Emergency Patch to fix game-breaking bugs

1. Fixed an issue where a game could crash when salvaging a building

2. Fixed an issue where a soft cap on the number of buildings could cause game to crash

3. Fixed the description for Beast of Burden, and Growth Potion 2.

4. Fixed a bug where the Irrigation tech had no effect, updated the description on Irrigation

5. Removed the extra granary from the initial

Balance

1. Reduced the value of cotton fabric by a bit and increased the value of clothing by a bit.

2. Added some items that can be bought from a few trading guilds and added a few items that can now be sold (if you have a trading guild that is requesting said item)

3. Hovels will now take up 8 units of space as opposed to 5

4. Townhouses have been unveiled via a new tech "Townhomes" that follows "Scaffolding". Townhouses are high density housing for Towns/Cities.


UI

1. The damaged building pane will now properly page, allowing you to see more than one "page" of damaged buildings

2. The number of results per page for damaged buildings have been reduced to 10 from 25 to help reduce the time it takes to load the buildings page

Hey everyone!

Today's update focuses primarily on balance and bug fixes. Don't worry, I made sure to throw in a little curve ball too!

Tech/Exp:

Experience required for gaining a new tech point has increased x4. To compensate for Civil Tech early game, civil exp from building new buildings increased x5.


Buildings

The sizes of buildings were tweaked, in particular hovels and houses were reduced significantly. Space added from going up tiers also increased slightly for plains space.


Taxes

The amount of income from taxes has been fixed, now it is scaled appropriately with the cost of other things.


Refugees

Reduced the number of refugee events


QoL

Trading Guild Cards now have a section for the description and what they are looking to buy.

The tab you were last on individually for each building card is now recorded, so if you switched to the Upgrade Tab for Hovel, you will see the Upgrade Tab by default the next time you see that card.

The default tab for a building card is now Description rather than Cost


Mechanics

Damaged buildings may become extra damaged if left damaged for a long time. At some point it will become totally damaged and beyond repair. At this point, the building can only be salvaged.

Auto Repair will now also look for any buildings that was damaged beyond repair, and automatically salvage them.

Locust Swarm is a new disaster that can strike the land, causing havoc for farmers. The effects are reduced for the time being due to there being little defense against the Swarm. Eventually there will be some upgrades to help combat it, or at least forecast it.


Bug Fixes

The ETA for caravans were inaccurate due to a computation error, this has been fixed

Fixed a layout issue on the Buy Resources tab

Fixed an issue where a Building Instance's Effects wouldn't update when you switch to a different instance


Misc.

Events checking will now happen on an offset step system, which will help reduce processing time on the steps where a large number of events are checked against. This change will allow us to implement a number of new achievements and new events.

As always, please tell us what you think of the changes, the game, and the direction you'd like to see it go!

Cheers!

dSolver

Hey everyone,

Another update is here! Let's take a quick peek at what's happening:

1. We added a new feature, the building-state mechanism. When you start the game, rather than starting with absolutely nothing, you will start with some damaged buildings (damaged during the raid in the story). Repairing these buildings will be cheaper than starting from scratch. Salvaging a building will get you some resources. Since buildings can be damaged, we have revamped the building state system to follow a "building condition" statistic. A building's condition goes down after some time, particularly during big events like floods and blizzards, but idle builders will do maintenance work on their own, so it's a good idea to keep builders around even if the building queue is empty!

2. Two new civil policies: Auto Repair, Auto Upgrade - builders will add repair projects if there are none in queue and there's something to repair. Auto Upgrade means builders will find something to upgrade if there is sufficient resources for the upgrade and there are no upgrade projects in the building queue.

3. New tech: Frameworking, which unlocks the Joinery building and the Joiner job. Joiners will produce Material Sets (Wood) which is replacing some Lumber in some of the more complex buildings. The concept here is that a lot of the framing and paneling can be done ahead of time. Currently the only way to obtain Material Set (Wood) is by producing it, in a future update we will see to it that it is obtainable via other means as well.

4. Tweaks to the exp rate. As you've probably noticed, it doesn't take long to blaze through all of the upgrades. We felt this speed was uncharacteristic (in some cases, getting sufficient exp for another tech point in a month of time). We are aiming for a nice balance such that late game isn't a huge wait between new tech, but at the same time we want to make sure early/mid game isn't too easy with the breakneck tech advances.

