Old World update #107

[The_J]

New update: https://mohawkgames.com/2023/03/29/old-world-update-107/

Headline changes

• Improvement pings system added. City planning just got a lot easier!
• Family balancing
• New events added
• Text for all language localizations updated

Design

• Cleric seat no longer gets a free Religion on founding. Instead they get access to a one-time city project which founds a religion, available at Developing culture.
• Trader cities get Money per Specialist instead of Culture
• Sage cities now get a free Archive I and lose the Urban Specialist Cost discount
• Statesmen cities get a -25% Specialist Resource Cost and lose the free Treasury I
• Bullion Resources have been renamed to Precious Resources. Map scripts amended to make these resources more common.
• Discontent penalty for having more citizens than urban tiles removed.
• Stunned cooldown now reduces at the start of the player’s turn instead of the end. This prevents teammates from using a stunned unit later in the same turn.
• Stunned cooldown now changes to Attacked Cooldown after one turn, for UI clarity.
• Damaged Tribal cities no longer produce units. This only affects cities taken over by Tribes, not Tribal camps.
• Cities captured by a tribe start at 50% HP
• Hurried builds now never have production overflow
• Eliminated players in team games will now automatically gift units and goods to their closest teammate
• Seaside map script improvements
• Better city site generation with hopefully fewer all-flat boring starts
• Fixed the random seed for some event bonuses, to reduce undoing and redoing moves in a different order giving a different result

New events

• Research at Rest
• Three Days of Solace
• On the Payroll
• Fled in the Night
• Sorry State of Furnishings
• New Strings
• Building Better Governors
• Governor School
• Governor Training
• Heart of the Empire
• Glory and Heroes
• Tales Spread
• Rule of Wisdom
• Sow Discord

Programming

• Memory optimizations
• Improved AI getting out of the way of its own units for retreat
• AI is more frugal with its yield expenses
• AI more likely to choose Tacticians and Zealots as generals
• Exposed recruit mercenary legitimacy cost, city build queue decay rate and promotion cost per XP to XML
• Optimized load time of Event Browser
• Improved raider priorities. They will now move to the target city and are then free to attack units and pillage rather than just attack the city.
• AI now properly takes into account the yield consumption cost of free units
• Better support for cloud games with multiple players having the same online ID
  
  UI
• Improvement pings system added. Click on a tile while holding Alt and select the down arrow. This allows you to plan out your city layout visually.
• Text for all language localizations updated
• Added hotkey (by default ‘/’ ) to show known visibility of other players. Select a foreign player or unit and press hotkey to highlight tiles they have visibility on.
• Placeholder icon added for Rival Player visibility overlay
• Added UX to explain to players how to resume construction of a wonder
• Pings with a reminder turn now show on the map
• Improved ping interactions with animated resources
• Scrollbar position now reset when cycling between decisions
• Improved clarity of city happiness and discontent bar when level is decreasing
• Added outlines to yield progress text on city screen, for readability on happiness bar
• Added more descriptive text on religion tab for unfounded religions
• Wonders are sorted by culture and appear after other improvements in worker actions
• Scenario screen background can change per scenario
• Nation help text no longer shows irrelevant information
• Added URL field to characters. Some historical characters now have a globe symbol which can be clicked for more information about them.
• Undo turn now skips animations for each move.
• Advanced Options in Single Player setup are now organized by category
• Event Browser tab improvements
• Rival player visibility overlay hotkey works with a selected rival unit as well as a selected rival player
• Initial tech tree screen position now based on current tech
• Removed advanced options from Heroes of the Aegean scenarios that didn’t do anything
• Added more custom backgrounds to scenario screens
• Law adoption added to timeline
• Added lines for opinion thresholds on family opinion graphs
• Added subtotal to city yields tooltip, if that yield is being modified
• When a theology is established, the establishing nation is now shown in the turn summary message

Bug Fixes

• Fixed requirements text sometimes showing in the wrong color
• Fixed issue on Epic build that would cause mouse inputs to sometimes not work as intended
• Fixed issues with national alliance vision
• Fixed Capture Three City ambition for OCC
• Fixed Barracks helptext still showing the requirement for a unit to be idle in order to gain XP
• Fixed city widget happiness color not applying in some cases
• Fixed low level specialist being lost when upgrading improvement
• Fixed issue where anchoring radii were culled when they shouldn’t be
• Fixed issues with happiness/discontent display
• Fixed filename inside zipped save files
• Fixed AI being too cautious when capturing cities and sites
• Fixed Elephant Panic messing with AI danger tiles cache
• Fixed AI build hurrying
• Fixed yield previews sometimes getting stuck
• Fixed bug with production overflow
• Fixed movement pips initializing with wrong rotation
• Fix tribe succession issues
• Fixed bug with display of culture requirements for free city projects in events
• Fixed some units with the siege trait not showing up under the siege filter
• Fixed missing subtitle on Barbarian Horde scenario and updated rules text
• Fixed display of city gift and luxury menus
• Fixed bug with locked save remote server hosting
• Fixed bug with Improvements that give Legitimacy
• Fixed inconsistent specialist background color on city screen city widget
• Fixed bug with animal model display when hiding units
• Fixed map pings appearing for all players in MP
• Fixed yield rates not updating when connecting hamlets
• Fixed tooltip positioning null reference on research popup
• Fixed unit cycling after closing popup
• Fixed end turn button effect not persisting in some cases
• Fixed bug with only one custom mapscript showing
• Fixed bug with number of Barbarian camps spawned around player start
• Fixed some luxury menu overlap issues in Russian/German
• Fixed AI getting Legitimacy in No Characters games
• Fixed city tooltip sometimes not updating
• Fixed bugs with coastal improvement orientation
• Fixed citrus trees missing from groves
• Fixed elephant resource model animation
• Fixed scrolling sometimes not working in mod manager
• Fix for cycling to a stacked unit not always updating the other stacked unit’s banner
• Fixed character url links showing in generated character tooltips
• Fixed cloud game replay turning active player into observer
• Fixed incorrect UI yield values when changing from governors with yield-granting traits
• Fixes for Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 discontent
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6 nations not displaying correctly in the Hall of Fame
• Fixed distant raids spawning in inaccessible locations
• Fixed research button widget error
• Fixed issues with holding Alt to see a damage preview for non hostile units. Now works inside neutral borders and with other nations units selected
• Fixed mission audio sometimes not playing
• Text and event fixes