Version 2.7.0 is now live! The major additions in this patch are: - Market buildings, where you can buy and sell resources, and purchase items - Buildable roads, which speed up unit movement - Workers can now transform lumber into the "furniture" luxury resource in lumber mills; furniture is sold for copper automatically if a market is present For the full changelog, see below. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - 2.7.0 Changelog ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Buildings - Added Market buildings for the Dwarves, Germanics, Goblins and Teutons (graphics by Jinn). Markets allow trading resources. - Mercenary Camps are now owned by mercenary company neutral factions. - Carpenter's Shops and Lumber Mills now have the option of allowing workers to produce the Furniture luxury resource in them, which is automatically sold if a Market is present. Up to five workers can produce furniture in a lumber mill at the same time. - Carpenter's Shops and Lumber Mills now cannot be built too close to town halls. - A maximum of ten workers can now gather resources from a mine at the same time. - Increased the time it takes for unit stocks to recharge. - Scrolls are no longer bought in Temples, but in Markets. - Markets provide a wide selection of purchasable items, including magic and (very rarely) unique ones. Which items appear depends on what you have. For example, swords only appear if you have a smithy, magic affixes depend on your deity or religion, and so forth. - Added a message if a unique item becomes available for sale in a Market, so that the player doesn't have to worry about missing it. - The AI now makes use of Mercenary Camps. - Fixed issue which destroyed unique mines built upon deposits when loading a saved game. - Fixed issue which reset the resources held of unique deposits/mines when a mine was destroyed, or built upon a deposit. - Goblins can now build Banners, which provide the effects of Leadership Aura to nearby friendly units in combat. * Civilizations - Anglo-Saxon units now have English voices (by Johnvarker). * Events - The "Brawl at the Barracks" random event can no longer fire if the player does not have a town hall. This is to prevent the player losing the necessary resources to build a town hall in scenarios where the player starts with a barracks but no town hall (such as Haimdala's Progeny). * Factions - Fixed issue which prevented the Angle Tribe and Jute Tribe factions from being formable via the "Found a Faction" submenu. - Added Dwarven, Ettin and Kobold Mercenary Company factions. * Heroes - Fixed issue which prevented Frankish hero Kregars from upgrading to Ritars if the player didn't have a Frankish faction. - The AI now recruits heroes. * Items - Books now increase their respective knowledge stat by 5, rather than 3. - Improved literary work dependencies, so that they can be available for multiple civilizations. * Miscellaneous - Fixed crash which could occur when selecting more than 36 units at the same time. - Added resource trade at Market buildings. By default resource trade has an extra cost of 30% (25% for goblin markets), which can be reduced by researching Coinage. - Added "Industry", "Laws" and "Trade" entries to the Game Concepts section of the encyclopedia. - Disabled buttons no longer have a hotkey. - Fixed crash which could happen when loading saved games made in certain maps. - Fixed issue with the rally point button having the same hotkey as some trained units at the barracks. - Fixed the Buy Healing Potion hotkey (it is now properly H, rather than C). - Fixed the Teuton Cleric's hotkey to be L, rather than C, as that conflicted with the hotkey for the Christianity upgrade. * Scenarios - Fixed some issues which could cause the Haimdala's Progeny scenario quests to break if the player changed their faction from a Germanic one too soon. * Terrain - Fixed issue which caused cleared rock on dirt and dry mud to not be buildable upon. - Doubled the time it takes for forests to regrow. - Dungeon walls and cave walls now block unit sight. * Units - Workers can now build roads, which increase movement speed by 25% (road graphics by Jinn). Roads require Masonry. - The Surghan Mercenary portraits are now used for Axefighters, Steelclads and Stonelords hired from the Surghan Mercenaries faction. Dwarven custom heroes can now be a Surghan Axefighter. - Any level 3 organic unit now has access to an inventory. - Fixed issue which caused worker inventories to not have a "cancel" button. - Fixed issue which made units move to autocast even when ordered to stand ground. - Improved unit target-finding code for subterranean maps. - Fixed an issue which allowed a unit to pick items over its inventory capacity by using waypoints. - Fixed issue which sometimes caused a ring of unexplored terrain to appear around units when loading a saved game. - Transport ships can now conduct trade with the docks of other players. * Upgrades - The buttons for upgrades that have already been researched now show up, grayed. - Coinage now decreases trade cost for markets. - Added the "Serfdom" law upgrade (icon by Mrmo Tarius), which reduces worker cost but also productivity. - Added the "Free Workers" law upgrade (icon by Jinn), which is acquired by default and is incompatible with Serfdom (acquiring this upgrade removes Serfdom and vice-versa). The costs of this upgrade scale with quantity of workers owned.