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Patrician IV Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Dec 17, 2010

Updates to Patrician IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Gameplay

Pirate activity can now be set via options in three levels
Mass gatherings of pirates have been fixed
Pirates off the town are shown on the nautical chart for cities where the player has an office
Pirate ships out of the player's visual range can now be attacked
When a convoy is attacked on a trading route, there will be an entry in your chronicle
Added option to skip cities (frozen harbor, full convoy or empty convoy and none of the commodities served)
Added notification for interrupted trade route
Redesigned development of Mediterranean cities, expansion to five stars is now calculated properly
Before sending an expedition, the return harbor of the expedition convoy can now be chosen
Rebalanced calculation of population to make it more dependable on quality of life
Adjusted sabotage carried out by the AI
The state of a city now has an effect on wage costs
'Pause' is added as a new game speed
Savegames now show extended information of game type, difficulty and in-game date
In-game date is added to the file name of the savegame
Abbreviations of the first and the last town of a route are added to the file name of the trading route files

New Missions

Share trading with the Prince added (ability for players to acquire shares in the region of the Prince and thus to achieve a permanent increase in satisfaction)
Loan mission added for the Town Hall (the player borrows gold from the town)
Loan mission added for the Tavern (the AI borrows gold from the player)

Interface

Added percentage of occupied dwellings in a town
Added display of harbor fees to the town information and nautical chart
Redesigned the trading route interface
New ordering options added to convoys ship list and convoy transfer dialogue (escort/size/number of guns)
A gun icon is added to every ship in the ship list to mark them as escort ships.
Third tab for an overview of the Prince's shares added
Added a "Brick" icon to display lack of building materials. Missing materials are displayed in a tooltip
Gold transfer in the city treasury can now be set using the mouse

Graphics

Added new effect during construction or demolition of a building
Added a hit effect for tower projectiles
Added effect for destroyed towers

Sound

Added new sounds for shots, hits (melee and distance shots), death, victory, destroyed tower and destroyed business
Added sound for the construction and demolition of a building
Added gold jingle sound for every button with a buy/sell function

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