I am happy to announce that Patch 0.23 is now available to all players. This patch is one of the biggest: a new civilization, a holiday event, significant player trade expansion, plus new achievements - it has stuff for everyone! Also, before the patch notes, I'd like to address an often asked question. As you probably know, I have started to work on Spaceship Idle, a spiritual successor to this game. However, that doesn't mean I am done with CivIdle, not yet at least. I still have some ideas for content that I'd like to bring to the game. And I have been backporting lots of the design I have for Spaceship Idle to CivIdle (trade diplomacy being one of them). https://store.steampowered.com/app/3454630/Spaceship_Idle/ As I am the only developer and only working on my free time, I have extremely limited resources - and I need to spend it wisely. I plan to make a playable build of Spaceship Idle soon-ish, therefore, Patch 0.24 will take longer than usual, most likely after the alpha test of Spaceship Idle. The alpha test of Spaceship Idle will be announced in our Discord Server and will first open for experienced players of CivIdle and Industry Idle. If you are interested, hop onto our server and watch for the announcement. And if alpha test is not for you, you can always wishlist it on Steam to get notified when the game is available.

New Civilization: French

World Wonders

• Louvre: For every 10 Extra Great People at Rebirth, one great person from all unlocked ages is born
• Centre Pompidou: Once constructed, all buildings get +1 Production and +2 Storage Multiplier. The wonder will persist if the current run reaches Information Age and the next run is a different civilization. The wonder gets +1 level at rebirth for each run that reaches Information Age with a unique civilization. Each level provides +1 Production and +2 Storage Multiplier. The value of this wonder is excluded from total empire value and British Museum cannot transform into this wonder
• Mont Saint-Michel: Generate Culture from Idle Workers. Provide +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings within 2-tile range. This wonder can be upgraded using the generated Culture and each level provides addtional +1 Storage Multiplier
• Arc de Triomphe: Every 1 happiness (capped) provides +1 builder capacity to all buildings

Natural Wonders

• Dune of Pilat: In each age, double the age wisdom for the previous age

Festival

• Bastille Day: Double the effect of Centre Pompidou and Arc de Triomphe. Double the Culture generation from Mont Saint-Michel

Great People

• Voltaire: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Museum

Holiday Event

• Easter Bunny: Once constructed, 10% of the extra Great People at Rebirth from this run will carry forward to the next run and are born after building the Easter Bunny in the new run. This wonder can only be constructed during April

Trade Expansion

• Account with higher ranks can occupy more tiles adjacent to the home tile (1 extra tile for Quaestor, 2 for Aedile, 3 for Praetor and 4 for Consul)
• Each trade tile will provides +5 Production Multiplier to a certain building and will be shuffled every week

In addition to the above, I have also made a proposal to the community to further expand this into a "trade diplomacy" system:

Proposed Stage 2

• Occupying a tile for 24h generates 0.2 army. Your own tile always generates 1 army for 24h
• Each army can be used to occupy an empty adjacent tile, or defend an existing tile
• If a tile is empty, it can be occupied with 1 army. If a tile is occupied by another player, it can be occupied with X+1 army, X = current army defending this tile
• A player's home tile cannot be occupied, and all occupied tiles will be emptied if a player rebirth or move to a new tile

Proposed Stage 3

• A bonus pool of GPs will be divided among players according to the tiles occupied at the end of the week, before the tile bonus is reshuffled

If you are interested in the discussion, you can find the thread on Discord.

QoL

• Add more custom colors for supporter pack owners

This patch also contains a bunch of QoL improvements contributed by community member @Vethon

• Filter trades by multiple player names
• Stop moving the map when selecting deficits from resource bar
• Option to turn off all full buildings of a certain type
• Building count title bar
• Remember resource search on Statistics Building
• Grand Bazaar Search
• Cancel all upgrade
• Fix crash when deleting caravans with England
• Always show your own trades when filtering
• Building batch upgrade state
• Broadway QoL improvements

Achievements

• Vive la France: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person when playing French (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)
• Wonderful Empire: Rebirth with at least 50 world wonders
• The Great Upgrade: Rebirth with at least one building that is higher than level 40
• Apprentice: Rebirth with at least 100 Extra Great Person
• Scholar: Rebirth with at least 500 Extra Great Person
• Savant: Rebirth with at least 1000 Extra Great Person
• Professor: Rebirth with at least 1500 Extra Great Person
• Luminary: Rebirth with at least 2000 Extra Great Person
• Sage: Rebirth with at least 2500 Extra Great Person
• Omniscient: Rebirth with at least 3000 Extra Great Person

This patch notes do not contain an April Fools' Joke. The fact that Patch 0.23 is released on April 1 is purely coincidental

[ 2025-04-01 15:12:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 0.23 has now landed on beta. This patch contains lots of changes so beta will run slightly longer. Please report bugs on Discord

New Civilization: French

• Louvre: For every 10 Extra Great People at Rebirth, one great person from all unlocked ages is born
• Centre Pompidou: Once constructed, all buildings get +1 Production and +2 Storage Multiplier. The wonder will persist if the current run reaches Information Age and the next run is a different civilization. The wonder gets +1 level at rebirth for each run that reaches Information Age with a unique civilization. Each level provides +1 Production and +2 Storage Multiplier. The value of this wonder is excluded from total empire value and British Museum cannot transform into this wonder
• Mont Saint-Michel: Generate Culture from Idle Workers. Provide +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings within 2-tile range. This wonder can be upgraded using the generated Culture and each level provides addtional +1 Storage Multiplier
• Arc de Triomphe: Every 1 happiness (capped) provides +1 builder capacity to all buildings
• Dune of Pilat: In each age, double the age wisdom for the previous age
• Bastille Day: Double the effect of Centre Pompidou and Arc de Triomphe. Double the Culture generation from Mont Saint-Michel (Festival)
• Voltaire: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Museum (Unique Great People)

Holiday Event

• Easter Bunny: Once constructed, 10% of the extra Great People at Rebirth from this run will carry forward to the next run and are born after building the Easter Bunny in the new run. This wonder can only be constructed during April

Trade Diplomacy

• Account with higher ranks can occupy more tiles adjacent to the home tile (1 extra tile for Quaestor, 2 for Aedile, 3 for Praetor and 4 for Consul)
• Each trade tile will provides +5 Production Multiplier to a certain building and will be shuffled every week

[ 2025-03-23 08:48:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.22.2

QoL: Add a way to disable floating mode: you need to run the game with --disable-floating-mode argument
Please note that the in-game patch notes incorrectly says 0.22.1, which will be fixed in the next patch. Also, plans for Patch 0.23 has been released, you can read the most up to date version here. I have attached the version as of writing as follows:

New Civilization: French

• Louvre: For every 10 Extra Great People at Rebirth, one great person from all unlocked ages is born
• Centre Pompidou: Once constructed, all buildings get +1 Production and Storage Multiplier. The wonder will persist if the current run reaches Information Age and the next run is a different civilization. The wonder gets +1 level at rebirth for each run that reaches Information Age with a unique civilization. The value of this wonder is excluded from total empire value and British Museum cannot transform into this wonder
• Mont Saint-Michel: Generate Culture from Idle Workers. Provide +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings within 2-tile range. This wonder can be upgraded using the generated Culture and each level provides addtional +1 Storage Multiplier
• Arc de Triomphe: Every 1 happiness (capped) provides +1 builder capacity to all buildings
• Dune of Pilat: In each age, double the age wisdom for the previous age
• Bastille Day: Double the effect of Centre Pompidou and Arc de Triomphe. Double the Culture generation from Mont Saint-Michel

Holiday Event

• Easter Bunny: Once constructed, 10% of the extra Great People at Rebirth from this run will carry forward to the next run and are born after building the Easter Bunny in the new run

If you have feedback and suggestions regarding Patch 0.23, join our Discord server. Beta releases will also be announced on Discord. And lastly, in case you've missed it, I've started to work on my next game: Spaceship Idle. If this is a game that interests you, please help wishlist it on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3454630/Spaceship_Idle/

[ 2025-03-19 20:31:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

• QoL: Add a player trade filter to show only resources that you have
• QoL: Rotate game log files to prevent them from taking too much disk space
• QoL: Add a button to cancel all upgrades of the same building type (@Vethon)

[ 2025-03-12 21:38:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Player Trade

Since Patch 0.21 (English Civ), There has been a lot more player trades than usual, which causes extra load on the server. To ensure the server can survive this, I have done lots of optimizations (both the server and the client) and decided to release this patch (0.22) ahead of schedule and move the planned content to 0.23

• Optimize filling a player trade that is faster on the client and reduces server load
• Add options to fill 50%/95% of a trade
• The server has merged existing pending trades. So instead of thousands of trades, now you should have one trade per resource. The fill by column should show "System". This is a one time migration and might be done again later

Balance

• East India Company provides 0.5 Production Multiplier per level (decreased from 1)

Floating Mode

• The brand new "floating mode" that allows you to minimize the game to a floating window on your desktop: you can work on other stuff and keep an eye on your empire! You can even turn festival on/off and adjust warp speed

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where the Poseidon misses Worker Capacity Multiplier
• Fix a bug where wonders that are being upgraded (i.e. Matrioshka Brain) do not show up in Statistics Building

[ 2025-03-09 09:45:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Civilization: English

