Diplomacy

🛠️ Improvements:

• All players/AIs now have a relationship status with each other, which initially depends on the faction of each player.

• Relationship status can be influenced by the following actions:

  • Attacking the AI/player (drastically worsens the relationship!)

  • Attacking another player (depends on the AI’s/player’s relationship with the defender)

  • Relationships deteriorate over time if they are neutral or negative.

  • Giving away goods

• New unit: Envoy

  

  • Can now be trained at the marketplace

  • Required to send resources to AIs

  • There is a chance the unit dies during negotiations; this chance depends on difficulty level and one of the diplomacy skills.

  • The unit can carry 500 resources

• AIs can now send goods to each other or to the player if the relationship is friendly

• New diplomacy-related skills:

  • Reduce the chance of an envoy dying

  • Reduce the amount of relationship points lost over time

  • Increase reputation gained per gifted resource

• It is now possible to win by befriending all surviving AIs

• The selection ring color now reflects the relationship with the AI:

  • White = own objects

  • Red, yellow, green = depending on relationship

  • Blue = neutral objects

• Different factions now have distinct appearances for their merchants

• Merchants in the overworld now have random skin and horse colors

• Workers now reserve resources in the storage before heading out, to avoid unnecessary walking

• You can now exit the attack view

• You can now recruit and skill units both in the overworld and during attacks

• Multiple messages can now appear on the right side at once, and they stay visible longer

• The overworld is now significantly smaller (it will be beautified in the next patch 😉)

🐞 Bugfixes:

• A gray box was visible in the bottom right corner of the overworld

• After loading, coal workers often spawned inside the building and didn’t come out

• After an attack, units weren’t removed from the “busy” pool, which led to negative busy population counts

• If you didn’t watch an attack, the music didn’t switch back to the normal soundtrack

⚖️ Balancing:

• Popularity is updated more frequently

• Villagers now leave and return to the village faster

• Costs and production amounts of various buildings have been adjusted

• AIs now only attack other players if they are not friendly

• The AI now always attacks the player it has the worst relationship with

• Food consumption of villagers has been increased

• Skill requirements have been partially adjusted

• Negative popularity from taxes has been rebalanced

• Church costs have been halved, since it’s now required to apply tax levels -4 and -5

Miscellaneous:

• A dog now roams the village—if you click on it, it gets happy :)