Elemental - War of Magic
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Welcome to the world of Elemental!

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--------------- Elemental v1.40---------------
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+ Max army size reduced from 12 to 6 units
+ Tech multiplier reduced from 1.5 to 1.3 (faster research)
+ Higher level monsters will spawn later in the game no matter what
+ AI smarter about targeting in tactical battles (not always the "toughest" unit)
+ AI more generous about imbuing their champions
+ AI more likely to choose guardians on city upgrades
+ Fixed bug that resulted in the AI not reliably learning higher level spells
+ AI more greedy when demanding tribute
+ Fixed bug from 1.4 beta 1 that caused units not to automove.
+ Fixed bug where if the AI hated everyone they would still say they're handing their kingdom over to (blank)
+ City Hubs store more population
+ City Hubs provide less zone of control by default
+ Increased # of turns on many improvements from 1 turn to 3 turns
+ Embassies are no longer an unlimited improvement
+ Fixed strange noises quest to have an illustration
+ Fixed the train unit window UI where the unit costs were messed up
+ Named the dog unit's default name from "dog" to "Annie" in honor of Paul Boyer's dog (the dog is visually based on Annie)
+ New title logo
+ Vastly reduced the cost of a non-aggression pack
+ Teleport spell cost increased from 40 mana to 250 mana
+ New flavor text added
+ Reduced the value of monuments to the AI
+ City Guardian units buffed. They're much more powerful now, correspond with city level

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--------------- Elemental v1.39 beta---------------
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+ Training Times for soldiers reduced based on population
+ Reduced reliance on critical sections to improve performance, decrease chances for a race condition
+ Weapon and defense rolls are now bell curved (rather than a single strike attempt, many strike attempts are simulated for more normalized damage)
+ AI bonuses reduced. At normal difficulty the AI gets the same stuff as player.
+ ZOC reduced
+ Quests no longer spawn at start of the game
+ Level Up points increased from 3 to 5
+ Capital prestige bonus increased to 1.0
+ Sovereign now provides 1.0 research per turn
+ Spell research cost reduced from 100 to 50 as its base
+ Prestige penalty eliminated
+ Low level improvement build time reduced from 5 to 1 turns
+ The Constitution stat provides more HP than previously
+ Constitution on base units increased from 4 to 5
+ New debugging calls inserted (see debug.err)
+ AI much more prone to cast spells in tactical battle
+ Notable locations give more interesting stuff
+ AI city management code optimized for performance
+ City management placed in main thread for better multicore stability
+ Path finding depth increased to allow for more reliable path finding
+ Monsters less likely to attack cities, especially early game
+ AI sovereign bug fixed, won't just wander to his death (thanks Cari!)
+ Ranged weapon damage nerfed (crude bows from 4 to 3, cedar from 12 to 8 and long bows from 15 to 12)


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--------------- Elemental v1.30 ------------------
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+ Economy tweaked and fix for out of control population
+ AI more reactive about updating strategy when a target city has been conquered / destroyed
+ Janusk has been removed. Goodbye old friend. See you in the Fallen Enchantress tutorial... (UI option not yet removed)
+ AI now evaluates which player they care about the most with Dynasty ties being a big motivator. When a sovereign dies, it will give its kingdom to its heir.
+ Repeatable improvements now increase with cost as more are built.
+ World difficulty now sets the default AI player difficulty
+ Modders can set the base cost of repeatable improvements in the appropriate .xml file
+ Base unit CON reduced from 5 to 3
+ Special buildings now longer required to build special units. Instead, these buildings provide bonuses (i.e. no need for a command post to train groups)
+ Minimum number of units you can train has been increased to 4.
+ Trained units default HP reduced from 5 to 1
+ Trained unit groups that survive a battle will heal to full strength (i.e. If your group of 4 survives the battle with 1 guy left, it will be replenished to 4 over time). Hat tip to Konan.
+ Insufficient free tiles message added
+ Zone of control from improvements reduced
+ Tech costs increased
+ Number of starting quest locations increased
+ Pedastrians disabled (for now)
+ More aggressively freeing memory
+ Notable locations may now be explored regardless of your level.
+ Notable locations will be spawned NEAR you when you increase your exploration level (but now remember, your opponents can access them too so don't do it if you're surrounded)
+ Objects that have been marked as destroyed are now ignore by subsystems (performance improvement, stability improvement) This is throughout all game systems.
+ LOTS of code to handle the increasing costs in terms of people to run your improvements. If anyone thinks that getting highly talented people remains equally easy as you grow, ask google, microsot or apple about that. It's not.
+ Random events added (not many random events yet though)
+ Pioneers are still trained as individuals
+ Units move faster by default on the map (animation-wise)
+ Units move A LOT faster in tactical battle (let us know if it's too fast)
+ Minor factions removed. Sorry guys, they're just too lame to live for now.
+ New notable locations added to provide weapons, armor, and other "stuff"

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----------- Elemental v1.2a Change Log -----------
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1. Fixed bug where editing info card caused equipment to be removed from the world’s list of game items, which prevented it from being equipped again.
2. Fixed a crash when cycling through the party in trade equipment screen.
3. Fixed a bug where you couldn’t build improvements in MP.


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----------- Elemental v1.2 Change Log -----------
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1. Fixed memory leaks, texture leaks, and crashes.
2. Reduced memory consumption (especially in the late game) by releasing unneeded textures instead of retaining them indefinitely.
3. Raze city no longer requires a tech and is available right off the bat for all of your cities.
4. Prestige penalty for multiple cities has been broken out in the Other category on the city screen (instead of being a part of the base prestige number).
5. AI is more careful with their sovereign.
6. In the city breakdown the amount of buildings is listed (so it will say Study x3 if you have 3 studies in that city).
7. Fixed bug where conquered cities that had caravans that called that city home would end up with messed up caravan counts.
8. Fixed a bug where player ability penalties on resource production weren't actually being taken into account.
9. Fixed the effect of the "Call of the Titans" spell, which gathers all your unstationed units and transports them to a specified tile. It will now skip units without an attack (ie. pioneers, caravans, boats).
10. Fixed bug where particle glow effect would remain on the map after getting a goodie hut until you hit the turn button.
11. Fixed delay in tactical battles with mounted archer units.
12. Fixed bug where sometimes particles would remain on the map from a destroyed factions cities.
13. Added a new game option to adjust Movie volume.
14. Removed the city idle dialog, replaced with a report item notification in the event list.
15. Pioneers/sovs cannot build/found cities in other people's territory
16. Since spells are capped at level 5, you are no longer given the choice to keep going up in spell level once you reach that max.
17. Disabling Janusk advice does not disable his creation in the game.
18. Custom sovereign starting appearance is randomized (so you don't start with the same model every time).
19. You are now able to select a tile under a unit without moving the unit.
20. Limited improvements (like the faction specific Beacon of Hope) won't be counted as being built until they are completed.
21. Fixed Titan's Breath (thanks to Heavenfall and Kenata).
22. Fixed an issue that was keeping the AI from casting spells in tactical battles.
23. Balanced resource placement (more variety, better distribution).
24. Added a blue highlight representing the range of a spell when in spellcasting mode on both the strategic and tactical map, so the user can see how far they are allowed to cast the spell
25. Added tooltips that hover underneath the spellcasting cursor that explain why a spell can't be cast on that tile (with no tooltip shown if it is a valid target)
26. The strategic map spellcasting mode now uses the same wand cursors (with support for an invalid cursor) that the tactical map mode uses
27. Fixed a bug in spellcasting where non offensive, defensive, or terraforming spells were now checking that the spell target was valid when deciding if the spell could be cast.
28. Fixed the Fallen Ambassador (so it now correctly gives diplomatic capital).
29. Removed the Refined Diplomacy techs.
30. Added gold as a tradeable resource for fallen and changed horses to wargs for them.
31. Added the champion ablity "Diplomatic" which gives +1 diplomatic capital per turn.
32. Hooked up a list at the top of the city HUD to show the enchantments that are currently on that city.
33. Fixed a bug in the main city context wnd where it would use the AI's cached version of the battle rank for display, causing it to often not match the city HUD and other screens.
34. Fixed a bug where dispelling Guardian Ward (and any other spells that involved a city-target summon modifier) would not kill the summoned unit.
35. Fixed a bug where killing a unit summoned on a city would not cancel the enchantment that summoned that unit, keeping the spell from being cast on that city again.
36. Fixed lighting on shields in unit design screens (so they won't appear black anymore).
37. Fixed an issue that caused units to lose their custom portrait after a few turns.
38. Units now fade out when they get killed on the main map.
39. Units now fade out when they get killed in tactical battles.
40. Fixed a bug where improvements in FOW still played their particle effects.
41. Added a info button where spellbooks are displayed (such as on the custom sovereign screen) that will show all the spells that spellbook gives.
42. When improvements are auto-upgraded they no longer make the upgrade noise (which can be deafening when a bunch do it at once).
43. Auto-upgrades won't spam the event list with the "new building" messages.
44. When casting a targeted spell on an army (such as imbue champion on a stack with more than one valid target) a dialog is presented to allow the player to pick the unit he wants.
45. Fixed an issue that kept AI champions from being able to cast spells in tactical combat.
46. Players can now earn achievements in single player mode if auto-login is enabled.
47. Fixed a bug with lifesteal that caused the caster to lose hit points.
48. Fixed some bugs in tactical AI code that were causing it to think enemy units were friendly units.
49. Added code so that AI units will try to cast a heal spell on themself before resorting to trying to escape.
50. Added code so that the AI can determine the best spell to use based on AI xml weights in the spells themselves.
51. Added AIData and AIPriority tags to all spells, so we can tweak how much the AI cares about them.
52. Min defense on armor has been removed. Previously armor never absorbed less than half the units defense value, now it has the possibility to absorb the full range (though weighter to the high end). So every attack can do damage.
53. Increased the casting cost for Return and Teleport.
54. When a pioneer founds a city, any remaining units in its army are now automatically stationed in the new city.
55. When a sovereign founds a kingdom/empire, the popup explaining what they are doing now includes a checkbox asking if the user wants to station their sovereign in the new city, where if they choose to not have it selected, the sovereign moves to an adjacent tile like before
56. Fixed a bug with units getting stationed over end turn not showing up in a cities context, and ensuring the new city founding behavior shows the most updated city context when all the shuffling of units is done.
57. Fixed bug where, when founding a city, you could see the pioneer either die on top of the city while it was being built, or the pioneer's graphic would stick around for a turn if in cloth map mode when the city was built
58. The events for "improvement built" and "unit finished training" start out temporarily expanded, for a short period of time.
59. Faction Power Wnd entries now have a tooltip telling you how each player feels towards you. (ex. At War, Neutral, etc..). Also, if you are at war with them, an AtWar icon will be displayed.
60. Unit info cards reworked to show more meaningful data, have the data fit better, etc.
61. Fixed Grip of Winter and Greater Grip of Winter to correctly apply a chance of taking effect (previously they always caused the victims to lose their next turn).
62. Added an event list entry when there are enemy units in your lands. Clicking on the event will cycle through the enemy units in your lands.
63. Added a new tactical Air 1 spell, Wind Shield. Gives all allied units +5 dodge vs ranged attacks.
64. Removed the Blink spell.
65. You can now recruit Janusk directly from his opening dialog (instead of him talking to you and then sometimes running away).
66. Empire can now claim refugee camps.
67. Added some new map seeds
68. Made the AI more careful with the sovereign
69. Fixed crash in map editor when creating a new map after creating or loading a map
70. Added lots of debug information about the game save process and memory

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----------- Elemental v1.11 Change Log -----------
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1.11 is a stability patch based on the feedback given since 1.1's release. It resolves crashes and improves the AI.

