The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.69803 Test 11/29/2023

Known bug - buttons do not always highlight when they become active. This is a display issue and the buttons are useable when they should be.

Design

• Sacred and Profane Clergy rework:[list]
• The Initiate into Clergy mission run by the Head of Religion has been replaced by a new mission Suggest For Clergy.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

Doubled money income from connected foreign cities

Competitive mode character yield modifiers due to ratings halved for governors and agents

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

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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

UI

• History of the Old World added to loading screen for new games. This will also appear on the Game Log after the first turn
• Specialist tooltip adjusted. All yields are summarized first and the Rural/Apprentice/etc effects are no longer separated from the rest of the list
• Improved succession help text for characters after the 4th in line
• 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 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