Wonder

• Cambridge University: +1 Age Wisdom level for Renaissance and ages after
• East India Company: This wonder accumulates the total value of your completed player trade transactions. For every 2,000 trade value, all buildings adjacent to caravansaries get a +1 Production Multiplier for 1 cycle. A trade transaction counts when you either fulfill another player's trade request or when your own trade request is fulfilled. Multiple boosts stack by extending the duration
• British Museum: After constructed, can transform into to a unique wonder from other civilizations
• Tower Bridge: After constructed, a great person from unlocked age is born every 3600 cycles (1h game time)

Natural Wonder

• Cerne Abbas Giant: A great person of the current age is born when a wonder is constructed

Unique Great People

• Thomas Gresham: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Bond Market

Festival

• Guy Fawkes Night: East India Company provides +2 Production Multiplier to buildings adjacent to caravansaries. Tower Bridge generates great people 20% faster

Achievement

• Three Lions: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person when playing English (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

QoL

• Resource Bar has been revamped: it is more condensed and added features to change Warp Speed and Festival

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where wonders that can be upgraded will have a one tick black out when upgrade complete
• Fix a bug where the chart in Statistics Building sometimes overflows the layout
• Add an option to turn off "Trade Filled" sound effect
• Make the layout of Statistics Office more condensed so that it can show more data on mobile
• Fix a bug where sometimes cross-platform saves fails to download save from the cloud

[ 2025-02-19 21:39:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Path 0.21 is now available on Steam "beta" branch, here's the patch notes draft. Please note the patch will change during beta so follow here to read the most up to date patch notes. Also join our Discord server to provide your feedback.

New Civilization: English

Wonder

• Cambridge University: +1 Age Wisdom level for Renaissance and ages after
• East India Company: This wonder accumulates the total value of your completed player trade transactions. For every 2,000 trade value, all buildings adjacent to caravansaries get a +1 Production Multiplier for 1 cycle. A trade transaction counts when you either fulfill another player's trade request or when your own trade request is fulfilled. Multiple boosts stack by extending the duration
• British Museum: After constructed, can transform into to a unique wonder from other civilizations
• Tower Bridge: After constructed, a great person from unlocked age is born every 3600 cycles (1h game time)

Natural Wonder

• Cerne Abbas Giant: A great person of the current age is born when a wonder is constructed

Unique Great People

• Thomas Gresham: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Bond Market

Festival

• Guy Fawkes Night: East India Company provides +2 Production Multiplier to buildings adjacent to caravansaries. Tower Bridge generates great people 20% faster

Achievement

• Three Lions: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person when playing English (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where wonders that can be upgraded will have a one tick black out when upgrade complete
• Fix a bug where the chart in Statistics Building sometimes overflows the layout
• Add an option to turn off "Trade Filled" sound effect
• Make the layout of Statistics Office more condensed so that it can show more data on mobile
• Fix a bug where sometimes cross-platform saves fails to download save from the cloud

[ 2025-02-02 09:13:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where Year of the Snake is not effective when being upgraded

[ 2025-01-23 18:08:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Priority Reworked

The game's priority system used to work as follows: for 3 buildings A, B, C, if the priority is A > B > C, the order is: [olist]

Building A transports

Building A produces

Building B transports

Building B produces

Building C transports

Building C produces [/olist] This makes sense at the first glance. However, it has some consequences. Most notably, if Building C requires a resource that Building B produces, then the resources that B produces will go straight to building C, which has the lowest priority. After this patch, the order is now: [olist]

Building A transports

Building B transports

Building C transports

Building A produces

Building B produces

Building C produces [/olist] With this change, the problem above should no longer be the case.

Lunar New Year

Year of the Snake: After completed, when entering a new age, instead of getting one great person of each unlocked age, get the same amount of great people in the current age. All buildings within 2-tile range get +1 Production Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier to buidlings within 2-tile range. This wonder can only be constructed during the lunar new year period (1.20 ~ 2.10)

Offline Production Tweak

Offline Production has been changed in this patch. Now you will get 4h of warp storage without Petra and you can do 2x speed. Petra will add additional warp storage (1h for 1 level, same as before) and unlock 16x warp speed. You can set warp speed in your Home Building and Petra. To adjust the split of offline production and time warp, you can go to Options -> Gameplay

Cross Platform Cloud Save (Beta)

Cross Platform Cloud Save allows you to sync your progress from Steam to mobile devices. It is currently in beta and if you are interested in testing this, join our Discord channel and ping @fishpond Currently, only Android is supported, you can get the beta build on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cividle

Other Changes

• Allow setting a different font scale / panel width setting for mobile
• Add cache for great people images - this should speed up when great people images are first generated

[ 2025-01-13 20:23:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, it's time to nominate Steam Awards. If you enjoy the game, you can help by nominating "Sit Back and Relax Award". This patch brings holiday special content and adds support for the remaining account ranks. I wish everyone a happy holiday.

Holiday Special

• Santa Claus Village: When completed, a great person of the current age is born. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides an extra great person. When choosing great people from this wonder, 4 choices are provided. This wonder can only be constructed in December
• Lapland: When discovered, reveal the whole map. All buildings within 2-tile range get +N Production Multiplier, N = number of unlocked ages. This natural wonder can only be discovered in December
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: +3 Happiness for each unlocked age. This natural wonder can only be discovered in December

Account Ranks

Aedile, Praetor and Consul ranks have been added. See the requirement and perks as follows:
Upgrading to Aedile, Praetor and Consul will carry over all your progress. There should not be any disruptions. If you have fulfilled the requirement, you can skip ranks (i.e. from Quaestor to Praetor directly). However, you have to be Quaestor first before upgrading to higher ranks.

House Keeping

Since 0.18, city is renamed to "civilization". I plan to do some cleanups in the following patches. In 0,19, several American buildings have been renamed - apart from visual/name, the functions have not changed

• The Home Building of American is renamed to "The White House"
• Shenandoah is renamed to "Grand Canyon"
• The Met is renamed to "The Pentagon"

[ 2024-11-30 09:49:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, in this patch, "city" is renamed "civilization" and all existing cities are renamed to its corresponding civilizations (Memphis -> Egyptian). Apart from the wording change, everything else should still work as is. And we have a new civilization in this patch: German.

New Civilization: German

Wonders

• Cologne Cathedral: When constructed, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the most expensive technology in the current age. All buildings that produce science (excluding Clone Lab) get +1 Production Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings that produce science (excluding Clone Lab)
• Elbphilharmonie: All buildings within 3 tile range get +1 Production Multiplier for each adjacent building that has different tier

Natural Wonders

• Zugspitze: For each unlocked age, get one point that can be used to provide one extra level to your chosen Great Person this run
• Rhine Gorge: +2 Happiness for each wonder within 2 tile range
• Black Forest: When discovered, reveals all wood tiles on the map, spawn water on all adjacent tiles that do not have deposits. All buildings that consume Wood or Lumber get +5 Production Multiplier

Festival

• Oktoberfest: Double the effect of Zugspitze

Great People

• Otto von Bismarck: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Battleship Builder (World Wars, German Only)
• Samsu-iluna: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Marbleworks (Iron Age, Babylonian Only)
• Oda Nobunaga: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Frigate Builder (Renaissance, Japanese Only)
• George Washington: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Parliament (Industrial, American Only)
  

Achievement

• Eiserner Kanzler: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person when playing German (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

Other Changes

• Batch Demolish: You can now demolish buildings of the same type with 1/2/3/4/5 tile. As part of this change, move building button has been moved to below upgrade (in New York)
• Permanent Great People Acquired now includes age wisdom. Permanent Great People Level is replaced by Effective Great People Level, which includes Age Wisdom as well https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1264496513946615869/1284579181384044575
• Fix a bug where Storage transport preference sometimes does not work correctly
• Add a new batch upgrade option: "Same Type Same Level"

Mobile Port

Apart from scheduled content updates, I have also started to work on the mobile port. Some good progress has been made and hopefully it will be available for beta testing soon. If you are interested in testing, join our Discord server to get the latest update!

[ 2024-11-12 17:33:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.17.1

• Bugfix: Fix a bug where in Athens and Beijing, the festival effect is always on
• QoL: Clarify the wordings of festival in Beijing
• QoL: Clarify the wordings of production priority: priority determins the order that buildings transport and produce - a bigger number means a building transports and produces before other buildings. However, a higher priority does not guarantee that the building will transport the resource first. For example, given the following priority order: Coal Power Plan > Coal Mine > Steel Mill, the steel mill will get all the coal produced in the same cycle because it transports and produces immediately after the coal mine

[ 2024-09-17 18:04:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Festival

Positive Happiness (max. 50) is converted into festival points. For every 100 festival points, your empire enters a festival cycle, granting a significant map-specific boost.

• Saturnalia (Rome): Alps no longer increases Consumption Multiplier
• Panathenaea (Athens): Poseidon provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings
• Opet (Memphis): Great Sphinx no longer increases Consumption Multiplier
• Lunar New Year (Beijing): Great Wall provides double the boost to buildings. Porcelain Tower provides +1 level to all great people from this run
• Thanksgiving (New York): Wall Street provides double the boost to buildings and applies to Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund and Bitcoin Miner. Research Funds get +5 Production Multiplier
• Akitu (Babylon): Ziggurat Of Ur and Euphrates River apply to buildings unlocked in the current age
• Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto): Mount Fuji generates double the warp

Age Wisdom

Age Wisdom provides +1 equivalent level of eligible great people of that age. It can be upgraded with permanent great people shards of eligible great people:

• Level 1 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 1 (1)
• Level 2 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 2 (3)
• Level 3 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 3 (7)
• Level 4 costs shards that are equivalent to upgrading great people to level 4 (15)
• ...

