Old World update #115

[The_J]

New update is here!
Source: https://mohawkgames.com/2023/10/25/old-world-update-115/

Headline changes

• Zealot leader generals have a new action ‘Apply Enlist’
• Reworked regencies
• Added option to disable tile improvement recommendations

Design

• Zealot leader generals have a new action ‘Apply Enlist’, which gives their next kill a 100% chance to Enlist for 3 turns, for the cost of 400 civics. This replaces their previous 10% chance to enlist on kill.
• Reworked regencies:
• Regents no longer lead to legitimacy decay as normal leader changes do.
• The Rightful Heir will automatically become the Chosen Heir and this cannot be changed by the Regent.
• Regents no longer cause others in the line of succession to become bypassed on becoming Regent or on giving up the throne.
• Regents who do not give up the throne become Usurpers and do cause others in the line of succession to become bypassed.
• The free Garrison in your Capital and Fair from a Traders seat can now appear on any valid tile instead of only on existing urban tiles. As before, the locations of these can be set by using improvement pings.
• Exiting a cloud game mid turn will now save your progress and no longer reset to the start of the turn on reload
• Urban tiles no longer placed under tribal settlements unless they are city sites (applies when City Sites number is modified)
• Pharaohs of the Nile campaign – No leader turns family opinion penalty no longer applies
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 – Reduced raids and increased Amun units on higher difficulties
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6 – Climate change induced Nile flooding now has a 10 turn grace period
• Tweaked capture foreign cities ambition tiers
• Sacred and Profane – Make Clergy mission requires target to be single
• Enabled Extreme Terrain and Tribal Lands map options for multiplayer Continent and Donut map scripts and Tribe Number map option for multiplayer Seaside and Bay map scripts
• Fervent trait (from the Kush Piye dynasty) now grants the bonus militia in the city the religion spreads to instead of in the capital
• Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 happiness per Monk class instead of +2 per Elder Monk
• Guilds now gives happiness per Hamlet class improvement instead of just per Town
• Random maps are more likely to have at least one luxury resource of each type (does not apply to mirror maps)

Programming

• Added new EffectUnit options for modders – SelfApplyEffectUnitYieldCost, SelfApplyEffectUnitTurns, AttackApplyEffectUnitTurns, aiOccurrenceFromModifier, bMercenary
• Added new EffectPlayer option for modders – miMaxCities
• AI now waits until it has a greater power ratio before launching an attack outside of its borders
• Clarified the distinction between a tribe city site, a tribe settlement tile, and a tribe site, which are all technically different things but in many cases the same
• AI performance optimization
• Added AI for Zealot leader enlisting
• Improved performance in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2

UI

• Added player option to disable tile improvement recommendations
• Schemer’s Adopt Child mission now visible on the leader
• Character event log now puts all events of the same year on the same line, to save some vertical space
• Removed 16 nation display cap from Choose Leader screen
• Better improvement ping support for bonus improvements. If there is no improvement ping, an improvement ping for the same class is considered.
• Added helptext to events requiring an active Occurrence
• Mod Manager – Uploading mods is now a background task like downloading is. Status added to bottom of mod manager
• Mod Manager – faster Modio downloads. Download size and percentage added to mod download status.
• Added warning to the tooltip if assigning a general or governor is going to replace another character
• Character illness is now included in the turn
• Rival visibility toggle () now shows visibility from allied units as well
• New cognomen popup will now display the legitimacy it gives
• Other team VPs will now display in yellow/red as they get close to victory
• Improved display of Zealot Enlist Next effect
• Tooltip for event bonuses that affect all cities of a religion now shows how many cities it will affect
• Added loading hint for Slow AI option

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cloud game bug where sometimes it remained locked to a player who had exited the game without ending their turn
• Fixed potential issues with transition from sequential to simultaneous turnStyle
• Units that were under attacked cooldown and now are supposed to be allowed to move because of a turnStyle change, have their cooldown removed
• Attacked cooldown is no longer given if an attacked unit could not move at that point in the turn anyway
• Fixed null reference
• Fixed tile visibility exception
• Fixed OccurrenceEndPlayer bonus
• Fixed victory popup display with more than 10 ambitions or players
• Fixed camera panning to attacked cities with Follow AI set to None
• Fixed turn style and turn timer in the options popup being applied before you click save
• Fixed reset button on options panel not updating the turnStyle and turnTimer settings
• AI now does diplomacy with other AI first before getting to humans so diplomacy events are more current
• Fixed improvement help text bug on city sites
• Fixed victory event not appearing if the leader dies on the last turn
• Pharaohs of the Nile campaign – Blocked Visitor from the East event
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 – Blocked Monotheism law
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 – Change state religion hidden until appropriate time in the campaign
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 – Fixed some Zone of Control bugs
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 – Fixed defeat event not popping on total defeat, or loss of Akhetaten. Improved speed of victory event popup.
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 – fix possible AI hang when it’s thinking about healing an Amun unit by pillaging
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4 – Ramesses and Muwatalli event and achievement fixes
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 – fix defeat event not popping.
• Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6 – Worst Possible Ending achievement fix
• Learn to Play 3 – Fixed rare null ref error if there’s no heir. Fix defeat not triggering if conquered by raiders/rebels/barbs
• Fixed AI not declaring war on tribes to expand
• AI retreat fix
• Fixed some AI exploration confusion
• Map Editor – Fixed null ref when removing ruins improvement from an urban tile
• Old World premade map fix to Kush starting location
• Fixed events featuring players or tribes the player has not yet met
• Fixed some rare AI behavior when encountering danger before founding the first city
• Fixed new game portraits being overwritten with second display of portraits using nation index instead of playable nation index. Was affecting Hatti and Kush if those DLC were not owned.
• Fixed some issues with loading a save in a different game mode from where it was saved
• Reduced frequency of limit of 5 events per turn getting exceeded
• Fixed improvement upgrade cost bug
• Fixed Resume and Quick Cloud Load on main menu not unloading mods first
• Fixed bug with tribe settlement distribution
• Fixed free tech preferring tech currently being researched
• Fixed bad AI exploration with military units
• Fixed events not working for cities in anarchy
• Fixed bugs with Rise of Carthage scenario 3 sometimes failing to generate goals
• Fixed stolen city/city site trigger not taking teams into account
• Fixed family luxury menu display issue
• Fixed opinion bars displaying inconsistently
• Fixed specialist widget timers not updating when city yield production changes
• Fixed Learn to Play 5 bug where player couldn’t declare war again after accepting truce via an event
• Fixed unit/city stats sometimes not updating when general/governor stats change
• Fixed frame limit functionality
• Fixed map script non-city resource placement
• Fixed premade maps failing to start when No Ancient Ruins option enabled
• Text and event fixes