Old World update #122

[The_J]

New update is out, https://mohawkgames.com/2024/05/01/old-world-update-122/

Headline changes

• Archipelago map script improvements
• Event tweaks and improvements
• Changes to how players starting reserved city sites are calculated and displayed

Design

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• Archipelago map script improvements. Maps are now 20% bigger than normal maps (down from 40%), large islands are bigger and added Water Size map option
• The number of reserved city sites (sites near start location not occupied by Tribes) is now set by the Tribal Strength setting
• The percentage of reserved city sites that are occupied by Barbarians is set by Difficulty
• Empty reserved sites are revealed on founding your capital
• Many events restructured and tweaked
• Events that offer ambitions are no longer canceled if the ambition is completed before dealing with the event
• Most missions that can result in an event no longer do so on Minimal event level
• Launch Offensive now costs 800 training, up from 600
• Peaceful nations borders now count as neutral instead of friendly territory for the purposes of healing
• Tribal invasions can occur only if one of the player’s cities is reachable from one of the tribe’s settlements
• Minor Cities now give +10% defense and no longer give Discontent
• Removed Cult events from Competitive mode (Sacred and Profane)
• Removed Kush’s nation opinion modifier with Egypt
• Added difficulty restriction (minimum the Just) for some events that might contain only war options
• Improvements now allowed to be replaced by improvements of the same class (relevant for shrines)

Programming

• Increased AI value for walls
• Added InfoCulture.mePrevCulture/meNextCulture so culture levels are properly moddable.
• Game editor can now decrease city culture by right-clicking
• City starting culture now properly defined through InfoGlobals (for modders use)
• Added bAbandonCity bonus (for modders use)
• Better network match check logging
• Added GreeceCampaign source folder and LearnByPlaying xml folders to the public reference folders
• Recommended builds performance optimization

UI

• Turn summary now always shows birth of royal children
• Events are now included in cloud game turn summary emails
• Changed attack preview UI to be a tooltip so it can be locked
• Removed redundant job line in character tooltip
• Character tooltip no longer shows agent status for characters on other teams
• Added new construction states for the Great Cothon and the Colosseum
• Player turn text now shown in cooperative MP games
• Cloud game descriptions now stored in the correct language for each player
• Increased text ping character limit from 40 to 255
• Removed heir-naming popup when the leader is not the parent
• Notification header text can no longer wrap to a new line
• Technology display is now right justified
• Tooltip verbosity and formatting improvements
• Changed ‘no worker suggestions’ option to ‘no action suggestions’. Enabling this option removes all unit, city and research recommendations.
• Improvement ping dropdown improvements
• In-game options popup shows the email address for that game, can be different per save
• UI now updates after you kick a player from a cloud game through host settings
• Added Occurrence log category for notifications and PBC emails
• Tribal cities (not camps) now show player diplomacy status icon on the city banner
• The power/knowledge display is now unambiguous in who it refers to
• Help text for the spread religion option now shows yields that will be gained (from the Oracle, Tolerance etc)
• Improved display of dropdowns on setup screen when scrolling

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with animated resource display on AMD GPUs
• Fixed some family icon issues
• Fixed bonus ship cards not being shown on tooltips and the tech tree when the player has no coastal cities
• Fixed automate button being shown in non-player cities
• Fixed some UI interactions with canceling missions
• Fixed null reference on religious council goal helptext
• Fixed AI assigning a governor upon settling a new city, when it doesn’t have the orders to do so
• Fixed enter/return not interacting with save browser prompts
• Fixed Disjunction One Continent per Team maps sometimes having multiple teams on the same continent
• Fixed duplicated tech prereq indicators
• Fixed newly arrived characters past the fertility age being fertile
• Fixed some asserts and null references when converting a cloud game to network
• Fixed city links not spawning tooltips in some cases
• Player and game names can no longer include multiple lines
• Fixed children sometimes becoming infertile before adulthood (introduced in last weeks test update)
• Fixed difficulty level tooltip
• Fixed issues preventing missions from being canceled
• Fixed mini tech display button not respecting tech tree settings
• Fixed build recommendation stars not appearing
• Fixed map script boundary tiles sometimes blocking out important sections of the map
• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 major victory not triggering on turn 40
• No longer possible to rewind a cloud game to a surrendered player
• Fixed Alt key sometimes getting stuck down, preventing keyboard shortcuts from working correctly
• Fixed city screen recommendation assert errors
• Fixed Arid Plateau random map settings
• Fixed councilors not being selectable if slot is disabled (i.e. Spymasters after Agrippina dies)
• Fixed city sort issues
• Fixed city build recommendations and improvement ping icons not always updating immediately
• Fixed lateral and dynastic succession when the founder is not related to the current leader
• Fixed leader tooltip not locking on timeline screen
• Text and event fixes