Please note that when upgrading account rank from Tribune to Quaestor, Age Wisdom cannot be carried over

Other Changes

• To celebrate Industry Idle 1.0 release, from now until Oct. 15, All Industrial Age buildings get +1 Production Multiplier
• Research Lab's base consumption and production are increased by 50%
• Add Great Person Cleopatra: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Shrine (Memphis Exclusive)
• Fix a bug where contextual tutorials do not load localizations correctly
• Fix a bug where Empire Value by Hour incorrectly shows total empire value in an hour instead of average. This stat is only correct for new runs
• Add a search bar to filter great people in Broadway
• Manage Great People page has been redesigned and combined into one popup
• Add a filter to filter great people by age
• "Apply to All" for Market settings
• Construction/Upgrade Greedy Transport: This will make buildings keep transporting resources even if it has enough resources for the current upgrade, which can make upgrading multiple levels faster but end up transport more resources than needed

[ 2024-09-14 16:00:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.16.0 mostly focuses on bugfixes and QoLs. However, the earliest two maps (Rome and Athens) deserve some love - they are buffed a bit to bring them more in line with newer maps.

Rome

• Colosseum: Chariot Workshops are exempt from -1 happiness. Consumes 10 chariots and produce 10 happiness. Each unlocked age gives 2 extra happiness
• Grotta Azzurra: When discovered, all your Tier I buildings get +5 Level and +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier
• Julius Caesar: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Gold Mining Camp (Rome Exclusive)

Athens

• Aphrodite: +2 Builder Capacity Multiplier for each level when upgrading buildings over Level 20. All unlocked Classical Age permanent great people get +1 level this run
• Poseidon: All adjacent buildings get free upgrades to Level 25 and +N Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. N = Tier of the building
• Aristotle: +2 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Library (Athens Exclusive)

QoL

• Show empire value of each resource in Stat Office
• Deficit Resource list in resource panel is now sorted by run out time: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1272646020471328779
• Add a button to fill max available amount when filling a trade https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1269405085763371230
• Always show accurate game timer https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1270435218171625534
• Show resource sufficiency https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1264684571480559746
• Change the default width of side panel to 450px
• Add an option to turn off transport arrows (only slightly improve performance)
• Add time series plot showing Empire Value and Science in Statistics Office
• Add an option in Gameplay that allows use max pick per roll in Porcelain Tower: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273628478822023238
• All "Apply to All" to Warehouse autopilot settings

Balancing

• Statistics Office is now unlocked by Counting and costs Stone and Wood to build
• Cotton Plantation is now unlocked by Arithmetic
• [strike]United Nations General Assembly no longer boosts storage multiplier. This is to prevent overflow of storage when the boost ends (Tier boost continues to boost storage multiplier)[/strike]

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where warehouse per cycle setting is not applied correctly
• Fix a bug where Real Second and EV/Real Second stat is incorrect
• Fix a bug where Stat Office incorrectly reveals natural wonders https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273078842742800495
• Fix a bug where buildings that cannot be electrified do not show power status https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273193366334734336
• Fix a bug where Market/Grand Bazaar shows incorrect percentage when the percent is too small https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1270780708503425118
• Fix a bug where Mount Fuji can overfill warp in Petra
• Fix a bug where Statistics Office does not show Science value after constructed Matrioshka Brain https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1273890349084966943
• Fix a bug where setting an invalid player handle during tutorial does not show error message correctly https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1279401683658608680

What's Coming in 0.17

0.17 has two important new mechanisms planned: Festival and Age Wisdom. You can follow the development here: https://github.com/fishpondstudio/CivIdle/issues/323

[ 2024-09-04 19:32:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Map: Kyoto

Wonders

• Itsukushima Shrine: When all technologies within an age are unlocked, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the cheapest technology in the next age
• Osaka Castle: Provide power to all tiles within 2 tile range. Allow electrification of science producing buildings (including Clone Lab)
• Golden Pavilion: All buildings within 3 tile range get +1 Production Multiplier for each adjacent building that produces any of its consumed resources

Natural Wonders

• Kanagawa: All great people of the current age get an additional level for this run (excluding Zenobia)
• Mount Fuji: When Petra is built next to it, Petra gets +8h Warp storage. When the game is running, generate 20 warp every minute in Petra (not accelerated by Petra itself, not generating when the game is offline)

Achievement

• Heian-ky: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Kyoto (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

Balancing Changes

• Socialism Level 4/5 changes from the most expensive to the cheapest technology in World Wars/Cold War era
• Ziggurat of Ur: the effect no longer applies to buildings that produce workers. The effect only applies to buildings unlocked in the previous ages (Stone Age ~ Current Age - 1)
• Euphrates River: the effect only applies to buildings unlocked in the previous ages (Stone Age ~ Current Age - 1)
• Petra: now allows up to 16x speed up (if your CPU can run the simulation at that speed)

Performance Optimizations

• Smooth Ticking: the game does logic calculations of each cycle in one frame before - it is quite fast for a small empire but as the empire grows, the calculation takes longer, resulting in frame rate drops. This optimization will instead spread the calculation among all frames within a cycle, which can help eliminate the frame rate drops. However, it will not reduce the total computation time (in fact it might even increase a bit due to overhead)
• Transport Plan Cache: Every cycle, each building calculates the best transport plan based on its settings - this process requires high CPU power. Enabling Transport Plan Cache will attempt to cache the result of the transport plan if it is still valid and therefore reduce CPU usage and frame rate drop. This would significantly speed up the logic computations. It needs to be turned on manually in Options -> Gameplay -> Performance

Contextual Tutorials

In this version, tutorials have been revamped - instead of a wall of text when you first start the game, now the tutorial will pop up when certain mechanisms become available. The "contextual tutorial" covers the following topic: Happiness / Wonder / Great People / Science / Worker / Storage / Tradition / Electricity. You can always go through them in Help -> Tutorial

Other Changes

• Warehouse/Caravansary should not reset import settings when production multiplier changes - instead each transport will only transport partially. There is also a warning in the UI if this happens

Future Plans

For those of you who owned Industry Idle Expansion Packs, I have added CivIdle Supporter Pack to the "complete collection" - and Industry Idle Expansion Pack owners will get a discount when purchasing CivIdle supporter pack (and vice versa). https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24685/Industry_Idle__CivIdle_Complete_Collection/ Here's the plan for the future patches:

• 0.16: Focus on QoL, with some balancing content for earlier maps
• 0.17: New game mechanisms and content, especially online features
• 0.18: New map

[ 2024-08-11 20:51:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ideology

You can unlock Ideology by building Big Ben (Unlocked by Capitalism). Big Ben also provides +2 Science From Busy Workers.

New Great Person

• Yuri Gagarin: Cold War age promotion great person
• Stephen Hawking: Information age wildcard great person
• Zaha Hadid: +6 Builder Capacity Multiplier
• Peter Higgs: +5 Science From Busy Workers
• Maryam Mirzakhani: +4 Science From Idle Workers
• Gabriel Garca Mrquez: +6 Happiness

New Buildings

There are some breaking changes regarding Livestock Farm - it is split into two buildings: Poultry Farm which only produces meat and Dairy Farm which only produces milk. To help with this transition, existing livestock farms will continue to work but can no longer be built. Dido still provides boost to Livestock Farm in 0.14 but will be removed in 0.15.

• Add "Poultry Farm": 2x Wheat -> 2 Meat
• Add "Dairy Farm": 2x Wheat -> 2 Milk
• Add "Poetry School": 2x Paper + 1x Alcohol -> 2 x Poem
• Deprecate "Livestock Farm": existing livestock farms will continue to work but you cannot build new livestock farms
• Dido now boosts Dairy Farm and Poultry Farm
• New great person Homer: +1 Production and Storage Multiplier for Stable and Poetry School (Classical Age)

New Wonder

• Large Hadron Collider: All Information Age great people get +2 level for this run. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 level to all Information Age great people for this run (Unlocked by Virtual Reality)

Other Changes

• Clone Factory will no longer sustain itself - it is required to transport resources from a building that produces the resource to be cloned (e.g. If you want to clone Super Computers, the clone factory can only use Super Computers directly transported from Super Computer Labs. Super Computers stored in Warehouse/Caranvansary/Clone Factory cannot be used)
• Transports to buildings that produce workers no longer require workers. This will help with worker domino collapse issue
• When upgrading wonders (Internation Space Station, Marina Bay Sands, Palm Jumeirah, Alderson Disk, Dyson Sphere, Matrioshka's Brain, Luxor Temple Chogha Zanbil), the builder capacity will increase linearly with the level
• Matrioshka's Brain: each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier for buildings that produce Science
• Geography research will increase the explorer's range to 2; Steam Engine research will increase the explorer's range to 3; Aviation will increase explorer's range to 4
• Peacekeeper is unlocked by Financial Arbitrage (instead of Virtual Reality)
• When an Information Age wonder is being upgraded, it will continue to provide boost

Bugfix

• Fix a bug where Future achievement is not correctly awarded

With the release of 0.14.0, the 0.15.0 development cycle has started, follow the draft patch notes here: https://github.com/fishpondstudio/CivIdle/issues/304

[ 2024-07-25 17:41:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Update: please make sure you are on Build 405. An earlier build (404) has player trades disabled by mistake This patch brings you Information Age, and the complete tech tree! But the game is far from done! I have plans for more content:

• 0.14: More Great People, Ideology
• 0.15: New Map

And more to come! But for now, enjoy the 0.13 patch!

