Build 1.0.75717's Headline Changes

• [b]Difficulty Settings Renamed:[/b] Difficulty settings were renamed to make the difference between presets and individual settings clearer. Settings outside the preset are now shown as 'Custom' difficulty in the game with a breakdown of the individual settings.
• [b]Crowning Ambitions:[/b] Increased variety of crowning ambitions. This should make winning an Ambition victory easier and more varied.
• [b] Grand Vizier Changes (Behind the Throne): [/b]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

• The Advanced Setup Difficulty setting is now called Prosperity.
• The Simple Setup Difficulty presets remain unchanged.
• Difficulty components are now grouped together and indented under the difficulty mode in the game parameters tooltip.
• Difficulty is displayed 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.

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

• Family preferences have been removed.
• Most crowning ambition events now offer three choices instead of two.
• Bug fixes have increased the variety of crowning ambitions available.

• Alliance victory is now a setup option (default: off).

• Upgrading a unit retains its fortification state.
• Units can no longer be gifted, converted, hired, or recruited into territories where they shouldn't be.
• Units can now be upgraded inside cities owned by teammates, even if they are not your own.

• The "Alexander the Great" achievement no longer requires the "Great" cognomen. It now requires only the destruction of Persia as Alexander.

• Restrictions on marrying Libyans in the Rise of Carthage Scenario 1 have been removed.
• The Random Improvements option now allows any combination of shrine effects instead of selecting a set from a random nation.

• Launch Offensive can now be used from a unit with a rout cooldown. It also removes rout cooldowns from adjacent units.
• Pathfinder trait adjustments:
• Now gives a 50% bonus to Camps and Nets as Governor and a 20% bonus as Leader (previously 100/50%).
• Maintenance costs swapped for the following:
• Philosophy/Engineering.
• Professional Army/Volunteers.

• Unclaimed.
• Anarchy (city being captured).
• Owned by a nation or tribe you are not at war with.

• Fort defensive bonus, road and exploration river movement, Hero and Fort healing, and Scout tree invisibility now require neutral or friendly territory.
• Road and Fort construction requires friendly, unclaimed, or Anarchy territory.

• Added a regular reminder to complete the Influence goal in Learn to Play 3.
• Characters with religion traits (e.g., Clergy, Mani) 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 named governor, controlling production in those cities only.
• All other Grand Vizier yields have been removed.
• Grand Vizier-managed cities can no longer rush buy.
• Grand Vizier courtiers are no longer giftable in multiplayer.

• The Unpopular trait now gives a nationwide 5% rebel spawn chance.

Programming

• AI performance optimization.
• AI now builds fewer duplicate roads.
• Improved AI decision-making for retreat versus attack scenarios.
• Added more detailed logging for AI unit priority comparison failures.
• Hall of Fame games now store the active player, ensuring consistency upon loading.
• Replay functionality improved to work even if data is only from the current turn.
• Removed improvement dynamic text objects from each tile to save memory.
• Bonuses and EffectCities now provide only EffectUnits, not Promotions.
• Promotions are now exclusive to units capable of gaining XP.
• Unit effects from disabled promotions can now be assigned via bonuses and city effects.
• Disabled implicit subject conversion for DiplomacySubjects bonuses.
• Turn Lock function removed.

UI

• Character tooltips no longer display trait effects.
• All attacks are now listed under [b]Units Attacked[/b] notifications (kills were previously omitted).
• Free promotions are now indicated in the city production list and unit type tooltip.
• "Death of Governor" decisions now auto-invalidate if the city can no longer have a governor.
• Defeat status is displayed when the active player is eliminated in multiplayer, even if the game continues.
• Event browser story previews improved.
• Law strategy notes updated.
• Added a minimize toggle to the player goals/ambitions display.
• Red/green warning text for negative yields is inverted in some cases.
• User-assigned hotkeys now offer more flexibility and can conflict with previously reserved keys.
• Crowning ambitions are now marked with the legitimacy crown icon.
• Missing keyboard shortcuts added to button help.
• Improved Choose Governor tooltip.
• Pillaged permanent improvements now display a pillaged icon.
• Encyclopedia updated with various 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 rejoining one last time to see the outcome, and to save the game locally as a loss.
• Fixed bug where the client could be in a different language than the active player.
• Fixed Hall of Fame bug where regenerating replaced scenario-specific text with generic text for nation, leader names, and difficulty.
• Fixed Hall of Fame difficulty sorting.
• Fixed network messages being sent out of order.
• Fixed achievement text referencing Kushite Cavalry instead of Mounted Lancers.
• Fixed "Ten Crowns" achievement incorrectly counting regents twice.
• Fixed improvement pings not appearing when law requirements were unmet.
• Fixed vegetation help text to correctly state a ranged attack penalty.
• Fixed possible array out-of-range error for bad event links.
• Fixed bug preventing some Crowning Ambitions from appearing.
• Fixed bug allowing ambitions to appear in events with random selections that should only appear in specific events.
• Fixed cycle button position not updating shortcut keys and not being saved.
• Fixed road pathfinding issues.
• Fixed player start location bug in the desert map script and made start location picking more robust.
• 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 reference in the encyclopedia.
• Fixed duplicate Hall of Fame entries when reloading a completed cloud game.
• Fixed character suffix bug where rulers incorrectly received the "II" suffix if a parent had the same name but never ruled.
• Fixed incorrect suffix on Ptolemy II.
• Fixed an event system bug that could very rarely deem valid subjects invalid.
• Fixed tooltip expansion when hotkeys were changed.
• Fixed order yield rates not updating when starting or finishing construction.
• Fixed broken Civ Fanatics forum link on the 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 incorrect memory display when giving a conquered city to a family.
• Fixed opinion and legitimacy bonus from founding a family seat being applied more than once in some cases.
• Fixed enlist effect not being cleared after use.
• Fixed cases where opinion and legitimacy for founding a family seat could be applied multiple times for the same family.
• Fixed spymaster context menus sometimes not appearing.
• Fixed agent missions and network menus appearing for 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 the Valid Improvements filter.
• Fixed goals display spacing.
• Fixed AI modified collection exception.
• Fixed event audio issues.
• Fixed trait loss triggering unrelated events.
• Fixed tribal invasions getting stuck
• Fixed Rise of Carthage Scenario 2 goals sometimes not being offered.
• Fixed olive-counting goals in Rise of Carthage Scenarios 2 and 3.
• Fixed Rise of Carthage starting heirs not being Royal and therefore not being tutorable.
• Fixed Macedonia not receiving family promotions on starting units in Heroes of the Aegean Scenario 6.
• Fixed a 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 as governor (Behind the Throne).
• Fixed some UI instances where the acting governor was treated as the actual governor (Behind the Throne).
• Fixed unit widgets failing to display icons and shapes not included in their respective default sprite atlases (affects mods).
• Fixed Generals not being removed when upgrading a unit to a type that cannot have one (affects mods).
• Various text and event fixes.

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

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