5. Tweaks to building sizes and construction time: some buildings have been sped up, some have been slowed down, some sizes have been increased, some decreased. This should not affect any buildings you already have, only new construction.

6. When buying resources, the distance to a trading guild has been replaced with an estimated time to get to said trading guild. This change is made in anticipation of a mechanism that will alter the expected speed (road conditions, bandits, etc).

7. Fixed a bug where pickled vegetables were being consumed even though the player has specified it should not be consumed

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, feel free to comment below!

dSolver

Hello everyone!

Another update is here! We have a nice mix of bug fixes and new features, so here's the gist:

New Features

1. Some workers will have a new experience mechanism applied. For now it is the Apothecary, Brick Maker, Smelter, and Lumber Miller. More jobs will be make use of this mechanic in the future. For each of these experienced work, there is a concept of top experience, which is pushed when some worker has more experience than the top. However, bonus production is calculated based on average experience of the job, so it could be more worthwhile to keep people at least one person on the job (when removing workers, it removes the least experienced first).
   
   
2. Added a new tech, building and job, (Brick Mold, Brickworks, Brick Maker respectively), for producing bricks. Brick making may not be worthwhile early on due to inexperience of workers and tech.
   
   
3. Added a new indicator for resource changes, it is unlocked at the same time as the ledger, it provides you with information about changes to a resource over the last period of time (you can decide via a slider how many days back you want it to calculate)
   
   
4. Added a new system for managing workers, called Seasonal Workers (civil tech). Once unlocked, you will be able to specify on a seasonal basis how many workers are expected at a job. Specifying seasonal changes is optional. Note, that this also changes the behaviour for workers leaving, see when there are more workers at a job than the specified amount, they will start to leave.
   
   
5. Added a Fur Trader contract, this represents the first of a new type of contract where the guild isn't a city-state, but rather an independent guild with some purpose. They do not possess a market so you can't trade with them except through contracts.
   
   
6. Added 4 new tracks by DYATHON

Bug Fixes/Tweaks

1. Fixed a bug where the toggle policies weren't being shown as active if a player leaves the screen and comes back, even though it is active in the background
   
   
2. Modified the ore discovery mechanism a little bit to slightly increase the odds of finding new veins
   
   
3. Increased the scaling on exp required for unlocking new tech in preparation for a new mechanism being introduced later
   
   
4. Replaced Trader Joe's placeholder avatar with the real avatar

Hey everyone,

First major patch that also brings in a couple new features is here! Here's the gist:

New Features:

1. Toggleable Policies - some techs have been converted over to Toggleable Policies, such that they can be toggled on or off in the Council screen under the appropriate tab.

2. Contracts come with a toggle to switch between per-shipment import/export and total import/export

3. The City Guard HQ is now available, it will be in a new tab in the Council screen. The City Guard will allow you to hire up to 5 constables, who work to combat crime. Their efficiency is set by increasing pay, however be warned because increasing pay also increases baseline salary. So, crime may temporarily drop but the city guard will expect a higher base salary for some time.

4. Synching saves to the filesystem is now implemented. So before now your saves were stored in a local database, which meant loading/saving was pretty fast but you didn't have a file to back up, or (eventually) use steam cloud save. But now, we have a process to automatically create/update a file on the filesystem for each save you have in game. This opens the way for people to share their saves with each other.

Bug fixes:

1. Ability to queue buildings past the limits of land availability has been addressed

2. Waterfront space wasn't properly initiating even though the Dam was created

3. Some players experienced screen tearing in fullscreen. Although this is not addressed for all players who experienced this, it has been addressed for some. We will continue to monitor the issue.

4. Toggling food consumption wasn't working properly

5. Animal Fat kept on being added to the recipe for Medicine, eventually making Medicine prohibitively expensive

6. Addressed a number of performance issues (delays) during some game processes.

7. The "Cold" effect wasn't showing up properly so it was difficult to gauge when the population was being affected by lack of fuel.

Thank you for reading the patch note, and happy prospering!

dSolver