Alpha 2.9.0

New

• Added Foreign Trade Routes.
• Added Integrity to diplomatic actions.
• Reworked Happiness and Sickness. Sickness now makes citizens unable to work. Unhappiness builds until city riots.
• Added player disconnection panel to gracefully handle player disconnects mid game.
• Added nested tooltips and tooltip links for keywords
• Added tooltips to unit icons on unit selection panel.
• Improved AI technology selection, unit production selection, and public works placement.
• Added unit stack’s owner information to unit context panel.
• Added religion icon for players’ chosen religion to their leader face panel.
• Cities that have your founding religion now receive +5 happiness (everyone) and +5 gold (founder only).
• Improved AI religion spreading and diplomacy for spreading missionaries.
• Added warlord camp difficulty and reward variation. Defeating higher risk warlord camps gives greater rewards.
• Improved loading game performance.
• Improved AI planning, transport, and settling across water.
• Added Scoreboard, top 10 cities, and global completed wonders to new scoreboard UI.

Balance

• Increased unit maintenance costs. Starting at 1 gold and increasing by 0.5 gold per age tier.
• Added +1 caravan route bonuses to Stables, Grocery, Guild Hall, Castle.
• Adjusted building maintenance costs to by around 5x and increasing cost across ages.
• Moved Horse Archer from requiring archery to requiring artisan tools.
• Polytheism now requires Literature.
• Monotheism now requires Masonry.
• State Religion now requires Architecture. Moved to Medieval era.
• Righteous Law now requires Drama and Calendar. Moved to Renaissance era.
• Justice System now requires Writing and Monarchy.
• Currency now requires writing. Moved to Ancient era.
• Removed Scholarships Technology.
• Feudal Estates now requires Justice System, Currency, and Architecture.
• Philosophy now requires Feudal Estates.
• Merchant Guilds now requires Apprentices, Algebra, Bureaucracy, and Currency.
• Alchemy now requires Merchant Guilds.
• The Enlightenment now requires Music, Merchant Guilds, Philosophy, and State Religion.
• Updated technology science costs across ages.
• Increased culture cost of switching governments/policies, scaled by empire size.
• Buildings now cost more production, scaled by required era.
• Founders of religion now get to convert to their religion for free.
• Improved AI road/bridge/army pathing.

Bugs

• Fixed placing public works on goods bypassing validation restrictions.
• Fixed not being able to scroll down on the caravan route creation menu.
• Fixed trade good UI showing wrong maximum amounts.
• Fixed AI not military researching tech and producing only clubmen.
• Fixed forced debug starting seed from keeping starting default seed the same in release builds for custom games.
• Fixed AI not considering every combat related stat for picking units. Now considers Damage, HP, Armor, Armor Penetration and battle abilities.
• Fixed wonders not showing up in the cities’ building list.
• Fixed desync when players disconnect.
• Fixed harbor providing bonuses to river tiles.
• Fixed War Elephants not being easily selectable.
• Fixed Democracy and Republic Governments having incorrect policy slot counts.
• Fixed Government panel showing “RichText” for now reason.
• Fixed Government policies container not being able to scroll.
• Fixed auto-explore not being cancellable. Auto-explore now cancels when player manually moves unit.
• Fixed manufactured goods not appearing in empire caravan manager.
• Fixed manufactured goods not showing tooltips on buildings that they are produced from.
• Fixed trade goods on map blocking clicks onto city UI
• Fixed cities getting stuck inside the unhappy state.
• Fixed ships not being able to enter a city after sailing out of it.
• Fixed AI exploration not building scouts or picking up ruins.
• Slightly Improved Video playback improvement
• Adjusted Happiness and Health values to make them more impactful.
• Fixed AI being able to build cities right next to each other across the map boundary.
• Fixed culture edges sometimes not rendering correctly.
• Fixed a ring of culture remaining around a city after capture.
• Fixed losing all culture and riot when liberating captured cities.
• Fixe all units rendering their shadows at once on a tile.