Changes:

1. AI is much better at casting strategic spells.
2. AI better at queuing units to be trained.
3. AI unit design improved.
4. Crash fixes in the battle engine.
5. Resolved an end of turn crash.
6. Fixed a multi-threaded crash in evaluate relations.

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----------- Elemental v1.10 Change Log -----------
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CHANGES TO IMPROVEMENTS/CITIES:
+ Beacon of Hope kingdom improvement added (+1 prestige, 1 per faction).
+ Added ability to clear forests adjacent to your cities which costs 25 gildar and provides 2 materials.
+ Improvements now extend influence.
+ Tower of Dominion imperial improvement added (+1 prestige, 1 per faction).
+ Tower of Essence kingdom improvement added (+2 mana, city size 3, city has to have a shard).
+ Tower of Doom empire improvement added (+2 mana, city size 3, city has to have a shard).
+ City hubs now automatically produce some prestige per turn equal to 1 - (0.1 * number of non-capital cities), with a min prestige production of 0.2 per turn. This is to make population more critical (since it won't grow as quickly).
Kingdom
Beacon of Hope- +1 prestige
Fortress- +1 prestige, 1 per city, city level 5
Pub- +1.5 prestige, 1 per city, city level 3
Inn- +1 prestige, 1 per city, city level 2
Theater- +2 prestige, 1 per city, city level 4
Palace- +2 prestige, 1 per faction, city level 4
Great Arena- +4 prestige, +25% prestige in all cities, 1 per game, city level 5
Empire
Tower of Dominion- +1 prestige
Imperial Throne- +2 prestige, 1 per faction, city level 4
Statue of Kir-Tion- +25% prestige in all cities, 1 per game, city level 2
Monument- +0.5 prestige, unlimited, city level 2
+ City levels changed from 25/100/400/1250 to 15/50/250/750.
+ City ZoC's adjusted:
City level 1: 1-3 (was 1-3)
City level 2: 3-5 (was 3-5)
City level 3: 5-7 (was 5-
City level 4: 7-9 (was 12-15)
City level 5: 9-12 (was 15-1
+ City Level Gildar bonuses reduced from +10% per level to +5% per level.
+ Changed the Kingdom Smelter improvement to be one per city.
+ Added a Smelter improvement for the Empire to give them a way to boost metal production.
+ Villa Improvement added (replaces apartments), +60 pop, -1 food.
+ Houses moved up to the Economics tech.
+ Slums food cost reduced from 4 to 2 (to make slums efficient, if not pleasant to live in).
+ Slums moved back from the Proper Living to Majesty tech.
+ Gold Mines now require Harvesting tech to use
+ Lost Libraries now require Lore Recovery to use
+ Ancient Temples now require Arcane research to use
+ Inns can now be built by level 2 cities without a prerequisite.
+ Increased Shard Shrines from 1 mana/turn to 2 mana/turn.
+ The Empire can now build crystal mines.
+ The Imperial Throne reduces maintenance costs in the city it is built in by 50%.
+ Added the Garden improvement (Kingdom only).
+ Added the Skath Pit improvement (empire only).
+ Empire War Council improvement correctly requires Armies instead of the Tools of War tech now.
+ Added a tech requirement to the Empire Arcane temples.
+ Hedge Walls/Wooden Walls city level requirement reduced from 3 to 0.
+ Forts and castles city level requirement reduced from 4 to 3.
+ Added the Library improvement. Studies upgrade to libraries when a city reaches level 3 and the player has civics. Libraries provide 2 knowledge per turn. (Fallen version added called the Master Archivist).
+ Town Hall changed from +25% gildar production to -25% city maintenance and moved from city level 4 to 3.
+ Fixed Empire city bonuses set equal to the kingdom cities of the same level.

CHANGES TO TECHS:
+ Renamed "Quests" to "Lore Recovery". Ancient Lore renamed to "Greater Lore"
+ Moved Shard Harvesting/Shard Domination to later in the tech tree.
+ Empire tech Refined Weaponry requires Dread Weapons now (instead of Offense).
+ Empire tech Refined Armor requires Master Armor now (instead of General Armor).
+ Removed the Empire Indoctronation tech.
+ Removed the Enchantment, Combat and Summoning spellbooks from the Empire Advanced spellbooks tech.
+ Added the Book of Summoning tech to the Empire tech tree.
+ Removed the Refined Essence Use tech from the Empire tech tree.
+ Removed the Essence Transference tech from the Empire tech tree.
+ Added the Master Spellbooks tech to the Empire tech tree.
+ Arcane Experiments Empire tech now requires Shard Harvesting.
+ Arcane Armor Empire tech now requires Arcane Experiments.
+ Arcane Weapons Empire tech now requires Arcane Armor (with the huge advantage of moving the Sword of Wrath to a late game tech instead of being a 2nd tier tech).
+ Removed the Life spellbook tech (all kingdom players already start with the Life spellbook).
+ Added the ability to spawn crystals to the Empire tech Keepers of Avarice.
+ Modified crystal spawns from techs so they are within 12 of the player’s capital instead of 20.
+ Modified mine spawns from techs so they are within 12 of the player’s capital instead of 20.
+ Modified food spawns from techs so they are within 12 of the player’s capital instead of 20.
+ Added an additional food spawn to the food spawns from techs (bees and an orchard instead of just bees).
+ Archery is now in the equipment line and required for ranged weapons (previously it was possible to learn ranged weapons and have access to bows but be unable to build archery ranges so you couldnt build archers).
+ Logistics and City Defense tech order reversed (previously you got the command post to build groups early but couldn't build it because it required a rank 3 city).
+ Adjusted %'s techs show up when researching (it’s all 100% now, open to balance).

CHANGES TO UNIT TYPES:
+ Added a 1 available specialist cost to all the default and base unit types for the core factions and race types, so that training a unit will tie up one in the population, and the amount that is tied up scales with the grouping type (so a party of 4 ties up 4 population, etc.).
+ New Ability Bonuses for Great Defender and Immobilized (when immobilized a unit can’t move).
+ New "Guardian Ward" unittype added.
+ Balanced the Sentinel starting units.
+ Balanced children. Children's stats will be based more on the parents and children won't get free defense, attack, etc.
+ Kingdom Peasants now have a 5 constitution (like empire peasants).
+ Kingdom catapults are no longer available for Empire.
+ Removed spell immunity from Darklings.

CHANGES TO SPELLS/MAGIC:
+ All spells now use global mana.
+ Sovereigns produce +2 Global Mana per turn.
+ Added ability to specify a minimum stat score that a spellcaster needs to cast a spell to a spell def. Sovereigns ignore the min stat and can always cast spells they have access to.
+ Spells with durations will now be canceled on end-of-battle (note that tactical enchantment spells w/o duration will still be permanent).
+ Air Spells will be properly affected by an Air Shard and the Caster’s Intelligence.
+ Imbue Champion now immediately available, takes 1 mana per turn.
+ New Paintings hooked up for appropriate Spells.
+ Spells cast on / removed from a city will now update their HUDs to properly reflect stat changes.
+ Added an IsResistable tag to spells, will be used for magic resistance.
+ Players start with more generalized spellbooks (terraforming, enchantment, combat, mobility). Elemental and advanced spellbooks are unlocked through the tech tree.
+ Terraforming spellbook:
Raise Land- water into land and land into hill
Lower Land- mountain into hill, hill into land
Revive Land- tile becomes grassland
Desecrate Land- tile becomes forsaken
Erosion- erode Cliffside into beach
Create Mountain- raise land into a mountain
Destroy Land- lower land to water
+ Enchantment spellbook:
Nature's Bounty- settlement gets +1 food
Alchemy- settlement gets +1 gildar
Invisible Workers- settlement gets +1 materials
Inspiration- settlement gives +1 tech
Call to Arms- automatically completes training the unit in target settlements queue
Enchanted Hammers- reduces the build time of improvements in the target city by 25%
Greater Alchemy- settlement gets +3 gildar
Guardian Ward- provides a powerful city defender that can’t leave the city.
+ Mobility spellbook:
Blink- teleport unit to an empty tile in tactical combat.
Return- teleport to the capital city.
Teleport- teleport to any friendly tile
Mobility- target unit gets +1 movement
Haste- target unit gets combat speed +1
Greater Mobility- target unit gets +2 movement
Escape- entire army escapes from tactical combat
Greater Haste- +1 combat speed of the army in tactical combat
Call of the Titans- all the players units that aren’t in cities are teleported to the selected tile
+ Combat spellbook:
Arcane Weapon- target unit gets +5 to attack
Arcane Arrow- deals ½ the casters Int in damage to target
Guardian Aura- targets dodge rating is doubled
Spell Blast- targets units within 1 radius receive 1/3 the casters Int in damage
Berzerk- target units defense is moved to attack for battle
Spell Immunity- target unit is immune to spells
Touch of Entropy- target unit takes 30 damage
Blood Rage- unit gains HP and strength for all damage dealt
+ Earth spellbook:
Pull of the Earth- combat speed is halved for 3 turns
Stone Skin- target unit gets +10 defense
Tremor- immobilizes an army in your ZoC for a turn.
Rock Slide- target tile blocks, unit in tile knocked back and loses 1 turn
Summon Earth Elemental- summons an earth elemental
Earthquake- destroys random improvements and resets the training and build queues of nearby cities
+ Air spellbook:
Evade- target unit gets +1 to dodge
Eyes of the Eagle- fog of war revealed for a 6 radius around the caster
Bottled Gale- target unit is knocked back 2 tiles
Storm- random enemy hit by a lightning bolt for 5-8 damage
Greater Evasion- target unit get +2 to dodge
Tornado- randomly disperses an army across several tiles and immobilizes them for a turn
+ Fire spellbook:
Burning Hands- target unit takes 8 damage (range 1)
Pillar of Flame- Strategic spell that damages an enemy army in your ZoC.
Flame Dart- target unit takes 5 damage
Fire Ball- target unit takes 8 damage + 4 per fire shard
Fire Storm- area with radius 1 takes 10 damage + 5 per fire shard
Inferno- strategic spell that fills a tile with fire, damaging any that pass through it.
Curgen's Inferno- causes a volcano to explode and destroy target city
+ Water spellbook:
Grip of Winter- target has a 25% chance of losing its next turn
Blizzard- damage to units within 2 tiles
Summon Ice Elemental- Summons an Ice elemental.
Slow- reduces the movement of an enemy army in your ZoC to 1 per turn.
Greater Grip of Winter- freezes all enemy units, giving them a 50% chance of losing their next turn
+ Life spellbook:
Summon Familiar- summons a familiar
Heal- heals target unit by 6hp
Regeneration- target unit hals +2 hp per turn (in and out of combat) and +3 con
Fertility- target settlement gets +1 prestige
Glyph of Life- target units hp increased by 20
Death Ward- imbued hero will be saved if they fall in battle (as a sovereign is)
+ Summon spellbook:
Summon Imp- summons an imp
Nature's Ally- summons natures ally
Demonic Ally- summons a lesser demon.
Summoners Boon- Strengths all your summons.
Pariden's Return- summons Pariden to fight for one battle
+ Death spellbook:
Summon Spy- Summons a spy
Blindness- target unit gets -50% to accuracy
Wither- reduces the strength and constitution of target unit
Contagion- all enemies take damage per turn
Sacrifice- target city you control loses 100 citizens and provides 50 mana (or .5 mana per citizen if population is less than 100).
+ Mastery spellbook:
Spell of Making- wins the game.
+ Removed the range requirement from some strategic spells (easier for human and AI players).
+ Casting a spell now uses all the units remaining action points (so units can only cast 1 spell per turn).
+ Learning Spell Ranks takes more time.
+ Learning Spells takes less time.
+ Imbue Champion now costs 25 mana to cast.
+ When you access the spellbook from the kingdom report window (either through the tabs on the side, the shortcut in the actions area when nothing is selected, or from the little icon by the spell research status bar in the main tray wnd), it now sets the local player's sovereign as the caster, so that the spells can be cast without needing to expressly select a spellcaster on the main map

