Old World May 21st Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.77944 Test 2025-05-21

Design

**Garrison and Governor changes: **

• Governors no longer require a Garrison

• Garrisons require 1 Law again

• Garrisons now give +1 order (up from 0.5)

• Garrison and Stronghold stone cost reduced by 20 (80/100 -> 60/80)

• Darius dynasty now gives 50% discount to appointing Governors (Wonders and Dynasties)

Other design changes:

• Minor cities can be created even if the site is occupied

• Borders with team-owned tiles on opposite sites are now claimed by the city with the most adjacent tiles

• Barbarian Horde will now spawn inside player territory if there are not enough tiles available otherwise

Programming

• Added EffectUnits miAdjacentDifferentModifier, maeBuyTile, mbPillage, mabHideTerrainTarget and miMarchCostModifier

• Added EffectCity aiYieldRateSpecialistRural

• Allow the road pathfinder to accept TeamType.NONE, returning a road path which ignores visibility or diplomacy

• Promoted Infos validator from ModPath to GameFactory so mods can supply custom validators

• Added support for Religions to have a law opinion directly, not just through theologies

UI

• Added improvement net yields in tooltip

• Ambitions display no longer gets minimized when clicking on listed ambitions

• Pin Character icon has higher saturation when character is pinned

• General traits which only affect some unit types now display affected unit types

• Character relatives display now left-aligned

• Improved border expansion predictions

• Leader now shown on Court tab

• Leader concept added to Encyclopedia

• Horse trait now shown in Encyclopedia

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed lumbermills, granaries and harbors not being buildable (affected previous test build)

• Fixed tribal diplomacy cooldown not being enforced

• Fixed rename cities button

• Fixed SP setup screen not reappearing after backing out

• Fixed some ethnicity-based opinion bonuses for foreign nations

• Fixed some incorrect breakdown listings

• Fixed minor cities not always being created when they should be

• Fixed Send Goods icon display

• Fixed load/save error from border expansion

• Fixed null reference when tribe sites sit outside map boundaries

• Fixed incorrect default value for resource hill height offset

• Fixed improvement culture prereqs not working with modded culture

• Fixed family opinion penalty from the Imprison mission getting applied to the character instead

• Fixed net yields for projects to include secondary effects

• Fixed sign error in specialist net yield help text

• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 tech tree completion achievement triggering too early

• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 4 state religion adoption

• XML ordering fixes

• Text and event fixes