Changelogs

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In opening post you can find current development status and if I have already started working on the next version there will be a changelog-in-progress with every change already implemented.
In second post there is a list of changelogs for previous versions.

...implementing queued changes.

Changelog v35
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AI

• (Espionage) AI will now be more eager to target their ideological rivals during World At War event.
• AI is now much less likely to reform beliefs in industrial scenario.

City-States

• City-states' afraid status is now cached at their turn start (related to if major can bully gold). (It is more about performance.)
• Enforcing Codex is available only if alliance lasts for at least 5 turns.
• Militaristic city-states will give now their special unit if either major or minor player (them) have the prereq tech.
• Units gifted by militaristic City-States starts with XP equal to the best value among major and minor players' cities (ignores temporary XP modifier "for the next trained unit"). If allied then such units start with 1 random veteran promotion. It only applies to militaristic city-states, units gifted from other city-states (a reward unlocked by special trait) starts with 0 XP.

Fixed bugs

• Human player should no longer be able to obtain mutually exclusive innovations through some rare interactions.​
• Demographics could display Legal Power per turn value not scalled properly.​
• Players can no longer target migrating resources while improving resource for city-states.​
• Units gifted by City-States were starting with no XP even if allied.​
• XP for trained units from manufactory traits was not working.​

Gameplay

• Commission Chateau now requires Acoustics.
• Festival halves chances to start Riots.
• Prestige from Archaelogical Dig nerfed (value is split in minor reward affecting all active academies and greater reward for one random active academy).
• -33% decay and +33% recovery modifiers to influence in city-states if they control their original capital and it culturally belongs to player.
• Forts no longer grant Great General points (citadels still do).
• Citadels now have +50 hp and grant Morale from situation (owned 1/3/6/10...).
• Minor Ideologies related to Golden Age rebalanced.
• Players no longer need Dynamite to construct railroads. Various effects allows constructing X railroads per turn. Dynamite allows constructing +2 railroads, Steam Power +2, Industrialization +1. Dynamite is tech required for industrial city connections (production bonus) and for railroads in city.
• Citizens may now migrate due to war (based on number of attacks and damage taken last turn).
• Minor rebalance of wonders.
• If city can't work then it will not yield positive food (it can starve).
• Secularism now automatically converts any Faith above 400 to Legal Power (4 to 0.01 ratio) on turn start.
• Minor rebalance of ideological tenets.
• In ancient scenario players can choose beliefs from 3 randomly preset options upon founding religions.

Governors

• New basic action: Manuevuers. Grants XP for next trained unit in all Cities.
• Following actions were enhanced with more interesting outcomes: Patronize Art, Civil Service, Sponsour Missionaries.

Leagues

• After choosing an initial resolution player enters normal 4 turns of cooldown before next action.
• If major player joins league then all members enter 4 turns of cooldown before next action.
• Declaring war on an allied city-state of another member will create -2 votes modifier for 20 turns in non-scripted leagues.
• Votes from Actions will now be recalculated when 2 or more leagues are merging together.

Scenario generation

• An additional check for heavily starving initial cities that will redistribute some population to more thriving places.​
• Script creating starting units now consider an amount of cities on continent (plausible shift from land to naval units).​

UI, UX, QoL

• Player can now block all AI offers about resource or cooperative wars (available in Auction House, Global Relationships and Counselors panels).​

 

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Changelogs:
01-07-2025 (v34)
17-04-2025 (v33)
12-01-2025 (v32)
13-10-2024 (v31)
07-06-2024 (v30)
18-03-2024 (v29)
25-11-2023 (v28)
17-06-2023 (v27)
03-03-2023 (v26)
18-11-2022 (v25)
31-07-2022 (v24)
21-04-2022 (v23)
09-02-2022 (v22)
04-12-2021 (v21)

Spoiler Archived Dev Notes :

Plans for next version:
1. Simplification of happiness calculations (decadence).
2. Inspirations will change on conversion if buildingclass or yield is obsolete in next scenario.
3. New achievements.
4. Olympic games resolution will be overhauled (it was delayed since it requires some graphical assets).
5. Finally Medieval scenario will be focused. Right now I am sure that promotion-production system will be expanded.

It will be much likely the final update of 2024. With Medieval scenario done the revisit of scenario one by one will be completed. Therefore I will also think about the general direction of future development.

I hope to not update assets in next iteration.
Next update will focus on ancient scenario, there will be no new game mode. Just improvement to numbers, balance and scripts.
In addition I plan to revisit achievements (some seems unacquirable now).

I have also noticed that I implement too many bugs by pushing variables to dll, I will limit it greatly (to non-gameplay stuff).

There is no important changes queued for next version - some minor interface and balance adjustments. For 2024 I would like to finish polishing individual scenarios (ancient, medieval and renaissance left). 2023 seems successful, gamepedia is in satisfying (almost finished) state.

Buildings' balance for each scenario. Many buildings are shared between medieval, renaissance and industrial scenarios. It will be no longer a case.
Academies, Holy Sites, Customs Houses and Manufactories will have their traits revisited.
I am gonna start polishing scenarios one by one. Next update will target modern and industrial scenario mostly.

As I have started working on gamepedia, many older and more obscure mechanics will be cut or redesigned.
I have a lot of changes queued for next version.
Espionage calculations will be once again reworked in order to make display even simpler.
Religion needs work. There will be new gameoption to make it more dynamic. In addition I plan great overhaul of founder and enhancer beliefs.
There will be an annual check on innovations, social developments, wonders and ideologies.
Finally I plan on adding new subcultures (City-States in ancient scenario).

I grew unhappy with Settler system and I have plans to simplify it.

The big goal for 2023 is writing a game-pedia to cover all new aspects introduced by a mod. I hope to release first topics by March.

There is no much specific goals for v25, some UI, AI and balance changes.
For the gameplay I plan to make Natural Wonders' rewards scenario specific (so they are always useful).

I hope to create a refined final version for 2022 and then start writing game-pedia about basic concepts and mechanics.

There is not much on my to-do list, mostly improvements to the code structure and UI. Therefore I shall make an annual revisit of existing traits (Social Developments, Ideology Tenets, Wonders, maybe Innovations).

Governors as a system matures with every version, I am now focusing to improve their interaction with foreign leaders for more spicy diplomacy.

I have a lot of notes prepared for version 23. One of the oldest mechanics, civilian Great People, their migration, interface panel and database structure will be polished and overhauled to make it feel more fitting in current less-rpg direction of mod. Migration chances will be displayed in both City-View and GP Overview and it will now be heavily based on Charm.
Codex will be slightly reworked (again) to become a new area of competition and Intrigue Visibility will much likely be removed (Power will acquire its functionality).

AI behaviour, new scripts, improved code, new resolutions for leagues, further development of governors, and more. See you this june/july!

Four big changes for version 22.
1. Buildings' costs in modern scenario will be assigned. Current system (always 1-turn build, no production overflow) is not really friendly for those who would like to min-max stuff.
2. Several Legal Actions will be nerfed on era conversion (National Day, Formalized Ranks, Codex, Standardized Alphabet).
3. Governors will got a "dream system", a scripted behaviour towards achieving certain goals in reasonable amount of turns.
4. Finally I am gonna touch National Unity, already done some math towards it. This indicator will be now a value from 0 to 100%, which should allow me to better balance penalties for low unity. The math formula will be also much simpler.

Goals:

• Push stuff from lua to db and dll, a process that started with v20 will mostly affect performance and modability.
• Localize strings.
• Governors' behaviour and numerical balance.
• Investigate and balance Trade-Routes' rewards.

 

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New version (v21) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
This time there is no update to assets.
I have also uploaded first optional content (Palaces I) with five new palaces.

Spoiler Changelog v21 :

AI

• Script to construct assigned Wonders if AI ignores it for too long.

Automation (Council)

• (New) Allows assigning AI to handle Palace upgrades.

Fixed Bugs

• Initialization will no longer fail if any player had not assigned starting plot - instead they will be set to never alive (it happens if you put a lot of major/minor players on smaller maps).
• Initialization will no longer fail if map has river ending on the edge.
• Pledge of Protection's cost fixed.
• Intrigue Visibility from Palaces was being calculated incorrectly.
• DiploRelations code that could fail initialization if there was a "break" in major players iteration IDs.
• In-game repeative bug: Pilgrims spreading religious pressure with great mosque of Samarra wonder was breaking the code. (Manual fix for v20: open "ITGSG_HappinessFunctions.lua" go to line "488" and change "iPlayer" to "dPlayer")
• Bug related to Ideology #61 that causes to fail initialization or conversion to 5th era. (Manual fix for v20: open "ITGSG_IdeologiesEffects.lua" and comment out line 207 by adding "--" at the beginning)
• In-game bugs related to invitations to disbanded leagues.
• Tribe was able to conquer cities (further changes to mechanic in gameplay).
• Great People granting Inspiration were on top of that providing free Academy.
• Non-repeative error if all members of League of Nations proposed the same resolution.
• Tadzreuli Cavalry had not assigned unique icon and alpha flag.
• Luxor Temple bonus was not working when human player was choosing from more than one pantheon belief.
• Free Engineer from Machinery in Trial Scenario was working only for Pagan culture type.
• Free Scientist from Physics in Trial Scenario was working only for Pagan culture type.
• UI - General/Admiral bonus not cleared quick enough on choosing Progress by Blood in Scenarios with paired Innovations.
• Art Style was not applying to all cultural Great People.
• Populism tenet had various issues.
• Free Army social development was not working correctly.
• New Kingdom (governors' action) could runtime.
• Mercenaries that lost their status could not refresh unit flag properly.
• Initialization will no longer fail if Nomads are present in trial scenario. (Manual fix for v20: open "'ITGSG_Database_1.lua" go to line "488" and change "iPlayer" to "g")
• Fixed auto-assigment for Pagan subcultures.
• Initialization will no longer fail while assigning wonder ruins if there is less major Cities than excepted number of ruins.
• Trustful social development now properly unlocks Mint for Tribe and Pagan cultures.

Game Options

• (New) Shuffled Ideologies - randomly rearranges position of tenets.
• (New) Dynamic AI handicap - game will adjust AI handicaps every 5th turn based on player's situation.
• (New) Blob Territories - alternative script for initial Cities, Forts and Holy Sites.

Gameplay

• Trade-Routes now increase Culture and Science per turn rather than grant lump sum of those yields.
• Anti-Tank Gun class units have now +5 Strength (base from 50 to 55, uniques from 55 to 60).
• Negative Unit Supply will no longer affect Heal Rate, but production penalties have no longer max cap.
• Railroads now can be created in foreign special control plots if adjacent to your territory and not at war.
• Generals', Admirals' and famous Mercenaries' promotions revisited, added new ones.
• Added several new sources of Meritocracy in medieval scenario.
• (Sub)Cultures that could not conquer cities (triggered barbarian-like raid and forced peace instead) have now an access to "Can occupy X more Cities" in the tech tree. It allows to conquer Cities as long as you have occupied Cities under the limit. Limit is displayed in Top Panel.
• Improved code related to discover X tiles (it will be now much more likely to dodge discovering big pile of... ocean).
• Fighter class units production cost from 200 to 175.
• Chance for Palace to be destroyed in Riots is now based on number of upgrades.

Governors

• (New Action) Expedition - meets an unknown City-State.
• Cities' trait providing extra defense against spies was replaced with +3/5/7% Production. This is due to general design for defense against spies to be global and fact that espionage does not have clear tooltips therefore +10 defense against spies is hard to evaluate.
• Governors' actions now have an invidual max turn of triggering.

Interface

• City View: Added Heal Rate info within Strength's tooltip.
• Game Menu: adjusted details to not show useless information.
• Unit Panel: Added detailed Heal Rate info within HealBar tooltip.
• Unit Panel: Added special grid for Mercenaries that displays info about flee chance.
• Demographics: added more information, reduced margins of error and improved code.