Information Age

New Production Buildings

• Maglev Factory: Train x15 + Airplane x15 + Car x15 => Maglev x1
• Software Company: Computer x1 + Philosophy x10 => Software x1
• Internet Service Provider: Computer x1 + Optical Fiber x5 => Internet x1
• Mutual Fund: Forex x1 + Stock x1 => Mutual Fund x1
• Clone Factory: Clone any resources
• Clone Lab: Convert any resources into Science
• Supercomputer Lab: Software x1 + Computer x5 => Supercomputer x1
• CivTok: Internet x1 + Politics x1 => CivTok x1
• Hedge Fund: Mutual Fund x2 => Hedge Fund x1
• Robocar Factory: Car x5 + Supercomputer x2 + Satellite x1 => Robocar x1
• Space Center: Maglev x1 + Radio x1 + Supercomputer x1 => Planetary Rover x2
• CivGPT: Internet x1 + Supercomputer x2 + Radio x1 => CivGPT x1
• CivOasis: CivTok x1 + Supercomputer x1 + Diplomacy x2 => CivOasis x1
• Peacekeeper: Nuclear Missile x4 + Diplomacy x1 + Radio x1 => Peace x1
• Bitcoin Miner: Hedge Fund x2 + CivTok x1 => Bitcoin x1

A new Science building has been added to Cold War

• Computer Lab: Computer x1 => Science x79930

New Wonders

• International Space Station: All buildings get +5 Storage Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings
• Marina Bay Sands: All buildings get +5 Worker Capacity Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Worker Capacity Multiplier to all buildings
• Palm Jumeirah: +10 Builder Capacity. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +2 Builder Capacity
• Alderson Disk: +25 Happiness. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +5 Happiness
• Dyson Sphere: All buildings get +5 Production Multiplier. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings
• Matrioshka Brain: allow Science to be counted when calculating empire value (5 Science = 1 Empire Value). +5 Science Per Busy and Idle Worker. This wonder can be upgraded and each additional upgrade provides +1 Science Per Busy and Idle Worker

New Great People

This patch brings new great people that boost production buildings in the information age. Great people that boost other aspects of the empire (science/builder) will come in the next patch (0.14)

• Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Service Provider, Optical Fiber Plant
• Gordon Moore: Computer Factory, Supercomputer Lab
• Dennis Ritchie: Software Company, Maglev Factory
• Hyman G. Rickover: Aircraft Carrier Yard, Nuclear Submarine Yard
• Harry Markowitz: Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund
• John Carmack: CivOasis, Computer Lab
• Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin Miner, CivTok
• Carl Sagan: Space Center, Peacekeeper
• John McCarthy: CivGPT, Robocar Factory

Other Changes

• When you select a building, the game will now draw lines from incoming and outgoing transports (it only drew incoming transports before. This requires more calculation, thus can slow down a bit on older computers)
• Improve the performance of Building tab in Statistics Office when there are lots of buildings
• Remove Zenobia from the list of great people from Broadway (since it does not work anyway)
• Reduce the threshold of multiple Great People per pick to 50
• Improve the performance when selecting tech tree item
• Improve the performance when showing/hiding the chat

[ 2024-07-07 18:33:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.12.1

• Add Steam achievement - Lion of Babylon: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Babylon (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

[ 2024-06-22 21:03:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Map: Babylon

Babylon is a supporter pack map. Every week, one of the supporter map is available for all players (including free to play players)

Unique Wonders

• Ziggurat of Ur: Every 10 happiness (capped) provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings (max = number of unlocked ages / 2). Wonders (incl. Natural) no longer provide +1 Happiness. The effect can be turned off.
• Tower of Babel: Provides +2 Production Multiplier to all buildings that has at least one working building located adjacent to the wonder
• Wall of Babylon: All buildings get +N Storage Multiplier. N = number of unlocked ages / 2

Natural Wonders

• Zagros Mountains: All adjacent buildings that have less than 5 Production Multiplier get +2 Production Multiplier. Double the effect of Nebuchadnezzar II (Great Person)
• Euphrates River: Every 10% of busy workers that in production (not transporting) provides +1 Production Multiplier to all buildings that do not produce workers (max = number of unlocked ages / 2). When the Hanging Garden is built next to it, the Hanging Garden gets +1 effect for each age after the Hanging Garden is unlocked. When discovered, spawn water on all adjacent tiles that do not have deposits

Other Changes

• Hagia Sophia now shows the name of 3 random supporter pack owners
• Show Extra Great Person in Resource Panel
• Add UI to indicate if a multiplier is dynamic
• Fix a bug where dynamic multipliers are calculated incorrectly

[ 2024-06-21 20:56:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 0.11.0 introduces a new Religion system, plus two important QoL changes. Before going into the details, I am very happy to announce that more than 500 players have purchased the supporter pack! As mentioned before, one copy of the supporter pack is roughly equivalent to one day's server cost - this help fund the game's server for 500 days, until 1 July 2025!

Religion

[table][tr][th]Religion[/th][th]I[/th][th]II[/th][th]III[/th][th]IV[/th][th]V[/th][/tr][tr][td]Christianity[/td][td]Unlock Church[/td][td]Church Production Multiplier +1Unlock St Peter's Basilica[/td][td]Church Production Multiplier +1, Knight Camp Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Church Production Multiplier +1, Knight Camp Production Multiplier +1, Bank Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Church Production Multiplier +1, Knight Camp Production Multiplier +1, Bank Production Multiplier +1,+2 Builder Capacity Multiplier[/td][/tr][tr][td]Islam[/td][td]Unlock Mosque[/td][td]Mosque Production Multiplier +1, Unlock Prophet's Mosque[/td][td]Mosque Production Multiplier +1, Caravel Builder Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Mosque Production Multiplier +1, Caravel Builder Production Multiplier +1, Museum Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Mosque Production Multiplier +1, Caravel Builder Production Multiplier +1, Museum Production Multiplier +1,+1 Free Industrial Tech[/td][/tr][tr][td]Buddhism[/td][td]Unlock Pagoda[/td][td]Pagoda Production Multiplier +1, Unlock Great Dagon Pagoda[/td][td]Pagoda Production Multiplier +1, Coint Mint Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Pagoda Production Multiplier +1, Coint Mint Production Multiplier +1, Gunpowder Mill Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Pagoda Production Multiplier +1, Coint Mint Production Multiplier +1, Gunpowder Mill Production Multiplier +1,+10 Happiness[/td][/tr][tr][td]Polytheism[/td][td]Shrine Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Shrine Production Multiplier +1, Unlock Pantheon[/td][td]Shrine Production Multiplier +1,School Production Multiplier +1[/td][td]Shrine Production Multiplier +1, School Production Multiplier +1, Printing House Production Multplier +1[/td][td]Shrine Production Multiplier +1, School Production Multiplier +1, Printing House Production Multplier +1,+2 Science Per Busy Worker[/td][/tr][/table]

Changes due to Religion

• Luxor Temple now unlocks Religion (still provides +1 Science per busy worker)
• St Peter's Basilica: All churches get +5 Storage Multiplier. Generate science based on faith production of all churches
• Prophet's Mosque: Double the effect of Harun al-Rashid. Generate science based on faith production of all mosques
• Great Dagon Pagoda: All pagodas are exempt from -1 happiness. Generate science based on faith production of all pagodas
• Pantheon: All buildings within 2 tile range get +1 Worker Capaicity and Storage Multiplier. Generate science based on faith production of all shrines
• Church: Music x1 + Poem x1 => Faith x3
• Mosque: Cheese x1 + Opera x1 => Faith x4
• Pagoda: Painting x1 + Furniture x1 => Faith x3
• Cathedral no longer exists and will be removed from the map
• Martin Luther: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Church, School
• Xuanzang: +1 Production Multiplier for Library, Pagoda
• EV (Empire Value) of Faith has changed. The output of School and Research Lab are adjusted accordingly

QoL

• Allow picking multiple permanent Great People when rebirth. You have to choose the pick per roll before rebirth. The max pick per roll is floor(GP Amount / Total Available GP). Currently there are 92 great people
  
• Allow unlocking a tech and its prerequisites with a single click, provided there's enough science
  
• Allow adjusting scroll sensitivity in Options -> Theme
• Support batch applying resource import settings for Warehouse and Caravansary
• Add a new tutorial page listing common pitfalls to avoid
• Add "Run Out" timer in deficit resources popover in resource bar

Bugfix & Balancing

• Manhattan Project requires Nuclear Fuel Rod instead of Uranium
• Skyscraper provides +1 Production Multiplier for Research Fund (New York)
• Hagia Sophia no longer consumes Faith and provides +5 Happiness instead. It also provides extra happiness to avoid production halt during the game bootstrap
• Fix a bug where Hagia Sophia's bonus is applied before it is completed
• Fix a bug where Grand Bazaar's effect is applied before it is completed
• Fix a bug where Great People in World War era are missing storage multiplier

[ 2024-06-10 21:02:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.10.1

Bugfix: Fix a bug where weekly free city shows incorrect information QoL: Change the font of tech tree to improve readability when the font size is small QoL: Update language files for Chinese, Korean and French

[ 2024-05-29 18:34:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

New York

New York is a compact map with several unique mechanisms. Technically it is included in the "Supporter Pack". However, every week, one of the premium cities is free to play, and there's currently only one premium map (New York) at the moment. In practice, everyone can try out New York, until more premium maps are introduced.

