Avē! First, I’d like to introduce myself, I am not one of the previous Game Directors, Johan or Peter, but I am Niels Uiterwijk, the original tech lead on the project. Today my role at paradox has changed as I am the Technical Director in studio green (studio working Stellaris). But still, from outer space I look back at earth and think of Imperator sometimes and decided to make a small maintenance patch, fixing some of the issues that modders & other people ran into. Without further ado, the patch notes: ####################### # Bugfixes ###################### # Notes - This patch should be save compatible, however not all fixes might be applied to your current save. # Stablity & Performance - Improved overall memory consumption & performance - Improved monthly tick performance by performing some more calculations in parallel (state modifiers) - Portrait editor no longer crashes on open - Updated SDL to 2.0.20 from 2.0.10 - Updated Nakama to 2.4.1 from 2.2.4 # Game Mechanic - Upped the maximum number of tags (countries) from 2048 to 8192 - Fixed levy calculations being inversed - Fixed a bug where when annexing a country, their abroad prisoners, that were in your prison, would also be counted as an abroad prisoners for you, even though they are local prisoners. - default pop right is now correctly working & added proper logging of pop rights - Fixed bug where unused modifiers were still being rewarded for specific missions (local & global cohort recruitment speed) - Fixed bug where integrated cultures were still treated differently when they were converting to your primary religion - Raised levies will select the best tactic for it's composition. - Civil Wars will no longer just pick 1 character, but instead take far more disloyal characters. - Fixed bug where released nations during a peace deal would have no proper pantheon. - Fixed bug where you would never see battle results from battles against pirates, barbarians or rebels. - Diplomatic range is now calculated between border territories. This should make it easier to hire mercenaries as a large empire. Default diplo range has been tweaked based on this change. - Fixed bug where pops could be promoted above what they were allowed to. # Other - Updated default message settings - Enabled script profiling (available with -debug_mode startup command, 'print_event_timings` is the console command) - Added option to run multiple commands at the same time (ExecuteConsoleCommands & ExecuteConsoleCommandsForced) - Achievements now only require that the game is in ironman mode and you achieve them within the timelimit (ingame years) Note: This means that mods that are affecting the checksums, no longer will prohibit you from getting the achievements, neither does multiplayer. - Added four new defines to balance the game (2 related to combat overruns, 2 related to civil war & dissenters) [i]Note: This means that mods that are affecting the checksums, no longer will prohibit you from getting the achievements, neither does multiplayer.[/i] Integrated fixes from the "[url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2414413377]Unofficial Patch[/url]" mod. (Thanks Umgssda!) # Fixes ## Missions - Fixed mission trigger to ignore city territories in generic mission "Growth of ..." or "Pearl of .." step "Fruits of ..." - Fix check for mission goal in Seleucid mission "Syrian Ambition" step "A Mediterranean capital" to really check for the building number as shown in the tooltip - Fix mission availability for Cartage mission "Iberian Investments" to be selectable after finishing "The Iberian Struggle" with "Hispanic Overlord" ## Events - Fix "There are other options..." option to actually show other territories for "Babarian Bartering" event for greek Missions in western Mediterranean and Pontus areas - Fix party approval target in event for pop integration agenda for roman boni party - Fix "No confidence" random event to target three distinct characters - Fix "Demodamas the Explorer" event to select a sea harbor with enough population according to the existing check - Fix "Fall of the [Family]" event to select the family to remove with lowest instead of highest prestige ## Gameplay - Fix Governors selecting religious conversion policy when it is pointless (thanks to Lewa263) ## Texts - Fixed reference from Argos to Korinthos in tooltip for spartan mission "The Second Peloponnesian League" step "Eastern Capitals" - Corrected event text for the time passed since Alexanders death in initial Alexander the Great event. (english only) - Fix territory names in event