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Changes Overview
Design
Programming
UI
Bugs Fixed
Notes for modders
Units in unit.xml:
Event Links in eventLink.xml:
Old World Update #129 - Mohawk Games
Changes Overview
- Shrine Rebalancing: Adjustments to shrine effects.
- City Damage: Now affected by critical hits.
- Modded MP Games: Easier to start thanks to relaxed version checking.
- UI Improvements: Various interface updates.
Design
- Shrines of Water: (Melqart, Poseidon, Anahita) now give 2 money per water tile in the city, in addition to previous effects.
- Shrines of Healing: (Eshmun, Isis) now give a free Healer promotion to units built in the city instead of the previous healing ability.
- City Damage: Now affected by critical hits.
- Improvement Build Times: Now take 1 extra turn to build per 5 points of Worker damage (+1 turn at 15-19 HP to +4 turns at 1-4 HP).
- Undo Functionality: Re-enabled for strict(teams) turnstyle cloud games. After starting to play a turn, it must be completed before other players on the team can take their turn.
- Law Switch Costs: First switch costs 200 Civics, with each subsequent change costing 100 extra.
- Power Comparison: Now solely calculated on military unit strength, with ships counting for less based on the amount of water on the map.
- Unit Upgrade Restrictions: Can no longer upgrade a unit if the upgraded unit is not allowed to be in that tile.
- Fort Building: Can no longer build forts on non-urban tribe settlement ruins (affects non-default City Site Number options).
- Rally Defense: Now only activates on killing promotable military units (i.e., not Militia).
- Unit Spawning from Improvements: Improvements that spawn units (Colosseum, Cothon, Holy Sites, etc.) now try to spawn them on the tile of the improvement.
- Punic Duel Balance Pass: Adjustments made to the premade map.
- Drunk Trait: Now gives -20 opinion to religious and family heads, down from -40.
- Event Options Delay: Added turn delay to most event options with random traits or relationships.
- Mission Costs: Slander, High Synod, and Trade missions now cost Money instead of Civics.
- Competitive Mode (Behind the Throne): Grand Vizier position disabled.
- Beja Archers: No longer have the Pierce effect (Pharaohs of the Nile).
- Scheme Against a Rival Mission: Reduced chance of an event from this mission (Behind the Throne).
Programming
- Relaxed Version Checking: Modded MP games now show a warning popup when versions do not match but allow the game to proceed.
- Version Mismatch Warning: MP players without identical mods will see a “Version Mismatch” warning in their tooltip.
- Simultaneous MP AI Turns: AI now waits for all human players to end their turn, or for the turn timer to nearly expire, before taking its turn.
- Event Processing Optimization: Performance improvements.
- Raider AI Improvements: AI now prioritizes building roads, connecting cities, and exploring more.
- AI Code Cleanup: General improvements and optimization.
- Ctrl-Shift-X Functionality: No effect when it’s not your turn in cloud games.
- Modio Errors Suppressed: Suppressed “Invalid Token” errors on game start.
- Mac Terrain Rebuild: Removed unneeded terrain rebuild on application focus for Macs.
- Mod Support Updates: Added support for new diplomacy types and dynamic improvement names.
- Yield Price Calculation: Now moddable via XML.
- Map Editor: Max map size increased to 180×180 (modifiable via XML).
- XML Changes: Updates to units and event links (see Notes for Modders section).
- New Event Triggers: Added EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLIANCE_OFFER and EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_ALLY_DECLARED_WAR.
- New Statistics: Added STAT_CHILDREN_COUNT.
- City Luxuries Info: Added InfoGoal.miCityLuxuries.
- Script Support: Old World no longer supports runtime compiled scripts; standalone compiler removed.
UI
- Mission Target List Sorting: Characters now sorted by importance in mission target lists.
- Shift-Click Improvements: Shift-clicking on recommended improvements now adds them to the worker’s queue.
- Shrine Pings: Shrine improvement pings can now be placed even if the shrine already exists.
- Improvement Pings: Improved accuracy of yields for out-of-territory improvements.