Laws

• Assimilation law slightly changed.
• Minorities law redesigned into Heavy Occupation (general concept is to remove Legal Power bonuses from law).

Leagues

• Support Ideology is no longer a proposable resolution. Instead it will be treated as special League of Nations' resolution and trigger during 41th turn.
• (New) Condemn Espionage resolution for League of Nations (disables purchasing new Agents, increases turns needed for reorganization and reduces Votes for every Assassination, Coup and Money Forgery ever done).
• Improved AI evaluation of City-States' scripted league's resolutions.

Localization

• Fixed various typos.
• Pushed more strings to database.
• All database text is now in designated files/folder.

Mod Support

• Added support for YnAEMP maps (I successfully initialized Giant Earth, not played though - too massive for my laptop).

Simplification

• Removed Legal Happiness debt (now Legal from Happiness will always be equal to average Happiness). Adjusted related traits.
• Removed chance to generate unhappiness from legal matters (now spending Happiness on legal matters will simply increase Unhappiness in all Cities). Adjusted related traits.

Performance and Moddability

• Pushed more variables to already existing tables.
• Completed GovermentTypes table.
• Created table for Espionage Actions.
• Legal Actions' structure was improved.
• Recoded caching nearby cities to any distance.
• Pushed City Integers resetable on conquest to DLL (first table pushed to DLL, credits: whoward69).
• Pushed Palaces to database.

 

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New version (v22) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
New version requires an update to Assets II (v3)!

Optional content:
Palaces I were updated to v2 (added icon atlas and better method to ensure proper load order).
Unique Units I were released.

Spoiler Changelog v22 :

AI

• AI will no longer beg for gold and luxury resources.
• AI will no longer be concerned by religious conversions caused by initial script.
• AI should now pillage much more.

Era Conversion

• Codex is now not 100% guaranteed to pass (referenced amount of players will acquire it).
• Codex Discount is now based on referenced values, but the roll is repeated if you had more discount in previous era.
• National Days are now also based on referenced values with an extra chance to match amount from previous era.
• Unified Alphabet is now not 100% guaranteed to pass (referenced amount of players will acquire it).

Fixed Bugs

• Offshore platform is no longer pillageable.
• Buyout City-States now keep all buildings.
• Fixed units with 1-cost embark/disembark spending all movement to embark (affects Pilgrims and Archaeologists).
• Cultural Presence Anchor from Alphabet was working... always.
• Fixed a rare runtime error on centralizing power.
• Promotion that should grant extra damage vs wounded units was providing less damage taken while defending instead.
• Fixed runtime error when governor escapes before being executed while solving Into the War diplomatic action.
• Fixed spending any amount of Happiness on Legal Action to spend all available Happiness.
• Fixed issues with rebels' origin and against method.
• Fixed African renaissance subculture being applied in medieval scenario.
• Fixed delayed death of barbarian unit being able to block foundation of new city through Frontier ability in medieval scenario.
• Fixed CHOOSE BELIEF not working and blocking next turn button. (Manual fix: in Scenario Generator (v 21)\InGameFiles\ActionInfoPanel.lua find "CHOOSE BELIE", add F and save.)
• Crusaders will no longer jump outside target territory if a crusade triggered a war declaration.
• Fixed a small bug in finding the best plot to spawn crusaders.
• Trade Appeal during golden age from minor ideology tenet was not checking if player is in golden age.
• Fixed several issues with Bow and Serve social development (great person switching players was not coded correctly).
• Fixed Migration being able to leave City with 0 population.
• New Management social development now spawns Trade-Routes on correct plot.
• Fixed issues with iterating nearby cities.
• Fixed Monumental Initiative to clear members' contributions even if treshold for wonder was not met.
• Script to find new original capital when current one is legally claimed by other player could fail.
• Removed workboats repair ability.
• Fixed top panel not displaying average happiness correctly if it was affected by special modifiers.
• Fixed strategic reserves not working correctly.
• Fixed AI choosing veterancy promotions (bad check if promotion was available during current scenario).
• Fixed issues with UI replacing social developments.
• Predicted damage dealt/taken in EnemyUnitPanel is now properly considering unique modifiers to damage (ex. if unit takes 50% less damage at full HP).
• Fixed runtime error on 1000AD special "event".
• Abilities that were changing a stack type no longer affects units with natural omni-stacking (trade-routes/pilgrims).
• Removed attack penalty against land units from Ballista.

Gameplay

• Added costs to buildings in modern scenario (production overflow is enabled).
• National Unity was heavily redesigned into 0 to 100% indicator. It is now based on unifying and dividing presence within your empire with following math: 100 * (Unify - Divide) / (Unify + Divide). All related abilities were adjusted or redesigned.
• Unified Alphabet has now a base cost of 3 Legal Power (it increases with every created one up to 7).
• Being backward in amount of adopted principles no longer reduces Great People points generation, instead it is now increasing Dividing Presence.
• Innovations related to submarines were slightly rebalanced.
• Governor Principle slot is now available since renaissance scenario.
• Claim Religion legal action cost from 12 to 10.
• Default chance to capture siege unit in industrial scenario reduced from 25% to 15%.
• Creating Codex (legal action) now allows spending Happiness on it. Chances to start with initial codex are now based on scenario rather than culture type (values: 0/35/60/80/90%).
• Legal Power from Codex new formula: +0.03 base and +0.01 per 20% strength (old: +0.01 per 10% strength).
• Codex Strength is now being anually calculated every 5th turn. New Codexes start with 50% Strength by default.
• The overall direction for Codex is to become something common in-game, especially with further eras (it unlocks half of the Principles). Further changes are planned for Codex Strength to become a next arena of rivalization; you shall ensure that world follows the one and the only rightful code of laws.
• Mixed crop innovation will now spawn less resources, but it will instantly improve them with plantations if possible.
• Mint power from internal expenses is now more interactive and capped at -200.
• Yields of Templar buildings rebalanced, each building is now limited to one ''valuable'' yield.
• Personnel - manufactory trait - now provides +3 Mint Power per Engineer (instead +1 Gold).
• Base Morale Events are now considering current Morale in their chances. It should slightly reduce extreme values.
• Creating and upgrading Settlements now contribute to Colonization in Stock Exchange.
• Scouts can no longer pillage.
• Beliefs providing local happiness nerfed to +1 max. Belief granting happiness to amphitheatres now also affects opera houses and museums.
• Meritocracy Anchor will now only prevent dropping below its value (before this change it was also boosting Meritocracy to its level).
• Added 8 turns cooldown on purchasing Manufactory in most scenarios. It also triggers when you notably loose a city with manufactory (it is to prevent a cascading creation of manufactories when player looses manufactory so the resources are once again available to fund new one).
• Warfare-based economy (ideological tenet) values were quite heavily nerfed.

Governors

• Added more scripted behaviour toward reaching dream goals in reasonable turn limit.
• Initial Governor have now chance to be more mid-game like (starting with certain bonuses or abilities).
• Governors are now slightly less likely to bend the knee in fragile situations.

Historiography

• Added paragraph about Railroads in industrial scenario.
• Added paragraph about the most visited Trade Center.
• Added paragraph about the most prestigious Academy.

Leagues

• Tithe has now a permanent effect (instead 15 turns of duration).
• Tithe is now considering the fact that religion owner can change.
• Fixed small bug with Tithe UI.
• War on Schism is now only available if there is at least one member with different official religion.
• Crusaders are now unable to attack right after spawning (giving some time to gather defense).

Localization

• More strings were properly localized.

Map Scripts

• Starting positions on very small islands will receive an extra land within 3-radius.

Simplification

• Formalized Ranks is replaced with Nominate Commander legal action (costs 2) that will allow you to instantly obtain a replacement for fallen general or admiral. Note: players now may start with fallen general or admiral ready to be replaced if they have no adequate initial commander. All releated traits changed or removed.

Performance and Moddability

• A lot of data used only on era conversion is no longer being saved.
• Graphs got their own database table and their data is now being saved in dll.
• More City Integers were pushed to dll.
• Pushed a lot of tables defining unitclasses and unittypes to the database.
• Palaces' table has now IconAtlas and PortraitIndex (used only in leaders' notes).

UI

• Chateau is now an unique city task (before you were acquiring Chateau charges by upgrading palace in City with already fully upgraded palace).
• Added warning to not start game with less than 6 major players. Small world sizes are now banned in advanced setup.
• (CityView) Added a list of Great People currently there.
• Transparent colours can no longer be used for leaders' graphs.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v23) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.

Optional content:
Unique Units I were updated to v2 with a fix (Sepoy's ability was breaking EnemyUnitPanel interface display).

Spoiler Changelog v23 :

AI

• AI logic now ignores players without cities in most logics including counting active wars.
• AI will now try to spend its Votes in leagues that will be broke by queued war declaration.
• AI will be more likely to seek friendship if has no active DoF and knows at least 5 major civilizations.
• AI is now more aware about Defensive Pacts while declaring wars.

Auction House

• (New Special Deal) Patronage - allows you to bribe random foreign civilian Great Person to migrate to your empire and stay there.
• (New Special Deal) Bribe Dignitaries - +100 Influence randomly distributed among City-States at peace (price is attractive in comparision to basic gold gifts; yet distribution is random).

Controls

• Added some support for handling unit stacks.
• While holding Ctrl upon click on following actions: Skip, Sleep, Alert, Fortify, Heal; all your unfortified of the same domain type on the same plot will also issue an order. Additionally holding Alt will ignore unfortified requirement.
  
• The same behaviour is introduced for following Interface Modes: MoveTo, Rebase and Paradrop (hold Ctrl upon mouse-left-click). However, in this case secondary orders unfortunately happen on ButtonDown (so be careful) which makes them execute first. It will not work with right-clicking (MoveTo must be accessed from Unit Panel first).

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed Scientific bonus not being chosen randomly when you have a chancellor.
• Tithe (league resolution) could be proposed even when already active.
• Fixed bugs related to Food Distribution law.
• Fixed vision issues when Explorer couldn't find new plot to explore (also great people will not become explorers in last two scenarios anymore).
• Fixed error in conflict outcome of revolution diplo note.
• Fixed incorrect logic in check if plot belongs to certain water area (affected mostly social development New Management).
• Fixed Goverment type not being properly passed on era conversion.
• Fixed Cavalry requiring only 1 Horse instead 10.
• Fixed abilities based on UnitMeetCiv event.
  
• Fixed theoretically possible scenario in which player could obtain same development twice.
  
• Gunman and Akofo Asafo were sharing an unit flag. Gunman is temporary using a musketman unit flag now.
• Fixed various issues to Impi (not being available in first place).
• Fixed LeagueOverview UI not working for leagues with more than 22 members (it will also now prioritize major players and show up to 34 members).
• Fixed insufficient resource amount ending all export of this resource rather than validating each deal in order.
• Fixed incorrect yield bonus from Labouring Class ideology tenet.
• Added much better management of temporary modifiers to unit stack type; it should remove any plausible bad interaction.

Gameplay

• Effects unlocking random unitclass will prioritize non-naval units if your civilization has no naval cities.
  
• Removed special event that was firing at 1000 AD.
  
