Test Branch 1.0.74469 Test 2024-10-16

Design

• 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)

Programming

• 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

UI

• 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

Bugs Fixed

• 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

Notes for modders:

• 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.

• 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