Old World Update #102

[The_J]

A new update has been posted: https://mohawkgames.com/2022/12/21/old-world-update-102/

Change list:
Design

• New World Map – Imperium Romanum: The Roman World!
• New map script – Donut
• Inland Sea map script updated to give less regular sea and more mountain ranges
• Free city site location now takes into account distance over land, not distance as the crow flies
• Events which give traits are no longer blocked when a character already has the trait. They will now give improvements to character ratings instead.
• Hotseat games with 1 Human player are now treated as Multiplayer games. This fixes teams not starting together in these games.

New Events

• New Strings
• Sorry State of Furnishings

Programming

• Performance improvements to terrain display and animations
• AI improvements to use of forts, water control, anchoring and island movement
• Improved AI city siege and other combat tactics
• Improved AI unit build selection
• Improved AI city founding tile choice
• Improved AI exploration with more than one unit
• Improved AI evaluation of city projects
• Improved AI improvement repairing
• Improved AI reinforcements
• Improved AI tile buying
• AI now values discardable techs less
• AI less likely to hire mercenaries that are damaged and/or far away

UI

• Added look-ahead terrain texture renderer. This should reduce the instances of terrain briefly appearing at lower quality when moving to the next unit/city.
• Hotseat games can now be restarted
• Hotseat games support different languages for each player
• Added Random Resource and Random Element Names buttons to Map Editor
• Map start tiles for set maps can now be defined in mapStartTile.xml. This allows modded nations to be given set start points on premade maps.
• Steam Input updates
• Added project prerequisites to event option helptext
• Unit tooltips in city screen now show per-unit cost increase (affects Settlers, Workers and Disciples)
• Worker recommendation icons now show improvement yields and adjacency boni from all valid tiles, not just in the current city.
• Added ambition progress to ambition bonus helptext in event options
• Workers now have the Worker unit trait (icon art not added yet)

Bug Fixes

• Miscellaneous event fixes and rebalancing
• Spanish text fixes
• Fixed AI city site guarding bug
• Fixed bug with character links on minimized events
• Fixed bug with Barbarian Horde scenario difficulty not being applied when selected from description screen
• Fixed error handling for incorrect network game host password
• Fixed game restart for mods
• Fixed bug allowing multi-couple polygamous marriages
• Fixed bug with adopted children not being added to the line of succession
• Fixed some cases where tile player ownership was checked instead of tile city territory
• Fixed issue where units would stop their walking animation if they received a second move order while already moving
• Fixed display issue with cooldown icons on non-player-owned units
• Fixed issue with resources of city sites on the centerline of mirror maps
• Fixed server game host settings back button
• Fixed inconsistent button behavior between tribe/player selection and leader selection
• Fixed revealmap and unrevealmap console commands
• Fixed bug slowing religion spread to connected cities
• Fixed attack preview bug
• Fixed bug causing MP players to sometimes miss their turn when switching turn style
• Fixed bug where an already settled city site was still being treated as a tribe site in some cases
• Fixed missing information for Council assignment and Diplomacy events in Role Playing mode
• Fixed AI unit movement bug
• Fixed some AI regressions
• Fixed unit widgets not reappearing after hiding the UI
• Fixed issues with tundra tile heightmap rendering
• Fixed rare unit conversion bug
• Fixed event browser errors for event tree and advanced text editor popups
• Fixed impossible ambition to enact Elites in Carthage 3 scenario
• Fixed spacing in production text on city widget
• Fixed dynasty dropdown behavior for MP setup
• Fixed dowry research bug
• Fixed issue where units hit or killed by splash damage didn’t play any animations
• Fixed cloud games getting stuck after a player was eliminated
• Fixed server exceptions causing the game to hang