Old World update #109

[The_J]

New update: https://mohawkgames.com/2023/05/31/old-world-update-109/


Headline changes

• Alliance Victory is now possible in single player
• Minor cities are easier to create
• The turn summary popup has been improved

Design

• Alliance Victory is now possible in single player (this was previously MP only)
• Impassable tiles no longer need to be owned for Minor Cities
• Found Religion project cost reduced from 80 to 60 civics
• Land tribe units no longer pillage water tiles
• Distant raids can now now occur for coastal cities and contain ships of the same type the city is able to build
• Added a 10-turn memory for tribal invasions. Truce offers via the Matchmaker event will no longer happen with a recently invaded tribe.
• Tribal units are 25% more expensive to hire if the tribe is currently invading you
• Tribal leaders are now eligible marriage candidates
• Control 3 specialists ambition changed to 5 specialists
• Favored laws rebalanced
• Chaste trait is no longer a strength
• Free ship tech cards will no longer appear until the player owns a coast tile.
• Free ships will appear in the player’s borders if possible.
• Exploring trait now gives +20XP per turn

Programming

• AI tile improvement selection improvements
• Improved accuracy of AI specialist evaluation
• Improved AI water control – now uses ships when a land path is blocked by truced nations
• Unity service authentication limited to 5 retries, unless the authentication expired in the middle of a network game. This prevents repeating errors when playing offline.
• Converting a server game to cloud now unloads the server

UI

• Steam Deck controller improvements
• Improved turn summary display and added OK button
• Reordered turn summary categories, injuries are now shown above deaths in the turn summary
• Added player option to omit replay data from saved games. This will substantially reduce save game file size. Undo and replay data will be held in memory and available during a game session.
• Luxury panel now shows happiness/discontent rate for cities, luxury name changed to icon (to prevent overlap issues)
• Added tech prereq to ‘free tech’ encyclopedia entries
• Damage preview now shows reduction in fortify meter
• Carthage scenario 3 now uses a generic progress meter for showing Naval Dominance
• Added support for navigating file browser entries with up/down arrow keys
• Negative yields no longer shown on tile labels in city screen
• Ill, Wounded and Incubated traits now remain after death (to give more clues as to how a character died
• Mission target shown on mission buttons when applicable
• Missions added via DLC now indicate this in the mission help
• Added tooltip for historical info button
• All links that open a web browser now display the URL in their tooltip
• Confirmation popup on exiting game will no longer appear when the game has just been saved or when a client in a network game
• Team games no longer show ‘Waiting for…’ message for players that have been eliminated
• Added yield effect of laws to tooltip help text
• Improved city help text

Bug Fixes

• Fixed progress tooltip for religious ambitions if the ambition has not yet been started
• Fixed empty tile tooltips appearing on boundary tiles
• Fixed bug with unavailable trait and Semesters turnscale
• Fixed helptext for strength breakdown and Tough promotion
• Fixed inaccurate governor preview
• Fixed specialist and governor yield help text
• Fixed some animation/sound/tile text/camera bugs during AI turn
• Fixed issue where camera would sometimes pan to a location without showing the unit action
• Fixed some minor issues in Carthage scenario 3
• Fixed HUD scaling slider value range
• Fix for swapping units mid-move-animation leading to incorrect placement of unit icons
• Fixed server host not automatically rejoining game after server has been recreated
• Fixed some AI thread safety issues
• Fixed highlighting behavior on orders widget in no characters mode
• Fixed bug with Council yield breakdown
• Fixed unit cost increase help
• Fixed random and competitive preset options
• Fixed Convert to State Religion leader mission
• Eliminated tribes no longer generate new leaders
• Fix for being offered a foreign leader as a suitor
• Fixed searchable dropdown text editing issue in event browser
• Draggable click fix
• Fixed unit display issues when using GPU animations
• Fixed display issues for horses and harbors
• Fixed inconsistent play/pause button graphic, turn processing text overlap
• Fixed rename city button not working from selected city screen
• Fixed resolution getting re-applied on exiting options menu when no options were changed
• Fixed hotseat hang when skipping animations
• Fixed embedded link helptext issue with goals/ambitions
• Fixed tribe alliance icon color
• Fixed city production category toggles
• Fixed missing icon for ping reminders in turn summary
• Fixed city tooltip not populating when accessed via locked tile tooltip
• Fixed issue with conditional text not displaying correctly in events
• Text and event fixes