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Old World Update: More kids, permanent improvements and better AI

Main Branch 1.0.75065 Release 2024-11-20

Changes Overview

More kids: Increased chances for leaders to have children
Permanent improvements: Shrines, Slums, and Estates are now permanent improvements
AI improvements

Design

More kids: leaders with no children now have a higher chance to have kids
VP calculation: Points required to win are now increased when projects that grant VP are available (i.e. Opulence in Behind the Throne)
Permanent improvements: Shrines, Slums, and Estates are now permanent improvements that can be pillaged but do not get destroyed, and cannot be replaced
Tribal Divorces: Divorcing a tribal spouse now results in a negative opinion with that tribe
Distant raids: No longer include ships
AI unit building:
The traits of Grand Viziers and AI leaders now influence their decisions of how many units they build
Heroes, Commanders, Tacticians, and Warlike characters build more units and Builders, Scholars, Diplomats, and Timid characters build fewer units
AI is more likely to build units in cities that give unit promotions and experience
Alliance events: Most alliance and tribal alliance events now either require a diplomat leader or are disabled in competitive mode
City reveal: Cities are now revealed from a greater distance, like settlements
City capture: Cities now take 1 turn longer to capture
Unit spawn location: Rebels from Slums spawn on Slum tiles and Religious Dissent rebels spawn on religious buildings, if possible
Starting units no longer spawn on the same tile, even if they are allowed to do so

Programming

AI improvements:

Less aggressive in saving yields for many turns when spending results in an immediate, albeit lesser, benefit
Better evaluation of laws to properly take into account the unlocking of unique units
Increased the value of growth for a city that is building Settlers/Workers
Decreased value of disciples, AI avoids building them if has no use for them
Revised AI build hurrying priorities
Improved AI danger assessment and retreating
Improved AI unit build selection

Headless autoplay:

Added support for AI auto-runs in headless mode
Run OldWorldAutorun.bat in the same folder as the game executable
All players in the save are controlled by the AI for the specified number of turns, after which the game exits
Can examine runs by opening the autosaves that are placed in the Auto folder

Other programming changes:

Performance optimizations: Improved performance of terrain rendering, tile ownership changes and event processing
Improvement and Project Legitimacy: now tied to effectCity and always converted to orders in no characters mode
Added triggers: EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_DIPLOMACY_CHANGED and EVENTTRIGGER_TRIBE_DIPLOMACY_CHANGED
Moving capital: Added support for moving the capital. Player's original capital is now remembered and exposed to the event system
Roads from improvements: Added support for improvements adding roads to the tile
ZOC changes from improvements: Added support for improvements allowing units to ignore enemy ZOC
Mission bonus rework: InfoMission.miXP replaced with SubjectCharacterBonus
Diplomacy methods: now take players as arguments instead of teams, to that events are triggered for the most relevant players

UI

Family tab icons: removed player color
Marriage missions: now grouped together
Inheritance and Tech Tree screens: now scrollable with camera keys (WASD)
Religion Tooltips: Active Clergy and Current Followers no longer shown if there are none. Added +2 civics to Holy City line
City Tooltips: Added tile tooltip content to bottom of city tooltip
Royal characters: Changed 'your Relative' to 'A Royal'
Nation tooltips: Now always show number of cities on nation tooltips
Honey resource audio: Reduced volume of honey environmental audio
Custom campaign audio: Added custom sounds for priest attacks in Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 3
Tutorial events: Adjusted timing and added more to No Events mode
Button dragging: Disabled unnecessary button clone when dragging buttons
Laurion Mines: No longer show extra text on map

