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" 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]