Author: Ronchiporc

The Nations update

The basics of multi-player Nations have been implemented into Ymir!
It is now possible to  gather several players into a common Nation. They will therefore share the same Nation name, color and standard. 
Nations have a fully customizable hierarchy. You can create different titles with custom names and rules such as tax rates to superiors, methods of succession and replacement (when a player becomes inactive) or rights ( allowed to promote subordinates, can recruit new people in the nation… etc).
This is the foundation of the Nation system, and more features will be added to it in the future.
Each player now has a government name that gets combined with his rank title from his Nation.
In their current state, here’s the perks and disadvantages of Nations:
– Perks: shared score and victory points, automatic system of taxation and management of inactive players within the nation.
– Disadvantages: costs state power to maintain the more subordinates one has under him and the more distant they are, making the leaders likely to compensate this by using taxation. ego to renounce your own flag.

Territorial claims have been added. Its the foundation of multi-territory regions: instead of the previous one region = one territory ( 1 world tile) , regions can now regroup several tiles under a parent territory : the region’s city. 
For now though, the only and first type of regional territory is the aforementioned “territorial claim”, which is simply a way to include empty territories into your frontiers to establish control over the neighboring lands. 
Claiming lands costs administration to the parent territory (the city) they are attached to. The ownership of these territories is also inherited from the city, so invading it will also mean taking control of all the region’s annex territories.

Resource storage has been improved : extra resources no longer spawns ‘ground storages’ that fills up the map when there’s no space available.
Instead, they spawn directly on the floor. Such resources decay with time and will be lost unless stored quickly in a proper storage.
If room is available, they will automatically relocate into one, in the same way slums disappear when room is made available in regular housing.
New resources now also go in priority into large warehouses before filling up smaller 2×2 “ground storages”.
So to summarize :
– a new resource will first tries to go into a proper warehouse. 
– if no room is available, it will try to go into ‘ground storages’.
– if none is available, it will spawn directly on the floor and will decay with time, trying to relocate if room becomes available.

Besides that, the patch includes important optimizations for larger cities, making it much more comfortable in later game.

 

The Nations update
v0.0.12.x
– added nation hierarchy: multiple players can group in a same nation with a customizable hierarchy of superiors and subordinates.
– added nation titles: customizable faction ranks, with specific settings and names affecting all the members of a rank.
– added nation taxation: superiors can levy a tax on their subordinates, taken from their raw income.
– added nation state power transfer: subordinates can transfer some state power to their superior.
– added promote: if allowed by his rank, a superior can affect rank of subordinates.
– added replacement: if allowed by his rank, a superior can replace an inactive subordinate by another one in the hierarchy.
– added dismantling: if allowed by his rank, a superior can redistribute the territories of an inactive subordinate.
– added expellment: if allowed by his rank, a superior can expel an inactive subordinate from the nation.
– added heirdom succession: a nation member can name an heir that will automatically be offered his title if he were to become inactive.
– extra resource no longer spawn 2×2 ground storages. They spawn directly on the floor and decay with time. like slums for houses, they auto relocate if space is available.
– new resources now go into warehouses/granaries in priority before going into ground storages or directly on the floor.
– added multi-territorial regions : a city can now “own” adjacent territories. Their ownership is synced with the parent city.
– added territorial claims: expands your frontier over empty territories. costs administration from the parent city. For now its the only available regional territory type available.
– optimized frame-rate in large cities
– optimized display of storage buildings
– optimized npc citizens in cities
– you can no longer disband formation outside your regions
– fixed foreign cultures not affecting loyalty
– fewer captured animal events
– fixed issue with npc cities spawning
– fixed issue of steam lobby disappearing despite server still running
– barbarian camps raiding range reduced for persistant games
– barbarian activity reduced in persistant games
– fixed pathfinding issues with bridges and tunnels
– fixed broken victory points from total score
– fixed server auto-save freezing the server and causing client timeouts
– fixed steel being available in the foundry
– fixed merchant upgrades broken
– fixed lag when a formation is deleted while its menu is open
– fixed bug allowing to build several buildings on the same tiles
– fixed bug with treaty counter-proposals

v0.0.11.4
– disabled primitive tribe spawn if region is already settled
– added warning event when settling on a primitive tribe’s region
– fixed issues with the policies UI
– increased persistant mode prod cycle to 1.5 hour
– increased loot of wolves and bears when killing them

v0.0.11.6
– modified and reduced effect of all knowledges on intelligence
– fixed an issue with iron working tech
– fixed issues with cultural transfers between regions
– fixed bug where llamas were unavailable in tropical climate

v0.0.11.7
– fixed issues with building platforms
– improved UI to place platforms
– added “support” constraints to terrain heights modification: tiles now have a min and max height based on their surrounding tiles to prevent exploits such as making free walls of dirt.
– fixed obsidian weapons not beeing unlocked with the obsidian tech
– fixed display issues with the terrain heights tool
– failsafe prevents players from placing a production building that has nothing exploitable in range ( ex hunters or fisherpigs )
– inactive characters’s scores now ignored for the ref average score calculation
– slowed evolution of culture and loyalty in persistent modes
– fixed battle code errors with disembarking and multiple allied armies
– fixed issue with research projects getting stuck