• Coup will now increase player's influence to 50.
• Reduced chances for buildings to be destroyed in Riots.
• Minor changes to Social Developments.
• Trade-Routes are now affected by negative modifier based on number of player's cities.
• Barbarian units from uprising will now join their "original" player if this player is at war with city owner and has at least one military unit adjacent to them.
• Changed veteran XP tresholds from 50/100/... to 25/50/..., veteran promotions can now be acquired at level 4/6/8... (100/150/200XP...).
• Added 4 new veteran promotions for naval units.
• Enhanced technologies with bonus strength for forts and citadels (it was only present in New World scenario tech tree before).
• Charm now reduces speed of Great Person migration, which was recoded to make it less random. Chance is now displayed in UI (CityView/GreatPeopleOverview).
• Added new modifier: Codex Influence. It affects how influential your laws' options are in determining the most popular choices (used in Codex Strength). Codex strength is now being calculated every 5th turn. Information about the most popular laws' options is now hidden (changing laws to the most popular ones was an easy way to create strong codex, now player has to invest in codex influence).
• Added new principle slot: Secular. It is available once your state becomes secular (and religious slot is obsolete). It balances out the maximum amount of available principles. Rewards are related to culture generating, reducing cost of cultural bonus and an extra reward from having at least one Academy in top 3 in prestige ranking.
• Temporary modifiers to currency power now lasts 10 turns (instead 5% fade each turn) - it mainly affects one powerful ideology tenet.
• In industrial scenario max resource storage was added. Oil and Coal: 1000. Horse and Iron: 50 increased by 5 for every Stable/Forge.
  
• City-States will no longer give you an unit if you lack unit supply (cooldown for the next gift is halved in this case).
• (Promotion) Medic I now grants +10 Heal Rate outside friendly territory and +10 maximum HP.
  
• (Promotion) Medic II now grants +5 Heal Rate to adjacent units and +15 maximum HP.
  
• (Promotion) Air Repair from +20 to +15 Heal Rate.
  
• (Promotion) Repair now graints +10 Heal Rate outside friendly territory and +15 maximum HP.
• Impi now has 20% penalty vs Cities.
• You no longer gain +0.02 Legal Power and +5 Great People per DoF. Now you gain +0.04 Legal Power and +7 Great People if you have at least one DoF.
• Reduced Cultural Presence spread upon Missionary conversion.
• Mercenary extra cost on being DoWed reduced from +50% to +25% (still fades over 5 turns).
  
• Mercenary extra cost upon purchase reduced from +20% to +10% (still fades after 4 turns since last purchased unit).
  
• Beliefs' options are now provided semi-randomly (some beliefs that depend on certain resource/feature/terrain/buildingclass/improvements may be considered of lower priority if your civilization cannot make use of them).
• Principle slot related to National Days is now available since Industrial scenario (instead Renaissance).
• Pillaging tile with strategic resource has chance to grant some amount of it (only during Scenarios in which resource storage is on).
• Enlightened City-States now provide +2 Great People points and +2 Charm in all Cities per level of friendship (instead +5 Great People points).
• Principles from ideology slot rebalanced a bit.
• Propaganda (reward from cultural bonus) from +4 Happiness in all Cities to +20 Happiness distributed randomly (one city cannot gain more than 4 Happiness).
• Legal Action providing Customs House now costs 3 and can be used only once per scenario.

Game Options

• Tropical Subculture is now optional (disabled by default).
• City Names Position is now optional (it tries to keep the same city name within specific areas upon era conversions).

Governors

• It turned out Governors created a situation in which I caught myself counting distance between cities to check if it will be in range for governship. Various adjustments were made to change it.
• Player contests all the cities for the governship, but provides no bonus from governship.
• Governors are now less likely to bend the knee during diplo actions that is their scripted goal.
• Meritocracy from ungoverned Cities changed: Capital and cities with placed governor counts as governed, you loose 1 Meritocracy per turn if amount of governed Cities drops below 25%.
  
• Intrigue Visibility removed (see simplification).
• Some diplomatic notes that can become obsolete by player's actions (ex: by purchasing building or declaring war) will now state that. In addition, those actions will automatically cleared upon becoming obsolete (affects action panel interface).
• New Kingdom diplo note no longer becomes invalid if you declare war on city-state.
• Governors having their scripted goal denied may now develop new scripted goal: to betray a player.
• New Diplomatic Note: Governor offers to increase Codex Influence.
• Added an option to Nominate governor to grand position (governor will choose randomly certain Yield Bonus, but will reduce the cost to acquire it by 15%).
• New Diplomatic Note: Governor may provide empire with 2 Mercenaries.

Historiography

• Fixed bug related to espionage note.

Laws

• Laws were overhauled which resulted in various changes (balance, extra options, etc.) to following entries: Academic Priviliges, Patronage of state, Corruption Regulation, Social Works, Conscription, Army Organization, Free Assembly, Food Distribution, Weapon Regulations and Heavy Occupation.
• Scientific supervision, Supplies, National Parks, Standing Army and Expansion Politic were removed.
• Laws that were increasing Gold expenses based on unit maintenance cost have now their own values.

Leagues

• Reduced AI biases towards condemning Espionage.
• Fixed bug in AI bias towards suggesting Host Position.
• Added Total War resolution in League of Nations. Can target players that occupy at least 4 cities and made at least 8 unique city conquests.
• New action: Unify Laws. All other major members will have up to 3 laws changed to match your options.
• New resolution in christian league: Indulgence. Grants extra reward from pilgrims and make them more likely to target host's cities and holy sites.

Map Script

• Tropical Islands will be generated if game starts in industrial or modern scenario.
• Ideological leagues have now players' distribution based on similiraties in chosen ideologies.
• Initial Cities should be more likely to be coastal.
• Rebalanced amount of starting units (should mainly affect Natives (New World), Empire and City-States (Age of Titans).
• Added an extra "medium" method to populate map with initial Cities.
• Initial amount of Great People is now based on Culture Types.

Miscellaneous

• Added 20 new achievements.

Simplification

• Intrigue Visibility has proven to be redundant. Power is now singular yield related to governors:
  In basic diplomatic actions Power above 100 affects an outcome positively.
  In case of conflict your advantage over Governor's power affects an outcome.
  All traits and abilities related to Intrigue Visibility now affect Power.

Performance and Moddability

• Trade Route log recoded to reduce amount of saving data.
• Veteran promotions were recoded to not use base promotion system. Added database for them and pushed logs related to AI choosing those promotions to dll.
• Created database table for great people.
• Social Policies are obsolete. Cleaned dll code to not run iterations related to them.
• Created database table for laws; polished UI using this data.
• Polished code related to experience from combat in dll - no xp gained from barbarians will make progress towards GG and GA bonuses now.

UI

• Settler log expanded and polished (present in Settler tooltip).
• Added a popup for Social Development solution.
  
• Added a popup whenever your Yield Bonus is being chosen randomly.
• In end scenario panel added a new Info panel which describes a process of era conversion for several game aspects (Social Developments, Goverment, Laws, Principles, Ideologies, Wonders).
• Added tech quotes sound upon acquiring technology/innovations through interface bonuses.
  
• In mini-map options several new checkboxes were added:
  <Float Trade> enables floating text of rewards from Trade-Routes and Pilgrimages.
  <Float Missionary> enables floating text of effects from non-manual Missionary actions.
  <Float Fishing> enables floating text of rewards from Work Boats.
  <Tech Quotes> enables playing sound of tech quotes upon obtaining techs/innovations.
  <Cultural Sounds> enables playing random Great Work of Music each time human player chooses reward from cultural bonus.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v24) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.

Optional content:
Unique Units I were updated to v3 to match new unit vision rules (submarines in v2 will have 1-range vision instead 2-range).

Spoiler Changelog v24 :

AI

• Better understandment of Wonders and competive Projects (related to AI choosing Cities' orders).

Controls

• Moving, rebasing and paradroping stacks are now new interface modes (work alongside existing system).

Fixed Bugs

• AI could bypass Inspiration-type rules while choosing multiple inspirations in one turn.
• Common Foe league action no longer can target players without Cities.
• Malon Raider was not requiring Horses.
• Recon could be used in friendly territory.
• Fixed Condemn Espionage not blocking spy purchasing properly.
• Fixed bug in calculating votes from Shared Healthcare resolution.
• Fixed foreign governor offering a service breaking interface for human (and turn processing).
• Fixed Mother River not adding city connections.
• Fixed some era conversion issues with leagues.
• Fixed issues with resources quantity related to "hidden" luxury resources.
• Porcelain Tower effect can no longer grant innovations.
• Fixed some processes collecting production in resistance or during epidemy.
• Fixed Common Foe (league action) incorrect check if other member can declare war on target.
• AI no longer bypass league action cooldown in some scripted behaviours.
• Fixed bonuses to combat strength being applied to air units (which was messing with combat system).
• Fixed bonuses to combat strength being applied incorrectly to embarked units.
• Fixed a possibility of the same follower belief to be assigned twice while creating religion based on data from previous scenarios.
• Gifting units to city-state received many bugfixes (no immobile, no trade-routes, etc.) and balance (unit must be at max hp, not spend any moves this turn), however ultimately it was disabled. Once I write a logic for AI this mechanic will be reintroduced.
• Fixed bug introduced in v23: all modern innovations related to units were reducing cost of tanks instead of their respective unitclasses.
• Flanking now only consider max 1 unit per tile and ignores plot of attacking unit (in other words it is adapted to unit stacking).
• Host Position resolution was being repealed unproperly.
• Bug in checking if Governor is available for some activities.
• Happiness from Palaces were readded (gone missing when table was pushed to database).
• Fixed error on era conversion from Ancient to Medieval Scenario if any city-state discovered Mathematics.

Game Options

• (New) Limited Developments - limits social developments to random 16 options each scenario.

Gameplay

• Healthcare Budget now provide +1 Health to random City per 50 gold contributed (one City can gain up to +5 Health, once no City is valid you gain +1 Meritocracy instead).
• Propaganda Budget now provide +1 permanent Authority per 125 gold contributed if you are not first in Authority rank (+5 Power otherwise).
• Prestige as a system was revisited, polished rules and code, added new interface and rewrote tooltips.
• New legal action: Invite Governor (costs 1 Legal Power). Invites a chosen foreign governor from a civilization you have embassy at. Can be only used if you have contact with less than 5 foreign governors. 5 turns cooldown.
• Legal Power can be purchased for 400 Faith in Secular State.
• Unit Capture now only works if you are not out of supply (the general direction of abilities granting military units).
• Trade-Routes will now ignore Cities within 7 distance if there are at least 3 valid targets in greater proximity (instead 1).
• Gold modifier for Trade-Routes arriving to City based on amount of other Trade-Routes that arrived there in last 20 turns rescaled from 50/37.5/25/12.5/0% to 25/12.5/0% for 0/1/2+ previous Trade-Routes.
• Gold modifier for Trade-Routes from number of Cities rescaled from (1-NumCities)% to min(50, 2 * (1-NumCities))%. Penalty doubled, capped at -50%.
• Trade Appeal based on Trade-Routes lost when send to specific Player/City recoded slightly.
• Modern culture type (affects all players in modern era) now has -50% defense modifier from garrisoned unit (about -11 defense from Infantry at 100% hp), but cities have +8 base defense. It should help AI.
• Morale bonus from ancient ruins nerfed from 10 to 4-7.
• Budget can no longer be assigned to Education if you have no Academies.
• International Trade-Route gold modifier from Currency Bonus is now additive instead multiplicative.
• Calculation of Currency Power from resource and stability is now greatly simplified.
• Cooldown for actions/proposals in basic leagues increased from 1 to 4 turns.
• A lot of free Great People and Improvements removed from tech tree.
• Special deals in auction house are disabled if gold budget mode is on (modern scenario).
• Power gain from Intrigue (espionage action) reduced by 50%.
• Local Happiness now positively affects an amount of Happiness boost from Riots.
• Rewards from festivals were rebalanced.
• Mercenaries were greatly buffed, both flee chances and cost increases were reduced. Flee chance can now not exceed 20%, introduced my own method of calculating risk and simplified overall math.
• Settlers treshold were rebalanced (set to 75 in medieval era) (+10 per 10 settler acquired in Ancient Era).
• Grants (law) was disabled (affecting chances for new civilian great person type).
• Breaking City Defense is now affecting defense from Garrison and many custom sources (used to affect only defense from buildings).
• Ikanda can now be built only in non-occupied Cities.
• Warrior cost reduced from 40 to 32 production.
• More morale boosts are now under condition that current morale is below certain value (it will be a general direction for such bonuses in the future).
• Siege Tower and Battering Ram promotions nerfed from +100% to +50% bonus vs Cities.

