Main Branch: 1.0.71795 Release 2024-04-04

Headline changes

• New game setting for player starting development in MP and new Victory Point setting option
• Balance changes to bonus tech cards, families and dynasties
• Lowered apparent age of character portraits when using portrait interpolation
• 9 new events

Design

• Added per player Development setting to multiplayer setup. All players, Human and AI, can have their own development setting, which gives additional starting cities and techs.
• Added new victory point setting: Very High. This increases the VP required for winning by 50%. The previous High setting now increases the VP required by 25%.
• Bonus tech cards position and cost in the tech tree reorganized
• Free units now unlocked on a different tech than the one that would allow that unit to be built. Free Longbowmen, Crossbowmen and Dromon cards now grant 2 units.
• Rider family seat now gives 1 Order / turn
• Sages no longer have +25% science in their seat
• Patrons now get a +25% city culture bonus per Precious Resource instead of the flat +4. Patrons seat now gets 2 happiness levels per culture event instead of 1.
• Khufu's wonder cost reduction lowered from 50% to 25% (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Marius' enrolment post now gives -25% for warriors only instead of all infantry, training cost for project removed. Sulla now more likely to cause Marius problems. (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Hannibal now gets -20 family opinions and an increased legitimacy penalty in some Hannibal specific events (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Added preferred families for more dynasty leaders (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Sulla's Dictator trait now included in Terrifying trait group (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Agrippina unlocking a spymaster is now tied to a trait, the current one will stay if she dies but a new one cannot be appointed (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Legitimacy cost for adoption reduced from 4 to 2
• Miserable trait has a chance per turn of being removed
• Competitive mode back to giving a flat rate of science, civics, training, and money
• Improved city site resource placement so that it is less likely that one of them is unreachable
• Old World pre-made map tweaks. Extended map one tile north, fixed some resources and ruins that were out of borders. Added Lavender to several locations on map.
• You can now shift-click a law to abolish it without replacing it. This will increase the cost of establishing a law in that pair by 100.
• When moving allied units, the moving player now gets exploration and ruins yields instead of the unit owner. Moving allied units can no longer trigger events.
• Events giving a free siege unit will now give an Onager instead of a Ballista if the player has not yet researched Hydraulics
• Can no longer invalidate an ambition offer just by getting a bit closer during the turn in which it was offered
• Event trait delay no longer happens when there is no undo
• Swapped names of Persian Cleric and Rider families (for historical accuracy)
• Changed improvement adjacency requirements to be fulfilled in team territory, to be consistent with adjacency bonuses
• Improved scaling of diplomatic event chance with number of AIs
• Marriage events now only occur for the leader and their children
• Added Greedy to Seven Sins trait group and removed Extravagant
• Removed turn delay on more event bonuses when No Undo is enabled
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 tweaks - boost science and units on Easy difficulty and limit Persian tech. Persia can no longer build ships. Parsa renamed to Persepolis

New Events

• A More Disciplined Approach
• Battle Diary
• Emergency War Taxes
• Enough Missiles to Block the Sun
• Learning From Our Mistakes
• Masquerade
• Taking the Reins
• The Fluffy Bunny
• Whispers from the Gods

Programming

• Worker AI improvements
• AI saves yields for Wonders less aggressively, allowing them to spend more developing their economy
• Improved AI consideration for connecting its cities to foreign cities
• AI no longer spends orders to place military units on city sites when it has not yet met any opponents
• AI now purposely builds ships in specific water areas, like humans can
• Moved map scripts to their own folder
• Network code cleanup
• Adjusted character portrait selection to be more likely to choose same portraits if characters' age difference is large, all else being equal
• Fallback for DLL mods that fail to load. A message will be shown and mods disabled.
• Map files now support DynastySites in the tile data. Mods can append nation start tiles to premade maps
• Hotseat with one human player now behaves like single player for achievements, save files, discord, death with no heir, tutorial, hall of fame, etc
• Portrait Editor now automatically attempts to regenerate portraits without feature points
• Network connection improvements
• Dynasty start sites are now definable directly in map files
• Removed explicit construction states asset definitions for wonders that shouldn't have one

