A new major version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes:
Game Mechanics
- Map
- Removed Quebec-Great Britain connection
- Income
- Player Base Income - Add a $150 base income for any player and reduce influence based income from $2,5 per player and point to $2 per player and point
- Smarter NPCs
- NPC to not deploy in back country anymore
- NPCs to sell excess resources
- NPC to acquire and and defend regions (for region bonuses)
- NPC to purchase high level units (tanks and jets)
- Research preferences for NPC
- NPC to move units from back country to the front
- NPC to have personalities (NPC can have different preferences, strategies, levels of irrationality etc.)
- Improved NPC Attacking
- NPC to not always attack with all units
- NPC to use Military Strength for evaluation (instead of number of units)
- NPC attack evaluation to determine optimum number of troops to leave behind to defend
- NPC to purchase oil for attacks
- Improved budgeting for NPC command phase
- Include science & research bonuses in NPC evaluation
- Resource Balancing
- Tank Cost increased to 12 steel (before 8 steel)
- Jet cost changed to 5 steel, 4 components (before 8 steel, 3 components)
- Map to provide less components (4 instead of 6)
- Map to provide more gold (6 instead of 4)
- Gold to inflate at 5% (before 6%)
- Science Balancing
- Gold Mines decreased to $80 per Turn (before $100 per turn)
- Mining Carts decreased to +10 Steel per Turn (before +12 Steel per turn)
- Debt Monetization decreased to +$300 per Turn (before +$400 per turn)
- Level 2 Science Cost increased to $600 (before $500)
- S12 Projectiles converts 15% of Hits to Double Hits (before 10%)
- Unlock level 3 research at 6 technologies (8 before)
- Unlock level 4 research at 9 technologies (12 before)
- Market
- Reduce market stock for higher price impact
Improvements
- “Fast Resolve” - Skip all battle animations in Singleplayer mode to speed up game experience
- Faster Camera Zoom
- Country Summary View - Displays a countries resources and military strength when zoomed out (versus full unit details)
- Zoom-Level adjusting UI
- Highlight active battles instead of zooming in to create context for battles
- Bind ‘Enter' key to confirm active dialogs
Bugfixes
- Country pick mode not showing units & resources
- Losing selected unit type in deploy phase when zooming
- Quick purchase missing oil button does not update when selected units change
- Level 4 research does not unlock even though player meets requirements of 12 techs
- Unit count in deployment window has no background color in (MacOS) build
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