Old World Quick Questions and answers (and FAQ)

[FluffybunnyMohawk]

There is no innate defensive bonus for units or cities on hills. They provide ranged units with an extra tile of range and units with the Highlander promotion will get extra attack and defence strength while standing on hills.

 

[user330977]

Once the game is finished receiving updates and expansions, can I delete the Epic game store but keep Old World on my PC?

Related to the above, is there a way to play Old World by completely bypassing the Epic launcher, similar to how GoG allows me to play games?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[Solver]

Yes, you can already ignore Epic except for updates. Double click the games exe file and it will run without the Epic launcher, no additional magic required.

Also, as a matter of convenience, I would recommend installing the Heroic Games Launcher. It's an alternative client for Epic which fixes every annoyance with the official launcher.

 

[user330977]

That's great, but will the game run if Epic is removed from my system? I want to do some pruning on my computer and really want to delete Epic. Old World is the only game I use it for.

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[Solver]

It will run but obviously not update. The bigger problem is that the game will forget what DLCs you own after a week, you need to run Epic to restore that - I'd love to avoid that limitation but it doesn't really seem feasible.

 

[user330977]

Man, what a shame. How does the game forget what DLCs I own? Are they not downloaded onto my system and activated when I load the game?

Does this limitation also exist for GoG downloads?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[Solver]

Normally there's no such thing as permanent activation at all. What the platforms want the game to do is to check which DLCs you own every time the game starts. We want to be more flexible and allow play without the launcher, so we added an additional feature for the game to remember your DLCs, regardless of whether the launcher is used. But that memory needs a time limit because otherwise it'd be possible to get permanent access to DLCs by buying and immediately refunding. So our implementation is the best I could figure out to be friendly to players (allowing them to play offline and/or to play with the launcher) while still requiring DLCs to actually be purchased.

GOG enables a better solution so there's never a need to use their launcher, I believe you're not even required to ever download it.

 

[user330977]

What does the 1d10, 1d8 mean when hovering over a depleted resource? How does this tell me when it will return?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[PiR]

1 chance over 10 to respawn every turn?

 

[Solver]

D&D terminology, 1d8 is rolling an 8-sided die, etc. So the 1d10 is a chance 10% per turn and 1d8 is 12.5% per turn.

 

[user330977]

Interesting. Why go with the D&D method? Wouldn't "10% per turn to respawn" be clearer?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[Solver]

I'm not sure! Probably because we're all such nerds that 1d8 is so natural to us that it didn't really occur it may be confusing. I'll take a look at where we actually use these terms.

 

[PiR]

So that they can sell the game under the category RPG.

 

[user330977]

Is the "history of the old world" text given when loading a game actually a rough simulation of what's happening whilst the game loads, or just flavour text based on the civilisations in game?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

 

[Dale]

Is the "history of the old world" text given when loading a game actually a rough simulation of what's happening whilst the game loads, or just flavour text based on the civilisations in game?

Kind regards,
Ita Bear

Purely flavour text, but does refer to actual nation/tribes that will appear in the game.

 

[jguy100]

Purely flavour text, but does refer to actual nation/tribes that will appear in the game.

Is there a way to view this text again after the game is started? The game loads so quickly I don't have time to read it!

 

[Solver]

It's available in the timeline screen, as it's a (fictional) part of the timeline.

 

[PiR]

The game loads so quickly I don't have time to read it!

Just remove some RAM from your computer and it should fix this issue.

 

[Shirotora Kenshin]

Just remove some RAM from your computer and it should fix this issue.

Thumbs up for that one!

 

[user330977]

Do the devs at Mohawk HQ know which events players get most often and how people play? Are there any hyper-rare, super-specific events that you think have barely been discovered yet? Can you tell us some of the rare events in-game?