CHANGES TO BATTLES:
+ In tactical battles you can now click on units outside of your attack range in order to set an attack destination unit.
+ Cities now use modifier instances (from Spells) for factoring in DefendingUnitBonuses
+ Quick battles now prevent popups until after the battle is over so that you can see what is happening
+ When a sovereign gets killed in non-hostile territory, instead of spending essence to retreat, they now spend half of their mana and are then immobilized in the city they retreat to for 5 turns.
+ Increased the speed of tactical animations, particuarly with archers and mounted units.
+ Hovering over enemy units in tactical will give you your hit odds and damage ranges.
+ Adjusted weapon damage on weapons with combat speed bonuses to make them more in line with other weapons of their tier (with multipliers).

GFX/UI CHANGES:
+ Trade equipment screen now only allows champions, not units. It was confusing that the screen allowed you to give equipment to trained units, but they could do nothing with it, since only champions can equip stuff. The downside is you cannot give your trained units potions and other consumable stuff via this screen anymore.
+ Trade equipment screen now supports drag-and-dropping of entries to trade
+ Trade equipment screen now supports double-clicking of entries, which behaves the same as selecting the entry and hitting the trade button.
+ Can now just high light entries on the trade equipment screen to refresh the context area and see what an item provides, previously you had to select something for that area to update.
+ Asking for the player's population (and the population display in the UI) now shows just the population of the player's cities, and no longer counts units on the map. This way the population can represent the "resource" that player has to manipulate and spend on training units and building improvements, and keeps us from having to have recruited units use available specialists, which when traded or killed would just decrement the specialists and total population simultaneously (e.g. 10/10 would to go 9/9)
+ Main Game Window changes:
- Kingdom and Turn button now have labels.
- Equip button is back, with a label instead of just a shield icon. It's for when you have a unit selected, otherwise it’s hidden.
- Turn counter has been moved from upper right area, to the new upper left area.
- On the vitals tab when a unit is selected, the 4th displayed stat is now CurHP/MaxHP instead of combat speed.
- Implemented Faction Power Wnd, which is a little dockable window that displays the Power Rating of each player in a game. It is always shown at the start of a game. You can toggle it on/off via a button in the upper right of the main game window. List is sorted by power rating, in descending order. Only shows players that the local player has met. When they meet a new faction, the list is refilled and re-sorted by faction power, so it's always up to date.
+ Added displays of income tax to the kingdom report window and the lorebook info for cities.
+ Moved the hotkey strings from the entry text of the unit actions into the tooltip for an action, when that action can be performed.
+ Shortened the display name of some of the unit actions, so that they don't clip in the unit actions entries.
+ Made the status bars in the city context (showing training and building progress) transparent, so that the button that takes up the whole back of them now can be clicked through the status bars still.
+ Added a unit action type to open the spellbook for casting a spell.
+ "Disable Particle Effects" option now works in tactical battles.
+ AI is moving dialog now only shows in MP.
+ Added a new Build List. Added short text info about why an improvement can't be built to the improvement entries themselves. Added any placement limits on improvements (e.g. one per city, or world wonder) to the notes section for the highlighted improvement's stats. Cleaned up some behavior, like disabling and highlighting, adding more info for demolition, and what stats to show when opening the thing the first time, and got rid of some hardcoded badness for adding notes for specific improvement types.
+ Vitals tab for caravans and wild improvements now hides the level icon next to the status bar that is used for unit vitals.
+ Made it so that when either a construction project or unit completes training, it checks if the city is idle (ie. not training anything else and not building anything else). If so, and it's the local player, they are warned with a popup that the city is idle. The camera now only scrolls to that location, if you select BUILD or TRAIN. So if you hit close to dismiss the dialog, the camera will not have moved from whatever it was you were doing elsewhere.
+ If you load a custom map, either in SP or MP, on the world setup window, it will change the world name to match the display name of the map you selected. You can still change it if you'd like though.
+ The train unit screen now shows the faction's available specialist count at the top instead of the total population of the city the popup was opened from.
+ Disabled "pedestrian LOD override" in tile editor (Makes it easier for our artists and modders to place pedestrians in tile designs).
+ Cleaned up the info cards for caravans, fixing bugs in resizing that kept lots of information from showing up, adding a line saying what city the caravan belongs to, and adding resizing code to ensure that the trade route's resource bonus shows up correctly at the bottom of the info card.
+ Added home and trade city info to the vitals tab for caravans, since this is something people have said they wanted to know.
+ Info cards pop up for improvements in demolish mode now, so the user knows what they are mousing over.
+ Hooked up "M" as the hotkey for the cast spell unit action, added strings to let the user know about that in the new actions context.
+ Tactical screen now supports the "Disable Outlines" option.
+ Reset Quality and Quantity when you bring the training window back up.
+ Clicking on any global resource entry is a shortcut to bring up the city list.
+ Changed all the unit stat displays to show stats as integers, always rounded up to the nearest integer, and to use the same breakdown tooltip to see where the numbers are coming from.
+ In some screens, added descriptions for the stats as the tooltip when mousing over the name or icon of a stat, such as on the level up window, lorebook window, and unit design window (when the user might want to know what their changes are doing to the units)
+ Created a new tooltip breakdown that shows the contributions each member of an army is making to an accumulated stat value, like for the army vitals context when an army is selected on the main screen, to replace the confusing breakdown of only battle bonuses used before
+ All functions and UI now grab the full stat value for a unit, instead of just the value without any geographic bonuses from the terrain they were on or whatever. Also made all stat functions return the full value by default, instead of the partial value (which was the default before).
+ Enabled tooltips in the lorebook stat entries, so that breakdowns and stat descriptions can be shown.
+ Fixed bug where some trade info for cities weren't initializing their caravan IDs, so that if the trade info was cleared (from one of the cities getting destroyed), it picked an essentially random unit to disband for the caravan of the trade route being destroyed along with the city (aka: Kwilas memorial sovereign caravan assassination bug).
+ New tooltips for the resources in the global resource area of main game window.
+ If per turn amount of a global resource is negative, the number text will be red
+ Terrain Window no longer shows up by default.
+ Added a mana maintenance window (so you can see where all your mana is going and dispel any enchantments easily if you don't want to pay the maintenance cost anymore).
+ Clicking on a player’s entry in the Faction Power window opens diplomacy with that player.
+ UI now shows units that can't be built because buildings are required and lists the needed building (so you can see that you need an archery range to build those archers).
+ When you hover over the build button for a resource you don’t have the right tech for, it will now tell you exactly what tech you need.

CHANGES TO ITEMS:
+ Fixed bug where the AI was designing units with equipment that their model type did not support, caused the larger fallen races, like trogs and quendar, too use female armor that was too small for them (aka: the cross dressing quendar bug).
+ Fixed quest "Alzor's Armor" to actually give you armor of that name, rather than some similarly (but not exactly) named armor.
+ Fixed bug that caused fallen to not have access to the Soldiers cloak.
+ Changed "potion of lesser essence" to "Potion of Intelligence" and it now increases drinker's intelligence by 1.
+ Fixed some minor issues from the new tech trees and finish first balance pass of weapons and armor.
+ Bows reduced from:
Crude Bow: Attack 6, Accuracy -2, Range 8
Cedar Shortbow: Attack 15, Accuracy -2, Range 8
Cedar Longbow: Attack 23, Accuracy -2, Range 8
New stats:
Crude Bow: Attack 4, Accuracy -2, Range 6
Cedar Shortbow: Attack 12, Range 8
Cedar Longbow: Attack 15, Range 10
+ Added in some late game magical equipment that you can buy in the shops:
- Cloak of Thwarting : +5 dodge
- Sword of Wrath : 60 attack +6 accuracy +1 combat speed -5 constitution
- Arielle's Shield: 5 armor +15 hp
- Shield of the Sovereign: 5 armor +5 magic resist
- Yithril Bow: 18 attack +2 combat speed +10 accuracy
+ Balanced sovereign starting weapons and armor.
+ Removed Leather armor Shirt, Chain mail shirt and scale mail shirt.
+ Changed store prices of huge portions of armor items and weapons to more accurately reflect the cost to train with that item, this should make it more balanced price wise but probably will not be perfect.
+ Adjusted cost during sovereign creation of gear (boots and cloth armor).

