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Argosy Patch Notes Exploration and the Chart Fog of war. The overworld now opens uncharted. You start with your home harbour's approaches drawn and chart more water as your hulls sail. Putting into a port charts that port's approaches too, so coastline is opened harbour by harbou
Argosy Patch Notes New Features Your sent reports are now yours to read and revise. The feedback screen opens on the form with a "Your reports" list beside it: every report you file is kept locally, revision by revision, so you can see what was sent, whether it arrived, and add t
New Features Loans are now collected. Money Lender loans have a due date and are collected whether or not you come in to pay. Miss it and the house recovers from your assets: gold and goods first, and a seized hull is sold onto the town's second-hand berth rather than vanishing (
Argosy Patch Notes New Features A convoy is one slip on the ship bar, with a name. Six ships in a formation filled the whole bar and pushed every other hull off the end. A convoy now takes one slip, drawn as a sheaf of up to three sheets whose count is a reading of the object rat
Argosy Patch Notes New Features A pirate raid is an act, with a place, a fight, and a clock. Previously, a town was flagged "under pirate attack" whenever any pirate fired on any ship within 150 units, and the flag stood for a week — so ports on shipping lanes were permanently ra
Argosy Patch Notes New Features Wars move prices. A region at war now consumes iron, hemp, pitch, timber, and cloth above the peacetime rate, with the pressure floored on the day war is declared rather than building from zero. No wartime price rule was added: prices follow deplet
Argosy Patch Notes New Features New Game is three steps. Previously: a persona card that launched the game on click, then a single form that asked name, name culture, name gender, chart, and hometown all over again — five controls with a second copy of themselves one screen back.
New Features Trade from Port without Going Ashore: Right-clicking a town your ship is already docked in now opens the Market Hall directly over the chart with your ship at the counter. Right-clicking any other town is still a sailing order. Town View Tray and Town Card: The botto
Argosy Patch Notes New Features Merchant Credit Requests: Computer merchants short on cash now post a credit request on the Money Lender board, naming the sum, rate, term, and repayment figure. Any office holder in that town can fund the full request at those terms. Requests nobo
New Features Expedition Ships Sail to the Map Edge: Dispatched ships now sail visibly out to the map's outer edge before leaving and back in from one on return, moving and drawing like any other ship. The expedition office moves into the guild hall, so only guild members in that
New Features Inter-Regional Politics (Phase 1): Political regions now hold opinions of each other. Every region pair carries a continuous opinion score and a formal stance (Neutral, Pact, Embargo, or War), drifting weekly with cross-region trade, geography, and stance coupling. T
New Features Market — Sortable and Grouped Goods Table: The trade window now supports grouping and sorting of goods. Multiple grouping schemes are available (e.g. by category, by origin). Each city's goods are grouped relative to what it actually produces. Grouping and sorting ar
New Features — Map Editor Line and Text Tools: The Line tool draws styled polylines and freehand strokes with variable width, tapered caps, and colour options. The Text tool places styled labels and text fitted to a curve. Both export with the map. Texture Paint Layers: Photoshop
New Features Interactive Tutorial: A full chapter-based tutorial with its own scripted game world. Chapters cover trading, production, law, map editing, and piracy and combat, each scripted to a safe starting state. The Tutorial button is now on the root main menu. Used Ship Mark
New Features The Merchant's Gazette (renamed from The Baltic Courier) for broader regional appeal. News radius tightened so stories stay relevant to your trade area. Debug Fast-Forward Command: new DebugFastForwardCommand runs the simulation at maximum speed for a specified numbe
New Features New Game Chooser Overhaul Five persona start cards with a select-then-confirm flow. Hometown choice, difficulty badges, and male/female name gender options added. Map selection with a paper-chart preview. Removed the auto-opened "Your Situation" window on new-game lo
The Courthouse The new Courthouse window is accessible from the Town Hall's Civic tab, from letters, from a rival's office, or your own profile. Docket -- every active case in the city, plus any case that touches you, showing parties, charge, phase, and a countdown to trial. Case
UI and Quality of Life Building windows now display the building name in the title banner (e.g. "Tavern", "Shipyard") instead of the city name. The city name subtitle row has been removed, reclaiming vertical space for content. Clicking anywhere on a ship sprite now selects it. T
Visuals All four ship types (Snaikka, Crayer, Cog, Hulk) have new hand-authored sprites at significantly higher resolution, replacing the original Patrician 3 artwork. Fixed a Crayer mast bleed where a sliver of a neighbouring sprite's mast was visible when sailing east or west.
Convoys Losing a non-flagship ship no longer scatters the convoy. The remaining ships close ranks and continue to the destination. Losing the flagship now disbands the convoy instead of leaving survivors dead in the water. Every surviving ship continues to the planned destination