Release Notes for Old World

Old World November Update - 1.0.80908 release 2025-11-26

Main Branch 1.0.80908 release 2025-11-26

Headline changes

Can no longer hire Barbarian units, upgrading hired Tribal units now costs Money as well as Training
Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out
Units with Leader Generals are immune to control effects

Design

Can no longer hire Barbarian units (affects Carthage and Orator leaders). Tribal units can still be hired.
Added Tribal unit upgrade cost of money equal to its upgrade cost in training
Units with Leader Generals are immune to Stun, Panic, Enlistment, Disarm and Immobilization (Grappler)
Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out
Citrus is now a luxury resource
Caravans can't spawn on a tile with a Caravan, although they can still occupy the same tile as one when moving
Increased Prosperous trait money from 5/10 per culture level to 8/16
Halved Intelligent trait science output
Assassination attempts that fail have a chance to avoid negative consequences
Enlisting a unit replaces any existing cooldown by the enlisted cooldown
Capturing city timer no longer counts back up when city is left vacant
Cities in the capturing state no longer go to Anarchy if no capturing progress has been made
Units can pass through capturable cities without capturing them as long as they don't stop inside
Changing the Succession Law no longer results in characters becoming Bypassed and suffering opinion penalties
The cost to change the Succession Law now starts at 400 civics and increases at 100 civics per switch
Judge leaders can change the Succession Law for 100 civics as per other laws
Stunned units no longer counterattack
Characters are more likely to get a strength or weakness before reaching adulthood
In 2 team MP games, leaders initial strength is now mirrored when set randomly
Ocean depth tiles are safe from Tsunami's (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

Memory management cleanup, fixed more memory leaks
Better AI improvement selection, improvement unit movement decisions after founding a city
Improved AI worker order efficiency and management
Damaged workers heal more often
Existing improvements get replaced less often
AI places less emphasis on building Garrisons early
AI anchoring improvements
AI tries harder to have an up-to-date army
Improved AI attack planning to reduce the effect of counterattacks
AI builds more strongholds, citadels and unique units
AI now uses units with disarm effect early, so that later attacks can take advantage of it
Tribe placement improvements on map generation
Automated workers now take into account road pings
ModManager improvements

UI

Camera no longer pans to failed unit movement if instant unit movement is turned on, or in Network games
City screen button tooltip now differentiates between increasing and decreasing happiness
Added "Polearm" instead of "Rout" to combat preview, to make it clear when polearm units prevent a rout
Holding Ctrl with a worker selected adds the improvement on the worker's tile (if any) to the unit action buttons
Holding Alt with a selected unit displays the unit's movement path/range assuming water control in all water tiles
Cloud games are now sorted by whether or not it's your turn first, time since last upload second, and alphabetically third
Added selection to dropdown list for customizable leader portrait, name, age, gender, and trait, so that these can be reset to random after being selected
Capitalized some game terms (Unit, City, Nation, Character, Tile, etc)
Tweaked adjacent terrain target help text
Improvement name is shown for bonus placements of improvements that produce no yields
Planned specific improvements/roads for players on your team now listed on the tile tooltip (but still not as tile widgets)
Effect of free specialists now shown in improvement yield previews
Unit modifiers to improvement yields only shown if unit on the tile
Forced March button tooltip clarification
Blocked abandoning ambitions in Learn to Play scenarios
Changed High Vision icon effect color for Scouts
Changed capture progress bar appearance on city widget when paused
Unit attacked log now shows damage done instead of health left
Notifications now appear when invisible units are soon to become visible
Added a longer camera delay to AI attacks
Relatives panel now shows dead characters
Player tooltip reveals yields information when game is over, similar to observer mode
Updated text for some law Encyclopedia entries
Enabled Mirror Map option with Random map script selected in MP
Cleaned up governor candidate text on city list screen
Updated Clergy helptext
'Unlocks Project:' helptext no longer shown for hidden projects
Renamed From Tribute to Cancelled Tribute in bonus help when relevant
Removed "Each:..." helptext from Specialists if you don't have that effect
De-cluttered EffectCity help text
Added more specific turn summary text for when a regent or a rightful heir takes over the throne of a rival nation
Removed scenario save import option from Carthage campaigns

Bugs Fixed

Fixed attack preview not always updating
Fixed error logged on shutdown
Fixed unit repair recommendations
Fixed Resources sometimes being listed multiple times in Encyclopedia
Fixed never-buildable improvements appearing in map pin UI
Fixed null reference in overlay customizer map pins
Fixed mod manager UI when session is not already valid
Fixed Atalia wikipedia link
Fixed formatting of Zealot enlist tooltip
Fixed 'Consumes X Orders' line showing when order cost is already shown
Fixed enlisting a unit that had been capturing one of your cities not capturing it back for you
Fixed effectCity help sometimes not appearing
Fixed observer visibility update
Fixed observer not being able to cycle decisions
Fixed camera sometimes not panning to a unit that could not complete its movement
Fixed movement preview when moving into a capturable city
Fixed Tribe Elimination event and stat if eliminating a tribe through hiring a unit
Fixed null reference caused by blank note pings
Fixed yield panel not updating with changes to player trade network connections
Fixed timeline borders for final turn when game is over
Fixed Envoy trait tooltip
Fixed player luxuries not being correctly updated when a resource was removed from a tile with a specialist
Fixed city unit production buttons missing unit traits
Fixed caravans causing game crash in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2
Fixed unit action cost labels sometimes getting applied to mission buttons (affects mods)
Fixed Cathedral happiness adjacency not working
Fixed question marks appearing in some event text
Fixed memories for assassination getting applied to dead character instead of family
Fixed tile improvement highlights being shown for non-team units
Fixed appearance of fortify bar on unit banner for Testudo
Fixed some AI and UI revealed terrain knowledge
Fixed net yield help text for projects with effects with improvement modifiers
Fixed imprisoned mission succeeding on dead characters
Fixed null reference on shutdown
Fixed observers getting achievements from the player they are observing
Fixed religious dissent projects being valid without associated religion
Fixed Tribal truce missions failing silently when tribe has an ally
Fixed some issues with the leader customization settings feature
Fixed history popup not always showing fog of war
Fixed rebels and raiders pillaging tiles that don't belong to their target nations
Fixed the definition of an open tile to include no vegetation
Fixed Send Caravan ambitions auto-failing if you lose the ability to build Caravans
Fixed trade values showing total trade for individual trades
Fixed missing mask in bug reporting Description box
Fixed redundant trait check
Fixed Found Capital icon alignment in Pick Later
Fixed tribal camp not being cleared when defender killed by an event following a ranged attack
Fixed Regents taking the throne not being announced to other players
Fixed repair tooltip with action queue
Fixed AI repeated unit movement
Fixed AI not considering danger from immobile units
Fixed AI civilian unit retreat
Fixed tooltips showing effects from disabled DLCs
Fixed Minor Earthquake sometimes targeting water tile and not propagating (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed tile reveal not being reset after an Occurrence changes visibility (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Event Browser errors when loading a mod that uses -change on an -add entry
Minor Worker/Occurrence fix for better mod support
More robust null handling from ModCache lookup
Text and event fixes

80522 (2025-11-04)

Main Branch 1.0.80522 Release 2025-11-04

Hotfix release that fixes some game hang issues, particularly when using Road pings, issues with cloud game Host Controls, event text not always displaying correctly in some languages, changing terrain height in the game editor, tile visibility issues when in an alliance and borders not updating for Observers

80396 (2025-10-29)

Main Branch 1.0.80396 release 2025-10-29

Headline changes

Leader archetype balancing for Heroes, Builders, Zealots and Diplomats
Added Road Improvement Ping (Map pin)
Rebel chance icon added to Cities Screen and City tooltip
MP setup and observer mode improvements

Design

Hero leaders can now Launch Offensive after attacking. This still puts the Hero unit on cooldown, so they cannot act after Launch Offensive
Add Urban (Builder Leader ability) stone costs doubled (20 on flat and 40 on hill)
Spending Civics to Enlist (Zealot Leader ability) no longer expires after 3 turns, but the effect is removed when the leader is removed from the unit
AI now requires a Diplomat leader to start a National Alliance. Increased probability of an alliance offer
Duplicate nations are now allowed even with preset leaders, as long as dynasties are not duplicated
Mounted units no longer get attack bonus into Marsh. Renamed Flat to Open for Mounted Attack bonus
Harbors give 100% bonus to adjacent nets, up from 60%
AI now aims to have have a minimum of about a tenth of its units be its Unique Unit
Eliminating the last unit of a tribe outside of a camp now also counts as eliminating the tribe and triggers elimination events
Specialist builds are allowed to continue after their improvement has been pillaged
Map options limiting the number of city sites now concentrate sites around player starts
Consorts can now be Regents without needing to be Royal. Ill characters will not be picked to be Regents
Added repair cost to Town and Village improvements
Free-for-all player starts no longer try to separate human players
Ambitions that require Wonders now consider Wonders owned by teammates to be impossible to acquire
When a preset character joins a preferred family their children now join the same family
Reduced the amount of Forest on the Desert map script. Removed option to specify starting inland or on the coast
Tribe units can now heal after moving
In No Events / No Characters, truce offers cost nothing if you're winning the war
Unit position swaps clears temporarily hidden state of the swap initiating unit
Characters with an active mission on them (like marriage) cannot be auto-married in the meantime
Great Lighthouse now applies faster upgrade bonus to existing hamlet class improvements, not only newly constructed ones
Added initial turn timer time stockpile. Slow adds 3 minutes, Medium 2 and Fast 1

Programming

Fixed several memory leaks (more improvements here coming next update)
Memory allocation optimization
Minor MP performance optimization
Improved AI for Zealot leader enlisting
AI no longer attacks civilians if doing so puts their units in danger of being killed
Unhardcoded some AI diplomacy parameters, made warState.xml more mod-friendly
Updated AWS SDK to 3.7
Modio version upgrade
Unity package updates
Added option for CRC tracing when loading mods

UI

Added Road improvement ping
Cities with effects that give Rebel chance are marked with a Rebels icon in the city list screen and city tooltip
Default player name in MP and network server name are now taken from the online platform nickname
MP Setup screen newly added players duplicate the parameters of the previous player
Cloud game hosts can now rename the game using the host control popup
In sequential turn network games, observer view automatically switches to the next player when the observed player's turn ends. This is disabled after manually switching to a different player
Observers now use their set language rather than the language of the observed player
Chat hotkey no longer works for non-host observers
Population in the city list screen is now a link to city specialists
Worker build action button yields no longer subtract unimproved tile yields
Map Overlay Customizer now has seperate options for Urban and Rural Improvements
Renamed the City Number options and City Site Density to City Site Spacing
Show Foreign Family Colors option now also applies to city widget crests
Clicking a General portrait on a selected unit now selects the character
Law tooltips now show family opinion changes instead of family class opinion
New Place Bonus decisions get sorted to the front of the event queue
Improvement pings no longer removed after a terrain change if the improvement is still valid or after a resource is added if the improvement matches the resource
Added foreign opinion helptext to specify the portion of the Ruthless AI opinion that is due to a player alliance
Added character archetype crest to mission targets
When a unit cannot complete a move, camera pans back to unit location and fatigued sound is played
Right-clicks on UI widgets now work with a tooltip locked
Moved some help text to the advanced help text option
Temporarily hidden units show a timer
Temporary hidden status is ignored for damage preview if unit has to move for previewed attack
Last choices for customized leaders are remembered
Succession list helptext (tooltip for the Inheritance button) shows archetype icons
Removed Follower list when selecting families
Remove the separate popups for dead/retiring governor, agent and general
Improved goal instructions in Learn to Play scenarios
City religious improvement tooltip now includes unfinished and pillaged improvements
Added tribe elimination notification

Bugs Fixed

Fixed AI development claiming more than the nation's share of city sites when using limited City Site Number options
Fixed agent tab not properly updating after assigning agent character
Fixed setup screen bug with number of players
Fixed modified trade values not being calculated in trade bonus helptext
Fixed city culture tooltip flicker
Fixed overlay customizer not updating toggles when re-opening after making unsaved changes
Fixed locked overlay highlight switching off of Custom when toggling customizer
Fixed improvement filter issues, include unfinished improvements
Fixed pillaging, burn and launch offensive not clearing hidden status
Fixed some issues with temporarily hidden units
Fixed retry cloud upload directing to succession UI
Fixed map selection with character assignment UI active
Fixed double state religion reference in happiness help text
Fixed AI leaving Wonders unfinished if interrupted
Fixed not being able to change language when it's not your turn
Fixed popup and decision processing when not the active player's turn
Fixed foreign characters showing on 1st turn of Hotseat game
Fixed custom nickname bugs
Fixed improvement net yield help text to include income from adjacent tiles that belong to a different city
Fixed game reload inconsistent state
Fixed pathfinder not being reset when a new tile is revealed
Fixed implicit conversion with maiMinStats/maiMaxStats
Fixed Recruit button not appearing with no orders
Fixed assassinating heir mission not giving achievement when heir exploring
Fixed AI not building most projects
Fixed map scripts sometimes generating marsh on hills
Fixed Regicide achievement not always triggering
Fixed characters incorrectly showing under Court filter
Fixed tile widgets not always updating after place bonus decision resolved
Fixed not being able to retire when there are no opponents in SP
Fixed possible null reference when a city is razed
Fixed Mounted unit attack bonus incorrectly being listed in tooltips as a negative defensive modifier
Fixed tribal unit movement bug
Fixed extra divider in improvement tooltip for improvements with no yields
Fixed event trigger text not always showing correctly
Fixed camera hotkeys not working in map editor
Fixed MP setup when playing scenarios where player order doesn't match scenario save
Fixed new tribe leaders not following their tribe's religion in Wrath of Gods scenario
Fixed mod infos initialization, source effects were not being properly set on new game. Fixes Rebel text in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Text and event fixes

80048 (2025-10-07)

Main Branch 1.0.79872 release 2025-09-24

Main Hotfix 1.0.80048 release 2025-10-07

Hotfix updates Unity version to resolve a security vulnerability and fixes a potential AI hang

Design

Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)
Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)
Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns
Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%
Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25%
Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology
Tribe unit behavior is less predictable
Barbarians cannot enter a nation's territory before raids are possible
Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)
Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech
Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles - affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry
Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area
Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level
Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80
Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference
Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters
Tribes can only adopt world religions
Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets
Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)
Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus
Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge
Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive
Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.
Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties
Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

AI improvements:

AI water control improvements and bug fixes
Tweaks to exploration and retreat
Keep potential danger separate from actual danger
Increased value of heir tutor mission
No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby
No longer imports horses until they can build horse units
Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them
Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying
Tribe AI improvements

Other programming changes:

Performance optimization
AI performance improvements
Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)
Updated Epic dev tools and SDK

UI

Turn timer changes (MP):

There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out
First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning
Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again
These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml

Other UI changes:

Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply
'Only Show Map Tacks For Worker' option renamed to 'Contextual Map Tacks'. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected
Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner
Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn't have required Tech
Improved some luxury trade help text
Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)
Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial
Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode
Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death
Updated difficulty descriptions

Bugs Fixed

Tribe AI fixes
Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements
Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types
Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions
Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle
Fixed missions continuing for dead target character
Fixed camera focus on tile bug
Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries
Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases
Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects
Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot
Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled
Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed
Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text
Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled
Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia
Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor
Fixed some temporary invisibility issues
Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options
Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp's defend threshold or raid start threshold
Fixed AI not knowing how to repair improvements that cannot be built (e.g. Towns)
Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing
Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)
Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)
Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case
Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size
Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Text and Event fixes

79872 (2025-09-24)

Main Branch 1.0.79872 release 2025-09-24

Design

Temporarily hidden units (i.e. Scouts bounced out of Trees) now become visible after 5 turns (or after attacking or moving)
Temporarily hidden units can no longer occupy territory that they would not be able to occupy if not hidden (i.e. foreign territory while at Truce)
Scouts are no longer removed from the map after establishing an Agent Network and instead get a 5 turn cooldown and are hidden for 10 turns
Veneration Theology gives +10% spread chance, up from 5%
Revelation Theology gives +20% spread chance, down from 25%
Enlightenment Theology now gives +3 Happiness only for Monks in Monasteries of Religions that have that Theology
Tribe unit behavior is less predictable
Barbarians cannot enter a nation's territory before raids are possible
Increased Discontent per turn on Sufficient, Modest and Fragile Prosperity levels (Glorious, Magnificent and Great difficulty levels)
Removed free Crossbowmen bonus tech
Nomad effect now gives +25% strength in Arid as well as Sand tiles - affects Camel Archer, Libyan Cavalry and Elite Libyan Cavalry
Highlands map script now has 27% more tiles to compensate for less useable area
Bypassed events are less frequent and tied to event level
Bypassed relationship penalty increased from 60 to 80
Automatic (non-event) marriage will prefer candidates with a lower age difference
Removed orders for refusing tribal truce in No Characters
Tribes can only adopt world religions
Poet trait gives positive opinion of other poets
Further decreased likelihood of AI founding religions early based on AI Development and Aggression (applies for at most first 16 turns)
Assault bonus to attack against forts no longer applies when forts give no defensive bonus
Disabled some more ambitions in One City Challenge
Rightful Heirs can no longer become Missing, Exiled, Imprisoned or Fugitive
Games with two human players and AI no longer place the humans at opposite ends of the map and the AI in the middle. Instead, they are treated like a FFA.
Added ambitions for building Wonders added in Wonders and Dynasties
Delvers have an opinion penalty towards Stewards of the Land. These traits are now mutually exclusive (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

AI improvements:

AI water control improvements and bug fixes
Tweaks to exploration and retreat
Keep potential danger separate from actual danger
Increased value of heir tutor mission
No longer guards starting empty city sites unless there is another player nearby
No longer imports horses until they can build horse units
Hittite Scouts avoid chopping trees that will unhide them
Further reduced AI emphasis on tile buying
Tribe AI improvements

Other programming changes:

Performance optimization
AI performance improvements
Missing shaders in asset bundles are now replaced with game versions where possible (affects mods)
Updated Epic dev tools and SDK

UI

Turn timer changes (MP):

There are now 2 warnings that turn time is running out
First warning triggers at 30 seconds remaining, turns timer text red and plays audio warning
Second warning triggers at 15 seconds remaining, increases timer text size and plays audio warning again
These times are configurable using a mod in globalsInt.xml

Other UI changes:

Renamed Rider projects from Import to Supply
'Only Show Map Tacks For Worker' option renamed to 'Contextual Map Tacks'. Now shows improvement pings whenever workers, settlers or disciples are selected
Improvement helptext and unit build option prereqs take into account tile owner rather than unit owner
Added helptext warning when trying to build Improvement for teammate who doesn't have required Tech
Improved some luxury trade help text
Yield production graphs also display the total accumulated up until the hovered point (after game is over and for observers)
Learn to Play is removed from the main menu after completing all the LTP or LBP scenarios or on disabling the tutorial
Added help text for event options that give archetypes in Roleplaying mode
Imprisoned trait removed from characters on death
Updated difficulty descriptions

Bugs Fixed

Tribe AI fixes
Fixed city and culture limits not showing on Encyclopedia entries for relevant improvements
Fixed uneven distribution of tribal unit types
Fixed some bugs with AI use of missions
Fixed converting a game to play-by-cloud not working when not your turn in Strict turnstyle
Fixed missions continuing for dead target character
Fixed camera focus on tile bug
Fixed changing capital clearing sent luxuries
Fixed modded asset bundles not loading in some cases
Fixed load/save error from adjacent unit effects
Fixed bug with AI exploring units trying to harvest when they cannot
Fixed AI peace offers sometimes using the no events popup when events are enabled
Fixed yield stockpiling ambitions being offered when close to already being completed
Fixed duplicate event option archetype help text
Fixed tribal camp events not resetting with Reset Random Seed on Load option enabled
Fixed bug preventing DLC related hints being shown in Encyclopedia
Fixed potential null reference in Map Editor
Fixed some temporary invisibility issues
Fixed audio tracks not always being listed in Main Menu audio options
Fixed tribal units with a raid target counting towards a tribal camp's defend threshold or raid start threshold
Fixed AI not knowing how to repair improvements that cannot be built (e.g. Towns)
Fixed edge case with Carthage3 African Invasion goal not completing
Fixed iGovernorCostModifier applying to orders (affects Darius dynasty and mods)
Fixed unbuildable units and tech cards showing on the tech tooltip (affects mods)
Fixed mod version mismatch being displayed incorrectly, preventing modded saves from being loaded in some case
Fixed foreign occurrence effects on units, movement and visibility not being applied immediately (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed some occurrence load/save issues (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed some non-global Occurrences showing as global in helptext (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario map size
Fixed wrath from difficulty not being applied in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Fixed displayed prosperity level not matching effect in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Text and Event fixes

79513 (2025-08-27)

