February Update - v1.1.875

Multiplayer games require all players to be on the same game version

Misc

• Added Battlefields to hexes where a unit dies. These produce 1 culture per dead unit for the owner of the hex

• Added Very Long custom game length - 200 points and 50 turns

• Killing an enemy unit now gives 1 happiness to your nearest city

• Base multiplayer turn timer increased 10 seconds

• Turn timer visible countdown changed from 30 seconds to 45 seconds

• Changed Long game length max turns to 40

• Changed Normal game length max turns to 25

• Can no longer redraw your hand while you have cards stored for next turn

• Can view the cards in your deck (unordered) by mousing over the Draw Card button

• Added a custom game setting for coastal player starts only

• Added menu option for enabling or disabling automated camera panning to Wonders built by other players

• Most floating text size decreased

• Added single-player Skirmish setting to use the multiplayer unit movement rules

• Yield and Citizen hover popup delayed slightly more to prevent accidental Citizen pick ups

• Adjusted civ assignment so that your preferred civ should never be taken by a player that did not select that civ

• Parthenon deck inspection view now shows cost that includes adjustments such as increased hammer cost from Wonders already built

• Multiplayer network data usage reduced

• Minor map generation performance improvements

• Random number generation status for market, shuffle, and harbor is saved and restored for save games

• Changed free citizen movement highlight glow to be more conspicuous and consistent with other glow effects

• Ability icons on map now always display in the same order

• Conquistador can now fire 3 times in a single turn instead of 2

• Wheat now gets the resource diversity bonus like other food resources

• Some adjustments and fixes to the tutorial campaign

• In-game bug report submissions will now retry if the initial send attempt fails

• Bots no longer build cities on Holy Sites

• Bot builds slightly fewer siege weapons

Balance

• Winery gold yield for hex increased from 1 to 3

• Cultivate now also adds 1 gold production to Farm and Winery

• Persia's Satrap ability now also claims an extra random unclaimed hex next to the target hex

• Himeji Castle now produces 4 hammers and 3 culture

• Himeji Castle causes the extra military unit drawn to cost 20% of its strength in gold

• Conscription unit gold cost reduced to 20% of unit strength

• Spearman now does 400% damage when defending against mounted units

• Cossack flank attack damage slightly reduced and splash damage limited to 2 units

• Great Wall now adds 1/3 of unit's total movement cost instead of a flat 1 movement. This makes it more effective against mounted units, Scouts, and Settlers

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occur sometime after building Parthenon

• Fixed an issue where floating text over a unit would continue to move to the side if the unit model was hidden

• Fixed issue where players could build a Barracks near enemy cities instead of just friendly cities

• Fixed an issue where the default Citizen on the city hex could be destroyed with abilities like Ritual and Conscription

• Fixed issues where players could pick up resource tokens while playing a card and could pick up a card while holding resource tokens

• Forage used on water tiles by England now correctly receives the gold bonus if used in England's territory

• Fixed issue where building lumbermill would not refresh terrain yield on resource overlay

• Fixed an issue where attack orders that result in no targets still reward promotion slots

• Fixed an issue where multiplayer games would reduce custom game map sizes with less than 5 players. This could cause map generation failures

• Fixed an issue where Mac clients could not join friends from their Steam friends list while the game was not loaded

• Fixed an issue where Rome's Infrastructure ability could target a card it already targeted this turn

• Fixed an issue where Battlefields would block improvements from being built on that hex

• Fixed an issue where Forced March was incorrectly causing units to ignore zone of control

• Fixed Garrison card text to correctly include fact that it also gives a defense bonus in cities

• Fixed an issue where you could apply Garrison to the same unit twice

• Fixed issue where resistance to culture steal value would show on culture overlay for a hex player used to own but no longer does

• Fixed localized Pyramids card description text