Options for Roman Mission "The pillars of Hercules" [h3]- New Update 11/4/2024[/h3] ####################### # Bugfixes ###################### # Game Mechanic - Fixed bug where temp modifiers were removed when provinces are annexed as part of a civil war - Fix a bug when using add_to_war effect, adding a defender would always make it the war leader # Effects - Added set_player_country effect to allow modders to swtich the player's country - Added add_deity_to_pantheon effect to allow deities outside of the allowed pool to a country's pantheon - Added set_automated_trading effect to enable/disable state automated trading - Added set_governor_policy effect to change governor policy - Added unlock_invention effect to directly unlock a invention for free (without checking preconditions) - Added add_trade_route and remove_trade_route effects to add and remove trade routes, respectively # Triggers - Added is_automated_trading trigger to check if a state has automated trading set - Added distance_from trigger to check the distance between a province and another province, state (capital) or country (capital) - Added can_unlock_invention to check if an invention can be unlocked by country (optionally ignoring cost, dependencies and potential trigger) - Added can_add_trade_route to check if a trade route can be added. # Other - Added a modifier cultural_assimilation_speed_modifier, which changes the assimilation speed. Assimilation speed less than 0 prevents assimilation. - Added a property for subject types to allow them to bypass usual subject diplomatic limitations for declaring war (allowed_to_declare_war_against_others). This is not enabled by default for the base game. To fully enable this to work you'll also need to change the allow triggers for wargoals [h3]Integrated fixes provided by the Invictus team:[/h3] [i][b]Thank you Imperator: Invictus Mod Development team with highlight to Robbe Vander Kerken (aka Snowlet) & Nathaniel Van Drei (aka Dementive)[/b][/i] # Achievements: - Fixed the Great Destroyer achievement being impossible to obtain - Fixed Cincinattus achievement being impossible to obtain # Governor policy: - Switched to more efficient iterator: any_integrated_culture - AI will no longer attempt the religious conversion governor policy when they have major syncretism # Inventions: - Switched to more efficient iterator: any_integrated_culture # Missions: - Fixed broken tooltip in Strategic Fastness Antigonid task - Fixed broken AI triggers in Carthaginian missions - Fixed Hannid character not being put into the Hannid family - Fixed AI carthage not paying for the city in Cypriot Opportunities task - Fixed Experienced Shipwrights being impossible to complete as it requires impassable territories - Added missing ai_mission_back_out_trigger and start_mission_ai_effect in missions - Macedonian missions now account for Imperial Cult government type - Fixed province investment checks not account for Spartan investments - Addex extra sanity checks to Macedonian missions - Fixed several Macedonian task triggers not working - Fixed Roman AI not getting claims upon Aquitania - Fixed Protector of the Aegean Sea not highligting subjects correctly # Character interactions: - Fixed still being able to bribe mercenaries from countries with the Mercenary Benefits invention # Unit Abilities: - Optimized check for Barca Legion from Forced march # Events: - Fixed released countries not having a primary culture - Fixed missing 'equals' characters in the scripts - Fixed wrongly set global variable for the parthian invasion - Fixed Antigonid capital being incorrectly set upon collapsing - Fixed Mithradaic events not properly unlocking Pontus content - Fixed Arsaces being able to spawn twice - Fixed ruler not appearing in Carthaginian Iberian events - Deleted extra dot from opinion modifier in Roman Greece missions - Fixed Eastern Empire mission not triggering if you only have land in Macedonia - Fixed duplicated ai_chance blocks in Western Greek missions - Added sanity checks to ports being built through effect - Fixed league of Korinthos not properly annexing subjects - Fixed Serapis sanctuary taking 36 and not 360 days to be built - Added failsafe in Egyptian character creation for events - Fixed wrong tooltip for opinion modifier in Cities of Greece task - Fixed Epirus subjugating themselves in the Magna Graecian missions - Fixed Pax Epirum potentially spamming the error log - Fixed characters befriending themselves - Fixed desecration event opinion tooltip showing the wrong country - Fixed broken modifier