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Main Branch 1.0.80908 release 2025-11-26

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Headline changes

• [p]Can no longer hire Barbarian units, upgrading hired Tribal units now costs Money as well as Training [/p][/*]
• [p]Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out[/p][/*]
• [p]Units with Leader Generals are immune to control effects[/p][/*]

Design

• [p]Can no longer hire Barbarian units (affects Carthage and Orator leaders). Tribal units can still be hired.[/p][/*]
• [p]Added Tribal unit upgrade cost of money equal to its upgrade cost in training [/p][/*]
• [p]Units with Leader Generals are immune to Stun, Panic, Enlistment, Disarm and Immobilization (Grappler)[/p][/*]
• [p]Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out[/p][/*]
• [p]Citrus is now a luxury resource[/p][/*]
• [p]Caravans can't spawn on a tile with a Caravan, although they can still occupy the same tile as one when moving [/p][/*]
• [p]Increased Prosperous trait money from 5/10 per culture level to 8/16[/p][/*]
• [p]Halved Intelligent trait science output[/p][/*]
• [p]Assassination attempts that fail have a chance to avoid negative consequences[/p][/*]
• [p]Enlisting a unit replaces any existing cooldown by the enlisted cooldown [/p][/*]
• [p]Capturing city timer no longer counts back up when city is left vacant[/p][/*]
• [p]Cities in the capturing state no longer go to Anarchy if no capturing progress has been made[/p][/*]
• [p]Units can pass through capturable cities without capturing them as long as they don't stop inside [/p][/*]
• [p]Changing the Succession Law no longer results in characters becoming Bypassed and suffering opinion penalties[/p][/*]
• [p]The cost to change the Succession Law now starts at 400 civics and increases at 100 civics per switch[/p][/*]
• [p]Judge leaders can change the Succession Law for 100 civics as per other laws[/p][/*]
• [p]Stunned units no longer counterattack[/p][/*]
• [p]Characters are more likely to get a strength or weakness before reaching adulthood [/p][/*]
• [p]In 2 team MP games, leaders initial strength is now mirrored when set randomly [/p][/*]
• [p]Ocean depth tiles are safe from Tsunami's (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]

Programming

• [p]Memory management cleanup, fixed more memory leaks [/p][/*]
• [p]Better AI improvement selection, improvement unit movement decisions after founding a city[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved AI worker order efficiency and management[/p][/*]
• [p]Damaged workers heal more often[/p][/*]
• [p]Existing improvements get replaced less often [/p][/*]
• [p]AI places less emphasis on building Garrisons early[/p][/*]
• [p]AI anchoring improvements[/p][/*]
• [p]AI tries harder to have an up-to-date army[/p][/*]
• [p]Improved AI attack planning to reduce the effect of counterattacks[/p][/*]
• [p]AI builds more strongholds, citadels and unique units[/p][/*]
• [p]AI now uses units with disarm effect early, so that later attacks can take advantage of it [/p][/*]
• [p]Tribe placement improvements on map generation[/p][/*]
• [p]Automated workers now take into account road pings[/p][/*]
• [p]ModManager improvements[/p][/*]

