Patch 1.18 "Prussia Patch" is gearing up to be released alongside Rights of Man Tomorrow on the 11th October. While saves from 1.17.1 will likely function, due to massive changes to the game there will undeniably be funky things going on with them if played in 1.18. We recommend that if you wish to complete your 1.17.1 games, roll back to version 1.17.1 These patchnotes are so long you could print them out into a book and "disinherit" your heir with it. >> Read full patch notes on our official forum << We strongly recommend staying on version 1.17.1 if you have any old ironman games you wish to finish! Updating to 1.18 will cause really strange behavior in games started with a previous patch level. You have been warned! Here is an extremely limited selection from the patch notes: ################### # Free Features ################### - Created a new technology system using Institutions, with no more westernisation or directly differing technology groups. - New Culture Acceptance mechanics, where you can decide which cultures you want accepted in your nation, and which should be the primary culture. - Added the Braindead Player AI setting to completely disable AI takeover if a player disconnects. - Minimap displays player, friendly and enemy units. - Added the "embrace" cheat to embrace all institutions in a province (1st argument), or for a specific institution (2nd argument). - Added "exhaust" console command to alter war exhaustion. - The Government View now shows more detailed information about the different Cultures and the acceptance of them in your state cores. - When in a Succession War, the attacker can now demand Cancel Subject on the Country in question as part of the war goal. - Added "powerspend" console command that prints global powerspend statistics to game.log, and that can optionally take a country tag as argument. - Added "reset_powerspend" console command to reset all powerspend stats to zero (since it tracks spending so far). - Added build datetime to version console command. - As the leader of a Trade League, you can now create a Trading City from one of your provinces (requires Mare Nostrum DLC). This new nation will have the Trading City republic government and will automatically join your Trade League. - Added dialog for sending crash reports. - Host now sees a checkbox on player disconnect notification that lets him specify whether AI will be active or not for the disconnected country. - "economy" console command now displays the sum of all expenses in each category since the beginning of time, or until "reset_economy" is executed. - Embrace console-command now lists the optional argument in help. Click here to continue reading...