duration in Armenian events - Fixed politics events using incorrect syntax to check countries in diplomatic range - Fixed Republic event incorrectly checking for party scopes - Fixed Cretan event occasionally annexing the world - Fixed Co-Consuls being deposed by going to the olympics - Fixed most prestigious family fading into obscurity - Fixed startup events not pointing to your country - Fixed error log spam from a dead character losing health # GUI: - Removed unused GUI types from GUI files making the GUI editor more stable - select_import_destination.gui changed the y size of a scrollarea to remain within the window - Replaced 4 buttons in console.gui that crash the game with useful buttons for modding - portrait_editor_window made it possible to move the window and made all features usable # Shaders: - Changed gfx/FX/coat_of_arms/coat_of_arms_textured_emblem.shader so textured emblems actually work, re-added their red channel which was accidentally removed. # Localization: - Fixed loads of spelling errors - Fixed various grammatical errors - Fixed Agriana being called Agrianaa - Fixed Ati Muwer being referred to as a male - Fixed missing apostrophe in 'Attar - Fixed capitalization issues - Fixed loyalty icon not appearing - Removed extra spaces after names # Various fixes: - Commented out lines triggering non-existent events - Fixed AI Rome not getting claims on Central Gaul - Fixed Anoint heir checking for a commented out law - Fixed Forced March checking for a non-existent terrain type - Added many missing equal signs - Replaced errorous 7 character with "{" - Fixed missions checking for "mountains" instead of "mountain" - Fixed "[" being used instead of "{" in effect syntax - Fixed Elephantina being unobtainable due to checking for "warelephants" instead of "warelephant" unit - Fixed Ferrata being unobtainable due to checking for "heavy_infrantry" instead of "heavy_infantry" unit - Fixed Antigonid events in rare cases triggering a non-existent event - Fixed League of Korinthos forming while the player is a subject of Macedon in Greece triggering the wrong event - Fixed non-existent Rhodes sacking event being triggered - Fixed Carthaginian naval dominance missions checking for non-existent region - Fixed Thracian and Roman events improperly checking for Galatia region - Fixed Oinoandia coat of arms having a wrongly defined colour - Fixed cancelling the Death to Tyrants mission potentially finding a wrong character to put as ruler - Fixed edge-case where recruiting a character could raise an error - Fixed using the omen effect on Daniel having wrong syntax - Fixed Apotheosis manpower and money effects not having a minimum setup properly - Fixed several wrongly defined minimum and maximums - Fixed Daring trait not increasing likelihood of injuries - Fixed "Forced Smiles" event where Commander demands an office for a friend not triggering and not being updated to account for Governors - Fixed wrong areas being selected in for loyalty hit in event where Governor demands they adapt to local mannerisms - Fixed "Learning from experience" event potentially selecting a party leader and being impossible for non-republics to trigger - Fixed several minor edge-case and syntax issues in generic infrastructure mission events - Fixed Carthaginian trade mission events showing the wrong character - Fixed unneeded if's in monarchy events - Fixed "Crisis in X" event attempting to show too many characters - Fixed Rapax and Improba distinctions never triggering - Fixed broken edge-case tooltip in Install Philokles decision - Fixed Egyptian marriage event potentialyl failing to find a Thracian bride - Ensured else_if was properly used instead of using else, if - In common\loyalty\00_events.txt line 2876 was `ymonths`, it has been changed to `months` - In events\storms.txt there were 2 checks for `is_in_region = areas`, the areas region does not exist so these lines were removed - In common\modifiers\00_from_events_province.txt there were a few modifiers with like `local_population_happiness = -0.1.0` that I removed the extra decimal point from. - The monthly_tarentum_war_pulse on_action incorrectly used is_in_region = carthage_area which is an area not a region, I changed it to africa_region. - Fix great_work_template_06 being used in gw_ai_build even though it was removed - Fix italia_region being used instead of central_italy_region in greek missions 4 - Fix missing = in make_subject effect in 01_seleukid_missions_03_anatolia.txt and in events/me_seleukid_03_anatolia.txt - Fix missing closing bracket in