CHANGES TO STATS/ABILITIES:
+ Changed stat calculations for prestige bonus (from charisma), dodge, accuracy, attack, defense, and max HP.
Strength- Modifies damage
Dexterity- Modifies dodge
Constitution- Modifies hit points
Intelligence- Modifies spell resistance, boosts some spells, required for Champions to cast some spells
Charisma- Sovereigns Charisma modifies Champion recruit costs. Champions and the Sovereign give a prestige boost to the city they are in.
Attack (which is damage) = Weapon Attack + ((Strength - 10)/2)
Defense (which is damage absorb) = Armor Defense
Accuracy = 15 + (Level * 3)
Dodge = Dexterity / 2
Hit Points = 10 + ( (Constitution / 5) * (2 * Level) )
Spell Resistance = Intelligence / 2
Prestige Boost in City = Charisma / 5
+ Added a Magic Resist stat to units.
+ Made essence a hidden and non-upgradeable stat, so that it should be gone from all the UI and act only as an under-the-hood mark of being a spellcaster
+ Marked some stats as non-upgradeable, and gave them 0 points per level up point. Core stats (strength, intelligence, dexterity, charisma, and constitution) should now all default to 10, be upgradeable, and get 1 point per level up point.
+ Units now get 3 points when they level up.
+ Removed wisdom from the list of core stats.
+ Removed Morale.
+ Changed Intimidating and Cowardly Sovereign talents/weaknesses to affect spell resistance of the sovereign’s army.
+ Changed Natural Leader to Tactician and Cruel to Reckless, and they now affect Dodge of the sovereign’s army.
+ Added a new Sovereign talent, Attunement, which increases the mana the sovereign provides by 2/turn.
+ Assigned the Attunement talent to Procipinee.
+ Royalty talent reduced from +100% to prestige to +10%.
+ Removed the Road Warriors ability from Umber (it didn't do anything).

MISC:
+ Players always have a choice of a breakthrough whenever they reach a new tech level.
+ Quests now save/load their 'Subject Unit' (this fixes the Sarog's Egg quest, along with any others that use the subject unit when saving/loading).
+ In SP, popups now prevent units from moving until the popup is closed, and the WaitingForUserResponse flag gets unset immediately after kicking out of the loop, to prevent stuck turns
+ Trade routes set up by caravans now provide 10% bonuses to gildar production in the two cities they connect. Upgrading the roads now provides a 20%, 30%, and 40% bonus for the 4 road levels defined in RoadLevelDefs.xml. Made trade route length and wagons not affect the bonus anymore.
+ There is now the concept of a game year, which starts at 159 A.C.. There are 4 seasons in a game year. A turn is a season. Game year and season are now displayed in the upper left hand corner of the main game wnd, instead of turn num.
+ Creature balance, new stats for all creatures in CoreMonsterUnitTypes.xml.
+ New diplomatic conditions: - You killed my kid -5 to diplomacy - You're wiping others out -2 - Seriously, you're out of control -5 - Early game +1 - Not very strong +1 - Focusing on other enemies +1
+ Redesign of the CombatRating calculation to give a more accurate reflection of a unit or army's effective combat strength.
+ All factions given a starting tech:
Kingdom of Altar- Exploration
Kingdom of Capitar- Trading
Kingdom of Gilden- Civics
Kingdom of Tarath- Training
Kingdom of Pariden- Arcane Research
Empire of Yithril- Tools of War
Empire of Umber- Reunion
Empire of Magnar- Mapping
Empire of Resoln- Lore Mastery
Empire of Kraxis- Proper Living
+ Number of monsters spawned now based on world difficulty level.
+ All players start the game with 5 materials.
+ Diplomacy dialog text changes based on who they are talking to
+ Close borders now has a -2 weight (was -1)
+ Different ideology now has a -5 weight (was -1) since AIs were getting a bit too buddy buddy with each other.
+ Minor race cities updated to not exude influence, which improves calculation time and lets you walk up to them.
+ Balanced goodie huts that were spawning weapons/armor that was now too good for their spawn rating.
+ You won't receive three popups for caravan attacks anymore (one saying your being attacked, another where you are forced to select auto-resolve combat and a third saying the caravan was destroyed). Instead you only receive one popup saying that the caravan was destroyed.
+ Adjusted the hp modifiers at high difficulties.
Challenging- AI Creatures *1.25, AI Sovereign *1.5 (was *1 and *1)
Hard- AI Creatures *1.5, AI Sovereign *2 (was *1 and *1.5)
Extreme- AI Creatures *2, AI Sovereign *3 (was *2 and *3)
Ridiculous- AI Creatures *3, AI Sovereign *5 (was *5 and *10)
+ Caravans now produce +10%/+15%/+20%/+25% gildar instead of +10%/+20%/+30%/+40%.
+ Added the ability to resist the tangled web skill.
+ Removed the tangled web skill from one of the spiders that should not have had it.
+ Changed one of the spiders that spawns in a level 3 spider quest to be one without tangled web to avoid stun locks.
+ GetBattleRank() no longer recalcs strength and defense because those functions are done during CalcBattleRank which should speed up end of turn performance.

AI:
+ The AI is now multi-threaded (so it can spend its time contemplating your doom while you are doing other things).
+ Intelligent monsters tend to band together with other types of monsters.
+ Intelligent monsters will actively target weaker units (or cities) – beware.
+ Intelligent monsters will run away from tougher units.
+ Pioneers update their paths to avoid accidentally attacking other settlements.
+ AI more intelligently evaluates the value of an area of land.
+ AI somewhat better at choosing which unit to build in a city.
+ Monsters more intelligent regarding selecting victims.
+ Monsters are more aggressive.
+ More Monsters are spawned early on.
+ Pioneer behavior is more intelligent in selecting area.
+ AI more effective at defending cities.
+ AI more effective at reinforincing cities that are under threat.
+ AI equipment purchasing fixed
+ AI players don't treat monsters with the same level of concern as factions.
+ AI will back off on building improvements if they're losing money.
+ AI is smarter at choosing what improvement to build.
+ AI smarter about using pioneers (AI won't build parties of pioneers).
+ AI will become more aggressive as the game progresses.
+ AI more aggressive about acquiring goodie huts.
+ AI better at valuing trade offers.
+ AI intelligently casts strategic spells.
+ AI prioritization of what to build has been improved.
+ Difficulty levels balanced for updated AI.
+ Monster spawning now balanced for new world difficulty settings.
+ Monsters spawn more gradually at the start of a game.
+ Monsters are less likely to attack cities.
+ AI is more likely to build command posts (and therefor be able to build groups of units).