Hotfix for the newly released version:

– WARNING: this hotfix will temporary mess up existing cultural balance in regions
– fixed exploit with spawn cool-off
– fixed exploits allowing to create population
– removed Elephant events from early game
– fixed boost event not disapearing
– some exploration events are now affected by the distance from home (ex hostile tribes less likely close to home)
– each region can now hold up to 3 other foreign cultures instead of 1.
– rebel regions might now offer to rejoin a legitimate owner (having the highest culture influence)
– added new unit of “rockthrowers”. a starting range attack unit good to defend behind palissades and gates, with really low range but decent damage and low cost.
– faster production cycle in persistent mode
– slowed down evolution/rebalancing of culture in region
– fixed battle errors

As the game is now playable for a minority of testers, here’s a recap of the last updates, including the newest one of today!

 

The swampy update
Improving swamps, nordic region’s balance and herds gameplay.
v0.0.10.x
– fixed misc issues and bugs
– added global climate health bonuses/malus. nordic regions-> health bonus +10. tropical regions-> health malus -5.
– added new terrain type: peat. produces ‘charcoal’ directly exploitable from the ground with the ‘soil miner’ building. It’s present in nordic swamps.
– increased frequency of swamps and lakes in nordic climate.
– increased frequency of sheep and rabbits in nordic climate.
– improved swamp terrain generation. added more topographic diversity and swamps now connect with other adjascent ones.
– added global health malus of -5 in swamps.
– herds will now continuously spawn all over the world map.
– herds now grow with time
– herds now randomly move from region to region
– bigger herds of elephants and mammoths.
– new “capture” action for formations (with the animal capture tech), which is a hunt focusing on capturing live animals from herds instead of killing them for meat. This action loots only livestock resources but no meat or leather.
– elephants and mammoths are now only present as herds ( no more permanent region spawns )
– added new “elephant riding” tech to unlock ability to recruit mounted elephants and mammoths.
– added agriculture tutorial
– added barter transition tutorial
– added a lot of missing project & ideas texts

The treaty renegociation update
Added missing diplomatic tools for treaties allowing to renegociate, modify, and ending them. Rebalanced life-quality bonuses.
v0.0.9.x
– cannot recruit new troops in a formation if outside home region
– fixed misc issues and bugs
– fixed missing cider mills buildings
– fixed problems with the ‘truffles’ resource
– added terrain tile infos when holding right clic on the terrain
– increased efficiency from 1 to 1.2 of woodcutter 1, and added +2 to its range.
– tiles covered by buildings can no longer be exploited for resources ( –> trees covered by fields will no longer be exploitable by woodcutters )
– hammers and axes less expensive in higher tier metals
– increased life quality bonuses of all houses.
– increased life quality bonuses of satisfied higher level needs
– richer classes are no longer served first for resources equally affordable by poorer classes.
– fixed a pathfinding fatal error
– added server.bat in game folder allowing to start server directly
– added game loading and creation UIs on the server allowing to create new games directly from the server
– improved “first builder” victory mission procedural objectives
– treaty breaking close of “coins penalty” is now a % of GDP instead of a fixed amount of coins.
– it is now possible to terminate treaties without breaking closes if both parties agree on it
– it is now possible to renegociate existing treaties if both parties agree to a modification
– fixed the non-working treaty counter-proposal option

Small improvements update
v0.0.8.x
– fixed misc bugs
– animal ‘camps’ no longer placed in region center, avoiding automatic hunters to start in the same position as the animals
– event-spawned units no longer invade regions
– editor locked
– its now possible to create treaties with no honor engagements.
– smaller tribes of porkoderthals with more loot
– right-click on a building button allows to build its previous obsolete version when relevant
– the defender can now admit defeat when an attacker has compelted his objective, ending the battle instantly without needing to wait for them to retreat
– fixed issues with culture changes and resistance when invading a city
– fixed issues with missing battle events
– fixed issues with average score triggering instantaneous gameover
– improved revelance of procedural objectives for victory missions to be more accessible and relevant to the situation of current players
– added notification to all players when a victory mission is completed
– implemented server passwords, ‘friends only’ and ‘private’ games.
– fixed ability to launch server by shortcut(edited)