Old World Update: Clerics family changes, new Guilds Law effect, UI improvements

Main Branch 1.0.78527 Release 2025-06-25

Design

• Cleric family now gets free Divine Rule law on founding. Removed free Monasticism and Found Religion Project from Clerics

• Cleric seats can build Christian and Manicheist Disciples after the religions have been founded without the religion being present

• Cleric seats have double speed Disciples only for State Religion

• Religion spread no longer has a distance limit from the Holy City

• Guilds law now allows building Elder Specialists directly, skipping any prerequisite specialists. Hamlet happiness bonus removed

• Tribe-owned units no longer get a strength modifier against other tribes at strong and raging tribe levels

• Regents now become Royal if they usurp the throne or continue ruling after the rightful heir's death

• Projects and specialists that are automatically removed from the build queue because they are no longer valid now refund any invested resources to the player's yield stockpile

• AI governors now emphasize growth and build fewer growth units when city has no citizens

• Persia's Shapur dynasty gets the Found Religion project (Wonders and Dynasties)

• Rising Stars are now less common and ask to become a Grand Vizier less (Behind the Throne)

• Opulence project now requires a luxury in addition to estates (Behind the Throne)

• Reduced probability of Occurrence ready events (Wrath of Gods)

Multiplayer Turn Style changes

• Loose turn style can be selected only with a turn timer

• Renamed normal turn style to adaptive

• Tight turn style is now the default

• Strict turn styles no longer allow players to perform any actions when not their turn (this also affects single player)

Programming

• Performance optimization

• Memory allocation optimization

• Bug reporting system improvements

• Improved AI valuation of Disciples and Religions

• AI now uses Cleric seat ability to build disciples of non-present religions

• Improved AI use of unit staging before an attack

• AI checks whether a city can have an effect from resources before building a project that gives that same effect (i.e. Riders Import Horses)

• AI knows to use units that do not require orders when it's out of orders

• Improved sprite loading thread safety

• Added safeguards against unexpected UI resets from a game restart

• Added 3 additional resource categories to the default map script for use by mods

• Added support for partial counterattack strength for use by mods (replaced InfoUnit.mbMeleeCounter with miMeleeCounterPercent)

• Added support for upgrading rural improvements for use by mods

• Generalized event subject picking so it no longer needs an event, just a list of subjects

• Various missions started by the leader now no longer block all events with a leader subject

• UI mod files (UI/includes and UI/styles) are excluded from game CRC

• Added UI/templates to UI modding paths

UI

• Free improvements and resources are now added to the event queue and placed by clicking a valid tile

• Tooltip in tech tree shows the date team mates have discovered each tech, as well as for observers in MP games, and all players when the game is completed

• Games with custom names (i.e. Game of the Week) now show their name in the parameters tooltip

• Improvement net yield now includes Patrons Precious Resource culture bonus

• Border expansion preview has the correct border colors for families

• Added Items to Encyclopedia in their own category, with unique events listed

• Encyclopedia now lists DLC source for traits where applicable

• ESC clears luxury selection before opening menu

• City luxury tooltip improvements

• Valid unit types now listed for 'New units start with ' helptext

• Improved luxury tooltip positioning

• Removed tile raw yield from the city net yield tooltip

• Added min height for OK button on turn summary popup

• Scripted tutorial events blur the background UI, preventing events being bypassed

• Added strength/weakness icons to concept links

• Improved Riders 'Import Resource' project helptext

• Yield and unit strength previews when assigning jobs now take into account the opinion change caused by the job switch

• Mission requirements in tooltips are no longer shown in some situations where these requirements are all met

• Ratings shown on character tooltip when they are 0 if they produce a yield (i.e. Schemer Agents)

• Removed resource ping from improvements dropdown. This was made obsolete by the new UI to place free resources

• Improved tooltips and interactions between Behind the Throne traits and imprison/assassinate missions

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed event job forcing not always working

• Fixed trade breakdown tooltip

• Fixed governor marker showing in city widget for No Characters

• Fixes to the Old World premade map - re-added dynasty start positions and fixed empty tiles warning

• Fixes to the Punic Duel premade map - removed underwater trees and fixed missing city name

• Fixed border expansion preview not updating after changes in player decision queue

• Fixed Stele placement not being restricted to chosen city

• Fixed a bug with AI unit effect evaluation

• Fixed Game.canStartOccurrence modifying the game state

• Fixed players being unable to surrender in MP games when they are the last active human player

• Fixed events checking for mutual attraction selecting divorced spouses

• Fixed incorrect amount of orders when ending the turn without founding a city

• Fixed temporarily impassable tiles getting counted for minor city creation

• Fixed leader bio paragraph indentation inconsistencies

• Fixed farm model roof bug

• Fixed visibility load/save error from terrain height change

• Fixed an AI bug that made it misjudge large battle outcomes and attack when it should be retreating

• Fixed number of improvement ambitions becoming impossible after losing control of a city

• Fixed mini tech tree names not being accounted for in scroll area

• Fixed council character tooltip positioning with selection active

• Fixed reference to Stun in Retreat helptext

• Fixed Guilds help text inconsistency

• Fixed top bar yield arrows for selected character

• Fixed events giving characters jobs getting invalidated when character is general of a unit on cooldown

• Fixed yield preview showing incorrectly when replacing an improvement with a specialist

• Fixed duplicate characters getting generated from events

• Fixed AI bug that caused retreat from non hostile AI units

• Fixed critical hit chance not resetting on General wisdom change

• Fixed flicker when hovering over improvement recommendations

• Fixed border expansion algorithm

• Fixed family and religion crest color and opinion display

• Fixed potential infinite recursion in AI bonusValue calculations

• Fixed another case of Carthage scenario 4 Epic Victory achievement not being granted

• Fixed Pharoahs of the Nile scenario 4 being continuable after winning

• UI modding fixes

• Text and event fixes