FIXES:
+ Fixed various crashes, memory errors, and hangs
+ Fixed exploit where you could still use the shortcut key (x) to raze a city, even if you don't yet have the tech that grants you the ability to Raze.
+ Fixed a bug where unit wouldn’t drop treasure after tactical battles unless auto resolve was used.
+ Fixed bug when teleporting units in an army: teleporting the leader would move the army, but teleporting using a sub unit would not but it would use its mana anyway, this has now been fixed so that if you use a sub unit to teleport, the whole army is teleported.
+ Fixed a bug where the AI spellcasters would cast spells that they hadn't learned yet, caused problem that we saw where the AI sovereigns would have stone giants, minions, basically many summons early in the game
+ Fixed bug where looking at spells you haven't learned yet in the spellbook wnd when your faction wasn't creating any spell points per turn would cause it to display a nonsense number for turns to learn, now just says "Will Not Learn"
+ Fixed an autoselection bug in tactical battles such that if a local unit is already selected a new unit is not chosen at the start of the local player's turn.
+ Spell effects should now spawn at an appropriate tile offset for units not at the center of their tiles.
+ Tactical window now caches unit IDs to avoid mysterious unit deaths after a battle.
+ Fixed a bug where absorbed damage was not detected properly.
+ Fixed a bug that caused double battle report text.
+ Fixed a bug where defending units had incorrect damage done in battle reports.
+ Fixed bug where the pass turn action in tactical was allowed only when stuff was animating, instead of the other way around, making it not do anything most of the time
+ Fixed bug where entries couldn't be dragged onto a listbox that doesn't already have at least one entry
+ Fixed bug where the AI would sometimes overwrite the description of unit types depending on what they were doing, which caused units of the same type owned by the player to lose their descriptions and show something that wasn't applicable to them
+ Fixed bug where turns to learn a new spell level wasn't being displayed in the spellbook window when selected
+ Fixed bug where after equipping a mount like a horse or warg, if you went to Edit Info Card screen the cloth poses would be incorrect
+ Fixed particle effects not working in tile editor
+ Fixed bugs in tile design shadow generation. Now when you save a tile design in the tile editor, its shadow will generate properly, and it will update in the editor window so it shows the new shadow
+ Fixed bug where icons on cloth map were being rendered over top of unit markers
+ Fixed "flickering" decals bug (If there is no texture or the texture is not loaded, the decal is not rendered).
+ Fixed bug where the actions entries and the item entries in the unit vitals tab had their pictures sized differently, causing them to look mismatched
+ Fixed beam effects not working
+ Fixed bug where decals would flicker and the wrong decals would show up for objects in tactical battle after multiple battles
+ Fixed bug where the valid demolish cursor did not show up when mousing over an improvement that could be demolished in demolish mode
+ Fixed bug where the train unit queue wasn't being shown in the context area when the train unit wnd was open, so that you couldn't see the state of the queue while adding to it
+ Fixed bug where the first time the city right context wnd was unhidden on starting/loading a game, clicking the train unit button or build button didn't do anything because the new data was getting cleared out by on start new game code
+ Fixed bug where the resource breakdown for a certain resource in a city would sometimes not match what was actually being produced because the city hub and improvements under construction were often being ignored in the breakdown; now all improvements in a city are looked at no matter what, the improvements themselves are smart enough to tell the lorebook what modifiers they apply or not based on if they have finished construction
+ Fixed bug where images in the conversation window did not scale properly
+ Fixed bug where Edit Info Card screen would display the unit type's name rather than the unit's name
+ Fixed bug where global resource area would not always resize correctly.
+ Fixed bug where destroyed units would still get counted in a player's resource production for the duration of the turn before the player actually removed them from their unit list
+ Fixed bug where caravans still had the Guard action available when they started trading, which could cancel their directive to travel along their trade route
+ Fixed bug where two caravans on the same road (but going in opposite directions) were applying their effects on the road separately instead of together, causing it to not take a shorter time for a road to grow levels by having two caravans on it versus one
+ Fixed problem where roads between cities, where one of the cities got destroyed, were not being deleted and removed from the world now that they were no longer needed
+ Fixed an issue where animals won't attack cities (looks like combat will start but then it ends without combat).
+ Fixed a crash when clicking on the game concepts or walkthru entries in the Hiergamenon.
+ You can no longer drink some quest items (like the magic flute).
+ When a city is conquered enchantments on the city are canceled.
+ Dead players no longer show up in the faction window.
+ Fixed bug where tech category was always reset to Civilization after loading a save game.
+ Fixed bug where ZOC was not accurate after loading a game because the city tiles didn’t recalculate their values after loading.
+ Fixed an issue with combat damage for spells, ranged damage and special attacks like crushing blow.
+ Fixed an issue with gold being given out from combat (too much was being given).
+ Fixed a bug where tactical battle maps would not render props after multiple battles.
+ Fixed mounted archer animations.
+ Fixed bug that allowed you to talk to yourself, NPC player, or creatures if you select the unit and hit the Talk button (for NPCs and creatures, this would crash if you then tried to trade with them).
+ Fixed a bug where NPCs that spawn as an army weren't creating their subunits as champions.
+ Fixed an issue that forced a player to pay all costs for improvement upgrades when a city upgraded (often running the player out of a resource and leaving empty holes in the city).
+ Fixed a crash when clicking train on a level 3 city (with low resources).
+ Wolves won't talk to you anymore (I might actually miss this bug).
+ Fixed Cloth map only mode (http://forums.elementalgame.com/400772).
+ Fixed defense boost of improvements that boost defense to their proper values.
+ Fixed a bug with quest data being lost during save/reload causing crashes or weird quest behavior.
+ Fixed an issue with the Great Mill materials cost.
+ Fixed an issue that caused stuck turns in tactical combat if an AI sovereign or champion had a bow.
+ Fixed a bug that could keep players from being able to load maps in the map editor.
+ Fixed a bug where tribute wasn't being deducted from the players treasury.
+ Death Worship faction bonus now correctly gives +10% to hit points
+ Fixed an issue that was keeping Wargs from spawning.
+ Fixed an issue that could cause combat text to not be displayed.
+ Fixed an issue that could wipe out your population if your city leveled up while relying on housing from a Refugee Camp.
+ Token of the Sand Golem now correctly summons Sand Golems (instead of normal golems).
+ Crazy stat creatures (like the 45 con wolf) from the campaign won’t spawn in the main game anymore.
+ Fixed the Azur Armor quest.
+ AI Difficulty levels properly saving out (but only if explicitly set by the player, otherwise they are derrived from the world difficulty).
+ Quest Trackers will now find units by ID instead of Index (fixes "non-sovereign heroes can't complete quests" random buginess).
+ Fixed a bug with the cloth icon for the university improvement.
+ Fixed a bug with the construction tile design of the Abbey of Izil.
+ Fixed the Empire Academy improvement to properly give tech research (instead of gold).
+ Fixed bug from http://forums.elementalgame.com/401682, where when asking to recruit a group of NPCs, they would ask only for the gold their leader requires for recruitment, but then deduct all the units' recruitment costs, sometimes causing players to go into the red.
+ The leader of an NPC group will now include the cost of all the subunits in the cost told the player, and subunit costs are included in checks to see if the player can actually recruit them
+ Fixed bug where the recruitment cost of NPC group leaders double-counted the cost of subunits by including them in their battle rank calculation; also manifested itself in the diplomacy wnd as NPCs being more valuable if they happened to be leading an army, even though they didn't bring the army along when traded
+ Fixed a "String Not Found" when displaying the season and year a sovereign or their spouse was born in the dynasty wnd, caused by the turn number -> date code not being able to handle turns before the first turn of a game (and sovereigns and NPCs are listed as being born some years before the start of the game)
+ Fixed bug where dynasty kids were showing their grown-up portraits in the dynasty wnd while they were still babies; dynasty members will now straight return baby pictures as the crest of any child, instead of try to keep the unit type from overwriting its portrait
+ Fixed bug where arranging a marriage with one of your daughters who was leading an army would cause her subunits to all be stacked separately on the same tile when she got traded over, instead of forming an army under a new leader
+ Fixed various display bugs, and possibly multiplayer bugs, when trading NPC units stationed in a city or part of an army by having the champions automatically get moved to the capital city of their new owner (or in an army with the sovereign if they have no city) like arranging marriages already does
+ Fixed bug where you could not click on the same faction in the faction power wnd twice in a row to talk to them, because the entry thought it was still selected and would not receive the message to start talking to that civ's leader
+ Fixed an issue which defaulted all spells/abilities to be resistable (they should default to not being resistable unless specified in the XML).
+ Fixed some tech requirements on fallen armor (different parts of the same suit unlocked on different techs).
+ Fixed the issue where gildar modifiers weren't getting applied to the tax rate (so merchants, markets, etc were useless in most cities).
+ Fixed an issue where faction ability bonuses were being reapplied with every reload.
+ Fixed an issue with Magnar's inefficient trait (it was giving a construction bonus instead of a penalty).
+ Fixed an issue with teleport that caused them to walk back to their previous destination.
+ Fixed bug where the creatures, NPC, and minor race AIs were being set to "Novice" instead of the world difficulty
+ Fixed bug where every major AI faction had its difficulty set to the world difficulty, and overriding it in the choose opponent screen didn't actually override it in the data.
+ Fixed an issue where units can be immune to all damage (show as resisting damage).
+ Traveling Boots are available for all unit models.
+ Fixed an issue that was keeping higher level creatures from spawning.
+ Fixed bug where the players graph that shows up in the bottom right context area (when nothing is selected), would be out-dated if a player died, showing values from the turn before they died and not being updated to show that they now have 0 population, etc..
+ Fixed bug with Kingdom Report showing dead players in 2 places. The first was in relations section of the kingdom report for a player, lists dead players. The second was that every player had a kingdom report page even if dead.
+ Fixed a problem in the Empire Domination techs that kept anyone from researching beyond Curgens Journal (because the Lost Bounty was incorrectly tagged as an Adventure tech).

+ Fixed Sentinel's combat speed.
+ Fixed a possible bug where unit armies would kill their subunits when the leader died.
+ Fixed a bug where the tag marking special abilities wasn't saved out properly.
+ Fixed bug caused by going into the options menu from cloth map mode.
+ Fixed a bug where escaped units would take place in auto resolve battles when tactical battles get auto resolved.
+ Fixed a mousewheel scrolling bug for some mice.
+ Fixed an issue that could wipe out your population if your city leveled up while relying on housing from a Refugee Camp.
+ Fixed an issue that could allow world wonders to be rebuilt if destroyed.
+ Fixed bug where outposts with no population themselves, but in a faction that had some population available for training, would still not allow the player to train a unit until the city had some population
+ Fixed bug where rationing wasn't actually reducing the production of resources in a city unless that city already had some multiplier on its production, and fixed the disparities between the lorebook breakdown of resource storage in cities under rationing that was caused by this

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+ Fixed a bug where loot could go nuts.
+ Grand kids should no longer defect to dead factions
+ Map list now has tooltips + lists the map size
+ When you load a map from the world setup screen, it now updates the world size spinner
+ Fix: Minor Water Elemental summon (from Lord of Sea spell) and Storm Giant now have their “Drowning Strike” abilities
+ Heal spell working properly (Unit “CurHealth” modifiers now work with Min/Max value calculations)
+ City List now features tooltip explaining red popupation
+ Bug Fixed: ‘Resource Changed’ event not firing when the resource was already in the player’s pool (broke chapter 5 of the campaign)
+ Trigger for ‘Resource Ammount Met’ no longer requires the player to have been BELOW the required amount the turn before
+ Consolidated most of the SP/MP xml files, eliminating discrepencies between MP and SP files
+ fixed leaked ref with starting spellbook spells.
+ on new unit design screen, when hovering over or selecting an item that has no "attributes" or "costs", those labels in the selection context area will not be shown. An example is when you hover or select a hairstyle from the [OTHER] tab, equipping hair has no benefits or costs, but the labels were still showing up, which looked dumb.
+ Fixed bug where mounted units did not generate their portraits properly
+ Fixed bug where after renaming a city, the old name would still be displayed on the cloth map


Multiplayer specific fixes:

+ Removed checks for duplicate factions in the choose sovereign screen so that cycling through all the AI players doesn’t leave you with no choices
+ You can now right click on the team, faction, and sovereign buttons in the game lobby to cycle backwards. (for non-AI players, right clicking does the same thing as left clicking for faction and sovereign)
+ Fixed bug where map size was always tiny in the available games list
+ Fixed bug where minor factions were picking player colors
+ Fixed bug where if there were duplicate factions, they would get all the AI designed units from the other faction
+ Fixed bug where you wouldn’t have a faction if you finished or quit out of a game (now keeps the one that was previously set)
+ If you change the world size, the map name is now cleared so that a new random map will be picked.
+ Fixed stuck turn bug caused by caravans with invalid destinations
+ I believe that I have fixed the bug where if you clicked fast enough you could build multiple instances of a limited improvement, or build two improvements on one resource
+ Fixed bug where the learning queue was not saved in mp save games
+ Fixed bug with learning spells twice by spam clicking
+ Fixed bug when choosing a spell level not getting saved

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* Gameplay / Balance *
+ AI sovereigns take more care about where they are doing their attacking
+ Added code so that AIBasic is smarter about attacking units in cities
+ ‘Equipment Cache’ goodie hut now hands out cloth armor, instead of the patchwork armor that should not be in the game anymore
+ You can no longer train groups of Dragons, Catapults, or Giant Demons
+ New option: Players can choose not to have monsters spawn
+ New option: Players can disable minor factions
+ Loot given by monsters increased
+ Fixed bug where some AI-controlled caravans that had already established trade routes would wander off those routes while delivering their stuff at a city
+ Fixed a bug where caravan pathfinding through territory owned by anyone other than their owner would still have a penalty, even through caravans can always move freely through any territory
+ Changed dynasty kids to determine their essence based on the BASE essence of their parents (ignoring equipment, player ability bonuses, etc.) This should keep kids from double-dipping from things like player-wide essence bonuses and keep their max mana at more reasonable levels
+ fixed several armor and special ability xml issues (that were either pointed out on the forums or that I discovered while fixing others)

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* Battles *
+ The starting side in a tactical battle is now chosen randomly. The attacker and the defender have an equal chance to go first.
+ Added shorter/faster annimations for bow attacks and spell attacks
+ Fixed a divide by zero error in spell damage.
+ Fixed some logic to determine whether or not a tactical unit was moving.
+ Added code to make sure a unit cancels its destination when it skips a turn.
+ Added some additional checks to skip turn logic in tacatical battles to stop a turn from being skipped in the middle of other actions.
+ Fix to be sure ranged attacks don't always do max damage in tactical battles.
+ Fix to experience display for battles, and fixed a bug where auto resolve was only rewarding experience for killing the leader unit.
+ The AI does not take its first turn immediately after the window loads. This will prevent cases where the AI takes its turn before the window finishes rendering.
+ Fixed a spell type tag for Quicken (now shows up in Tactical Battles)
+ Fixed an issue where a single unit might lose its mana after attacking and killing a defending team.
+ Added the UsableInBattle tag for item types, will help to determine if an item should be displayed during a tactical battle. This defaults to FALSE.
+ Items in a tactical battle will now properly stack in the UI.