World Wonder

• The Met: After constructed, generate teleports that can be used to move buildings. All buildings within 2 tile range get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier
• Broadway: A great person of the current age and a great person of the previous age are born. Select a great person and double his/her effect
• Wall Street: All buildings that produce coin, banknote, bond, stock and forex within 2 tile range get +N production multiplier. N = Random value between 1 to 5 which is different per building and changes with every market refresh. Double the effect of John D. Rockefeller

Natural Wonder

• Shenandoah: Buildings unlocked in the current age get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. Double the effect of J.P. Morgan
• Niagara Falls: All warehouses, markets and caravansaries get +N storage multiplier. N = number of unlocked ages. Albert Einstein provides +1 Production Multiplier to Research Fund

Unique Buildings

• Research Fund: Banknote x1 + Bond x1 => Science x25940

Achievements

• The Big Apple: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in New York (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

Empire Tradition

Empire Tradition is unlocked by Construction (Iron Age) and Chogha Zanbil wonder. You can choose one of the following tradition for your current run. Each tradition has several upgrades that provide further boost.

Cultivation

• Aqueduct +1 Production Multiplier
• Aqueduct +1 Production Multiplier, Paper Maker +1 Production Multiplier,
• Aqueduct +1 Production Multiplier, Paper Maker +1 Production Multiplier, Library +1 Production Multiplier
• Aqueduct +1 Production Multiplier, Paper Maker +1, Production Multiplier. Library +1 Production Multiplier, School +1 Production Multiplier, A great person of Renaissance Age is born

Commerce

• Stone Quarry +1 Production Multiplier
• Stone Quarry +1 Production Multiplier, Brickworks +1 Production Multiplier
• Stone Quarry +1 Production Multiplier, Brickworks +1 Production Multiplier, Gold Mining Camp +1 Production Multiplier
• Stone Quarry +1 Production Multiplier, Brickworks +1 Production Multiplier, Gold Mining Camp +1 Production Multiplier, Coin Mint +1 Production Multiplier, All adjacent banks get free upgrade to level 30

Expansion

• Wheat Farm +1 Production Multiplier
• Wheat Farm +1 Production Multiplier, Flour Mill +1 Production Multiplier
• Wheat Farm +1 Production Multiplier, Flour Mill +1 Production Multiplier, Bakery +1 Production Multiplier
• Wheat Farm +1 Production Multiplier, Flour Mill +1 Production Multiplier, Bakery +1 Production Multiplier, Apartment +1 Production Multiplier, Science From Busy Workers +1, Science From Idle Workers +1

Honor

• Logging Camp +1 Production Multiplier,
• Logging Camp +1 Production Multiplier, Lumber Mill +1 Production Multiplier
• Logging Camp +1 Production Multiplier, Lumber Mill +1 Production Multiplier, Siege Workshop +1 Production Multiplier
• Logging Camp +1 Production Multiplier, Lumber Mill +1 Production Multiplier, Siege Workshop +1 Production Multiplier, Knight Camp +1 Production Multiplier, Double the effect of Zheng He (Great Person)

Balancing Change & QoL

• Promotion Great People: Now you can choose which great person to be promoted to (instead of a random choice from 3) when using a promotion great person
• New Great Person Card design
• Optimize Performance in large maps, especially when calculating offline production

[ 2024-05-26 09:02:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Promotion" Great People

These great people allow you to promote a great person of the same age to the next age (you choose 1 out of 3 choices)

• Ashoka The Great (Classical Age)
• Marco Polo (Middle Age)
• Johannes Gutenberg (Renaissance)
• Adam Smith (Industrial)
• Pablo Picasso (World Wars)

"Science" Great People

Since the release of the Cold War era, several great people that boost science are missing - this version adds the missing great people.

• Confucius, Issac Newton and Niels Bohr: +1/2/3 Science from All Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy and less than 50% of busy workers work in transportation
• Alan Turing: +2 Science From Idle Workers (from +3)
• John von Neumann: +3 Science From Busy Workers (World Wars)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: +0.5 Science from Idle Workers. +1.5 Science from Busy Workers (Industrial)
• James Watson: +4 Science From Busy Workers (Cold War)
• Richard Feynman: +4 Science from All Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy and less than 50% of busy workers work in transportation (Cold War)
• Linus Pauling: +3 Science From Idle Workers (Cold War)

New Great People

• Charlie Chaplin: +4 Happiness (World Wars)
• Frank Lloyd Wright: +4 Builder Capacity Multiplier (World Wars)
• Bob Hope: +5 Happiness (Cold War)
• I. M. Pei: +5 Builder Capacity Multiplier (Cold War)

Balancing

• Atomium: All buildings that produce science within 2 tile range get +5 Production Multiplier. Generate science that is equal to the science production within 2 tile range. When completed, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the most expensive unlocked technology

QoL & Bugfixes

• Show storage percentage in map
• Show deficit resources on resource bar
• Add bigger edge on map
• Cancel/claim large trades will distribute the resources among all caravansaries and warehouses eligible for player trading (same as adding a trade)
• Bugfix: fix a bug where the UI shows a trade can be filled but actually the trade cannot be filled when open the fill popup window

An Update on Monetization

First of all, a big thank-you to all of you who've purchased the supporter pack: we have more than 300 people who've supported the game. One copy of the support pack (after Steam's share and tax) covers about a day's server cost, which means that we've secured about a year's server cost! Currently, the supporter pack does not contain additional content. But as I previously mentioned, I will start to add content to the supporter pack once the base game is in a good state. Here's my plan:

• The whole tech tree will be available in the base game (free)
• The supporter pack will include additional maps (which will add new content & mechanisms)
• Just like in Industry Idle, each week, one of the premium maps will be available for free-to-play as well

I feel this strikes the best balance of "providing value for the supporter pack" and "not making the game pay to win". If you have already purchased the supporter pack, there's no need to do anything: all the new content will be available for you when they are released. If you have any feedback, head over to our Discord.

[ 2024-05-11 15:03:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.8.2

• Balance: Condo no longer requires Power
• QoL: Add more tooltip in Building Power/Electrification
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where Atomium is missing 2 tile highlight

[ 2024-05-02 15:25:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.8.1

• Bugfix: Fix a bug where Production Multipliers causes market to have incorrect transport
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where there's an empty tooltip on Add Trade button in Caravansary
• Content: Add Cold War Steam achievement
• QoL: Censor's Office in Rome is renamed as Statistics Office (aligned with other maps)
• QoL: Censor is renamed to Moderator
• QoL: Update tech unlock and age unlock sound effects
• QoL: Add a unique icon indicating a building is turned off
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where buildings that are turned off still provide adjacent bonus (this affects Terracotta Army, Colossus Of Rhodes, Great Wall, Eiffel Tower, Sagrada Familia, Manhattan Project, Statue Of Liberty, Apollo Program and Great Sphinx)

[ 2024-04-28 21:55:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Cold War Tech Tree

The Cold War tech tree has been greatly expanded compared to the original plan. It was planned to be a relatively short era with around 8 tech. Now it features 12 tech! Not only that, The Cold War also features a large collection of great people. Normally, the production buildings are boosted by great people from the next era. But since we are reaching the end of the tech tree, most of the production buildings in the Cold War are boosted by the great people from the same era. Also, if you are using a high DPI screen, now the game will show HD textures! This should have been done versions ago, but I don't have a high DPI screen, so it's a bit hard for me to test this. Also a rare bug that causes offline time warp compensation not being correctly issued has been fixed.

