Old World October 1st Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.79976 Test 2025-10-01

Design

• AI now requires a Diplomat leader to start a National Alliance. Increased probability of an alliance offer

• Map options limiting the number of city sites now concentrate sites around player starts

• Consorts can now be Regents without needing to be Royal. Ill characters will not be picked to be Regents

• Added repair cost to Town and Village improvements

• Free-for-all player starts no longer try to separate human players

• Ambitions that require Wonders now consider Wonders owned by teammates to be impossible to acquire

Programming

• Improved AI for Zealot leader enlisting

• AI no longer attacks civilians if doing so puts their units in danger of being killed

• Modio version upgrade

• Added option for CRC tracing when loading mods

UI

• In sequential turn network games, observer view automatically switches to the next player when the observed player's turn ends. This is disabled after manually switching to a different player

• Observers now use their set language rather than the language of the observed player

• Cities with effects that give Rebel chance are marked with a Rebels icon in the city list screen and city tooltip

• Population in the city list screen is now a link to city specialists

• Worker build action button yields no longer subtract unimproved tile yields

• Map Overlay Customizer now has seperate options for Urban and Rural Improvements

• Renamed the City Number options and City Site Density to City Site Spacing

• Chat hotkey no longer works for non-host observers

• Show Foreign Family Colors option now also applies to city widget crests

• Clicking a General portrait on a selected unit now selects the character

• Law tooltips now show family opinion changes instead of family class opinion

• New Place Bonus decisions get sorted to the front of the event queue

• Improvement pings no longer removed after a terrain change if the improvement is still valid or after a resource is added if the improvement matches the resource

• Added foreign opinion helptext to specify the portion of the Ruthless AI opinion that is due to a player alliance

• Network server name is now the username of the player on the current online platform, where available

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed AI development claiming more than the nation's share of city sites when using limited City Site Number options

• Fixed agent tab not properly updating after assigning agent character

• Fixed setup screen bug with number of players

• Fixed modified trade values not being calculated in trade bonus helptext

• Fixed city culture tooltip flicker

• Fixed overlay customizer not updating toggles when re-opening after making unsaved changes

• Fixed locked overlay highlight switching off of Custom when toggling customizer

• Fixed improvement filter issues, include unfinished improvements

• Fixed pillaging, burn and launch offensive not clearing hidden status

• Fixed some issues with temporarily hidden units

• Fixed retry cloud upload directing to succession UI

• Fixed map selection with character assignment UI active

• Fixed double state religion reference in happiness help text

• Fixed AI leaving Wonders unfinished if interrupted

• Fixed not being able to change language when it's not your turn

• Text and event fixes