Main Branch 1.0.79513 release 2025-08-27

Design

Duel map size is now smaller (45x45) and defaults to 2 players
Added new map size Tiny, which is the same size as the old Duel
Maximum Number of Opponents allowed is now set per map size at twice the default number of players
Random map size can no longer result in an actual map size that is too small to accommodate the chosen number of players
Added new Ultra-wide aspect ratio option to MP setup (map width is 40% of map height)
Each Victory condition is disabled for other players after first being achieved
It is no longer possible to lose the game after being the first to complete a victory condition
Tribes, Raiders, Rebels and Barbarians now more likely to pillage improvements and attack units rather than cities
All members of a team with a nation allied to a tribe can found cities on that tribe's sites, for an extra cost
The AI avoids founding a religion for a certain number of turns, depending on AI aggression and development levels
The AI can no longer start with improvements that are required for founding a religion (Shrines and Pastures)
Units that are no longer hidden because of an effect being removed remain hidden until they move or attack
Hidden scouts no longer get bounced several tiles away just to remain hidden in Trees
Make Peace/Alliance with a Tribe ambitions no longer require tribe contact and don't fail if the last contacted tribe is eliminated
Adad-Guppi and Ramesses II cannot die for the first 50 years (Wonders and Dynasties)
Slum improvements are now Urban (Behind the Throne)
Added new map script Desolation, a fertile land with deserts that expand over time (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences no longer change terrain on a tile with an improvement (excluding roads) to a terrain type that is not supported by that improvement (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences no longer remove roads when changing terrain to a type that doesn't support roads, unless impassable (Wrath of Gods)
Added new Sacrifice Courtier goal to the Wrath of Gods scenario
Drought raid event in the Wrath of Gods scenario can no longer occur in the first 20 turns or at all on Weak Tribe Level

Programming

AI improvements:

Pathfinder enhancements
Improved movement plans on congested maps
Combat tactics improvements
Fixed AI being less aggressive against other players than intended
Improved attacks out of staging areas
Founds cities for protection instead of retreating
Less likely to retreat healthy units after attacking in the same area
Better accounting for enemy power when allocating units to city defense and attack staging
Anchored ships are higher priority targets
More urgent repair of pillaged improvements
Revised specialist and improvement building priorities

Other programming changes:

Minor performance improvements
Occurrences are processed for each player separately during their turn
New game loading screen no longer waits for the prehistory to finish, improving load times on fast machines
Expanded and tweaked wording of warning of potential crashes on Raptor Lake CPUs
Owned DLCs on GoG are now cached in memory after receiving ownership
Better handling of modded XML paths on Windows

Victory screen is updated when a player has met one of the victory conditions
Victory popup on game over mentions the last victory earned instead of the first
Score threshold for victory no longer shown after double/points victory achieved
Net yield tooltip now groups yields that subtract from each other (affects mods only)
Added loading screen hint about Advanced Help Text
Specialist help text without the advanced help text option now includes a simple yield total in the place of net modified yields
Cleaned up culture help text
Player and tribe tooltips no longer show relationship with unmet entities
Replaced icons for Strength and Weakness
Removed tile change notifications from game log
Localization text updates
More UI related actions allowed during another players turn (i.e. renaming cities, setting reminders)
Cloud notification emails no longer show details in Summary section if they appear in another category
Network games are now removed from the Current Games list for eliminated players

Bugs Fixed

Fixed 11th ambition / 2nd National ambition sometimes getting offered
Fixed null reference on exit to menu
Fixed tooltips clearing unnecessarily between turns
Fixed governor icon not updating after losing control of a city
Fixed tile recommendation icon interactability when tile status is active
Fixed possible crash if a mod eliminates a council position
Fixed tile border expansion when using the Game Editor
Fixed leader trait achievements not working when new leader already has trait
Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields
Fixed pinned characters being shared between players
Fixed some game editor actions not working when it's not the active player's turn
Fixed AI building too many forts and in bad locations
Fixed incorrect AI danger calculations
Fixed Caravan animation being affected by "Follow AI moves" setting
Fixes to Multiple Continents map script
Fixed trigger text for some city culture events
Fixed assign governor tooltip showing incorrect opinion change
Fixed some duplicate titles in cloud email notifications
Fixed caravan missions not being able to be completed through unrevealed territory
Fixed governor project reminders not being dismissable
Fixed toggle buttons closing reminders panel
Fixed yield previews showing for improvement placement on invalid tiles with map tacks
Fixed custom overlay not restoring properly after hovering to build a road
Fixed a city site assignment bug that could result in AI cities on higher development levels not being grouped together
Fixed null icon in eliminated player text on MP game tooltips
Fixed cities not being able to be razed in no-character mode
Fixed AI sometimes not clearing or claiming city sites
Fixed net yield change tooltip for adjacent improvement modifiers
Fixed events incorrectly showing origin of foreign occurrence
Fixed display of family tab when large numbers of luxuries are sent to family
Fixed helptext performance issue
Fixed units sometimes not getting bounced from occurrence impassable tiles
Fixed XP floating text sometimes not appearing
Fixed map scripts allowing unreachable non-boundary tiles
Fixed missing Tribal Truce and Peace missions in No Characters
Fixed ethnicity helptext issue in Heroes of the Aegean 6
Fixed Kingship god icon positioning (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed global Occurrences (e.g. Drought, Plague) being more frequent than intended (Wrath of Gods)
Text and event fixes

79004 (2025-07-31)

Main Branch 1.0.79004 Release 2025-07-31

Hotfix release that fixes a couple of potential game hangs. It also reverts the UI change requiring ctrl+click to load cloud games from previous versions on release builds.

78921 (2025-07-23)

Main Branch 1.0.78921 Release 2025-07-23

Headline Changes

Added support for Multiple Victories and Succession Games
Custom Map Overlay added, Overlay and Map Pin UI improvements
AI improvements

Design

Multiple Victory support

On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition
While pursuing additional victories, defeat can still occur if another player satisfies a victory condition
Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame

Succession game support

Added 'Send to Player' option to in-game menu for Single Player games
This is designed to support Succession games and can also be used generally for sharing saves
Select a friend from the dropdown or enter their platform ID
Games will appear on both the sender and recipients Current Games list on the main menu
The Current Games entry will be deleted automatically after the recipient loads the game and can be manually deleted in Host Controls by both parties

Other design changes

Religious improvements may now be adjacent to improvements of different religions
Launch Offensive now gives the unit and leader 20 XP
Events can no longer end a war with a tribe that has a player ally
Resources added during the game (events or other bonuses) can now be placed adjacent to resources of different types
Holy site legitimacy events are now guaranteed to trigger on improvement completion
Distant raid probabilities are now based on each player's Prosperity rather than global Tribe Level
Gadarat's Subjugator trait spawns worker at cleared site rather than capital (Wonders and Dynasties)
Akhenaten can build Altar of the Aten improvements which spread Atenism, a new unique religion for this dynasty. Disciple bonuses removed. (Wonders and Dynasties)
Nebuchadnezzar I's brother now recognized as Royal (Wonders and Dynasties)
Occurrences no longer change or remove existing resources, or add resources to improved tiles unless the existing improvement matches the new resource (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences no longer add vegetation to tiles with resources that don't allow that vegetation (Wrath of Gods)
Added goal Declare War on Tribes Three Times to the Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

Enabled cloud games on test builds
AI attack and retreat tweaks
Added some AI flexibility in still getting kills when an attack doesn't go as predicted
AI is a little more careful with sacrificing its good units
AI is less eager to buy tiles
AI makes truce with other AI more easily when it detects a stalemate
Adjusted the target number of units for the AI
AI places more value on walls after reaching its unit target
AI now tries to explore rival territory, if possible, to reveal cities
Decoupled subject picking from events
Missions now take an arbitrary list of subjects and relations

UI

Custom Map Overlay added, giving a lot more flexibility in what is shown on a map overlay
Map pins can now be added and removed using a grid of icons from the Overlay Customizer
Map pin UI improvements
Map Overlays can now be locked with right click
Added option to set default map overlay
Added option Advanced Help Text. Some tooltip information is removed when this option is not enabled
Event triggers are now displayed at the top of events where relevant
Added popup notifications for some bonuses (Diplomatic, Subjugator, King of Kings, Fickle Band)
Landmark discovery popups no longer shown when starting an alliance
Cloud games that were last played on a different version will be greyed out with a warning. Use Ctrl+click to load a game from an earlier version. Saves from later version cannot be loaded
Added starting characters to SP setup stats screen
Added support for cycling through occurrence tiles on click
Added turns of/since conflict to player and tribe tooltips
Mission subject info now shown in Encyclopedia
Up/Down arrows cycle through encyclopedia entries
Added yellow warning text to specialist "replaces" text
Added visual flood effect for extreme Iteru flooding in Pharaohs of the Nile campaign
Added Governor Project reminder category for religious dissent (Sacred and Profane)
Added custom helptext for Ebbing Sea occurrence (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed yield previews getting stuck
Fixed bug that could cause games to fail to start after selecting Learn to Play scenarios
Fixed map generation for games with 2 human teams where the middle of the map is not suitable for player starts (e.g. Hardwood Forest)
Fixed border expansions sometimes including urban tiles that belong to other city sites
Fixed free improvement UI not triggering when completing Jebel Barkal
Fixed free improvement UI not showing dynamic improvement text (i.e leader name on Stele)
Fixed data issue with some tile status text
Fixed succession list character links showing effects of being a leader instead of current character effects
Fixed empty categories in cloud emails
Fixed project net yield bug
Fixed MP setup spacing and text wrapping issues
Fixed rout preview sometimes being shown incorrectly
Fixed Caravans consuming orders when they cannot move
Fixed subject matching for characters in eventlinks
Fixed Road To overlay not clearing after selecting tile
Fixed some parts of the research UI sometimes being uninteractable
Fixed note map pings
Fixed AI build choices not respecting the Guilds law
Fixed selected city widget not being interactable
Fixed tribal units not getting allied territory water movement bonus
Fixed toggle sizing on some resolutions
Fixed Event Browser not using full screen
Fixed Encyclopedia errors
Fixed anarchy road building bug
Fixed Lose a City goal not completing when losing a city due to an event
Fixed ship harvest helptext showing xp is gained from harvesting
Fixed player count not resetting when switching from premade to random map
Fixed units counterattacking when they could not have targeted the attacking unit on their own turn
Fixed AI trying to start a Caravan mission over and over when it's not possible
Fixed heir sometimes getting auto-married instead of getting a marriage offer
Fixed portrait loading error when toggling mods in SP setup
Fixed custom nicknames for leaders not being applied from events
Fixed chat and pings not working when not your turn in network MP games
Fixed players not being able to act after ending their turn when still their their teams turn with Strict (Teams) turn style active
Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields
Fixed issues when removing tile visual effects, which were causing problems in the Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios
Fixed Pharaohs of the Niles scenario 1 undo back over army deployment
Fixed minor victory broken link in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6
Fixed bug that could cause turns to be skipped in the Wrath of Gods scenario
Fixed Occurrence effects applying multiple times to cities (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed mod upload error
Mod browser and upload page fixes
Text and event fixes

78527 (2025-06-25)

Main Branch 1.0.78527 Release 2025-06-25

Headline Changes

Clerics family changes
Guilds law now allows building Elder specialists directly, skipping prerequisite specialists
New UI system for placing free improvements and resources

Design

Cleric family now gets free Divine Rule law on founding. Removed free Monasticism and Found Religion Project from Clerics
Cleric seats can build Christian and Manicheist Disciples after the religions have been founded without the religion being present
Cleric seats have double speed Disciples only for State Religion
Religion spread no longer has a distance limit from the Holy City
Guilds law now allows building Elder Specialists directly, skipping any prerequisite specialists. Hamlet happiness bonus removed
Tribe-owned units no longer get a strength modifier against other tribes at strong and raging tribe levels
Regents now become Royal if they usurp the throne or continue ruling after the rightful heir's death
Projects and specialists that are automatically removed from the build queue because they are no longer valid now refund any invested resources to the player's yield stockpile
AI governors now emphasize growth and build fewer growth units when city has no citizens
Persia's Shapur dynasty gets the Found Religion project (Wonders and Dynasties)
Rising Stars are now less common and ask to become a Grand Vizier less (Behind the Throne)
Opulence project now requires a luxury in addition to estates (Behind the Throne)
Reduced probability of Occurrence ready events (Wrath of Gods)

Multiplayer Turn Style changes

Loose turn style can be selected only with a turn timer
Renamed normal turn style to adaptive
Tight turn style is now the default
Strict turn styles no longer allow players to perform any actions when not their turn (this also affects single player)

Programming

Performance optimization
Memory allocation optimization
Bug reporting system improvements
Improved AI valuation of Disciples and Religions
AI now uses Cleric seat ability to build disciples of non-present religions
Improved AI use of unit staging before an attack
AI checks whether a city can have an effect from resources before building a project that gives that same effect (i.e. Riders Import Horses)
AI knows to use units that do not require orders when it's out of orders
Improved sprite loading thread safety
Added safeguards against unexpected UI resets from a game restart
Added 3 additional resource categories to the default map script for use by mods
Added support for partial counterattack strength for use by mods (replaced InfoUnit.mbMeleeCounter with miMeleeCounterPercent)
Added support for upgrading rural improvements for use by mods
Generalized event subject picking so it no longer needs an event, just a list of subjects
Various missions started by the leader now no longer block all events with a leader subject
UI mod files (UI/includes and UI/styles) are excluded from game CRC
Added UI/templates to UI modding paths

UI

Free improvements and resources are now added to the event queue and placed by clicking a valid tile
Tooltip in tech tree shows the date team mates have discovered each tech, as well as for observers in MP games, and all players when the game is completed
Games with custom names (i.e. Game of the Week) now show their name in the parameters tooltip
Improvement net yield now includes Patrons Precious Resource culture bonus
Border expansion preview has the correct border colors for families
Added Items to Encyclopedia in their own category, with unique events listed
Encyclopedia now lists DLC source for traits where applicable
ESC clears luxury selection before opening menu
City luxury tooltip improvements
Valid unit types now listed for 'New units start with <promotion>' helptext
Improved luxury tooltip positioning
Removed tile raw yield from the city net yield tooltip
Added min height for OK button on turn summary popup
Scripted tutorial events blur the background UI, preventing events being bypassed
Added strength/weakness icons to concept links
Improved Riders 'Import Resource' project helptext
Yield and unit strength previews when assigning jobs now take into account the opinion change caused by the job switch
Mission requirements in tooltips are no longer shown in some situations where these requirements are all met
Ratings shown on character tooltip when they are 0 if they produce a yield (i.e. Schemer Agents)
Removed resource ping from improvements dropdown. This was made obsolete by the new UI to place free resources
Improved tooltips and interactions between Behind the Throne traits and imprison/assassinate missions

Bugs Fixed

Fixed event job forcing not always working
Fixed trade breakdown tooltip
Fixed governor marker showing in city widget for No Characters
Fixes to the Old World premade map - re-added dynasty start positions and fixed empty tiles warning
Fixes to the Punic Duel premade map - removed underwater trees and fixed missing city name
Fixed border expansion preview not updating after changes in player decision queue
Fixed Stele placement not being restricted to chosen city
Fixed a bug with AI unit effect evaluation
Fixed Game.canStartOccurrence modifying the game state
Fixed players being unable to surrender in MP games when they are the last active human player
Fixed events checking for mutual attraction selecting divorced spouses
Fixed incorrect amount of orders when ending the turn without founding a city
Fixed temporarily impassable tiles getting counted for minor city creation
Fixed leader bio paragraph indentation inconsistencies
Fixed farm model roof bug
Fixed visibility load/save error from terrain height change
Fixed an AI bug that made it misjudge large battle outcomes and attack when it should be retreating
Fixed number of improvement ambitions becoming impossible after losing control of a city
Fixed mini tech tree names not being accounted for in scroll area
Fixed council character tooltip positioning with selection active
Fixed reference to Stun in Retreat helptext
Fixed Guilds help text inconsistency
Fixed top bar yield arrows for selected character
Fixed events giving characters jobs getting invalidated when character is general of a unit on cooldown
Fixed yield preview showing incorrectly when replacing an improvement with a specialist
Fixed duplicate characters getting generated from events
Fixed AI bug that caused retreat from non hostile AI units
Fixed critical hit chance not resetting on General wisdom change
Fixed flicker when hovering over improvement recommendations
Fixed border expansion algorithm
Fixed family and religion crest color and opinion display
Fixed potential infinite recursion in AI bonusValue calculations
Fixed another case of Carthage scenario 4 Epic Victory achievement not being granted
Fixed Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 4 being continuable after winning
UI modding fixes
Text and event fixes

78114 (2025-06-02)

Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28

Hotfix 1.0.78114 Release 2025-06-02

Hotfix fixes bugs with some events and automated workers that could cause the game to get stuck

Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison
Capital no longer gets a free Garrison
Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)
Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance
Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city
Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library
Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs
Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%
Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%
Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%
Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)
Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)
Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable
Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning
Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning
The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed
When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible
Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team
Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup
Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements
Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied
Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles
Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise
In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal
Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)

New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other
Deadly Inheritance
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
New Front
No War Declaration
Not to Be Trusted
Offensive Remarks
Reaping the Whirlwind
The God Queen
Triple Cross!
Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries
No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)
Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)

Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)
Performance optimization
Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible
Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family
Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density
Memory allocation improvements
Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly
Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple
Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects
Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier
Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural
Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy
Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators
Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies

UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer
Added improvement net yields in tooltip
Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible
Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible
Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)
Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons
Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip
Improved German grammar for character relationships
Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement
Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements
Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext
Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup
Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions
Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned
General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types
Character relatives display now left-aligned
Improved border expansion predictions
Leader now shown on Court tab
Leader concept added to Encyclopedia
Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia
Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept
Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia
Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions
Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC

Bugs Fixed

Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced
Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be
Fixed Send Goods icon display
Fixed load/save error from border expansion
Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries
Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset
Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture
Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead
Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects
Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text
Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages
Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages
Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles
Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader
Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases
Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active
Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it
Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity
Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor
Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management
Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job
Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range
Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory
Fixed some AI retreat confusion
Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button
Fixed nation crest color issues
Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling
Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries
Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus
Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters
Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish
Fixed founded city territory bug
Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases
Fixed missing at sea bonus description
Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible
Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income
Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame
Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases
Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen
Fixed scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI
Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario
Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned
Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)
XML ordering fixes
Text and event fixes

78070 (2025-05-29)

Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28

Main Branch 1.0.78070 Release 2025-05-29

78070 update is a hotfix release that fixes a bug with some events that could cause the game to get stuck

Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison
Capital no longer gets a free Garrison
Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)
Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance
Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city
Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library
Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs
Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%
Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%
Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%
Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)
Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)
Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable
Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning
Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning
The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed
When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible
Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team
Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup
Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements
Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied
Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles
Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise
In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal
Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)

New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other
Deadly Inheritance
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
New Front
No War Declaration
Not to Be Trusted
Offensive Remarks
Reaping the Whirlwind
The God Queen
Triple Cross!
Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries
No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)
Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)

Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)
Performance optimization
Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible
Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family
Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density
Memory allocation improvements
Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly
Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple
Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects
Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier
Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural
Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy
Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators
Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies

UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer
Added improvement net yields in tooltip
Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible
Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible
Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)
Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons
Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip
Improved German grammar for character relationships
Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement
Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements
Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext
Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup
Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions
Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned
General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types
Character relatives display now left-aligned
Improved border expansion predictions
Leader now shown on Court tab
Leader concept added to Encyclopedia
Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia
Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept
Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia
Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions
Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC

Bugs Fixed

Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced
Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be
Fixed Send Goods icon display
Fixed load/save error from border expansion
Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries
Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset
Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture
Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead
Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects
Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text
Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages
Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages
Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles
Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader
Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases
Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active
Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it
Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity
Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor
Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management
Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job
Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range
Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory
Fixed some AI retreat confusion
Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button
Fixed nation crest color issues
Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling
Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries
Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus
Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters
Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish
Fixed founded city territory bug
Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases
Fixed missing at sea bonus description
Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible
Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income
Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame
Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases
Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen
Fixed scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI
Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario
Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned
Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)
XML ordering fixes
Text and event fixes

78053 (2025-05-28)

Main Branch 1.0.78053 Release 2025-05-28

Design

Garrison and Governor changes:

Governors no longer require a Garrison
Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)
Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Law changes:

Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance
Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city
Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library
Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs
Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

Library class improvements Science increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 10%/20%/30%
Courthouse class improvements Civics increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 20%/30%/40%
Market class improvements Money increase changed from 20%/30%/50% to 30%/40%/50%
Rider family Import projects allow cities to build relevant units directly instead of adding resources to map. Added extra order to rider seat (1 -> 2)
Increased AI penalties on The New difficulty (20% -> 25%)
Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable
Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning
Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning
The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed
When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible
Damaged cities cannot be gifted to another team
Added 'No city gifting' option to MP setup
Disjunction mapscript with King of the Hill option balance improvements
Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied
Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles
Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise
In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal
Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)

New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

A City Like No Other
Deadly Inheritance
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
New Front
No War Declaration
Not to Be Trusted
Offensive Remarks
Reaping the Whirlwind
The God Queen
Triple Cross!
Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries
No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)
Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)

Programming

The AI claims cleared city sites more urgently (with force march, if necessary)
Performance optimization
Replaced valid terrain fields by TerrainTargetType to make improvement requirements more flexible
Family bonuses now check whether the bonus player has that family
Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density
Memory allocation improvements
Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly
Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple
Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects
Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier
Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural
Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy
Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators
Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies

UI

Ship unit icons replaced to make the differences between them clearer
Added improvement net yields in tooltip
Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible
Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible
Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)
Added missing improvement warning text to unique unit production buttons
Added opinion gain line to Make Agent tooltip
Improved German grammar for character relationships
Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement
Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements
Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext
Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup
Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions
Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned
General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types
Character relatives display now left-aligned
Improved border expansion predictions
Leader now shown on Court tab
Leader concept added to Encyclopedia
Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia
Improved Encyclopedia entry for Citizen concept
Religions now always show founding requirements in the Encyclopedia
Characters entries in Encyclopedia now list unique events and missions
Encyclopedia, when viewed in-game, show entries based on currently enabled DLC instead of owned DLC

Bugs Fixed

Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced
Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be
Fixed Send Goods icon display
Fixed load/save error from border expansion
Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries
Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset
Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture
Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead
Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects
Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text
Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages
Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages
Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles
Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader
Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases
Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active
Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it
Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity
Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor
Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management
Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job
Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range
Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory
Fixed some AI retreat confusion
Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button
Fixed nation crest color issues
Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling
Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries
Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus
Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters
Fixed city production text not updating after builds finish
Fixed founded city territory bug
Fixed extra mission buttons appearing in some cases
Fixed missing at sea bonus description
Fixed production text sometimes not appearing in some languages when city healthbar is visible
Fixed Chancellors with negative discipline not reducing money income
Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame
Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases
Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen
Fixed scenario victory achievements sometimes not completing
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI
Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario
Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned
Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)
XML ordering fixes
Text and event fixes

77503 (2025-04-30)

Main Branch 1.0.77503 release 2025-04-30

Headline Changes

New map script Rejuvenation added to the Wrath of Gods DLC. A barren desert that becomes more temperate and acquires resources over time
Ships can now enter defensive formation, which works in the same way as Fortify for melee infantry. Ship promotion balance tweaked
Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist

Design

Ships can enter defensive formation, giving +10% defence against Ships per turn, up to a max of 30%. A counterattack is gained at maximum level and each attack against the ship removes one level.
Grappler promotion immobilizes ships instead of stunning them and no longer has an attack penalty
Fireship promotion no longer gives +10% attack
Cockswain promotion gives +20% strength in National Territory instead of Rout
AI more likely to break alliances with poor opinion
Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if it's not completely ready to do so
When a tribal alliance ends and there are tribal units in the same tile as player units, the tribal units are bounced, not the player units
When a national alliance ends, a unit in its own territory never gets bounced
Expose Agent mission takes 1 turn to complete (was 2)
Rise of Carthage campaign tweaks and rebalancing
Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2 rebalanced
Slums worker discount removed and militia discount increased (Behind the Throne)
New map script Rejuvenation added (Wrath of Gods)
Occurrences that affect water movement (eg Hurricane) affect player-controlled water as well, both for water units and land units using anchored tiles (Wrath of Gods)
Hurricanes remove Anchored status from ships (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

Restart Game and New Map now generate a new game ID so that a new entry can be recorded in the Hall of Fame
AI less averse to building Militia and Conscripts when it cannot build a latest upgrade regular military unit
Pathfinder performance optimization
Moved project spread to the Player class
Memory refactor
Testudo is now a unit effect
Added delete functionality to Manage Mods tab for mapfiles with no ModioID/WorkshopID
Added support for showing images of workshop maps in Manage Mods tab
Added support for council positions that don't require any traits
Added support in the game class for adding visual effects to tiles independently from the occurrence system
Added support for yields with negative demand
Added backwards compatibility for mods with zero-cost projects (notably fixes freezes in Projects+ mod)

UI

Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist
Added year of discovery to each acquired tech on the Tech Tree
Can no longer see citizens, specialists, and happiness level of foreign cities without an agent
Selection panel tooltips appear on the left
Score/ambitions panel hidden with attack preview active
Ambition display tweaks
Added Net Yield Change to project build tooltips
Improvement and specialist tooltip tweaks
Added reminder count on tooltip for pillage reminders
Decreased size of religion icons on city widgets and archetype/family icons near leader portrait
Discord/Steam rich presence now updated after loading a save
Added Save button to cloud host controls screen
Notification URL icon shown in cloud game list
Observer hosts of MP games can send messages only to everyone
Added notification icon for City Damaged
Added Increase Unit Movement Radius Visibility button to accessibility options to allow players to boost unit movement radius contrast
Added spacing between archetype/ratings/items on character cards
Source of counterattack damage in the combat preview is more specific
Improved tooltip alignment and positioning
Law tooltips now show F1 Encyclopedia links
Encyclopedia updates
Localization text updates
Added explanation popup to target player when a mission has resulted in an AI or a tribe agreeing to declare war on that player
Shrines are listed in city pagan religion help text, just as monasteries, temples, etc are listed for world religions
Agent networks with agents now shown in Spymasters Agent Networks submenu
Improved helptext for traits that can replace other traits
Removed the Text tab from the Event Browser

Bugs Fixed

Fixed DLC that is not owned being marked as disabled
Fixed bug that forced some map scripts to put all players on the same continent
Fixed increasing player count disabling Allow Duplicate Nations option
Fixed Governor gendered helptext issue
Fixed event browser not using selected language for event preview
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the AI from declaring war to expand
Fixed broken river segments in mirror maps
Fixed missing available luxury highlights
Fixed enlisted unit of eliminated nation becoming a rebel
Fixed bug with AI understanding of how city attacks work
Fixed character mission tooltip positioning inconsistency
Fixed left unit healthbar always showing 0 damage in attack preview
Fixed specialist tooltip net yield change to correctly account for the loss of a citizen
Fixed tile tooltips revealing yields for foreign improvements when at Peace
Fixed restarting a hotseat game losing player information
Fixed map selection clickthrough issues
Fixed F7 city list not sorting when agent tab is selected
Fixed incorrect default number of opponents set in single player setup screen
Fixed configuration of female scout and female worker combat portrait prefabs
Fixed city recommendation icons appear for non-visible production buttons
Fixed agent networks submenu player colors
Fixed issues with city widget capture text
Fixed data issue for culture on city tab
Fixed data issues for specialist widgets and pings
Fixed improvements placed in the map editor always getting raised to the hill height offset
Fixed irrelevant tribes appearing in the tooltip of some character bonuses
Fixed team/tribe diplomacy icon not updating in score area when diplomacy changes
Fixed event text/goal mismatch
Fixed incorrect number of players stored in the options file for multiplayer settings
Fixed hotseat games restarting with the wrong active player
Fixed modio maps not showing in mod browser
Fixed modio maps not updating properly
Fixed a couple of issues with maps on Workshop
Fixed Modio API errors on uploading mods
Fixed modio uploading all files in Maps folder
Fixed modio maps reporting version issues if modVersion is blank
Fixed modio maps sometimes not getting metadata embedded in the mapfile
Fixed modio maps images not showing on manage mods tab
Fixed possible null reference when map filename isn't the same as map display name
Fixed mods with file information showing private full path filename
Fixed mod uninstall button not working on Install tab immediately after an installation
Fixed issues with loading mod units from asset bundles
Fixed UI exception for non-civics projects when AI build recommendations are enabled (affects mods only)
Fixed non-civics projects displaying the incorrect yield above the build queue (affects mods only)
Fixed Enlist killing enlisted units if the enlist-on-heal amount was too low (affects mods only)
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 not taking into account the final turn's yields for determining goal completion
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 issue with rebels capturing cities
Fixed Civil War affecting all players (Behind the Throne)
Fixed missing Clergy in Wrath of Gods scenario
Fixed Stele appearing in improvements list when it cannot be built manually (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed crash caused by Inferno (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Occurrences sometimes occurring more often than they should for a given player (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed map Occurrences not being added to mirror maps (Wrath of Gods)

Notes for Modders

Five separate memory types (MemoryCharacter, MemoryTribe, MemorReligion, MemoryFamily, MemoryPlayer) are now one type, Memory. The base file name is memory.xml
Mods that add memories need to rename files, e.g. memoryCharacter-add.xml should be memory-character-add or just memory-add. The dash after memory is the important part
Event bonuses are now just Memory / Forget, for all memory types. Events should take care to apply the bonus to the right subject. For example, a Memory bonus applied to a SUBJECTCLASS_CHARACTER subject is the equivalent of the earlier MemoryCharacter bonus
It is recommended to upload new versions of map mods in order to take advantage of fixes and new features

76988 (2025-03-26)

Main Branch 1.0.76988 Release 2025-03-26

Headline Changes

New National Ambition system introduced to allow earlier selection of your final ambition
Launch Offensive changes
Continent is now the default map script
AI and performance improvements

Design

National Ambitions:

The final ambition is now called a National Ambition and may be offered early, after a player has completed 5 ambitions
The offer is triggered soon after the player reaches 70% progress towards one of the national ambitions
National Ambitions are not used for tier counting purposes i.e. they do not make regular ambition offers harder
All National Ambitions are listed in the Encyclopedia under their own category
Added new National Ambition '+250 Food, Iron, Stone, Wood and Money per turn'. This replaces the previous ambition to stockpile 2000 of each resource
Added new regular Ambition 'Control 4 Hamlet class improvements'
Adjusted ambition threshold calculations and ambition events to allow a greater variety of ambitions to be offered

Launch Offensive changes:

Offensive effects do not apply to the leader unit
Cannot launch offensive when on cooldown
Leader unit goes on new launched offensive cooldown
For team games, bonus orders from the offensive go to the unit owners

Continent map script changes:

Continent is now the default map script
Added new Extreme Terrain suboption 'None' and made this the default
Tribal Lands placement option removed

Other design changes:

Critical hits on cities are no longer possible
Stun is now possible when attacking a unit in a city without any HP left
Panic and Fireship effects now cause units that cannot retreat to become Disarmed instead of Stunned
Enlisted units by a Zealot leader now return to full health
Hidden units now always ignore ZOC
Money Boost tech card moved to Coinage
Free Trireme and Free Dromon tech cards removed
National ambitions now offered at 70% completion instead of 75%
National Ambitions event enabled in no events mode
Fire shrines now have adjacent modifier to any improvement in the Mine class (now also affects Laurion Mines)
Commander leaders always grant +10XP per turn to all units (previously units had to be idle)
Free improvements are now allowed on resource tiles with a generic improvement ping. Placing a free urban improvement on a resource removes the resource without harvesting it
Adjusted ambition threshold calculations so a greater variety of ambitions gets offered
Events where the AI offers Truce on breaching a city now trigger when the city is captured instead
Can no longer build roads and improvements in territory of an ally
Water tiles no longer need to be adjacent to land in order to transfer them from one of your cities to another
Units that earn XP past the maximum level convert that XP to training
Ezana's Evangelist trait only gives new units Christianity/Adept in city where he is governor (Wrath of Gods)
7 new events relating to Calamities happening to other players (Wrath of Gods)
Reduced other religion opinion penalty duration for Venerate mission (Wrath of Gods)
Increased chance of Scrub appearing on new Arid tiles on Ebbing Sea map from 2% to 10% (Wrath of Gods)
Eruption and Earthquake intensities tweaked (Wrath of Gods)
Made Calamities less common on the Rare and Very Rare settings (Wrath of Gods)
Wrath of Gods scenario now uses a customized map script with more Volcanoes (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

Rendering API change: Linux / Steam Deck now default to Vulkan. Windows supports Vulkan with a command-line switch -force-vulkan
Epic Mac build now runs natively when run outside of the Epic launcher, i.e. using alternative launcher such as Heroic
Improved UI responsiveness when cycling through workers
Performance improvements
AI combat improvements
Improved AI use of Launch Offensive
Improved AI order predictions when planning moves
AI is more aggressive in moving towards enemy cities when at war
AI more likely to place ranged units in forest when defending its territory with a Tactician leader
AI fort building now less common
AI tries harder to delay using anchored units so that land units don't get stranded
AI now less eager to build some wonders that are not very useful (e.g. Jebel Barkal without world religion)
AI cares a little more about culture
Invading organized tribes are less timid
Added ALLOW_CITY_CRITICAL_HITS to globalsInt, for use by modders
Mod manager no longer fully loads installed maps when fetching subscription info
Unit XP overflow into training uses TRAINING_PER_XP for consistency
Buildable projects now use a ProductionType such as YIELD_CIVICS. Non-buildable projects do not require this
iCivics has been renamed to iCost in project.xml

UI

Setup screen changes:

Removed Options Preset dropdown from Simple setup and added Event Level
Added Reset Options button to Advanced and MP setup screens
Added difficulty mode to Advanced setup screen
Simple setup settings are saved separately from advanced setup settings. Going back and forth between Advanced and Simple screens retains only nation and dynasty settings
Entering the setup screens with a premade map that restricts nation choices stored in the options file will no longer keep that map choice, to ensure all nations are shown
Enabled DLC no longer gets reset every time

Other UI changes:

Selected characters now appear in the upper right side of the screen and Ambitions in the upper left
Added Net Yield Change to specialist build tooltip, which takes modifiers into account and subtracts yields for any replaced specialist
Popup text minimum scaling reduced
Removed background UI blur when events are active
EffectUnit links now also include the effect icon by default
Timeline screen slider is now disabled while advancing by season or by year
Clarified City Site Number help text
Wonder legitimacy bonuses now named per culture tier to differentiate them
Can now queue the same tile multiple times without the unit executing the queued moves
When the last tile in a move queue is right-clicked, the unit executes the queue
Flipped luxury panel buttons
Tweaked alignment for scenario-specific goal info
Archetypes now shown in line of succession panel
Strategic resource icons for unit production shown on city categories when available
Temporary unit effects now show the remaining turn count on their icons
Changed all happiness/discontent yield displays to use relevant icon instead of signed text
Added worker list to tile tooltip when multiple workers are stacked
Selecting a character centers the camera on job-relevant city or unit
Research UI is now always shown regardless of selection
Added reminder for pillaged tiles
Added ability to hide improvement tooltips by holding CTRL
Timeline now shows map terrain changes over time
Timeline now shows current revealed-not-visible state for borders when it is set to show the current turn
With a land unit selected, hovering over a water tile in anchor range will show "Must end move on land tile"
Network games are now paused automatically when the game is over
Cannot surrender a multiplayer game if you are the last player remaining
World tile text now shows over city UI
Unworked wonders show Requires Worker text with worker selected
Right-click toggles tab panel menus off if already open
Improved unit strength tooltip text
Updated premade map descriptions
Removed some of the yield breakdown from the specialist tooltip and added modified total yield
Removed line break from event option tooltips that start goals
Removed 'New Event in Wizard' button from Event Browser
City links that do not open the city screen now pan the camera to the city when clicked (i.e. tribal raid notifications)
Starting a game using a parameter string no longer updates the options file with the game's settings
Added custom savegame prefix to standalone scenarios
Added more promotion and effectUnit information to encyclopedia
Updated credits
Updated Shapur's dynasty description to clarify that Strike applies to melee and ship units (Wonders and Dynasties)
Plague flies are only shown on units with the Plagued effect. Plague fog effect is confined to city territory (Wrath of Gods)
Wildfire visual effect is less extreme (Wrath of Gods)
Improvement pings are no longer removed by an occurrence rendering a tile impassable (Wrath of Gods)
Boosted plague fog visibility (Wrath of Gods)
Boosted volcano animation speed (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed Korean text sometimes not displaying
Fixed text autosizing issues
Fixed popup text not updating immediately after changing scaling
Fixed assert when removing player ownership from a tile with a religion attached
Fixed forest on lake tile in Middle East map
Fixed bad city border preview on Old World Map by removing an urban tile to the west of Pella
Fixed a threading issue that could cause server-side exceptions
Fixed unit queuing bugs
Fixed units not being selectable through overlays
Fixed some UI elements not updating properly after undoing initial found
Fixed occasional opinion arrow misalignment in event popup
Fixed city recommendation assert
Fixed workers and ships in cities with no defenses not taking damage from attacks
Fixed clicks on parts of the UI selecting map elements behind them
Fixed Continents map script bug
Fixed Caravans being unable to travel through anarchy territory
Fixed improvements being repairable inside hostile territory
Fixed unit health bars appearing incorrectly for some attack previews
Fixed the Ignore Map Nation Starts option not working on some maps
Fixed Family Seat founding bonus not showing in the setup screens and in game before player has founded their capital
Fixed Road To overlay not updating when changing mouseover tile
Fixed flickering issue when hovering over build recommendations on some parts of the screen
Fixed bug where AI could still win in some cases when player achieves victory on the same turn
Fixed goal threshold bug incorrectly making ambitions invalid
Fixed Barbarian Horde MP achievement not working in hotseat
Fixed Greek and Assyrian capitol buildings not being shown when adjacent to rivers
Fixed Allow Negative Cognomens option appearing when no characters option selected
Fixed Free Court Minister encyclopedia entry with null icon
Fixed encyclopedia prompt showing on traits with no encyclopedia page
Fixed encyclopedia null references
Fixed succession law preview tooltip showing wrong law
Fixed Courtiers Added stat not increasing when recruiting an existing foreign courtier
Fixed Organized tribes not healing
Fixed some AI bugs
Fixed research UI not updating immediately when yield rates change
Fixed Carthage scenarios giving a lower-tier victory than earned if one of the goals was completed indirectly
Fixed Portrait Editor loading issue
Fixed portrait models potentially obscuring each other
Fixed unit cycle tooltip sometimes not locking
Fixed ship building on a tile that has turned to land
Fixed nested link issue in governor candidate tooltip
Fixed team color intensity slider
Fixed map timeline GIF palette not representing border colors correctly
Fixed citrus grove configuration
Fixed ZOC display exception
Fixed pillage notification links selecting units
Fixed some dropdown appearance issues
Fixed autobuild cities not repairing upon being founded with a damaged settler
Fixed bug in effectCity help text yield breakdown
Fixed occurrence effects after a new city has been founded
Fixed sporadic disconnections in network and server games when one or more player slots are open
Fixed pathfinding for hidden units
Fixed AI bug that caused it to sometimes move units back and forth between the same tiles
Fixed null pointer if an init phase EffectPlayer, i.e. from difficulty mode, uses miReligionOpinionChange (only affects mods)
Fixed aiUnitTraitConsumptionModifier help text bug (only affects mods)
Fixed repair yield purchase for Stateira (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed Flood not displaying correctly in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Calamity level showing on in-game difficulty mode and game parameters tooltips, if the content is disabled in the current game (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed calamity postprocessing profiles overriding postprocessing settings from graphics settings i.e. Motion Blur (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed some rendering issues when terrain changes height (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed calamity effects being removed from rivers too early in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed eruptions displaying on volcanos obscured by fog of war (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed double legitimacy penalty when abandoning a Demand (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed trees removed from building improvements not being counted for demands (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed issue where some global calamities that target tiles were instead targeting all tiles (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario victory event not triggering when next victory becomes impossible (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario duplicate victory threshold events in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Hurricanes not displaying correctly in some cases (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed wrath generation issues casued by Undo / Restart Map (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed mid and major raid Occurrences being invalidated (Wrath of Gods)
Fixed Calamities causing city sites to become impassable (Wrath of Gods)
Global Occurrence fixes (Wrath of Gods)
Text and event fixes

76679 (2025-03-04)

Main Branch 1.0.76679 Release 2025-03-04

Hotfix release that fixes a bug preventing mountains from being removed on the Tumbling Mountain map script. This fix applies to new games only.