UI

• [p]Camera no longer pans to failed unit movement if instant unit movement is turned on, or in Network games[/p][/*]
• [p]City screen button tooltip now differentiates between increasing and decreasing happiness[/p][/*]
• [p]Added "Polearm" instead of "Rout" to combat preview, to make it clear when polearm units prevent a rout [/p][/*]
• [p]Holding Ctrl with a worker selected adds the improvement on the worker's tile (if any) to the unit action buttons[/p][/*]
• [p]Holding Alt with a selected unit displays the unit's movement path/range assuming water control in all water tiles [/p][/*]
• [p]Cloud games are now sorted by whether or not it's your turn first, time since last upload second, and alphabetically third[/p][/*]
• [p]Added selection to dropdown list for customizable leader portrait, name, age, gender, and trait, so that these can be reset to random after being selected [/p][/*]
• [p]Capitalized some game terms (Unit, City, Nation, Character, Tile, etc)[/p][/*]
• [p]Tweaked adjacent terrain target help text [/p][/*]
• [p]Improvement name is shown for bonus placements of improvements that produce no yields[/p][/*]
• [p]Planned specific improvements/roads for players on your team now listed on the tile tooltip (but still not as tile widgets) [/p][/*]
• [p]Effect of free specialists now shown in improvement yield previews[/p][/*]
• [p]Unit modifiers to improvement yields only shown if unit on the tile [/p][/*]
• [p]Forced March button tooltip clarification [/p][/*]
• [p]Blocked abandoning ambitions in Learn to Play scenarios[/p][/*]
• [p]Changed High Vision icon effect color for Scouts [/p][/*]
• [p]Changed capture progress bar appearance on city widget when paused[/p][/*]
• [p]Unit attacked log now shows damage done instead of health left[/p][/*]
• [p]Notifications now appear when invisible units are soon to become visible [/p][/*]
• [p]Added a longer camera delay to AI attacks [/p][/*]
• [p]Relatives panel now shows dead characters[/p][/*]
• [p]Player tooltip reveals yields information when game is over, similar to observer mode [/p][/*]
• [p]Updated text for some law Encyclopedia entries[/p][/*]
• [p]Enabled Mirror Map option with Random map script selected in MP[/p][/*]
• [p]Cleaned up governor candidate text on city list screen [/p][/*]
• [p]Updated Clergy helptext[/p][/*]
• [p]'Unlocks Project:' helptext no longer shown for hidden projects [/p][/*]
• [p]Renamed From Tribute to Cancelled Tribute in bonus help when relevant[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed "Each:..." helptext from Specialists if you don't have that effect [/p][/*]
• [p]De-cluttered EffectCity help text [/p][/*]
• [p]Added more specific turn summary text for when a regent or a rightful heir takes over the throne of a rival nation[/p][/*]
• [p]Removed scenario save import option from Carthage campaigns[/p][/*]

Bugs Fixed

• [p]Fixed attack preview not always updating[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed error logged on shutdown[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed unit repair recommendations[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Resources sometimes being listed multiple times in Encyclopedia[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed never-buildable improvements appearing in map pin UI [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed null reference in overlay customizer map pins [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed mod manager UI when session is not already valid [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Atalia wikipedia link[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed formatting of Zealot enlist tooltip[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed 'Consumes X Orders' line showing when order cost is already shown[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed enlisting a unit that had been capturing one of your cities not capturing it back for you[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed effectCity help sometimes not appearing [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed observer visibility update [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed observer not being able to cycle decisions[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed camera sometimes not panning to a unit that could not complete its movement[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed movement preview when moving into a capturable city[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Tribe Elimination event and stat if eliminating a tribe through hiring a unit[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed null reference caused by blank note pings[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed yield panel not updating with changes to player trade network connections [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed timeline borders for final turn when game is over[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Envoy trait tooltip[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed player luxuries not being correctly updated when a resource was removed from a tile with a specialist[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed city unit production buttons missing unit traits [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed caravans causing game crash in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed unit action cost labels sometimes getting applied to mission buttons (affects mods) [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Cathedral happiness adjacency not working[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed question marks appearing in some event text[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed memories for assassination getting applied to dead character instead of family[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tile improvement highlights being shown for non-team units[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed appearance of fortify bar on unit banner for Testudo [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some AI and UI revealed terrain knowledge[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed net yield help text for projects with effects with improvement modifiers [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed imprisoned mission succeeding on dead characters[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed null reference on shutdown [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed observers getting achievements from the player they are observing[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed religious dissent projects being valid without associated religion[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Tribal truce missions failing silently when tribe has an ally[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed some issues with the leader customization settings feature [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed history popup not always showing fog of war[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed rebels and raiders pillaging tiles that don't belong to their target nations[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed the definition of an open tile to include no vegetation[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Send Caravan ambitions auto-failing if you lose the ability to build Caravans [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed trade values showing total trade for individual trades [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed missing mask in bug reporting Description box [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed redundant trait check[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Found Capital icon alignment in Pick Later[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tribal camp not being cleared when defender killed by an event following a ranged attack[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Regents taking the throne not being announced to other players [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed repair tooltip with action queue [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AI repeated unit movement[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AI not considering danger from immobile units [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed AI civilian unit retreat [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tooltips showing effects from disabled DLCs [/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Minor Earthquake sometimes targeting water tile and not propagating (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed tile reveal not being reset after an Occurrence changes visibility (Wrath of Gods)[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed Event Browser errors when loading a mod that uses -change on an -add entry[/p][/*]
• [p]Minor Worker/Occurrence fix for better mod support[/p][/*]
• [p]More robust null handling from ModCache lookup[/p][/*]
• [p]Text and event fixes[/p][/*]

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