Hello!
I felt the time was right for me to show you that you're getting a return on your investment.
I've been refactoring like crazy, basically ripping out part of the old AI and inserting a new one that allows for extensive moddability for races and more flexible code for me to flesh out.
Now, all resources can be made "equippable" and you can define what boosts they give to a subject. You can also define traits with similar properties and chance of occurring. Reputation is now called standing and is also fully modifiable per race. You can also define what trades your race likes, making it more important with trade or race diversity in your city.
Thanks to some feedback, I've also been experimenting with a new UI layout, especially to improve trading and other aspects.
I want to get rid of the full screen ones in general and trying to figure out ways to convey a lot of information in a simple way. I really like the standing main panel. Not only is it clean, it also allows me to crop the main game somewhat, which saves a few % in performance.
I've also tried to fix the most pressing bugs in the current release. the rest will have to wait for V54.
Currently the main challenge is not to starve from waves of immigration. I plan on tipping this over. You'll have a toggle to allow immigration and Instead we'll have emigration when your standing is low, and "retirement", meaning that it should be more of a challenge as your city grows and not the other way around.
Then there will of course be the nobles and slaves, which I hope to get to next week. Other from that, lots of QOL, bugfixes and tweaks for a better experience. Hope you'll like it.