76630 (2025-02-28)

Main Branch 1.0.76330 Release 2025-02-28

Hotfix release that fixes a couple of bugs and includes content needed for upcoming DLC

Bugs Fixed

Fixed Game of the Week
Fixed bug that could cause the game to get stuck on AIs turn

76453 (2025-02-19)

Main Branch 1.0.76453 Release 2025-02-19

Headline changes

Premade map updates including major expansion of The Old World map
New game setup options, UI and accessibility features
AI improvements and performance optimizations

Design

Major expansion of The Old World premade map to accommodate Aksum (upcoming DLC nation)
Minor adjustments to The Middle East premade map, Aksum starting position added
Updated resources on The Imperium Romanum premade map, all luxury resources are now present
Added tribes to The Mediterranean premade map
New game option added 'Allow Negative Cognomens'. Disabled by default
High Event Level now allows more events to occur per turn
Repeatable technologies increase by 50% of the original cost each time they are researched (+1000, up from +500)
All religious buildings (Temples, Monasteries, Cathedrals) are now permanent
Crossbowmen bonus against melee now only applies to attack instead of strength
New advanced setup option 'Balanced starting resources' for single player (previously MP only)
If the AI reaches a victory condition on its turn and the player also does at the start of their next turn, the player will now be given the victory instead of the AI
Reduced the effect of Grand Vizier and AI leader traits on the number of units they tend to build
Reduced cost of Burning improvements to 50 Training (down from 100)
Purging a religion from a city now prevents it spreading to the city again without use of a Disciple
Can no longer gift Family Seats
Ambition victory now disabled in multiplayer by default (will remain on for ongoing games where it is enabled)
Better matchmaking for auto-marrying characters. More likely for characters that are attracted to each other to get married and less likely for characters that hate each other
Ambition-picking events will try to avoid giving a second crowning ambition, a lower tier fallback will be offered if possible
Seizing the throne no longer adds bypassed relationships to former leader's succession
A non-fatal attack that triggers an event that immediately kills the unit is now treated as a unit kill (for kill unit ambitions, routing etc)
Competitive Mode no longer disables Grand Viziers but does now disable some Rising Star events related to seizing the throne
Laurion Mines now cost 10 wood to repair (previously had no cost)
New tutorial event added when Warriors can be upgraded to Spearmen (previously only occured for Axemen upgrades)
In Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2, Themistocles now retires after the battle of Salamis
Tweaks to invasions in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5
Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 tweaks - easier difficulties are now easier and initial landing goal made clearer
In Rise of Carthage scenario 4, tribal allies will automatically declare war on Rome
When using the Caesar Dynasty, Princess Julia will now take up family Julius if picked (Wonders and Dynasties)
Rising Stars now demand the throne less and to be Grand Viziers more (Behind the Throne)

Programming

Optimization and performance improvements
Tactical AI improvements
Improved AI use of anchoring
Improved AI Scout movement under Exploration law
Improved AI unit movement
Improved AI family selection when founding a city
Moved default improvement repair cost to XML
Better scenario difficulty mode support
Added command line argument -loadgame
Refactored opinion levels to be independent of XML order

UI

New feature: Generating a parameter string, which players can use in the setup screen to restart the same game from the beginning
The SP setup screen now has a third tab (Simple/Advanced/Parameter String), where players enter the parameter string
Parameter Strings can be found on the in game menu
Added Accessibility option for one-click map centering
A preview of potential water control is now shown when holding CTRL with ship selected
Notification display order reversed, now shows oldest notifications at the top
Character tooltips now show trait effects that are relevant to the current position (leader, general, governor) of the character
In MP the turn timer warning sound now plays with 15 seconds remaining (up from 5) and increases the size of the timer text. Paused text is now shown when the timer is paused.
In Observer mode, decision popups no longer get removed by clicking on an option
Character selection for job assignment popups now defaults to an idle character
Tweaks to job assignment highlighting behavior, selection clearing on the city screen
Opening the reminders list closes the job assignment menu
Unit filter for Infantry changed to Melee Infantry
Rearranged city queue display to avoid overlap. Queue can now display 9 items (up from 4)
Known visibility button now shows visibility for all rivals if no unit or player is selected
Buy Orders shortcut key now defaults to SHIFT+O (instead of O)
Added Leader Archetype dropdown to Basic Setup options for Barbarian Horde scenario
Added icons for strength and weakness to character tooltips
MP player UI (team research and gifting options) is now shown in SP when player has AI teammates
Stats for all players are now shown to observers in MP games
Removed the 'Edit in Wizard' button from existing events in the Event Browser
Fixed confusing color of unit fatigue pips when already force marched and there is no movement limit. Force marched units now display flashing "marched" text
MP scenario tooltips now show scenario subtitle
Renamed Units Killed stat on stats screen to Military Units Killed
Removed Raiders and Rebels from game history
Improved "Slow AI" tooltip
Bonus tech cards now indicate that they are bonus cards
Added cause of death field to the character tooltip. Traits with a probability of death are removed after death
Riders icon now shown on city widget instead of Connected icon for Riders cities
Rising Star trait no longer removed upon death
Simplified and cleaned up some Family help issues
Removed some yield clutter from specialist tooltips
Encyclopedia and tutorial corrections and improvements
Standalone scenarios are now shown on the top level of the scenario screen instead of under their own category

Bugs Fixed

Fixed memory leaks
Fixed improvements being buildable in territory of non-allied foreign nations
Fixed AI sometimes being unable to declare war on a nation while at peace
Fixed queued unit moves not happening when destination blocked
Fixed automated units sometimes not moving
Fixed ships sometimes being built on the city center instead of the intended water area
Fixed event syntax bug
Fixed nested link in generated diplomacy links
Fixed hover issue on team research display
Fixed UI issue with Create Game button being disabled after unloading a server game
Fixed some AI confusion about who benefits when performing a mission on a character of a different nation
Fix for initial city naming - only relevant in mods
Fixed tribe link in city widget not selecting tribe
Fixed some UI issues with tile highlighting
Fixed AI exception with tribal cities
Fixed missing seat founding bonus in the family class Encyclopedia entries
Fixed add urban recommendation not showing border preview on hover
Fixed regenerating Hall of Fame entries leading to points wins becoming defeats after opulence VP changes
Fixed player placement bug for 2-team MP games that also have independent AI nations
Fixed portrait interpolation errors for portraits that do not have interpolation settings when interpolation is disabled
Fixed boat projectiles causing rendering artifacts on macs
Fixed breaking peace with a tribe in no characters mode
Fixed name display issue in some languages for royal characters with jobs
Fixed goals not completing when new units created
Fixed marauder prefabs being slightly offset
Fixed portraits not updating when age interpolation is enabled for the first time in-game
Fixed portrait editor breaking when interpolation is disabled in graphics options
Fixed portrait editor portraits not updating correctly when a source portrait
Fixed portrait editor opinion tab displays
Fixed incorrect tile highlighting for event options that affect tiles
Fixed ambitions that should only come from specific events (i.e. Destroy the Rival Nation) appearing randomly
Fixed AI complaining about the same stolen city site repeatedly
Fixed Stun preview text incorrectly showing for units in splash radius
Fixed years reigned text issue that could occur with regency
Fixed empty series warning for opinion graphs
Fixed some cases of dropdowns getting cut off
Fixed units with no family sometimes showing incorrect family icon
Fixed attack preview issues
Fixed river movement in captured territory
Fixed religion icons sometimes showing on tribal camps when city site did not have religion
Fixed implicit subject conversion issue
Fixed save game version not being updated
Fixed game editor unit placement in water
Fixed city production yield costs sometimes disappearing
Fixed some succession issues related to usurpers
Fixed non-active city site on Middle East map
Fixed unit effect formatting issues
Fixed bug that allowed the player to choose invalid nations on premade maps
Fixed some Map Editor errors
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 unit AI
Fixed Learn to Play 2 choose tech goal not completing immediately
Fixed potential issues with retake islands events in Rise of Carthage scenario 4
Fixed bugs with rebellion event triggering twice and Aristotle event not triggering in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4
Fixed some broken links in Rise of Carthage campaign
Text and event fixes

75717 (2025-01-15)

Main Branch 1.0.75717 Release 2025-01-15

Headline Changes

Difficulty settings renamed, to make the difference between presets and indivdual settings clearer. Settings outside the presets are now shown as 'Custom' difficulty in game with a breakdown of the individual settings.
Increased variety of crowning ambitions. This should make winning an ambition victory easier and more varied.
Grand Vizier rework (Behind the Throne). A big change to Grand Viziers based on player feedback, they now act as governors in all cities without a named governor and only control production in these cities.

Design

Difficulty rename:

The Advanced Setup Difficulty setting is now called Prosperity
The Simple Setup Difficulty presets remain as they were
Difficulty components are grouped together and indented under difficulty mode in the game parameters tooltip
Difficulty will be listed as Custom for combinations outside of the simple difficulty presets
Distant raids are now tied to Tribe Level instead of Difficulty
Achievements related to difficulty are now tied to Difficulty instead of Prosperity

Changes to Ask to Declare War mission:

Ask to Declare War mission now requires a Leader with the Schemer archetype. Removed mission tech requirement and lowered opinion needed to Cautious. Disabled mission for allies
Ask to Join War mission added, where you must already be at war with the target. This requires Pleased opinion
With Ruthless AI enabled, war requests will be denied if the player is close to victory

Other design changes:

Removed family preferences from crowning ambitions. Most crowning ambition events now allow three choices of ambition instead of two. Along with some bug fixes this should give a much higher variety of crowning ambitions offered
Alliance victory is now an setup option, default is off
Upgrading a unit now keeps its fortification state
Gifting, converting, hiring, or recruiting a unit can no longer result in it being in territory where it should not be
Can now upgrade units inside your team's cities, even if they are not your own cities
Achievement 'Alexander the Great' no longer requires the Great cognomen, just have to destroy Persia as Alexander
Removed restriction on marrying Libyans in Rise of Carthage scenario 1
The Random Improvements option now allows any combination of shrine effects instead of picking a set from a random nation
Launch Offensive can now be used from a unit with a rout cooldown and it removes rout cooldowns from adjacent units
Pathfinder trait now gives 50% bonus to Camps and Nets as Governor and 20% as Leader instead of 100/50%
Swapped maintenance costs of Philosophy/Engineering and Professional Army/Volunteers
Neutral territory is now defined as either unclaimed, anarchy (city being captured), or owned by a nation or tribe you are not at war with
Fort defensive bonus, road and exploration river movement, Hero and Fort healing, Scout tree invisibility, all require neutral or friendly territory
Road and Fort construction requires friendly, unclaimed, or Anarchy territory
Added regular reminder to complete Influence goal in Learn to Play 3
Characters with a religion trait (Clergy, Mani etc.) can no longer be targeted by conversion missions
Conquered cities can no longer be given to a family that has not yet been founded
Grand Vizier now acts as a governor in cities without a governor and controls production only in those cities. Removed all other Grand Vizier yields (Behind the Throne)
Grand Vizier managed cities can no longer rush buy (Behind the Throne)
Grand Vizier courtiers are no longer giftable in MP (Behind the Throne)
Unpopular trait now gives nationwide 5% rebel spawn chance (Behind the Throne)

Programming

AI performance optimization
AI builds fewer duplicate roads
Improved AI retreat vs attack decision making
Added more logging for AI unit priority comparison failure
Hall of Fame games now store the active player so that when you load them the player stays the same
Improved replay so that it still works if there is data only from the current turn
Removed improvement dynamic text object from each tile to save some memory
Bonuses and EffectCities give only EffectUnits, not Promotions. Promotions are only for units that can gain XP
Unit effects that come from disabled promotions can now be assigned by bonuses and city effects
Disabled implicit subject conversion for DiplomacySubjects bonuses
Turn Lock function removed

UI

Character tooltips no longer show trait effects
All attacks now listed under Units Attacked notifications (previously kills were not shown)
Free promotions are now indicated in the city production list and unit type tooltip
"Death of governor" decision now auto-invalidates if the city can no longer have a governor
Defeat status now shown when the active player is eliminated in MP even if the game is still ongoing
Event browser story preview improvements
Law strategy notes updated
Added minimize toggle to player goals/ambitions display
Inverted red/green warning text in some cases for negative yields
User assigned hotkeys now have more flexibility. Assignments can use previously reserved keys and conflict with non-assignable hotkeys
Crowning ambitions are now indicated with the legitimacy crown icon
Added some missing keyboard shortcuts to button help
Improved Choose Governor tooltip
Pillaged permanent improvements now show a pillaged icon
Encyclopedia improvements

Bugs Fixed

Fixed invalid moves adding undo points
Fixed some events failing to appear with the Ruthless AI setting enabled
Fixed player connection state UI for single-player network games
Fixed Thracians in Learn to Play 4 being visible before they should be
Fixed server games preventing eliminated players from joining one last time to see what happened, and for the game to be saved locally as a loss
Fixed bug where client could be in a different language to the active player
Fixed Hall of Fame bug where regenerating was replacing Scenario specific text with Generic game text for Nation, Leader names, and Difficulty
Fixed Hall of Fame difficulty sorting
Fixed network messages being sent out of order
Fixed achievement text that referred to Kushite Cavalry instead of Mounted Lancers
Fixed Ten Crowns achievement incorrectly counting regents twice
Fixed improvement pings not appearing when law requirements are not met
Fixed vegetation help text to correctly state a ranged attack penalty
Fixed possible array out of range for bad event links
Fixed bug preventing some Crowning Ambitions from appearing
Fixed bug allowing ambitions to appear in events with random ambition selections that should only appear in specific events
Fixed cycle button position not updating shortcut keys and not getting saved
Fixed some road pathfinding issues
Fixed player start location bug in the desert map script and made start location picking more robust in general
Fixed illegal urban tiles placed in mirror maps
Fixed character ratings appearing with a divider in some cases
Fixed research popup closing after using Redraw
Fixed null ref in encyclopedia
Fixed duplicate Hall of Fame entries when reloading a completed cloud game
Fixed character suffix bug where a ruler would get the II suffix if a parent had the same name but never was a ruler
Fixed incorrect suffix on Ptolemy II
Fixed event system bug that can very rarely lead to valid subjects being deemed invalid
Fixed tooltip expansion when hotkey changed
Fixed order yield rates not updating when starting/finishing construction
Fixed broken Civ Fanatics forum link on main menu
Fixed AI movement null reference
Fixed several Portrait Editor bugs
Fixed load/save bug for mods that give bonus effectUnits
Fixed duplicated Hittite portrait
Fixed errors when loading saves with deprecated promotions
Fixed wrong memory display when giving a conquered city to a family
Fixed opinion and legitimacy bonus from founding a family seat getting applied more than once in some cases
Fixed enlist effect not getting cleared after use
Fixed cases when opinion and legitimacy for founding a family seat could get applied more than once for the same family
Fixed spymaster context menus sometimes not appearing
Fixed agent missions and networks menus appearing on foreign spymasters
Fixed formatting of tile and city tooltips
Fixed improvements from inactive DLC showing up in build menus
Fixed invalid improvements sometimes appearing under Valid Improvements filter
Fixed goals display spacing
Fixed AI modified collection exception
Event audio fix
Fixed trait loss causing unrelated events
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 2 goals sometimes not getting offered
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 2 and 3 olive-counting goals
Fixed Rise of Carthage starting heirs not being Royal and therefore not tutorable
Fixed Macedonia not getting family promotions on their starting units in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
Fixed bug in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 event triggering multiple times
Fixed Grand Vizier traits not affecting the cities where they are acting governor (Behind the Throne)
Fixed some UI instances where the acting governor was being treated as the actual governor (Behind the Throne)
Fixed unit widgets failing to display icon and shapes not included in their respective default sprite atlases (affects mods)
Fixed General not getting removed when upgrading a unit to a type that cannot have one (affects mods)
Text and Event fixes

Notes for Modders

EffectCity.aeFreePromotion becomes EffectCity.aeFreeEffectUnit
Promotion.aeGrantsEffectUnit is replaced by EffectUnit.aeKillGrantsEffectUnit
Bonus.aePromotions no longer exists, bonuses should grant EffectUnits instead

75065 (2024-11-20)

Main Branch 1.0.75065 Release 2024-11-20

Changes Overview

More kids: Increased chances for leaders to have children
Permanent improvements: Shrines, Slums, and Estates are now permanent improvements
AI improvements

Design

More kids: leaders with no children now have a higher chance to have kids
VP calculation: Points required to win are now increased when projects that grant VP are available (i.e. Opulence in Behind the Throne)
Permanent improvements: Shrines, Slums, and Estates are now permanent improvements that can be pillaged but do not get destroyed, and cannot be replaced
Tribal Divorces: Divorcing a tribal spouse now results in a negative opinion with that tribe
Distant raids: No longer include ships
AI unit building:
The traits of Grand Viziers and AI leaders now influence their decisions of how many units they build
Heroes, Commanders, Tacticians, and Warlike characters build more units and Builders, Scholars, Diplomats, and Timid characters build fewer units
AI is more likely to build units in cities that give unit promotions and experience
Alliance events: Most alliance and tribal alliance events now either require a diplomat leader or are disabled in competitive mode
City reveal: Cities are now revealed from a greater distance, like settlements
City capture: Cities now take 1 turn longer to capture
Unit spawn location: Rebels from Slums spawn on Slum tiles and Religious Dissent rebels spawn on religious buildings, if possible
Starting units no longer spawn on the same tile, even if they are allowed to do so

Programming

AI improvements:

Less aggressive in saving yields for many turns when spending results in an immediate, albeit lesser, benefit
Better evaluation of laws to properly take into account the unlocking of unique units
Increased the value of growth for a city that is building Settlers/Workers
Decreased value of disciples, AI avoids building them if has no use for them
Revised AI build hurrying priorities
Improved AI danger assessment and retreating
Improved AI unit build selection

Headless autoplay: Added support for AI auto-runs in headless mode

Run OldWorldAutorun.bat in the same folder as the game executable
All players in the save are controlled by the AI for the specified number of turns, after which the game exits
Can examine runs by opening the autosaves that are placed in the Auto folder

Other programming changes:

Performance optimizations: Improved performance of terrain rendering, tile ownership changes and event processing
Improvement and Project Legitimacy: now tied to effectCity and always converted to orders in no characters mode
Added triggers: EVENTTRIGGER_PLAYER_DIPLOMACY_CHANGED and EVENTTRIGGER_TRIBE_DIPLOMACY_CHANGED
Moving capital: Added support for moving the capital. Player's original capital is now remembered and exposed to the event system
Roads from improvements: Added support for improvements adding roads to the tile
ZOC changes from improvements: Added support for improvements allowing units to ignore enemy ZOC
Mission bonus rework: InfoMission.miXP replaced with SubjectCharacterBonus
Diplomacy methods: now take players as arguments instead of teams, to that events are triggered for the most relevant players

UI

Family tab icons: removed player color
Marriage missions: now grouped together
Inheritance and Tech Tree screens: now scrollable with camera keys (WASD)
Religion Tooltips: Active Clergy and Current Followers no longer shown if there are none. Added +2 civics to Holy City line
City Tooltips: Added tile tooltip content to bottom of city tooltip
Royal characters: Changed 'your Relative' to 'A Royal'
Nation tooltips: Now always show number of cities on nation tooltips
Honey resource audio: Reduced volume of honey environmental audio
Custom campaign audio: Added custom sounds for priest attacks in Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 3
Tutorial events: Adjusted timing and added more to No Events mode
Button dragging: Disabled unnecessary button clone when dragging buttons
Laurion Mines: No longer show extra text on map

Bugs Fixed

Fixed recruitment with legitimacy penalty not getting applied on loading a save
Fixed info loading bug that could cause new games to fail to start
Fixed undo/redo related to tribal invasions
Fixed bug with random seed for event story trigger test not matching the seed of the actual triggered event
Fixed silent event failures caused by type cast issue
Fixed units failing to spawn from improvements in Barbarian Horde games after the invasion had started
Fixed disable environment audio toggle not taking effect immediately
Fixed Fickle Band effects not triggering when divorce happened from an event
Fixed ships exiting Great Cothon not always getting their size updated
Fixed multiple selection highlights
Fixed title of MP setup screen when coming from Mod selection screen
Fixed improvement spawned units not respecting DLC checks
Fixed project ambitions not respecting DLC checks
Fixed border expansion preview not updating when selecting option in minimized event
Fixed issues with unit list scrolling and units becoming unselectable
Fixed AI value placed on Strongholds and Citadels (will now be built more often)
Fixed a spurious assert triggering when a nation is eliminated
Fixed graphical display issue affecting Arid Hills
Fixed inconsistency with the number of capture turns of cities
Fixed eliminated tribes being eligible for forming an alliance
Fixed improvement max player count not working for improvements with no improvement class
Fixed exception when submenus scrolled off-screen
Fixed bug where goal subject weight could result in an ineligible subject being chosen
Fixed acquired techs cost in Encyclopedia and added cost to tooltips in tech tree
Fixed some rebel spawn issues
Fixed event cache bug
Fixed modified collection exception
Fixed sort exception
Fixed incorrect iTriggerExtra in EVENTTRIGGER_CITY_CAPTURED
Fixed bug with bSingle effectCity effects that spawn rebels possibly being counted multiple times (affects mods only)
Text and event fixes

75012 (2024-11-15)

Main Branch Hotfix 1.0.75012 Release 2024-11-15

Bugs Fixed

Fixed crash issue affecting players using Chinese language

74722 (2024-10-29)

Main Branch Hotfix 1.0.74722 Release 2024-10-29

UI

Improved resolution of icons on family list
Added stability warning popup for i9-13900K CPUs

Bugs Fixed

Fixed Timeline map display after game is completed
Fixed Offer Tribute for Truce and Demand Tribute for Truce missions silently failing
Fixed Map Editor cursor position
Fixed issue with load dialog not working in some cases

74622 (2024-10-24)

Main Branch 1.0.74622 Release 2024-10-24

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 180x180 (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.
For immediate event links, tag the link with bImmediate = 1 in eventLink.xml. Use EventLinkAdd in eventOption.xml. EventLinkStart will be removed in the future.

