• [b]Culture Rebalancing[/b]: Many cultures from the base game, Together We Rule, and all DLCs have been tweaked 
• [b]Added a Dev Mode Menu[/b]: To help modders test their creations, we have added a dev tool (see below on how to use it) 
• [b]Non-Exclusive Cultures Option[/b]: A new game setup option to allow more than one empire to play the same culture 
• [b]More Map Generation Options[/b]: Map Ratio, Natural Wonder Density, and Independent People Density 
• [b]New and Rebalanced AI personas[/b]: We’ve added over a dozen new personas for you to play against 
• [b]Buffed Transcendence[/b]: Sticking to your culture will now also give you a permanent bonus based on your affinity 
• [b]Various Other Improvements and Fixes[/b]: Find the full list at the end of this post 

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CHANGES & ADDITIONS 

• Added the possibility to access a version of our Debug Menu, and the ability to chose your starting Era, through a Command Line. 
• Added access to some Community Scenarios through the Main Menu instead of downloading a save from Games2Gether. 
• Added a "Bug Report" button in the Main Menu and Pause Menu to allow you to report any occuring bug more easily. 
• Added new stackable Neolithic Legacy Traits, one for each Era Star. 
• Added new AI Personas to play against. 
• Balanced existing AI Personas Difficulty Levels, Strengths & Biases. 
• Added a new difficulty level for AI Personas, as well as a feedback of that difficulty in the lobby. 
• Added a random AI Personas selection in the lobby slots when starting a new game based on your last world Difficulty Level. 
• Added all new and existing AI Personas as Avatar Preset (exception of Victor Hugo and Lucy). 
• Added the possibility to buy more things with Influence in Outposts such as Train Stations and Airports. 
• Added an option to use non-exclusive Cultures during a game, meaning no more Culture rush. 
• Added a "Buy All" button for Luxury Resources. 
• Reworked the way Public Ceremonies work to make them more interesting by adding a big resource bonus. 
• Added adjacency bonus on Holy Sites. 
• Added a warning on a City pin when a Construction Queue is blocked. 
• Added the automatic move of the victorious Army in the center of the conquered City. 
• Added an improvement that allows to load a save made with an inactive but owned DLC. 
• Added an option to Raze a City. 
• Added an option to remove specific Districts. 
• Added an option to remove Infrastructures. 
• Added an improvement to ignore Train Stations and Airports in placement suggestion. 
• Added a new icon for the Cultural Entente Embassy Agreement. 
• Added a setting option to setup the density of Natural Wonders on the map. 
• Added a setting option to change the map ratio. 
• Added a setting option to change the spawn density of Independent People. 
• Added a new Outgame View. 
• Balanced a lot of different Cultures form all previous DLCs and Tentpole game. 
• Balanced the Transcendence Legacy Trait to make them more interesting by adding an Affinity bonus in addition to the existing Fame bonus. 
• Made Microbiolgy technology a prerequisite for Research Institute technology. 
• Changed some era 5 tech position in the tech tree. 
• Religious quarter: give a +1 FIMS bonus on basic FIMS districts, and reduced faith bonus to +2 

FIXES OF ISSUES SPOTTED BY THE COMMUNITY (THANKS!) 

• Fixed an issue where Neolithic map curiosities bonuses were not received when the unit is spawned on them. 
• Fixed an issue where claimed island territories displayed a 0% influence. 
• Fixed an issue where the Era Star money value was displayed as negative value past 2.1 million gold. 
• Fixed an issue that could cause the save to be corrupted and couldn't be loaded anymore. 
• Fixed an issue where the End Turn was blocked because of an unskipable mandatory action on a Army movement. 
• Fixed an issue where Liberating a City that has a Paper deposit cause a Pending Turn. 
• Fixed an issue where Ransacking Satelites's and Space Exploration's Shared projects didn't cancel the construction. 
• Fixed an issue where we were unable to access an Iron Resource with the Power Investor. 
• Fixed an issue where Agreements were available with an enemy vassal if an agreement has been sent just before becoming a vassal. 
• Fixed an issue where Salted Beef's bonus on upkeep was listed as Unknown in the breakdown. 
• Fixed an issue where in a certain case a Cyclopean Fortress that belonged to an enemy can keep its ZoC once the Player took the territory. 
• Fixed an issue where often the Close button was missing in the Empire screen. 
• Fixed an issue where the Polar Base tooltip did not include that it does not require to be adjacent to other districts. 
• Fixed an issue where Thermonuclear weapons did not unlock the Bring The Heat deed. 
• Fixed an issue where the Mississippians' Legacy Trait wasn't computed in the Placement Preview. 
• Fixed an issue where a session of a player ends just one turn after the player has reach Era VI. 
• Fixed an issue where there were no loot when the Unit you finish a battle with dies even if there are other Units left alive. 