Governors

• Foreign Governors can now be invited with Legal Power.
• Foreign Governors may now offer Spy Protection (reduces chance to detect your spies by half during basic tasks like observation or infiltration).
• Foreign Governors may now introduce you to unmet city-states.
• Governors may now ask foreign players for support in Revolution, New Kingdom and Official Religion diplo notes.

Ideologies

• Improved text.
• Minor changes were made to 8 tenets.
• 3 tenets were replaced.
• Improved AI evaluation.

Innovations

• Improved text.
• Minor changes were made to 18 Innovations.

Leagues

• New edict in caliphate: Exploration. Provides votes based on amount of revealed plots.
• New resolution in papacy: Deus vult. Unlocks an extra reward option from religious bonus from three options (spawn Mercenaries near Capital / Legalize conquest of City
  / boost Morale).

Map Scripts

• Rewrote script responsible for capturing cities, it is now sensitive to keep supposed balance in number of cities.
• More jungles, forests and marshes should pass conversions to later eras.

Principles

• "Random" slots were removed.
• Printing Press, Radio and Computers no longer increase Meritocracy growth.
• In renaissance scenario extra Meritocracy growth is reduced from 2 to 1.
• Special Deal slot is now available since medieval scenario to modern one (in which it is replaced with Budget slot) and requires Codex slot filled now.
• Secular Principles no longer provides bonus from having an academy in top 3 of prestige rank, instead they unlock an extra reward option from cultural bonus.
• Some of rewards were rebalanced.
• National Day and Governor slots were merged together.
• Total amount of reward slots available at once were reduced from 11 to 7.

Simplification

• Customs Houses no longer have a customizable trait affecting trade-route destination. It was replaced with +15% gold modifier for trade-routes outgoing from City.
• Exponent rewards from Stock Exchange removed (now all branches have base exponent of 1).

Social Developments

• By general rule no Social Development will require a technology now.
• Minor changes were made to 40 developments.
• Replaced or heavily redesigned 18 developments.
• Revisited AI strategies and evaluation.

Performance and Moddability

• Implemented properly following rules: all units have base sight of 1, all non-air units can enter rival territory (it was coded before with unit promotions that are now removed).

Text

• Text related to leagues' resolutions was localized and revisited.

UI

• Great People once again have icons based on current era (pre-industrial and later).
• Added a purely info panel in Trade-Route overview about specific Cities trade modifiers and targets.
• Mod now imports an extra 200 UI files from base game (without changes made to them).

Wonders

• Updated text, fixed one incorrect icon, some minor adjustments.
• Major changes affected 10 Wonders.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v25) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets II to version 5.

Spoiler Changelog v25 :

Agenda (new)

• New Gameplay mechanic available to some cultures (Empire, Tribe, Pagan, Tropical), linked to one ideology tenet and legal action. Allows you to choose an Agenda/Political Promise with an usual duration of 50 turns. Agenda grants bonus on adopting (happiness + various) and fulfilling (power), and penalty for failing (unhappiness, power loss and a cause). There is 32 different agendas right now: Conquer City, Appoint Governor, Expand Territory... and so on.

AI

• AI panic script pushed from lua to dll.​
• AI will no longer embark units to recapture naval Colonies.​
• Extra logic for AI spending resources on City-States' projects (affects production processes as well).​
• Expanded AI logic for placing Forts.​
• AI should ignore rebels and barbarians fighting against their enemies.

Combat

• Damaging City below 1 HP with ranged or air attack will trigger a conquest if you have at least one military unit adjacent to target. (Does not work for guided missiles / suicidal units)
• Naval units gain 1 more XP from any combat made.

Fixed bugs

• Border growth expansion was inaccurate when Faith or Gold was contributing to it.
• Fixed bug when league disbands in the middle of resolving resolutions.
• Ironclad was referenced to wrong unitclass promotions.
• Fixed new manufactory cost being affected by number of upgrades in 4th scenario.
• Fixed(/changed) air sweep not generating any XP if intercepting unit is not of air domain. Note: such combat is not generating any damage, but it counts for intercepting limit per turn.
• Issues with obtaining legal power with scientific bonus (unique reward from innovation).
• Abilities reducing rebels' combat strength were not working.
• Fixed several bugs related to morale events.
• Fixed some ranged units in renaissance scenario having too great attack penalty against Forts.
• Fixed CTD when player without a city completes nuclear project.
• Fixed issues related to Governors not properly ending relations with foreign players in some cases.

Game scripts

• Empire (culture group) got an unique scripts related to initial population, buildings and army to make them more in-check with other players.​
• If game starts in later scenarios, influence anchor from politics will be assigned randomly.

Gameplay

• Base chance to complete dig is always 1% if Archaeologists is not on max movement.
• Heavy Digging (manufactory trait) now provides +3% base chance to complete a dig (instead digging twice a turn).
• Gifting units to city-states is enabled (AI now may use it instead of disbanding units).
• Proposing Declaration of Friendship is now only possible if both sides have at least one City.
• Most criticals are now disabled against civilian units.
• Minor changes to wonders, ideologies, social developments and innovations.
• Nerfed the most powerful Customs House's traits.
• In Ancient Scenario all Cities start with +3 base Production.
• Aircraft attacking Cities now generate 75% damage for both sides (instead 67%).
• Aircraft attacking Units now generate 1% damage less for each 4 damage on target up to -25% (instead 1% per 2 damage up to -50%).
• Some wonders are now set to be of low priority for assignment late in scenario (95T+).
• Doctrine (budget option) now also spreads 150 cultural presence to random foreign city each time you store 150 Gold in it.
• Specializing Unit with scientific reward is now allowing player to choose an unique option (class is still chosen randomly from valid options). If a class cannot be trained due to lack of technology, it is unlocked, otherwise you gain 2 free copies of unique unit.
• Propaganda (espionage action) now targets entire major civilizations instead a city (negative effect toned down).
• Implemented new system for Natural Wonders' traits (in-border effect) with database and scenario-valid traits. Increased amount of traits to 40.
• Some lesser legal actions were combined in the new one: Edict (costs 1 Legal Power, 30 turns cooldown) which allows you to choose from them and a new options.
• In the Light of Hope scenario due to globalization effect player ultimately acquires all Innovations, which makes gameplay repeative. Innovations are now limited to random 12 (out of 20).
• Many espionage related abilities were revisited (related to more detailed tooltips).
• Replaced/removed on combat effects that were temporarily reducing enemy max hitpoints.
• Destroyer now has +1 base sight (3) and movement (7) to balance out new "ranged conquest". In addition its class has an unique promotion tree (extra sight and movement replaced with completely new promotions).
• Pledges of protection are now disabled in modern scenario.
• City-states sharing your codex now have +8 influence anchor.
• Archaeologists no longer costs unit supply.
• City-States rewards from politics changed: "+1 Happiness in all Cities" to "4 Happiness distributed randomly among your Cities", and "All Cities acquire extra plot" to "+50 Border Expansion in all Cities".
• Landlocked civilizations should not receive naval unique units on game initialization (modern era).
• Riots no longer temporary reduce happiness chance (rebellions still do). Numerical changes to chance for rebels to spawn were made.
• Morale Events were revisited (applied some balance changes).
• Instant yield bonuses upon discovery of Natural Wonder are reduced by 50% in Ancient scenario.
• Faith from Goody Huts is reduced by about 40% in Ancient Scenario.
• Rebalanced templar buildings to reduce Wonder points from them to max 1.

Governors

• Balance changes were made to 10 actions.
• Simplified some calculations to make them based on common modifier "Content level". Governors unhappy with current situation have greater chance to trigger negative actions. This modifier is semi-exposed to the player (because it is affected by hidden variable - loyalty type of governor). Each governor type now has unique modifier that makes them more or less content.

Historiography

• Added a note for a player who faced the most rebels.
• Added a note about fulfilling (or not) agendas.
• Added a note if Governor was responsible for official religion.

Leagues

• New resolution - Preserve Identity - major players do not passively spread cultural presence to each other (on turn start), +1 Unifying Presence per major member with National Unity greater than you. Provides votes.

Performance and Moddability

• Pushed more variables to dll.
• Created a database table for Morale Events. Logs related to morale no longer save any strings.

UI

• Deals overview panel was adapted (shows turns properly now).
• Introduced two new font icons (spy attack and defense), expanded tooltips related to espionage (player will be able to estimate outcomes) and improved current UI and text.
• List of customs houses is now more compact.
• Added font icon and a tooltip in the city view for border expansion.
• Created popups for founding new religion and entering golden age.
• Some modifiers were not displayed in enemyunitpanel while attacking city.
• Map search can now be limited to controlled territory.

Victory Points

• Fixed 250 Victory points from winning World at War not working.
• Modern scenario: +0.25 (instead 1) Victory points per building constructed.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v26) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.

Optional content:
(New) Unique Units II are available at steam and in downloads (22 new unique units, 12 unique infantry).
Unique Units I were updated to v4 to match new military might calculations and with fixes to two abilities.

What is more, the first version of gamepedia (pdf) is now uploaded. Work in progress.

Spoiler Changelog v26 :

AI

• Fixed an evaluation of incorporating city-state (used to be always 0 - ignored).
• Added an extra behaviour script when AI has a lot of legal power.
• Added logic for choosing unique units.

Demographics

• Military might being logarithmic does not fit some of the systems. New military might evaluation will be linear and cached only once a turn.
• All players have 1 base might.
• Atomic Bombs have preset might of 300.
• Units' base might is greater of combat/ranged strength. They gain +1 might with each level above first. Some promotions now improve base might of the units (each no more than by 4).
• Damaged units have reduced might (-1% per 1 HP below 100). Extra HP above 100 grant a positive modifier (1% per 2 HP). Immobile units have might reduced by 25%. Suicidal (guided missiles) units have might reduced by 75%. Total negative modifier cannot lower unit's might below 25% of its original value.
• Cities have base might of 4, further increased by +1 per 5 defense and +1 per 4 population.
• AI logic and some related evaluations were adapted to new calculation method.
• Margins of errors were reduced for various demographics.

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed Thyreophoroi starting with 4 random veteran promotions instead of Agema Spears.
• Fixed runtime error when Buda Castle was controlled by City-State.
• Fixed Ideologies obtained in modern scenario were not properly locked for further obtaining.
• Fixed Hunters (social development) working while defending instead attacking.
• (Unique Units I) Fixed Argyraspides ability not working.
• Fixed CTD when conquering City with ranged/air attack while playing as Indonesia (achievement check assumed there will be an unit in city).
• Workshop was not properly unlocked at Construction for Nomads (it was working for Vikings instead).
• Fixed issues with Long Distance Warfare innovation.
• Fixed fulfilling an Agenda working on all other Agendas of the same type (ex. multiple conquer Agendas).
• Bad order of culture type assigning in Ancient scenario. Example: Religious City-State (minor civ trait) used not be always a Religious City-State (subculture).
• Fixed an instance of error which caused to cached number of units on plot to be incorrect (related to rebel spawn of city-state that started scenario dead).
• Fixed National Rebel Movement trigger passing wrong player index.

Game Options

• Auto AI handicap will now not change referenced Supply handicap by more than 5% (recoded logic as well).

Gameplay

• At least one embassy between civilizations is required to propose declaration of friendship.
• Each embassy now grants +0.03 Legal Power per turn (up to 0.09), foreign embassies no longer provide Legal Power.
• Rewards from goverment type were toned down.
• By default Festivals will provide +7 Cultural Presence and +7% Happiness chance. Customized reward is moved from culture type to principle (new Spirit slot).
• Worldwide Economy effect was removed (most of the times at least one player has negative gpt which made it redundant mechanic).
• Eradicate Corruption (legal action) is now an option for Edict.
• Great General and Admiral tresholds' increase reduced from 100 to 75 in Ancient scenario.
• Settler points gained on population growth reduced from constant 1 to 0.2-1 (based on population).
• Principles were rearranged and reworked a bit. Max amount of available principles per scenario changed from 3/5/6/6/7 to 3/6/7/7/7.
• With the changes to Principles and Eradicate Corruption action an extra sources of Meritocracy and rules were added to balance it out.
• Plundering a city-state will cause a drop of influence for players' that are at war with conqueror (up to -60). Triggers only if allied player is at war with the conqueror.

