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EU Rome VV/Gold 2.2 patch is out

Started by Tamas, October 06, 2009, 11:39:48 AM

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Tamas

Interesting.

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* Changes for the 2.2 patch of Vae Victis *
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# COLONIZATION & BARBARIANS
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- Colonized provinces now retain their own culture and religion. (Until barbarian power is 0, when it changes through event 4010.)
- Barbarian provinces no longer spread civilization.
- Barbarian provinces no longer gain civilization.
- The growth rate of Barbarian Power is now separate from population growth and exported to defines.txt.
- Barbarian power now grows back faster in colonies.
- Event 4001 (Barbarian Absorption) is now less common.
- Event 4001 now triggers a new event; 4010 ("Successful Colony"), which changes the culture and religion of the province if barbarian power is less than 1.
- Barbarians now destroy colonies (provinces with barbarian power >= 1 and a low population).
- No longer possible to colonize a province containing enemy units.
- Barbarian Hordes are now always of the original culture and religion of the province.



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# AI
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- Improved AI magistrate and minister appointment to look at loyalty more.
- AI: Should be better at handing out minor titles to avoid unemployment populist drift
- AI will now try to get rid of charismatic populist faction leaders
- AI for republics will now always risk invoking omens to avoid growing populism
- Naval AI: Will no longer hunt pirate fleets when at war and outnumbered by the enemy.
- Naval AI: Improved strait blocking
- Naval AI: Should now protect straits while its troops are crossing
- Naval AI: Increased intercept range


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# INTERFACE
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- Added a new, smaller gold icon for texts
- Tweaked the pig stabbing tooltip
- The 'Unemployed' filter in the character views no longer includes women and children


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# CHARACTERS
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- Fixed the parentage of Helenus, son of Pyrrhus
- Fixed the parentage of Spartacus, son Pairisades (Bosporan Kingdom)
- Peace terms will now affect ruler popularity.
- Balanced some loyalty, popularity and conviction modifiers.
- Sons will tend to be named after their grandfather, daughters after their grandmother.
- The commander with the highest martial value now leads every battle
- Upped the fertility rates of characters with 10 or more prominence
- Made sure enough potential spouses are created for the above to matter
- Title objectives now correctly check if a character can actually hold them
- Latinized names for children with parents from foreign dynasties (of the -id type), who have adopted Latin culture.
- Much improved naming of Roman/Latin characters.
- Sons will tend to be named after their grandfather, daughters after their grandmother.
- Loosened some pretty harsh marriage rules
- Reduced use of homonyms within families


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# REPUBLICS
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- Republics now always start with enough previous rulers to command some armies and fill out some offices
- The Mercantile faction now gains influence with the amount of trade. The opposite of how it worked before.
- The Religious faction now gains influence when omens are invoked. The opposite of how it worked before.
- The Civic faction now gains influence when buildings have been built. The opposite of how it worked before.
- The Populist faction now gains influence from lack of omens, lack of trade routes and lack of buildings, though less than the corresponding presence.
- A recent sacrifice now strengthens the Religious faction
- A recent triumph now strengthens the Military faction
- The first candidate now has more of an advantage in elections in republics
- Reduced the charisma influence multipler for the populist party leader a bit
- Long period of peace is now a Populist influence factor instead of Military
- The long period of peace factor now also considers civil wars
- New Populist influence factor: Pillaged provinces
- New Military influence factor: Huge Army (above force limits)
- Toned down trade route faction influence effects a bit


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# EVENTS
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- Fixed some string formatting in character commands
- Misleading effect tooltips will no longer be shown for an event target scope that are not valid.
- Added events 3402 and 3403; the legal heir killing off an underage monarch.
- Civilizing events for tribes are more likely to fire if they have the 'outside_influences' modifier
- The capital province of a tributary state now gains civilization from the capital province of the suzerain state
- The capital province of a suzerain state now gains civilization from the capital provinces of its tributaries


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# MISC GAMEBALANCE
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- Country stability now affects the real risk of civil war and governor secession a lot.
- Upped the starting population of Bastetani and raised the civ value in Contestani to help Carthage found New Carthage
- Tribes are now allowed to convert to monarchies as well as republics


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# MODDABILITY
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- Exported annexation threshold to defines ( _DIPDEF_MAX_ANNEX_SIZE_ )
- Exported the most important spouse and child creation thresholds to defines.txt
- Exported all of the major party influence gain factors to defines.txt
- Events that are triggered by other events now also evaluate their own trigger before actually firing.
- The 'has_governor' trigger is now true for the capital region
- The 'governor_scope' scope change now applies to the ruler in the capital region
- The 'ruler' scope now works directly within province scope, checking against the owning country's ruler (i.e. without using an 'owner' scope first)

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# BUGFIXES & STABILITY
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- Game now runs with the latest version of Clausewitz, including some speed ups.
- Fixed some potential issues with succession laws in monarchies
- Fixed some bugs in the character objective scripts
- Fixed the exit crashes
- Fixed a bug where the population breakdown of some provinces would get borked by moving back and forth along the timeline in the lobby
- Fixed a bug with spamming of event 3544 (disappointed clan chief)
- Fixed a bug in the mission 'revoke_jobs_of_heretics'
- Fixed a bug in the Egyptian mission 'incursions_into_seleucid_territory'
- Fixed a bug in the Egyptian mission 'reclaim_cyrenaica'
- Fixed some issues with regiments and ships retaining personal loyalty to dead characters or characters of different countries
- Fixed bug preventing some monthly country update calcs from completing
- Corrected 'proclaim_aristocratic_republic_desc' and 'proclaim_republic_confederacy_desc'
- Fixed a bug in the law 'we_dont_like_outsiders', causing constant passing and revoking
- Fixed the completely borked 'month' trigger
- The correct ruler and successor title should now be shown in the government window after changing government
- Switching tag now correctly sets the new country tag in each faction
- The correct laws are now always shown after switching tags
- Characters no longer lose their titles on a tag change
- Fixed some typos
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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Grallon

Despite my loving all things roman i never could get into this one.   :mellow:



G.
"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."

~Jean-François Revel

Agelastus

Quote from: Grallon on October 06, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
Despite my loving all things roman i never could get into this one.   :mellow:



G.

Agreed. I was very disappointed by EU Rome.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Winkelried

Same. The demo pretty much convinced me not to buy it.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Grallon on October 06, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
Despite my loving all things roman i never could get into this one.   :mellow:



G.

Same here.  I really really wanted to like it but the first game really was unfun and I dont want to spend any more time on the expansions.

Tamas

you know, prior to this patch I had a pretty fun game as Macedonia, and I only abandoned it because there was a nasty bug which in my saved game, made the barbarians form a "barbarian state" on a province they conquered, and this sort of disabled all other barbarian tribes from ever finishing a siege again.

Will give 2.2 a whirl eventually.

Alcibiades

I have it from over a year and a half ago....still in the box, still in the plastic.
Wait...  What would you know about masculinity, you fucking faggot?  - Overly Autistic Neil


OTOH, if you think that a Jew actually IS poisoning the wells you should call the cops. IMHO.   - The Brain

sbr

I bought it for a couple of bucks on a GamersGate sale, I have loaded the game a few times but have never unpaused it for the first time.  Maybe some time soon.

dps