Old World Release Update 2024.10.24

Changes Overview

• Shrine Rebalancing:Adjustments to shrine effects.
• City Damage:Now affected by critical hits.
• Modded MP Games:Easier to start thanks to relaxed version checking.
• UI Improvements:Various interface updates.

Design:

• Shrines of Water:(Melqart, Poseidon, Anahita) now give 2 money per water tile in the city, in addition to previous effects.
• Shrines of Healing:(Eshmun, Isis) now give a free Healer promotion to units built in the city instead of the previous healing ability.
• City Damage:Now affected by critical hits.
• Improvement Build Times:Now take 1 extra turn to build per 5 points of Worker damage (+1 turn at 15-19 HP to +4 turns at 1-4 HP).
• Undo Functionality:Re-enabled for strict(teams) turnstyle cloud games. After starting to play a turn, it must be completed before other players on the team can take their turn.
• Law Switch Costs:First switch costs 200 Civics, with each subsequent change costing 100 extra.
• Power Comparison:Now solely calculated on military unit strength, with ships counting for less based on the amount of water on the map.
• Unit Upgrade Restrictions:Can no longer upgrade a unit if the upgraded unit is not allowed to be in that tile.
• Fort Building:Can no longer build forts on non-urban tribe settlement ruins (affects non-default City Site Number options).
• Rally Defense:Now only activates on killing promotable military units (i.e., not Militia).
• Unit Spawning from Improvements:Improvements that spawn units (Colosseum, Cothon, Holy Sites, etc.) now try to spawn them on the tile of the improvement.
• Punic Duel Balance Pass:Adjustments made to the premade map.
• Drunk Trait:Now gives -20 opinion to religious and family heads, down from -40.
• Event Options Delay:Added turn delay to most event options with random traits or relationships.
• Mission Costs:Slander, High Synod, and Trade missions now cost Money instead of Civics.
• Competitive Mode (Behind the Throne):Grand Vizier position disabled.
• Beja Archers:No longer have the Pierce effect (Pharaohs of the Nile).
• Scheme Against a Rival Mission:Reduced chance of an event from this mission (Behind the Throne).

Programming:

• Relaxed Version Checking:Modded MP games now show a warning popup when versions do not match but allow the game to proceed.
• Version Mismatch Warning:MP players without identical mods will see a "Version Mismatch" warning in their tooltip.
• Simultaneous MP AI Turns:AI now waits for all human players to end their turn, or for the turn timer to nearly expire, before taking its turn.
• Event Processing Optimization:Performance improvements.
• Raider AI Improvements:AI now prioritizes building roads, connecting cities, and exploring more.
• AI Code Cleanup:General improvements and optimization.
• Ctrl-Shift-X Functionality:No effect when its not your turn in cloud games.
• Modio Errors Suppressed:Suppressed "Invalid Token" errors on game start.
• Mac Terrain Rebuild:Removed unneeded terrain rebuild on application focus for Macs.
• Mod Support Updates:Added support for new diplomacy types and dynamic improvement names.
• Yield Price Calculation:Now moddable via XML.
• Map Editor:Max map size increased to 180x180 (modifiable via XML).
• XML Changes:Updates to units and event links (see Notes for Modders section).
• New Event Triggers:Added EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLIANCE_OFFER and EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLY_DECLARED_WAR.
• New Statistics:Added STAT_CHILDREN_COUNT.
• City Luxuries Info:Added InfoGoal.miCityLuxuries.
• Script Support:Old World no longer supports runtime compiled scripts; standalone compiler removed.

UI:

