Patch Notes

Kingdom Come, Taxes Due

• Rulers now place real monthly demands on cities, including Gold, goods and political pressure. Their happiness, deadlines and consequences are tracked clearly through the Country Panel.
• Royal demands and city finances now connect to the wider political simulation instead of acting as isolated notifications.

Sieges and the World Map

• When a ruler's happiness reaches zero, eight knights and a battering ram advance from the city edge toward the Town Hall. Without an active Defensive Tower, the city can be looted before the force withdraws.
• Sieges close the city gates, keep citizens inside the walls and publish ruler- and city-specific news. Movement follows the same pause and game-speed rules as the rest of the simulation.
• The eastern and southern world map has been rebuilt as one continuous European texture, while all 18 original city and route positions remain unchanged.
• Kingdoms Mode now opens automatically for new games and WorldScene saves, with clearer ruler panels, speech bubbles and map presentation.

Guild and Town Hall

• The Alderman's Office now offers Prosperity of {City} and Become a Hanseatic City measures, with monthly limits, assignment rules, public calls and persistent progress.
• The Measures board presents owners, cities, required goods and delivery progress across three large, readable cards.
• Town Hall missions now show both mission choices together. Mayors can switch their selection before creation, while active missions have clearer accept, cancel and reward behavior.
• School funding and progress are now managed only through City Council, with the Mayor's School card presenting its cost, duration and build state consistently.

Interface, Sound and Performance

• Fleet searches, mission panels, notifications and shared parchment popups now provide clearer feedback instead of empty or silent failure states.
• Ship, city, mission and reputation lookups now use identity-based indexes, reducing repeated full-list scans as campaigns grow.
• The music catalog now features Battle Music by Alexandr Zhelanov under CC BY 3.0, while ruler voices and several WorldScene presentation details have been refreshed.
• Numerous layout, localization and readability fixes have been applied across English, German, Indonesian, Polish and Turkish.