Ara: History Untold Patch 1.0.5 is now available!

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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!
 
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