Bugs Fixed

Fixed recruitment with legitimacy penalty not getting applied on loading a save
Fixed info loading bug that could cause new games to fail to start
Fixed undo/redo related to tribal invasions
Fixed bug with random seed for event story trigger test not matching the seed of the actual triggered event
Fixed silent event failures caused by type cast issue
Fixed units failing to spawn from improvements in Barbarian Horde games after the invasion had started
Fixed disable environment audio toggle not taking effect immediately
Fixed Fickle Band effects not triggering when divorce happened from an event
Fixed ships exiting Great Cothon not always getting their size updated
Fixed multiple selection highlights
Fixed title of MP setup screen when coming from Mod selection screen
Fixed improvement spawned units not respecting DLC checks
Fixed project ambitions not respecting DLC checks
Fixed border expansion preview not updating when selecting option in minimized event
Fixed issues with unit list scrolling and units becoming unselectable
Fixed AI value placed on Strongholds and Citadels (will now be built more often)
Fixed spurious assert triggering when a nation is eliminated
Fixed graphical display issue affecting Arid Hills
Fixed inconsistency with the number of capture turns of cities
Fixed eliminated tribes being eligible for forming an alliance
Fixed improvement max player count not working for improvements with no improvement class
Fixed exception when submenus scrolled off-screen
Fixed bug where goal subject weight could result in an ineligible subject being chosen
Fixed acquired techs cost in Encyclopedia and added cost to tooltips in tech tree
Fixed some rebel spawn issues
Fixed event cache bug
Fixed modified collection exception
Fixed sort exception
Fixed incorrect iTriggerExtra in EVENTTRIGGER_CITY_CAPTURED
Fixed bug with bSingle effectCity effects that spawn rebels possibly being counted multiple times (affects mods only)
Text and event fixes

[ 2024-11-21 11:05:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Old World
Mohawk Games

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Hooded Horse

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Q2 2022

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Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?

Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world of kings and queens, family matters.

Each of the 7 kingdoms has four noble families that provide various benefits when put in charge of your cities.
Manage family ties through events, actions, and marriages to keep them happy and reap additional benefits. Upset them, or make them too powerful, and you risk their ire.
Maintain a strong family unit, or distract yourself with more illicit adventures.

The world is full of great characters with distinct personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. Use them to forge your kingdom, defend your borders, and build ties with other leaders.

Seek out and recruit famed warriors, philosophers, builders, and more. Have them tutor your children, lead your armies, and further your reign.
Different personality archetypes allow your court members to perform different tasks in similar roles. Find the right combinations to take full advantage of governors, diplomats, spymasters, and even your spouse.
Characters develop new personalities and traits over time, growing old, gaining experience, and finally falling ill and passing away, leaving room for the next generation.

Unsettled tribes, barbarian marauders, and remnants of previous cultures are all waiting in the vast unexplored wilderness.

Discover artifacts and great heroes of the past at ruins scattered across the map.
Experience over 3,000 unique events inspired by history and mythology.
Contact with foreign dignitaries triggers event chains, stories, and courtroom drama.
Pursue ambitions and legacies related to conquest, development, faith, and more.
Historically inspired scenarios, weekly challenge games, and a choice between randomly generated and handcrafted maps to explore. Lead Carthage to victory as Hannibal in the Punic Wars, hold your own against Barbarian Hordes, or compete against other players in tackling fictional scenarios.

Why do things the way they've always been done? Old World brings a new take to key elements of the 4X strategy genre:

Go beyond the traditional resources. Buildings are made of wood and stone, not "industry." Population doesn't grow off "food" alone.
Orders are a resource shared across your realm. Instead of moving every unit once per turn, each unit can be moved multiple times until fatigued or Orders are depleted.
Technological advancement is not predetermined. Randomization helps keep technology trees feeling fresh with each new playthrough.
Quality of life improvements, such as the ability to undo mistaken commands and nested tooltips, ensure you're always making informed decisions.
Play with friends in countless multiplayer modes — from hotseat, to asynchronous, to cloud play.
Mods further open up infinite options for new worlds, empires, and dynasties — inspired by our real world, and by works of fiction as well.

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Processor: Intel i5-6400 2.7ghz or similarMemory: 8 GB RAM
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Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 / AMD R9 290
Storage: 10 GB available space
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