Old World - News - Old World August 21st Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.73713 Test 2024-08-21

Design

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
Windlass requires Manor instead of Architecture
Siege Tower bonus card requires Windlass
Free Perfume card requires Architecture instead of Portcullis

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 Mine now enables 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.

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

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 Rise of Carthage scenario 4 goal to cross the alps sometimes not completing
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 dynastic mechanics of Ptolemy, Ashur-Uballit, Khufu and Mursili in No Events mode (Wonders and Dynasties)
Text and event fixes