Laws

• Festivals (charm and trade appeal manipulation) law is removed.

Map Scripts

• Tropical Island generator will now also populate ocean with some extra 1-tile islands.

Scenario Rules

• Empires and Tribes cannot establish Embassies between them (or start with an existing one).
• City-States of different leagues cannot establish Embassies between them.
• Changed a method of initial cultural presence distribution in industrial and modern scenario.

Settlers and Settlements

• Base treshold to acquire a Settler is now 100 for all cultures and valid scenarios.
• Settlement no longer requires 3 Settlers to create a city. Settlements claim one adjacent tile each turn if undamaged. After 6 such ticks or when you own all adjacent tiles a Settlement is automatically transformed into a City (at the start of your turn).
• Settlers can no longer be used on existing cities. Instead they can be exchanged for various rewards in similar fashion to yield bonuses - as an alternative to creating new Cities. Human player can access bonus selection panel by right-clicking Settler point in info corner.
• Cities can no longer "train" Settlers, this option was replaced with new process (exchanging production into Settler progress is now linear).
• Adjustments to related traits and abilities were made to better fit new system.

Victory Points

• (Industrial Era) +0.01 Victory Point per Cultural Presence (instead 0.015).

 

[LastSword]

New version (v27) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets II to version 6.

Optional content:
Unique Units II were updated to v2 with fixes to two abilities.

What is more, the second version of gamepedia (pdf) is now uploaded.

Spoiler Changelog v27 :

AI

• Will stop making workboats if they loose too much of them.
• AI should prioritize buildings and processes more when out of supply (fixed check and increased weights).

Combat

• Ranged attacks provide temporary vision of the attacker's tile to attacked player.
• At the turn start Radar (technology) grants vision of plots occupied by enemy aircraft that attacked you last turn.

Cultures

• Added 4 new subcultures for City-State culture type (Ideological, Enlightened, Traditional, Agricultural) to represent each minor trait type. Each comes with unique innovations and minor adjustments to differ them from other city-states.

Diplomacy

• New: Cassus Belli. When team has a cassus belli against other team, it can declare war without triggering defensive pacts.
• Declaring a non-scripted war against City-State grants their protectors a Cassus Belli against aggressor.
• Declaring a non-scripted war against declared friend (league betrayal) grants declared friend and their friends a Cassus Belli against traitor.
• Now AI is instantly angry when you bully city-state protected by them (instead of asking to promise to never do it again).
• Extra +15 Influence anchor toward all protected city-states.
• Pledges of protection can no longer be removed by establishing new ones (new ones are disabled once limit is reached).

Espionage

• Split all actions into three types: Mission, Operation and Internal.
• Only one spy can be assigned to counter-intelligence (general rule for internal actions).
• Coup and Hostile Takeover preparation times reduced from 8 to 6 turns.
• Unified espionage outcome calculations for attack and defense modifiers. Reworked the base calculations. Each action now has base, min and max attack success values. 250 attack vs 750 defense means 25% chance for success. Those base values are now modified by summed attack and defense modifier. For example 250 attack amplified by +33% is 332, 750 defense amplified by 20% is 900, which results in 26.9% chance for success. The goal is to make it more clear how various traits and abilities affect an espionage. Changes were made to existing abilities and interface to adjust to new calcs.
• Low national unity decreases spy defense up to -20%.
• Low meritocracy decreases spy defense up to -20%.

Fixed Bugs

• Gesatea's ability runtime error (unique units II).
• Scythier's ability runtime error (unique units II).
• City States' cities will no longer start with pantheon followers in third scenario.
• Religion sometimes was not properly assigned to Pilgrims.
• Secret Pact with foreign Governor was not firing properly.
• Manufactory trait was not spawning Guided Missiles.
• Fixed incorrect display of random yield bonuses' UI (notifications were fine).
• Academies' traits were not triggering on turn start (was affecting 4 abilities).
• Upon incorporating city-state acquired land units will be properly embarked (an actual fix to vanilla Austrian ability).
• Acquiring inspiration for palace and an ideology that ensures that buildings with inspiration are not destroyed upon city conquest was making incorrect capital status.
• Penalty modifier from number of cities was increasing gold from trade-routes instead decreasing it.

Gameplay

• Reworked Provinces law (now always provide a bonus for capital city at the expense of other cities). Affects Happiness, Charm or Work Rate.
• Talent allowing Great Person to design World Wonder replaced.
• Culture contributes toward base unifying presence even if City cannot work (ex. resistance). However max contribution is now capped by population (5 + 1 per 2 population).
• Cities in resistance generate +20% dividing presence.
• Settler generation is now affected by penalty based on number of cities (3%). Similar to other yields.
• Nuclear Project has now base cost of 1500 Gold. Once first player complete it, the cost drops 50 Gold per turn (down to 500).
• Polio Vaccine project total cost is now based on number of major civilizations (6000 to 10000).
• New global project in modern scenario: Internet. Unlocked with Computers.
• City-States' main quest (politics) types were revisited to make smaller civilizations more competive - extra points are now more sensitive to relative growth (percentage). Total number increased to 17.

Governors

• 3 new actions: Host Tournament, Historical Research and New Agent.

Great People

• Great Statesmen can no longer be assassinated, they now migrate like other civilian great people.
• Average Happiness is now providing Great People points in 1:1 ratio.
• Percentage of total population contributes to Great People points (percentage is based on Culture type). This value is affected by low meritocracy.

Leagues

• New resolution: Social Equality grants +1 Meritocracy per turn, -5 Authority and -33% Power for all major members. Available in League of Nations.
• Some of resolutions in ancient City-States' leagues are now passed without voting (Olympic Games, Tournaments, Knowledge-Sharing and Seeking Seeker). Tournament will take place 8 turns after resolution is passed instead instantly.

Religion

• Legal cost to establish official religion is reduced to 8 (5 if you have no official religion). Enforcing official religion on city-state now costs 3 legal power (instead 4).​
• New game option - Dynamic Religion - upon various events total religious presence in a city is reduced while keeping respective percentage of invidual religions (3000 at city conquest, 5000 at epidemy, 10000 at missionary conversions).​
• Founder beliefs now provide bonuses based on number of followers and cities (unified). Total amount reduced to 9.​
• Enhancer beliefs are no longer removed in industrial scenario. Enhancer beliefs are now providing a basic religious pressure and an extra bonus for players that adopted this religion as an official one (unified). Total amount reduced to 10.​
• Follower beliefs were simply overhauled to match and balance them around changes made in recent years. Total amount increased to 58.​
• Pantheons focus on terrain, resources, features and improvements. Total amount increased to 49.​
• Beliefs are now universal (available to all culture types during all scenarios). The only exception is ancient scenario with an restricted pool of follower beliefs (some buildingclasses are not yet available).​

Scenario Rules and Scripts

• Peace prevention for wars between different cultures in Medieval scenario does no longer work on city-states. Declaring such war on major player grants +8 Meritocracy.
• Chance to start as secular state in industrial era reduced from 70% to 50%.
• Removed embassy block between City-States culture type in Ancient scenario.
• Bonus founder belief modifier in medieval scenario replaced with +33% production towards Shrines and Temples and +1 Meritocracy if at least 80% of your Cities have temple.​
• New script recreating Academies on era conversion (more fair distribution instead of copying it from previous scenario).​

Traits

• Revisited Social Developments. Fixed 2 issues related to them. About 40 traits were adjusted or replaced.
• Revisited Ideological Tenets. About 41 traits were adjusted or replaced.
• Revisited Wonders. About 26 was changed.
• Revisited Innovations. About 45 traits were adjusted.
• 4 new innovations in industrial scenario.

UI and Visuals

• Improved National Parks display. Currents display is now properly updated on player change (hotseat support).
• Info corner shows incoming tournaments.
• Principles have new icons.
• All Social Developments got unique icons.
• Added popups for projects in modern scenario.

Moddability and Performance

• Created a table for players' integers. Started pushing integers to dll.
• Data related to cities was cleaned up, more variables were pushed to dll.
• Created tables for beliefs and religions (links to scenarios and cultures).
• Some left-over data with culture-units info was also pushed to db.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v28) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets II to version 7.

Optional content:
Palaces II were released.

What is more, the third version of gamepedia (pdf) is now uploaded.

Spoiler Changelog v28 :

AI

• Will no longer ask to withdraw from attacking protected city-state. Dialogue is redundant (replaced with Cassus Belli). Attacking protected city-state will instantly generate negative diplo modifier.
• Has now better understandment about using ranged units to conquer cities.
• Ranged units (that cannot/need heal) will try to attack any valid target instead passing a turn if possible.

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed Recon being unusable (ability related to ideology).
• AI was not using abilities that grant vision over area (error in function finding the best target plot).
• +100% Coal and Iron from Dynamite (Industrial scenario technology) was not working.
• Aisthetikos (Innovation) was providing +3% chance for next innovation instead +30% (changed to +20%).

Gameplay

• Workboats will ignore zone of control.
• Gold from fishing is now translated into per turn instead instantaneous.
• Faith from pilgrimage is now translated into per turn instead instantaneous.
• Reworked Trade Appeal from plundered trade-routes. Cities of foreign player have -1 Trade Appeal for each your Trade-Route that was plundered on its way to this player (x5 if any such Trade-Route was plundered in last 16 turns).
• Cities now cache base Trade Appeal on turn start (less calculations).
• Players with maxed out Art Style can now use cultural bonus to spread their cultural presence.
• Cities will remove features with work rate only if there is an adjacent plot with the same feature (to keep more variety of territory).
• Improvements will no longer have a chance to coexist with forests, jungles and marshes. It served very little purpose and had not enough visibility.
• Trading Posts were added to the pool of basic improvements.
• Minor balance changes to morale events and situations.
• Surplus food growth no longer provides settler progress from any sources. Existing sources were transformed into Settler per population or raw Settler amount.
• All basic buildings are now unique to scenario or culture type (copies in database) which allowed direct specific balance changes. In addition AI flavours were improved.

Great People

• Simplified origin of newly ascended Great People. They will always originate from civilization that generated them.
• Simplified great person type biases.
• Improved database structure.
• Rebalanced great people talents. Added 3 new talents.

Renaissance Scenario

• Meritocracy from New Opportunities is now set of rules (instead basic +1 Meritocracy per 3 Principles). Focus is now on interaction between different cultures (which will be a new main theme of scenario).

Industrial Scenario

• Removed max cap of resources stored. Stables and Forges will now consume Horses and Iron to provide extra yields (if stored resources are above 70).
• New optional game mode: Great Game. Major players will fight for global hegemony in series of competitions.
• Players gain +1 Meritocracy for each 5 created railroads and +5 Meritocracy when they create Academies, Customs Houses or Manufactories.

Modern Scenario

• Manufactory cost increased from 2.5/4 to 3/5 Coal.
• Players can now use General and Admiral bonus to acquire Innovation up to 3 times (instead unlimited). It is still disabled once all Innovations are acquired by at least one player.
• Minor balance changes to technologies and innovations. Nuclear Fission (technology) received new powerful bonuses to make it more in line with other late game technologies.

Traits

• Replaced/reworked 5 manufactory traits.
• Rewards from Prestige rank slightly nerfed.
• Academies' branches now provide traits on 5/15/25... development (instead 5/10/15...).
• Reworked some Customs House traits. Added new ones. Total amount increased from 20 to 25.
• 8 new Holy Sites' traits.

