Another little update I've done since the end of the Develop-a-thon, this one has a couple of nice features in it like the new knight 2 hero system and the new independent crown system.
**KNIGHT 2 HERO SYSTEM**
You can hire any number of heroes each turn to take up one of the five spots, but not your own tough knights, not anymore, now when you enter the list of heroes to recruit to the positions you will notice a new option. The new option allows you to bring forth a random knight of yours and declare them a champion, thanks /u/animalsbite for the suggestion!
Here's the trial choice screen -
https://i.imgur.com/8wVIDPq.png
* Added ability to turn knight to hero on recruit hero screen (needs to do a trial to be promoted)
* Added ability to give knight the trial 'Find a rock atop mount Saaroth' (hard, reward: public opinion)
* Added ability to give knight the trial 'Find a random artifact' (finds a random artifact, reward: gold value of the random artifact)
* Added ability to give knight the trial 'Brawl another hero' (reward: knight gains 5+ battlescore if he wins)
* Added ability to bypass trial for a modest public opinion loss
* Added ability to hold a ceremony (costs 100 gold) for the new champion
* Added ability to proceed without ceremony for a modest public opinion loss
* Added new knight heroes will have Aslona helmets in their face graphic
* Added new knight heroes will have a special uniquely modified origin story including their journey as a knight to a hero
* Added 5 different pre-set knight suffixes for the champions
**SLIMES**
Added a new slime creature warsim's system!
* 266'823 new slime based races available in the game! (now 75 million total races)
* Added New Race 'Slime Folk'
* Added New Race 'Slimemen'
* Added New Race 'Were-Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Evolved Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Half-Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Shapeshifting Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Exo-Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Demi-Slimes'
* Added New Race 'Slimelings'
* Added new kingdom type 'Slimedom'
* Added new creature 'Slime'
**I CAN'T FACE THESE NAME SUFFIXES**
* Added new name suffix 'the Facebreaker' (+15 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facemelter' (+30 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facecleaver' (+31 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facemasher' (+32 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facecrusher' (+33 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facestealer' (+40 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Face-Eater' (+49 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Facecarver' (+31 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Fleshsculptor' (+39 battlescore) (credit Defender)
**HERO ORIGIN STORIES**
After adding the new knight to hero system which uses hero origin stories I thought adding another big burst of them would be good!
* Added 'Used Wolf-hide coat seller' hero origin story
* Added 'still an adventurer' hero origin story
* Added 'Grandparents farm' hero origin story
* Added 'Slave friend' hero origin story
* Added 'Assaulted Recruiter' hero origin story
* Added 'Village kid tournament' hero origin story
* Added 'wouldnt you like to know' hero origin story
* Added 'caravan guard scrappy' hero origin story
* Added 'boring village guard life' hero origin story
* Added 'Village guard burned village' hero origin story
**QUIT CROWNING AROUND**
I was playing around in the game the otherday and saw the sorry state of the crowns screen, it seemed more like an afterthought than anything interesting, I've updated the screen to vary depending on the personality of the kingdoms leader with each description and screen being more interesting than the solo default one that existed before
Here's an example of the dung crown screen -
https://i.imgur.com/GpJF6LJ.png
* Rewrote classic viewing crown screen (now used for friendly and neutral leaders)
* Fixed crown screen bypassing ascii filter
* Added new screen for mercantile leaders crown (pay to see it)
* Added new screen for strange leaders crown (stored in dung)
* Added new screen for stupid leaders crown (on the ground)
* Added new feature for hostile leaders (not letting you view crown at all)
* Fixed crown screen text colour not being white
**TALK TO ME**
A bunch more dialogues to keep things interesting!
* Added 3 scorpion pit dialogues
* Added 3 artifact market dialogues
* Added 3 mining dialogues
* Added 3 slum pit dialogues
* Added 3 generic blackmarket dialogues
* Added 3 Ice Watch Tavern dialogues
* Added 3 generic goblinwood tavern dialogues
**BUGFIXES**
* Fixed extra word bug in one of the under attack dialogues in prebattle
* Fixed Gorge race prefix game breaking bug
* Fixed dog kicking encounter text bug (credit Defender)
* Fixed declaring new date text bug (credit Defender)
* Fixed declaring new date intro text bug (credit Defender)
* Fixed ascii filter not working for wheel of wealth in the Blackmarket (credit Defender)
* Fixed kingdom menu issue for ascii free version screen reading (credit Defender)
* Fixed numerous text bugs in history guild speaking to teachers (credit Defender)
* Fixed independent kingdom messenger throne room encounter text spacing bug
* Fixed missing gold gain notification in some throne room gold gift encounters
* Fixed missing line and bad layout in destroying slavers fort text
* Fixed fort northwatch description screen textwrap bug
**EVERYTHING ELSE**
* Rewrote destroying slavers fort text
* Reworked all exploration text for ascii disabled version of warsim (credit Defender)