features)

Now once you've taken the jester's society class you will gain the ability to tell jokes for laughter and tips. You'll be better off in the higher class taverns but you can do what you want!

* Added ability to tell jokes in Darkdale taverns once you've taken the jesters society class
* Added 3 reactions to jokes being told
* Added higher gold reward for good jokes for Gilded Cresent tavern
* Added low level gold reward for good jokes for other taverns

NEW SOUNDS (4 features)

Can never have too much variation in sounds!

* Added new dragged wood sound effect
* Added new random sound used for looting boxes from smuggles den
* Added new random sound used for buying discount artifacts
* Added new random sound used for buying zeefs mystery boxes

BUGFIXES (8 features)

Thanks everyone for the bug reports here, always happy to get more bugs fixed!

* Fixed receiving rents from arena even if it's destroyed (credit Mata)
* Fixed text bug in Nairo's party
* Added +5 public opinion for defeating undead horde
* Fixed undead horde victory text
* Fixed missing screen for refusing to pay gold to view other kingdoms crown
* Fixed gift refusal text bug
* Fixed slaves to slave soldier's not upgrading properly (credit u/SpeaksDwarren)
* Fixed text bug with slime bard (credit generalbison)

EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

This misc thing from my staff plans, now staff options are laid out better. Cheers for suggesting it Liosalpha!

* Sorted the options of staff to all have the fire option at the bottom instead of different for each staff member (credit Liosalpha)

SCREENSHOTS

First staff member arrives


Second staff member arrives


Introduction in first ever meeting


The main selection of categories


Finance and harvest questions


Unhelpful jester

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share this and say that I honestly can't thank everyone here enough. The amazing and kind comments I've gotten over the years have been such a constant source of positivity and motivation.



I've always saved the lovely stuff people have said to me and it always brings a smile to my face when I look back on some of the stuff people have said.

Means more than I can really say.

Thank you all and I hope everyone is doing alright and staying safe.

Cheers

Huw

Hey guys,

There was an issue with the save system in 0.8.0.1 that has since been fixed after several people mentioned the issue on the steam discussion forums. I have just released a quickfix now on steam and itch.io that should solve the issue.

Sorry for an inconvenience and thank you KFC Martin, Sounds, and CyberDemonEmpress for letting me know about it!

Cheers

Huw

ADVENTURER'S QUARTER EXPANDED (7 features)

The adventurer's quarter of the artifact market only had two locations inside it and was very much unfinished. I've added 3 new locations within the district to liven it up a bit. Now you've got a musician, a champion for hire, and a discount artifact shop selling mysterious crates for 'cheap'

* Added champion post to the artifact market adventurer's guild (hire a 180+ battlescore champion for 10x cost)
* Added Bladesinger to Artifact market (special song for 5 gold)
* Added screen with sfx for Bladesinger rejecting you if you don't have the gold
* Added new shop 'Gohran's Discount Artifacts' to the adventurer's district
* Added ability to speak to Gohran (7 dialogues)
* Added random number of artifact boxes each year between 5-20 available in Gohrans for 250 gold
* Added dynamic response to the value of the mystery artifact from Gohran

CULT CONSEQUENCE (4 features)

This was suggested by someone but I didn't note their username at the time so sorry to you! The person suggested that discovering the evil cult in Darkdale didn't offer any way to deal with them which is pretty bad for player choice, well now you can report the cult to everyones favourite guard commander, commander Nerrad!

* Added ability to report the cult of Ha'Hah in Darkdale to Commander Nerrad
* Added if town is ruled by cult Nerrad will shrug your report off
* Added if you rule Darkdale Nerrad will react more speedily to your report
* Added ability for Nerrad to destroy the cult of Ha'Hah following you report

SLAVE TRAINING (2 features)

Do you have a massive slave horde but none of them can fight? Need to quickly turn your slave farmers into an army? Look no further, for just 12000 gold you can train slaves into slave soldiers!

* Added new upgrade 'Slave Training Pen' (12k) found in military upgrades (Allows slaves to be trained into slave soldiers for 3 gold each) (credit Dark)
* Added slave training to the convert and disarm menu (if you have the upgrade)

THE BLUE HOUSE OF THE ARTIFACT MARKET (6 features)

Noticed a note for a location called 'Blue house' in the artifact market so decided to add it in and made up a small storyline for the location and a new sound effect I made.

* Added new location to the mage district called 'Blue House'
* Added ability to go inside and encounter with character
* Added ability to take ownership of blue house
* Added ability to enlist improvement service for blue house
* Added ability to rent blue house out for modest yearly income
* Added ability to destroy blue house

HOLY ORDER OF THE ROSES EXPANDED (14 features)

Was playtesting and saw the Holy order in game and wasn't too impressed so I've added a lot more you can do with it now and improved the old stuff.

* Added ability to destroy the holy order citadel
* Added ability to close the holy order citadel down and take it's 20 last knights
* Added ability to reclaim closed holy order by installing 20 knights inside it
* Added new screen for taking over holy order citadel initially
* Added new screen for destroyed holy order citadel
* Added new screen for abandoned holy order citadel
* Added ability to ask about forts history and view statue in owned citadel
* Added ability to view statue in owned but abandoned citadel
* Added ability to ask for more specific information about Holy order's garrison
* Fixed text for holy roses owned citadel
* Fixed holy order intro text bugs
* Rewrote holy order of the roses about section
* Added text showing how many troops holy citadel provides if you own it
* Added new songwood exploration screen tags for the various states of the citadel

BUGFIXES (17 features)

Lots of bugfixes mostly suggested by you guys! thanks as always for the reports.

* Fixed knights of Darkdale not giving you 50 knights (credit mithc)
* Fixed several text bugs in the long story player intro
* Fixed Negon's hovels listed twice in Darkdale (credit u/thebestroll)
* Fixed drum loop music not ending if music disabled (credit Mata)
* Fixed Blackrow text bugs for certain intro texts (credit Niklas)
* Fixed monument of kings viewing not working for ascii free version of game (credit Niklas)
* Fixed Prisoner trade with Baiaa still happens after they are destroyed (credit u/binkow)
* Fixed robbing monster trader doesn't give you a new monster
* Fixed incorrectly shown options for larger pit when fighting arena champion with monster
* Fixed monster vs champion crash if arena doesn't have champion
* Fixed text bugs in artifact market intros
* Fixed text bug in 4th stump of gro'lok's
* Fixed tribal goblins instead of bandits used to check how many you can afford to train in barracks
* Fixed training bandits not enough bandits text bug
* Fixed theme music not starting after leaving darkdale
* Fixed Zeef's mystery boxes text shows you can afford it with more than 5 gold instead of more than 100
* Fixed Zeef's mystery boxes not taking any gold from you when you buy a mystery box

EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

* Renamed Gro'lok's stump location to Gro'lok's stumps (as there are now 4 instead of 1)

SCREENSHOTS