- Luxury Management Menu: Now scrollable for easier management.
- Unit Tooltips: Now scrollable, with unit effects ordered alphabetically.
- Cloud Game Tooltips: Now show the elapsed time since the last upload.
- Yield Icons: Recently added yield name and sign removed from help text (now shows yield icon only, as previously).
- Legitimacy Graph: Added to the Records screen.
- Family Unit Banners: Family unit banner shape now shown on the family tab panel.
- Specialists on Pillaged Tiles: Existing specialists now shown on pillaged tiles.
- Replay for Team Games: Improved functionality.
- Resource Removal Warning: Added for Add Urban action.
- Project Help Text: Now includes information about other projects that add the same project (e.g., Inquiry shows different levels).
- Opinion Yield Rate Help Text: Moved from potential to main effects.
- Contact Event Truce Flags: Made more consistent in event options.
- Religion Icon on Unit Production: Now shown on unit production buttons when applicable.
- Religion Tooltips: Simplified for clarity.
- Character Pinning: Any non-leader character can now be pinned (e.g., foreign leaders), and pins are no longer cleared on character death.
- Trait Display Order: Reordered for clarity.
- Scenario Screen Arrows: Category toggle arrows no longer select scenario class.
- EffectPlayer and EffectCity Help Text: Total yields display removed from most entries to simplify tooltips.
- Foreign City Widget: Clicking on the nation name now selects the nation.
- Game Log Graphics: Re-aligned for improved presentation.
- Mod Folder Display: Mod folders that begin with “.” are no longer displayed.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed religious improvements being affected by other religions’ theologies.
- Fixed workers stopping rout of African and Turreted Elephants.
- Fixed double religion indicators on tribe widgets.
- Fixed raycasting issues on tribe widget and character list religion icons.
- Fixed former regents affecting succession in some cases.
- Fixed yield rates not updating when units move to/from improvements.
- Fixed minimized decision UI not working for diplomacy decisions.
- Fixed effectCity improvement yield help text.
- Fixed unit yield consumption estimate for effectPlayer to show yields saved instead of new yields consumed.
- Fixed yield preview overlays getting stuck.
- Fixed ally declared war event trigger.
- Fixed monitor option setting.
- Timeline screen map now only shows city borders that the player currently has visibility of (fixes bug showing unrevealed borders).
- Fixed missing damage preview for civilian units/ships if they are the only unit in a city.
- Fixed Passive AI attacking cities when it shouldn’t.
- Fixed EffectCity terrain yields being counted twice.
- Fixed fog reveal animation not clearing tiles it has already animated.
- Fixed unit animations freezing.
- Fixed bad player start placement asserts.
- Fixed hidden units not getting bounced when hostile borders expand to include their location.
- Fixed unexpected click behavior on city screen.
- Fixed multiplayer replay for games where multiple players can take their turns simultaneously.
- Fixed mission results not appearing in target player’s turn summary (e.g., city damage from treachery).
- Fixed tribute bug which sometimes allowed tribute while at war.
- Fixed issues starting multiplayer games from the mods screen.
- Fixed unloading mods when toggling off “Use Mods” in the MP setup screen.
- Fixed null check for notification help text.
- Fixed exception when right-clicking the empty head of a not-yet-founded religion.
- Fixed AI unit protection calculation and possible divide-by-zero errors when attackers can’t do any damage (affects mods).
- Fixed missing trait in Hanno II’s dynasty tooltip (Wonders and Dynasties).
- Text and Event fixes.
Notes for modders
Units in unit.xml:
- Add a bRegular flag (after bGeneral in the order) to denote a “regular military” unit. The flag makes the unit count as “regular military” in the stats, and the AI assumes that non-regular units are worth less.
Event Links in eventLink.xml:
- aeSubjectClasses is no longer needed. The link will save all subjects in the triggering event and figure out the classes by itself.
- If you only want some subjects saved, put iNumSubjects on the link (in eventLink.xml) to save that many subjects.
- Use iNumSubjects = 0 if you don’t care about any subjects and are only using the link as a shortcut to trigger something else.
