Old World May 7th Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.77641 Test 2025-05-07

Design

Law changes:

• Guilds now gives +10 money per specialist type per city instead of -10% Rebel chance

• Freedom now gives -5% Rebel chance instead of +1 happiness per city

• Calligraphy now gives +10 culture per city instead of +4 culture per library

• Swapped Calligraphy and Iconography upkeep costs

• Swapped Colonies and Serfdom upkeep costs

Other design changes:

• Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if that player is not directly reachable

• Ruthless AI gets more chances to conduct diplomacy when a player is close to winning

• Ruthless AI now takes alliances and national ambitions into account for determining if a player is close to winning

• The Old World premade map edits - boundaries slightly expanded, marshes added and resources redistributed

• When a unit move cannot be completed because a lack of orders, a partial 1-tile move results in a unit swap, if possible

• In Rise of Carthage scenario 3, Orator-recruited mercenaries now count as hired and contribute to the optional merc hiring goal

• Drought effect tweaks (Wrath of Gods)

• Occurrences that result in small seas (18 tiles or less) convert that water to lakes. Mainly affects Ebbing Sea mapscript (Wrath of Gods)

• Occurrences can now cause terrain changes on improved tiles, as long as the improvement remains legal for that tile (Wrath of Gods)

New Events

14 new events added - 11 for base game and 3 for Behind the Throne DLC

• A City Like No Other

• Deadly Inheritance

• I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!

• New Front

• No War Declaration

• Not to Be Trusted

• Offensive Remarks

• Reaping the Whirlwind

• The God Queen

• Triple Cross!

• Tutorial: Upgrade Mercenaries

• No Longer of Use (x2) (Behind the Throne)

• Support or Scheme (Behind the Throne)

Programming

• Improved AI chokepoint management and attacks with high unit density

• Memory allocation improvements

• Occurrence terrain change refactor, now more mod friendly

• Changed opinion-calculating functions to return a tuple

• Event triggers can now have an arbitrary number of subjects

UI

• Foreign city citizen and specialist numbers now shown if the city tile is visible

• Foreign city tooltips no longer show defense and damaged state unless the city is visible

• Jobs are no longer shown on foreign character tooltips, unless their unit is visible (for Generals) or player has an agent in the relevant city (for Governors)

• Stacked worker count shown on tooltip even when not actively building an improvement

• Added "Improvements (Special)" section to the Encyclopedia, to include non-buildable Improvements

• Added dynamic helptext for Attribute effects and tweaked Attribute helptext

• Added Prosperity to Wrath of Gods setup

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed occurrence notification localization when playing MP with players using different languages

• Fixed tech names not showing up on cards in some languages

• Fixed changing a tile improvement affecting city build queue specialists on other tiles

• Fixed character card not selecting tribe leader

• Fixed occurrence overlay getting stuck in some cases

• Fixed temporary overlays not getting cleared when blocking popups are active

• Fixed units being bounced by an Occurrence before taking damage from it

• Fixed bug with Player.canEverHaveEffectCity

• Fixed tile territory assignment in game editor

• Fixed Grand Vizier interfering with automated unit management

• Fixed camera zooming to fog when clicking foreign character with job

• Fixed Towers giving extra height instead of extra range

• Fixed movement bug that resulted in allied units not getting bounced out of your territory

• Fixed some AI retreat confusion

• Fixed promotion button icons not aligning to right of button

• Fixed nation crest color issues

• Fixed tooltip positioning issues with HUD scaling

• Fixed missing source traits on some effectCity entries

• Fixed Opulence project not granting family opinion bonus

• Fixed tooltip for event options that marry away characters

• Fixed Learn to Play ambitions not displaying correctly in Hall of Fame

• Fixed mods not showing in Upload tab in some cases

• Fixed map mod attributes not being checked in setup screen

• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 Epic Victory achievement sometimes not unlocking

• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 Tribal peace/truce/war missions

• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario issues with Urusalim not being a city site

• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile overlapping goals UI

• Fixed unwanted VPs in The Hill scenario

• Fixed "Wrath of Gods" map script showing with "show hidden map scripts" enabled and content not owned

• Fixed occurrences causing rivers with deltas flowing into land tiles (Wrath of Gods)

• Text and event fixes