74111 (2024-09-18)

Main Branch 1.0.74111 Release 2024-09-18

Headline Changes

24 new events and 11 new items
Two new premade maps designed for 1v1 duels
Tech tree and Law rebalancing
Performance and AI improvements
Hall of Fame improvements
Polishing updates to the Rise of Carthage and Heroes of the Aegean campaigns

Design

Added 19 base game events, 5 Behind the Throne events and 11 new items
Base game events have a focus on Exploring characters and acquiring items that give unique benefits
Behind the Throne events relate to Rising Star leaders. The Rising Star trait is no longer automatically removed on becoming leader
Base game events:
[CHARACTER]’s Travels
The Streets of [CITY]
Ransom
[CITY] Within Reach
A Gift
A Gift (alt)
A Crown from [NATION]
Towering Stones
Under Attack
A Dream in the Forest
Taking Root
The Ground
Stitched Together
[CHARACTER]’s Gift
From the Dead
Unwavering
Something to Remember Them By
Another Sunrise
The New Face of [NATION]
Behind the Throne events:
To Rule is to Disappoint
A Waning Star
A Towering Reputation
[NATION] Rules [NATION], for Now
[NATION] Rules [NATION], for Now (alt)
Tech tree changes:
Moved Free Akkadian Archer card to Forestry
Moved Free Battering Ram and Exotic Fur cards to Spoked Wheel
Free Battering Ram, Akkadian Archer and Hoplite card costs brought in line with other nations free level 1 unique unit cards (200 -> 100)
Moved Free Scholar tech card from Forestry to Metaphysics
Moved Architecture and Vaulting back a tier in the tech tree
Increased the cost of all 7th tier techs to compensate for the reduction in cost of Architecture and Vaulting (1500 -> 1600)
Architecture requires Drama instead of Portcullis
Portcullis no longer requires Drama
Stirrups requires Portcullis instead of Citizenship
Martial Code now requires Citizenship
Windlass requires Manor instead of Architecture
Siege Tower bonus card requires Windlass
Free Perfume card requires Architecture instead of Portcullis
Money Boost bonus card increased from 2000 to 4000 money
Law changes:
Slavery now gives +4 Iron and +4 Stone per city instead of increasing Mine and Quarry output. No longer gives +1 Discontent
Freedom now gives +1 Happiness and +20% Growth in all cities instead of Money per Specialist
Tyranny now gives +20% Training in all cities instead of a global Training boost. Money per unit in territory increased from 8 to 10
Divine Rule now gives +1 Order per Pagan Religion in all cities instead of Happiness per Shrine
Pilgrimage now gives +25% State Religion spread. Holy City Money per Religion boost increased from +5 to +10. No longer affects Science from Groves
Grove improvements now always give +2 Science in addition to previous effects
Two new 1v1 premade maps added.
Punic wars: Rome against Carthage
Median wars: Greece against Persia
These are accessible using the Premade Map option on the setup screen and from the Scenario menu under World Maps
Other design changes
Most map scripts in multiplayer now place all human players on the same landmass.
Exceptions are Archipelago, Continents, Player Islands and Disjunction
This is optional on Mediterranean and Lakes and Gulfs maps using 'Connected Player Starts' as this can significantly affect player starting positions
In MP games using the Player Development setting, extra cities have to obey the connection requirements of starting locations. If they can't the player will not get them
Significantly increased the effect of Ruthless AI on player opinion and war declaration modifier
Laurion Mines now enable a Miner specialist on the tile
Undo is no longer available in cloud games using the Strict (Teams) turn style. This does not affect cloud games using Strict (Players) which still have undo.
Slums and Estates are now permanent and cannot be built over or pillaged (Behind the Throne)

Programming

Performance improvements relating to unit movement and reminders
Tribal unit movement AI is now somewhat more sophisticated
AI no longer declares war on tribes to expand when it's already actively fighting other players
AI is now more likely to build farms around the Jerwan Aqueduct and less likely to build the Cothon in small seas
Improved player start selection on premade maps that do not dictate specific starting locations
Added randomization of player start selection on premade maps
Achievement code cleanup
Add virtual function for sorting of city site candidates, better for mods
Improved AI unit danger estimate
AI now helps their allies count down the capture timer for cities

UI

Added sorting and filtering dropdowns and a regenerate button to Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame now has a SP/MP (Singleplayer / Multiplayer) column and this is shown on the game tooltip
Hall of Fame now shows icons instead of text for Load and Delete
Added audio option for continuing audio track when switching fullscreen tabs
Added obsoleting information to unit encyclopedia entries
Added Religion Opinion tracking to stats screen
Goals/Ambitions with time limits now show limit in bonus text
Removed some details of unlocked missions from tech tooltips
Tiles are now highlighted when hovering over event options that affect specific tiles
In Rise of Carthage scenario 4 the anchor command will now show an explanatory tooltip if ships can't anchor due to scenario rules
Added notification for units that you kill during your turn
City borders now pulse when hovering over the city center
Pin Character mission removed. Pinning is now performed with a new star icon found under character actions
Leader icon changed to a crown and non-succession royals to an asterisk to differentiate them from the pin icon
Notable characters filter now only shows manually pinned characters and is ordered by turn pinned
Harvested resource tooltip now shows regrow chance as a percentage instead of a die roll
Family tree toggles now remember their previous state
Yields are now shown for all agent network cities regardless of agent status when sorting by base yields
Added support for a more complete set of stats in No Characters mode
Refactored ignore reminders code. Now supports ignoring reminder types separately for characters with multiple roles
Smaller tech status icons to reduce overlap on mini tech tree
All laws and theologies now show yield previews where relevant
Moved the generic improvement pings to the top of the dropdown list
Ambitions and goals with multiple requirements now show progress for each requirement on separate lines
Added yield name and sign in some bonus helptext
Improved text selection in ping and bug reporting popups
Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6 now highlights goal cities on the map
Updated Credits

Bugs Fixed

Rise of Carthage and Heroes of the Aegean campaign polishing pass, many bugs fixed
Fixed damaged unit healthbar not always showing
Fixed resources staying faded when a unit exits a tile
Fixed fatigue increasing effects (Swift, Zealot leader) not always affecting hired tribal units
Fixed raiding units not raiding after making peace with their original tribe
Fixed pinned characters getting removed on leaders death
Fixed tribe widgets being occluded by terrain in some cases
Fixed the effect of multiple holy cities in the same city not stacking
Fixed abdication sometimes leaving permanently exploring leaders
Fixed mirror maps sometimes not having symmetric vegetation on resource tiles
Fixed events not popping up on start of turn in hotseat
Fixed clicks on locked tooltip links not registering actions (e.g. selecting a character)
Fixed hover effect not showing on tech cards
Fixed nation/tribe opinion not updating immediately after diplomacy changes
Fixed city camera state not resetting at start of turn when selecting a city between turns
Fixed Royal characters sometimes not appearing in family tree
Fixed Assyrian capital combat preview being blocked by buildings on adjacent tile
Fixed invalid index exception from rebels spawning from a city without a family
Fixed raiders disappearing while inside city territory or adjacent to Kemet/Aten units in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4 not completing when playing in Hotseat against the AI
Fixed errors with portrait interpolation enabled when portraits are not setup for it
Fixed portraits of characters without a tribe or nation
Fixed AI hang
Fixed inheritance preview showing wrong character when there will be no heir
Fixed AI danger calculation for units that need to be unlimbered
Fixed AI unit protection bug
Fixed grammar on Unit Killed notification
Fixed nested link issue in unit type link with promotions
Fixed assert from using waypoints to move units
Fixed critical hit icon sometimes briefly appearing before a unit goes on cooldown
Fixed undo crash
Fixed AI building ships where it should not be building any i.e. in small seas
Fixed Inheritance screen not updating
Fixed some reminders starting dismissed
Fixed "No Team Movement" game option
Fixed autonomous rule cities not repairing
Fixed units not fully resetting their animation queue when an undo or redo occurs
Fixed loading of lost games from the Hall of Fame
Fixed bug preventing the hire of allied tribal units when in a player city
Fixed loss of existing border expansion preview after selecting an event option
Fixed credits popup null reference on application close
Fixed dynastic mechanics of Ptolemy, Ashur-Uballit, Khufu and Mursili in No Events mode (Wonders and Dynasties)
Text and Event fixes

73676 (2024-08-20)

Hotfix 1.0.73676 Release 2024-08-20

Bugs Fixed

Fixed issue with game getting stuck due to looping attack animation
Fixed hidden units being visible on minimap and selectable.
Added popup to GOG Mac builds run natively offline regarding issues with DLC access.

73566 (2024-08-14)

Main Branch 1.0.73566 Release 2024-08-13

Design

Game of the Week Event Level now has a 4% chance to be each of the non-default settings
Growth required for next citizen now increases quadratically after 20 growths. This makes very large population cities harder to achieve
Revelry and Seek Political Allies missions more likely to succeed (Behind the Throne)
Lowered Growth bonus for Rising Star governors from 50% to 25% (Behind the Throne)

Programming

Major Unity version upgrade (2021.3.34f1 to 2022.3.39f1)
AI performance and behavior improvements
Improved the rare case of the AI defending a city when the city's territory is divided in multiple parts by a mountain range
Exposed minimum turn for 1 city ambitions to XML for use by modders
Moved some hardcoded AI parameters to globalsAI.xml for use by modders

UI

Added Notable Characters filter. All characters now have a mission to allow manually pinning and unpinning them to/from the notable characters list
Added player notification when their previously hidden units become visible
Converting a cloud game into a network game now removes it from the cloud so that there is only one active instance
No longer possible to convert a network game to cloud if there are any unclaimed player slots
MP setup screen now has an Advanced Settings header instead of hiding them behind a toggle
Improved tooltip for specialist luxuries
Per-specialist and per-religion yields are no longer considered "potential" bonuses in effectCity help text
Added Game of the Week icon to Hall of Fame games
Game credits updates
Ambitions with multiple yield types now show yield progress in the same order as defined in the ambition
Improvements to culture tooltips
Context menus are no longer closed when clicking on a locked tooltip

Bugs Fixed

Fixed diplomatic missions in No Events mode
Fixed GIF export path on Mac and Linux
Fixed date completed not populating Hall of Fame entry when game completed
Fixed some scenario leader names not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame
Fixed some completed games being excluded from Hall of Fame
Fixed Alliance Victory display in Hall of Fame
Fixed AI assert
Fixed AI thinking it cannot occupy a city tile with both land and water units
Fixed opinion rates appearing over multiple lines in tab panels
Fixed client assert on load
Fixed invalid player index
Fixed hotseat turn state button refresh
Fixed hotseat selection issue on player switch
Fixed MP join screen for teams with many players
Fixed turn button label text in MP
Fixed incorrect religion/city colors in turn summary
Fixed general character tooltip not locking from unit widget archetype icon
Fixed inconsistent ESC key behavior on scenario screen
Fixed AI saying they refuse to declare war when they are already at war
Fixed possible resources on urban terrain with mirror maps
Fixed unit selection causing flickering on adjacent objects
Fixed clicking on city widget selecting units first
Fixed click issues with family seat icon and city healthbar
Fixed display of units in stacks
Fixed popups not always closing when the active player changes in hotseat
Fixed improvement recommendations showing on tiles with recommended improvement already started
Fixed issue with religion founding game log
Fixed warrior built event not popping automatically in Learn to Play 2
Fixed character filter lists not updating immediately
Fixed errors occuring when rapidly scrolling lists
Fixed double-submit in file browser when input field is focused
Fixed nested link in tutor mission links
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 bug where Libyan raid could spawn directly at player city (Pharaohs of the Nile)
Fixed rare Jerwan Aqueduct bug (Wonders and Dynasties)
Text and event fixes

73323 (2024-07-24)

Main Branch 1.0.73323 Release 2024-07-24

Headline Changes

Performance and memory optimizations
Civilian units can no longer defend cities
Game of the Week uses all DLC nations and dynasties and will randomise enabled DLC regardless of DLC ownership

Design

Civilian units (Workers, Caravans, etc) can no longer defend when in a city center and will get bounced out if attacked when the city has no HP
Game of the Week uses all DLC nations and dynasties and will randomise enabled DLC regardless of DLC ownership
Temporarily set Game of the Week to use the No Events setting
Only Diplomat leaders can control the units of their national ally. All leaders can still control tribal allies units
Cohorts now requires Manor instead of Land Consolidation
Land units can no longer stun units on water tiles
Stunned units now keep their Zone of Control
Removed attack penalty for Tactician leader general
Inland Sea map script no longer has desert and mountains at the top and bottom of the map
Tweaks to eligible events for Minimal Event Level and No Events
Kush Scouts with a Schemer leader are no longer invisible when building Forts
Starting leaders now have more protection against dying in the first 20 turns (up from 10)
Caravans no longer exist in 1v1 duels or games with one nation
Truce with a tribe no longer costs legitimacy in some cases
Caravans can enter Anarchy-owned tiles
Impious characters are no longer restricted from becoming Clergy (Sacred and Profane)
Colosseum now creates a Swordsman every 10 turns instead of 5 (Wonders and Dynasties)

Programming

AI no longer builds other projects in border cities if it can build walls
AI now buys resources for unit upgrades
AI no longer plans to expand against a player or tribe if it would otherwise have a zero percent chance to declare war against them
AI improvements to handle worker blockades
AI performance optimizations
Many memory optimizations
Mods can now have custom event art

UI

Updated localization text
No Events toggle moved to Event Level dropdown
Improved road visibility on minimum terrain detail
Added new hotkey (Ctrl+L) to toggle between the two most recently used languages
General name is a now a link on the unit selection panel
Adjusted spacing in unit tooltip bonus table
Rural specialists on non-resource tiles are now shown on the resources/improvements overlay
Improvement help reorganization. Added Potential Bonuses / Other Bonuses links to some improvement tooltips to help readability
Added organized tribal unit concept and indication on unit tooltip
Added notification icon for Occurrences (Era of Peace, Civil War etc)
Laws screen now potentially scrollable (affects mods that add laws)
Units can now be selected through world UI elements (Harvested icon, text from overlays)
Attack preview tooltip prioritized over other world UI tooltips
Improved handling of grammatical gender
Tech cards display now updated when science stockpile changes
Tile yield overlay now shows negative yield values (but does not include consumption)
Moved All Characters list to the right side of character filters.
Character list now sorts by family, with head at top and then by age
Family and Religion heads now have their background highlighted in the character list
Available DLC section added to menu
Active DLC now shown in game parameters
Added divider for CTRL-selection helptext for agent/governor button on city widget
Simplified MP setup screen and added Advanced Options button
Added games completed to Hall of Fame achievements page. Games won now shows games actually won
Enhancements to coloring on recommended improvement widget

Bugs Fixed

Fixed Garrison/Stronghold/Citadel stone upkeep issue in Barbarian Horde scenario
Fixed occasionally-hidden yield costs on production buttons
Fixed null reference in AI bonus value calculation for tribe cities
Fixed artefacts at the edges of fog of war from some viewing angles
Fixed stats breakdown tooltips
Fixed Learn to Play menu scenario expansion
Fixed simple setup screen not correctly applying the difficulty level from the options file
Fixed a No Events event appearing incorrectly
Fixed religion opinion tooltip issue
Fixed reign years display for bypassed rightful heir
Fixed autobuild cities sometimes not selecting something to build
Fixed some issues with in-game language changing
Fixed inland tribes setting for Continent map script
Fixed some truncated link hovering issues
Fixed AI not advancing to occupy a settlement
Fix player power display in German
Fixed truce and peace missions having no outcome in No Events mode
Fixed preset game options from the previous game not being applied on starting a new game
Fixed selection issues around city widget
Fixed clicks on popups / menus affecting the map
Fixed manage luxuries button sometimes closing city screen
Fixed rebels not appearing if the player has no military tech
Fixed several load/save errors
Fixed Game of the week selecting invalid archetype and dynasty option combinations
Fixed premade map MP setup screen with nations that are not enabled
Fixed null reference on improvement tooltip
Fixed AI not finishing Wonders left unfinished
Fixed Tribes not moving when blocked by another unit that then moves
Fixed some missing scenario options
Fixed incorrect default nation selection on setup
Fixed Barbarian sites no longer regenerating after the last Barbarian settlement eliminated
Fixed some shaders failing to render on Macs
Fixed law/improvement help indentation in tech tooltip
Fixed a bug related to AI unit upgrading
Fixed null ref in Hall of Fame when scenario doesn't have a scenario class
Fixed religion opinion load/save error
Fixed Event Browser scaling
Fixed AI ignoring targets that are not reachable from its own territory
Miscellaneous AI fixes
Fixed Grand Vizier incorrectly triggering the "no councilors from our family" opinion penalty (Behind the Throne)
Fixed border expansion preview for building a farm not taking into account the free farmer from the Jerwan Aqueduct (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed specialist bug after capturing a city with the Jerwan Aqueduct (Wonders and Dynasties)
Text and event fixes

73138 (2024-07-10)

Main Branch Hotfix 1.0.73138 Release 2024-07-10

Bugs Fixed

Fixed bug preventing horde from appearing in the Barbarian Horde scenario

72907 (2024-06-26)

Main Branch 1.0.72907 Release 2024-06-26

Headline Changes

Wonders have been rebalanced
5 new Crowning Ambitions added
New game options, presets and defaults including an Introductory preset and No Events mode
Grand Viziers can no longer be assigned manually and will only appear through events (Behind the Throne)

Design

Wonder rebalancing:

Ishtar Gate: increased growth per culture level in the city from 1 to 2
Necropolis: Now gives all cities 3 civics per pagan religion instead of 2 happiness per temple
Royal Library: increased science output from connection to other teams, but reduced output from own team (Wonders and Dynasties)
Al Khazneh: Now gives free silk, perfume, ebony, porcelain, and furs, and a Caravan every 5 turns. Removed money bonus and 3 instant Caravans (Wonders and Dynasties)
Mausoleum: increased culture modifier from 40% to 50%
Hagia Sophia: Now gives 2 happiness levels for every city on completion and 2 happiness per turn per culture level in the wonder city. Removed global happiness per turn
Via Recta Souk: Now gives all on-map luxury resources. Replaced wonder city growth by 2 growth per culture level. Removed happiness per luxury and Caravans
All improvements that produce units create one on the first turn they are built. Affects Holy Sites, Al Khazneh, Cothon and Colosseum
Al Khazneh and Royal Library disabled in FFA games with two or fewer human players and no AI nations (Wonders and Dynasties)

New crowning ambitions added. These are the 10th and final ambition you will be offered in order to claim an ambition victory:

6 cities with a positive happiness level
8 Elder specialists in each Family Seat
Polytheism and 4 Elder Acolytes in each Family Seat
Stockpile 2000 of each resource
Send 20 luxuries
Added game option preset Introductory and made it the default. This sets low events, low mortality and no AI development
Added game option No Events. This disables all events except those necessary for game progression or for leaders' unique abilities.
Renamed newer Inland Sea map script to Mediterranean and made it the default initial map for single player games. The original Inland Sea map script is no longer hidden
Added game option to ignore premade map nation starting locations
AI player starting city numbers are now capped at twice the average for the AI Development level
Swapping the position of units now consumes a fatigue point for both units. Units that have used all their fatigue can use Force March to enabled them to be swapped
The Formation effect (Greek UU) now gives +20% strength from having the same unit adjacent, not just +20% defense
All retiring Generals now get the Retiring General trait, allowing them to become governors
Relaxed restrictions on ambition validity when there are no valid ambitions of the correct tier available
Improved east-west team starting location placement adjustment
Team contact is now always symmetric, no longer possible to not be able to change diplomatic relations with a nation that you have met but hasn't met you
Leader and heir now get an additional trait option that is not related to their current job when upgrading
Raging tribes will now get a centralized AI whenever they have at least one city in their possession
Doubled the effect of Righteous and Debauched traits
Increased Harbor net adjacency bonus from 40% to 60%
Units now always advance after kill when attacking camps that are not city sites
Lowered order amount demanded by the AI when giving tribute for truce
Grand Viziers can no longer be assigned manually and will only appear through events (Behind the Throne)
Autonomous Rule now overrules the Grand Vizier (Autonomous Rule cities do not build units but can spend resources) (Behind the Throne)
Ambushed by rebels trait no longer removes character job (Behind the Throne)
The Found Religion project will now preferentially found Zoroastrianism for the Shapur dynasty (Wonders and Dynasties)
Some dynasty starting characters now have the Rising Star and Power Hungry traits (Wonders and Dynasties / Behind the Throne)
Darius now takes a -5 Legitimacy hit if he lets Bardiya take the throne (Wonders and Dynasties)

Programming

Increased value AI places on gaining orders, AI value for garrisons lowered
AI now attacks tribe settlements with a higher priority than roaming tribe units
AI takes into account the strength of allies and enemies of both players when deciding whether to go to war or ask for truce

Tweaks to AI diplomacy with Ruthless AI set:

AI will not accept a player mission to declare war on a third party, if it would not consider doing so independently
AI will not accept truce from a player, if it has zero chance of initiating truce from its side
AI will not automatically accept peace or truce when another AI player offers it
Improved vizier city build management (Behind the Throne)
Steam now respects the DLC checkboxes in the Steam library, treating any DLCs disabled there as unowned.
Steam now uses rich presence and displays information about the current game state
Mod Browser change to ensure Mod.io website mod commenting is enabled properly on mods
Added the Behind the Throne XML files to the Reference folder
Added setsafe console command which sets characterID safe (not able to die) for numberOfTurns
Added SUBJECT_CHARACTER_WORLD_RELIGION for use by modders
AI is more mindful of danger when moving units from one location to another, if it can't get there on the same turn
Removed UI XML hotloading
Possible fix for occasional reconnection failures in MP
Added some logging to better identify reconnection failures
Mapscript mods consisting of a source file are now deprecated and will show warning message in Manage mods screen

UI

Added turn summary entry for new techs and consolidated some categories
Added loading hourglass cursor to menu screens
Game option positions in setup menu re-organised
Split "Show Single Objects" into "Show Single Units" and "Show Single Resources" in graphics options
Added "Increase Border Visibility" to accessibility
Unit effects now show both the general trait and promotion icons when the unit has the same effect from both
Notification reminder button now bigger and shine effect applied
Updated Learn by Playing scenario icon
Agent candidates are now shown on the Assign Agent tooltip even when they cannot be assigned due to no Spymaster
Revised description of traits that do not allow any jobs (e.g. Ascetic) to dynamically include all jobs
Changed the art for Shrine of Serapis (Ptolemy's unique shrine) so that the dynasties shrines art are unique (Heroes of the Aegean)
Border expansion preview now contains city territory information so that players know which city will get which tile
Updated display of rivers when using Minimal graphics setting
Border expansion now shown when hovering over the unit widget of a worker constructing an improvement
Changed 'Default Settings' Option Preset name to 'Standard Settings' to reflect it no longer being the default
City founding previews now update only borders, rather than all terrain. Borders now only update vegetation when "increase border visibility" is enabled
Ignore to-be-occupied tile for calculating potential bounces during attack preview
Tweaks to notification tooltip for Steam Deck

