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Update 4.0.98 - Steam Invites, Balancing & Bugfixes

Latest Update:

  • Steam Invites: it's done. I would consider it a late BETA! Please provided suggestions for improvement.
  • Balancing: Nation-Wide Festival to inc. Happiness: +30% more expensive, 3.0 action points now (was 2.0).
  • Balancing: Nation-Wide Festival for Population Growth: 5.0 action points now (was 2.0).
  • Broadcasts: will now also prevent a game from auto-deletion! NOTE: a game will usually be auto-deleted after inactivity of 3x turn duration (minimum 15 minutes). Broadcasting the game will reset the timer. Don't SPAM!
  • Game Links: they now work too if you are already in a game and want to go to another one (clicking on game-link in chat!)
  • Manual ("Help & Info"): did some fixes addressing the latest balancing done.
  • Combat Bugfix/Ships: they were getting the -30% attack penalty also when attacking other ships.
  • Combat/Balancing: extra-bonus for larger armies removed (to reduce confusion). Also please note, if boni are involved the resulting numbers are adjusted proportionally not absolute.
  • Achievement/Explorer: fixed - will now be handed out when making a treaty with another culture (e.g. Western /w Asian or vice-versa).
  • Tooltip/Happiness: explains the number in parentheses, i.e. the minimum happiness.
  • GUI/Games List: shows the map icons now too.
  • GUI/Right Mouse Clicks - Bugfix: while waiting for the next turn, a right mouse button click would trigger to restart the same turn!
  • Modding Bugfix: maps didn't upload & got stuck uploading forever (EOF not reported making the game wait forever).
  • Pillage Bugfix: recruiting not anymore possible for villages that have been pillaged.
  • Updater Bugfix: could end up in an endless-loop when a king was captured.
  • Networking update: using a connection pool for HTTP-connections. Might reduce timeouts/connection problems?
  • Crash-Bugfix: for games where nations where removed once the game started, it could cause a crash (index ot ouf bounds exception)!
  • Server Logging: improved to track down errors (re-Blitz/01 crash on Wednesday).
  • Crash-Reporter bugfixed.