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* UI *
+ NEW! City List window which can be brought up via a tab on the kingdom screen
- this will list all your current cities, along with vital information about resource, training, and building being done there (ie: it's a city spreadsheet)
+ New icons hooked up for sovereign talents
+ Got rid of trailing decimal zeros for the global resource pool tooltips, to clean up the display of resources that are always integers
+ Fixed bug where the global resources for a player didn't refresh when a city was lost through razing until the next turn
+ Tweaked the spell info card to get the stats to show up in the grey bar at the bottom of the info card, and to support multiple text entries of varying sizes
+ Item Shop now shows change in Combat Speed, Defense, and Attack for the highlighted item
+ Message Box input field now limited to 20 chars
+ Made auto-select next moveable unit code not select caravans
+ Fixed City HUDs clipping at the end (now they all get rounded edges)

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* Performance / Stability *
+ Moved code around that calls clean-up functions so that we don't get false mem-leak messages anymore
+ Moved clean up code around so that game within a game cleans up properly
+ Fixed mem leak in Trigger Manager, city wall nodes, destination and selection cursors for destroyed objects
+ Removed code in CTreeGraphic that was causing a leak
+ Fixed big leak in DecalGraphicGraphicManager where every decal in the game was leaking when starting a new game within a game
+ Fixed leak in CUnitSceneViewWindow (which is used on lots of screens)
+ Fixed random crash in kingdom screen with the filling of the Lore Book
+ Tile Designs now flush out the graphics for their "base graphic" (the one that the graphic instances use to render) once the instances for that base graphic are released
+ Fixed crash if a spellcaster ever had to cancel more than one enchantment at a time from losing 2 or more available enchantment slots
+ Fixed memory leak in UnitAnimationHelper that caused unit gfx to leak after the unit was destroyed
+ Fixed memory leak in TreeGraphic that caused tree batches to leak on game within a game or destruction of the forest object

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* Bug Fixes *
+ Fixed bug where mini map would not update itself after starting a new game from within a game
+ Hooked up renaming cities and units to use events (for MP)
+ Fixed bug where you could go into the enchants tab for any unit and cancel their enchantments, whether that unit belonged to you or not
+ Fixed bug where destination cursor would disappear if the unit it belonged to was off-screen
+ Added support for Resource modifier types in unit ability bonus options to be taken into account in what resources a unit always provides, without needing to be stationed in a city
+ Fixed Bug When reload a game with Wild Shard Improvements, the game now properly relinks them to their resource hoards (fixed issue where destroyed shrines would not regenerate shard resource)
+ Fixed particle effect render order on main map screen
+ Fixed graphical bug where mounted units in an army did not scale properly
+ CalculateAbilities now uses champions for ability modifiers (this fixes NPCs that should give bonuses but didn’t, such as ‘Royalty’)
+ Fixed bug where the NPC AI player would spawn new NPCs based off of the unit types of dynasty kids. This would cause champions wandering around with the same name, and with baby portraits if they hadn't grown up yet.
+ Attacking cities or lone improvements while in attack mode now works
- hooked up the cursor to change to the crossed swords at the right time for cities/improvements when one of your units is selected
+ Fixed comment in CityLevelUpBonuses.xml that caused malformed xml
+ Fixed badly merged text in QuestUnits.xml for Talax
+ Fixed end tags in CoreCityWalls
+ Fixed game modifiers and ending tag after Magnar_Staff in CoreSpecialWeapons.xml
+ Fixed end tag for Thumb in SpecialUnitProps.xml
+ Fixed comments in UnitSoundPacks.xml
+ note: thanks to ‘kenata’ and ‘heavenfall’ for helping us hunt down those above XML issues down and pointing us to some cool data checking tools


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* Modding *
+ Tile Editor: Fixed bug where large silhouette figure would render in the middle of a tile design when placing pedestrians
+ Map Editor: when using the creature placement tool, defaults to giving the creature a random wander radius, which can be changed with the tool's third spinner in the bottom left corner
- Also changed the wander radius 0 item to say "Don't Wander" instead, does what the default used to do, cause the unit to not even go into auto-patrol mode
+ Added new data def type, CSpellResourceCost, which can be used in spell def xml to specify resource costs on casting a spell, as well as any persistent maintenance costs if this spell is an enchantment
- tag used in the SpellResourceCost xml object to say whether the cost is deducted at time of casting (Per-Turn is 0), or if it is a continued maintenance cost that exists as long as the spell is in effect through an enchantment (Per-Turn is non-zero)
- Note: maintenance resource costs can only be per-turn if the spell is an enchantment; there's no one-time cut to per-turn resource production from an instant, non-enchantment spell
- Here's an example of some xml to put in a spell def, making this spell cost 5 metal immediately when cast, and having a maintenance cost of 1 material per turn until the enchantment is cancelled:

Metal
5


Materials
1
1

+ MODs folders now creatured for the user in their My Games/Elemental folder
+ Fixed Bug: Quests read in from XML (after loading the Data.zip) no longer override QuestDefIDs
+ Images and models now read in from the Mods/GFX folder properly
+ Mods are now enabled by default in Prefs.ini
+ Overlay: Implement tile upload/download

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* Multiplayer *
+ Added code to prefer a random map that supports the max players
+ Cloud saving/loading enabled
+ AI opponents enabled
+ Added handling for if firewall is turned off
+ Added check for if player is disconnected before starting turn timer when the end turn is requested
+ Added check to prevent player from going to multiplayer menu if it's still checking for an update

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* Gameplay / Balance *

+ New Sovereign Ability: Wealthy +1 gildar per turn
+ New Sovereign Ability: Green Thumb +2 food per turn
+ Organized Sovereign Ability removed
+ Shop Costs moved to be a formula (unless specified in the XML)
+ Research costs increased
+ More balancing of initial resource seeding
+ Fertile land availability increased
+ Long Bows now cost 40 gildar to construct
+ Default shop values on weapons and armor removed from XML (you can overrride the formula still)
+ Teleport/Blink mana cost increased from 5 to 15.
+ Eliminated criminal adventurers (caused confusion amongst players)
+ Pioneer Kit Gold cost reduced from 10 to 5, Materials cost increased from 1 to 10.
+ Organized ability added to general special abilities
+ Late game monster respawning reduced.
+ Increased movement speed of units in tactical battles

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* Bug Fixes *

+ Added logic to stop spells from dealing max damage every time.
+ Restored old terrain/tile movement costs until that can be better addressed.
+ Adjusted the combat speed from 2 to 3 for the base male/female sov units.
+ Fixed bug where Karavox, Magnar, and Verga sovs only had 1.0 for combat speed.
+ Fixed bug that made it not load any maps except mp maps
+ Fixed bug resetting default map size to tiny
+ Fixed bug where rapidly clicking the fortify action for a unit twice or more would cause the game to hang
+ Fixed bug where, after unhiding the game lobby wnd once, human players would get assigned team 1 when joining a custom game, instead of an unused team ID
+ Fixed crash when restarting new campaign after you load a saved campaign game
+ Fixed bug where Cancel button would not show up on mutliplayer Join Game with Password screen
+ Fixed an error where old saves with old data had logic conflicts with new code that made spells miss.

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* Performance *

+ LOD optimizations across improvements and tile designs
+ Continued memory optimization/leak squashing


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* Gameplay / Balance *

+ AI handles its sovereign more intelligently
+ AI more effective at going after targets of opportunity
+ AI sovereign is more careful about going into enemy territory
+ AI has new APIs for determining whether there are targets of opportunity in the area
+ Balance pass on resource distribution
+ Base tech cost changed from 4 to 5
+ Merchants/Money Changers now require 1 food to construct
+ Study/Archivist now require 1 gildar per turn to maintain
+ Gildar deposit now seeded near starting location
+ Tracker talent cost changed from 15 to 10
+ Organized talent cost changed from 10 to 20
+ Combat Rating calculation altered in an attempt to be a more accurate gauge of lethalness
+ Fewer resources spawned per 1000 tiles.
+ Fewer minor factions spawned.
+ Added scalars to attack and defence for units who are in home territory or foreign territory, modifiable in ElementalDefs.xml
+ Territory scalars now work as Empire v Fallen (e.g. Kingdom guy on Fallen territory gets penalty, etc).
+ Updated formula for gildar given when killing a given unit
+ Child essence is no longer modified by spawn rating, but is instead a value between 50% and 100% of the more powerful parent's essence.
+ Updated TerrainTypes.xml to make Forests and Swamps take 2 moves
+ Changing the “IncreaseMorale” modifier attribute to “AdjustMorale. It’s more clear for the modders.

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* Battles *

-Revamp of the way offensive spells hit/miss and deal their damage
+HIT/MISS is deteremined by an attacker roll (minDamage – maxDamage) and by the defender roll (0-DEF)
+Values can now be specified as a MinValue and a MaxValue rather than just a Value (support for constant value spells is still supported)
+If a MinValue and a MaxValue is specified, the Value is defined by a rand roll between the two numbers based on the modifiers internal rand roll.
+Updated descriptions for all core spellbook spells to show bonus damage from INT and bonus damage from shards in the spell description.
+The SpellbookWnd has been updated to properly display the damage range if there is one, and the constant damage if there isn’t one.
+All core spells that were using stats to calculate the value but didn’t have a ValueOwner specified have been fixed.
+The elemental shards unit stats now default to 0 instead of 1. The calculations in the existing spells have been redone to reflect this.
+ Fixed BURNING BLADE spell to appropriately increase attack.
+ Fixed SHIELD OF FIRE spell to appropriately increase defense.
+ Fixed CRUSH SPIRIT spell to appropriately decrease morale.
+ Fixed BRAVERY spell to appropriately increase morale.
+ Fixed DRAIN LIFE spell to appropriately transfer HP from target to caster.