Bugs Fixed

Fixed a nested link issue with council characters
Fixed some AI issues where it had trouble getting out of its own way
Fixed particle sound effects firing too often
Fixed duplicate crest in notification text for units killed or captured
Fixed doubled pillage/burn buttons for allied tribe units
Fixed bug allowing fort or road construction in non-allied tribe city territory, including territory of cities being captured
Fixed resource improvement pings not always setting the location for resources for some events that add them
Fixed time victory not being disabled by default in some of the game option presets
Fixed mod browser tooltips not showing for picture & changelog edit boxes, and dependency/incompatibility/whitelist buttons on mod upload screen
Fixed unrevealed tiles being targetable with ranged units
Fixed bug with tile distance pathfinder that caused nations to be placed too close together
Fixed bug with SUBJECT_CITY_DAMAGED
Fixed unit combat animations pausing when offscreen and resuming when in view again
Fixed heir naming relation tooltip
Fixed autobuild governor not honoring items that it had previously queued
Fixed bug with events that remove citizens
Fixed gender prerequisites not showing in event options
Fixed locked tooltips causing issues on SP setup screen
Fixed issue where selecting things between turns could lead to UI issues
Fixed ask to declare war mission sometimes failing to lead to a result
Fixed resource display issue in the Map Editor
Fixed some traits causing the trait display to be inaccurate
Fixed Seaside map script help text (no longer default)
Fixed turn summary popup scrolling
Fixed raiders sometimes not finding the city they are supposed to raid
Fixed replay for server games
Fixed rare bug that could cause city sites to be joined on the Imperium Romanum map
Fixed game failing to start correctly when username can't be set
Fixed links breaking in turn summary
Fixed city health bars sometimes not displaying properly after undo
Fixed bug where Developing wonders would grant AI the Weak legitimacy bonus, +2 instead of +4
Fixed diplomatic status icon not being removed from city widget when city is no longer owned by a tribe
Fixed default setup options sometimes not displaying correctly
Fixed cloud game state being able to be changed by non-active players
Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3 raider and unit bounce fixes
Fixed opinion boost from Opulence not showing in the encyclopedia (Behind the Throne)
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 intrigue techs sometimes not triggering events (Heroes of the Aegean)
Fixed Nero wiki link (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed reform eras getting stuck from imprisoned or exiled viziers (Behind the Throne)
Fixed wine harvest goal not failing in event of death or divorce of spouse (Behind the Throne)
Fixed delay in victory triggering when final VP came from Opulence project (Behind the Throne)
Fixed Behind the Throne being unavailable in World Map and Barbarian Horde scenarios
Text and event fixes

72492i (2024-05-30)

Main Branch 1.0.72483 release 2024-05-27 Main Branch Hotfix 1.0.72492 release 2024-05-29

This is a bug fix only update in the lead up to the Behind the Throne DLC release on the 28th May. More design changes to come post DLC!

Hotfix updates version number to the same across all platforms to allow cross platform multiplayer

Bugs Fixed

Fixed missing Game of the Week menu tooltip
Fixed units sometimes not deselecting
Fixed bug with resource placement from improvement pings
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 goal help
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 crash
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Bireme goal becoming impossible
Fixed missing syntax in Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Spanish translation
Fixed errors viewing Rise of Carthage scenario events in event browser
Fixed Mod Browser missing tooltips
Fixed flickering on tribe widget
Fixed dynasty dropdown with random nation selected
Fixed options toggles not showing tooltips on setup screens
Text and event fixes

72483OLD (2024-05-27)

Main Branch 1.0.72483 Release 2024-05-27

Bugs Fixed

Fixed missing Game of the Week menu tooltip
Fixed units sometimes not deselecting
Fixed bug with resource placement from improvement pings
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 goal help
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 crash
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Bireme goal becoming impossible
Fixed missing syntax in Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Spanish translation
Fixed errors viewing Rise of Carthage scenario events in event browser
Fixed Mod Browser missing tooltips
Fixed flickering on tribe widget
Fixed dynasty dropdown with random nation selected
Fixed options toggles not showing tooltips on setup screens
Text and event fixes

72483BTTMac (2024-05-29)

Main Branch 1.0.72483 release 2024-05-27 Main Branch Hotfix 1.0.72492 release 2024-05-29

This is a bug fix only update in the lead up to the Behind the Throne DLC release on the 28th May. More design changes to come post DLC!

Hotfix updates version number to the same across all platforms to allow cross platform multiplayer

Bugs Fixed

Fixed missing Game of the Week menu tooltip
Fixed units sometimes not deselecting
Fixed bug with resource placement from improvement pings
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 goal help
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 crash
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Bireme goal becoming impossible
Fixed missing syntax in Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Spanish translation
Fixed errors viewing Rise of Carthage scenario events in event browser
Fixed Mod Browser missing tooltips
Fixed flickering on tribe widget
Fixed dynasty dropdown with random nation selected
Fixed options toggles not showing tooltips on setup screens
Text and event fixes

72483BTT (2024-05-28)

Main Branch 1.0.72483 Release 2024-05-27

Bugs Fixed

Fixed missing Game of the Week menu tooltip
Fixed units sometimes not deselecting
Fixed bug with resource placement from improvement pings
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 goal help
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 5 crash
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Bireme goal becoming impossible
Fixed missing syntax in Rise of Carthage scenario 1 Spanish translation
Fixed errors viewing Rise of Carthage scenario events in event browser
Fixed Mod Browser missing tooltips
Fixed flickering on tribe widget
Fixed dynasty dropdown with random nation selected
Fixed options toggles not showing tooltips on setup screens
Text and event fixes

72357 (2024-05-15)

Main Branch: 1.0.72357 Release 2024-05-15

Headline Changes

Allowed buying water tiles adjacent to land
Improvement adjacency restrictions removed
Added Resource improvement ping
AI improvements

Design

You can now buy water tiles that are adjacent to land in the same way as land tiles (with Colonies / Landowners seat)
Removed restriction on Shrines not being adjacent and the adjacency requirements for Cathedrals and the Courthouse line of improvements
Temples now give +1 happiness per adjacent Cathedral
Unit vision is now consistently equal to their movement plus 2
Removed VP cap. Large and Huge maps with few players can now have a victory point requirement of more than 100 VPs on Normal Points to Win setting
The AI now builds fewer units at the lower aggression settings

Programming

AI now takes into account improvements and specialists already being built when evaluating border expansions
AI now saves kills for units that can gain XP, all else being equal
AI now less eager to replace improvements
AI no longer swaps unit positions
AI no longer treats vacant city sites as available to settle unless it has visibility, or unless they are reserved sites
Fixed AI valuation of Divine Rule
Fixed AI effectCity valuation for units that require resources
Better recovery from network games being unlisted from Unity's relay servers

UI

Added a new improvement ping 'Resource' for specifying the location of new resources (i.e. from Riders Import Horses project)
Moved Scenario button from single player to main menu
Added button to start multiplayer scenario games to the scenario screen
World map scenarios now have all game options available
Multiplayer specific game options are now always available for MP scenarios
Moved map options up so that they are next to the scenario dropdown in the MP setup screen
MP scenario setup screen defaults to having the maximum number of teams and players for the scenario, with players assigned to random nations.
Connected foreign cities at Peace now show an icon, its tooltip lists connection yields
Clicking on a gift unit/city notification now pans the camera to the location of the gift
Tooltip behavior when hovering over links now more consistent
Tooltip now warns if a character who's about to leave a job is currently running a mission
Added suitor opinion to marriage tooltip
Moved land unit vision bonuses to effectUnits, so that they are more visible on the UI
VP breakdown now combines endgame techs as one line
Disabled word wrapping for city production button cost line for potential mods with additional costs
History values for military power and yield rates are now set to zero on the turn a player is eliminated so they display correctly on the Records screen after the game has finished
Expanded river clutter splats to improve river visibility in vegetation

Bugs Fixed

Units from eliminated players that are inside another player's borders are bumped before turning into Rebels
Fixed improvement pings producing log entries and sound effects for teammates
Fixed turn style and turn timer dropdowns bug
Fixed hotseat selection cycling
Fixed Fortify and Testudo actions not immediately triggering the relevant unit animation
Fixed default teams on MP Scenario setup screen
Fixed Opulence VPs showing in the VP tooltip if Behind the Throne isn't active
Fixed council conversion ambitions counting council slots from unavailable DLCs
Fixed language mods not displaying some icons on first load
Fixed encyclopedia vision value
Fixed missing links in turn summary and notifications
Fixed portrait editor failing to load portraits on second load
Fixed culture reduction bug in game editor
Fixed Destroy Fleet goal not completing in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2
Fixed Carthage 2 resource goal not completing
Fixed Carthage 3 scenario Epic victory not being granted if Messana is not owned
Fixed multiple influence icons showing in events and goals in Learn to Play 3
Fixed unset player language causing Unity text asset unload from worker thread
Fixed a nested link issue with council characters
Fixed load save inconsistency
Fixed characters getting dynasty specific traits in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4
Fixed some Occurrence bugs
Fixed tile issue in Dead Sea Duel map
Text and event fixes

72162 (2024-05-01)

Main Branch: 1.0.72162 Release 2024-05-01

Headline Changes

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

Design

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

Bugs Fixed

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

71865 (2024-04-09)

Main branch hotfix 1.0.71865 Release 2024-04-09

Bugs Fixed

Fixed premade maps failing to generate without DLC
Fixed AI claiming free city sites before it should

71814 (2024-04-05)

Small hotfix update to the main branch which is now 1.0.71814 Release 2024-04-04

Bugs Fixed

Fixed network game relist bug

71795 (2024-04-04)

Main Branch: 1.0.71795 Release 2024-04-04

Headline changes

New game setting for player starting development in MP and new Victory Point setting option
Balance changes to bonus tech cards, families and dynasties
Lowered apparent age of character portraits when using portrait interpolation
9 new events

Design

Added per player Development setting to multiplayer setup. All players, Human and AI, can have their own development setting, which gives additional starting cities and techs.
Added new victory point setting: Very High. This increases the VP required for winning by 50%. The previous High setting now increases the VP required by 25%.
Bonus tech cards position and cost in the tech tree reorganized
Free units now unlocked on a different tech than the one that would allow that unit to be built. Free Longbowmen, Crossbowmen and Dromon cards now grant 2 units.
Rider family seat now gives 1 Order / turn
Sages no longer have +25% science in their seat
Patrons now get a +25% city culture bonus per Precious Resource instead of the flat +4. Patrons seat now gets 2 happiness levels per culture event instead of 1.
Khufu's wonder cost reduction lowered from 50% to 25% (Wonders and Dynasties)
Marius' enrolment post now gives -25% for warriors only instead of all infantry, training cost for project removed. Sulla now more likely to cause Marius problems. (Wonders and Dynasties)
Hannibal now gets -20 family opinions and an increased legitimacy penalty in some Hannibal specific events (Wonders and Dynasties)
Added preferred families for more dynasty leaders (Wonders and Dynasties)
Sulla's Dictator trait now included in Terrifying trait group (Wonders and Dynasties)
Agrippina unlocking a spymaster is now tied to a trait, the current one will stay if she dies but a new one cannot be appointed (Wonders and Dynasties)
Legitimacy cost for adoption reduced from 4 to 2
Miserable trait has a chance per turn of being removed
Competitive mode back to giving a flat rate of science, civics, training, and money
Improved city site resource placement so that it is less likely that one of them is unreachable
Old World pre-made map tweaks. Extended map one tile north, fixed some resources and ruins that were out of borders. Added Lavender to several locations on map.
You can now shift-click a law to abolish it without replacing it. This will increase the cost of establishing a law in that pair by 100.
When moving allied units, the moving player now gets exploration and ruins yields instead of the unit owner. Moving allied units can no longer trigger events.
Events giving a free siege unit will now give an Onager instead of a Ballista if the player has not yet researched Hydraulics
Can no longer invalidate an ambition offer just by getting a bit closer during the turn in which it was offered
Event trait delay no longer happens when there is no undo
Swapped names of Persian Cleric and Rider families (for historical accuracy)
Changed improvement adjacency requirements to be fulfilled in team territory, to be consistent with adjacency bonuses
Improved scaling of diplomatic event chance with number of AIs
Marriage events now only occur for the leader and their children
Added Greedy to Seven Sins trait group and removed Extravagant
Removed turn delay on more event bonuses when No Undo is enabled
Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 tweaks - boost science and units on Easy difficulty and limit Persian tech. Persia can no longer build ships. Parsa renamed to Persepolis

New Events

A More Disciplined Approach
Battle Diary
Emergency War Taxes
Enough Missiles to Block the Sun
Learning From Our Mistakes
Masquerade
Taking the Reins
The Fluffy Bunny
Whispers from the Gods

Programming

Worker AI improvements
AI saves yields for Wonders less aggressively, allowing them to spend more developing their economy
Improved AI consideration for connecting its cities to foreign cities
AI no longer spends orders to place military units on city sites when it has not yet met any opponents
AI now purposely builds ships in specific water areas, like humans can
Moved map scripts to their own folder
Network code cleanup
Adjusted character portrait selection to be more likely to choose same portraits if characters' age difference is large, all else being equal
Fallback for DLL mods that fail to load. A message will be shown and mods disabled.
Map files now support DynastySites in the tile data. Mods can append nation start tiles to premade maps
Hotseat with one human player now behaves like single player for achievements, save files, discord, death with no heir, tutorial, hall of fame, etc
Portrait Editor now automatically attempts to regenerate portraits without feature points
Network connection improvements
Dynasty start sites are now definable directly in map files
Removed explicit construction states asset definitions for wonders that shouldn't have one

UI

Adjusted mapping between portrait ages and rendered portraits. This lowers the apparent age of characters portraits when using Portrait Age Interpolation.
Clicking a link within a mission button will activate the mission rather than opening the link
Popups and tooltips now have scrollbars when needed, will no longer make text smaller to fit
Adjusted floating text to better accommodate some bonuses
HUD changes to prevent overlap. Research is now centered according to the other HUD elements rather than the center of the screen
Added founded turn to city sort. This was always the default sort and can now be selected again after changing the sort order
City screen (F7) now applies default founding turn sort when clicking the city name column
Added connected icon to cities tab
Moved family/religion actions to bottom of selection panel
Added per-culture level limits to improvement Encyclopedia entries
Ships show a text status while anchoring
Raider unit tooltips now show original tribe
Unit tooltips now show original unit owner
Improvements to unit range tooltips. Fixed range now indicated in the unit's tooltip
Improvement yield modifiers are shown even if they sum to zero
Trait gain / loss bonus helptext now shows yield change for traits with leader effects
Added popup for when connection is restored in network multiplayer
Changed Mod Browser resources link to Modding Guide page
Added button with link to documentation to Portrait Editor
Added Turns to Hall of Fame and allowed sorting by Legitimacy, VPs, Turns and Ambitions
Show character subject requirements in red when no valid characters found for a mission
Allow deselection on inheritance screen by clicking background
Aligned ping popup dropdown/input field
Added a hint about customizing opponent player parameters in a single player game
Former regents now included in turn summary
Improvement helptext displays when max improvement count is 1 for a city
Updated National Alliance helptext to include that players can move and attack with allied units
Added descriptions to Make Clergy and Pagan Sacrifice missions
Add Road button now shown on invalid terrain
Wonders now shown on city Improvements tooltip
Negative penalty for missing family luxuries shown on send luxury to family button
Added email reminder to non-strict turnstyle team server and cloud games for the last player to take their turn
Added unsubscribe instructions to multiplayer turn emails
Mod browser speed improvements
Display the build's date in unambiguous international format instead of American
Character name is now always show in character help tooltip to give a link for selection
Player option to follow moves of AI at war no longer includes civilian units
Added target/prereq icons to techs tooltip while hovering over tech tree button
Killed unit log entry now includes the killed unit's promotions
Added reminders for clergy missions
Research choice event no longer appears. Research popup shown on trying to end turn without having selected anything to research.
Map Editor now handles setting DynastySites for defining where a dynasty will start from
Improved Hall of Fame column header formatting
Improved tooltip for heir naming options
Renamed Enlist Next to Enlist Next Kill
Units that level up no longer wake up. This fixes auto-heal getting canceled on level up.

Bugs Fixed

Ship build water area now takes priority over city territory
Fixed units incorrectly advancing when rout not possible
Fixed event level not being visible in scenario MP screen
Fixed missing Resource density, city site density, and city site number options on some map scripts
Fixed some mod load/unload issues
Fixed DLL mods not shutting down when loading a save in-game
Mod assemblies are now reference counted to fix DLL load/unload issues
Fixed inconsistent header sizing on tab panel
Fixed unit action buttons not appearing for units of allied nations
Fix tile yield calculation with maiYieldRateSpecialistUrban only getting counted once per EffectCity
Fixed assert error in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
Fixed double mission display in Hero tooltip with Shammuramat selected (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed unit harvest tooltip to display yields gained for allied units
Fixed initialization of mod browser scrollbar on manage mod list.
Fixed clicking some input fields (text ping, bug report screen) selecting all text
Fixed settlement religion icon update on undo
Fixed bug where raiders could raid the wrong player
Fixed fortification bar for AI units showing even when they are moving
Fixed leader background not being updated when switching due to premade map
Fixed heir naming popup title
Fixed overlap on dynasty portraits in SP setup
Fixed free ships spawning on smaller bodies of water when a larger one is available
Fixed missing options menu tooltips
Fixed city luxury list tooltip not appearing
Fixed an AI-related UI assert
Fixed an assert for automated human units
Fixed leader tooltip overlap with actions menu
Fixed dynasty dropdowns not populating correctly on scenario setup screen
Fixed decision update bug for MP games
Fixed assign general audio level
Fixed some team contact issues
Fixed a movement bug where you could spend orders but not complete the entire move
Fixed mixed language text appearing in cloud games
Fixed difficulty dropdown in SP advanced setup
Fixed tribes entering their own camp getting credit for capturing a settlement
Fixed highlighted tiles for selected Disciples
Fixed human development not applying due to defaults
Fixed empty parenthesis on trait loss when no ratings change involved
Fixed some button links still activating on click
Fixed some settings getting reverted to default
Development fix in event editor
Portrait Editor fixes
Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 fixes
Fixed Rome over expanding in Learn to Play 5
Fixed raiders sometimes not raiding
Fixed missing option defaults in Safe Mode
Fixed hotkey rebinding in Safe Mode
Fixed tooltip locking on inheritance screen
Fixed some cases where border preview showed the wrong color
Fixed tooltip positioning issues
Fixed missing UI elements in Carthage and Pharaohs scenarios
Fixed Exodus events not triggering in Pharaohs scenario 5 when loading from a save
Fixed road pathfinder error when used on tiles where roads cannot be built
Fixed two character different character portraits actually referring to the same art
Fixed clergy reminder text reference
Fixed network multiplayer with non-internal mods
Fixed an issue with loading modded games for network play
Fixed issue with premade maps where all dynasty sites were given to an AI nation rather than random city sites based on development
Fixed some button clicks not triggering button audio
Fixed errors on leader selection screen after coming from the scenario selection screen
Fixed single player start menu sometimes not showing character portraits
Fixed an issue with the way player starting tiles are picked to include any dynasty starting tiles
Fixed automated icon showing on city list
Fixed free extra action effectUnit load/save inconsistency
Fixed mod error notification when no mods loaded
Fixed null exception on shutdown in hotkey manager
Fixed yield modifier bug
Fixed invalid index exception
Fixed text preventing tooltips from locking in some cases
Fixed tooltips incorrectly stating that the Pious trait increases the chance of a pagan religion spreading
Fixed techs being able to give invalid bonuses i.e. courtiers in No Characters mode
Fixed Capture Buhen goal in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 1 not triggering when moving a unit into the city when it has no HP
City tooltip fixes
Added Victory point level backwards compatibility (so that existing games don't have their VPs changed)
Default AI Dynasties option is hidden when No Characters is enabled
Text and event fixes

71427 (2024-03-12)

Small hotfix update to the main branch which is now 1.0.71427 Release 03/12/2024

Bugs Fixed

Fixed crash to desktop from new game screen with random nation selected
Fixed scenario loading in MP
Fixed worker value AI bug
Possible fix for joining network games with mods
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 3 Thessaly goal
Added Safe Mode launch option for Steam

71309 (2024-03-06)

Main Branch: 1.0.71309 Release 03/06/2024

Headline changes

Portrait Interpolation enabled. Character portraits will gradually age each year instead of having fixed ages at which they change. They will also change depending on their opinion of you. This can be enabled and disabled in the Graphics Options menu.
AI improvements and fixes
New map script, turn scale and game options
City production can now be automated