Cold War Wonders

• Atomium: All buildings that produce science within 2 tile range get +5 Production Multiplier. Generate science based on science production within 2 tile range
• CN Tower: All movie studios, radio stations and TV stations are exempt from -1 Happiness. All buildings unlocked in World Wars and Cold War get +N Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. N = Difference between the tier and the age of the building
• Space Needle: +1 Happiness for each wonder constructed
• Apollo Program: All rocket factories get +2 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. Satellite factories, spaceship factories and nuclear missile silos get +1 Production Multiplier for each adjacent rocket factory

Cold War Buildings

• Satellite Factory: Rocket x2 => Satellite x1
• Airplane Factory: Biplane x2 => Airplane x1
• Silicon Smelter: Sand x5 => Silicon x1
• Nuclear Power Plant: Nuclear Fuel Rod x2 => Power x65
• Condo: Pizza x3 => Worker x510
• Fighter Jet Plant: Airplane x1 + Artillery x1 => Fighter Jet x2
• Nuclear Missile Silo: Atomic Bomb x1 + Rocket x1 => Nuclear Missile x1
• Semiconductor Fab: Silicon x10 + Copper x10 => Semiconductor x1
• TV Station: Radio x2 + Movie x10 => Television x1
• Forex Market: Banknote x2 + Bond x2 => Forex x1
• Spacecraft Factory: Rocket x2 + Satellite x2 + Airplane x2 => Spacecraft x1
• Nuclear Submarine Yard: Submarine x2 + Nuclear Missile x2 => Nuclear Submarine x1
• Aircraft Carrier Yard: Battleship x1 + Fighter Jet x10 => Aircraft Carrier x1
• Computer Factory: Semiconductor x5 + Plastics x5 + Aluminum x5 => Computer x1
• Optical Fiber Factory: Cable x10 + Glass x10 + Plastics x10 => OpticalFiber x1

Cold War Great People

• Chester W. Nimitz: +1 Production Multiplier for Battleship Builder, Hydro Dam
• Enrico Fermi: +1 Production Multiplier for Nuclear Power Plant, Submarine Yard
• Frank Whittle: +1 Production Multiplier for Airplane Factory, Fighter Jet Plant
• George C. Marshall: +1 Production Multiplier for Embassy, Forex Market
• J. Robert Oppenheimer: +1 Production Multiplier for Uranium Enrichment Plant, Atomic Facility
• Philo Farnsworth: +1 Production Multiplier for TV Station, Nuclear Missile Silo
• Robert Noyce: +1 Production Multiplier for Semiconductor Fab, Silicon Smelter
• Sergei Korolev: +1 Production Multiplier for Satellite Factory, Spacecraft Factory
• Walt Disney: +1 Production Multiplier for Movie Studio, Radio Station
• Wernher von Braun: +1 Production Multiplier for Rocket Factory, Artillery Factory
• Elvis Presley: Cold War Wild Card Great Person

Great People Changes

• Amelia Earhart: +1 Production Multiplier for Biplane Factory, Gas Power Plant (changed from Wildcard)
• Henry Ford: +1 Production Multiplier for Car Factory, Plastics Factory (New)
• Mahatma Gandhi: New World Wars Wild Card Great Person
• Ren Descartes: +2 Production Multiplier for School
• Xuanzang: +2 Production Multiplier for Library

Balancing Changes

• Library: Paper x3 => Science x 105
• Atomic Theory (World Wars) provides +1 Production Multiplier to Research Lab

Bugfix

• Investigate player trade map path finding #220
• "Max All Fills" should not overfill a trade #218
• Check managed imports of warehouses when built next to markets #228
• Fix a bug where sometimes connection timeout causes warp in Petra not being correctly compensated

QoL

• Tracking productions from wonders #219
• Show science production per cycle in the resource bar
• Use high resolution textures in high DPI screens

[ 2024-04-27 18:49:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.7.3

• Bugfix: Fix a bug where setting managed import as default will prevent new warehouses being built/upgraded
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where construction priority ranged-apply does not work for buildings being constructed
• Bugfix: Reduce the glibc version dependency (from 2.33 to 2.31) for Linux build
• QoL: Add Total Empire Value Per Cycle Per Great People Level in Home Building -> Rebirth

[ 2024-04-17 19:18:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.7.2

• Bugfix: Fix a fog and deposit visual glitch introduced in 0.7.1
• QoL: Backup folder has been moved to make it work in Linux. You can access the latest path in Help -> About

[ 2024-04-15 21:38:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.7.1

• Bugfix: Managed import will no longer modify the max input distance of a building - instead, the max input distance will simply be ignored. This allows the max input distance to take effect when upgrading
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where sometimes managed import cause certain import to be set to 0
• QoL: Highlight 2-tile range when managed import is activated
• Bugfix: Throttle sound effect to one instance per sound
• QoL: Improve the graphics performance of large maps

Linux Support

With 0.7.1, an experimental native Linux build has been published. If you play CivIdle on Linux (including Steam Deck), you can try if the new Linux build works better for you. If you encounter any issues, use this thread to get help. Since I do not use Linux myself, the Linux support is provided on a best-effort basis.

[ 2024-04-15 18:00:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Gameplay

• Natural wonders will no longer spawn on the edge of the map
• Petra starts with 4h warp storage (up from 1h)

Player Trade

• Now you can place a new player trade using resources stored in ALL caravansaries (previously you can only use resources stored in the current caravansary)
• Warehouse Caravansary Extension Mode: Allow warehouses adjacent to caravansaries to be included in player trading (unlocked by Physics, The Middile Age)

Warehouse Enhancement

• Managed Import for Warehouse and Caravansary: This building will automatically import resources produced within 2 tile range. Resource transports for this building cannot be manually changed. Max transport distance is capped to 2 (allowed range: 1 or 2)
• Caravansary Extension Mode: warehouses adjacent to Caravansaries can be used for player trading

QoL

• Add a gameplay option: "default building level" - all buildings will be constructed to this level by default
• Add support for batch upgrade buildings
• Increase the click area size of range widget
• Building a wonder will no longer update last built building
• Show Empire Value breakdown in building panel
• Added a drop shadow to in-game text to enhance the readability
• Allow applying a setting to the same building within 1/2/3/4/5 tile range
• Allow showing a building's empire value on the map (Gameplay Options)
• Allowing showing uncapped happiness in the resource bar (Gameplay Options)
• Allowing excluding buildings that are turned off in the resource bar (Gameplay Options)
• Allowing excluding buildings that have full storage in the resource bar (Gameplay Options)
• Add a shortcut for sending an explorer (Vethon)
• When showing upgrade cost, highlight resources that you don't have enough (Vethon)
• Add "Fill All" when filling a player trade

Supporter Pack Benefit

• Custom colors for name/tile

[ 2024-04-14 13:27:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

The final release build number is 0.6.0 Build 247 - make sure you are on this build. This version contains code that supports the upcoming supporter pack https://store.steampowered.com/app/2788080/CivIdle__Supporter_Pack/ If you have made a donation (regardless of the amount) before the supporter is available, I will send you a Steam key for the supporter pack when it is released. There are a couple of people who've donated but I don't have the contact information - if you are one of them, feel free to give me a ping on Discord or email (hi @ fishpondstudio . com) with the GitHub account that you used to donate on Github so that I can send you a Steam key.

New Map: Beijing

• Great Wall: All buildings within 1 tile range get +N Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. N = the number of the different ages between the current age and the age where the building is first unlocked. When constructed next to Forbidden City, the range increases to 2 tile
• Yellow Crane Tower: +1 choice when choosing great people. All buildings within 1 tile range get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. When constructed next to Yangtze River, the range increases to 2 tile (Geography)
• Porcelain Tower: +5 Happiness. When constructed, all your extra great people at rebirth will become available for this run (they are rolled following the same rule as permanent great people)
• Mount Tai: All buildings that produce science get +1 Production Multiplier. Double the effect of Confucious (Great Person). When discovered, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the most expensive unlocked technology.
• Yangtze River: All buildings that consume water get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. Double the effect of Zheng He (Great Person). Each level of Permanent Empress Wu Zetian (Great Person) provides +1 Storage Multiplier to all buildings
• Achievement: Mandate of Heaven - Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Beijing (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

New Great People

• Archimedes: +1 Production and Storage Multiplier for Caravasanry and Warehouse (Classical)
• Emperor Wu of Han: +2 Production and Storage Multiplier for Caravansary (Classical, only born in Beijing)
• Marie Curie: +1 Production and Storage Multiplier for Cable Factory and Uranium Mine (World Wars)
• Albert Einstein: +2 Production for Research Lab (World Wars)
• Niels Bohr: +3 Science from All Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy
• Alan Turing: +3 Science From Idle Workers

Wild Card Great Person

A new type of great person has been added - a wildcard great person does not provide any bonus but can be used to upgrade any permanent great person of the same era

• Plato (Classical Age)
• Saladin (Middle Age)
• Michelangelo (Renaissance)
• Thomas Edison (Industrial)
• Amelia Earhart (World Wars)

Gameplay

• Remake Oxford University: +10% science output for buildings that produce science. When completed, generate one-time science equivalent to the cost of the most expensive unlocked technology.
• Rebirth in cities now have different minimum permanent great people level requirement. 0 for Rome, 5 for Athens, 10 for Memphis and 15 for Beijing
• Pyramid of Giza now costs Stone (from Brick) for construction

QoL

• Improve save file reliability: previously the game directly wrote to the save file. In case of power loss or crash, there's a slight chance the save file might be corrupted and manual recovery is needed. From this version, the game will write to a temporary file, and after the write operation succeeds, the game will copy the temporary file to overwrite the main save file. If power loss happens, you might lose a short progress but it should prevent save file corruption.
• Add supporter badge for supporter pack owners
• Support upgrading to Quaestor without antibot requirement (48h playtime) for supporter pack owner

[ 2024-04-04 19:43:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.5.2

• Bugfix: Fix a bug where Permanent Great Person UI sometimes shows incorrect choices

[ 2024-03-29 09:28:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.5.1

• QoL: Show wonder build cost in building list
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where certain trade tiles does not show up correctly
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where natural wonders' highlight shows up before it is discovered
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where United Nation's vote are not correctly tabulated
• Balance: Each level of permanent great people provides 1 worker (reduced from 5)

[ 2024-03-28 19:47:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is the biggest patch since the early access launch: it took me hours to collect all the changes and I am sure I have missed a lot. Not only we get a new era (World Wars) with 16 new buildings, 6 new wonders, 7 new great people and lots of significant gameplay changes! Also the balancing of the game has been improved to make new eras feel more significant and make longer runs more viable. The permanent great people carry-over rule for Tribune rank up has been relaxed to make it more friendly for new players while helping keep bots/spammers/cheaters away and keep the game completely free for everyone. Also Devonin has written an extremely helpful new player guide. If you are new to the game, be sure to check it out! Here are the patch notes:

World War Buildings

• Biplane Factory: Engine x1 + Steel x1 + Lens x1 + Petrol x5 => Biplane x1
• Plastics Factory: Oil x2 => Plastics x1
• Gas Power Plant: Natural Gas x2 => Power x3
• Uranium Mine: (Uranium Deposit) => Uranium x1
• Movie Studio: Sports x5 + Lens x5 + Garment x5 => Movie x1
• Car Factory: Engine x1 + Steel x1 + Furniture x1 + Cable x1 + Plastics x1 + Petrol x5 => Car x1
• Artillery Factory: Gatling Gun x1 + Dynamite x1 + Aluminum x5 => Artillery x1
• Uranium Enrichment Plant: Uranium x10 => Nuclear Fuel Rod x1
• Radio Station: Magazine x5 + Newspaper x5 + Culture x5 => Radio x1
• Rocket Factory: Engine x1 + Artillery x1 + Steel x5 + Cable x5 + Petrol x10 => Rocket x1
• Battleship Builder: Ironclad x1 + Artillery x1 + Cable x5 + Steel x5 + Aluminum x5 => Battleship x1
• Atomic Facility: Dynamite x10 + Uranium x10 => Atomic Bomb x1
• Hydro Dam: (Water Deposit) => Water x1 + Power x2
• Embassy: Law x5 + Politics x5 + Philosophy x5 => Diplomacy x1
• Cable Factory: Copper x5 => Cable x1
• Research Lab: Culture x2 + Philosophy x2 => Science x5560

World War Wonders

• Hollywood: +5 Happiness. +1 Happiness for each well-stocked building that consumes or produces culture within 2 tile range
• Manhattan Project: All uranium mines get +2 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. Uranium enrichment plants and atomic facilities get +1 Production Multiplier for each adjacent uranium mine that is built on top of a uranium deposit
• Golden Gate Bridge: All power plants get +1 Production Multiplier. Provide power to all tiles within 2 tile range
• Cristo Redentor: All buildings within 2 tile range are exempt from -1 Happiness
• Sagrada Familia: All buildings within 2 tile range get +N Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multipliers. N = max tier difference among adjacent buildings
• United Nations: All Tier IV and V and VI buildings get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier. Participate in UN General Assembly and vote for an additional boost each week

World Wars Great People

• Herodotus now boosts Paper Maker instead of Writer's Guild
• Shakespeare now boosts Writers Guild instead of Paper Maker
• John D. Rockefeller: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Oil Well + Stock Exchange
• Rudolf Diesel: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Oil Refinery + Locomotive Factory
• Pierre de Coubertin: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Publishing House + Stadium
• Charles Parsons: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Coal Power Plant + Ironclad Builder
• Richard Jordan Gatling: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Gatling Gun Factory + Tank Factory
• Joseph Pulitzer: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Magazine Publisher + Pizzeria
• Charles Martin Hall: +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier for Natural Gas Well + Aluminum Smelter

Gameplay

• Buildings that produce science will continue to produce science even if its storage is full (if there's another output, the other output will not be produced)
• Each level of permanent Great People provides 5 workers in your Home Building
• The number of workers required for production has been changed to the sum of all resources consumed and produced after multipliers (except electrification). Resources that do not take storage (e.g. Science or Power) do not count
• All buildings that produce science get ~2.5x more science output
• Electricity has been reworked: now power plants will provide power to adjacent tiles. Certain buildings will require power to function and need to be built on top of a tile with power - they also extend the power grid to its adjacent tiles. Electrification is more efficient for buildings that require power.
• Offline time should now be more reliable. Thanks to all players providing logs and reports, I have located the main reason why sometimes offline production is missing. This usually happens when the initial connection to the server is timed out (either due to a network hiccup or Steam authentication API timeout). Eventually, when the connection is established, the game has already been running for a while and the server will refuse to grant offline time due to the mismatch. I have added a special handling of this case. If this happens, the whole offline time will be converted to warp in Petra (because offline production is no longer possible). You will get an in-game notification about this.

Balancing

• Increase the empire value of deposits that are discovered in later ages. This will trickle down to all the downstream resources
• Increase the empire value of resources that require more types of input to produce, see: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1218571470457016361/1218571470457016361
• Streamline wonder building cost: most wonders should see a reduction in building cost, with more in later ages. This means if you upgrade from 0.4.x, your empire value might decrease due to this, see: https://discord.com/channels/631551126377857044/1102225155830317136/1221426548423266434
• University: Poem x2 + Faith x2 => Philosophy x1 + Science x250
• Museum: Music x2 + Painting x2 => Culture x1
• Publishing House: Philosophy x2 + Book x10 => Newspaper x1 + Science x400
• Magazine Publisher: Sports x2 + Book x10 => Magazine x1 + Science x400
• Parliament: Culture x2 + Philosophy x2 + Law x2 => Politics x1
• Parthenon: Two great people of Classical Age are born and you get 4 choices for each. Musician's Guilds and Painter's Guilds get +1 Production, Worker Capacity and Storage Multiplier and are exempt from -1 Happiness
• Taj Mahal: A great person of Classical Age and a great person of Middle Age are born. +5 Builder Capacity Multiplier when upgrading buildings over Level 20
• Calendar (Iron Age), Physics (Middle Age), Steam Engine (Industrial) each provides +1 Storage Multiplier for all buildings
• Geography (Middle Age) now provides +1 Production Multiplier for Library
• Optics (Renaissance) now provides +1 Production Multiplier for School and Library
• Capitalism (Industrial) now provides +1 Production Multiplier for School, Library and University
• AtomicTheory (World Wars) now provides + 1 Production Multiplier for Library, School, University and Publishing House

Permanent Great People Carry Over Change for Tribune Rank Up (Rank 1 -> 2)

You can play the full game as Tribune if you do not plan to participate in the optional online features. To acquire unrestricted access to the online features, you will need to upgrade to Quaestor. This is an anti-bot measure to keep the game free for everyone. Previously permanent great people up to level 2 can be carried over, this has been relaxed as follows:

• Up to Level 3 for Bronze, Iron and Classical Age
• Up to Level 2 for Middle Age, Renaissance and Industrial Age
• Up to Level 1 for World Wars, Cold War and Information Age

Achievement

• World Wars: Reach World Wars Age in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)

QoL

• Redesigned building menu: allow sorting by tier or name and adding a tier filter
• Add shortcut for end construction and cancel upgrade
• Allow clearing building defaults

[ 2024-03-27 16:33:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.4.3

• Bugfix: This version contains code that prepares for version 0.5.0

[ 2024-03-24 18:15:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.4.2

• Bugfix: Fix a bug where upgrade shortcut key is incorrectly applied for Wonder
• QoL: Grand Bazaar now shows all active market trades
• QoL: Allow partially claiming a trade in Caravansary (up to available storage)
• QoL: Allowing setting custom font size scale in Options -> Theme (Experimental)
• Bugfix: Fix a bug where Caravansary resource selection jumps around

[ 2024-03-19 20:51:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.4.1

• QoL: Support multiple chat windows
• QoL: Save selected tab in Grand Bazaar and Statistics Building
• Bugfix: Fix rounding issues causing Warehouse/Caravansary's distribute equally feature to function incorrectly

[ 2024-03-16 19:15:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Map: Memphis

• Great Sphinx: All Tier II or above buildings within 2 tiles get +N Consumption, Production Multiplier. N = Number of its adjacent buildings of the same type
• Abu Simbel: Double the effect of Ramesses II. All Adjacent wonders get +1 Happiness
• Nile River: Double the effect of Hatshepsut. All wheat farms get +1 Production and Storage Multiplier. All adjacent wheat farms get +5 Production and Storage Multiplier
• Mount Sinai: When discovered, a great person of the current age is born. All buildings that produce faith get +5 Storage Multiplier

Wonders

• Statistics Office (Censor's Office) generates 1 explorer every minute which can be used to reveal an unexplored tile and its adjacent tiles
• UI of Statistics Office (Censor's Office) has been redone. An "Empire" tab listing a detailed breakdown of empire value, science production has been added (Vethon)

New Great People

• Johannes Kepler: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Shrine, Lens Workshop (Renaissance)
• Georgius Agricola: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Siege Workshop, Coal Mine (Renaissance)
• Galileo Galilei: +1 Science From Idle Workers (Renaissance)
• J. P. Morgan: +1 Storage Multiplier, Production Multiplier for Bond Market, Rifle Factory (Industrial)
• Andrew Carnegie: +1 Storage Multiplier, Production Multiplier for Bank, Steel Mill (Industrial)
• Louis Sullivan: +3 Builder Capacity Multiplier (Industrial)
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Frigate Builder, Concrete Plant (Industrial)
• William Shakespeare now boosts Actor's Guild instead of Printing House

Achievements

• Pax Romana: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Rome (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)
• Olympian: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Athens (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)
• Bronze: Reach Bronze Age in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Iron: Reach Iron Age in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Classical: Reach Classical Age in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Medieval: Reach Middle Age in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Renaissance: Reach Renaissance in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Industrial: Reach Industrial in any city (granted when you unlock any technology in that age)
• Eye of Horus: Rebirth with at least 1 Extra Great Person in Memphis (Reach 64M Empire Value when rebirth)