UI and visuals

• Unit's flag will be properly dimmed when unit looses movement due to enemy attack.
• Music that plays on obtaining cultural bonus is now linked to scenarios (so no modern pieces will play in ancient scenario).

Moddability and Performance

• Pushed building data to database.
• More data related to scenario rules, cities' and players' integers were moved to database.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v29) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets II to version 8.

More articles were added gamepedia (pdf).

Spoiler Changelog v29 :

AI

• Improved AI logic for executing governors.
• Immobile units such as Heretics and Insurgents should have now greater priority to deal with.
• Asking to move away troops is now disabled for first several turns.

Demographics

• Soldiers will also show a military might of navy.

Fixed Bugs

• Social development granting happiness upon bullying city-state was not working.
• Fixed allied city-states counting as declared friend for New Opportunities condition.
• Fixed map search for unvisited ancient ruins (interface).
• Fixed issue with an extra manufactory trait from Steel of Damascus innovation.
• Fixed an issue with info labels (settlement related).
• Logic for removing features (jungles, forests, marshes) greatly improved.
• Fixed faith being collected from cities that cannot work (ex. resistance).
• Fixed human player being unable to use Free Laws Charges without having at least 1 Legal Power.
• Reforming beliefs was not unlocking at all.
• Fixed description of ''Improve defenses'' Agenda to make it clear it is about defense from buildings only.
• Symposium (process) was converting 2% instead 20% of production into prestige.
• Fixed description of budget talent (lack of ] was cutting it to "+5%").
• (Great Game mode) Supporting academies was not providing score for competition.
• Fixed quite specific case of being able to found settlements in rival territory.
• Acquiring requested luxury resource was not increasing chance for Festival.
• Great Generals and Admirals could have secondary talent identical to first one.
• City-States could give mission to find new Natural Wonder even if all were already discovered.
• Carrack can no longer be upgraded to Caravel (Tropical subculture).
• Unfortunately at one point I have messed up abilities providing Cities multiple attacks per turn.

Gameplay

• Landmarks can now also provide: +4 city defense.
• Four effects that were still using (un)happiness chance roll were replaced. Rolls will now trigger only at turn start.
• Two new edicts available: first grants 3 free laws changes, second increases defense and maximum hitpoints of cities.
• Increased penalties for civilizations lagging behind in amount of principles. Being 3 principles behind now also reduces Meritocracy per turn.
• Noble privilige (legal action) will now also prevent cities from rioting for next 8 turns.
• Samurai will now only acquire combat strength from fighting military classes. Initial combat strength increased by 1.
• Using Scientific or Religious bonus to reform a belief will grant 8 Meritocracy.
• Legal Power contribution from Stabilization (league of nations' resolution) reduced from 1 to 0.5.
• Effects of governors' actions that trigger riots will also add 10 unhappiness to city (to somehow offset bonus happiness from riots).
• If there is no valid plot to claim player will gain 1 Settler progress when city reaches new cultural level.

New World (renaissance) scenario

• New optional game mode: First Corporations.
• Minor changes to Innovations.
• Meritocracy from New Opportunities (scenario effect) slightly tuned down.
• An effort to make Tropical subculture more in line with others was made.
• Improved function assigning cultures.
• Native cultures gain +1 Meritocracy per turn from Education (technology).

Interface

• Pre-declaration of war popup will now show remaining turns of "move troops away" promise.

Moddability and Performance

• Removed some obsolete functions.
• Pushed some players' integers to dll.
• Noticeable performance improvement to HomelandAI.

Victory Points

• First player to circumnavigate the globe in Renaissance Scenario receives 25 victory points.
• Points from Decadence were reduced for Industrial, European and Tropical nations.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v30) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.

Spoiler Changelog v30 :

Achievements

• Fixed one achievement check.
• Replaced obsolete achievement with the new one.

Ancient scenario

• Reinventing the wheel effect now provides only +15% chance for next innovation (instead 30%). However all players can now choose from one extra technology upon discovery bonus.
• Amount of innovations for each culture is reduced from 20 to 16. Merging less interesting ideas together to create more competitive pool.
• Empires now start with weaker armies, city-states and tribes with stronger ones.
• Tribes earn +10 meritocracy each time they fulfill an agenda.
• Adjusted 3 social developments (and readded Militaristic State which was accidentally disabled).
• Stone Works now requires Masonry. Temple requires Calendar. Calendar grants +2 faith per turn. Mining grants +3 gold per turn.
• Seeking Seeker's (resolution) rewards rescaled.
• Colony points decentralized (market from +3 to +1, lighthouse and caravansary from 0 to +1). Following technologies now grant +1 Colony progress per turn: Mining, Sailing and Optics.

Audio

• Added audio defines for units (on select/birth).

Fixed bugs

• When city will be acquired by a city-state all agents will be now properly removed from there.
• Fixed talent granting +5 max hitpoints per turn to city.
• Gifting city to a city-state through New Kingdom governor action was adding resistance to city.
• There was a case in which AI was able to repeat rejected proposal against league's rules.
• Fixed an issue with checking for rivers (Si-o-se-pol wonder).
• Option to turn conquered City-State into an ally is no longer available upon incorporating a City-State (diplomatic marriage effect).
• AI did not properly pay for creating Holy-Sites.

Game options

• New option - Locked positions - disables any script that changes starting locations. This option has priority over Position Shuffle.

Gameplay

• Settlements now require at least one adjacent passable land tile.
• If player has 2 or more unused Festival charges then he gains -1% chance to obtain next Festival per charge (to discourage manipulation of stock exchange).
• +1 Meritocracy gain from Edge of Extinction (at least one city, having unassigned governor and no valid place to assign) replaced with Fully Governed (at least one city, all cities are either capital or have placed governor).
• Base unhappiness chance on training units rescaled from 20% to 10/15/20/20/20%. In addition the most advanced training facility (building) in the scenario removes this base chance (barracks/armory/armory/military academy/military academy).
• If city tries to expand its border but there is no valid plot and settlers are disabled in scenario then player will receive 15 gold.
• New principle: Late bloomers - grants an Innovation once 75 turns of scenario pass.
• The calculations for determing migration and trade-route destination were changed. Instead of each city being an individual entity, now a target player is chosen first. Bias for player is equal to an average bias within cities plus the greatest one. Once a player is chosen, bias is used again to determine a singular city. It should be now easier for smaller empires to compete in charm and trade appeal. Some traits related to charm and trade appeal were rebalanced.
• Added some new great people's talents and bonuses on technology tree related to generating culture.
• Base unit supply slightly reduced.
• New edict option: obtain festival and reset chances for the next festival.
• Basic rewards from city-states' politics are now biased. +1 Iron, Horse or Oil biases reduced to 50%.
• Choosing an inspiration through cultural bonus now grants +10 Meritocracy.
• Seaports and Harbors are no longer priority building classes for an inspiration.
• Incorporating a City-State (legal action) with amount of cities greater than 1 requires a longer period of alliance.
• New source of cassus belli: when player creates Colony in neutral territory within 2-range of your city or settlement (not working if already at war, nor if player has also a city or settlement within 2-range, nor if creation of colony was through special triggers/abilities).
• New resolution: Territorial treaty - members cannot create Settlements or Colonies in territory if other major member has a Settlement or a City closer to it and within 9 range. Provides Votes based on number of cities, colonies, settlements and forts. Available only in ancient and renaissance scenario.

Simplification

• Removed corruption modifiers for Happiness, Legal Power, Spy Defense and Great People points. Adjusted related traits.
• Cities founded during scenario had some obscure delay in production and gold corruption. It is now replaced with basic +33% Production and +10% Food.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v31) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets II to version 9.

More articles were added gamepedia (pdf).

Spoiler Changelog v31 :

AI

• AI will be now more eager to conquer city-states in modern scenario before world war trigger.
• AI will be now more aware about turn limit when choosing city production.

Achievements

• 25 new achievements.

Ancient scenario

• Olympic Games resolution was tweaked and recoded to be more up to date (war rules). Rewards from competition were increased and will now be displayed in pop-up. What is more, multiple leagues can enact this resolution now.
• Total war resolution can now target an empire only if its occupy at least one city from league.

First corporations (optional mode)

• A neutral emergencies now appear every 5-8 turns. Rewards are based on the current actions (which are now limited to a very basic pool).
• Monopoly gain reduced significantly.

Fixed bugs

• Players could use Edict to adopt Agenda even if requirements for Agenda were not met (resulting in no reward).
• War on Schism (resolution) was not working.
• Mercenary promotion that was triggering resistance on attack could be assigned to ranged units (was not working at all in that case).
• Building production bonus from Mass production (innovation) was not working.
• AI was able to bypass rules and adopt Official Religion when being secular state.
• City could be infected and then trigger on turn effect of epidemy in same turn (based on order of players and cities). Added proper check to prevent it.
• Deep Roots (social development) was giving more legal power than intended.

Gameplay

• General and Admiral points from buildings are now split. Added admiral points to wonders that require water to be built. The most advanced "naval" building of scenario will yield 1 Admiral point per turn.​
• Buildings may now yield Authority. Added Authority to palace (+1) and some wonders.​
• Conscription (law) slightly redesigned.​
• Establishing a protection over a City-State will now also grant an instant boost of Influence (5x number of times City-State was bullied this scenario).​
• Bonuses affecting speed from routes (roads) were recalculated from 60 - x to 60 / x. It will allow stacking more bonuses without reaching an absurd movement speed almost instantly.​
• Reform goverment (legal action) cost from 4 to 5. Meritocracy boost decreased from 25 to 5.​
• Common Morale growth chances reduced a bit (during Peace, on turn, on Festival start, Omen, goody huts).​
• Effects that were reducing Laws Influence of rivals were reworked.​
• Calculations of determining the most popular Laws' options were reworked. There is now a threshold for player's options to be considered at all. Player with the greatest amount of laws influence needs at least 1% of global influence, second 2%, third 3%... and so on. What is more the percent of global influence will also work as modifier for final influence impact (11% results in 1.11x multiplier). Shortly those changes will increase an impact of players with the greatest amount of Laws Influence and balance out the mechanic for any amount of players in game.​
• Reduced maximum epidemy spreads from one city per turn.​

Happiness

• Unhappiness chance from number of cities removed.
• Penalty from low national unity from <up to -12% happiness chance> to <up to +24% unhappiness chance>.
• Minimum happiness chance for luxury resource is reduced from 3% to 1%. However the calculations for drop are now much more complicated (used to be linear 33%). For example luxury is much less likely to drop from 3% to 2% than from 9% to 8%.
• Losing a luxury your citizens were accustomed to now reduces happiness chance for up to 4 turns (-4%, -3%, -2%, -1% if luxury was yielding minimum happiness chance already).
• Decadence no longer reduces happiness chance. It is now a factor equal to number of luxury resources that yield minimum happiness chance. It is used mostly for Victory points.
• Affected traits reworked.

Historiography

• Added text for the last 6 remaining templar buildings.​
• Added text for 10 world wonders.​
• Added text for moving a legal capital.​
• Added text for foreign puppet (governors related).​
• Improved text for Exile.​
• Added text for Relics.​

Industrial Scenario

• Yields from National Parks were increased.​
• (Interface) Big Game mode will still display info about competition even after it ends or after player was eliminated.​

Inspirations

• General and Admiral points are now split into two options. Added new options: Authority, Production and Culture.​
• Choice is now limited to 3 random options (down from 4).​
• On scenario conversions inspirations will be replaced with new one if yield or buildingclass is obsolete.​

Medieval Scenario

• Minor adjustments to 4 social developments.​
• New system: Relics (see below).​
• Minor adjustments to buildings, innovations and technologies.​
• Adjusted initial military might across culture types.​
• Reduced General and Admiral's bonuses' cost per threshold from 100 to 80.​
• Reduced starting scientific bonus's cost by 1 threshold for all cultures.​

Modern Scenario

• Owned uranium is now passively contributing towards Nuclear Project (once unlocked) with 1 gold rate each per turn.

