Stardock is pleased to release v3.0 for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today. This new major update includes a host of performance improvements, crash fixes, balance updates and more. [h1]Changelog[/h1] [list] [*] Tile yield update on screen aborts immediately if the terrain is invalid for a city (perf) [*] Fixed crash bug where garbage characters could get inserted into a scene node [*] Increased the map tilt further so you can see more pretty stuff [*] Calc Military Might now longer force updates the battle rank of units. (perf) [*] AI city updating is now multithreaded (perf) [*] CalcBattleRank changed to automatically cache the battlerank of the unit (major perf boost) [*] Units now always get a battlerank of at least 1 to ensure caching of battlerank [*] Sub-units of an army are no longer recalculated unless expressly ordered [*] Thread safe city count method added [*] Fixed a crash deadlock [*] AI monsters less likely to attack a city on lower difficulties [*] Monsters now use a cached combat rating to determine city strength (performance) [*] Fixed multiple crash deadlocks [*] Unit vector sized at 10 at start to reduce increments. (perf) [*] Timer update increased from 1ms to 0.5ms [*] Conclaves provide more research but less production and money [*] Fortresses provide more production but less money and research [*] Towns provide more money but less production and research [*] New improvement: Tower of Knowledge. Provides +1 research per essence [*] Tiny map size increased to 5x3 [*] Small map increased from 5x4 to 6x4 (20 to 24 sectors) [*] Medium map size increased from 6x5 to 7x5 (30 to 35 sectors) [*] Large map size increased from 7x6 to 9x6 (42 to 54 sectors) [*] Huge map size increased from 8x7 to 12x8 (56 to 96 sectors) [*] Wrote a replacement for toupper() that is much faster [*] Lots of new quests [*] AI improvements [*] Quest based champions added [*] Units take slightly longer to produce to balance the availability of more champions. [/list]