Hey all,
New release inbound. Mostly a bunch of bugfixes, but contains some balance changes to event and City-State quest probabilities. Proposals regarding these two gameplay elements are welcome in the next VP Congress session.
Special thanks to @axatin, @seroperson, @Hinin and IanE9 for their help in making this happen!
Changelog:
Link: https://github.com/LoneGazebo/Commu...wnload/Release-3.10.14/Vox.Populi.3.10.14.exe
Online as of 8:50 AM CST. Not savegame compatible.
New release inbound. Mostly a bunch of bugfixes, but contains some balance changes to event and City-State quest probabilities. Proposals regarding these two gameplay elements are welcome in the next VP Congress session.
Special thanks to @axatin, @seroperson, @Hinin and IanE9 for their help in making this happen!
Changelog:
Code:
General
- Some C4DF features are now available in Community Patch Only: the AI giving gifts, share opinion requests, move troops requests
Thanks axatin!
- Did a major rework of the game's pseudo RNG (thanks IanE9 for a lot of help with this!)
A variety of functions are added to make generating random numbers much less of a hassle
The map seed is now used to randomize RNG calls from game to game
Greatly improved randomization in many areas of the code
City production, tech, policy, belief choices now use the pseudo RNG instead of JonRandNum functions
Removed instances where randomness wasn't applied in multiplayer, as it should now be multiplayer compatible
- Performance improvements
- Spy points threshold is now customizable
- DLL support for L. Vern's Not for Sale modmod
- Numerous cleanups to the code, including removing deprecated code/unused memory and making the DLL more readable
- The removed IsHasTradeAgreement function now generates a special message in Lua.log telling people they have an incompatible UI when called
Balance
Ancient Ruins
- In addition to scouts, any unit which gains XP from revealing tiles can now collect them
City-States
Quests
- Removed VP-added restriction where City-States were not able to give a quest to a player if any other CS had given the player that quest type
This made quest probabilities essentially meaningless, prevented some City-States from generating quests, and was generally too same-y
- Replaced it with a new restriction where they cannot give identical quests of the same type
So for example, two quests to build Stonehenge are out
But a quest to build Stonehenge and a quest to build Pyramids are in
Find Natural Wonder quest is an exception to this, only one instance can be given to a player at once
- Rebalanced the probabilities of all quests based on a City-State's personality and trait
Special thanks to Hinin for a lot of work on this
- Spy on Major quest now randomly asks for 1, 2, or 3 missions (rather than 1, 1, or 2)
Influence Decay
- Removed extra Influence decay when at 50 or less Influence above resting point
- Restored Siam meeting Influence to 40 from 42 as a result of this change being removed
- Extra Influence decay is now -0.02 per point of Influence above 50 over resting point, until the extra -1 is reached at 100
At 100+, it will use the exponential decay as usual
Espionage
- Spy kill and identify chances on mission completion are now based on the results of two separate random rolls, not the same roll
Events
- Removed the weird event probability system which I didn't even understand and replaced it with three random steps:
1 - Randomly roll 1 to 100 to see if any event is allowed for this city/player (currently a 100% chance, but can be customized with newly-added defines).
2 - For each event, roll 1 to 100 and compare it to the event's % chance to happen. If <= the chance, it can be selected this turn.
3 - Make a weighted choice out of the random events that were selected for this turn.
The aim is to allow for a little more variety in event choices, although the small number of events makes that difficult.
When the global event cooldown is active, valid events that aren't on individual cooldown will continue to increase in probability over time.
Instant Yields
- GAP from kills from promotions now counts as an instant yield
AI
- AI's logic for accepting demands is now greatly improved
AI will now use the same logic for humans and other AIs
Removed randomness and janky Firaxis code - now a fixed value scaling with game progress, AI's Boldness flavor, and the perceived threat posed by the enemy
Vassal AIs will now rebuff demands if they feel like their master is able and willing to protect them from the threat
All AIs will now rebuff demands if the demander is unable to declare war on them
- Tactical AI improvements, including an attempt to reduce memory consumption
- Fixed an issue causing erratic Diplomacy AI behavior, especially with regard to friend choices
- Slight improvement to city governor
UI
- Renamed City-State personalities to something more fitting
Friendly -> Affable
Neutral -> Pragmatic
Hostile -> Recluse (changed to Reclusive in 3.10.1)
Irrational -> Enigmatic
- Hid items that the AI will never accept in demands/help requests from the UI when demanding/requesting (such as Cities, Third Party War, and in the case of demands, Gold and Techs)
- Text fixes
Bugfixes
- Multiplayer desync fixes by seroperson, and actually fixed the invisible yields bug this time
- Fixed longstanding bug where no City-States were being assigned the Irrational personality due to a bug in the RNG
Apparently this might have been intentional - if so, then I'm bringing them back (they actually have a purpose now due to the new probability system - they don't have a personality bias towards quests)
- Fixed crash when playing with City-States on non-standard gamespeeds
- Fixed another bug with the Build X Buildings quest
- Fixed an Unhappiness bug in Community Patch only
- Fixed Make Peace button not being blacked out in vassal leader dialogue screen
- Fixed lost capital notification listing the incorrect leading player
- Fixed numerous issues with Deal AI
- Fixed choose trade route/home city popup not closing when unusable in some cases
- Fixed groups of airplanes continuing to attack a city with 0 HP left
- Fixed naval units not withdrawing properly
- Fixed unusual Influence gain amounts when liberating a City-State
- Fixed AI founding cities on top of Antiquity Sites they can see (also won't recommend doing so anymore)
- Fixed bug causing Barbarians to take damage near undefended cities without actually stealing from them, or sit around doing nothing
- Fixed War Weariness decaying by more than half in a turn upon signing a Peace Treaty (intended to be half only, not half plus extra)
- Fixed a potential issue with AI early game expansion
- Fixed event probabilities not being properly reset for global events
- Fixed Aggressive Mode AIs being less opportunistic about their aggression than intended
- Fixed Rebellion quest checking the City-State's public opinion unhappiness rather than their ally
- Hopefully fixed an issue where units could be placed on mountains at game start
- Hopefully fixed policies which give free buildings giving more than intended
- Misc. other bugfixesLink: https://github.com/LoneGazebo/Commu...wnload/Release-3.10.14/Vox.Populi.3.10.14.exe
Online as of 8:50 AM CST. Not savegame compatible.
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