Promotions

• Support/assignable/trainable promotions are now a new class with a standardized database. They consist of Battering Ram, Siege Tower (medieval) and Military Engineers (ideology) and share a common behaviour. Each unit is now limited to 1 support promotion. Added 4 new support promotions for medieval era: Scout, Supply Chart, Bannerman and First Aid tent.
• Great General and Admiral abilities were rechecked. Removed/replaced ones that were either too civilian, overcomplicated (various effect based on unit combat type) or too random.

Relics

• Relics are collectible in Medieval scenario.
• Holy Sites have 1 relic slot. Holy Cities have 1 relic slot for every religion. Starting capitals of major players receive 1 extra relic slot at scenario start.
• Relics create unique sets (2-5 pieces per set). Rewards increase as player gathers more set pieces.
• At the end of 21 turn the first "relic solution" triggers. Players that gathered the most relic points in their group (4-6 players large) receive a new relic and their points are reset. If they have no empty slot, they are ignored and gain 1 relic slot in capital city instead. Following solutions happen randomly in 7-10 turns. Last solution trigger before turn 91.
• Common sources of relic points are: visiting ancient ruins (10 points), being a part of successful pilgrimage (10 points) and conversion bonus from art periods (equal to Great People points earned).
• Relics can be also obtained in Ancient Ruins (low chance), Auction House (special offer) and through other special means.
• Players can send a relic exchange offer to other player not at war with. One offer can be make each 10 turns. Successful relic exchange grants 5 Meritocracy to both players.
• System debuts with 25 relic sets and 88 pieces.

Scenario Generation/Conversion

• Players that ended scenario with high authority will be more likely to start next scenario with greater amount of palaces' upgrades.
• Initial gold from Trade-Routes tuned down.

Victory points

• On turn points will not trigger for dead players from now on.
• Pagan culture: reduced points from culture generated, faith generated and ancient ruins visited.

Spoiler Development notes :

• First big change is that I will attach dev notes to update post from now on. I will also try to be more elaborate.

With version 31 I have finished a revamp of scenarios 1 by 1 and concluded year 2024.
New scenario-specific mechanics were introduced: relics (medieval), corporations (renaissance) and great game (industrial).
It is too early to tell if relics were successful (introduced in v31), however I am quite happy with a great game and have plans to further improve corporations by:

• Allowing any player with Astronomy to establish their own corporation.
• Add more neutral emergencies.

In previous year I have changed my playtesting patterns from 3 full games to 1 full game and multiple repeatable single scenario games. It helped me to determine me weak points of each scenario (otherwise bland experience of one scenario could be dilluted by an entire game).

• I will continue playtesting by 2 full games and 5 times of a single scenario for each update. (renaissance for v32)

2025
Long time ago I was planning a futuristic scenario however those plans were abandoned and nothing changed. The project will end with 5 scenarios.

Another simple feature I was thinking about, quite popular in board games for some time, was an event system. Unfortunately relics (the most ambitious system of 2024) turned out to be more challenging to me than I anticipated. It may be that I no longer possess a spark to create content which require a lot of unique and interesting gameplay (+graphics). Events as a concept was already delayed from 2024 to 2025, and right now I want to keep positive and say that maybe in 2025 it will see some action. It will be made as an optional content (background images are quite heavy) and probably start with a single era (medieval). For 1-3 events to trigger each game, I would need a pool of about 20 generic events per scenario.

I started writing with what I will most likely not to do. Now let's focus on the flawed existing mechanics.
Corruption mechanic (meritocracy) is one of the few mechanics where I am unable to get the math just right. It will be overhauled:

• It will be no longer tied to Principles (I think the issue lies here). Principles will receive a balance overhaul.
• Noble priviliges (legal action) will also not affect Meritocracy (an extra -1 per turn was too powerful).
• In time I hope to create a meaningful math behind corruption system (and remove "win-more" feel).

Another system I was never too proud of is Laws (+Codex). I believe it is time to make it right, and simple.

• Rewards will be based on global rank instead of Codex strength.
• Laws that apply to only limited amount of players will be either removed or will not count towards Codex strength.
• I will continue work started in v31 to make Laws Influence a more balanced and impactful.

I have also some plans for visuals and interface:

• Following social developments I would like most Innovation (obviously innovations in modern era that apply to same unitclass will keep the same icons) to have an unique icon.
• I was eliminated recently. I know that the game progress further, that my cities may even rebel, however there was no information about that. A popup will be made,
• A popup for enhancing religion (it should be marked as a more important event).
• I would like peace deals to display informaton about how many Forts, Holy-Sites, Colonies will return to each player.

There is obviously more minor things I have already on my list. For example:

• Right now there is a funny situation that when you declare war that triggers defensive pacts, you are locked for X turns at war with other players, but not a target. Therefore from v32 if war triggered any defensive pact a temporary war-lock will be applied to it as well.
• New game option - Inherited wars - scenarios may start with an on-going wars.
• I had also examined some data and I will try to improve city-states' missions that yield very little gratitude on average.

Finally, the most important news, I am still excited for new versions therefore I am positive to continue with 2-3 updates per year.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v32) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires newly released Assets III (version 1).

More articles were added gamepedia (pdf).

Spoiler Changelog v32 :

AI

• Default handicaps increased from 75% to 80% (this is a nerf for AI).
• Slightly rebalanced dynamic AI handicap.
• AI will now overvalue strategic resources during Industrial Hoarders competition.
• AI handling of workboats was improved.

Fixed bugs

• City-states were not reacting to warmongering as long as player didn't have an ability that should make them ignore player's warmongering (true/false mixed). In addition a negative influence anchor from warmongering will now be displayed in anchor's tooltip. (Kudos to Danwar for reporting)
• Settlements and Archaeologists had neither CombatClass nor were classified as Civilians. Attacking them with combat animations on was causing a crash. Those units are now both classified as melee. (Thanks again to Danwar for reporting)
• Supporting neutral emergencies could lock incorrect amount of monopoly.
• Some icons on tech tree were not being displayed properly.
• Changing AI handicaps mid game was not working. Display was also not updating correctly.
• Data related to which beliefs are available during scenario was not properly updating on scenario conversion (it allowed founder beliefs in industrial scenario).
• Science bonus from Treasure Voyages (innovation) was not working.
• Self-improvement (development) was increasing Food instead Production.

Game Options

• New game option: Inherited Wars. Players may start at war with other major civilizations (random peace lock is placed, up to 20 turns).

Gameplay

• If war triggered any defensive pact then peace option will be locked for 15 turns.
• Rebel units now have 5% chance to loose rebel status each turn if player controls a city they rebelled within.
• Noble privilege is now an edict's option. Grants +5 happiness in all cities, prevents cities from starting riots in next 5 turns and reduces Meritocracy by 20. Can be used only once. Requires player to have at least 50 meritocracy. Players that used noble privilege have -2 authority. Players may start scenario with noble privilege already used.
• Crusade (league project) can now only target players that occupy a city of player who is a member of league or follows league's official religion. This proposal has also 20 turns of cooldown (effectively cannot be proposed twice in a row).
• Following city-states' missions were scoring very low gratitude on average and were adjusted: Luxury Resource, Construct Buildings, Construct Workboats, Expand territory, Conquer, Unite Nation.
• Morale from war weariness/peace is now based on global situation (comparision between players). Calculations are based on number of attacks made in game (attacks in last turn are multiplied by 5).
• Grand Pilgrimage (settler option) grants now only 150 pilgrim points (down from 250).
• Pagans received an unique versions of Walls, Barracks, Swordsman and Medieval Bowman.
• Minor balance to social developments and ideologies.

Laws and Codex

• Laws are now restricted to scenarios instead to culture types. Removed Heretical Battleground law (utility moved to religious principle).
• Simplified calculation of codices' strengths.
• Players are now ranked based on their codex's strength. All rewards based on codex's strength are now based on codex's rank. For example authority from codex is now: +2 (first place), +1 (second and third place), 0 (others). It also applies to related unique traits.
• Codex Influence renamed to Jurisdiction. It is now a "flat yield" (% dropped from descriptions).
• Sources of Jurisdiction rebalanced.

Meritocracy and Principles

• Principles are no longer tied to Meritocracy system (no longer reduces Meritocracy per turn). Their utility shifted primarily to being an unchangeable laws that defines your governance.
• Religious principles now define penalty from heretical pressure. Instead of providing new option for religious bonus, they now enhance Great Work reward.
• Principle legal cost reduced from 5 to 3. Adopting new principle boosts meritocracy by 3 (down from 5).
• Penalties for lagging behind in number of principles reduced (-1 charm and 0.5% unhappiness chance per principle). Civilizations with the greatest amount of principles gain +1 Authority.
• Anarchy grants only 3 meritocracy per turn (down from 5).
• Meritocracy from technologies is now limited to individual scenarios (therefore mostly 0-1 values). Scenarios have now specific base values of meritocracy drop per turn (-1/2/2/2/2).
• Meritocracy anchor removed. Related traits either removed or reworked.

New World scenario

• Amount of initial religions is now limited to 10 or ~60% of major players, whichever is smaller (to prevent an extreme variations).
• New edict option: Support corporation. Grants 200 Monopoly. Available only if player has a corporation.
• Reduced Great People and Settler points generation for colonialists.
• (Corporations) After discovering astronomy native cultures can establish corporations with legal action, emergency or special offer in auction house.
• (Corporations) Seven new neutral emergencies.
• The way global piracy spawns extra barbarian units was simplified (modifier display % growth per turn, each 100% generated spawns 1 unit).

Victory points

• Both Internet and Polio vaccines have their points rescaled from static (7.5) points to (10/8/6/4/2) points per 100 gold contributed. It drops every 500 gold. It balances out extreme contributions.

Visuals and Interface

• Top panel will show correct turn when game is autoprocessing after human player's elimination.
• Added 64 new unique innovation icons.

Spoiler Development notes :

I have successfully moved project on newer computer. At this point assets II were big enough to be left behind. Therefore small assets III should guarantee quick updates for several years.

About recent systems. First corporations are in a good state, they got some focus in this update. I have planned minor balance to rewards and interface improvements for Great Game. For Relics I will definitely apply balance to individual piecies. Relics right now looks the worst (which is unfortunately since it is the only non-optional system). However I hope that in time they will click in.

I am happy with the main goals of v32: Codex and Meritocracy. I believe that both systems gained a good direction.

Let's talk about next update goals.

• City-states' quests (politics)

After Codex/Meritocracy success I decided to focus on another existing system. City-states' quests are unfortunately hard to balance due to the shifting amount of city-states that can be present in game. I had some plans to limit participating major players to X closest ones (which would create global spheres of interests) however I decided against it.
I want to make checkbox which will allow player to ignore individual city-state's politics (both notifications and alerts).
Politics are split in three subquests: politics, mission and project. The changes will focus on politics subquest. It will be now static for a city-state (instead randomly assigned each time) - therefore player will be more able to predict his natural allies.
Major players will be able to choose new principle that reflects those politics (aka establish their own policy) - it will grant minor gratitude if city-state has currently the same politics.
What is more, city-states will follow politics chosen by a major player if they were forced to adopt his codex.
Finally, governors will also choose their favoured politics (further gratitude source and a cause for conflict).

The system will require 6+ distinct and balanced politics, present in all five scenarios.

• AI

I would like to push some hardcoded AI flavours to the base game flavours system which would link them to individual leaders. I hope to achieve some familiarity: for example Gandhi likes his palaces, Elizabeth is crazy about codex.
It would be also great if I manage to make AI do tactical moves first (attacks) and then diplomacy (request peace). Something human players often do.

Finally I would like players to be able to choose from 3 wonders upon winning a race project. The concept is old but I never felt like writing logic for AI for that.