Bugfix

• Petra upgrade cost should not be affected by Zenobia
• Fix broken UI when there are lots of caravansaries
• Fix sometimes building input resources are turned off even before it is fulfilled
• Market will not update when a new resource is unlocked
• Statistics Building should not count Warehouse/Caranvasary

QoL

• Rework building defaults: now building defaults will carry over when you rebirth and will be applied to your building once you unlock the relevant technology
• Optimize player trade map performance
• Allow changing the side panel width in Options -> Theme
• Warehouse/Caravansary will list all your currently unlocked resources, this is to stop the list from jumping around
• Upgrade x5 is now Upgrade to Next 5. And "Upgrade to Next 10" will always appear even if the next 5 and next 10 level are the same (and the shortcut will always work)
• Petra's speed up will be set to 1x once Warp runs out. This is to prevent Petra from immediately running when logging into the game thus being able to upgrade its storage

[ 2024-03-14 20:12:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.3.1

Bugfix: Fix a bug where Warehouse Autopilot does not take production multiplier into account Bugfix: Fix a bug where player trades fail to find a path even if there's a valid one QoL: Add an option to use mirror server in case you have trouble connecting to the main server

[ 2024-03-09 20:42:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

An earlier 0.3.0 build has a visual glitch that sometimes does not reveal fogs and tiles correctly. This has been fixed, please make sure you are on 0.3.0 Build 182

New Content

• Wonder: Grand Bazaar: Manage all your markets. Adjacent caravansaries get +5 Production and Storage Multiplier. Adjacent markets get different trades (Education)
• Great Person: Zenobia - +1h Petra Warp Storage (Classical)
• Building: Concrete Plant - 1 Brick + 2 Sand + 1 Tool -> 1 Concrete (Steam Engine)
• Gunpowder Mill's visual has been revamped

Warehouse Enhancement

• Export Below Max Amount: Allow other buildings to transport a resource from this building even when its amount is below the max amount
• Export to the Same Type: allow other buildings of the same type to transport a resource from this building
• Autopilot Setting: Require Storage < Cap - autopilot will only transport resources whose amount in storage is below the cap

Player Trade Rework

• You can fill a trade from multiple caravansaries at once
• Show tiles with active trades on the world map
• Sea Trades (unlocked by Geography with 1% Tariff. Optics reduces tariff to 0.5%. Capitalism reduces tariff to 0.1%)
• Production multipliers will now apply to Caravansary and Warehouse - it will increase the resource transport capacity

Market Rework

• All markets will have the same trades, different markets still have different price fluctuations
• Market trade amount will be based on the value of the buy and sell resources
• Markets will have less price fluctuation, which will be based on the tier difference between the buy and sell resources Selling a low-tier resource and buying a high-tier resource will result in positive price fluctuation and vice versa
• Market trades will update immediately after a new resource has been unlocked

Balancing

• Oxford University: Each building upgrade in your empire provides +5 Science per cycle (from +1 Science per cycle)
• Wonder building time is be more streamlined: wonders from the same era have similar build time, with earlier wonders take significantly less time to build. Read more details
• Construction and upgrade costs of Tier I, II and III buildings have been adjusted. They now require a small amount of materials other than their input for construction and upgrade

Wonder Construction Cost Adjustment

• Hagia Sophia: costs Knight instead of Brick
• Angkor Wat: cost Marble instead of Stone
• Oxford University: cost Philosophy instead of Marble
• Saint Basil's Cathedral: cost Gunpowder and Lens instead of Faith and Gold
• Forbidden City: cost Banknote and Marble instead of Paper and Poem
• Himeji Castle: fix the cost of Galleon and Frigate (it was incorrect before)
• Rijksmuseum: cost Newspaper, Culture and Concrete instead of Painting
• Summer Palace: cost Gatling Gun instead of Brick
• Neuschwanstein: cost Rifle, Bond and Cannon instead of Dynamite, Brick and Marble
• Brandenburg Gate: cost Politics and Concrete instead of Brick and Marble

Gameplay

• Streamline Construction/Upgrade Flow: You can adjust the building upgrade level when a building is being constructed. The building will be upgraded immediately after being constructed. Because of this change, the upgrade priority has been removed - both construction and upgrade will take construction priority instead.
• Optimize performance when switching between game scenes (City View -> Tech Tree -> Trade World Map)

[ 2024-03-08 17:22:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, I apologize for the delay of 0.2.1 - this build had some issues in the beta branch and I kept it in beta a bit longer than usual. If you are on the beta branch and are affected by the issue, please see this thread for details. This means 0.3.0 will be slightly delayed as well. 0.3.0 will bring a wonder cost balance (more streamline build time / cost), new great people, and a reworked market and warehouse. Several player trade enhancements. You can see the roadmap here

0.2.1

Bugfix: Fix a bug where transport preference / max transport distance are carried over after rebirth before the relevant tech is unlocked Bugfix: Always show transport preference for Warehouse/Caravansary Bugfix: Fix a bug where Hagia Sophia, Summer Palace and Mogao Caves causes double counting of happiness from Shrines Bugfix: Fix a bug where sometimes building have extra resources after construction / upgrade Bugfix: Fix a bug where Statistics does not include market output Bugfix: Fix a bug where happiness fractions are not correctly rounded QoL: Add keyboard shortcut for Toggle Building Production and Toggle Building Production and Apply To All (@sextondb) QoL: Progress towards the next great person will now starts at 0% QoL: Rebirth section in Home building now shows the total empire value required for the next 3 extra great people

[ 2024-03-03 15:32:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's been a week since the early access release! Since then, we have had 12 small patches: fixing bugs and improving QoL. In fact, lots of important QoLs like Transport Preference, Max Transport Distance, Favorite Buildings, and Parallel Construction Transports have been shipped in these daily patches. We have also reached more than 1,000 concurrent players! (SteamDB reports 1,060, and the game server reports 1,221). The server has been under stress but luckily there were only 2 crashes, both happened while I was awake so I was able to minimize the impact. Also, I am happy to see lots of players have reached Quaestor - I know the 48-hour playtime requirement is annoying, but it is the only viable way to keep the server running and keep the base game free. I am grateful for the support I get from our community: we have volunteer moderators helping with game chat, we have translators helping localize the game (Now CivIdle speaks 11 languages!), and I have received several donations from the players helping cover the server expense. If you want to support the game and keep it running, I will release a "Supporter Pack" on Steam in the future, with some extra perks. If you have donated, feel free to ping me (@FishPond on Discord) and I will give you a supporter pack key when it is available. We also have 100+ reviews on Steam at 75% positive (as of writing). For those of you who enjoyed this game, I hope you will enjoy this content patch! And for those of you who didn't, I know this game has rough edges here and there but I am trying my best to make it better every day and I hope at some point you will give it another chance. Speaking of the content patch, here are the patch notes:

Great People

Bronze Age

• Hatshepsut: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Aqueduct, Brickworks
• Sargon Of Akkad: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Logging Camp, Lumber Mill

Iron Age

• Zoroaster: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Cotton Plantation, Cotton Mill
• Classical Age
• Aeschylus: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Flour Mill, Bakery
• Ashurbanipal: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Sandpit, Glassworks
• Confucius: +1 Science from Busy and Idle Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy
• Aristophanes: +1 Happiness

Middle Age

• Isidore of Miletus: +2 Builder Capacity Multiplier
• Fibonacci: +0.5 Science from Idle Workers. +1 Science from Busy Workers. Permanent upgrade cost follows Fibonacci sequence

Renaissance

• Isaac Newton: +2 Science from Busy and Idle Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy

Wonders

• Saint Basil's Cathedral: Allow resource extraction buildings to work adjacent to a deposit. All adjacent tier I buildings get +1 Production Multiplier, Worker Capacity Multiplier, and Storage Multiplier (Firearm)
• Great Mosque of Samarra: +1 building vision range. Reveal 5 random unexplored deposit tiles and build a level 10 resource extraction building on each (Road & Wheel)
• Mogao Caves: +1 happiness for every 10% of busy workers. All adjacent shrines are exempt from -1 happiness (Theocracy)

Gameplay

• Entering a new age will allow picking a new great person of each unlocked age (e.g. Entering the Classical Age will allow picking 1 Classical Age + 1 Iron Age + 1 Bronze Age great person). If you pick the same great person more than once, each additional great person will have a diminishing effect during this run. However, all of them will become permanent Great Person when you rebirth (e.g. If you have 3 Confucius from this run, pick the fourth Confucius will have 1/4 of the effect. When you rebirth, you will get 4 Confucius for permanent upgrade)
• Extra Great Person from Total Empire Value will be chosen from Great People up to Current Age + 1

Misc

• Version number format has been changed. The new format is 'X.Y.Z Build W'. Y will increase for the weekly content update. Z will increase for the daily QoL/hotfix update. W is a unique number that is produced by the build system. Patch notes will be written against X.Y.Z. If you want to report a bug, please include build number
• Add Czech (@MikeCZ) and Dutch (@Thomasthegama) translation

[ 2024-02-26 17:09:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

0.1.149

Bugfix: Fix a bug where rebirth is only effective after restarting the game Apologize for the inconvenience. If you run into issues regarding rebirth, please upgrade to this version ASAP.

[ 2024-02-24 21:09:44 CET ] [ Original post ]