Steam News

Grand Ages: Rome Update Released

April 16, 2009, 9:46 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Grand Ages: Rome have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Difficulty adjustment

• Houses are now deserted every 60 seconds during unemployment (was 30 seconds)
  
• Deserted buildings health degeneration 3x slower than previously (roughly 9 minutes before fire)
  
• Fire extinguished by Prefectures twice as quickly
  
• Fixed Well and Big Fountain hygiene contribution radii.
  
• Increased aqueduct HP.
  

• Map overview tweaks.
  
• Colorized outposts on map overview.
  
• Important notifications now blink
  
• New notification sound for important notifications
  
• It's harder to accidentally go to realm overview mode
  
• Added explanatory text to trade dialog.
  
• Trade buildings remember last route.
  

• Multiplayer desync fixes.
  
• Fixed problems occuring while entering a room
  
• Fixed problem with account creation
  
• Fixed several desync bugs.
  
• Increased starting resources on some multiplayer maps.
  Miscellaneous
  

• Military behaviour fixes.
  
• Improved worker reallocation.
  
• Capped Trade Contract benefit.
  
• Fixed Thespian, Wine Export and Flax Exports character talents.
  
• Reduced bad weather duration and intensity
  
• Stability and compatibility improvements
  

• Fixed riots under Martial Law.
  
• Fixed autosave mechanism.
  
• Fixed two crashes on saving the game.
  
• Stability and compatibility improvements

Grand Ages: Rome Update Released

March 13, 2009, 9:10 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Grand Ages: Rome have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Difficulty adjustment

• Houses are now deserted every 60 seconds during unemployment (previously 30 seconds)
  
• Deserted buildings degeneration is now 3x slower than previously (roughly 9 minutes before fire)
  
• Fire extinguished by Prefectures twice as quickly
  
• Fixed Well and Large Fountain hygiene contribution radii
  
• Increased aqueduct HP.
  

• Important notifications now blink
  
• New notification sound for important notifications
  
• It's harder to accidentally switch to realm overview mode
  
• Explanatory text added to trade dialog.
  

• Fixed problems occurring while entering a room
  
• Fixed problem with account creation
  
• Fixed several desync bugs.
  
• Increased starting resources on some multiplayer maps.
  

• Fixed Thespian, Wine Export and Flax Exports character talents.
  
• Reduced bad weather duration and intensity
  
• Fixed resource check for house repopulation.
  

• Fixed autosave mechanism.
  
• Fixed two crashes on saving the game.
  
• Stability and compatibility improvements
  

Grand Ages: Rome - Available Most Everywhere

March 5, 2009, 4:13 pm - Valve - Product Release

Grand Ages: Rome is available almost everywhere today. Go forth and conquer. (North American customers can pre-purchase around the 13th and play when the game is released on the 20th. The demo is ready and waiting for you to play right now though.)

Grand Ages: Rome - Free Demo now on Steam

February 26, 2009, 6:00 pm - Valve - Product Release

Customers worldwide can play the free demo for Grand Ages: Rome on Steam. That is the good news.


Better news for Germany, customers there can purchase the full game today for 10% off while customers in the rest of the world (except North America) can pre-purchase the game for 10% off until March 6th, when they game is released.


North American customers get their shot at pre-purchase around the 13th, with the game releasing there on March 20th.