Old World upate #141

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New patch is out https://mohawkgames.com/2025/11/26/old-world-update-141/ .

Headline changes

• Can no longer hire Barbarian units, upgrading hired Tribal units now costs Money as well as Training
• Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out
• Units with Leader Generals are immune to control effects

Design

• Can no longer hire Barbarian units (affects Carthage and Orator leaders)
• Added Tribal unit upgrade cost of money equal to its upgrade cost in training
• Units with Leader Generals are immune to Stun, Panic, Enlistment, Disarm and Immobilization (Grappler)
• Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out
• Citrus is now a luxury resource
• Caravans can’t spawn on a tile with a Caravan, although they can still occupy the same tile as one when moving
• Increased Prosperous trait money from 5/10 per culture level to 8/16
• Halved Intelligent trait science output
• Assassination attempts that fail have a chance to avoid negative consequences
• Enlisting a unit replaces any existing cooldown by the enlisted cooldown
• Capturing city timer no longer counts back up when city is left vacant
• Cities in the capturing state no longer go to Anarchy if no capturing progress has been made
• Units can pass through capturable cities without capturing them as long as they don’t stop inside
• Changing the Succession Law no longer results in characters becoming Bypassed and suffering opinion penalties
• The cost to change the Succession Law now starts at 400 civics and increases at 100 civics per switch
• Judge leaders can change the Succession Law for 100 civics as per other laws
• Stunned units no longer counterattack
• Characters are more likely to get a strength or weakness before reaching adulthood
• In 2 team MP games, leaders initial strength is now mirrored when set randomly
• Ocean depth tiles are safe from Tsunami’s (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• Memory management cleanup, fixed more memory leaks
• Better AI improvement selection, improvement unit movement decisions after founding a city
• Improved AI worker order efficiency and management
• Damaged workers heal more often
• Existing improvements get replaced less often
• AI places less emphasis on building Garrisons early
• AI anchoring improvements
• AI tries harder to have an up-to-date army
• Improved AI attack planning to reduce the effect of counterattacks
• AI builds more strongholds, citadels and unique units
• AI now uses units with disarm effect early, so that later attacks can take advantage of it
• Tribe placement improvements on map generation
• Automated workers now take into account road pings
• ModManager improvements

UI

• Camera no longer pans to failed unit movement if instant unit movement is turned on, or in Network games
• City screen button tooltip now differentiates between increasing and decreasing happiness
• Added “Polearm” instead of “Rout” to combat preview, to make it clear when polearm units prevent a rout
• Holding Ctrl with a worker selected adds the improvement on the worker’s tile (if any) to the unit action buttons
• Holding Alt with a selected unit displays the unit’s movement path/range assuming water control in all water tiles
• Cloud games are now sorted by whether or not it’s your turn first, time since last upload second, and alphabetically third
• Added selection to dropdown list for customizable leader portrait, name, age, gender, and trait, so that these can be reset to random after being selected
• Capitalized some game terms (Unit, City, Nation, Character, Tile, etc)
• Tweaked adjacent terrain target help text
• Improvement name is shown for bonus placements of improvements that produce no yields
• Planned specific improvements/roads for players on your team now listed on the tile tooltip (but still not as tile widgets)
• Effect of free specialists now shown in improvement yield previews
• Unit modifiers to improvement yields only shown if unit on the tile
• Forced March button tooltip clarification
• Blocked abandoning ambitions in Learn to Play scenarios
• Changed High Vision icon effect color for Scouts
• Changed capture progress bar appearance on city widget when paused
• Unit attacked log now shows damage done instead of health left
• Notifications now appear when invisible units are soon to become visible
• Added a longer camera delay to AI attacks
• Relatives panel now shows dead characters
• Player tooltip reveals yields information when game is over, similar to observer mode
• Updated text for some law Encyclopedia entries
• Enabled Mirror Map option with Random map script selected in MP
• Cleaned up governor candidate text on city list screen
• Updated Clergy helptext
• ‘Unlocks Project:’ helptext no longer shown for hidden projects
• Renamed From Tribute to Cancelled Tribute in bonus help when relevant
• Removed “Each:…” helptext from Specialists if you don’t have that effect
• De-cluttered EffectCity help text
• Added more specific turn summary text for when a regent or a rightful heir takes over the throne of a rival nation
• Removed scenario save import option from Carthage campaigns

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed attack preview not always updating
• Fixed error logged on shutdown
• Fixed unit repair recommendations
• Fixed Resources sometimes being listed multiple times in Encyclopedia
• Fixed never-buildable improvements appearing in map pin UI
• Fixed null reference in overlay customizer map pins
• Fixed mod manager UI when session is not already valid
• Fixed Atalia wikipedia link
• Fixed formatting of Zealot enlist tooltip
• Fixed ‘Consumes X Orders’ line showing when order cost is already shown
• Fixed enlisting a unit that had been capturing one of your cities not capturing it back for you
• Fixed effectCity help sometimes not appearing
• Fixed observer visibility update
• Fixed observer not being able to cycle decisions
• Fixed camera sometimes not panning to a unit that could not complete its movement
• Fixed movement preview when moving into a capturable city
• Fixed Tribe Elimination event and stat if eliminating a tribe through hiring a unit
• Fixed null reference caused by blank note pings
• Fixed yield panel not updating with changes to player trade network connections
• Fixed timeline borders for final turn when game is over
• Fixed Envoy trait tooltip
• Fixed player luxuries not being correctly updated when a resource was removed from a tile with a specialist
• Fixed city unit production buttons missing unit traits
• Fixed caravans causing game crash in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2
• Fixed unit action cost labels sometimes getting applied to mission buttons (affects mods)
• Fixed Cathedral happiness adjacency not working
• Fixed question marks appearing in some event text
• Fixed memories for assassination getting applied to dead character instead of family
• Fixed tile improvement highlights being shown for non-team units
• Fixed appearance of fortify bar on unit banner for Testudo
• Fixed some AI and UI revealed terrain knowledge
• Fixed net yield help text for projects with effects with improvement modifiers
• Fixed imprisoned mission succeeding on dead characters
• Fixed null reference on shutdown
• Fixed observers getting achievements from the player they are observing
• Fixed religious dissent projects being valid without associated religion
• Fixed Tribal truce missions failing silently when tribe has an ally
• Fixed some issues with the leader customization settings feature
• Fixed history popup not always showing fog of war
• Fixed rebels and raiders pillaging tiles that don’t belong to their target nations
• Fixed the definition of an open tile to include no vegetation
• Fixed Send Caravan ambitions auto-failing if you lose the ability to build Caravans
• Fixed trade values showing total trade for individual trades
• Fixed missing mask in bug reporting Description box
• Fixed redundant trait check
• Fixed Found Capital icon alignment in Pick Later
• Fixed tribal camp not being cleared when defender killed by an event following a ranged attack
• Fixed Regents taking the throne not being announced to other players
• Fixed repair tooltip with action queue
• Fixed AI repeated unit movement
• Fixed AI not considering danger from immobile units
• Fixed AI civilian unit retreat
• Fixed tooltips showing effects from disabled DLCs
• Fixed Minor Earthquake sometimes targeting water tile and not propagating (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed tile reveal not being reset after an Occurrence changes visibility (Wrath of Gods)
• Fixed Event Browser errors when loading a mod that uses -change on an -add entry
• Minor Worker/Occurrence fix for better mod support
• More robust null handling from ModCache lookup
• Text and event fixes