Ara: History Untold Patch 1.0.5 is now available!

[Zoeff]

From the Devs:

For this week - our focus remains on responding to audience feedback on pacing, balance, stability, and performance.

General

• Medium game length changed from 750 to 800 turns.
• Long game length changed from 1250 to 1500 turns.

City Management

• Many types of resources are visible at the start of the game to provide players with more strategic options.
• Smaller cities provide less tax income to encourage taller gameplay.
• Smaller cities provide less production to encourage taller gameplay.
• Larger cities consume slightly more food to compensate for lower food maintenance on improvements.
• Starting cities are more likely to start in a fertile area.
• Starting areas are more likely to spawn an interesting resource nearby.
• Map generation adjusted to start players in more fertile areas.

Improvements/Triumphs

• General increase in maintenance costs to tighten the late game economy.
• Factory wealth maintenance increased from 5 to 10.
• Foundry now has 1 material, 5 wealth maintenance cost.
• Crafting Guild materials maintenance is reduced from 5 to 1.
• Trading Post provides +10 prosperity to the city.
• Forge wealth maintenance increased from 1 to 3, now has 1 material, 1 wood maintenance cost as well.
• Refinery wealth maintenance increased from 1 to 5, now has 1 material maintenance cost.
• Bazaar provides +10 Prosperity to city.
• Grocer district happiness buff reduced from 5 to 1. Grocers are great but not generally a source of joy.
• School knowledge buff reduced from 15 to 10 to make the supplies of them more impactful.
• Pub wealth production per improvement reduced from 5 to 1 to emphasize the quality of life benefits.
• Stonehenge Knowledge buff reduced from 25 to 20.
• Foundry craft rate buff increased from 5 to 10.
• Docks maintenance increased from 1 to 5 wealth.
• Drydocks maintenance increased from 2 to 10 wealth.
• Naval base maintenance increased from 3 to 15 wealth.
• Dwellings line now has 1 wood, 1 material maintenance cost.
• Industrial and Irrigated farms cost 1 material to maintenance.
• Reduced flat wealth bonus from certain improvements:
  - Inns now require an expert to provide money.
  - Mint now provides a 15% buff to city Prosperity rather than 5 wealth.

Amenities/Items/Resources

• Shoes amenity Happiness bonus reduced from 15 to 5 to bring happiness more in line with other QoL stats.
• Shoes amenity Prosperity bonus reduced from 15 to 5.
• Gourmet meal Health Amenity buff reduced from 15 to 5 to balance it with other amenities.
• Meteors now provide Metal Ingots without the need for smelting.
• Obsidian is more common.
• Tobacco does not provide as much money as before.
• Treasury Bonds and Law Books are correctly consumed 1 every 10 turns.
• Looms now correctly provide 100% Craft Production as an Amenity.

Techs/Research

• Based on community feedback with a preference to slower default pacing, we have increased the tech costs slightly.
• Antiquities research cost increased from 400 to 500.
• Early Middle Ages research cost increased from 600 to 700.
• High medieval age research cost increased from 800 to 1000.
• Renaissance era research cost increased from 1200 to 1500.
• Enlightenment era research cost increased from 1500 to 1750.
• Machine age research cost increased from 1800 to 2250.
• Atomic age research cost increased from 2100 to 3000.
• Information age research cost increased from 2500 to 4000.
• Singularity age research cost increased from 3000 to 5000.

City Management

• Many types of resources are visible at the start of the game to provide players with more strategic options.
• Smaller cities provide less tax income.
• Smaller cities provide less production.
• Larger cities consume slightly more food.
• Starting cities are more likely to start in a fertile area.
• Starting areas are more likely to spawn an interesting resource nearby.
• Map generation adjusted to start players in more fertile areas.

Events

• "Decor & Devotion" now triggers correctly for Askia Muhammad.

Localization

• We are continuing to update all localized languages.

Units/Combat

• Most first Act units have 1 material maintenance cost in addition to food cost.

 

[Riker13]

Excellent thank you, keep up the good work Ara is coming along nicely.

 

[xphantomx]

Aw, I liked needing animal husbandry to see animal resources…I hope not too much of resources show at the beginning of the game now. I liked later games exploring/settling based on new info

All the balancing stuff looks great though.

 

[Zoeff]

Aw, I liked needing animal husbandry to see animal resources…I hope not too much of resources show at the beginning of the game now. I liked later games exploring/settling based on new info

All the balancing stuff looks great though.

I did a quick test and horses still don't show up without animal husbandry. So there's still a bunch that are a surprise unless you zoom in real close and spot horses that way lol

 

[123joanna321]

these are some neat changes! I knew looms where doing jack dodo. The Mint/trade post changes are great. Hooray for the tech cost increases!