Design

New map script 'Lakes and Gulfs'
New turn scale 'Seasons'
New game option 'Random Improvements', which randomizes the unique improvements (Shrines) for each nation
New game option Revealed Map, which reveals the map on game start but regular visibility rules apply
Artisans no longer get the Ingenuity promotion for Ship and Siege units, instead get a 25% resource cost reduction on these units
Promotion options of a general no longer include invalid effects for their unit
The Jerwan Aqueduct gives free Farmers even to new farms after it has been built
Added +6 Culture/turn to Necropolis
Added Player Start Location map option to Seaside map script
Improved multiplayer start location selection, especially for team games
Tribal raiders are now willing to take a long path to their target if they cannot do anything else
Damaged cities can only be gifted to a teammate or their original owner
Regents no longer get a suffix
Added multiple selection to the build queue for ships in cities with borders in multiple bodies of water to allow selection of where to build the ship
When hovering over unit production the tile it will appear in will be highlighted
Some Dynasty leaders now have a preferred family and will convert to that family if it is founded
Carthage scenario 3 tweaks
Added Theagenes as a historically correct general to the Sacred Band unit in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 3

Programming

Unity upgrade to 2021.3.34
AI expansion improvements
AI economy improvements
Improved AI luxury strategy
Refactor non-event legitimacy for completing wonders so the AI understands it
AI now takes better advantage of the Jerwan Aqueduct
Added AI for new Rider ability
AI performance optimizations
AI cache memory optimization
Sprite repo optimization
XML reading optimization
Compressed MeshAnimator animations
Improved performance of scenario menu when switching scenarios
Infos and validation refactor
Enabled parallel loading of Infos
Persistent text asset cache for internal mods

UI

Portrait Interpolation enabled. Character portraits will gradually age each year instead of having fixed ages at which they change. They will also change depending on their opinion of you. This can be enabled and disabled in the Graphics Options menu.
Portrait Editor added to Extras menu
City production can now be automated
Worker icon replaced with a shovel (to disambiguate it from Axemen)
Added Current Tile worker filter and made it the default. Valid Improvements filter now ignores terrain requirements
Research popup no longer always appears at the start of the turn and follows the priority set for events
Visual improvements for Royal Library, Jerwan Aqueducts, Hanging Gardens, Hovel and Range Improvements
Added action menu when right clicking military units in the Units tab
F1 will now always open the encyclopedia even if no related tooltip showing
Encyclopedia now defaults to a random Hints page instead of a completely random page
Hid "F1 to open encyclopedia entry" helptext for hidden projects
Added Encyclopedia category for "Traits (Items)"
Removed obsolete warnings about losing the game due to having no heirs
Improved Riders family helptext
Converted bug report screen to use TextTypes (for future localization)
Removed popup warning about losing progress when exiting a cloud game, as progress is automatically saved

Bugs Fixed

Potential fix for Multiplayer disconnect issues
Fixed history generator not showing for SP games
Fixed game of the week using the premade map in the options file
Fixed razed city undo/redo visibility issue
Fixed LAN menu being unavailable with no internet connection
Fixed non-host cloud game deleting
Fixed username field in cloud setup screen not being copyable
Fixed cloud load null reference
Fixed "Join as any player" multiplayer game option
Fixed player team assignments not getting saved
Fixed heir name in notable events
Fixed case where heir could have the same name as a sibling
Fixed AI stun consideration bug
Fixed AI passively healing when it would be better to attack
Fixed some AI improvement selection bugs
Fixed AI specialist value calculation
Fixed AI yields values
Fixed bug with AI not realizing that adjacent unit bonus applies only for the same type of units
Fixed worker AI that resulted in sub-optimal improvement placement decisions
Fixed AI wasting orders shuffling their units around
Fixed rout indicator issues
Fixed an issue with undo/redo in hotseat and cloud games
Fixed theology effects help text
Fixed regent legitimacy bug where leaders after a regent would pass down too much legitimacy
Fixed Regent / Usurper bugs
Fixed remote server host controls sometimes not working
Fixed misleading Ruthless AI tooltip
Fixed lower tier ambitions being offered as crowning ambitions when higher tier ambitions are still valid
Fixed null reference on start when default dynasty in saved player options is random
Fixed trait helptext not displaying rating change in some cases
Fixed character rename undo bug
Fixed game restart on premade maps
Fixed city right-click menu clipping
Heir name popup gets invalidated when the character is no longer the heir
Fixed bug with Carthage scenario 3 calculation for ship damage goal
Fixed bug that prevented units in their own territory from bumping other units out of the way
Fixed Portrait Editor behavior when a selected mod has no portraits
Fixed game load exception
Fixed for team color slider not working
Fixed unit religion not being preserved upon upgrade
Tab panel layout fixes
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 3 bug where the Control Thessaly cities goal did not complete if the final city was acquired peacefully
Premade maps with tiles that have no terrain now load and terrain is treated as out of bounds instead of causing map load to fail
Fixed Clergy opinion calculation bug
Fixed generic ping null reference
Fixed null reference from razing a city near the map boundary
Fixed city production icon not showing correctly on loading save
Fixed division by zero on tile mouseover
Fixed divide-by-zero client exception
Fixed bug report text appearing on game load
Fixed load/save error related to Jerwan Aqueduct
Fixed XML first-entry validation for mods that derive from existing Infos and add new fields
Fixed empty text sometimes not updating properly in Encyclopedia
Fixed clicking on preset character links in Encyclopedia not going to character page
Fixed bugs with when African Elephants are valid to build in Carthage scenario 4
Fixed Donut mascript sometimes generating maps with a square hole
Fixed missing platform DLL on GOG Mac build
Fixed rare game freeze when exiting to main menu
Fixed Map Editor not using specified size for generating maps
Fixed crash if the player options file contains a disabled nation
Text and event fixes

70751 (2024-02-05)

Main Branch Hotfix: 1.0.70751 Release 02/05/2024

This hotfix release changes the Rider family bonus from free resources on founding the seat to enabling one time projects to import these resources. There are 3 projects, Import Horses, Import Elephants and Import Camels. Completing the project will add the relevant resource to the city on an empty tile. Each project can only be built once per nation and is restricted to Rider cities.

This change was made to prevent issues with Rider families losing access to units mid game for ongoing games.

70671 (2024-01-31)

Main Branch: 1.0.70671 Release 01/31/2024

Headline changes

Major localization text update for all languages
95 new events added
Many design changes including new map scripts, game options and rebalancing

Design

New map script Player islands. Each nation gets their own island, with optional empty islands.
New map script Highlands. Inland map with lots of mountain ranges and elevated terrain.
Inland Sea map script reworked. Now has more variation and is more Mediterranean-like.
New game option Random Tech Tree. Shuffles the position of each tech within its column.
No longer possible to lose when dying without an heir, another character will take over

Tech tree changes:

Infantry Square now requires Battleline instead of Bodkin Arrow
Windlass now requires Architecture instead of Scholarship
Added Luxury bonus cards to the tech tree - on Forestry, Metaphysics, Coinage, Portcullis and Lateen Sail
Added Kush UU bonus techs - Free Medjay Archer (Composite Bow) and Free Beja Archer (Bodkin Arrow)
Hittite UU 2 bonus tech (Free Three Man Chariot) science cost reduced from 800 to 600 (to be consistent with other UU bonus techs)

Free-for-all multiplayer game player start improvements:

All map scripts now spread out the players as much as possible, at the expense of selecting the best terrain.
Added a different, experimental, player placement for highlands and coastal rain basin map scripts, which are relatively uniform land maps

Baths class improvements give one extra Happiness per turn
Player start adjustment to try to avoid being placed in a small area surrounded by impassable terrain
More resources between city sites, especially at low city site density
AI (nations and tribes) now have a chance to cancel an alliance when at cautious opinion or lower
Split Away from Court event class into individual classes. This lowers the frequency of some events that were triggering too often (i.e. imprisoned events)
Players without an online ID (e.g. not running through Steam, Epic Launcher or GoG Galaxy) are now able to play network multiplayer
Regents will now be forced for child leaders up to age 6 when previous leader died and up to age 12 if previous leader abdicated
Rider family seat bonus now includes the addition of horses, elephants, and camels to tiles within the city territory, no longer allows building units without resources.
Generals over 50 now get general-related traits offered on upgrade (previously only Generals eligible for assignment were offered these)
Autonomous rule no longer clears the build queue, but AI can change it to build what it wants to
Leaders can no longer be Exploring. Exploring Leader events have been reworked.
Khufu now has a family penalty for each wonder built (Wonders and Dynasties)
Meritities is now Righteous instead of Revered (Wonders and Dynasties)

New Events

89 new base game events:

A Brush With Death
A Child No More (x4)
A Famous Hill
A Gracious Welcome
A Greater Calling Just Called
A Little More Time
A Narrow Escape
A Matter of Faith
A Royal Suspect
A Shift in Thought
Age Of Unrest
Alien Traditions
An Ignominious Wound
Arrow To The Eye
Bonds of Faith
Celebration of Our Many Blessings
Champions of the Guard
Complications
Cultural Similarities (x10)
Elephants of City
Entwined Beliefs
Familial Ties
Family Needs
Family Power Play
Family Traditions (x10)
Fangs Of Our Foes
Felled By Arrows
Hard Rain
Heaven Help Us
Hero Of The Realm
In The Hands Of God
Influence Of Weakness
Keepsake
Laches
Last Of His Line
Lucky Break
Naming and Necessity
National Tour
National Treasure
No Time Wasted
Not Without Risk
Poisoned Tips
Prime Surplus
Rain Of Arrows
Rebel Phase
Select Timber
Shattered Shield
Stalwart Spouse (x2)
Stronger For It
Test Of Metal
The Captured Agent
The End of an Era (x2)
The Freedom Of Divorce (x2)
The Goal Of Life
The Hunt Continues
The Pále
The Peoples Shield
The Third Man
Too Young To Rule
Tribe Eliminated Nickname
Two Birds
Untimely
Ward No Longer
Welcome Return
Wondrous Nation

6 new Sacred and Profane events:

Fugitive From God
General Devotion
Joined in Mystery
The Eyes of God
Turning Mani (x2)

Programming

Increased the minimum target unit number for the AI, to deal with military threats when it has few cities
AI technology value adjustments. AI chooses Navigation with higher priority.
AI no longer places value on bonus units if no such units are needed (e.g. free Settler with no vacant city sites)
AI now knows about effectPlayer YieldUpkeepModifier, TeamDiplomacyYields and TribeDiplomacyYields
When at war with a tribe with multiple known settlements, Settlers are planned for one site at a time, not all at once
Quick Infos XML validation optimization. Eliminates most memory allocations
Added support for having the same character in multiple dynasties
AI yield value corrections
Can now set a religion to be not Pagan or World

UI

Major localization text update for all languages including all missing Wonders and Dynasties text
Added missing Wonders and Dynasties event art
Changed Remind Turn to Turns until Reminder in Improvement and Text pings
Temporary traits now display time remaining in parentheses
Added tooltip about the loss/gain of tribute yields by declaring war on a tribe
Added Tribal Strength game setup option help text for empty city sites
Added missing icons for some Wonders & Dynasty missions and effects
Added new icon for Zealot's Enlist Next effect
Added Greek dynasty leader bios
Updated character suffix localization code and added support for Chinese numerals
Tech selection UI is now updated immediately when available techs change
Disabled history generator for multiplayer games (as this was causing bugs)
Custom Leader Archetype shown on Choose Leader screen when selected
In network games the client no longer exits to main menu immediately upon disconnection but instead tries to automatically reconnect
Smoke particles on mines are now hidden when the smokestack is hidden
New Game option enabled on premade maps, will reroll nation and dynasty selection if these have been randomized
Made Religion/Family/Nation/Tribe sections on tab panels collapsible
Added concepts/linkable helptext about the tech card system
Added intermediate Scripted/Freeform menu to Learn to Play
Proscription mission is now hidden unless enabled (Wonders and Dynasties)
Added new icon for Explorer unit (Wonders and Dynasties)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed units on cooldown getting moved when units try to move into their tile
Heir births are entered into the game log only after they have a name
Fixed bug where cut trees could be cleared on Lumbermill tiles
Fixed Restart Game button in cases where a premade map was picked through Advanced Setup instead of going through the Scenarios screen
Fixed cycle military button tooltip text
Learn to Play fixes. Prevented some player actions that could cause LTP scenarios to break.
Fix for Event Browser UI
Likely fix for map element names sometimes not matching between client and server
Fixed some scenario load/save inconsistencies
Fixed AI exploration bug
Fixed AI AdjacentSameModifier value
Fixed AI research selection actually following the AI evaluation instead of being random
Corrected some inconsistent use of the AI in-city yield evaluation
Fix for mod dependency bug
Fixed archetype icon not reflecting selected dynasty leader on SP setup screen
Fixed incorrect estimate of effectPlayer on help text when it involved adjacency bonuses from existing improvements (e.g. science output of Pilgrimage)
Removed double spaces betwixt icons and yield names in some cases
Fixed default improvements/units shown as unique when no nation/dynasty is specified
Fixed landmark names sometimes displaying incorrectly in MP games
Random nation on premade maps now correctly remain random on new game
Premade map selection now remembered for next game
Fixed top section of tab headers getting cut off
Fixed Pick Later nation and Random Dynasty setting the dynasty to Default
Fixed queued actions triggering unit selection before decision selection
Fixed Tooltip Scale and Popup Text Size options not saving on Steam Deck
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 save/load bug
Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 bugs with Darius events, rebels and autonomous rule
Fixed Wonder and Dynasties content being missing from World Maps and Barbarian Horde scenarios
Fixed Caesar's dynasty description (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed null ref on leader select helptext for dynasties with free tech (Wonders and Dynasties)
Jerwan Aqueduct now has a history that prevents it from changing drastically when city layouts change (Wonders and Dynasties)
Fixed Carthage scenario 1 goal (Markets and Money)
Fixed Jebel Barkal bonus description (Wonders and Dynasties)
Text and event fixes

Known Bugs

Starting Game of the Week after having started a game using a premade map will cause GotW to use that map.

70360 (2024-01-11)

Main Branch: 1.0.70360 Release 01/11/2024

Headline changes

Added extra map randomisation options and enabled more options for Random map scripts
Added heir name selection popup on birth of heir
UI and AI improvements

Design

Enabled Resource Density, City Site Density, and City Site Number map options on Random map script selection
Added Random options to above map options and set these with the Random game preset
Added Random option to Map Size
Increased city site density for lower density options (25% and 50% distance increases instead of 50% and 100%)
Christian and Manichaean clergy can now marry like clergy of other religions
Game of the week now has a 4.5% chance to use competitive mode
Added heir name selection popup on birth of heir
Halved number of center area resources when using the King of the Hill map option for the Disjunction mapscript

Programming

Improved AI exploration and use of reveal territory missions
Added support for events that can trigger for the AI
New attempt to address remote server disconnection issues

When random map options are selected, the game description help text shows which option was actually selected
Permanent game log tweaks - fewer deaths, city breaches shown instead of city captures, offensives no longer shown
State religion notification reminder now opens the Adopt Stage Religion context menu
Team games with duplicate nations no longer force team colors
Revised player color assignment so that unique colors are always assigned to the active team players
Made the "adopt state religion" list in the UI use the same check as gameplay logic for whether a religion can be adopted
Added tooltip to gift unit button
Nation opinion now displayed when there is at least one modifier even if the net opinion is 0
Removed event option text from tutorial events that directs players to options to turn off (redundant with in-event tutorial toggle)
Renamed Active DLC in Encyclopedia to DLC Mechanics
Added duplicate Steam Deck-specific GraphicsOptionsSave fields for scaling options, with higher defaults
Added Wonders & Dynasties DLC to announcement popup
Added support for preset characters with suffixes
Trait help now shows conditional probabilities for gaining other traits or removing this one
Added helptext and concept for trait fallback ratings
Added helptext for a dynasty's first ruler character to link back to the dynasty description
Hall Of Fame screen layout tweaked

Bugs Fixed

Fixed some legacy issues with harvesting and forts
Fixed dynasty selection being unavailable on Choose Leader screen after using a custom archetype
Fixed MP teammate portraits not displaying
Fixed improvement turns remaining not updating when military units go on cooldown (affects Kush when building Forts)
Fixed unit action indicators sorting incorrectly with other worldspace UI
Fixed trait layout for character encyclopedia pages
Fixed unit position jitter on city sites during undo
Fixed stacked workers using different positions
Fixed cloud shader clipping at certain viewing angles
Fixed Odeons on hills not displaying correctly
Fixed resource fade not being preserved when changing graphics settings, and resource fade not occurring when a unit sharing a resource tile is revealed via exploration
Fixed issue with hill height textures cutting off and leaving tear lines in the terrain
Fixed river start flow splats being too large, causing artifacts when it's placed next to other assets with water
Fixed inconsistent hex grid outlines in the transition between passable and impassable terrain
Fixed undo not updating timeline screen
Fixed AI not invalidating danger calculations after a city has been captured
Fixed tooltip overlap for Leonidas effect in Greece2
Fixed unique dynasty buildings not showing on nation select stats (Ptolemy)
Fixed nested link issue with Pagan Clergy subject
Fixed bug where iAdultProb traits would never be assigned to dynamically generated already-adult characters
Fixed Encyclopedia breaking if there are UnitTraits with no EffectUnits (affects mods)
Fixed modio upload not storing correct metadata blob
Fixed modio API url
Fixed event browser audio picker layout
Updating mods now deletes any files from previous versions that are no longer present in the mod
Heirs can no longer marry other nations leaders, causing them to leave the players nation
Mod Manager will no longer try to display mod update popup if not in the main menus
Rout indicator now longer shown when unit cannot advance to target tile
Fixed DLC ownership caching
Fixed More Water map script option
Fixed map script desert generation error
Fixed bug where characters with Archetypes that allowed them to be Agents could not be Agents if they were also Clergy
Caravans can no longer displace neutral units from their positions
AI discontent value correction
Fixed leftover sign error from discontent to happiness conversion
Fixed replay for team turnstyle cloud games
Text and event fixes

70024 (2023-12-13)

Main Branch: 1.0.70024 Release 12/13/2023

Headline changes

Sacred and Profane Clergy have been reworked
Changes to Competitive mode character yields and modifiers
History of the Old World added to loading screen for new games

Design

Sacred and Profane Clergy rework:
The Initiate into Clergy mission run by the Head of Religion has been replaced by a new mission Suggest For Clergy. This is run via the Chancellor and uses the target characters religion
A limit of 2 Clergy per nation has been added
Clergy can now also be Courtiers and marriage restrictions have been removed
Clergy can run the Tutor as Courtier mission (even if they are not a Courtier)
Clergy give a base bonus of +30 religion opinion, modified by character opinion
Pagan Clergy have a +40% chance to become the next Head of Religion and World Religion Clergy have a +20% chance
Pagan Clergy have a new mission Pagan Sacrifices. This targets a pagan city and has a 75% chance to increase the cities happiness and 25% chance to give an opinion penalty to the religion
World Religion Clergy can now act as Agents in cities of their religion
In Competitive mode character yields and modifiers now scale linearly. Ratings lower than 5 will have higher effects and higher ratings lower effects. Previous flat 50% penalty removed.
Character upgrades for leaders, governors, and generals (under retirement age) now include only traits, if possible
Doubled money income from connected foreign cities
Event-caused tribal raids will now target the player, even if at Peace or if another foreign city would be a better target
Added doubled Desert map size as a map option (this is the same size as Deserts were before being reduced recently)
Tweaks to the New Difficulty level - start with an added Militia, increased civics and training per turn
Unimproved water tiles can now be exchanged between cities
Tiles cannot be exchanged between cities if that will cause a city territory to no longer be contiguous
Increased tier of grove luxuries ambition

Programming

Improved AI obsolete unit upgrading
AI now has memory about what non-visible city sites are being claimed by other players
AI tries to avoid ending the turn with pending in-place attacks
AI tries to connect road network to foreign cities at peace for the money
Placed a limit on the number of military units the AI uses for exploring
Corrected AI performance regression
AI no longer razes gifted cities and cities obtained from events, even if it can
Fixed bug in AI hurry cost value that was causing it to spend civics instead of saving them for better use
Fixed AI sometimes not healing units when it has the chance
Revised character portrait selection algorithm to duplicate the portrait from a different player, if global duplication can't be avoided
Removed hardcoded prohibition on foreign paganisms being picked for religion subjects
Platform achievements now unlock completed scenarios when resetting gameOptionsSave file
Added Modio verbose logging added to gameOptionsSave file (off by default)
Added better logging for undo/redo errors
More logging and a possible fix for remote server disconnections
Better failure reporting when an EventOption using the new syntax specifies an invalid subject alias
mapPath now excluded from GameParameters when writing to XML

