News Liste Pharaoh: A New Era

[b]New Features:[/b]

• Added mini-map to the bottom left of the screen.
• Added '[b]Flat Mode[/b]' and '[b]Grid[/b]' Toggle to the mini-map. (as explained in our previous blog post, both modes already had their own key bindings: ‘F’ & ‘G’ are used by default - can be modified in the game setting)
• Mini-map also displays the different food available in the mission.

[b]Balancing:[/b]

• Regrowth of trees and reeds is now calculated every month based on resources gathered and no longer total resources on the map.
• Reduced the spawn rate of animals making hunters less absurdly efficient.
• Hunters now bring back only 10 units of hides per trip, slowing down hides production.
• Reduced the rate of criminal spawn - when a house generates a criminal, the crime risk of every other house is slightly reduced, avoiding waves of criminals spawning the same day and giving you time to set up police stations and courthouses.

[b]Rework of the City Sentiment:[/b]

• Added passive bonus to city sentiment each month depending on the difficulty level (+2 on easy, + 1 on normal, and no bonus on hard)
• If you’re supposed to get a bonus in city sentiment this month, the bonus is doubled if the city sentiment is lower than 50% and tripled if lower than 30% - allows recovering more quickly from low city sentiment once you’ve fixed the underlying problems.
• Added an alert if your city sentiment falls below certain thresholds - Below 50% immigration starts to decrease, and it stops below 30%).
• Added more information regarding the city sentiment and how variables are considered in the in-game help section
• Added more indications to the Chief Overseer when hovering over it - gives more precision as to why the city sentiment is falling

[b]Rework of Religion:[/b]

• Festival now gives fewer ankhs to the dedicated god (from + 3 to +2 for the Grand Festival, +2 to +1 for the lavish festival, and from +1 to nothing for the small festival).
• The window for blessings after a festival is halved (16 instead of 32 months).
• Festival to a god only allows for a chance to get his blessing, not other gods anymore.
• General probability of getting ankhs/thunderbolts is lowered.
• The threshold for blessings can only be reached after you have at least dedicated a festival to the appropriate god - preventing high mood in the early game to provide free blessings.
• There is now a minimum delay of a month in between two blessings/wraths from different gods.
• The same god cannot give a blessing/trigger its wrath less than 3 months apart.
• You can open a trade route and throw a festival now even if you're close to going into debt.
• You can open a trade route and throw a festival now when if you're in debt
• Tax rate cannot go higher than 25% any longer
• Removed every mention of the tribute to the kingdom as it’s not used in A New Era - Instead, every year passing while indebted will hurt your Kingdom Rating directly.

[b]UI & UX[/b]

• Key binds for overseers and overlays now close what they open.
• Modified the order of the overseers - reflect more what was in the original game.
• There are no longer subcategories to the building bar, to avoid confusion with buildings that didn’t have one - Every building is now only two clicks away.
• The chief overseer comments now have tooltips on hover which give more information.
• Saves are now ordered from newest to oldest.

• Undo
• Remove
• Housing
• Road
• Roadblock

[b]Tutorials:[/b]

• Added a tutorial in Perwadjyt to explain how entertainment coverage works.
• Added a tutorial in Thinis to explain how flat mode works.
• Added a tutorial in Saqqara to explain how burial provisions work.
• Added a tutorial in Men-Nefer to explain how city sentiment works.
• Added a tutorial in Nekhen to explain how the building picker works.
• Modified the tutorial on Nubt to reflect the removal of subcategories.
• Added new loading tips.

[b]Options:[/b]

• Added an option to toggle on/off the autosave.
• Added an option to specify how many autosaves to keep for a city.
• The autosave delay option now offers more choices.
• Separated the options for “[b]storage accept[/b]” into “[b]Storage Yards accept[/b]” and “[b]Granaries accept[/b]”.
• Added an option for unlimited zoom out (can severely hurt performance, so [b]toggle off by default[/b])
• The delay on hover on buildings option now offers more choices (from 0 to 3 with increments of 0.5).
• Remove the option for subcategories pre-open.

[b]Bug fixes:[/b]

• You no longer lose debens when placing a road over an existing road.
• Fisheries no longer stop working after a while - the boat can go back to fishing as soon as the carrier has left the building.
• Fixed miscalculated housing level effect on city sentiment.
• Victory now properly triggers its audio track.
• Fixed missing check on monument target if it has a worker already or not.
• Building a carpenter’s guild and providing it with wood after the pyramid tries to call for a carpenter no longer blocks construction.
• If the game is saved/loaded while Stonemasons are working on a pyramid's causeway, it will no longer block the construction.
• Fixed a corrupted monument sprite.
• Placing a bridge after removing a monument no longer breaks pathfinding.
• Hunting lodges now have two carriers on maps where antelopes are present to be able to deliver game meat and hide at the same time.
• Carriers no longer stack infinitely in certain cases.
• Carriers now properly remove hides from Hunting Lodges when delivering them, no longer causing over-production.
• Pressing UI buttons now triggers the proper sound effect.
• Devolving houses no longer artificially increase the number of children in the city.
• Fixed children count on reload.
• Fixed the house info close button.
• Fixed Architect’s Post believes it lacks workers when it has all of them.
• Fixed Merchants not drowning when crossing flooded areas.
• Prevent the building of more than 6 forts through the Building Picker.
• Recruiters will now produce soldiers even if an Academy is built without an initial adjacent road.
• Sandbox missions are now properly autosaved in French, Spanish & Italian.
• Fixed some cases of save corruption.
• Having more than 6 warships on either side no longer breaks battles.
• The “[i]Rends l’argent[/i]” achievement now properly unlocks.
• Nile farms now properly update their fertility.
• Numeric fields no longer let you type letters in them.

[b]Level Design:[/b]

• Breweries are now available in Sawu.
• Breweries are now available in Djedu.
• Breweries are now available in Hetepsenusret.
• Breweries are now available in Baharyia Oasis.
• Fixed trade prices on manufactured goods in Sawu.
• Music is back in Itjtawy.
• And many more minor fixes.

[b]Localization:[/b]

• Words like “main d‘œuvre” are now properly displayed in French.
• Various corrections in the 5 languages.
• Cities' names are now the same on the map and in the campaign choices.
• Fixed certain localization keys that stayed in English while playing in another language.
• Seth's blessing event now properly explains that only part of the attackers is killed by the god.
• Fixed localization lines for the altar and oracle built-in Temple Complexes.
• Fixed inverted descriptions for Ptah's wraths.

Friendly reminder:

• Copy and paste the line below into the file explore: [b]%Appdata%/../LocalLow/Triskell Interactive/Pharaoh[/b]
• In the Pharaoh folder, you'll see a long string of numbers (your ID). [b]Click on it.[/b]
• Send us the folder named Family that gathers all the information we need to investigate using a Wetransfer or SendAnywhere link.