• Mission Target List Sorting:Characters now sorted by importance in mission target lists.
• Shift-Click Improvements:Shift-clicking on recommended improvements now adds them to the workers queue.
• Shrine Pings:Shrine improvement pings can now be placed even if the shrine already exists.
• Improvement Pings:Improved accuracy of yields for out-of-territory improvements.
• Luxury Management Menu:Now scrollable for easier management.
• Unit Tooltips:Now scrollable, with unit effects ordered alphabetically.
• Cloud Game Tooltips:Now show the elapsed time since the last upload.
• Yield Icons:Recently added yield name and sign removed from help text (now shows yield icon only, as previously).
• Legitimacy Graph:Added to the Records screen.
• Family Unit Banners:Family unit banner shape now shown on the family tab panel.
• Specialists on Pillaged Tiles:Existing specialists now shown on pillaged tiles.
• Replay for Team Games:Improved functionality.
• Resource Removal Warning:Added for Add Urban action.
• Project Help Text:Now includes information about other projects that add the same project (e.g., Inquiry shows different levels).
• Opinion Yield Rate Help Text:Moved from potential to main effects.
• Contact Event Truce Flags:Made more consistent in event options.
• Religion Icon on Unit Production:Now shown on unit production buttons when applicable.
• Religion Tooltips:Simplified for clarity.
• Character Pinning:Any non-leader character can now be pinned (e.g., foreign leaders), and pins are no longer cleared on character death.
• Trait Display Order:Reordered for clarity.
• Scenario Screen Arrows:Category toggle arrows no longer select scenario class.
• EffectPlayer and EffectCity Help Text:Total yields display removed from most entries to simplify tooltips.
• Foreign City Widget:Clicking on the nation name now selects the nation.
• Game Log Graphics:Re-aligned for improved presentation.
• Mod Folder Display:Mod folders that begin with "." are no longer displayed.

Bugs Fixed:

• Fixedreligious improvementsbeing affected by other religions theologies.
• Fixedworkers stopping routof African and Turreted Elephants.
• Fixeddouble religion indicatorson tribe widgets.
• Fixedraycasting issueson tribe widget and character list religion icons.
• Fixedformer regentsaffecting succession in some cases.
• Fixedyield rates not updatingwhen units move to/from improvements.
• Fixedminimized decision UInot working for diplomacy decisions.
• FixedeffectCity improvement yieldhelp text.
• Fixedunit yield consumption estimatefor effectPlayer to show yields saved instead of new yields consumed.
• Fixedyield preview overlaysgetting stuck.
• Fixedally declared war event trigger.
• Fixedmonitor option setting.
• Timeline screen map now only shows city borders that the player currently has visibility of (fixes bug showing unrevealed borders).
• Fixedmissing damage previewfor civilian units/ships if they are the only unit in a city.
• FixedPassive AI attacking citieswhen it shouldn't.
• FixedEffectCity terrain yieldsbeing counted twice.
• Fixedfog reveal animationnot clearing tiles it has already animated.
• Fixedunit animations freezing.
• Fixedbad player start placement asserts.
• Fixedhidden unitsnot getting bounced when hostile borders expand to include their location.
• Fixedunexpected click behavioron city screen.
• Fixedmultiplayer replayfor games where multiple players can take their turns simultaneously.
• Fixedmission results not appearingin target player's turn summary (e.g., city damage from treachery).
• Fixedtribute bugwhich sometimes allowed tribute while at war.
• Fixedissues starting multiplayer gamesfrom the mods screen.
• Fixedunloading modswhen toggling off "Use Mods" in the MP setup screen.
• Fixednull checkfor notification help text.
• Fixedexceptionwhen right-clicking the empty head of a not-yet-founded religion.
• FixedAI unit protection calculationand possible divide-by-zero errors when attackers can't do any damage (affects mods).
• Fixedmissing traitin Hanno II's dynasty tooltip (Wonders and Dynasties).
• Text and Event fixes.

Notes for Modders:

• Units in unit.xml:Add a[noparse]bRegular[/noparse]flag (after[noparse]bGeneral[/noparse]in the order) to denote a "regular military" unit. The flag makes the unit count as "regular military" in the stats, and the AI assumes that non-regular units are worth less.
• Event Links in eventLink.xml:
• [noparse]aeSubjectClasses[/noparse]is no longer needed. The link will save all subjects in the triggering event and figure out the classes by itself.
• If you only want some subjects saved, put[noparse]iNumSubjects[/noparse]on the link (in[noparse]eventLink.xml[/noparse]) to save that many subjects.
• Use[noparse]iNumSubjects = 0[/noparse]if you dont care about any subjects and are only using the link as a shortcut to trigger something else.
• For immediate event links, tag the link with[noparse]bImmediate = 1[/noparse]in[noparse]eventLink.xml[/noparse]. Use[noparse]EventLinkAdd[/noparse]in[noparse]eventOption.xml[/noparse].[noparse]EventLinkStart[/noparse]will be removed in the future.

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