script_values/00_army_values.txt - Fix missing = on line 578 of script_values/00_mission_egypt.txt - Fix is_in_region = tripolitania_occidentalis_area in script_values/00_missions.txt, changed to is_in_area. - Fix bugged is_in_area = carthage_area check in dhe_dde_pyrhus.txt events file - Fix block of code incorrectly placed inside of a random_list effect in events/governor_policies.txt line 657 - Fix incorrectly spelled colors in coat_of_arms/00_pre_scripted_countries.txt - Remove change_country_color = "median_color" line from form_media decisions because median_color does not exist - Remove duplicate modifier = {} blocks from military traditions in 00_latin, 00_persian, and 00_persian_2 - Fix ai_build_city_pay_price_effect being used in area scope instead of country scope in 01_spartan_missions_02_peloponnesus.txt - Fix incorrect use of is_culture trigger in modifiers/00_triggered_character_modifiers.txt - Remove duplicate script values in 00_mission_antigonid, 00_mission_carthage, and 00_mission_epirus - Fix incorrect scope for fam:40 used in scripted_effects/00_dde_pyrrhus_effects - Fix incorrect scope for has_same_family trigger in scripted_effects/00_on_action_effects - Fix incorrect usage of unit_owner scope in scripted_guis/desecrate_holy_site.txt - Remove duplicate map = yes field in civilian_road_building.txt - Change floor = 1 to proper use with floor = yes in unit_abilities/pillage.txt - Fix incorrect scope for owns_or_subject_owns on line 624 of dhe_macedon.txt - Fix usage of has_culture_group instead of country_culture_group in dhe_judea.txt - Fix incorrect use of country scope in right_portrait fields of events in country_diplomacy.txt - Fix left_portrait = yes in me_roman_2_provincia.txt - Fix use of [ instead of { in me_greek_2_greece.txt - Fix use of has_province_modifier instead of has_character_modifier on line 547 of rel_flavor_buddhist - Fix incorrect scoping to head_of_family in royal_marriage.txt - Fix missing = on line 279 of characterwindow.gui - Fix missing = on line 246 of messages.gui - Fix missing = on line 189 of multi_unit_window.gui - Fix missing bracket in culture_view.gui and government_view.gui for the top level base_window block - Fix too many decimals in debug_menus.gui line 649 - Fix too many decimals in multiplayer_lobby.gui - Fix broken block of brackets at the bottom of game_configuration.gui - Remove extra } at the end of overview_view.gui - Fix missing bracket in select_fabricate_claim.gui line 77 - Remove extra bracket from the end of select_target_character.gui and create_social_profile_window.gui - Fix missing bracket errors in gw_tower_03_bottom.asset and female_clothes_iberian_3.asset asset files - Fix missing = in frontend_mainview, frontend_singleplayer, loadscreen, and progressbar_idler - Fix incorrect spelling of GetNameWithNoTooltip function in shared/cooltip.gui [h3]- New Update 12/4/2024[/h3] # Effects - Added play_sound_effect which allows you to play a sound effect, targeting a country (ported from ck3) - Added set_antagonist = yes/no effect. # Triggers - Added has_capital_surplus to check for the existance of any capital bonuses from the state's owner - Added has_capital_bonus_for_trade_good to check for the existance of any captial bonuses for the specific trade good # Other - Added a property for subject types to allow them to bypass usual subject diplomatic limitations for declaring war (allowed_to_declare_war_against_others). This is not enabled by default for the base game. To fully enable this to work you'll also need to change the allow triggers for wargoals - Added modifiers for local_happiness_for_wrong_religion_modifier and happiness_for_wrong_religion_modifier which is applied on top of regular happiness for the same religion modifiers. Also fixed a typo with define for WRONG_RELIGION_HAPPINESS which applies always regardless of modifiers (currently set to ) - Made all hardcoded values related to civil wars moddable through define & added documentation on what they mean [h3]- New Update 16/4/2024[/h3] # Bugfixes - Fix release as client state crash in the UI As you can see, this is a minor patch, and for now it will be released as an open beta on steam & windows only. The plan is to release this on all platforms at some point in the undetermined future. Please leave feedback in the comments section, I am quite bad at replying, but I will read them. [h3]Available now on the steam beta branch: 2.0.4 - open beta[/h3] [i][b]I also have to stress that this is not a revival of Imperator: Rome! Do not expect new content or patches going forward.[/b][/i]