Recent content by Recursive

I will give the implementation of the Egypt rework a try, now that I'm largely done with proposals (6-70) and (7-84). No promises, though.

Not from me. Can't speak for anyone else.

Russia is already a distinct civ with a lot of cities. Ukraine having a distinct City-State feels fitting in terms of embracing as many cultural identities as possible.

I happen to have made a note about this in the files for 5.0. -- Change Kiev to Kyiv to reflect the Ukrainian-derived spelling, in keeping with the game's emphasis on City-States as distinct cultural entities

"Going to attack us, swine?" is a replacement for "Please move your troops from our borders." It only appears if the AI is acting hostile towards you.

The AI won't request the promise if they themselves are planning to attack, yes. Note: I changed this code so that in 5.0, canDeclareWar() must return true in both directions. Not currently the case. /// Possible Contact Statement - guy has his military positioned aggressively near us void...

I wish the greatest of success upon both of you. May the power of "Just one more turn..." bless your benevolent dictatorships. :egypt:

Added Elon's latest technological marvel to the changelog. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/elon-musk-tesla-diner-hollywood

If it really annoys you there's always DIPLOAI_DISABLE_INDEPENDENCE_REQUESTS in DiploAIOptions.sql.

Thank you to everyone for the supportive thoughts. I'll miss you guys. Despite being in survival mode (my life is quite literally on the line here) I cannot in good conscience ask the community to foot the massive bill I'm facing. It's a type of situation where the only substantial cracks can...

Hello everyone, I have a terrible announcement to make. Due to horrible, insane, and very expensive things that have been happening in my life, much of which I have little to no control over, I'm forced to retire as lead developer of VP. Circumstances have gotten too bad and I don't see myself...

From the vassal's perspective, it's one of the only ways of wielding leverage over the master, and the only way of being able to break free and resume the game. It's an intended drawback of vassalizing instead of just killing them.

Doesn't matter since you get no warmonger penalty for it. I removed that some versions ago.

That is a fair argument. I'll change it.

Neither of these should be used in conjunction with Community Patch only.