• Other goals

I have listed numerous interface improvements. There will be balance overhaul of Manufactories' traits. Spy initial amount/acquisition will be a bit standardized.
Governors will receive new diplomatic actions. I have also noticed that initial vision (revealed plots) in renaissance scenario could be better.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v33) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.

Updated gamepedia (pdf).

Spoiler Changelog v33 :

AI

• AI should prioritize conquering city-states even more during an early stages of modern scenario.
• AI flavours: Legal, Authority, Disruptive, Presence were pushed to database. Leaders should act more static.
• Some AI leaders will now do units' movement before diplomacy (ex. peace offer).

City-States

• (Interface) Added an extra status text for missions: 'Keep Commander alive', 'Maintain an Alliance'.
• Missions asking for increasing a specific yield's output now rewards from generating X yield (science, culture or faith).
• There is a small chance (1-5% based on personality, and if city-state has a leader) that city-state will declare war on major player bullying for gold (all positive influence is lost, war is locked for 20 turns).

Espionage

• Amount of starting agents rebalanced.
• Players can purchase only 1 agent with gold (for modern scenario it is always 0). Players may start with this option already used (+1 starting agent).
• New legal action - Establish Spy Network. Costs 2/2/3/3/3 Legal Power (based on scenario). Acquires new Agent. Can be used only once in scenario. Players may start with this option already used (+1 starting agent).

Fixed bugs

• Script spawning extra naval barbarian units (frigates, privateers) was incorrectly triggering in all scenarios. (Kudos to cjprince for reporting.) Manual fix:

Go to ...Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Scenario Generator (v 32)\GameInit\ITGSG_Pirates.lua
Go to line 176
Change:
Code:
gT.Globals.PirateSpawning = gT.Globals.PirateSpawning + 25;
to
Code:
gT.Globals.PirateSpawning = gT.Globals.PirateSpawning + iGrowth;

• Human player could abuse interface to use one Settler charge "twice" (from +1 to -1 charges). (Kudos to cjprince for reporting.)
• There was a chance that Agents assigned to assassination would carry over their missions even when great person is already dead.
• Processes were triggering even for 0 production (therefore some rewards like +2 cultural presence from Cultural Heritage were still applied even if city couldn't work due to epidemy or resistance). (Kudos to cjprince for reporting.)
• Migrations used incorrect method for food calculation (it could lead to food overflow).

Game options

• (New) Diversified Starting Army - An extra scripting to reduce chance of extreme variations in which players start with army consisted mostly of one unit type.
• (New) Human - Ideological leader - Upon conversion into modern scenario human player(s) will be prioritized to keep their ideologies.

Gameplay

• Reform Belief now grants 5 meritocracy (down from 8).
• Modernize Unit (legal action) cost from 4 to 3.
• Embargoes now grant a static +3 unifying presence instead -3% dividing presence.
• New edict option: Sphere of Interest. Increases maximum limit of protectorates by 1. Must be already at the limit of protectorates.
• Gold cost of upgrading units slightly reduced.
• Law about upgrading units removed. Its rewards are now included in principles (innovation slot).
• Unpillaged colonies now grant 1 gold, forts and citadels 1 great general progress, feitorias 1 great admiral progress.
• Governments' simplification: Monarchy: +3% happiness, Despotism: +2 supply.
• Manufactories' traits were revisited and slightly rebalanced.

Light of Hope scenario

• Dynamite now longer grants +100% coal and iron sources. It is now allowing to exchange 50 iron or horse for 10 coal.
• (Great Game) No longer rewards an extra gold modifier from trade-routes.

New World scenario

• Unit supply for native culture types reduced.
• Native cultures now gain +1 meritocracy with Banking (instead Education).
• Improved script for assigning initial vision.

The Trial scenario

• Great Work reward option (from religious and cultural bonuses) is now granting +80 relic progress (or a relic slot in a random city if you have no available slots).
• Nomads (subculture type) will not be assigned randomly to player if there is less than 4 major players on his starting continent.

Scenario generation

• Minimum distance between ancient ruins is now defined for individual scenarios (7/6/5/-/-) instead of static 5.
• Initial colonies will not be spawn within working radius of owner (with an exception of Oil in modern scenario). Amount of initial colonies is now defined for each scenario instead of a static value.

User interface

• List of players in diplo corner is now sorted alphabetically.
• Other minor adjustments.
• Fixes/improvements for Hall of Fame.

Spoiler Development notes :

This version was rushed due to Pirates' bug.

I have still managed to rebalance starting number of Spies, implement AI and UI changes.
Let's discuss what's planned for v34.

Meritocracy
After collecting some data on average values I believe the system can be "buffed", mostly in Medieval and Renaissance scenarios. I plan to introduce some Small vs Big rewards (to also combat "win more" feel of the mechanic):

• +1 Meritocracy after killing X units from bigger civilizations.
• +X Meritocracy after catching spy from bigger civilization.
• +X Meritocracy upon notable conquest of city from bigger civilization.
• +1 Meritocracy per bigger rival upon winning wonder race.

Where bigger civilization will be purely defined by number of cities. That's a general concept, maybe it will be expanded to technologies/great people/art styles or shrinked. We will see. What is more I am thinking about capping max negative meritocracy from reign duration to 3 (reached at 60th turn). It would technically boost all players by ~20 meritocracy after 80th turn.
It requires testing.

Wonders
It was planned for v33. Players will have a choice from 3 wonders upon victory. I hope to implement it for at least Industrial scenario.

I have some neat quality of life ideas queued, like setting minimum price in Auction House for auto-management or an option to block end-turn button if spy is idle.
I will also continue on adding unique icons for all innovations, I hope to achieve at least 64 icons per update ratio.

What is more likely not gonna happen in v34:
My big plans for city-states' politics rework. Some minor work was already done in v33 and I hope that v34 will allow me to focus on it in v35.

 

[LastSword]

New version (v34) is available in downloads and on steam workshop.
It also requires updating Assets III to version 2.

Updated gamepedia (pdf).

Spoiler Changelog v34 :

Fixed bugs

• Game option (Diversified Starting Army) was crashing the scenario generation (on start of modern era). Manual fix: either play with this option unchecked or:
  Code:
  Go to ...Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Scenario Generator (v 33)\GameInit\ITGSG_Ideologies.lua<br>Go to line 494<br>Change:<br>if PreGame.GetGameOption("GAMEOPTION_ITG_DIVERSIFIED_STARTING_ARMY") == 1 then<br>to:<br>if false then
• Game option (Human - Ideological leader) was not working.
• Plausible crash on scenario generation caused by map scripts. Manual fix:
  Code:
  Go to ...Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Scenario Generator (v 33)\GameInit\ITGSG_MapExtraScripts.lua<br>Go to line 130<br>Change:<br>if jPlot:GetTerrainType() == tOcean then<br>to:<br>if jPlot and (jPlot:GetTerrainType() == tOcean) then
• Fixed some images being in incorrect format (darker than original file).
• Effects that grant mininum yield from city plots (like Shwedagon Pagoda) should now properly update city yield's values instantly.
• City-States' mission could ask for the same luxury resource twice (instead 2 different ones as it supposed to be).
• Some relic abilities were not properly removed upon end of scenario.
• Fixed some abilities not properly affecting yields from ancient ruins.
• City's faith tooltip was not displaying faith from specialists.
• Fixed '+1 science from libraries' talent being available in modern scenario (where libraries are no longer build).
• Fixed Work Injury Insurance (ideology tenet) messing up work system.
• Academic Freedom (tenet) was not providing extra talent options for great people.
• Military engineering (tenet) was not treating other units as roads.

Game options

• Human - Ideological leader was replaced with new option: Random Ideological Leaders.
• New game option (Merged Ideologies): Members will no longer share all ideologies of the leader in modern scenario. They will keep part of their ideologies from industrial scenario.

Gameplay

• Anti-tank gun buffed.
• Aircraft damage against cities and damaged units buffed (by reducing penalty values).
• -2 votes for 16 turns if an agent is caught targeting other member (only non-scripted leagues).
• Total war resolutions in modern scenario will now appear in queued random sequences.
• Relic exchange can now be enforced by leagues' votes (rules similar to current league actions).
• Last relics' solution can now happen at turn 95 (from 90).
• Players cannot become exiles during World at War (domination mode).
• Minor adjustments to ratings of Stock Exchange.
• Citadels' combat strength buffed across all scenarios.
• Modern innovations were revisited (some less interesting unitclass-based ones were enhanced with new abilities).
• Switched some budget modifiers to a raw budget boosts (while adding new sources of raw budget boosts) - it should balance out weak and strong civilizations.
• Second Wave (settler reward options) was rescaled/nerfed.
• Soldiers' pay (law) values' changed.
• Minor changes to buildings in modern scenario (mostly rebalanced trade appeal and colony points).

Governors

• Governors may now choose their favourite city-state (hidden personality trait affecting their diplomatic actions).
• New diplomatic action: Corruption.

Meritocracy

• Added several sources of meritocracy when small civilization is fighting against bigger civilization (per x unit killed, on spy caught, on notable conquest, on league action taken, during art period if generated more great works). Values are dependent on scenarios.
• Negative meritocracy from reign duration is now capped at -3.
• Base Meritocracy drop in medieval scenario changed from -2 to -1.
• Meritocracy from relic exchange reduced from 5 to 2.
• Obtaining Colony (through threshold) now grants 4/4/4/3/2 meritocracy (instead static 4).
• Adopting secular state now grants 10 meritocracy (instead 20).

UI/UX

• Minimum price for automatic auction house offer can be now set.
• An option to block turns if there is an idle agent.
• In modern era player can nickname ideological leagues (replaces an acronym) in domination/league/social policies panels.
• Various interface improvements.
• Added font icons for units, class and combined XP.
• Added 64 new icons for innovations.
• Removed some obsolete info.

Wonders

• Winner of wonder race will now choose a wonder from 3 options.
• Minor overhaul of wonders.

Spoiler Development notes :

What was done?
Icons for innovations are almost done (should take 1-2 updates to finish).

Managed to rebalance meritocracy. Based on my limited data I would like to boost meritocracy in renaissance scenario in next update.

Wonders are now designable from 3 options in all valid scenarios. There was already a minor rebalance, however more is planned in next update. Unfortunately wonders' pool is now in need of serious balance, to remove instant and never picks.

What is gonna be done?
Start of city-states' politics overhaul. The issue is those competitions are largely ignorable (even I focus only on mission/project), most often rewarding the biggest players and may be a little dated (very old mechanism). I would like it to be:
a) More static. Once city-state will announce first politics it will stick to it for the rest of scenario.
b) More predictable. Interface will display the average score player achieved in the same politics this scenario.
c) More clear. Better description of how to earn good score. Rebalance of individual politics.

I would like to enhance the most basic governor actions with low chance (~5%) outcomes and an extra negative effect on reject. For example: patronize art will make every great writer, artist, musician generate 1 unhappiness in the city they are currently residing if rejected. An unlikely revolt/failure on accepting will have minor chance to lynch artists, loose % of stored art points, generate unhappiness across empire and make governor loose face/power. It will be a slow process, I would like to do 2-3 actions per update.
What is more I will trim too many results from a single outcome (to smooth up reading interface).

A lot of minor yet interesting things:
-I would like to cache "IsCityStateAfraid" at the turn start. There is no point in updating it each time an unit moves. Overall I will go through entire UnitSetXY and maybe save some minutes from processing.
-Founding religion will allow to choose founder belief from some limited options (at least in ancient scenario).
-More fluent unlocking of railroads (dynamite will now allow making X extra railroads a turn). Therefore great people or related wonder may also instantly unlock railroads. It will even allow a spread on technology tree (Industrialization).
-Some better rules surrounding merging leagues.
-An option to disable AI issuing resource trade deals (for smoother turn processing).
-And more minor nitpicking.

Thanks for reading, have fun.