UI

• Adjusted mapping between portrait ages and rendered portraits. This lowers the apparent age of characters portraits when using Portrait Age Interpolation.
• Clicking a link within a mission button will activate the mission rather than opening the link
• Popups and tooltips now have scrollbars when needed, will no longer make text smaller to fit
• Adjusted floating text to better accommodate some bonuses
• HUD changes to prevent overlap. Research is now centered according to the other HUD elements rather than the center of the screen
• Added founded turn to city sort. This was always the default sort and can now be selected again after changing the sort order
• City screen (F7) now applies default founding turn sort when clicking the city name column
• Added connected icon to cities tab
• Moved family/religion actions to bottom of selection panel
• Added per-culture level limits to improvement Encyclopedia entries
• Ships show a text status while anchoring
• Raider unit tooltips now show original tribe
• Unit tooltips now show original unit owner
• Improvements to unit range tooltips. Fixed range now indicated in the unit's tooltip
• Improvement yield modifiers are shown even if they sum to zero
• Trait gain / loss bonus helptext now shows yield change for traits with leader effects
• Added popup for when connection is restored in network multiplayer
• Changed Mod Browser resources link to Modding Guide page
• Added button with link to documentation to Portrait Editor
• Added Turns to Hall of Fame and allowed sorting by Legitimacy, VPs, Turns and Ambitions
• Show character subject requirements in red when no valid characters found for a mission
• Allow deselection on inheritance screen by clicking background
• Aligned ping popup dropdown/input field
• Added a hint about customizing opponent player parameters in a single player game
• Former regents now included in turn summary
• Improvement helptext displays when max improvement count is 1 for a city
• Updated National Alliance helptext to include that players can move and attack with allied units
• Added descriptions to Make Clergy and Pagan Sacrifice missions
• Add Road button now shown on invalid terrain
• Wonders now shown on city Improvements tooltip
• Negative penalty for missing family luxuries shown on send luxury to family button
• Added email reminder to non-strict turnstyle team server and cloud games for the last player to take their turn
• Added unsubscribe instructions to multiplayer turn emails
• Mod browser speed improvements
• Display the build's date in unambiguous international format instead of American
• Character name is now always show in character help tooltip to give a link for selection
• Player option to follow moves of AI at war no longer includes civilian units
• Added target/prereq icons to techs tooltip while hovering over tech tree button
• Killed unit log entry now includes the killed unit's promotions
• Added reminders for clergy missions
• Research choice event no longer appears. Research popup shown on trying to end turn without having selected anything to research.
• Map Editor now handles setting DynastySites for defining where a dynasty will start from
• Improved Hall of Fame column header formatting
• Improved tooltip for heir naming options
• Renamed Enlist Next to Enlist Next Kill
• Units that level up no longer wake up. This fixes auto-heal getting canceled on level up.

Bugs Fixed

• Ship build water area now takes priority over city territory
• Fixed units incorrectly advancing when rout not possible
• Fixed event level not being visible in scenario MP screen
• Fixed missing Resource density, city site density, and city site number options on some map scripts
• Fixed some mod load/unload issues
• Fixed DLL mods not shutting down when loading a save in-game
• Mod assemblies are now reference counted to fix DLL load/unload issues
• Fixed inconsistent header sizing on tab panel
• Fixed unit action buttons not appearing for units of allied nations
• Fix tile yield calculation with maiYieldRateSpecialistUrban only getting counted once per EffectCity
• Fixed assert error in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
• Fixed double mission display in Hero tooltip with Shammuramat selected (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Fixed unit harvest tooltip to display yields gained for allied units
• Fixed initialization of mod browser scrollbar on manage mod list.
• Fixed clicking some input fields (text ping, bug report screen) selecting all text
• Fixed settlement religion icon update on undo
• Fixed bug where raiders could raid the wrong player
• Fixed fortification bar for AI units showing even when they are moving
• Fixed leader background not being updated when switching due to premade map
• Fixed heir naming popup title
• Fixed overlap on dynasty portraits in SP setup
• Fixed free ships spawning on smaller bodies of water when a larger one is available
• Fixed missing options menu tooltips
• Fixed city luxury list tooltip not appearing
• Fixed an AI-related UI assert
• Fixed an assert for automated human units
• Fixed leader tooltip overlap with actions menu
• Fixed dynasty dropdowns not populating correctly on scenario setup screen
• Fixed decision update bug for MP games
• Fixed assign general audio level
• Fixed some team contact issues
• Fixed a movement bug where you could spend orders but not complete the entire move
• Fixed mixed language text appearing in cloud games
• Fixed difficulty dropdown in SP advanced setup
• Fixed tribes entering their own camp getting credit for capturing a settlement
• Fixed highlighted tiles for selected Disciples
• Fixed human development not applying due to defaults
• Fixed empty parenthesis on trait loss when no ratings change involved
• Fixed some button links still activating on click
• Fixed some settings getting reverted to default
• Development fix in event editor
• Portrait Editor fixes
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 fixes
• Fixed Rome over expanding in Learn to Play 5
• Fixed raiders sometimes not raiding
• Fixed missing option defaults in Safe Mode
• Fixed hotkey rebinding in Safe Mode
• Fixed tooltip locking on inheritance screen
• Fixed some cases where border preview showed the wrong color
• Fixed tooltip positioning issues
• Fixed missing UI elements in Carthage and Pharaohs scenarios
• Fixed Exodus events not triggering in Pharaohs scenario 5 when loading from a save
• Fixed road pathfinder error when used on tiles where roads cannot be built
• Fixed two character different character portraits actually referring to the same art
• Fixed clergy reminder text reference
• Fixed network multiplayer with non-internal mods
• Fixed an issue with loading modded games for network play
• Fixed issue with premade maps where all dynasty sites were given to an AI nation rather than random city sites based on development
• Fixed some button clicks not triggering button audio
• Fixed errors on leader selection screen after coming from the scenario selection screen
• Fixed single player start menu sometimes not showing character portraits
• Fixed an issue with the way player starting tiles are picked to include any dynasty starting tiles
• Fixed automated icon showing on city list
• Fixed free extra action effectUnit load/save inconsistency
• Fixed mod error notification when no mods loaded
• Fixed null exception on shutdown in hotkey manager
• Fixed yield modifier bug
• Fixed invalid index exception
• Fixed text preventing tooltips from locking in some cases
• Fixed tooltips incorrectly stating that the Pious trait increases the chance of a pagan religion spreading
• Fixed techs being able to give invalid bonuses i.e. courtiers in No Characters mode
• Fixed Capture Buhen goal in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 1 not triggering when moving a unit into the city when it has no HP
• City tooltip fixes
• Added Victory point level backwards compatibility (so that existing games don't have their VPs changed)
• Default AI Dynasties option is hidden when No Characters is enabled
• Text and event fixes