It's been a week since the early access release! Since then, we have had 12 small patches: fixing bugs and improving QoL. In fact, lots of important QoLs like Transport Preference, Max Transport Distance, Favorite Buildings, and Parallel Construction Transports have been shipped in these daily patches.
We have also reached more than 1,000 concurrent players! (SteamDB reports 1,060, and the game server reports 1,221). The server has been under stress but luckily there were only 2 crashes, both happened while I was awake so I was able to minimize the impact. Also, I am happy to see lots of players have reached Quaestor - I know the 48-hour playtime requirement is annoying, but it is the only viable way to keep the server running and keep the base game free.
I am grateful for the support I get from our community: we have volunteer moderators helping with game chat, we have translators helping localize the game (Now CivIdle speaks 11 languages!), and I have received several donations from the players helping cover the server expense. If you want to support the game and keep it running, I will release a "Supporter Pack" on Steam in the future, with some extra perks. If you have donated, feel free to ping me (@FishPond on Discord) and I will give you a supporter pack key when it is available.
We also have 100+ reviews on Steam at 75% positive (as of writing). For those of you who enjoyed this game, I hope you will enjoy this content patch! And for those of you who didn't, I know this game has rough edges here and there but I am trying my best to make it better every day and I hope at some point you will give it another chance.
Speaking of the content patch, here are the patch notes:
Great People
Bronze Age
- Hatshepsut: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Aqueduct, Brickworks
- Sargon Of Akkad: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Logging Camp, Lumber Mill
Iron Age
- Zoroaster: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Cotton Plantation, Cotton Mill
- Classical Age
- Aeschylus: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Flour Mill, Bakery
- Ashurbanipal: +1 Production Multiplier, Storage Multiplier for Sandpit, Glassworks
- Confucius: +1 Science from Busy and Idle Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy
- Aristophanes: +1 Happiness
Middle Age
- Isidore of Miletus: +2 Builder Capacity Multiplier
- Fibonacci: +0.5 Science from Idle Workers. +1 Science from Busy Workers. Permanent upgrade cost follows Fibonacci sequence
Renaissance
- Isaac Newton: +2 Science from Busy and Idle Workers if more than 50% of workers are busy
Wonders
- Saint Basil's Cathedral: Allow resource extraction buildings to work adjacent to a deposit. All adjacent tier I buildings get +1 Production Multiplier, Worker Capacity Multiplier, and Storage Multiplier (Firearm)
- Great Mosque of Samarra: +1 building vision range. Reveal 5 random unexplored deposit tiles and build a level 10 resource extraction building on each (Road & Wheel)
- Mogao Caves: +1 happiness for every 10% of busy workers. All adjacent shrines are exempt from -1 happiness (Theocracy)
Gameplay
- Entering a new age will allow picking a new great person of each unlocked age (e.g. Entering the Classical Age will allow picking 1 Classical Age + 1 Iron Age + 1 Bronze Age great person). If you pick the same great person more than once, each additional great person will have a diminishing effect during this run. However, all of them will become permanent Great Person when you rebirth (e.g. If you have 3 Confucius from this run, pick the fourth Confucius will have 1/4 of the effect. When you rebirth, you will get 4 Confucius for permanent upgrade)
- Extra Great Person from Total Empire Value will be chosen from Great People up to Current Age + 1
Misc
- Version number format has been changed. The new format is 'X.Y.Z Build W'. Y will increase for the weekly content update. Z will increase for the daily QoL/hotfix update. W is a unique number that is produced by the build system. Patch notes will be written against X.Y.Z. If you want to report a bug, please include build number
- Add Czech (@MikeCZ) and Dutch (@Thomasthegama) translation