Patron Update 1.010

Greetings everyone!

It’s a perfect time to push Update 1.010. The strategy for this one is similar to the previous updates, with a little more emphasis on specific modifications that you’ve requested, meaning we’re introducing further balancing tweaks, several AI updates, further optimization and we’ve also cleared a few technical glitches.

There are additional two things of interest we’d like to announce today. First: the next planned update will introduce a greater chunk of content goodies like new production buildings, a new set of disasters, a new system for hedge placement (simple and easy as roads) and another optimization pass. The next update is expected to be released on September 28th.

On top of that, we’re happy to also announce that on the same date, Patron will also get another nice surprise. We won’t go into too many details at this time, but anyone craving more content should be quite happy 😊

That said, let’s turn our attention back to today’s update:

BALANCING TWEAKS

• Birth rate of children is reduced after in-game year 30

• Market Coin bonus per adult in the vicinity is reduced (on normal difficulty and above)

• Market bonuses no longer stack

• Reduced yearly taxes on Merchants and Gentry

• Reduced impact of Shrines on Religion

• Reduced impact of Churches on Religion

• Reduced impact of Wells on Health

• Reduced impact of Stone Wells on Health

• Reduced impact of small and middle Fountains, Statues and Ponds on Happiness

• Guild Houses now award a small amount of coins per adult of a certain class every year

BUG CORRECTIONS

• Mint error with the third level of the Reusable molds upgrade providing too little bonus

• Workers now carry all lumber regardless of carry capacity, no resource is left on ground anymore

• Docks cannot be built in non–buildable areas anymore

• Several errors that could cause the game to crash

OPTIMIZATION

• Rendering Orchards

• AI routines for citizens, allowing game to run faster and more stable especially in later stages

• Added the option to disable SSAO in Launcher options (increases game performance)

That’s it for this time! Stay tuned for September 28th when the next update lands and our “surprise” is set to be unveiled! Govern on!