OTHER FIXES 

• Fixed an issue where a save game that was started with DLC-content cannot be loaded without an internet connection. 
• Fixed an issue where an exception error was generated when a Client attacked another empires City when a few seconds were left on the End Turn timer. 
• Fixed an issue where the Cultured Land deed is not unlocked when influencing an entire continent. 
• Fixed an issue that occured when attempting to refresh the persona collection while having no internet connection. 
• Fixed an issue where Decorations and Symbols are missing from Multiplayer. 
• Fixed an issue where the applied functionality of the Trade Insurance and WorldWide Exchanges empire unlocks is unclear to the users. 
• Fixed an issue where incorrect wording is displayed when an enemy army is poaching one of your Trade nodes. 
• Fixed an issue where Violent Independent Peoples can ransack Trade Nodes of Empire they have a 2nd tier Treaty with. 
• Fixed an issue where Maori emblematic Unit (Waka Taua) tooltip provided misleading information. 
• Fixed an issue where Trade view's International Trade window doesn't correctly update when loading saves. 
• Fixed an issue where Byzantines Emblematic Quarter only gives +1 Money per access to Horses instead of +2. 
• Fixed an issue where "An Envious Eye" can trigger before the player has met any other Empire. 
• Fixed an issue where disrupted Resource Deposits aren't listed in the ongoing Disruption in the Trade view. 
• Fixed an issue where Temporary cities' Status are not applied on their last turn. 
• Fixed an issue where the game doesn't remember player settings for World Generation. 
• [Mods] Fixed an issue where overriding a localization key reset the search result in the localization database. 
• Fixed an issue where Stability from Units only applies after moving. 
• Fixed an issue where an incorrect visual for Independent People Harbor was used on map scheme view. 
• Fixed an issue where wrong Combat Strength value was displayed for destroyed Units in the Battle aftermath UI when fighting Independent People. 
• Fixed an issue where there was a spelling mistake in "Formidable Steeds" culture trait. 
• Fixed an issue where manufacture's build condition mention counting the number of "Deposits" while it's counting "Access". 
• Fixed an issue where unexpected visuals appear on Porcelain deposit when building an extractor. 
• Fixed an issue where Unit health and damage taken each turn is no longer displayed if the total is 0. 
• Fixed an issue where Caribbean Pirates Main Plaza asset protrudes from the edge of a cliff under certain angles. 
• Fixed an issue where loading a manual save causes Food, Industry, Money and Science prediction to ignore certain bonuses. 
• Fixed an issue where an unclear message was displayed when trying to do an Air Strike using planes attached to an Aircraft Carrier in Battle. 
• Fixed an issue where Faulua's sail becomes invisible depending of its orientation. 
• Fixed an issue where the city of the Visigoths Independent People and the first City of the Spanish were both called "Toledo". 
• Fixed an issue where Transcendance bonus was unclear. 
• Fixed an issue where there is a Tile mismatch between the visual and actual location for parts of the Bungle Bungle Natural Wonder. 

• Fixed an issue where the Public Ceremonies tooltip status where not localized.
• Fixed an issue where the winning siege Army didn't teleported to the city center after an instant resolve.
• Fixed an issue where the Reinforcement pin was showing even when a Battle was ongoing.
• Fixed an issue where an error on Razing District povented it from downgrading to Ruins.
• Fixed an issue where you coud assimilate an Independent People while you City was under Siege.
• Fixed an issue where the Diplomat Transcendance bonus was reducing the Leverage action cost by less than 5%.
• Fixed an issue where the Stability bonus was not applied on Districts.
• Fixed an issue where the Avatar Presets of Influencers and Historical figures where editable.
• Balanced the gains on the Hunter and Growth Neolithic Era Star events.
• Fixed an issue where all folders in the mod.io folder where not fully remove when deleting mods.

[b]CULTURE BALANCING [/b]

• Assyrian LT: Add a 100% ransack bonus. 
• Egyptian EU: Reduce Combat Strength (-2).  
• Harappan LT: Food bonus now only applies to dry grass 
• Olmec EU: Reduced Combat Strength (-1). 
• Zhou China EQ : Reduced science bonus per near mountains to +4 and added +1 influence bonus per adjacent mountains.  
• Celtic LT: boost food bonus to +3 per farmers. 
• Goth LT : Upped the ransack to science bonus.  
• Mauryan EU: changed resource prerequisite (copper). 
• Byzantine EU: Boost Combat Strength (+2). 
• Byzantine EQ: up money bonus per horse access to +2. 
• Teuton EU: Reduced Combat Strength (-1). 
• Haudenosaunee EU: Boost CS (+2). 
• Mughal EQ: Reduced industry bonus per industry workers to +1 and make religious quarter, give +2 culture and +1 faith per population. 
• Persian: LT: reduced the industry bonus for common projects from 25% to 10%. 
• Russian LT: add -25% outpost attachment cost 
• Russian EQ: add +3 influence per adjacent district 
• Russian EUEU: up CS to 48. 
• Zulu EU: Lowered CS. 
• American EQ : Changed extension type to science district, lowered the science bonus on garrison, apply its bonus to all garrison of the settlement.  
• Chinese LT: up money bonus to 15%. 
• Egyptian EQ: Add +3 science bonus per cultural wonder in settlement. 
• Soviet EQ Luxury: Boosted the weapon luxury militia bonus from 5% to 10%. 
• Indian LT: The money bonus only applies on capital and is up to +3%. 

• Garamantes EQ : added +2 food per adjacent rocky fields & stone fields. 
• Nigerian EQ : +5 oil access  
• Nigerian LT : +3 industry per farmers. 

• Caralan EU : boost healing to +10. 
• Taino LT : lowered food per territory to +3 and add +2 food on common quarters. 

• Han Chinese EQ : add +2 science per Paper access. 
• Bulgarian EQ : applied : +3 science +3 faith. 
• Singaporean EQ : +1 workplace per adjacent base district. (the workplace fims is define by the fims of the distric). 

• New Zealand : lowered Legacy Trait science bonus on coastal water from +20 to +8. 

• King Arthur 
• Salomon 
• Tarquin the Elder 
• Jimmu 
• Māui  
• Queen of Shebah 
• Brynhildr 
• Tomyris 
• Khaina 
• Arawelo 
• Alii Ranni 
• Kiviuq 
• Malsumis
• Hunor 
• Dushyanta 
• Shennong 
• Nokomis