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* UI *

+ Changed the display code for the main UI bar to round attack and defense rather than truncate.
+ Hooked up the CTRL+ARROW and SHIFT-ARROW camera rotation and movement hotkeys to tactical.
+ Added save game descriptions

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* Bug Fixes *

+ Fixed bug where dialogs from triggers in the campaign (like moving beyond where you should build a city) would pop up many times when a unit moved into that tile.
+ Fixed AI bug where it was doing deficit spending and creating units still
+ Removed the max spell points entry from the affected stats in the level up wnd, since it isn't affected by any unit stats anymore
+ Fixed bug where non-aggression pact wasn't being checked for when left-clicking on a unit in attack mode
+ Fixed modifier in Refined_Economics_Amarian_MP to modify A_Gold player ability instead of A_Wealth (which doesn't exist)
+ Fixed golem animation pack (commented out an animation that was missing and causing t-poses)
+ Fixed crash when making a mountain in map editor
+ Fixed trading your spouse (if she was a recruited NPC) in the regular unit trade
+ Perceived value stuff gets hidden when arranging marriages, instead of showing whatever was selected last
+ Entries for kids when arranging marriages now use a male and female icon to denote boy and girl, instead of the words in parentheses after the name
+ Fixed "..." from string overflowing for the divider title when trading or arranging a marriage
+ Fixed the divider title not ever changing from "And" once the arrange marriage screen was shown
+ Fixed display of tooltip text and color text on Customize Faction window
+ Tweaked SetToolTip to calculate the necessary size of the window more accurately, to fix bug where tooltips were sometimes being truncated
+ Fixed bug where clicking a new destination while the unit was moving would cause the unit to get a free move
+ You can no longer set a units destination while it is moving
+ Fixed Refined Housing and Refined Economics techs (and their fallen equivalents) so that they correctly provide the bonus they say they do
+ When a unit inside a city or an army is selected and asked to cast a spell, that is the unit that is used for spellcasting now, instead of having it just fail (in a city) or try to cast the spell from the leader of the army
+ Fixed bug where summoning a unit while in a city would cause that unit to be summoned in an army with you within that city (causing weird behavior), now just stations the unit in the city with you
+ Fixed bug where raise land spell would not work on all land category terrain types, like swamp or rugged terrain. Now, if a land tile is not hills, it raises that land to hills, instead of checking for only some terrain types
+ Fixed a bug where, in the faction editor, you could select ability bonus options for free by selecting and deselecting them, and then spinning the race spinner, caused by deselection not updating the faction config correctly
+ Fixed units that finished training on the same turn as an autosave not being there when the autosave was loaded
+ Fixed players not being able to select their city level up bonuses or tech breakthroughs on loading an autosave if they were earned that turn, by having the local player mark themselves as needing to get user input for these things instead of unhiding the windows to allow the choice right away during CWorld::EndTurn, and not letting the user choose until after the next turn starts and the autosave has been made. If one of thses autosaves is loaded, the local player will be allowed to choose their tech breakthroughs and city bonuses once the map is unhidden. This keeps us from having to delay an autosave and the start of the next turn by waiting for the user to choose their bonuses, instead making that choice part of the start turn logic after the autosave has been made and saving the mark saying the player will get to choose at the start of the next turn.
+ Fixed treaty turn counts not matching if an autosave was loaded
+ Based on confusion in the forums, removed ability to automatically unlock a spell in the learning queue if it makes it to the front of the queue when the player has enough research to buy it, so that users rearranging their spell learning queue don't have their spell points silently taken away while shuffling spells around, if they didn't intend to learn that spell next
+ Now it always takes at least one turn to learn any spell
+ Fixed bug where tile highlights in tactical battle would disappear after an ALT+TAB
+ Fixed bug where trees would not look correct in all cases after loading a gamesave.
+ Fixed an issue that was allowing counter attacks against units with abilities of type DoesNotProvokeCounterattacks.
+Fixed an issue that was causing modifiers applied in tactical battles to persist after the battle.
- This fixes the bug that causes XP and Gildar rewards after battles to be negatively skewed if the enemy unit combat rating was lowered due to debuffs.
+Fixed an issue with skipping turns in tactical battles that would cause a stuck turn if done when the unit being skipped was in motion.
- Pressing spacebar now sets a tactical units moves to zero AND cancels their destination.

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* Performance *
+ Major improvement to rendering system, especially when over cities.
+ Condensed scene rendering process from 3 passes through scene into a single pass
+ Bunch of fixes to the issues behind "DX Error: Invalid Call", particularly when Alt-Tab'ing. This will continue to be worked on.
+ Added new framerate limiter ( limits framerate to refresh rate of device )
- Removed throttle framerates option (this is always on now)
+ Particle Effects no longer render if the "Disable Particle Effects" option is on
+ Outlines now LOD-out as you zoom out
+ Added option "Disable Outlines" to the options screen to turn off rendering outlines (Might help lower-end machines, and some people prefer no outlines)
+ Commented out unnecessary debug messages

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* Bug Fixes *
+ Fixed Various Memory Leaks
+ Fixed the issue that was causing the unimproved tile designs for elemental shards to stick around after a shard-harvesting improvement was built on top of them.
+ fixed a bug where if you have the option on where when entering/leaving city build mode, the camera switches between overhead and default view, you could get stuck in overhead view (and forced to manually move the camera back) if you pressed the city build mode button, while already in city build mode
+ fixed bug where AI demands a tribute of 0 gildar
+ fixed display issue where improvement cost entries overfilled the improvement build list
+ fixed display issue where units with long names overfilled the name area on the level up wnd.
+ fixed display issue on battle init wnd, if defense or attack was negative then it showed up as a huge number. Beserker ring gives a -3 to defense, which could give you negative overall defense. Same might be true of attack if in the future we have some strange item that decreases your attack.
+ Fixed bug where units in tile designs (like horses, wargs, etc) would not fade out when the tile is under fog of war
+ Fixed "jumping units" when starting new game from within a game (or loading a game within a game)
+ Other fixes regarding battle initition window, creating mountains in map editor, first contact status not being set to relation unknown
+ Fixed a bug where improvements that were flagged as once-per-city were able
to be placed twice.

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* Gameplay / Balance *
+ Fixed bug where economic treaty gold bonuses weren't getting added to the global resource pool
+ Changed how creatures and NPCs increase their stats when they level up to nerf incredibly powerful high-level monsters running around
+ Stacking of items fixed (can now only wear 1 per type per champion)
+ Pioneers in a boat can no longer build a Settlement at sea
+ Wild improvements will now be able to be taken into account in a city's resource usage correctly, if any of them ever have negative resource production
+ Refugee camps (and other wild improvements that provide population storage bonuses) improvements
+ Fixed Miner sovereign profession bonus
+ Fixed Great Warriors faction bonus
+ Removed really high starting mana regen ability from Umber's faction config
+ Fixed Advanced Tracking techs (in both tech trees) to change the player ability that is hooked up to affect movement
+ Fixed broken productionreq tag on vengeance coating
+ References to Ice shards changed to Water for consistency
+ Sprint duration adjusted to 2
+ Lowered HP for fallen peasant
+ Fixed up resource hoard description text
+ Various food resources now provide different amounts as indicated by old description text
+ Improved output of Temple of Essence
+ Improved output of Tower of Titans, Tower of Souls
+ Fixed construction resource cost for curgen's exchange
+ Resource hoard costs now mirror kingdoms resource costs
+ Fixed up description text for construction yard
+ Great Theatre no longer provides +100% Gildar, only +100% Prestige
+ AI: Added code to send sovereign back to his capital city if he has no destination after the early phase of the game
+ Fixes for various terrain types not responding to RaiseLand spell
+ Resource hoards no longer deduct from the buildable tiles of a city (the 'bananna cities' from the forums)

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* Battles *
+ Changed the calculation for battle damage to take multiple troops into better account (with each unit getting an individual attack roll).
+ Every time panic is caused, the combat text for the panic will be shown.
+ Fixed a problem where misses and non-damage spells would cause an on hit animation to be played in tactical battles.
+ Fixed a possible bug where units would no longer update their troop counts after reaching a single troop left.
+ When selecting the spell book in tactical battles the cursor should now reset to the arrow.
+ When clicking on a unit's hiergemenon entry in tactical battles the cursor should now reset to the arrow.
+ Turned on bounding box picking for tactical battles to improve the feel of unit selection.
+ Selecting units should now be turned back on while other units are animating in tactical battles.
+ Fixed a bug where unit tooltips in tactical battles would draw over tooltips for items and spells.
+ Added some checks to the battle init window to stop the window from showing when defenders or attackers were null. Also added logic to clear waiting flags in this case.

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* UI *
+ Adopted the unit vitals context for a Details tab to show when a wild improvement is selected on the main map, to give more meaningful and easier to read information
- If the improvement is under construction, it says so and uses the level slider to show the progress towards completion and the turns left
- If the improvement is done, it shows what that improvement is producing and has an entry to get further information about the improvement by opening up the lorebook
- Also, it shows which city an improvement is linked to, or "Not linked" if it isn't. If it is linked, the tooltip explains that this city is contributing production bonuses to the resource production of that improvement. If the improvement is not linked, the tooltip says how many tiles the nearest city needs to be closer to link with that city, explaining that it will be able to get city production bonuses if it does link
+ New Tactical Icons hooked up for Smelter, Trade Center, Construction Yard, Merchant Guild
+ New Tile Designs for Ventri Iron Mine, Stone Quarry, Clay Quarry, Marble Quarry, Drath Village, Shrill Hive, Spider Nest
+ Fixed bug where double-clicking on a spell you couldn't cast from the spellbook popup would queue a bunch of "Can't cast tactical spell" message boxes to appear over and over, now just plays a little failure sound if something that can't be cast is double-clicked
+ Fixed a typo in a campaign dialog
+ When you build an improvement on a resource, the map notifier for it is removed
+ Fixed typo "completly restored" to "completely restored"
+ Fixed some places where the display of per-turn gold production lagged behind changes to it, gets rid of some income discrepancies between some screens when loading a game, adding/cancelling a treaty, etc.