History of the Old World added to loading screen for new games. This will also appear on the Game Log after the first turn
Added a generic improvement ping that is used to indicate preferred placement of any improvement
Improvement pings are less restrictive in checking validity (i.e. can now add improvement pings to Sand that would be valid for Clerics before founding city)
CTRL-click Heal now automatically heals the unit every turn until fully healed or idle healing would bring unit to full health anyway
Specialist tooltip adjusted. All yields are summarized first and the Rural/Apprentice/etc effects are no longer separated from the rest of the list
Character tooltip always shows heir rank, if any
Improved succession help text for characters after the 4th in line
Clergy included in turn summary announcements and notable character list
Religion changes for unimportant characters no longer shown in turn summary
Clergy traits in Encyclopaedia show the related religion
Added Encyclopedia description for city site improvement
Removed "Could lead to future events" link help which was not working consistently
Added text scaling to reduce overlap on city production menu for some mods
Added hint about Polytheism to the 8 shrine ambition
When an Idle Leader reminder is active, the reminder icon replaces the General/Governor icon to the left of the leader portrait
Added Idle Leader reminder for Tutor as Leader (Scholar ability)
Added tooltips to some cloud game host control buttons
Added new Active DLC Encyclopedia category
Fewer characters included in the turn summary

Bugs Fixed

Fixed context buttons not showing up consistently (Send Goods, Assign Agent etc)
Fixed unit upgrades requiring a city with a resource (for an upgrade of A to B, the EffectCity requirements of unit B are only checked if they're different from requirements of unit A)
Fixed some cases where clicking on non-link text doesn't trigger button underneath
Fixed Unavailable trait not always getting removed at the start of the players turn
Fixed interrupting a unit in motion over water with a combat action failing to update the unit's model from water to land
Fixed unit healthbar ticks not getting the correct material, leading to tall models obscuring the ticks
Fixed Carthage scenario null reference for tribal invasion
Fixed city selection lighting change bug
Fixed bug in Heroes of the Aegean scenario with late-game event getting invalidated upon triggering
Fixed display issue with Hierro in Carthage scenarios 3 and 4
Fixed nested link issue with some goal links
Possible fix for EOS re-authentication at 59 minutes causing Modio to reload and throw errors
Fixed replay being discarded in Learn to Play 4
Fix Ptolemy and Seleucus being unable to adopt a state religion in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
Fixed stolen city site event trigger
Fixed some flickering on tooltips and unit HP bar
Fixed boundary tiles remaining visible after gaining and then losing visibility
Fixed Caravan stacking bug
Fixed Event Browser showing new syntax message for all events
Fixed Theology Ambitions getting canceled as impossible too soon
Fixed trade events not getting canceled on war declaration
Fixed no-target missions not working with reminders
Fixed some undo/redo issues (i.e. hunter family opinion not resetting after undoing unit kills in territory)
Fixed bonus help text when adding trait
Fixed missing city happiness modifiers for Kush and Hittite pagan religions
Text and event fixes

69678 (2023-11-22)

Main Branch: 1.0.69678 Release 11/22/2023

Headline changes

Lower difficulty levels are now easier and a new lowest level difficulty added 'The New'
Many balance changes including nerfs to Persian UUs and Schemer leaders
Kush now available on the Middle East premade map
AI combat, strategic and performance improvements

Design

New difficulty level added The New. Reworked AI penalties on lower difficulty levels.
Passive AI will not capture cities from a player who originally founded them
Persian Unique Units (Palton Cavalry and Cataphract Archer) now have a range of 1. This can be increased by effects which increase range (Hills, Marksman promotion etc).
Reduced Schemer leader orders per war from 2 to 1
Kush now available on the Middle East premade map
Reduced Desert mapscript size to be in line with other maps
Upgrading an improvement now also upgrades the specialist, if the existing specialist is less advanced than the starting specialist of the upgraded improvement
Garrison getting pillaged no longer removes existing governor
Autonomous rule now repairs damaged cities that cannot passively heal completely in a turn, even if it's currently building something else
Collateral damage (pierce, splash etc) formula simplified. This now does the percentage of the damage of a direct attack to the same unit, rounded up. This change increases collateral damage dealt in some circumstances.
Tweaked a few trait inheritance outcomes
Added new trait flavor text and changed some to only appear dependent on character age. Reduced the likelihood of vomiting and diarrhea when characters become severely ill.
Tweaked tutorial events to make them less prone to cluster on the same turns
Generals of tribal units now get XP
Tribes now attack civilian units at a lower priority
Former regents now get a trait giving +1 wisdom and keep their King/Queen Regent title
In the Rise of Carthage scenarios, Balearic Slingers are now buildable on the islands instead of regular Slingers. Regular Slingers can upgrade to Balearics.
Rise of Carthage scenario 4 starting city happiness boosted

Programming

AI combat, strategic and performance improvements
Improved retreat and target selection.
Better AI coordination so it doesn't get some units attacking a target while other healthy ones are retreating.
Better AI awareness of power shift when it moves its units
Improved AI evaluation of tiles for border expansion and buying
AI exploration and wood chopping improvements
Reduced AI fort spam outside of borders, especially for Kush
Revised AI Settler movement to force march when it has excess orders
Fixed the AI starting multiple Settlers at the same time, when it just needs one
Fixed AI not viewing rebels of other nations as a threat when they actually are
Fixed AI incorrectly estimating the cost of buying resources
Fixed AI risky behavior of attacking too close to the fog of war without protection
Fixed tribe AI movement bug
Fixed Hittite AI chopping trees too much at the expense of exploring
AI builds militia more frequently instead of festivals if it cannot build other units
Minor Stun/Push AI optimization
Minor AI exploration fix
One AI cache per player, instead of one per game
Units that require a non-buildable improvement are no longer considered a possible build, unless that improvement is present
GOG SDK updated
Added STAT_YEARS_REGENT
Starting location resource placement order shuffled, so players later in the turn order don't always slightly benefit from rare luxury placement
Added Pharaohs of the Nile campaign source and XML to Reference folder
Added effectCity bAutoBuildUnits, which is like the current autonomous rule, but builds units instead of projects and specialists

Alt+right mouse button is now a shortcut for improvement pings
Mouse click no longer triggers when releasing button after drag
Loading a single player game as a network game now allows AI player reassignment
Dynasties are now shown and can be selected on the Choose Leader screen
Added option to only use default dynasties for AI players
Random nation now sets random dynasty for both SP and MP
Dynasty dropdown with Pick Later will use the dynasty name if available
Moved cycle button tooltips to right of cycle button UI
Added border expansion preview for under construction specialists
Added yields change from trade and tribute to war declaration effect tooltip and yield loss from connected cities to peace breaking effect tooltip
Revised cloud game host control popup to be more consistent. Replaced general save button with individual action buttons.
Improvement suggestions no longer take worker safety into account
Reduced spacing in yield display for tile/specialist widgets
Reduced tile text font and icon size
Negative changes in happiness/discontent now shown using opposite yield color
Added Deficit concept to Encyclopedia
Event Browser: The New Entry button now opens a new event the Wizard

Bugs Fixed

Fixed events not triggering on clearing tribal camps
Fixed bug with cloud games not updating correctly when exiting without completing turn, causing them to need to be rewound
Fixed bugs causing replay data to get discarded unnecessarily
Fixed Kush Unique Units not applying Zone of Control
Fixed map script bug causing generation to sometimes fail on Desert maps with large number of players
Fixed last page of Modio mods not displaying in install tab
Fixed double folder names when mod name contains plus (+) symbol
Fixed simultaneous mode non-dynamic turn timer length
Fixed turn style and turn timer dropdowns in server host controls
Fixed AI assert
EffectUnit iActionsExtra are now applied immediately upon acquiring the effect
Fixed a few instances where the number of tribes were miscounted
Fixed the Sentinel dynamic tutorial triggering in the wrong player's territory
Fixed collection modification during enumeration
Fixed reveal map division by zero when one of the players has been eliminated
Fixed city sites not keeping track of original tribe upon being cleared
Fixed tribe site visibility on the minimap when settlements are not city sites
Fixed improvement construction time remaining not updating when worker goes on cooldown
Fixed Spartan elimination event in Rise of Carthage scenario 2
Fixed idle councilor reminder showing when no missions available
Fixed Wonders being eligible for pillage by event bonuses
Fixed Cognomens getting replaced with lower value versions in some scenarios
Fixed critical hit icons not being immediately updated on ending turn or changing turn style in MP
Tribe units now actively occupy empty city sites to convert them to settlements again
City widget and culture bar update fixes
Fixed city attack damage preview for adjacent effectUnits
Nested link fix (affected anti-Melee, anti-Infantry etc links)
Fixed some null references for tribal invasion AI
Fixed leaderboard display in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6
Fixed families of starting units in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios 3 and 6
Fixed issue with scenarios not getting unloaded correctly
Fixed Map Editor not setting mapWidth and mapHeight values on loading a map
A slot assigned to an AI when loading a MP game now gets full AI state
Fixed an AI cache issue for of existing improvements outside territory
Fixed no character UI issues
Happiness/discontent bar sign issue fixes
Fixed subject reordering breaking old saves
Fixed out of range exception
Fixed decision cycling sometimes not actually cycling
Worker selection cycling UI performance fix
Fixed client background task deadlock
Text and event fixes

69265 (2023-10-25)

Main Branch: 1.0.69265 release 10/25/2023

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. When a unit is Enlisted, instead of dying it switches sides and can be controlled by the player.
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

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

Bugs Fixed

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

68964 (2023-10-04)

The main branch has had a hotfix update to version 1.0.68964

We made Kush playable in the current Game of the Week to all players regardless of DLC ownership, but random chance also made it a One City Challenge with Ruthless AI, which perhaps wasn't the best introduction!

The hotfix adjusts the current Game of the Week to have friendlier settings in order to give Kush a chance to sh(r)ine.

It also fixes a bug where some premade maps would fail to start for non-DLC owners.

68949 (2023-10-04)

The main branch has been updated! Main Branch: 1.0.68949 release 10/04/2023

Headline changes

Commander leader flanking bonus increased
Added list of past events to character tooltip
AI and performance improvements

Design

Commander leaders now get +100% bonus attack strength while Flanking (up from +50%)
City Site ownership is now determined first by who has a military unit on the tile (in the case of an ally)
Event options with the chance to gain 1 delayed trait now get offered as a fallback rating if the trait is invalid.
Non-allied tribe settlements that are not on city sites no longer get absorbed into a nation by border expansion
Revised city site placement algorithm so that you can now have player starts closer than two minimum city site distances apart, if the map is too small for the number of players
Higher-tier wonders now count toward lower-tier goals - e.g. Legendary wonders will be counted for the "have 1 Strong wonder" goal
Can now hurry obsolete units already in the build queue
End turn is canceled if there are new decisions to make after automated units move

Programming

Games in the completed folder no longer include replay data
Adjacent effectUnit refactor
Tribal invasion AI improvements
Combat AI improvements
Added console command setTribeInvasion
Added mod support for specific tribes and tribe strengths to use central AI to coordinate their units
Change mod Infos files now processed after append mod Infos files
Improved terrain mod support and performance optimizations
Map scripts now use internal variable/functions to set terrain formations, without persisting them to tile data since formations are only needed at generation time
Removed terrain formation ID and tile elevation from network data
Removed some unused terrain renderers
Removed unnecessary calls for timeline border tiles
Got rid of tile latitude in network data and saves. The save now instead stores the min/max latitude of the generating mapscript, latitudes are calculated as needed
Optimization to avoid calls to native code in a few places

Added list of past events to character tooltip
The location of initial city improvements (Garrison, Fair) can be specified by using the relevant improvement ping on a valid urban tile. This replaces the old system of ctrl+clicking the preferred tile.
Improvement pings now always get removed when a tile improvement or terrain changes
Leader selection screen now uses multiple rows instead of scroll arrows
Peace mission now shows tooltip explaining mission is disabled when one nation has not met the other
Added toggle to tutorial events to allow the tutorial to be disabled directly from the event
Improved urban adjacency requirement help text
Tooltips for Barracks, Harbors etc now say they are a spawn point for relevant units
Removed city site text on tiles with settlements on them. Tile tooltip now shows if tile is a city site.
Map editor UI cleanup
Added progress for "Establish a State Religion" ambition
Hurry helptext now shows warning if cannot hurry due to missing prereq, such as Scholar governor for Inquiry
Event browser added new event warnings
Added strategy notes to Encyclopedia entries for Laws
Turning existing characters into Courtiers no longer triggers a popup

Bugs Fixed

Fixed theology ambitions getting canceled too early
Fixed AI bug where city sites were sometimes claimed by non military units, when they should not have been claimed at all
Fixed missing icon in turn notification when in no characters mode
Bonuses that takes away citizens are no longer possible if it means removing specialist builds with progress from the city queue
Events featuring nations that are eliminated are now correctly made invalid
Fixed tile status tooltips not showing
Fixed issues with mountain renderer
Fixed save/load bugs
Fixed tile tooltips overlapping minimap in Windowed mode
Fixed potential data issue for tile text with undo
Fixed non-allied units not being bounced when a unit newly occupies a tile.
Fixed rare issue that could cause saves started whilst offline to fail to load when online
Fixed scenarios not unlocking when playing offline
Text and event fixes

68925 (2023-10-04)

The main branch has been updated! Main Branch: 1.0.68925 release 10/03/2023

Headline changes

Commander leader flanking bonus increased
Added list of past events to character tooltip
AI and performance improvements

Design

Commander leaders now get +100% bonus attack strength while Flanking (up from +50%)
City Site ownership is now determined first by who has a military unit on the tile (in the case of an ally)
Event options with the chance to gain 1 delayed trait now get offered as a fallback rating if the trait is invalid.
Non-allied tribe settlements that are not on city sites no longer get absorbed into a nation by border expansion
Revised city site placement algorithm so that you can now have player starts closer than two minimum city site distances apart, if the map is too small for the number of players
Higher-tier wonders now count toward lower-tier goals - e.g. Legendary wonders will be counted for the "have 1 Strong wonder" goal
Can now hurry obsolete units already in the build queue
End turn is canceled if there are new decisions to make after automated units move

Programming

Games in the completed folder no longer include replay data
Adjacent effectUnit refactor
Tribal invasion AI improvements
Combat AI improvements
Added console command setTribeInvasion
Added mod support for specific tribes and tribe strengths to use central AI to coordinate their units
Change mod Infos files now processed after append mod Infos files
Improved terrain mod support and performance optimizations
Map scripts now use internal variable/functions to set terrain formations, without persisting them to tile data since formations are only needed at generation time
Removed terrain formation ID and tile elevation from network data
Removed some unused terrain renderers
Removed unnecessary calls for timeline border tiles
Got rid of tile latitude in network data and saves. The save now instead stores the min/max latitude of the generating mapscript, latitudes are calculated as needed
Optimization to avoid calls to native code in a few places

Added list of past events to character tooltip
The location of initial city improvements (Garrison, Fair) can be specified by using the relevant improvement ping on a valid urban tile. This replaces the old system of ctrl+clicking the preferred tile.
Improvement pings now always get removed when a tile improvement or terrain changes
Leader selection screen now uses multiple rows instead of scroll arrows
Peace mission now shows tooltip explaining mission is disabled when one nation has not met the other
Added toggle to tutorial events to allow the tutorial to be disabled directly from the event
Improved urban adjacency requirement help text
Tooltips for Barracks, Harbors etc now say they are a spawn point for relevant units
Removed city site text on tiles with settlements on them. Tile tooltip now shows if tile is a city site.
Map editor UI cleanup
Added progress for "Establish a State Religion" ambition
Hurry helptext now shows warning if cannot hurry due to missing prereq, such as Scholar governor for Inquiry
Event browser added new event warnings
Added strategy notes to Encyclopedia entries for Laws
Turning existing characters into Courtiers no longer triggers a popup

Bugs Fixed

Fixed theology ambitions getting canceled too early
Fixed AI bug where city sites were sometimes claimed by non military units, when they should not have been claimed at all
Fixed missing icon in turn notification when in no characters mode
Bonuses that takes away citizens are no longer possible if it means removing specialist builds with progress from the city queue
Events featuring nations that are eliminated are now correctly made invalid
Fixed tile status tooltips not showing
Fixed issues with mountain renderer
Fixed save/load bugs
Fixed tile tooltips overlapping minimap in Windowed mode
Fixed potential data issue for tile text with undo
Fixed non-allied units not being bounced when a unit newly occupies a tile.
Fixed rare issue that could cause saves started whilst offline to fail to load when online
Fixed scenarios not unlocking when playing offline
Text and event fixes

68541 (2023-09-06)

Main Branch: 1.0.68541 release 09/06/2023

Headline changes:

New map option City Site Number
AI performance improvements
Enhanced modding features

Design

New map option City Site Number that limits the number of city sites available based on the number of nations. Options are Unrestricted (default), Restricted (3 city sites per family per nation), Family Seats (1 city site per family per nation) and Capitals (1 city site per nation). Tribal settlements will still appear in places that would have been city sites but these cannot be settled by nations.
Map generator tries to place at least as many free city sites as starting locations on a given land area surrounded by water and mountains.
Tribe units now occupy empty settlements, when given the chance
Game of the Week games now much less likely to have non-default city spacing
Egypt now has -20% costs for same adjacent buildings (down from -25%)

Programming

AI performance improvements
AI finishes already started Wonders with more urgency
Improvements to AI value estimate of effects
Added support for showing dynasty portraits, names and backgrounds on the Choose Leader and Setup screens
New features for modders:
Cognomen can now add a memoryCharacter
Added SetHeight to bonuses
Added EffectUnitUnlock to EffectUnit
Description field added to many xmls
Enabled adding custom variables to UnitTypes
Removed hardcoded terrain references
Amended coast renderer and unified mountain and volcano renderers to be more mod friendly

Can now assign hotkey combos that are only used for inaccessible debug hotkeys
Added map option help text for default selections
City site widget no longer blocks clicks when it has no help text (when the tutorial is disabled)

Bugs Fixed

Fixed several causes of replay data getting discarded
Fixed Modio mod tags not adding/deleting on mod updates. Added image size validation to ensure between 256 and 2048 pixels width and height.
Units can no longer spawn on the same tile as other, non-allied units
Fixed bugs with Toggle Names on the mini Tech Tree
Fixed pick later found panel nation help sometimes incorrectly showing preset leaders
Fixed free city site location sometimes not getting revealed
Fixed AI cache initialization
Fixed null reference errors in sprite repo when using portrait mods
Can no longer divorce Olympias in Learn to Play 3
Fixed mission effects playing after entering and exiting city screen
Fixed load/save error with pings that have been placed but not yet been validated
Fixed initial settler tooltip data being treated as cached and not being populated
Fixed editor not assigning tribe tile owner when placing a settlement improvement
Fixed unit status not updating after tile ownership change
Tribe ruins no longer show countdown timer when tribe is extinct
Fixed city site text being updated without visibility
Fixed issues joining MP games and replay data getting discarded with map script mods installed
Adjusted improvement construction turns widget projection distance and scale to prevent occlusion from terrain
Fixed city widgets getting hidden behind camels
Fixed knockback animation incorrectly playing on secondary attack targets
Fixed autonomous cities not getting queued production refunded when it is canceled
Fixed Rider family getting negative opinion from having a tribal spouse - now correctly only applies to a foreign nation spouse
Fixed bug with modded spritesheets
Text and event fixes

68245 (2023-08-16)

Main Branch: 1.0.68245 release 08/16/2023

Headline Changes

AI combat improvements
Combat damage preview improvement
Fixed issue with minimum distance between city sites

Design

The minimum distance of AI nations from human players now scales appropriately with the city site density setting

Programming

AI combat improvements
AI no longer attacks when there is no value in doing so
AI no longer makes attrition attacks if attacking unit is in danger
AI has a better understanding of counterattack damage
AI has a better understanding of the Zealot general ability to not die with more than 1 HP
AI more mindful of enemy units that can stun
Improved speed of Modio mod browser

Combat preview damage text next to unit health bar now shows the unit's maximum damage even if the target has less HP or a Zealot general
Leader is now included in reminders for available tutor targets
Critical hit preview now updates when a unit's critical hit chance changes
Added confirmation dialogs for load hotkeys
Added tooltip info for added turn for building outside territory (only affects forts)
Added tooltips for traits in leader customizer
Added scroll bar to founding panel to allow use of leader customizer with high UI scaling
Added strike bonus to unit attack preview summary against cities
Added game log entry when other nation declares war on you on your turn
Map Editor - reformatted right-side utilities to compress and shrink vertical size. Removed not-working map autosize button

Bugs Fixed

Fixed issue with minimum distance between city sites
Fixed trait helptext showing hidden subjects
Fixed bug with capturing some Roman cities in Carthage 4 scenario
Fixed traits being added to a character while iterating over their traits
Fix for index out of range crash
Fixed bug allowing players to build improvements and roads in non-allied player's territory
Fixed bug in sprite repository asset unloading and loading, which resolves sprite sheet errors when loading games with modded art assets
Fixed bug with delayed random traits and relationships
Fixed rare trade network bug
Fixed some cases where a rival unit in your borders was not getting bumped out of the way when you moved one of your units into its tile
Fixed potential border expansion preview issue
Fixed some AI city effect valuation issues
Fixed citizen count bug when upgrading a building with a queued specialist
Fixed some dynasty specific intro events not firing
Fixed grayed out "Found Capital" button showing wrong helptext when no Family selected
Fixed nicknames not being assigned for new custom characters in events
Fixed intro events not triggering in some circumstances
Fixed being unable to make truce with an AI after they declared war via an event without having met the player
Fixed achievement Alexander The Great not triggering for Alexander Dynasty
Fixed Customize leader option not being remembered
Text and event fixes