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* Gameplay / Balance *
+ Cost of weapons increased in terms of gold and materials
+ Monster leveling tops out earlier so that there aren’t crazy powerful monsters late game
+ Training time increased for the more sophisticated weapons
+ AI will focus more on training soldiers rather than building up their cities if under threat
+ General AI improvements
+ AI smarter about training units in cities based on their current resource situation
+ AI more effective at determining who to go to war with
+ By default, the AI opponents added in the Choose Opponents window get difficulty set based on the World Difficulty
+ Campaign: Markinn now gives tactical HASTE spell instead of strategic SUMMON ROCK GIANT spell
+ Campaign: city leveup bonuses for TECH KNOWLEDGE and ARCANE KNOWLEDGE now suppressed in campaign
+ AI sov's are now using an HP adjustment multiplier based on AI difficulty settings

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* Battles *
+ Hooked up the projectile follow camera code to obey the Auto-Move Camera in Tactical option.
+ Adding message boxes to explain why spell casting fails.
+ Fix to repick targets in autoresolve when a counterattack kills the attacker.
+ Fix to make targeting picking more intelligent (to be sure it doesn't pick invalid targets).
+ Auto selection of the next unit in tactical battles should no longer occur if the game option for not auto selecting is turned on.
+ Tactical action cost modifiers for everything except for movement (which can have buffs) should now be 1.
+ The tactical action cost of special abilities is now 2.
+ All tactical actions use up to their cost, except for spells which require at least 2 action points.
+ When a tactical battle closes it now sets the cursor to be an arrow.

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* UI *
+ Fixed Map Notifiers only placed for resources your faction can eventually tap (ex. won’t tell kingdoms about wargs)
+ Trade Equipment Wnd tweaks so that summoned creatures show up in the scene views better.
+ Hooked up new entries for the actions list, vitals list, and other basic image entries in main game wnd contexts to act more like buttons (highlight and have a click down state) to indicate that they are clickable

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* Bug Fixes *
+ Fixed the infamous "white screen" in tactical battles that occurred on a very specific hardware/driver/OS configuration.
+ Fixed a problem that would cause the particle effects to disappear after alt-tabbing out of the game when running in full-screen.
+ Fixed a DirectX warning in Tile Highlight Graphic
+ fixed uninitalized UNIT pointer in AIMessageBox (caused a debugger crash, probably fixes random crashes users have witnessed)
+ Fixed bug where linked pioneer improvements were getting the multiplier bonuses from their linked cities twice
+ Changed around the values grabbed for some resource breakdowns so that they match getting rid of this double bonus
+ You can no longer build pioneer improvements on resources outside of your ZOC, even if they are adjacent to a city, to prevent them from getting destroyed if they can't get absorbed in time
+ Adjacent pioneer improvements to cities now get absorbed into the city the very next turn, instead of 2 turns after they became adjacent
+ Fixed bug where custom empire factions designed in the faction designer wouldn't have a valid tech tree
+ Custom factions now get the appropriate wall set, and change their name to "Kingdom of" or "Empire of" appropriately
+ Fixed a bug in the faction designer that caused the race spinner to not match the actual race being displayed
+ Shortened the text in the caravan info cards to make it less likely that text entries will overflow to the next line down, and got rid of some old text that doesn't mean anything to how caravans work anymore, and got rid of some hardcoded strings, and moved the hardcoded quote to the different caravan/trader unit types
+ CMapGenerator no longer generates race starting position for tactical battles, since they aren’t used in that mode and were causing debug messages to flood output as the random land tile buffer isn’t getting filled after the first tactical battle map is created.

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* Gameplay / Balance *
+ Several new spells added
+ Boats will no longer disband due to desertion
+ Absolute elimination of duplicate NPCs
+ Vigilant Demon now has mana
+ Combat Speed can only be increased 0.25 per level
+ Shop values for weapons lowered
+ Elementium description added
+ Outposts and such now provide +HP to units stationed
+ Fewer resources are spawned at the start of the game
+ Summoning spellbook no longer available at start
+ Tech trees can now reach level 5 notable locations and quest locations
+ Fixed issue that would prevent people from completing the Old Enchanter quest (a.k.a. the midnight stone quest); it wasn’t checking the items of the unit that reached the quest destination, rather those of the unit that started the quest, which could be a different unit.
+ Random quest locations should no longer spawn on hills.
+ Snathi now has a new, non-Drake leader


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* AI *
+ AI manages ships better
+ AI Sovereign’s spouse will seek the safety of a friendly settlement rather than travel with their spouse
+ AI more effective in establishing strong armies prior to going on the offensive
+ AI better at determining whether it is in their best interests to declare war
+ AI will notify player of tiles they should be using and how to use them.
+ Janusk provides a lot more useful information
+ AI difficulty levels tweaked for more challenge at higher levels
+ AI tweaks to XML


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* Battles *
+ Added "Auto-Move Camera in Tactical" which is OFF by default
+ Clarified some language for the hurl boulder spells (that it does non-defendable damage).
+ Auto resolve draws will now favor the defender.
+ Added message boxes to tactical battles when action points are too low to do some action.
+ Added the ability to bring message boxes up as forced popups (always on top).
+ Added checks in auto resolve to be sure a unit can counter attack and its target can be counter attacked.
+ Added more robust checks to see if tactical actions can be done.
+ The tactical action check will now return a string if the action cannot be done.
+ Casting a spell will now properly check action points for special abilities and ranged attacks.
+ Moved the logic to refresh troop numbers to happen when a unit's health changes.
- Updating troop numbers should now be a bit more logical.
- A unit's max health is now properly based on the maximum amount of troops they have (not their current troop number).
+ In tactical battles units that have no spell can no longer open the spellbook.
+ Fixed a few temporary cursors in tactical battles.
+ Added sound effects to all the spells that were using FlameBurst1 (which doesn't exist)
+ Added the IsSpecialAbility tag to SpellDefs. Enabling this makes the spell cost 1 ap instead of 2 ap to use
- Updated all the core ability spell defs with the IsSpecialAbility tag.
+ Casting spells in tactical battles costs 2 action points now.
+ Using special abilities in tactical battles costs 1 action point now.
+ Shooting a ranged weapon in tactical battles cost 2 action points now.
+ The tooltip for a unit’s hit points in the tactical battle window will now show any bonuses applied to the health.


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* UI *
+ added ESC key support for closing common popups.
+ new tutorial messages added to the campaign, explaining the basics, including: camera movement, unit selection and movement, founding a kingdom, tapping a resource, visiting an item shop, etc.
+ Added a bunch of new shortcut keys
+ Fixed unit shortcut keys while in a city (now clicking on a unit portrait in the city will do that unit action instead of overriding to the city keys)
+ Fixed cases that you could click a unit, then click a goodie hut (for example), and still use the previous units shortcut keys
+ Enabled shortcut keys for items that don't belong to the local player (details, propose, recruit, etc.)
+ Fixed the hiergamenon resource breakdown page to include houses under construction for food
+ Added code to reset minimap for new game
+ New game tray implemented (now has next unit and next city buttons)
+ Added shortcut keys for next unit and next city (shift+u and shift+c, respectively [shift+s already jumps to sovereign so consistent])
+ Tool tips cleaned up
+ hooked up new for when disband unit action is disabled
+ Faction Editor “Faction Creator” hooked up
+ Mod Library button added to workshop
+ clicking someone without a soundpack uses a UI sfx, not a grunt/yes/ etc (less annoying)
+ Champion Lorebook/Context area Tweaked, adding ‘Equip’ button that brings up EQUIPMENT, remove list of items
+ unit context: removed equip icon on medallion (redundant...button directly to the right had same functionality)
+ Map Notifications now display HUD icons on the map, event icons on the side, and when you click the event list icon it’ll take the player to the event they need to see


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* Engine *
+ LOD levels on main map are now back to what they used to be for better performance
+ New shard effects, both dormant and tapped, that over 1/2 as intensive as their older versions (the joys of beam particles over billboard particles)


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* Impulse Overlay *
+ Support for swedish, finnish, icelandic and spanish keyboards which have the @ symbol on an alt-gr modifier key. It is also now possible to enter some more unusual symbols too!
+ Wheel scrolling in friends list.


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* Bug Fixes *
+ Fixed issue that was preventing quests from placing locations with their preferred type (CQuestDef wasn’t saving the preferred type, so when the data zip was loaded, it would be null).
+ Fixed some crashes on load from if a unit type was retired while a unit of that type was in a training queue, since the unit type would be removed from the global vector but some things would still be looking for it on load. Now the function to remove a retired unit type checks the training queues of all the cities, too, and when the AI retires a unit type, it removes it from its list of designs.
- I think this also fixes some crashes on load from the testers downstairs, where I would see units looking for AI designed unit types that weren't in the unit type list anymore, as well as the loading in of the AI designed unit type vector, but I'm just making an educated guess based on the fact that the AI automatically retires unit types it designs itself. This does fix a reproducible crash related to training units at least, though.
+ Campaign: AI cities named correctly to match lore
+ Lost Library and Ancient Temple now using proper cloth icons for their built versions (lost library used to like ancient temple)
+ Fixed bug where using a soverign for a race not their own (ex. Relias with Capitar) then playing against the race you would have led (Altar, in this example) the random sovereign would retain your name (2 relias’ talking to each other)


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* Lots of new seed maps (particularly for medium and large)
* Enemy Unit caching modified so that they are released from the game after death (this should address the “game gets slower over time” issue some have reported)
* In tactical battles, the camera will only move IF the unit is off screen
* Fixed a crash related to city tiles on DirectX 11 based setups with a game within a game
* Removed non-terrain based tactical battle bonus modifiers (an interesting idea but unintuitive)
* There are technologies that will spawn more shards on the map.
* Fixed tactical heal spell to ensure that it doesn’t do any 0 point healing.
* Fixed issue that caused failed spells to say “miss”
* Disabled the use of the L8 texture format to use the A8R8G8B8 format as it was incompatible with certain video cards and causing the game to crash (fog of war issue)
* Worldly knowledge renamed to “Tech Knowledge” to be consistent with the manual.
* Fixed a crash related to children being born during a reloaded saved game that could cause a crash on 64-bit machines
* Fixed a crash related to reference counting on the Dynasty screen that happens on 32-bit Windows XP machines
* Tactical Battles now support edge scroll
* Fixed a buffer overrun issue that caused random crashing on SSD SATA drives while saving a game.
* Cosmetic fix to the object tool in th map editor
* Fixed a bug that would cause the goodie hut graphics not to be removed when they were no longer relevant.
* Fixed minimap bug where unhiding and dragging the minimap without first resizing it would cause the map part to get offset from the rest of the minimap window, leaving it blank
* Fixed bug on loading a game or starting a new game within a game where clicking on a city would leave its resource tab blank until it was clicked on again
* Improved performance of units joining into an army
* Hooked up the draggable window showing the list of players who have requested a new turn or not in multiplayer, automatically shows up in multiplayer but does not get filled or ever unhide in single player [NOTE: Multiplayer servers will NOT be enabled until AFTER day 0]
* Fixed crash related to very very fast machines loading up data.zip before initialization causing data to not be fully enabled which would result in a crash when the object in question was accessed.
* Ice Bolt spell removed
* New spell: Stab of Ice, short range spell, causes enemy to lose turn in addition to damage.
* Sion Unit given special abilities and rebalanced